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Andros Starborn

@andros-starborn.bsky.social
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A mythical creature visting this world. Non-binary (he/they), pagan, polyamorous, weird. Fascists, Nazis, and MAGAts fuck off (but I repeat myself).

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 9h
Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 11h
Latest: Two charities associated with the world’s largest far-right Hindu group have raised more than US$24.4 million over a five-year period through US grants that allow the donor to be anonymous, Bellingcat can reveal: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/10...
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US DAFs Donate Millions to Groups Linked to India’s Far-Right
Donor-advised funds allow individuals and foundations to give money to charities while remaining anonymous.
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dominos meme
First domino: Tsar Nicholas losing the Russo-Japanese war
Last Domino: His Grandniece being handcuffed to DJ Fat Tony on Channel 4
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11h
So... "cable"... we're just doing cable again.
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April of the Beast Coast @spaghettisauceress.bsky.social · 10h
“Capitalism breeds competition” suck my fucking nuts
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14h
The history of big companies excitedly acquiring Warner Bros and then trying to hastily dump it a few years later gives me hope that this latest acquisition will also be a total clusteruck disaster for the acquirer
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Andros Starborn @andros-starborn.bsky.social · 21h
Honestly, this has echoes of antebellum America. Northern states bent over backwards to appease the South and its "way of life". The South sneered at them and said they were the enemy. And as soon as Lincoln was elected, they seceded.
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
chat is this good
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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
microzine #5, pirates of the soft seas, screenshot, apple II (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/148317/...
text, a poem:
legends of old make your
blood run cold
of pirates who killed
for treasure and gold.
today's pirates take
different risks
stealing programs on
floppy disks.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
WOULD YOU PEOPLE STOP VOTING FOR FASCISTS FOR FIVE GODDAMN MINUTES
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bsquiklehausen @bsquiklehausen.com · 06/10/2026
Hello from the birthplace of SimCity (which explains some things)
The Orinda theater in Orinda, CA.
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Hannah Lee Stockdale (LOOKING 4 WORK) @hanoodles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He destroyed careers, he destroyed peoples’ livelihoods. I hope he sleeps well with his golden parachute knowing he’s had a major hand in turning the US animation industry into the desert it is today.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
We've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized.
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Geraldine Moorkens Byrne @germoorkensbyrne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Had a great time chatting to other @moonbooksci.bsky.social authors @morgandaimler.bsky.social Lora O'Brien and @rachelpatterson.bsky.social about Samhain myths misinformation and real Traditions youtu.be/8iBtpuKcAbI?... #pagan #witch #samhain #Halloween
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The Real Irish Samhain w/ Morgan Daimler, Lora O'Brien, Geraldine Moorkens Byrne & Rachel Patterson
YouTube video by Moon Books Publishing
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pete Hegseth with the "Federal Network" logo and "Would you like to know more?" from Starship Troopers
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don Elías (como los buses) 🥨 @donelias.mastodon.cr.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Every damn time #Brasil #Brazil #Colombia #DiegoHitlerioDeLaJunta
Meme: South American Elections

Option 1: Gabriela Rosa Sympatica: Elementary school teacher beloved by her community. Wants to improve lifes.

Option 2: Diego Hitlerio de la Junta: Son of a previous dictator. Went to jail for corruption. Wants to sterilize natives.

Temporary results (98% ballots counted)
49,9999% vs 50,0001%
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
we're not beating the "anything but the metric system" allegations
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Google Is Accused of Destroying Nearly 500 Football Fields of Forest for New Data Center Project
Google's Finland data center cleared 300 hectares of forest before environmental review concluded, now under regulatory investigation by LVV.
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Andros Starborn @andros-starborn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shyeah, "allegedly" like a nine millimeter brain haemorrage...
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 04/10/2026
the man in the drunk castle
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/10/2026
Despite its name, the DEFEND IP Act would instead incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts to block access to a website. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name
There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 05/10/2026
Continuing to fail to beat the "probably going to die trying to pet something I shouldn't" allegations.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The religious right is steadily expanding its definition of what is sexual — and restricting what it deems acceptable in public spaces. Tech companies, in want of less oversight, are taking the hint. The deplatforming that started with sex workers / kink / trans has come for gay bars.
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Andros Starborn @andros-starborn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gods fucking damn it.
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah the biggest human trafficking bust in 21st century US history went down in 2021. Operation Blooming Onion. They took down a $200 million slavery ring in Georgia. 100% H2A visa workers who immigrated legally. This was HUGE NEWS for anyone who was paying attention to farm worker & labor issues.
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The President is unable to stay awake during Oval Office press conferences
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Reminder: Cosplay Patton here is 0-1 in wars and he took an L to a B-level power
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
geekgirl, online zine, sticker (circa 1998) web.archive.org/web/19980110...
a circle: in the middle, the image of a woman's face from many decades ago on a microphone. around the edge of the circle: girrls needs modems! girrls need modems! girrls need modems!
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 09/09/2026
We maintain that there's no way to implement age verification without compromising sensitive data. Those who choose to opt out of this get a censored experience. A reminder: the leaders pushing for age verification broadly aren't doing so for child safety. Their aim is information control.
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gravewalker @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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mödemlooper @modemlooper.net · 29/09/2026
This muse mascot looks creepy. Like it would be in a black mirror episode. At night it sucks the blood of children.
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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 29/09/2026
here's a section of rafah pre- and post-israeli bombardment
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Lady Aranea @ladyaranea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do I even have to point out how fucked almost everyone would agree this was if it was applied to practically any other marginalized group?
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.
A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026
"What we have is a lot of furious people." The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal in Madrid, after an investment fund bought her apartment building and more than tripled her rent, has become a symbol of Spain's rising cost of living.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 27/09/2026
The Liberal Dems have voted to reject the EHRC Code of Practice - which recommends the segregation of Trans+ people from most single-sex spaces Read more in our newsletter 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the…
Lib Dems approve motion to oppose the EHRC Code of Practice as Labour is set to face protest over exclusion of trans women at its women's conference.

The Liberal Democrats have voted to reject the EHRC Code of Practice, which recommends the segregation of Trans+ people from most single-sex spaces, as "discriminatory and unworkable". 
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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
now here's an alarmingly common sentiment among engineering students
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Ambassador G'Kar🏳️‍🌈 @ambassadorgkar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We have got to win at least 52 seats so we can make this ogre irrelevant
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kopper @w.on-t.work · 26/09/2026
llama therian with a pain kink: man i love winamp
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