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Alex White

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
language model programs have no conscious intent or ethical understanding and they never will. you can program them to say they do, but they fundamentally cannot
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The operative word in "Protect our women!" is not "women" but "our".
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Aari ⏭️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotiacon 2027 @chipflake.com · 02/06/2025
happy pride month!
Digitally illustrated graphic with big, bold, black text in the center reading "trans lives are more important than harry potter". Two cats with alternating colours of the trans flag lay above the top left and bottom right of the text, turning it pink & blue where they cross over.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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♥ Chaotic Brush ♥🔞 @brushofchaos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is a PR stunt to get you to watch the new Harry Potter series. Fraud.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We do not build the reservoirs needed to store the rain that falls here. We do not build strategic food reserves needed to maintain provision in hard times. We failed to build effective stores of PPE, to protect us in pandemics. This country has long been governed by people who do not prepare.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
At this point, JK Rowling has spent more time and energy writing about how much she hates a vulnerable part of the human condition that never did one goddamned fucking thing to harm her than she ever did writing Harry Potter.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/07/2026
Lemme explain what the words BELIEVE WOMEN should mean. They don't mean you have to believe women no matter what. They do mean that you have to treat women as a source the same way you'd treat a man.
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Helena N. @koalalaurelin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hi!) Today is my birthday!😁 And by tradition, I will be very happy with your retweets - this is the best gift for an artist)
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 28/06/2026
this is actually a good reminder that you should delete the tracking nonsense off of any url that you share online. just delete everything after the ? (including the question mark) and share like you usually would
a screenshot of a youtube url showing the actual url as everything before the ? and everything after as “tracking nonsense”
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
gambling ads
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Orange Guy on a green background. He is continually shouting “BET BET BET BET”

Panel 2:
Orange Guy is becoming increasingly unhinged. The words BET BET BET BET start to fill up the panel behind him

Panel 3:
Extreme close up on Orange Guys’s eyes. They are blood shot and the pupils have been replaced with the words “BET”. The eyes are surrounded by waves of the word “BET”

Panel 4:
An almost empty panel. Orange Guy leans in and whispers “responsibly”. 
“gambleaware.com” is written in small letters at the bottom right of the panel
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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
this is unworkably insane as well as morally repellent, and still isn't going to win the government any points at all from the people who are now going to tour the country waging lawfare against any organisations that look like they might be treating trans people with dignity
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Allie @rally.luckyraven.cc · 11/05/2026
Adult content helped build Kickstarter. It helps build most of the big sites on the web, only to get evicted once the business settles into the positions smut built for them. It has every right to exist and its creators deserve to participate in the social spaces their work developed.
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Kall @highlandkall.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
ok i got a lot of replies to this on tumblr but this is the best one ^^
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[a photo of colorful handprints on a cave wall]

#put your hand on the wall

#nobody is going to the handprints going "look at the technical proficiency of this hand stencil technique"

#the awe isnt in some prowess but that it is there. there amongst the others.

#thousands of years and the message is clear: i am here i was here

#you just have to be here

#and maybe people will look and go wow they were there

#and just maybe someone will put their hand on the wall through time and space and know that they are not alone

#you dont have to have the prettiest hands

#or the brightest colors

#you just have to put your hand on the wall

#god im tearing up looking at this actually
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Them: "think of the children!!!!" Me: omg yes you are so right. we should abolish child prisons, stop funding militaries that slaughter children, ensure every child has access to medical care and healthy food, provide mental health counselors in schoo-- Them: NO WE MEAN CENSOR THE INTERNET!!!
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.
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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.
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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Begging cis people not to press the button that makes children kill themselves. “But it’s such a pretty button,” they protest, sweat pouring down their face from the effort of not pushing it. “It looks like so much fun to press.” Dead children, we remind them. “...what kind of children?” they ask.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Adam Kotsko:
The question about Trump’s trajectory all along has been how he kept the scam going. He can’t code-switch or self-censor. Everyone who encounters him knows exactly who he is, immediately. The answer, I believe, is that he uses his manifest incapacity as a kind of superpower. Everyone who enters into business with him and sees his gleeful desire to cheat and steal and defraud thinks to themselves, “I can use this.” They don’t realize that he is too impulsive to be durably manipulable and that he has elevated betrayal into a perverse Kantian maxim. Everyone, everyone who joins forces with him loses, but everyone equally thinks that they are the ones who have seen through the ruse and can use him “as a tool,” to use a popular current-day phrase. The fact that they are obviously—even definitionally—smarter than him blinds them, makes them stupider than the stupidest man alive.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Media & police commonly report that “speed wasn’t a factor in a crash.” What they mean is the driver wasn’t technically breaking the speed limit, or at least not too much. But speed is ALWAYS a factor, in how much distance is needed to stop, how well crash victims can be seen, and whether they die.
Graphic showing how hard it is for drivers to yield at different speeds, how a drivers field of vision is reduced at higher speeds, and how the likelihood of a struck pedestrian dying increases with speed. #SpeedKills #SpeedIsALWAYSaFactor
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🎃🍁Evie Lyn Devers🍁🎃 @sinebadger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
It found there was not enough good quality evidence to conclude overall whether the drugs benefited young people or harmed them, so NHS England will not issue new prescriptions while it continues to consider responses from advocacy groups and healthcare professionals.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 17/02/2026
Very good advice for when you really wanna do a thing, but are afraid. <3
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 11/02/2026
Find a better book
A picture a friend of mine posted in a Discord. Its several Harry Potter books on Audible for an ad. Graffiti is sprawled over the books and it reads in all caps: “FIND A BETTER BOOK”

A male female, gender symbol, which I’m going to assume represents trans folks is in the top right corner, but there’s an a for anarchy inside of the circle in the symbol
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Alex White @apawhite.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Saw SEND HELP, thoroughly enjoyed it. Classic Sam Raimi, very well told and performed. Few true surprises in it, but it felt like a series of dominoes set up by a master instead of predictable; and the cathartic moments in particular were TIMELY. My only critique: Rachel McAdams can't not look hot.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I cannot stress this enough, and I am tired of saying it: British white people, everything you are seeing in the US is coming here and you cannot watch Eurovision or Great British Bakeoff or sign petitions and think you can stiff-upper-lip or ignore your way out of this. Learn to be UNCOMFORTABLE.
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ceej @ceej.online · 23/01/2026
Look, I believe in casts, but if a parent has strongly-held anti-cast beliefs, they should be allowed to let their kid’s broken arm grow back all floppy and fucked up, even to the point of lifelong, debilitating pain. And that’s not child abuse because a kid’s bones are their parents’ property
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/01/2026
Hey we heard you have executive dysfunction so we created a giant bureaucratic maze and we're gonna put your executive dysfunction meds at the end of it. maybe.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Elon musk, the world's richest man, just finished a stint as part of the US government where he oversaw the murder of hundreds of thousands of children and counting, and now is overseeing a website producing the most CSAM per minute in history.
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 03/01/2026
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv You can never change or guilt it Just go find the guys who built it When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
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mcc @dryad.technology · 22/12/2025
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
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Phantomarine @phantomarine.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-" wrong I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI get good
Concept art of Rosalind Lutece's wardrobe and outfit construction from Bioshock Infinite, drawn by Claire Hummel
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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary? “If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
Tweet by Nico Reznick, AT NicoReznick on 20 June 2025 reads:

“There is a simple test to see if someone should qualify for assisted dying:

If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?

If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.

[hashtag] AssistedDyingBill [hashtag] assistedsuicidebill”
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 12/12/2025
Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay
Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987. Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 28/11/2025
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This snippet from an interview with Enver Solomon, outgoing head of the Refugee Council, seems very typical of this govt's approach and speaks to a desire to relentlessly spend tax payer's money in pursuit of a dream of total administrative control
Solomon is clear on the potential problems of Labour's new suite of policies - in particular reviewing a person's refugee status every 30 months to determine if their home country is safe to return to, which will cost, estimates the Refugee Council, £872m over a decade. "They're going to have to create a new bureaucracy to do this, at enormous cost,' he says.
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Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear "Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks! Let it Go!
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'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks
J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...
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