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Ava The Darklady

@avathedarklady.bsky.social
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In no particular order: bi/pan, poly, cisgender, queer, horror lover, movie lover, wife, nurse.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20h
Lot of words when the term “stalking” already exists.
tampabay.com
2 Pinellas deputies arrested for tracking people they were interested in, sheriff says
One deputy queried a license plate reader database 300 times to track a woman, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.
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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 9h
She is soooooo close to getting it. Yes, this absolutely is a solution to the imaginary problem that transphobes created in their fever dreams.
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🧑🏻‍🦽‍➡️🦄 Eva Roslin (they/them) ⚨ 🍁 @evavroslin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tapping the sign again to remind folks to stop using this very common and deeply embedded word when promoting Halloween season, via @sharai.bsky.social. It is still too pervasive. It is a racial slur. And yes it is harmful: horrorpress.com/editorials/1...
horrorpress.com
Remove Spook From Your Vocabulary Today
It’s officially Halloween season, and a great time to remind everyone that the word “spook” is a slur. Like many words and phrases in the English language, racists did what they do best and ruined it....
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 30/09/2026
NEON is also making their own SCP Foundation movie project, @deadline.com reports. The open-source project will release in theaters next year, competing with A24's V/H/S/SCP project. "Neon expressed its commitment to releasing its film under the Creative Commons license CC BY-SA."
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Marty @martincrownover.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The perfect way to put it. They found a way to worm a subscription between you and your normal work.
A screenshot of a post on Threads by Joe Hill. The post reads: "Here’s a thought about the purveyors of AI. They aren’t selling assistance—they’re selling dependency. You give up on acquiring one skill after another, give up on the knotty, meaningful struggle to acquire those skills and AI takes over. It isn’t freeing up time so you can make more of yourself. It’s encouraging cognitive surrender so you can be less."
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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 01/10/2026
🎃🧙‍♀️👻💀🤖👽😺🫀🦷🦸‍♂️🦹‍♀️🧝‍♀️🤡🧌🧟‍♂️🦉🐦‍⬛🦇🕷️🐀🍬🕯️⚰️🪦🔮🖤
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Steve Lafleur @stevelafleur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As someone who is deeply invested in America becoming a friendly neighbour again, I am begging you to get this guy on the ticket.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think a top tax bracket of 99.9999% ought to do the trick
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think this shows how monumentally stupid JD Vance is, that he walked right into that. Anyone with any clue could have seen that set-up a mile away.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026
lady: our data center flexes demand to protect the grid and ratepayers!

guy: how

lady: we use AI to shift load!

guy: how

lady: we run diesel generators when prices spike

guy: thank you
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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fleetwood Mac was a CIA experiment to see if straight people could survive the average queer friend group dynamic
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now
He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know,
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In the NYC subways; The French Connection (1971) Saturday Night Fever (1977) Death Wish (1974) The Warriors (1979) Dressed to Kill (1980) My Dinner with Andre (1981)
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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There just isn't a legitimate solution to this which doesn't result in thousands of people currently working in the Federal government going to prison for many years
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wintertorta🍰 @wintertorta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a reminder 🪄 #illustration
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026
Like this gives the Saudis a content veto power over EA, Bioware, Paramount, CBS, Nickelodeon, Showtime, and BET, and if the newest merger gets approved they’ll also have content veto power over HBO, CNN, the whole WB universe, Discovery, TBS, TNT, plus the PGA and ATP. It’s pretty stunning.
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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don't know, Hank, did you vote for a rapist? You DID? Well, that's on you, isn't it?
Dr. Hank Desmond @HankDes... • 13h
When you call President Trump a "rapist" or
"pedophile," you're not only insulting your president - but also supporters like me.
After all, if you think I'm the type of person who would vote for a rapist — you must not think highly of me.
Is that the message you want to send?
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI doomers getting all of their ideas about the apocalypse from science fiction seem to have missed the whole point of the Jackpot, which is that the apocalypse is long and boring.
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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A completely inaccurate AI-generated report brought the U.S. so close to starting a war with China that planes were already in the air and soldiers were already preparing to board a Chinese vessel. But go on, tell me again why we shouldn't be fighting this technology.
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This👇. So this!!!
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Klassick-Moviez @klassik-moviez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elvira and Cassandra Peterson 🎂
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The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Windows Display Properties Settings
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Cara (haunting you) 💀🐦‍⬛ @geekpie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
realising why everyone has accused me of being an outrageous flirt it’s because I’m short and I’m basically just looking up at everyone like this
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing
ALT: The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
orlandosentinel.com
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
gizmodo.com
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16/09/2026
“Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.”
404media.co
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fun fact: in the UK, most people do not need to file a tax return at all, it's all done at source. Of those who do, most do not need accounting software, and few have an accountant. As with healthcare, making tax filing expensive, burdensome and for-profit, is a legislative and executive choice.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And yesterday Trump demanded that Ukraine stop bombing Russian refineries.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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אביבה @glitter-femme.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's easier to recharge while you have energy IT'S EASIER TO RECHARGE WHILE YOU HAVE ENERGY Thank you, you have changed something in my brain here, I am going to be repeating this to myself until it sticks.
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
AES is essentially running a comms strategy that Bluesky has specifically been asking for and it’s so refreshing to see him do it so well.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
9/13/26 Chicagoland ICE activity update: rapid responders report an abduction in the South Loop this morning and another (photo-corroborated) in the far southwest community of Country Club Hills. Further activity reported today in the suburbs of Bensenville and Addison.
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A master class
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Credit to PBS News. This is by far one of the most accurate descriptions of what trump did. None of the sanewashing we saw with so much of the news coverage.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/09/2026
It's time to clean the catbox It's time to shovel crap It's time to sift used litter While the kitties take a nap
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Fights🏳️‍⚧️4🇵🇸Love @hyenagirl64.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think a lot of democrats are highly invested in the idea that because they are “better than republicans” that they are good people They define their sense of ethics by what they can get away with, and so when a D politician doesn’t get away with something they feel threatened
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 12/09/2026
look if you want to improve Talarico's odds of winning, stop yelling at me for calling out his anti-trans bullshit and start yelling at him for adopting it I'm a nobody on a nothing website, he's the one harming his own chances with bigotry
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wow look the strategy that never fucking works appears to have failed yet again, surely the appropriate people will learn from it this time
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026
it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports
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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We got another one!
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Gillian Anderson Shares That She Is Pansexual
​This isn’t the first time the actress has talked about her sexual orientation, but it marks a move toward a specific term.
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