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Bastet8300

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Feminist. Anti-AltReich. Bisexual. Speaks up for and believes POC. Proud SJW. Death to Fascism. compost the rich. Also cat, book, and movie lover. She/her. #BLM

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h
anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind.
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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 05/10/2026
AI tech bros really said "what if we took the uncanny valley and made it a business model" and now they're mad that people are creeped out by their uncanny valley business
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Bastet8300 @bastet8300.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Look at this perfect round birb! @moonpanther22.bsky.social
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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🧵 "Just because someone who is literally selling something makes extraordinary unfounded claims about it doesn't make it true."👇🏽
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Had the BEST conversation with Florida Senate Candidate Angie Nixon. I’m telling you, we can flip that seat and actually get a senator who puts the people, not the president first. Let’s go!! AngieNixon.com FULL INTERVIEW HERE--- youtu.be/tM51JFEAPQI
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Historian Tim Snyder compares what Trump is doing in Latin America to Soviet tactics in Eastern Europe after WWII: rig elections, apply threats, install the leadership you want. His description of Trump’s approach: “smash and grab.”
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Bastet8300 @bastet8300.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@moonpanther22.bsky.social LOOKIT!
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Toks Nilhaw @toksnilhaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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froggher @froggher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
personally i think it’s based for john kramer to come out of retirement to torture ai like honestly ai isnt valuing its own life enough it kinda has it coming plus at least this with maybe jigsaw will finally stop putting people who smoke cigarettes on saw traps and move on to more deserving targets
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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 01/10/2026
Move fast, pollute things.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026
AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three people, including a child, drowned in the Channel today. Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable.
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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
History teaches us that the American people are capable of building great movements against powerful corporate interests. Let’s hope we can prove it once again. www.commondreams.org/opinion/popu...
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Wanted: An Organized Political Movement to Counter the AI Oligarchs | Common Dreams
History teaches us that the American people are capable of building great movements against powerful corporate interests. Let's hope we can prove it once again.
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chercat208.bsky.social @chercat208.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ever notice how everyone screaming about cutting social security as an 'entitlement' are the politicians who will retire with a comfy pension or the obscenely wealthy who have enough money for a thousand lifetimes? Raise the damn cap!!!
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/09/2026
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. Heres what we now know: www.404media.co/hackers-stol...
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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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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
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Bastet8300 @bastet8300.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sexism is, at its heart, very simple. Women are not like me, they can do stuff I can’t do, and that is unfair! I’m terrified of what I don’t understand. I must control them. What do you mean this isn’t logical or rational?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
by the way, this freak's rep who dropped him in April is back handling PR around the rape accusation. The rep is Mitchell Jackson—fka Mitchell Sunderland—who got fired by Vice for siccing Milo Yiannopoulos on his women coworkers at Broadly
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Clavicular's Rep Drops Him Days After Suspected Overdose, Says Influencer 'Will Not Take His Health Seriously' (Exclusive Source)
Mitchell Jackson, a publicist for Clavicular, has stopped working with the controversial influencer over his drug use, PEOPLE can confirm.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct
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Bastet8300 @bastet8300.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Something that has been helping my mental health: Every time I learn about new awful things, get up, move around, and do something to improve my immediate surroundings. Empty a trash can, sort mail, do dishes, etc. it really helps!
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k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey, if you're teaching in a classroom right now, you'll want to mask up with a kn95 or better. Yeah, they're less comfortable to teach in, but covid is ticking up, and I truly want you to be well.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning, team. We have 3.5 days until Drexel closes the Academy of Natural Sciences. It’s time for you- yeah YOU- to make some calls. Step 1: Tell the following people we need help pressuring Drexel to keep the museum open: Josh Shaprio 717-787-2500 Mayor Parker's 215-686-2181
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Oceanoxia @oceanoxia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They don't want you and the people around you to have the skills, knowledge, or resources to question their lies.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 24/09/2026
They’re panicking.
When ICE operates in Kansas, it needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement. Our sheriffs and police know these communities better than anyone, and working together keeps officers and residents safe.
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Bastet8300 @bastet8300.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@moonpanther22.bsky.social Hey look!
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know I've posted this quote before, but it applies to almost everyone in the Trump administration. "Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing." Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishmen
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i strongly suspect the reason that they are hiding this is not because cops are moonlighting for ICE contractors off duty but because many of them are working for ICE contractors *while clocked in*
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Sawah Mwa! 😘 @sawahmwa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bibi is a good friend and offers adorable merch~ Please give her shop a look!
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Bastet8300 @bastet8300.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
“Dozens of Black employees at Tesla’s flagship plant in California said they were subject to racist slurs, unequal pay and promotions, and bullying by supervisors on a daily basis, a situation management did little to nothing to fix.”
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Black Tesla employees accuse company of fostering racial discrimination in major trial
Lawyers say Black employees at Tesla experienced ‘rampant racism’ that was left unchecked for years at their flagship factory in California
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another data point for the very clear trend.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And there it is.
ScrollEd is following a freemium model, combining a free consumer feed with a paid ScrollEd Pro subscription and annual institutional licenses. Institutions pay to deliver educationa material through the platform, in exchange for reports about engagement, lesson progress, and other data.
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"Horrifying Monster" Ella Tailor 🎃🎃 $295/$700 @garaktailor.com · 20/09/2026
Thank you kind Neighbor. Moxley says she is ready for her close up. Only $150 to go.
A close up of an orange and white cats face
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Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I dont know how to explain to you that democrats putting out attack ads on a minority currently facing global genocide instead of on their opponents are not the kind of people who will fight for anyone. those are the kind of democrats that side with Republicans when it comes to ice/police budgets.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
someone should make a movie called “nazis getting shot in the face.” and that’s all it is. $1 billion domestic box office
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care.
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
the big chatbots hide all of this from you INTENTIONALLY to create an illusion to fool you and that’s why i think consumer-facing chatbots should be illegal it is a DELIBERATE trick. they carefully crafted it to trick people. it’s not “how llms work.“ the secret nature of it is a choice
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
llms only “exist” to give one reply at a turn you: x llm: y then the whole process starts over. there is no continuity. each reply is 100% fresh. the context of your previous “conversation” is included, hidden from you, in every request you make. continuity is an illusion
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
when you interact with an object or environment produced by people, every single part of it is downstream of active human choices. and that means they can be legislated. for example: we can make it illegal for chatbots to call themselves "i" and pretend to be a person. that is a deliberate trick.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Once you start conceding ground to the “protect sports” angle in order to win an election you’re not fighting for anyone’s rights
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Iowa lawmakers hate reading whole books almost as much as they hate gay kids. A look at the implementation of SF 496 and a new proposal to make things even worse. If you're in Iowa, you need to comment before September 22. Details on how, what, and why. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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Iowa Lawmakers Hate Reading Books Almost As Much As They Hate Queer Kids
There's no requirement for a whole book to be read before it's banned in Iowa under SF 496. A new proposal to the bill could speed up bans even more.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What have five years of relentless book bans and attacks on libraries looked like? This report is from those on the ground doing the work, sharing their challenges, wins, and the opportunities ahead in protecting the right to read. bookriot.com/book-censors...
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“We Need To Tell The Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect On Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom to Read
Advocates for the freedom to read across the country share their wins, challenges, and opportunities as the work enters year six.
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