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Bex

@beccastevens.bsky.social
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Front end dev | they/them | unapologetically fat | AuDHD | TERFs and transphobes not welcome

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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 3h
Fascinated & moved by viral footage of Parisian lycéens singing Charles Aznavour's "Emmenez-moi." Classic chanson of their grandparents' era—a hit in '68, no less—about working-class drudgery/dreams of escape, whose implicit politics these kids are making them explicit, in real time, in the street
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 13h
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
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Dr T🎃ny K👻inth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I (and I suspect much of the world) would happily accept some bad things happening. To Altman. To any billionaires, really. For the benefit of humanity.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Re-sharing my essay about being a trans, former fan of the series … And yes: Cis people need to boycott, send a message that trans lives matter … lithub.com/burn-harry-b...
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Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person
During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 06/10/2026
if this sounds very simple it’s because it is and yet a surprising number of people on the left like to restrict it to “as long as they agree with me”
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 06/10/2026
and doing shit that I do not like does not, itself, constitute harm
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the man who has a full meltdown every time he has to imagine the barbarism of 20th-century surgery is NOT going to take "we brought measles back and implemented food poisoning at scale" very well
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 06/10/2026
Everywhere you look billionaires are telling us to accept suffering as the price of their individual whims and wealth and I implore you to get real fucking comfortable with acting up.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We're not suffering a breakdown of the social fabric because we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements with each other; we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements because some people are trying to deliberately rend the social fabric.
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Roch Fort @frankexchange.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It stops being a paradox once you realize tolerance isn't a virtue, but a non-aggression pact. Violators aren't covered.
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Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Honestly don’t know how we continue functioning as a society with such a small number of people vacuuming up this much wealth. Basically the equivalent of the US defense budget was rerouted to 500 people in just the last nine months.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/10/2026
Just because someone who is literally selling something makes extraordinary unfounded claims about it doesn't make it true You know this about vacuum cleaners; it's embarrassing that you can't hold it in your heads about computers
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.
His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
dear everyone MOCKING PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE ISN'T HOW YOU BUILD A MORE JUST WORLD MOCKING ABILITY OR HEALTH MOST *CERTAINTLY* ISN'T how many times must we cover this yes this includes "chosen" things like self-tanner FFS it doesn't matter people's SPEECH & ACTIONS are what matter GO AFTER THAT
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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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El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now $262/$950 for late rent—thank you so much! I’ve got 3.5 days left in the payment grace period; please help me keep this momentum going so I keep my home. 💜 Cashapp/Venmo: Elsthere
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Pay Elizabeth Leinback using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/aislinndelyon and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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liv @livya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the reason that it matters that AI Safety is a sex cult in Berkeley are: * it’s a closed group of people, * with a poor mental model of human behavior as a whole, * a poor sense of boundaries, and * engaged in practices that amplify the strength of their belief in absurd ideas
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Lots of trans guys I’ve talked to have had a Loren Rex Cameron story, and this is mine …” www.thebeliever.net/looking-for-...
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Looking for Loren Rex Cameron - Believer Magazine
Lots of trans guys I’ve talked to have had a Loren Rex Cameron story, and this is mine: Some years ago now, when I worked up the courage to confess to my spouse that I wanted top surgery—we were newly...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People have asked why we aren't involved with Neil deGrasse Tyson...this is why. @standupforscience.net does not endorse candidates with accusations of sexual misconduct and we do not collaborate with people who have accusations of sexual misconduct. PERIOD. Welcome to the matriarchy.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whew. Listen.
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Bex @beccastevens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I had to google Sophie’s Choice to make sure my vague recollection of the plot was correct and I would really like to know how this dude’s brain connected that with the word serendipitous. I question whether he knows what either means, actually.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“You don’t have to stretch to paint this picture: OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company.”
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Bex @beccastevens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My spouse’s favorite line, and it has become one of mine, is favorite just because it pops up so much once you start listening for it. Said by numerous characters at different points, “It’s working!”
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026
what’s amazing to me, always, is how many people will be like “ugh I hate fascism, the far right is evil, etc etc etc” and then in the next breath say “but people should only have human rights and dignity if they’re on my side and I like them”
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is literally just a list of news outlets that the Alt National Park Service has plagiarized from.
Alt National Park Service: A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The ‘purity test’ of do trans people deserve to live or not, for the Democrats, why is this *even* a question? If you’re anti-trans, you’re just a fascist, and go join them.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.
Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.
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Serenity "🜔🝆🜌🜂" Dee 🍜 @sapphixy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
oh my god why does anyone take this fuckwit seriously when we say LLMs et al. aren't thinking we aren't saying that only living beings can think, we're saying they're not thinking because they literally *can't* the difference is not one of degree but one of kind; biological brains aren't just…
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Once you’ve conceded that there’s nothing magic about humans or “living beings” that makes them the only entities allowed to think, it’s really hard to figure out an intellectually honest dividing line where the entities that are exercising creativity and solving complex problems aren’t thinking
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
every trans person in America is basically praying to whatever deity will accept them that the democrats don’t turn into Labour and decide to take turns with republicans throwing us into wood chippers. trans women have like a 30% unemployment rate. everybody fuckin’ Chill Out toward us a little
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026
Anti-trans bigotry is electoral disaster for Democrats. They will lose if they follow the consultant class off this cliff
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Spectacular Republican losses prove MAGA's transphobic playbook doesn't win elections
<p>Across the country, voters chose inclusion, empathy, and competence over cruelty and division.</p>
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Roses are red Violets are blue The singular "they" predates the singular "you"
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I’m pinning this because I cannot believe that so many posters are happy to deliberately exclude visually impaired people by not taking a minute to add alt text.
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Alt text 101 for Bluesky | Digital Philosophy by Manning Krull
Hi! You may be here because I or someone else sent you this link in response to a conversation about alt text on Bluesky. Welcome! This is a short article about alt text, its importance, and how to wr...
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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“No no, see, the guy who owns three Chrysler dealerships and has lunch with his state Senator twice a month is ‘working class,’ whereas the third grade teacher is ‘the unaccountable elite.’”
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026
If you're shown to be operating an automated system that doesn't respect robots.txt we civil asset forfeiture every last computer you ever touched.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026
Honestly a serious proposal for AI regulation would be something like: 1. ban on new gas turbines or other onsite fossil generation. 2. moratorium on new GPU capacity in data centers 3. severe privacy protections, with auditing requirements, for SaaS consumer products 4. ban on chatbot interfaces
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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m so very tired of waiting around for so many official cultural sources to recognize and give the sanctioned nod to legitimately discuss what is just plainly and glaringly obvious to anyone with eyes regarding everything over the last ten years
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It doesn’t matter if you eat organic foods. It doesn’t matter if you exercise regularly. It doesn’t matter if you inject peptides. It doesn’t matter if you have “good genes”. None of these things will prevent you from contracting vaccine-preventable diseases. There is only one thing that will.
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"But Paxton/Lahn/whoever else are running against a democratic transphobe are worse!" Yeah. Probably. Vote for the less-bad transphobe, then. Nobody can stop you. But it shouldn't confuse anybody that "they're only coming for YOUR rights, not EVERYBODY'S rights!" isn't very persuasive.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I made this design in 2019, and it’s been ripped off by countless creepy little Temu shops, as well as by Shein. Seeing it in an AI ad is ruining my day, ngl. If you like it, buy one from me - link in bio. I actually give money to queer mutual aid and medical care groups.
A shitty AI ad on Instagram showing my “you are safe with me” design being sold by a company that is not me.
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Democrats' failure to actually support trans people is obnoxious for a few reasons. First, I'd like to live, thanks. Second, it's a losing strategy. There's already an entire 'our whole thing is we hate trans people' party.
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