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Belsheber Rusape Jr. @belrusape.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trans voice actresses of color (Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Latina, SWANA), I wanna know how many of y’all are on BlueSky! If any of you know any BIPOC trans actresses, feel free to share recommendations as well!🏳️‍⚧️✨

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Crystal @crystalpalace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have started to block any ad that even mentions weight loss as this point bc its all GLP-1 It just comes across as "You're fat, so just drug yourself and lose it as fast as you can, you fat fuck" Its wild to come out of an era of body positivity into "You're too fat, here's drugs"

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Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gay · 01/10/2026

Its that time.

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Tatyana Milewska @tatyanamilewska.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you're an EU citizen, here's an EU Citizen's Initiative to stop mandatory age verification for you to sign. I'm doing my part This isnt just a petition, if they reach the 1 million signature goal the EU commission is required to address it seriously citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

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Crystal @crystalpalace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No experience But I can attempt a test

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Ash @fishyash.com · 21/09/2026

Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2...

If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service. At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article. By melding together enough stabs at this task from high-level Duolingo users, the app can render a surprisingly accurate translation. Which is worth good money. So far, Duolingo has contracts with BuzzFeed and CNN to translate stories from English into languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. This service is already earning Duolingo hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but von Ahn predicts he will be adding a raft of new clients soon. “The language translations market is huge,” he says. “It’s a $30 billion per year market.”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

attacking trans people hurts dem politicians and that take is missing from this whole news cycle. dems attacking trans people makes it more likely you will lose, defending trans people makes it more likely they win I want democrats to win so they need to defend trans people

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Breaking: Someone appears to have hacked the Republican National Convention website and it now redirects to the Epstein Files website.

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Dan O'Dowd @realdanodowd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tesla's defective self-driving software will still illegally blow past a stopped school bus and run down a child crossing the road! We warned Tesla of this danger 4 years ago and the safety defect hasn't been fixed in FSD v14 Lite. Why is this product allowed on public roads?

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some cis people will literally leave their jobs over Joanne's bigotry, and others are mad they're being told not to watch a TV show. Who our allies are is very obvious to us, and we remember who they are.

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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And here I stand. Still able to draw.

Just in: widespread ai outage underway as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are all down.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 03/09/2026

Protip: you do not have to watch the new Harry Potter trailer. I did not watch the new Harry Potter trailer, and I am doing great. If I had watched the new Harry Potter trailer, I am sure to have felt regretful and like I had betrayed many wonderful trans folks just living their lives.

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Proto @protowlf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hi I'm a AAA dev who is now indie. It's a depressing time, and it would be uplifting to see games industry folks boycott The Game Awards. Later this year Geoff is going to be handing awards to people who literally use plagiarism machines, after unheard of layoffs. Please just don't go.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union.

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Tato @tatodrudis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I love Petra Parker

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 23/08/2026

More and more people are talking about Medicare for All. Why? Because our system is broken and there’s a real solution on the table that threatens the profits of CEOs and corporations. Everyone deserves healthcare. And WE have the power to make this a reality.

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IggyMaid @iggymaid.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

RTA in Japan, a Japanese speedrunning event similar to AGDQ etc. has a list of situations that result in disqualification Among these are rules like no sexual content or adults only rated games but then a blanket ban for any Harry Potter games Source rtain.jp/submission-g... Alt text within image

screenshot of japanese text, rough translation shows this is a list of cases where your speedrun will be disqualified including: playing adult only rated games by the ESRB or CERO ratings boards, the manufacturer disallows streaming of the game, romhacks are not allowed, harry potter games are not allowed, videos with errors or missing content will be disqualified, likewise for videos that cannot be played, or evidence is given that you're not the one playing it.

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鋼🎃Stephen Meyerink @sjmtaelus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Love working on games, but I've learned in recent years that the excitement of working on a cool game is fleeting. A safety net, time to rest and not overwork, and money for building a life and retiring are more important. The talent will vanish if the industry does not stop underpaying freelancers.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

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The Gaily Grind 🏳️‍🌈 @thegailygrind.com · 15/11/2024

"We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise." -Elliot Page ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Zeliel @zelieldraws.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community💙🩷🤍

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If Chain of Memories came out today and was a roguelike I legitimately think it could sell like 50 million copies.

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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 20/08/2026

Netherlands Privacy + Data Protection Authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP), recommends that users opt out of Twitch's AI training with Amazon, calling it "very risky". www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/a...

AP advises Twitch users: opt out from sharing data with Amazon AI
20 August 2026
Theme: Personal data on the Internet
The streaming platform Twitch announced that Amazon is using Twitch users’ personal data to train AI models. Users who do not want Amazon to use their streams, images and other personal data can now opt out from this feature. The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP), the Dutch data protection authority, is urging people to do so.

Twitch is an online video streaming platform and a subsidiary of Amazon. People mainly use it to live-stream the video games they are playing, whilst being on camera themselves as well. Other people can watch and chat with each other. The AP is concerned about Amazon using user data to train AI models.

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A’ine Evergreen 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We really do need to keep hammering them, the situation with Paypros is so dire that they made me agree with Grifftz. Remember, if you’re commissioning NSFW, or honestly just anything, don’t leave a comment through Paypal/invoice or whatever, no matter how innocuous it seems,

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This. A thousand per cent this.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Logically, I know the most likely explanation for Shatner being weird about bisexual Kirk while playing him Like That isn't that he didn't KNOW; it's that when the show was made, "flirting" between male leads as a homophobic joke was common, and he didn't realise nobody else on set read it that way.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17/08/2026

UPDATE: The Minnesota Supreme Court greenlit a right-wing bid to allow the appointment of bipartisan election judges at all early voting locations in Minneapolis for the midterms. The Republican request, along with their legal claims, seeks to fuel distrust in elections.

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Ori Sky @ori.mx · 13/08/2026

I’m making a browser extension called Safe Badge to let you know which Twitch streamers have disabled Gen AI training. This is an honor system as there’s no way to verify it. But it’s better than nothing. The extension isn’t finished yet but you can give yourself the badge here: safebadge.ori.mx

A screenshot of the browser extension showing the Safe Badge next to a streamer name. The badge is labelled “Gen AI disabled”. The icon displays as a green circle with a diagonal line through it.

A screenshot of the browser extension showing the Safe Badge next to a streamer name in the sidebar. The icon displays as a green circle with a diagonal line through it.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 11/10/2025

If you can't come out right now, please don't hate yourself. One day, the meaning of labels will disappear. Please love yourself as you are. The one who can cherish yourself the most is yourself. Because that is your strength and beauty. Chiitan loves you

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Ten | "Hold On, Let Me Save" @theletterten.lol · 11/08/2026

I'm still going to boycott Fortnite and everything Epic related because of Harry Potter shit and their use of genAI. I suggest everyone else to do the same.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

2,055 years ago today, Cleopatra, the last active ruler of ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic Kingdom, died at the age of 39.

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zeet (irrigation engineer) @zeet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is an amazing descriptor

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

404 is bringing it this week with the Flock coverage.

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

completely real question i had to answer for the hospital im getting top surgery at

a surgery form. the question being asked is "what are your pronouns?" the only answers are yes or no.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A Very Bad Thing to Do….

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Dr. K @katekaynak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Data Centers are not "job creators." They are resource extractors, siphoning off our water and power.

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possSCREAM @possqueen.dev · 28/07/2026

4 days!

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I see 216 traitors (that voted for this "merger") who should be charged with sedition and treason.

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Nope. He shouldn’t even be allowed on the ballot. Ineligible means ineligible. Don’t entertain any of this absolutely criminal, unconstitutional nonsense. Full stop. 🛑

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Meanwhile in Indiana… @robertlandrumjr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It’s what dictators do. Even “wanna-be-never-was” versions.

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🎃 Vyria Durav, Dread Wyrm Princess of Spookytown 🎃 @vyriadurav.northsky.social · 24/07/2026

Make me a sparkling water that tastes exactly like Monster and I'd lose so much weight holy shit, I just want hte flavor and not any of the other bits

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Kaptajnen @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Not even 24 hours after later, and out of nowhere, the universe send us a #PepsiMan #Recomp Or rather, a dev named "Kareem Olim" Who has single-handedly recompiled this gem and made it playable directly in your browser pepsiman.ol.mr No A.I was used here. #retrogaming #decomp #PS1 #decomp #gaming

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