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Violet "Vi" Rollergirl • NYC🗽touring✈️ CHI 10/13-17, EXXXOTICA NJ @violetrollergirl.com · 10/09/2026

Meanwhile, if you want to get a jumpstart on relevant @z.cash topics on Bluesky, here's a new Starter Pack I made just for you: go.bsky.app/NAcwC75 Including @daira.bsky.social, @nutty.land, @pacu.bsky.social, @mylo-bennett.com, @zkavclub.bsky.social, @zodl.com, @shieldedmark.bsky.social, and more.

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Zcash Foundation @zfnd.org · 23/09/2026

🛡️ What technical threats should Zcash be preparing for? 🗣️ @daira.bsky.social, @defusesec.bsky.social, @zooko2.bsky.social, Dev Ojha & Arya on where Zcash's defenses stand and where more investment is needed. Moderated by Andrew Miller. 📆 Oct 27–29, 2026, Cancún Apply now: zfnd.org/zcon7/

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Heather Alexis🏳️‍⚧️ @heather-alexis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Every accusation and all that. Conservatives have spent every fucking second of their lives playing victim. They're victims of gay people being able to get married. They're victims of Black people being in movies. They're victims of mask mandates. Of vaccines. Of immigration. Of cancelation....

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"masked fascist paramilitary seizes port" just isn't the sort of thing the uk media would ever say, is it

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026

In the absence of a ban on surveillance without explicit, opt-in consent, we are left with the bizarre fiction that most of us want to be spied on, a fiction that pervades the DROP process, making the entire procedure nearly impossible to complete. 17/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026

Implementing DROP is nowhere near as good as banning data brokers. The idea that data brokers should be able to collect, retain and process your data unless you tell them not to implies that everyone starts off wanting to be spied on. 12/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026

Rather than legally requiring platforms to spy on kids (to exclude them from being targeted by platforms' algorithms), we could prohibit platforms from spying on *anyone*, including kids, meaning kids couldn't be identified (much less targeted) by algorithms: pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/d... 5/

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Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026

Data brokers are a cancer. There's a direct line from collecting, retaining and processing our data to deepfake porn and phishing scams; racial discrimination in hiring and ICE roundups of migrants; targeted election interference and identity theft: pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/p... 1/

A hedge maze; out of its center rises the bear from the California state flag. Various human figures struggle to escape it. At the maze's entrance stands an agonized figure, reaching towards it.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 23/07/2026

decided to join in the chatgpt counterexamples to open math problems fun, and while I need to sit down and check its work, we might have found a proof that the language of palindromes can be recognized by a parsing expression grammar just a proof, not a grammar, but I'm having it make a grammar now

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 16/07/2026

yeah, this is heartbreaking and important for cis folks to understand what the fuck is going down for trans kids in the UK. this where this kind of policy leads. it’s the only place this policy leads.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If you are not familiar, it's a song from an Italian artist made to sound like jibberish English. He claimed any song that sounded in English could be a hit in Italy. it was

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Adriano Celentano - 'Prisencolinensinainciusol'

YouTube video by John Bow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026

AI's pitch to bosses is that they can fire most of their workers in order to terrorize the remainder into tolerating a working life wherein they are made to mark the AI's homework, at superhuman speed, and to assume the blame when it goes wrong. 12/

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Flat Pluto Society @adhdgobl.in · 01/07/2026

This is, unfortunately, an extremely tappable sign. bsky.app/profile/adhd...

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Laborwave @laborwave.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

your oppressors will not spare you for worshipping them

An image of the pokemon totodile. It says “The boot you lick will stomp you, too.”

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Whoever wrote this slop article for the NYT today is a bootlicking worm. I’m Queer, Not Gay. It Matters. Liberation Not Assimilation.

NYT opinion piece

“I'm Gay, Not Queer. It Matters.”
June 30, 2026

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is such an important point.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/07/2026

The entire project of mainstreaming and adopting the term of "biological sex"since the 1970's has been a reactionary one meant solely to exclude trans people from society and the protection of its laws.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/07/2026

And therein lies the heart of what the Court was doing. They were trying to define sex by what it isn't rather than what it is because the purpose was solely to exclude trans people from the protection of the law. They'll contort the law and their own judicial philosophies to do it.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/07/2026

"Biological sex" is fundamentally a retronym like "acoustic guitar" or "snail mail" that adds an adjective to a word whose meaning has shifted over time to try and refer to something older. The first legislative language to adopt it was North Carolina's bathroom ban in 2016.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/07/2026

The term "biological sex" was adopted widely only in the last decade as a reaction to mainstream acceptance of trans people. It was rarely if ever used before that. By any metric, from legislative usage to search query usage, it's plainly evident this is a novel term only made popular by the right.

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Doodle 🌵🔞 @snoodoodle.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Christ, that's vile! Looks like I'll not be using Malwarebytes Mullvad-based VPN anymore. Here's the archived link at the end of the above tumblr post that provides a lot of context (Mullvad's reply and the post that prompted it) for folks just seeing this now: web.archive.org/web/20260627...

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Mullvad VPN (@mullvadnet@mastodon.online)

@lostgen@det.social Mullvad is a political company fighting for free speech, free information and privacy, with two equal co-founders, co-owners and co-CEOs who fundamentally disagree on many issues...

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woob @woob.zone · 28/06/2026

NOT FUCKING MULLVAD GOD DAMN IT www.tumblr.com/3liza/820613... circumstances.run/@davidgerard...

tumblr post from 3liza titled "cancel your mullvad subscription":

tech news today is that Mullvad VPN has gone mask-off about being the major funding source for the Swedish Orebro party, who are racist nationalists. unfortunately all discussion of this is occurring on fucking Mastodon instances i can barely load

if you are a mullvad customer (as i am) and want to get out, here is guidance from this guy ( https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116823203601885385 )

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If you don't want your Mullvad fees going to fund neo-Nazis - or @mozilla VPN fees, which is rebranded Mullvad - cancel and get a refund immediately

that's whose "free speech" the official account is talking about here, and that's where your fees go to

EDIT: Mullvad has a 14 day refund policy. But the message below is a direct call to ask for a refund if you don't want to give money to Nazis.

If Mullvad refuse a refund, call your consumer protection agency. And reverse credit card charges on the basis of deceptive refund policy representations. It's not like you ever want to be a Mullvad customer again.

archive copy of Mullvad statement: https://web.archive.org/web/2026062717
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jess 🏳️‍⚧️ @fluffyfoxies.moe · 22/06/2026

c# professor: now remember. always make sure to watch out for sql injection attacks concernedape, taking notes: okay, watch out for sql injection attacks. good thing there's no other injection attacks to watch out for

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Brian Gill @g-ill.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“The rule also requires that discretionary awards must ‘… demonstrably advance the president’s policy priorities,’” she added. … In other words, said Delawalla, it would create a “$1.5tn slush fund” under Trump’s control. “The purpose of the rule is fascism,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘The purpose of the rule is fascism’: scientists fight back against planned Trump research cuts

Stand Up for Science founder says proposal to control how grants are spent would ‘dismantle US science ecosystem’

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The money and the desire and the demand and the plan and the malice are not the same thing as completion, fight like hell, they are announcing their plans long before they're close to completion, they're strategically ass backward, weak, cowardly pathetic fools

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Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

UK age-check is a backdoor form of biometric digital-ID that shares your data with right-wing techbros & the secret police. Once a digital-ID system is up & running for a single purpose, function creep is used to make a de facto condition of access to key services. bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

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The Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to 'Unregulated' Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records

The age verification services used by social media platforms include a company funded by a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence officers

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thinking about the social media ban and wondering where kids will shift if not on mainstream channels. When I was a teen in the late 80s - living in a small town, into Sarah Records and my bloody valentine - there were pen pal listings in music magazines and a whole fanzine/floppy disc subculture.

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Frightfur Tabby "Blake Belladonna" Kerr @tabbymaekerr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I think they deliberately wheel her out as a spokeswoman on this bc its optically bad to criticize the mom of a dead girl. It's an easy redirect away from the hate crimes the media and politicians would feel icky about if they had to acknowledge they were real and partially inspired by them.

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It is so telling that, as this government has become increasingly transphobic, she has been completely silent, and, indeed, complicit in their work to deprive other trans kids of their support networks and their communities.

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Ghost of Hope 🏳️‍⚧️ @grayfaceghost.northsky.social · 18/02/2026

Esther is a transphobe. There's no doubt about this, no room for all the "Politicians have led her astray" cover that people throw

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Like, I genuinely feel like I’m going mad. Brianna Ghey wasn’t killed by social media. She was saved by social media, where she was able to find community with other young trans people. She was able to make online friends with people like herself. It was those offline who murdered her.

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Korlis @korl.is · 19/02/2026

there we go: Ghey's mother deadnames her daughter in her memoir and treats her transition as a death akin to her actual murder. the reason for the social media ban the mother has put her name behind is explicitly to prevent young people from finding queer communities, solidarity, and support online.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

In her memoir, she also deadnames her daughter and wants to remember the presumtively cis child she had when Brianna was born. I am trying to be sensitive and understanding here, because she's a grieving mother whose child was taken away in the most horrible way, but it is revolting.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Social media appears to have been a lifeline for Brianna Ghey, something she used to connect with other trans people, something that would have been difficult to do when I was her age. But her mother is talking about how social media "killed her", that she "died twice." It's revolting.

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.

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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

DON HERTZFELDT, in this the year of our oversized spoon 2026, has uploaded a HD version of Rejected to his YT channel?!?!?! OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I'M SO HAPPY HIIIIII

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REJECTED by DON HERTZFELDT

YouTube video by don hertzfeldt

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Pacu @pacu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Hello! I'm honored and pleased to tell you that I'll be joining @zodl.com Josh, @daira.bsky.social @nutty.land and the rest of this fabulous team welcomed me and I’m really happy and excited for all the things we will be able to achieve together. Onward! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/pacu-joins...

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 28/05/2025

> AI writing is often bland and boring but better than the average person’s writing. It might be better in a "what grade would it get in English class" sense but tbh I much prefer reading authentically bad writing

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Daira-Emma Hopwood @daira.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"We'll have finally secured Schnorr signatures ten seconds before they are all rendered insecure by quantum computers." — @seanbowe.com

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Spring 💜🙂 @electroplasm.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

seems like a lot of cis liberals want so hard for trans genocide to be our own fault somehow

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Violet "Vi" Rollergirl • NYC🗽touring✈️ CHI 10/13-17, EXXXOTICA NJ @violetrollergirl.com · 08/04/2026

Definitely gonna need to start a blog. Here's me talking about sex work as a trans provider, the importance of/inherent tension between private growth and public celebration for social beings, and encryption technology. (Re-posting because this audio is way better than the first version I posted!)

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Violet "Vi" Rollergirl • NYC🗽touring✈️ CHI 10/13-17, EXXXOTICA NJ @violetrollergirl.com · 14/05/2026

"If you can't do these things that might be disapproved by authority, but are actually perfectly ethical and the right thing to do because you fear the consequences, then that leads to a worse society." This is Daira-Emma Hopwood. Ze has been building @z.cash for over ten years. Don't cis-wash it.

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