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he/him computing the day away🔥💻🔥 I like drawing, code and video games. linktr.ee/dapierce davidaaronpierce.com

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 24/09/2026
if politicians really gave a shit about protecting the youth, they would ban all of these gambling websites federally. But instead, the "protect the kids" policies are being used to enable getting 18 year olds addicted to gambling.
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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this
special reward available for fanduel in discord, because what discord needed was ads for predatory online gambling, fuck discord and everyone that works in their company leadership
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
final fantasy tactics advance, screenshot, game boy advance (2003) www.mobygames.com/game/10325/f...
isometric pixelated landscape, tiny cutesy characters and buildings, a little greenery, a little dirt, mostly stones.
blonde girl/young woman (head and shoulder portrait):
it's called "final fantasy." it's not real. not really.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026
microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts
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Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam
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m͖͙̗͎̄̃̒͋̇e̊͒͊̆̉͑ͅw̭͙͕͈̝͖̟͛̐̅̑̑̊🐈 @ooopiwowoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
new creature discovered
loafing tilcayo
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 17/09/2026
So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...
techpolicy.press
What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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Carli Velocci 👽 @carlivelocci.com · 17/09/2026
I feel like we're not talking enough about the new cat www.iflscience.com/first-new-ca...
iflscience.com
First New Cat Species In Over 100 Years Is A Totally Charming Tiny Tiger From Bolivia
Welcome to the party, Leopardus tilcayo.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026
So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Frog was standing near Toad's bed. “Wake up, Toad,” he said.
Toad stands on his bed, thrilled upon waking to see Frog.

From "The Dream"
In *Frog and Toad Together*
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm seeing a few people sharing this around and I feel that I should note for posterity that this is not a security disclosure. This is a PR website spun up for exactly this purpose by three people who work for "AI" thinktanks and who have been publishing a lot of very dramatic writeups lately.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 11/09/2026
worth remembering that today is also the anniversary of the US backed coup in Chile that overthrew democratically elected socialist Salvador Allende and replaced him with the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet, who murdered thousands of communists and leftists and jailed tens of thousands
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When we hit 1 million dead from covid (and we will, if we haven’t already, hit 2 million) nothing was said, no memorial was had, and I wonder how much of that is because we can’t go to war over it.
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🪨 Geop! 🪨 @mrgeop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy birthday, Papa Nier
Nier Gestalt loading screen diary entry

September 11
Today is Dad's birthday, but he's not here. So I just had a party by myself!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.
pcmag.com
Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare
Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨🆒cool link alert 🆒🔗 a rabbit hole www.theourcade.com/rabbithole/t... “Before the internet was five websites, it was millions of small ones, and a surprising number are still sitting exactly where their owner left them...”
theourcade.com
The Old Web — pages that outlived their era | Ourcade
Before the internet was five websites it was millions of small ones, and a surprising number still sit exactly where their owner left them. Go and look.
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Gubaba @gubaba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Char from Gundam CCA pulling a RADICAL move on his board, while saying "Amuro... I'm doing something extremely wicked..."
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kiana Mai has released the fully animated and colored ‘Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl’ pilot on YouTube. Watch: youtu.be/6_7L80WaIuU?...
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 02/09/2026
I think this is the most succinct write up I know of
alilleybrinker.com
1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
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Ariel in Seattle @lakedesire.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Seattle Council and Seattle Special Education PTSAs are hosting a community forum tomorrow (September 2nd) at noon. Please share with interested SPS folks.
scptsa.org
SCPTSA + SSEPTSA Community Listening Session — Seattle Council PTSA
Join Seattle Council PTSA and Seattle Special Education PTSA for a Community Listening Session on Zoom Wednesday, September 2nd, 12–1pm.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 02/09/2026
For more information and to register for recreation programs, please visit my blog: Wilson.Seattle.gov/2026/09/01/mayor-wilson-announces-free-drop-in-recreation-programs-during-potential-sps-teacher-strike/
wilson.seattle.gov
Mayor Wilson Announces Free Drop-In Recreation Programs During Potential SPS Teacher Strike  - Office of the Mayor
Seattle (September 1) – In the event of a strike and delayed start to the school year, the City of Seattle will offer free recreation drop-in programs at community centers to support Seattle families,...
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In case anyone was keeping track, we still do not know if we start school tomorrow. SPS held a press conference at 3 pm which amounted to “we’re working on it but treat this as a snow day” and like, I don’t think y’all want me to do that bc idgaf about snow days and I just keep them home lol
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David @davidaaronpierce.com · 01/09/2026
Seattle Public School parents, this is a great explainer on the district’s proposed IEP changes: spsforkids.org Send a couple emails and keep the pressure up on the admin and our lawmakers.
spsforkids.org
No one wants a strike. Here's how you can help.
SPS added a special education redesign into contract negotiations that would affect 170 jobs. Two emails.
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It is 10:40 am on a Monday and the teacher strike has not even been officially called and I’m already so fucking fed up with these anti-union/labor assholes I might explode. Dolly did not write 9-5 for y’all to say shit like “I don’t like organized labor”, get it THE FUCK together
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 30/08/2026
Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley! Born on this day in 1797 🫀
Digital illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a stylized portrait of Mary Shelley
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
this is from last year. once again to quote robert evans, "mark zuckerberg should be tried in the hague and hung by the neck till dead" www.thejournal.ie/meta-workers...
O INVESTIGATES TRAINING Al
Asked to think like a
paedophile or act suicidal:
Workers training Meta's Al in Ireland speak out
One worker who spoke to The Journal Investigates said that writing suicide-related prompts for Al led to them self-harming for the first time in their life.
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CONTENT MODERATORS WERE asked to think like paedophiles while they trained
Meta AI tools as part of their work for an Irish outsourcing company, The Journal Investigates has learned.
Some staff members also had to spend entire work days creating suicide and self-harm related 'prompts' in order to regulate the responses now given by the Meta 'Llama' AI products.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is the most pathetic thing Republicans have ever done, and I remember Freedom Fries. The most loser shit I’ve ever seen.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/08/2026
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
Fred Hampton speaks
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
is it good if Hudson News at the airport is like “we’re living in a sci fi hellscape dystopia yall”
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 24/08/2026
Who is funding the anti-trans legislation in Seattle? Washington Federal Bank directly, CEO of Trident Seafood, CEO of El Gaucho/Aqua restaurants and lots and lots of AI and tech bros... fuck them all. www.pdc.wa.gov/political-di...
pdc.wa.gov
Committee Finance Report | Washington State Public Disclosure Commission (PDC)
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small general strike @spice.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
losing my mind at this Rick Steves clip
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Gideon Zhi @aeongenesis.net · 22/08/2026
AGTP Major Release Update for Project srw4 ~ Super Robot Wars 4, out now! Link: aeongenesis.net/news?date=2026-08-2…
An image showcasing the Aeon Genesis Major Release update on project srw4An image showcasing the Aeon Genesis Major Release update on project srw4
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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 22/08/2026
Salem the cat from Sabrina the teenage hat wearing a beret and a coat with the captions “ an artist, i am sensitive about these things”
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Nancy 8/22/26
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026
Woah.
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Cortana 🌧️ Napping @cortanav.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Vaccine clinics in south King County are available this week for: All childhood vaccines for people 18 and under && Select vaccines for uninsured adults 
Bring proof of insurance && vaccine card, if available. Proof of residency NOT required. birdseye-wa.cdn.prod.prepmodapp.com/appointment/...
The first day of school is just weeks away! 
Get your family's vaccines taken care of this week:

Tuesday, 8/18/26 3 PM - 7 PM
Dimmitt Middle School
12320 80th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98178
Bus routes: 106

Thursday, 8/20/26 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Akin Kent
212 5th Ave S
Kent, WA 98032
Bus routes: 914, 164, 165, 566

Thursday, 8/20/26 3 PM - 5 PM
Youth Source Tukwila Parking Lot
645 Andover Park W
Tukwila, WA 98188
Bus routes: 150, 906

Saturday, 8/22/26 9 AM - 1 PM
Federal Way High School
30611 16th Ave S Federal Way
WA 98003
Bus routes: 901, A Line

Registration is highly encouraged. No proof of residency or insurance required. 

Services offered:
All childhood vaccines for people 18 and under.

Select vaccines for uninsured adults. See registration page for details.

Please bring proof of insurance and vaccine card, if available. Registration is highly encouraged. We welcome drop-in patients based on availability.
Registered appointments will be prioritized.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 14/08/2026
go on say some shit again about how concern about data centers is overblown
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is a really disheartening read. And it crystalizes something I've been chewing on. Unions and collective bargaining can't work the same way they have in the past. The companies we're up against have orders of magnitude more resources to weather through resistance. electrek.co/2026/08/13/t...
electrek.co
Tesla defeats Sweden's IF Metall union after 1,021-day strike
IF Metall is ending its Tesla strike after 1,021 days, the longest in modern Swedish history, saying Tesla bought out every striking worker.
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Tom Bloom @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Private website ownership is not only still possible in 2026 but also cheaper and easier than it’s ever been. I cannot underscore this enough lol. It can be as cheap as 9 a year for the domain if your hosting is free (otherwise can be under 10/mo) and as easy as using a template
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 11/08/2026
NEW: some scary new research out today showing that the fossil fuel industry's use of AI could possibly increase global energy emissions by as much as 4.8% — about as much as Russia's energy sector emits yearly that number is much larger than global data center emissions projections
wired.com
AI Could Help Fossil Fuel Companies Create More Emissions
New research finds that by making the fossil fuel industry more productive, AI could help increase carbon emissions by up to nearly 5 percent—vastly outpacing the impact of data centers.
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chess!! @videochess.world · 11/08/2026
hey, here's a fun lil proof of concept i threw together a couple months ago and never posted about. made with godot (.net) and libsm64-godot. #chess_arts
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A ton of effort is going to go into pretending taxing rich people doesn’t work just like a lot of work went into immediately ignoring and getting rid of that expanded child tax credit once it was revealed it worked way better than expected
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
they really want more slavery they want slavery so bad. "it's ethical slavery" he said.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
age 16: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 46: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for a functional search engine or the library or friends
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026
Exacerbated environmental racism is one of the major very real harms of data centers, and something that people who've been studying & discussing this for over a decade have long pointed out. It gets put in communities already most disproportionately harmed by pollution like emissions & waste heat.
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nina matsumoto 🌸 @spacecoyote.com · 08/08/2026
I could swear I made this Tactics meme before but I couldn't find it, so I made it again
Scene from the Simpsons where a diner waitress is saying "I hate it when the waffles stick together," except she's holding a ring of Tactics Ogre characters saying "I hate it when the ogres clinging together."Same scene; screenshot of the cook saying "sticking together is what good waffles do," but it's modified to say "Clinging together is what tactics ogres do." This is a reference to the video game "Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together."
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