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they/them 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ stuffmaker, boardgamer, planteater.🌱 Free Palestine 🇵🇸, socialism, veganism. 🙅AI🚫 it was neurodivergence all along! linktr.ee/dotmakes dotmakes.com 🍉 Gazans are most welcome to comment with links to their donation pages 🇵🇸 🫶🏻

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the only threats "AI" poses to society are when people put it in charge of things that require thought, or crash the economy over it, or destroy the environment to power it. but it's people doing all of those things. AI poses zero threat by itself as it cannot do anything due to not existing
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can't say I'm surprised, but I certainly am fuming to read this. Sounds like an absolute nightmare..
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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Nurse Suad continues to struggle every day for her son, Omar. Having lost her home, her family, and her job, her child is all she has left in this world. Don't let her struggle be alone Omar is suffering from severe malnutrition and needs vitamins and treatment 🙏🏽 donate here👇🏽 tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx
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An urgent humanitarian appeal to save Suad and her child Omar after the war destroyed their lives.
My name is Liz and I reside in the US; Suad has asked me to manage this campaign on her behalf and all funds raised will go directly to her.
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Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh @rtie.org · 15/06/2026
Staying trans-inclusive as a Service-provider Protecting the safety, dignity, and rights of trans people and others who may not have a conventional gender presentation in response to the new Equality Act Code of Practice. rtie.org/2026/06/04/s...
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My adhd in a nutshell 🎯
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I have been listening to A LOT of Pointer Sisters lately and so this would be really hard to beat as my favourite thing to learn today 💚
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
death, death to iof ✊🇵🇸
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
🚨Emergency🚨 Abood is a boy with an intellectual disability&seizures. He suffers because his medication is unavailable😭 Every day he can’t sleep, cries, and experiences seizures. 🔴We appeal to you to donate so we can buy him Keppra medication & some food, save his life. chuffed.org/project/1580...
A boy in a black shirt wearing a cap with Palestinian colors and flag holding a cardboard with text: "I'm Avoid from Gaza Save my Life"Abood, the boy from the previous picture in a blue shirt lifting his right index . A black square with white text on his shirt reads: "What Doesn't KILL Makes"Abood sitting on a mattress playing with a string or necklace.Abood standing in a tent, looking downwards with a wet blue shirt.
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I am finding the image search engines heading rapidly the same direction: try to search ie. for anatomically correct human heart: majority of stuff is absolute garbage ai slop, far from being correct in any way, a lot of it looking like "❤️ with pipes". I need REAL references, not machine dream BS!
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
No surprises there 🤷
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Please help if you can 🫶
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot
The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
youtu.be/oUKdC7HoA5E?... What a great video this is, and I identify so much, I even have the exact same complete German grammar book mentioned, that I never really sat down to! All the hobbies I started (and often abandoned) are experiences that stay with me, that brought me joy and shaped me 🫶
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AuDHD - Always Starting, Never Finishing
YouTube video by Ember Green
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🎯
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
hear, hear!
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Here we go again. Used that playbook for denying trans rights & care, ND people are next in line. The ruling class so abhors diversity it will do anything to prevent and quash any expression of it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/03/2026
Louder for the people in the back. www.theverge.com/report/90181...
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
all the people who don't like kings should not like capitalism too for the same reasons
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I’m also looking for a job to help us rebuild our life I graduated from software engineering college and I learned html,css,JavaScript and react.js framework so also if I can have a job it’s will help us get our dream real which is rebuilding our life
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Mikey Johnston @mikeyjohnston.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
If I had a dollar for every critique of communism that amounts to little more than describing the modern reality of working class Americans under capitalism I'd own the means of production at this point
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.
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Labi Siffre @labisiffre.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Musing on AI AI is theft and a new medium saturated with the character, beliefs and attitudes, for good or ill, of those who teach it. How much as an artist you use it is perhaps a measure of how much of yourself you believe is worth using and revealing. #AI #art #education
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
2003. The names have changed but as always, George was right 🖤
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
🧵 of anti-imperialist art I'm finding particularly meaningful today. This one is by @ollycostello.bsky.social: ollycostelloshop.com/products/ult...
A hand holds an art print with a gray background. In black and pink letters, it says "resistance to state repression, colonial violence, and imperial deathmaking is an ultimate form of love." It has illustrations of flowers, mushrooms, and other plants growing out of, and breaking apart, guns, bombs, and grenades.
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
feeling called out
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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I would say this footsie-with-selfhood thing surrounding AI is about the "dumbest" use of philosophy I have seen in my lifetime, but that would be letting it off the hook. It's actually an inexcusable corruption of philosophical language in the service of ethically laundering exploitation.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Good, free resources from a great publisher
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 22/01/2026
FINAL 2 HOURS! - Rent another month for a family of eight: DONE - A winter blanket for their baby sis: DONE - A second winter blanket for the fam: DONE - The third & last blanket they need: just 57 to go!! Anything helps—click "monthly"! Family vetted by Palestine Asdiqa. 760/817 tiny.cc/SerajRent
A banner with a stripey textured effect, with a collage of three photos of a Palestinian family: two group photos outside of the family looking really happy, and a selfie of Seraj in front of rubble. Title: Keep Seraj’s family housed!. Text: Our friend Seraj is a 21 year old student and the sole provider for his family of 8, including a baby. After devastating displacement, they finally have some shelter, which is truly life-sustaining in these harsh, deadly winter months. Click “monthly” to sustain this lifeline! tiny.cc/serajrent
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...
Reads: What is trans-exclusionary data activism? And the logo for the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Gaza is not a breaking news headline, nor just a statistic in the evening bulletin. Gaza is an open window despite the rubble, a voice insisting on life when the world thinks silence is easier. Gaza does not ask for pity, but for recognition: that life here still loves, and is still worth living.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Ah, the joy of the neurodivergent issue of having urgent things to do, but not being able to start them until the new notebook ordered specifically for them arrives.
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
So, so true.
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Astonished at the number of creative intelligent discerning people who casually use “I asked Chat GPT” when talking about their daily lives. AI is bad, the work of bad people, who hate you, normalised with bad intent. You wouldn’t say “I wrote to the Daily Mail” I wish people had more shame.
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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
17th century engraving of a capybara under a palm tree eating a banana
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
"You were first created out of love, so carry nothing but love to those who are trembling" - Heba Abu Nada, "Not just passing" Direct aid for Palestinians saves lives, so please consider donating 🫶 🇵🇸
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I've got nothing to add really 🙌
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Here's my two pennies' worth on that issue, from a Neurodivergent (and anti-capitalist) perspective 🧵: bsky.app/profile/geor...
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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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