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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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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I hope you get to feel the healing power of support, love and empathy of the community you created, people who love your work and value your moral clarity on this & other issues, and your courage to speak up against all this incredible pressure. Better future is possible thanks to people like you 🫶
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am raging to hear you were a victim of this campaign of hate. It sounds like hell, and I can only imagine how soul crushing trying to go about your life in this environment was. Those are sick, vile humans, their souls poisoned by hate, and bbc's complicity sadly surprises no one at this stage...
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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 · 30/06/2026
That's brilliant!
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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 · 12/06/2026
Whoops, hope I didn't come across as "evangelising": it's quite the opposite, i agree with you 💯 %, fuck ai and tech oligarchs, but that is the wall I constantly hit when trying to talk people off using ai: they have been tricked into believing they "need" it. That is profoundly disturbing and sad.
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
4️⃣went off on a bit of a tangent here but what want to convey, is that while I am firmly in the anti-ai camp, i can see people fooled by its promise. Is that designer trying to save time by getting AI to write his email, or is he made to feel he'll have more success getting his game known by doing so
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
3️⃣them as fully human: oh, the irony! It creates dependence that in turn might lead to deepen their insecurities with time, reinforcing itself. Trying to push back against AI in ND community leads to so much backlash, including accusations of ableism. It's scary.
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
2️⃣is really hard to push back against. Being neurodivergent I also hear from other ND people who use it to sound less harsh ("I'll ask it to say X but in a nice way!"), as they're made to believe they're unapproachable and too direct. Those people come to see it as necessary tool for the world to see
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
1️⃣ This is extremely sad and frustrating. I know people who, not being native EN speakers will resort to AI writing their emails cause they're made to believe that their language skills are not good enough to be taken seriously. That making mistakes = being unprofessional. It's a trap, and a one that
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
...while you're busy with something else. Wouldn't it be better to just play with your kid? Yes, absolutely. But I guess time is tight, parents are tired and grabbing at the solutions available. And what's available is a smörgåsbord of brain rotting tech shite advertised as a moment of rest 🫠
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A classic example of capitalism selling you a (shit) solution to a problem it created: not enough time between juggling several jobs, being bombarded with info and stimuli? Tired and need a breather? Let Echo put your kids to bed. Not much different imo than giving kid a tablet/phone to play with...
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
*and by whatever I mean WHEREVER 🤦
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is my favourite too, and our first choice to pack for holidays: few laminated sheets take almost no space in the backpack, and it fits so well thematically, you can even adjust a landscape to whatever you're heading!
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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 · 05/05/2026
Dead after dinner was the first ttrpg i played 🫶
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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
and more: bsky.app/profile/dots...
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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
Same! But I most likely wouldn't have been diagnosed, cause the belief back then was that both ADHD ane Autism were a "boys' thing", and something you grow out of too! Plus there was no awareness of the inattentive ADHD: it was all hyperactive boys. Wonder why diagnoses are on the rise! 🤔
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
bsky.app/profile/dotm...
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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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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Wtf does "medicalisation of distress" even mean? If I'm in distress (which I am & was pre-diagnosis), and i believe medical route might help, i WILL seek that route: for myself and my loved ones. Especially since diagnosis opens access to non-medical support, that is otherwise unavailable/ costly
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
3️⃣ "diagnosed cases are on the rise"- well of course, cause awareness is too, and stigma is down, and we are still fine tuning diagnostic process: up until 2013 you couldn't diagnose a person with both Autism and ADHD: it had to be one or the other, and now we're finding that they very often coexist!
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
2️⃣ it's the same playbook as was used to pass all the anti-trans legislation: "children are at risk", "they're misguided about who they really are", "they might need help but not in a medical way", "they are playing the system for their own benefit", "we need more studies/restraint/other solutions"
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
1️⃣ Self-suspected ADHD at 41, and was lucky getting a confirming diagnosis, as it has been life-changing: and I haven't even found meds that work yet! People fight for diagnosis for years, racked by self-doubt, self-medicating with alcohol/drugs, dealing with the fallout and with comorbidities...
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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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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
@seamas.bsky.social a follow up to your article, centered around trans community and their take on hp fandom these days would make for a fabulous read 🫶
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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Agree, and it would be a rather easy task too... bsky.app/profile/rose...
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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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dot. @dotmakes.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Oh great, looking forward to it. Been putting it in and out of my shopping cart, so I'll let you decide for me!
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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
That reminds me of the very profitable business of selling unicorn horns to the rich and powerful across Europe, as they were believed to have many magical properties. In fact, they were narwhal tusks collected by sailors who knew how to spin a good story. 🦄 www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
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Meet the Narwhal, the Long-Toothed Whale that Inspired a Magical Medieval Legend - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Do you believe in unicorns? People in the Middle Ages did, and they even thought that unicorn horns had special healing powers.
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