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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 11/09/2025

While you weren't looking, *seventeen* House Democrats just voted to strip basic rights from trans members of the military and helped the GOP pass their far-right version of the NDAA, similar to what we reported on. This is the most Dems voting for anti-trans legislation in Congress this year.

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House passes NDAA, with $848B topline and protections for Ukraine aid - Breaking Defense

Democrats by and large voted against the typically bipartisan measure due to the addition of several culture war amendments.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

one side is allowed to say whatever they want, threaten whoever they want, spread whatever lies they want, and do whatever they want. the other side cannot so much as laugh when the fist descending on them gets a hangnail or we will all be wiped out in civil war. its a good system, obviously.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I simply cannot stress it enough. You cannot sit this out. They are coming for EVERYTHING. No media, no creators are safe under these policies. They want us poor, they want us criminalized, they want us disenfranchised. Call paypros. Call your reps. Do SOMETHING.

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Woke up to quite the update on this. I had been in contact with Payment Cloud about getting their service and they waited until now to hit me with the image below. Again, stringing me along instead of being upfront. They had seen my website multiple times before this.

An image taken from an e-mail from Payment Cloud to me. They list prohibited adult work, one of which just includes "Fantasy" which is as wide as cat ears and fairies. We are so cooked.

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Shaaloani Roadhead 🔜 Claws Out @hyenablood.yeen.world · 10/09/2025

If you've been easing up on pressuring these freaks or haven't cared yet because you're not a visual novel dev getting erased from itch, Please observe how ridiculous "fantasy (cat ears, fairies, ETC)" is like putting "etc" after fantasy is WILD

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I R A @roira.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Said this on the other app but we rly need to normalize that growing up = becoming a person with the money to afford childhood interests. The idea that you have to suddenly stop caring about cute or joyful things when you turn 18 is the reason so many ppl are so fucking miserable for 60 years after

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James Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/08/2025

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

axios.com

AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers

Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with! All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

#SaveSpeech Bill SB-20 is texas bill poised to be a massive overreach by the govt, potentially putting swaths of legitimate art at risk of being criminalized. Please. Help to demand it be repealed by signing this petition.

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Sign the Petition

"Repeal Texas Senate Bill SB 20: Protect Kids from Al Abuse, Not Art and Freedom"

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.

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Buggy gay simping @beetlebuggyboy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Speaking on this; there's a tumblr post that PERFECTLY explains why TERFs have 'so much reach', and folk need to see it. Stop engaging with TERFS, block them, and get them offline. Likewise, report *their* harmful comments. Organise and be smart.

Following the previous tumblr post by khazrablood, fourohfourlifenotfound, a different user, has reblogged the post and added;

If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens.

And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage.

So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here).

a continuation of khazrablood's tumblr post, reblogged and added to by fourohfourlifenotfound;

The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time.

The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content.

Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself.

The end of tumblr user fourohfourlifenotfound addition to khazrablood's original tumblr post;

This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now.

How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging.

But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them.

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by Al

Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Enhanced Visual
Search (all the way at the bottom)

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I think watching videos of children with rabies should be required viewing for people who refuse to vaccinate their dogs. It is the most heartbreaking footage. This PREVENTABLE disease leads to an agonizing death that no one should ever have to experience.

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Sally Beaumont | BAFTA Breakthrough | Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices, If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text. You get the idea. If you value your job: protect others jobs too.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 07/08/2025

There's a good tactic to keep them on the phone longer in here: Start by saying you're concerned about a statement that the processor has put out, and then read the entire statement without stopping. This will cause confusion and awkwardness if they just repeat it back to you, which they likely will

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Shane Luis @rerez.net · 08/08/2025

If anyone can microwave a slice of wonder bread with ketchup and cheese whiz on it why would anyone order a real pizza from a restaurant?

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NPR @npr.org · 07/08/2025

Exclusive: The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

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Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

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Jenna Routenberg @jennaroutenberg.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between, Stephen Jay Gould:

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/08/2025

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

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valaeryan @valaeryan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously."

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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Reminder: the only number that matters to them is users. Blueberry has seventeen Bs if that makes the metrics go up

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Friendly reminder that school administrators tend to take complaints from parents much more seriously than the same complaints from teachers. So if your kids’ school district is using PragerU stuff, please speak up.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This is the core problem with the Buttigieg "we have to find common ground" framing. The question isn't sports, it's whether trans people will be allowed to exist as trans in public. Everything else—politically and strategically—is downstream from that.

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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

What did I fucking say? I do not care about the LLM's capability to count letters. You are burning down the fucking planet for shitty gotchas which do nothing but prove to the tech industry that people WILL USE THEIR SHIT even if it's fucking bad. STOP USING GEN AI TO SHIT ON GEN AI.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 08/08/2025

Mastercard has reached the stage of desperately trying to gag people for saying bad things about them WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WORKING

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/08/2025

at the core of all the trans people in public spaces "debate" is this: I don't care if you don't personally like seeing someone in public shut up, keep it to yourself, and let them live their fucking lives

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𝔅𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔒'𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔥𝔞𝔫 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Complying with MasterCard's request to censor dissent about their company is also coming hot off the heels of Riot announcing that they will start accepting and being a part of esports gambling, by the way. Just in case anyone hasn't heard about that yet.

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Cale Michael @xjustified.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Riot Games is accused of actively suppressing any negative comments related to Mastercard or otherwise mentioning the anti-game/NSFW censorship movement on its esports broadcasts. The decision to do so was reportedly made internally, according to an obtained statement. www.si.com/esports/news...

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Riot Games Accused of Blocking Mastercard Discourse in VCT Chat

As multiple different parts of the art, entertainment, and gaming industries are being impacted by ongoing crackdowns from various payment processors, it appear

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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 TsubasaCon (Charleston, WV) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

“Misinformation kills” was never just a metaphorical warning. And in the wrong hands it’s intentional as a weapon they can claim ignorance to/absolve themselves of the responsibility over.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Reminder, again, that, yes, while the DOGE-ing was juvenile & clueless, it is vitally important to remain focused on the fact that these people need to be arrested, prosecuted, & sent to jail for a very long time for illegally & unconstitutionally dismantling the federal government.

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Malachite Tigerbunny @malachitetiger.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away. So don't let it go away. Keep it going. In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.

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dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you or someone you love goes to e.g. ChatGPT for random, general questions or "life advice" or whatever, PLEASE consider breaking that habit now. Be prepared for what's happening, and don't outsource any amount of your thinking, brainstorming, reasoning, or writing to these models.

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Ron Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Actual journalists see their job as reporting the truth. The people who run journalism outlets see their job as making money for the corporate parent. These two views cannot co-exist.

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Arron (YaroShien) @yaroshien.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Yall out here acting like Roit is here for the gamers, but has been historically ran by people that couldn't give less than a shit about people. Bewteen the ignored sexual abuse, the grossly over priced Mico Transactions, and anti union practices on top of a few other things. Riot does not care.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Oh the crocodile tears of thieves who might face legal consequences. “But our company might go down!” Well you shouldn’t have felt entitled to profit off works you do not own, and built your entire business off this racket 🤷🏻‍♀️ Also missing from this article- arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

People should scream bloody murder about RFK blocking vaccines for kids. I mean it. Mothers and fathers should get hysterical. I'd rarely advise this as a strategy. But, I think it's appropriate for this. What could be more clear and stark? It's not hard to explain to reporters.

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JAQQQLN 🐇 🔞 @jaqqqln.gay · 09/08/2025

They think we don't have time for this shit. Yet they're the ones who took away all our work, meaning we have all the time. Call your reps.

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PupAmp @pupamp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This bill would criminalize pornography by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. Period. Full stop. No more porn legally. If you post porn whether free pics or paid vids. this affects you!

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Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Don’t. Do not. Do literally anything other than this. See a licensed therapist. Get a plant. Volunteer at an animal shelter. Shitpost 24 hours a day on Bluesky. Anything but this.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

something i tried today that seemed to get good mileage was using the "hey i saw this statement by Visa that said:-" as an opener, and then segueing it into "and i bring that up because i want to buy (mainstream thing that technically is against their content policy. ex: GoT)"

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redthespian will not be spoiler free for HBS3 @redthespian.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 07/08/2025

Just remember folks, never engage with the trolls. Doesn't matter how obviously idiotic their logic is. Literally all they want is a reaction, to "own the libs". They have no other endgame.

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