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TheShunbun @theshunbun.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yam is bringing us into the next month 🩵

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hey, good reminder as always, yelling at websites is cathartic and all but if you actually want to avoid and maybe even roll-back on various inteenrt enshittification, one place to start thats actually productive is contacting your representatives www.badinternetbills.com

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Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I have had some version of "he wants all of us to be buried with him" in stuff I've written about Trump in the past and usually but not always taken it out. It didn't like looking at it, mostly, but over time it just became one of those things that was too obvious to bother with. It's all sickening.

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dreamin' @dreaminerryday.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

cancel your adobe subs asap and use non adobe products if you haven't already

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/03/2026

Please fill out this form if you live in NYC and tell them what you think about "A.i." in the schools. You don't have to have a kid in the schools - you can list yourself as a "community member." survey.alchemer.com/s3/8751093/G...

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Guidance on Artificial Intelligence

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 04/03/2026

Really proud of this piece and so thankful to all the sex workers who talked with me while I was researching! I don’t often see this framed as a speech and artistic expression issue but it is: Visa/MC are effectively crowning themselves art directors as they rip sex workers off.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

NOW is the time to make calls to your reps about KOSA, SCREEN act, section 230 and more Call your legislators. Speak to office aides. Leave messages. Do so every day. Be loud and annoying. Get family and friends to join in. www.congress.gov/members/find...

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 19/02/2026

More than 300 people have donated to our strike fund so far – THANK YOU! As we continue our fight for a fair contract, your support and solidarity are important to us. We won't rest until we have a fair deal, and your support means everything! Learn more and join our effort: propublicaguild.org

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

the reason Gaby Del Valle is getting dragged for talking about the Rothschilds is that X is a place where professional racists like Chris Brunet just, you know, talk about the Rothschilds a lot, and if you're hanging out at that party you're going to wind up talking some about the Rothschilds too

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kaisa @kaisastreams.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

WORLD FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW :)

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ElderlyGoose aka SamK @elderlygoose.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen giving a phenomenal rendition of Shakespeare. The speech is from a guy trying to quell riots about foreign people coming to London and people protesting wanting them out. Sums it up again despite being 400 years old. The link is to the full interview prior: youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2026

"can i use this clip from a movie or a song that i like" motivates about 50 percent of what i choose to talk about on my youtube page www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRIK...

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Impeach the President

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

great point by bestie @teastainss.bsky.social in this article on banning AI at comic-con: with corporations, politicians, institutions: ALWAYS BE ANNOYING. At best they gravitate towards doing nothing and continue to do nothing until a fire is lit under their asses www.404media.co/comic-con-ba...

Comic-Con did not respond to 404 Media’s request for comment, but Oreglia said she did hear back from art show organizer Glen Wooten. “He basically told me that they put those AI stipulations in when AI was just starting to come around and that the inability to sell AI-generated works was meant to curtail people from submitting genAI works,” she said. “He seems to be very against genAI but wasn't really able to change the current policy until artists voiced their opinions loudly which pressured the office into banning AI completely.”

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I made a deep dive video into the TESCREAL ideology shaping Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and the AI arms race, and how a shocking number of tech billionaires are pro-human extinction

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Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

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Ashe @numberoneashe.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

oh furthermore here is a link to a page with them using qualtrics and the same subdomain to boot discord.com/safety/moder...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The rise of deepfakes and AI CSAM prove public and private sectors don’t actually care about abuse, but still punish sex workers, queer people, and women under that guise. Credit cards companies and law enforcement punish consensual sex and sexuality, but ignore and therefore encourage abuse

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

If you want to know how much of a problem this is on Twitter, this is just the least of what's going on there. The nazi pedophile site is mad about furries because furries harm nobody. bsky.app/profile/keri...

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 17/11/2025

Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position. Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.

Screenshot of job posting:

Policy Lead, Trust & Safety

Fully Remote - Overlap with PST working hours

Trust & Safety

Remote

Contract

Bluesky's vision is to make social more like the web itself. We're building a social media app, but beyond that, we've created a protocol that supports a broad ecosystem of applications and clients. Imagine a network of applications - from microblogging to photos to video to long-form writing all interconnected and accessible with a shared identity.

As Policy Lead for Trust & Safety, you'll shape the foundation of Bluesky's community guidelines and transform them into actionable, enforceable policy. You'll define how safety and expression coexist on Bluesky, collaborating with moderation operations, product, and engineering teams to design policy systems that scale responsibly. This role combines deep policy knowledge and

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Please contact your senators about KOSA. This bill has amassed a lot of cosponsors. We can beat this, but we need people to call, email and send letters en mass. Please try to contact your reps as often as you are able to and encourage people you know to join you!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/10/2025

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 03/10/2025

We are alarmed as well. If you are in Germany, write to your representatives. You'll find the email addresses here: 👉 tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

Signalapp on X: We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a
catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled
opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could
spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Another blow to chat control! EU folks, contact your MEPs so we can block chat control! You have until the 14th of october!

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

It is so deeply disappointing that the leadership team of Bluesky has continuously chosen to try and brush the Singal mess under the rug for months now. A man who has been identified as a bad actor and threat to trans lives in America by GLAAD and other leading trans organizations. And now this.

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 19/09/2025

‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...

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‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism

After Kirk's murder, calls for censorship and the crackdown on political places started to include Bluesky. Open social networks must now fight political suppression as well as platform monopolies.

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Yeougui @ MEX 2026 @yeougui.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

✅You can use my consent stickers freely to label your art as consensual. You can use them on art you paywall. You can also use them on illustration prints. ❌Please do not use them for physical merchandise such as apparel, stickers or charms though! Ask me before you do that~

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If you were a webcomic artist trying to make the next Berserk, Watchmen, Sin City, Skydoll, Blacksad - basically any acclaimed adult comic you can think of - there are dwindlingly few places you can independently publish that online

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Alexia 🏳️‍⚧️ ΘΔ @cyrneko.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Update: Google will limit the number of installs your app can get if you don't pay — Even if you dont publish on Google Play. starlightnet.work/posts/androi...

- What happens if I don't comply? If you do not verify your identity and register your apps by the September deadline, your apps will be blocked from being installed by users on certified Android devices in applicable regions. Last updated: Sept 3, 2025

- I'm just a hobbyist/student. What is "Limited Distribution"? We understand that not everyone is a professional developer. The Limited Distribution account type in the Android Developer Console is designed for you. It is free and will have a straightforward process, but comes with limits on the number of apps and installations. Last updated: Sept 3, 2025

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 20/09/2025

They have this button on the right hand column that in addition to public shaming, lets you shame them in other useful ways

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ThirtyHelens @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In the wake of the last few days news and the blood and suppression the GOP is calling for, you would think democrats would be thinking twice about section 230 and the tools they would be handing over with KOSA

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/09/2025

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

we need a label for UK politicians who endlessly "empathise" with fascist concerns - let's try a US one my latest with @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

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What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?

A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Here’s my feature on Collective Shout, and their attempts to take down Steam and itch.io. I found a conversation where they spoke about exactly how they did it, and detailed their plans going forward, which sounds… very unrelenting. youtu.be/rKD4fYc8xV4

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The Censorship "Hit Squad" attacking Video Games.

YouTube video by Charalanahzard

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IGN Creators Guild @ignunion.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition. Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild.

This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public.

The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events.

Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts.

At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical.

This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech.

While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

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CHI XU @meltingcomet.com · 24/07/2025

i worked with our director RJ to put together a web page compiling phone numbers, emails, and petitions where you can make your voice heard - protect queer artists and sex workers and tell payment processing companies to end their awful policies harming safe spaces for creative art

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Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers - Tell Visa / Mastercard / PayPal to STOP

TELL VISA, MASTERCARD, and PayPal to STOP

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

the research showing Google AI Overview is stopping people from clicking links is a huge huge huge problem not just for websites but for people's brains which are about to be absolutely mangled www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought. Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too. What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.

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demon grrl | cyberdemon era @demongrrl.gay · 21/07/2025

So you know how Steam updates their TOS to restrict "NSFW" content at the request of payment processors like Visa and Mastercard? The group behind that pressure campaign is coming after Itch.io. If you are selling books on itch, this concerns you. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there

Everyone hated that.

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