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She/her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Ancom, queer, bookworm

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Privacy Guides @privacyguides.org · 09/10/2026
Your Car is a Privacy Nightmare #cars #privacy
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 26/08/2026
From EFF Senior Counsel @davidgreene.bsky.social: “Young users will now have less access to Meta products, and a lesser ability to exercise their rights to speak, access information and art and culture, associate and form communities, and play. (1/4)
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Annastea 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ (Anna Na Maus) @annastea-p.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Let's be very clear. What Amnesty have done here isn't just bad for the trans community. This is bad for every single persecuted minority in the world because they have shown that money and threats will remove opposition to persecution. Think about it.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/08/2026
Yeah
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 26/07/2026
Share share share www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Mother of trans woman who took own life issues stark warning at Pride march
Tens of thousands of people marched through London for Trans Pride on Saturday
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What the actual fuck
An article titled "JK Rowling criticized for posting an image of trans woman that showed up her skirt"
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Here's who online anonymity is for. expression.fire.org/p/in-defense...
So who, exactly, is anonymity for?

It’s for a teenage girl who lost her mother when she was young, just got her period for the first time, and is too embarrassed to meet with a school nurse.

It’s for a 45-year-old who hasn’t drunk in years but is realizing that he’s struggling with his sobriety again and needs to talk privately about it.

It’s for a woman coming to terms with the fact that her boyfriend is abusive, and figuring out how to get away from him without his knowledge.

It’s for a Chinese immigrant who wants to speak about the human rights abuses he witnessed at home without his family in Beijing paying the price for his words, or repression following him abroad.

It’s for a factory worker looking for resources about how to report unsafe conditions without losing his job.

It’s for a college freshman who needs to talk about being gay without fearing his family will learn of it before he’s ready to tell them.

It’s for a grandmother who just received a breast cancer diagnosis and wants to discreetly discuss her anxiety about mastectomy.

It’s for a priest dealing with depression who doesn’t know how to manage his feelings of emptiness amidst his duties to his parish.

It’s for anyone who has ever experienced a fear, thought, idea, or emotion that they need to express but aren’t ready to share with colleagues, family, friends, acquaintances, or authority figures.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 16/07/2026
The EU’s new biometric border system will force non-EU travellers to hand over fingerprints and facial scans, creating serious privacy risks. The EU says this makes borders smarter and safer but biometrics cannot be reset like passwords
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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Straight cisgender people have to be aware of the 'two tier policing' and speak out on it A cishet man says "punch them in the balls" *and* physically assaulted a teenager, he gets a compensation payout A trans woman says "punch a terf" doesnt assault anyone, gets jail time
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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A trans girl in the UK will face consistent messages she's not accepted & doesn't belong from a young age. Toilet segregation, banned from sports, banned from Brownies, denied healthcare. school's free to outright deny her identity. Treated literally as subhuman. Because of Labour.
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 10/07/2026
They want me to disappear. What they don't understand is that I already spent decades buried inside a life that was never mine. I fought too hard to become myself. I will never go back. medium.com/@geekonaleas...
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The Girl They Want to Bury Again
There is a girl they want to erase.
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Tuta @tuta.com · 09/07/2026
🚨 #ChatControl 1.0 HAS PASSED - despite a majority voting against it (314:276) 🚨 After the EU parliament has rejected #ChatControl TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. TODAY the EU parliament has voted YES for #ChatControl 1.0😡
Parliament President Roberta Metsola (EPP) who revived Chat Control 1.0 shaking hands with Mark Zuckerberg.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/07/2026
X violating user data in 2022 led to an FTC order requiring it to take platform security seriously and periodically report to the regulator. Its new petition to waive those requirements should be fully rejected.
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EFF and Allies: X’s FTC Petition to Waive Privacy Violation Order Should be Rejected
X Corp. should not be able to escape privacy compliance because it changed its name. On May 15, X Corp. filed a petition before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to set aside or modify an order issue...
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woob @woob.zone · 28/06/2026
NOT FUCKING MULLVAD GOD DAMN IT www.tumblr.com/3liza/820613... circumstances.run/@davidgerard...
tumblr post from 3liza titled "cancel your mullvad subscription":

tech news today is that Mullvad VPN has gone mask-off about being the major funding source for the Swedish Orebro party, who are racist nationalists. unfortunately all discussion of this is occurring on fucking Mastodon instances i can barely load

if you are a mullvad customer (as i am) and want to get out, here is guidance from this guy ( https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116823203601885385 )

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    If you don't want your Mullvad fees going to fund neo-Nazis - or @mozilla VPN fees, which is rebranded Mullvad - cancel and get a refund immediately

    that's whose "free speech" the official account is talking about here, and that's where your fees go to

    EDIT: Mullvad has a 14 day refund policy. But the message below is a direct call to ask for a refund if you don't want to give money to Nazis.

    If Mullvad refuse a refund, call your consumer protection agency. And reverse credit card charges on the basis of deceptive refund policy representations. It's not like you ever want to be a Mullvad customer again.

    archive copy of Mullvad statement: https://web.archive.org/web/2026062717
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frankiealt.bsky.social @frankiealt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Age verification will NOT make the internet safer Pass that on
Image with the text "A safer internet IS MADE BY Encryption, Privacy, Open Source", on the left side, and with the text "A safer internet is NOT MADE BY Age verification, Scanning communication, Tracking & data collection", on the right side.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 19/06/2026
I actually cannot imagine a nightmare worse than being sent to a men's prison. It's so transparently evil and unjust and no one cares at all
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 16/06/2026
NEW: A global movement to defend the open internet 🌐 #StopKillingTheInternet brings creators, communities and civil society together to say: the Internet must remain open, private and free. ORG is joining the movement as the UK moves to ban social media and scan devices. Find out more ⬇️
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Stop Killing the Internet: New global movement launches
Stop Killing Games has teamed up with global rights respecting organisations, including Open Rights Group, to form Stop Killing the Internet, a global movement defending the open Internet.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/06/2026
On June 17th we're talking to Cyptografur Soatok and Equilabs founder Luísa Franco Machado about censorship and targeted surveillance facing LGBTQ+ communities. Join us and learn how to push back. eff.org/livestream-...
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EFFecting Change: LGBTQ+ Solidarity Against the Tide of Surveillance
LGBTQ+ communities are facing an escalating wave of censorship and targeted surveillance, but we can push back through mutual solidarity. Join us live to learn how safer virtual spaces get built, how
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Non-zero chance someone told her that AI was capable at bug detection.
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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 11/06/2026
Some truths are never meant to be seen. Around the world, ordinary people discover evidence of corruption, abuse, and wrongdoing. Speaking out can come with risks, but staying silent can come with consequences too. Support @torproject.org ecosystem to protect truth: internetfreedom.torproject.org
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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 10/06/2026
Read books. These books you could buy @ Neo-Cypherpunk Summit & support freedom cause: "The Politics of Privacy" curated by @pg.web3privacy.info "Vanishing Culture" by @internetarchive.eu "Decolonizing Money" by Julio Linares "Blockchain Radicals" by @tbsocialist.bsky.social
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frankiealt.bsky.social @frankiealt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
They'll do everything except hold big tech accountable.
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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 04/06/2026
Some questions are difficult to ask out loud. Around the world, people use privacy tools to search, learn, connect, and find community safely online. Support @torproject.org ecosystem protecting your freedom: internetfreedom.torproject.org
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 29/05/2026
translucent.org.uk/petition-on-...
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Petition on restoring trans rights
Petition on restoring trans rights - calling the trans community and allies to mobilize against a new draft code that implements a flawed court ruling
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 23/05/2026
So I was bedridden for 16 months, and I've been focusing on getting employed since then. I'm very in debt and dealing with a brand new health problem of constant migraines, which is taking forever to address. If you've got a couple dollars, it'd really help. Thanks so much! ko-fi.com/fooneturing
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Support Alice Averlong ❤️
Become a supporter of Alice Averlong today!
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"everyone here has the same opinions and you're not allowed to disagree with them" which opinions. which opinions specifically
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What Cargie Does In The Shadows @cargie.baby · 24/05/2026
Yes. I fucking want a bubble. I admit it. I do not like being in "exciting" discussions on X about how specifically i should be killed. If thats bad then so be it.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 23/05/2026
JK Rowling mentioned four times as often as actual trans people in media coverage of 'trans issues', research finds www.wearequeeraf.com... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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JK Rowling mentioned four times as often as actual trans people in media coverage of 'trans issues', research finds
The rapid rise of 'gender critical' organisations in the UK shows ahigh volume of anti-trans media coverage and increasing spending by 51 organisations
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Meanwhile, publishers are blocking the Internet Archive, a digital library, from archiving their journalism due to fears of "AI scraping." That's right -- the same papers selling their work to AI companies are blocking a nonprofit archive due to "fears of AI." (2/3) www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...
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More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots.
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taby 🏳️‍⚧️ @tabymeow.afrolatinsky.app · 20/05/2026
by the way, we need this money by monday, or risk eviction x.x 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️
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Privacy Guides @privacyguides.org · 17/05/2026
"I Have Nothing To Hide" = "I'm Boring" #privacy #activism
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/05/2026
News organizations block the Wayback Machine even as their reporters depend on it 📰 In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, addresses the issue. 🎧 Listen on Future Knowledge ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pre... 🧵⬇️
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