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male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Jim Haggerty interview is getting weird.

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male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still thinking about that Draft Kings article.

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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 29/09/2026

these cute things and the tanks too!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Gumi Artpoidd (comms open!) @gumiartpoidd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

thought about the ai glasses again and got mad so i drew an ol to rant about it

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is certainly a different opinion to the Vanderbilt report: “corporate libertarian donor networks, fossil-fuel companies & conservative think tanks intensified campaigns targeting university governance…embedding donor-aligned scholars, building research centers insulated from faculty oversight…”

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Accell @accelldraws.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

a cozy bun bun... ☕🐰🧣

A little chibi doodle of Taiga, wolpertinger, in a warm scarf and beanie. He is holding a steaming cup of hot cocoa while it is gently snowing

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m0ws @1m0ws.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/09/2026

The Finance Minister of Israel, who is also a deputy defense minister and the military governor of the-illegally occupied West Bank, calls for Israel to "go to war" in the West Bank, annex 70% of Gaza, and annex all of Lebanon south of the Litani River.

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Smotrich: Israel must ‘go to war’ in West Bank, ‘do there what we did in Gaza’

Finance minister also calls on Israel to annex 'at least' up to the ceasefire line in Gaza and the Litani River in Lebanon to make enemies 'pay a price' for Oct. 7 and ensuing wars

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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you, Gov. Beshear, for clearing this very low bar that is somehow impossible for your fellow Democrats

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...

ctmirror.org

They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.

Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.

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Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I never signed a release

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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

smoker 1: can I bum one of those smoker 2: sure, as long as you don't take the one that works

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male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Weird. Normally, Abigail Shrier loses interest in someone's sexuality once they turn 18.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

bitch I hate to be the one to tell you this but the ADHD is going to be there whether you have a diagnosis or not lmao

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"indoor cats are miserable and they long for the outdoors and you are depriving them of their true nature by trapping them inside" okay here's my cat when he was outdoors vs now that's he's indoors

orange cat all beat up and bloody in the snow :(

orange cat asleep splayed out on his side on his blanket

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Mae @spiderpolice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

more outer child

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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Art of Simz → buff.ly/77FtVKD #artist #portfolio #illustration #art

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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 27/09/2026

Can you folks boost the fuck out of this? Share it with your friends? We've had three people looking for phones so far with no luck on getting a functioning one and I'm hoping we can eventually find something that can work for him.

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026

the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 10/06/2026

I'm actively looking for more under-supported queer artists who need help with social media management and advice. I've been getting really frustrated at the status quo lately and I want people who will match the energy that I've been putting out. Which is, quite frankly, a lot.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

So many autistic/neurodivergent women (which I bet describes a LOT of women in the Silicon Valley AI scene) report being *specifically* targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their issues with reading social situations. Which is why I loathe the “oh, those poor autistic men” excuse.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Screen-based 2D games are a dead-end; there is simply no comparison to an immersive 3D experience." The death of 2D games is on the horizon, predicts EDGE magazine in December 1993 - a common feeling at the time as FMV, texture-mapped polygonal 3D, and VR became the hot new tech.

The future of the videogame is pretty straightforward.

There are two routes that the videogame can take: 2D images dragged from ROM or CD; and the 3D environment generated in real time.
While the 2D route encompasses real 24bit images, full-motion video, bluescreen, high-definition rendered graphics and so on, you can only explore what is on the disc; you can only visit the places that the artist or camera has visited before you.

3D environments are still visualised in a more basic fashion, but once the world and its contents have been described mathematically, the player can go anywhere he or she wants; there are an infinite number of views to be had.

As the technology advances, so those basic vector graphics give way to polygons with light sourced shading, texture mapping, transparency and so on. And the ultimate experience is to actually wander around that virtual world and interact with it in three dimensions, using stereo eyephones to see the world and motion sensors to track your position.
Screen-based 2D games are a dead end; there is simply no comparison to an immersive 3D experience. It's the difference between being the passenger in a car and actually driving it.

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Sword-Saint Vitus @armoredprincess.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

every three months a bunch of grandstanding machos do the “normal grizzled mech pilots would smoke one of those tranny sex dogs” as though the mecha genre hasn’t been about feminine losers having panic attacks in the cockpit since Gun Dam Seventy Nine

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The entire post by Shipman is a datapoint for how large swathes of UK news media are now dependent on getting clicks from Americans

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you must destroy the cursed amulet it is the only way to save mankind

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Will!🐀🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @wkdart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this man has an active ICC arrest warrant and he can just speak at the UN i feel like an insane person

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male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Leverage characters.

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male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I didn't know about the "microbets" thing, or how insidious the dark patterns are. Truly horrifying (and rigorous) writeup about how predatory and out of control this industry has gotten.

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Kory Bing @korybing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I asked @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social to pick up @mattielubchansky.com’a new zine at SPX and it does NOT disappoint, her brain is so big and beautiful.

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i guarantee you if they do sell this place they aare 100% going to mysteriously lose artifacts.

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Grinda 🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @grindagoat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pyramid heads helmet represents James deep seated resentment towards having an "exposed head", an invulnerable figure wielding a massive knife- representing the scalpel that took his foreskin?

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Bee, dog in the city @brodnork.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ad from Good Boy Gamer magazine in 2001

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Fliss...! @fairygirl.me · 23/09/2026

becauseee it's awesome your honor. what do you mean I need a license. #felsspellart

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DOG of BLUD @dogblud.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026

'two year minimum wait' meanwhile even people in the US know it takes 80 years for an NHS doctor to even consider seeing you for an ADHD diagnosis. Do you know how much effort that takes. For Americans to notice how shit your healthcare is.

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Iris/アイリス 🏳️‍⚧️ @irisdescentbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

funniest rom hack reasoning of all time

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Ramiel 🐇 @pawberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Fandoms used to be full of nice ppl before covid and then all the bullies and popular kids joined" is literally an "the earth is flat" tier false belief to me

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kat @icecreamkat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command. The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.

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聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah this isn't true. I've seen people talk on the internet about wanting to fuck donkey kong, or the home depot logo, wanting to fuck the jumping man from twin peaks, people are horny for mascots all day on here and I have never heard anyone mention this thing

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

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