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@jo-berlin.bsky.social
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depression, nerdery, queerness, politics - I don't really know yet which parts of me I'll put on here. Pronouns: she/her Auf Twitter war ich Maussagenlogik und Prädikatz

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Amy READ PINNED (cute) [weird] 🔞 @amyuncut.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
has anyone noticed how a lot of people need money, and also how there's guys who have like one billion dollar
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”
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Dani Yuan | commissions open @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026
FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The real question is whether they'll just keep rolling and 460 years from now we'll swing by Revel Grove for the Maryland Millenaissance Faire.
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nutshell @nutshell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
„»Wir haben seit Start der Berichterstattung am Mittwoch etwa 500 Eintritte«, teilte das Bundesvorstandsmitglied Hartmut Brückner in Göttingen mit. »Das ist circa das 20-Fache im Vergleich zu sonst.« Die Gesamtmitgliederzahl liege zurzeit bei knapp über 21.000.“ #RoteHilfe
zeit.de
Rote Hilfe: Verein Rote Hilfe meldet regen Zulauf
Die Debatte um Elif Eralp hat der Roten Hilfe erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit verschafft. Viele Menschen treten dem vom Verfassungsschutz als linksextrem eingestuften Verein bei.
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Alioth Fox (@ Carolina FurFare) @aliothfox.ursamajorartworks.com · 02/10/2026
TLDR: Fur Affinity's advertising partners are demanding that they ban adult content. Sciggles and FA want to firmly tell them to go fuck themselves. If they're going to be able to afford to do that, they need the community's help. Pitch in. Keep furry weird. www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143...
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Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding -- Fender's Journal
Hey there Fuzzies!. . Recently, there has been a lot of conversation about censorship of the internet and third parties forcing sites to ...
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paulas mama @paulasmama.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Familien verlassen UK weil ihre Kinder dort nicht mehr die Schule besuchen können, ohne permanent gedemütigt zu werden. Sie haben gekämpft, aber es wurde dort immer schlimmer statt besser. Wie Cal schreibt: Wir brauchen cis Allies, damit trans Personen sicher leben können. #ProtectTransLifes
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Jo Berlin @jo-berlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#WoTtober
Photo of a letter scale with a feather on it showing it weighs at most 1g and next to it on a kitchen scale a plushie of Rat Death weighing ~50g
Text put on the photo:
In blue "SHOCKING experiment reveals: Death NOT lighter than a feather" 
In red "What else did Lan lie about?"
At the bottom black on white in all caps "next week: does duty even have a measurable weight? We've asked renowned physicist Selene!"
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 01/10/2026
Poem: The Raven In Elseworld a scholar pored Over tomes of ancient lore; Seeking wisdom in their store, Seeking ways to call and beck, To call and beck a friend. 1/4
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Heike @tannborn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Servicepost: Ich möchte alle in Deutschland daran erinnern, dass am Samstag alle Geschäfte wegen Feiertag geschlossen haben. (3. Oktober, Tag der Deutschen Einheit). Ich habe gerade meine Einkaufspläne umgeplant.
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Cornelius W. M. Oettle @cwmo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
66,80€ ist ein merkwürdiger Preis für das 9-Euro-Ticket
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Wurzelmann (Herbst era) @wurzelmann.at · 01/10/2026
Nicht nur doomscrollen, sondern auch neue Hobbys ausprobieren! 🥰
4 panel comic strip. Woman is mad looking at her phone. "I need a social media detox," she thinks. In the next panel she sees a flyer for Wood Shop and thinks, "Woodworking! Sounds perfect." In the 3rd panel she works a table saw. In the last panel, she looks proudly on what she's built, a guillotine.
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Jo Berlin @jo-berlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wenn euer Kopf mal wieder meint ihr hättet irgendwelche Hilfe nicht verdient: Lieber auf die UN hören!!
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✨✨✨ @redactedpunished.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
y’arrrr
When a pirate is about to cum.

image of back of ambulance

fire me | dic unit
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
I think the thing I resent most about what the tech overlords have done to the internet is that I planted a fucking garden. you literally made the internet so stressful I went outside and touched grass. i will never forgive you
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Volkmar Wölk @volkmarwoelk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So kann man übrigens auch auf die Wahlen vom Sonntag reagieren: „Elif Eralp und Manuela Schwesig, zwei Bollwerke gegen die extreme Rechte“. Geht aber offenbar nur in Frankreich, nicht in Deutschland.
liberation.fr
Allemagne : Elif Eralp et Manuela Schwesig, deux remparts face à l’extrême droite
Les deux candidates de Die Linke et du SPD ont atteint des scores inattendus à Berlin et en Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale. Des succès obtenus grâce à des campagnes de terrain centrées sur leur pe...
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An illustration featuring a sequence of a person performing yoga poses in a grid format.

The top row begins with four active movements: reaching upward while standing, a forward fold, a low lunge, and transitioning into child's pose. However, the rest of the grid—consisting of sixteen additional frames across four rows—shows the person remaining completely still in child's pose (kneeling and curled forward with the forehead on the ground).

The image humorously depicts a yoga session that starts with effort but quickly turns into a prolonged session of resting.
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Asterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 20/09/2026
Eine schöne Bastel- und Malarbeit. Manchmal trägt Obelix den Hinkelstein. Manchmal ist Obelix der Hinkelstein. Dürfte nicht leicht gewesen sein, diesen Stein zu finden. #Asterix #Fanart
Das Bild zeigt einen kleinen, länglichen und nach oben abgerundeten Stein, dessen Form an einen Hinkelstein erinnert. Der Stein wurde rundherum so bemalt, dass er selbst zum Körper von Obelix wird.
Auf der Vorderseite sind Obelix’ Gesicht mit den roten Zöpfen, sein nackter Oberkörper sowie der grüne Gürtel mit großer gelber Schnalle zu sehen. Darunter setzt sich seine typische blau-weiß gestreifte Hose bis zum unteren Rand des Steins fort. Seine Füße stehen auf einer kleinen grünen Wiese, die mit roten Pilzen und Blumen verziert ist. Der obere, dunkelgraue Teil des Steins bleibt weitgehend unbemalt und wirkt dadurch wie ein Hinkelstein, der hinter Obelix aufragt.
Die Rückseite löst den kleinen optischen Scherz auf: Dort fehlen Kopf und Oberkörper völlig. Stattdessen sieht man nur Obelix’ Arme, die sich von beiden Seiten um den grauen Stein legen. Seine Hände greifen hinter dem „Hinkelstein“ ineinander. Darunter sind wiederum die gestreifte Hose und seine Füße auf der Wiese zu erkennen.
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 27/05/2023
ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start BATMAN: check the battery ROBIN: what’s a tery
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 19/09/2026
this is how you wake up from bottom surgery
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Wurzelmann (Herbst era) @wurzelmann.at · 19/09/2026
Heute um 11:00 beginnt übrigens wieder die Tram EM (diesmal in Warschau), wo Straßenbahnfahrer*innen aus mehreren Ländern gegeneinander antreten! Infos und Livestream: www.tramem.eu
tramem.eu
TRAM EM
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Jo Berlin @jo-berlin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ich bin dabei! Behindert und verrückt feiern, stimmt und laut! pride-parade.de/die-parade
Foto von mir, bunte Haare hoch-gegelt, Haarreifen mit disability pride flag und bisexual pride flag, Regenbogen quer über die Augenbraue gemalt, Brille und rote Maske aufPlakat am Lautsprecher Wagen "Unverstanden, trotzdem da
Behinderte Antifa"
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WoT Idol @wotidol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is it possible to have “too much” WoT Idol? Tune in tonight for our special Bonus Livestream at 7pm ET on Unraveling The Pattern to find out!
A scene from The Wheel Of Time where Elayne is performing “The Hills of Tanchico. Her arms are held out to the side, her head is thrown back slightly, and she’s grinning while singing. The text at the top and bottom says “Three is not enough. Catch all four WoT Idol 2026 live shows”. The word “enough” replaces a scratched out “too many” and “four” replaces a scratched out “three”.
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Jo Berlin @jo-berlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey @specqueer.bsky.social I'm currently cleaning my email inbox and found that in 2022 I ordered the two anthologies as audiobooks. If I remember correctly, this was a preorder? I'm not sure from my internet research if they ever got made? If so, how can I download them? If not it was a donation!
Screenshot: 
"Order summary

Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth (Audiobook) × 1
MP3
$15.00

It Gets Even Better: Stories of Queer Possibility (Audiobook) × 1
MP3
$15.00
    

Subtotal
    $30.00

Shipping
    $0.00

Taxes
    $0.00

Total
    $30.00 USD
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Wurzelmann (Herbst era) @wurzelmann.at · 18/09/2026
No lies detected
A tweet reading "I guess I'm a socialist because I want even Nazis to have health care and I guess I'm antifa because I want them to need it."
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 18/09/2026
man he cant equip that shit hes a cleric not a wizard. this DM sucks
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin
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Jo Berlin @jo-berlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jetzt gerade erst mitbekommen wo der Tag schon fast vorbei ist, deswegen nur digital: ✡️
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SilverbowReborn @silverbowreborn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
'Any bar is a strip bar if you take off enough clothes' #MCon26 #OnlyInMalkier #TheWheelofTime #WoTSkies @malkiericon.bsky.social
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Unimpressed by this timeline @wirednavi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ohhhhhhh _that's_ what 'effective altruism' means, I finally get it, cool, someone fetch the guillotines please
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026
Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026
Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:
realtimetechpocalypse.com
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Unsurprisingly (it *is* by Lane, after all), this is a really, really good explanation of some famously complex philosophical concepts
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Jo Berlin @jo-berlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Inspiriert von @wurzelmann.at versuche ich mich mit den lokalen Krähen durch Erdnuss Fütterung anzufreunden 🥰 Heute zum ersten Mal ein halbwegs sinnvolles Foto von einer "es passen locker mehrere Erdnüsse in meinen Schnabel" Krähe 🥜🥜🐦‍⬛ #KrähenContent
Auf einem Autodach sitzt eine Nebelkrähe, im Schnabel zwei Erdnüsse
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Daniela Schreiter @fuchskind.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Für alle Krähenfreunde 💜.
Comic Illustration: eine kleine fröhliche Krähe springt in die Luft. Darüber steht auf Englisch: Crow with the flow. Der Hintergrund ist gelb/orange.
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Jo Berlin @jo-berlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good news for all polyamorous people! "We present a 4G∗ algorithm for Polyamorous Scheduling, improvin gthe previously known bound of 3 + √5 ≈ 5.236" arxiv.org/abs/2609.10641 #polyamory
arxiv.org
A Deadline-Driven Algorithm for Polyamorous Scheduling
In Polyamorous Scheduling Problem, we are given an edge-weighted graph and must find a periodic schedule of matchings in this graph which minimizes the maximal weighted waiting time between consecutiv...
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/09/2026
Everything about genAI is the opposite of consent, man. Like EVERY. SINGLE. PART. OF. IT. It's all built on the idea that consent is for lesser fools.
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 15/09/2026
stop telling me about how you top and bottom for your vampire boyfriend, we get it, youre a dead man's switch
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Jo Berlin @jo-berlin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Gerade in meinem Kalender entdeckt: die behindert und verrückt feiern pride parade Berlin ist schon nächstes Wochenende! Alles Infos: pride-parade.de/die-parade
Plakat zur Demo mit Text

"behindert und verrückt feiern: selbstbestimmt und laut!
Wann? 19. September 2016, 15 Uhr"
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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
wow, big news in everyone's Settings > Privacy and Security menu!
bsky screenshot with the new "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" setting checked.
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Wurzelmann (Herbst era) @wurzelmann.at · 08/09/2026
Well, wer hätte das ahnen können... (alle) "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features" manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffi...
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.
Two cats on a platformed tower. One is on the lower level, head hidden behind the middle section. The second is on the top tier with only their head showing.
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Wurzelmann (Herbst era) @wurzelmann.at · 05/09/2026
Jemand hat Visitenkarten und Sticker entworfen, um Leute/Buchgeschäfte/etc. darauf aufmerksam zu machen, dass alles, wo Harry Potter drauf steht, direkt und indirekt Hass und Politik gegen trans Personen finanziert. Spread the word! harrypotterfundshate.com /via toot.lgbt/@ellesaurus/...
Photo of a business card in from of a Harry Potter game that says "Harry Potter Funds Hate. Proceeds from Harry Potter merchandise to directly to funding anti-LGBTQ+ activism. Don't support that? Don't support Harry Potter. Learn more at harrypotterfundshate.com"
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
americamagazine.org
Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
even now, she's still teaching us
screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)
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