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Josh Watson @joshwatson.com · 22/07/2025

I had hopes for @bsky.app but if @jay.bsky.team and her shitstain team are going to collude with genocide, then I’m off this fucking site. Fuck you

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Hunter Biden of all people said some true shit and it went viral. People are desperate to see some passion. We're desperate to see fight. My message to Dem leaders and consultants is simple. If Hunter fucking Biden can capture our attention and you can't, maybe that's worth reflecting on.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 22/07/2025

Alaa Salim, @mamafriend.bsky.social has been a thoughtful and incisive commentator on her situation in Gaza. Suspending an important Palestinian voice that people look to for moral clarity on what is happening to her people weakens this community. #RestoreAlaa @bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/07/2025

Bluesky just suspended Alaa AGAIN, accusing her of being a "fake account." SHE IS NOT FAKE. Hey @support.bsky.team @bsky.app maybe you can explain to me why Jesse Singal is welcome on this platform but a mom in Gaza isn't.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

"GenAI, as it exists, is fundamentally a tool for undercutting labor. And it’s using stolen labor to achieve it, and mandating that labor implement their own replacement." This post is spot on and mirrors my sentiments perfectly.

paddy.carvers.com

I’m Tired of Talking About AI

I don’t want to talk about LLMs anymore.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

The
@LemkinInstitute
is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now.

No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits.

GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW.

IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

not to wade into the discourse but [proceeds to wade into discourse] I don't think that a broad definition of trans people is why we lost Skrmetti, I think we lost because we live in a state whose main lawmaking body is a reactionary unelected council of nine people who decided that fascism is good

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Something monstrous about seeing more and more news confirming intentional deliberate starvation in Gaza and still see people center themselves by saying it makes them ‘uncomfortable’ to acknowledge that this is what it is

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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 21/07/2025

counterpoint: we actually should judge that because it is weird and stupid

More people are considering AI lovers, and we shouldn’t judge

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leggy @leggystarscream.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

i swear at god. I got an email advertising this an hour ago. @humblebundle.com a disclaimer saying that the charity was "not involved in the selection of the content in this promotion" and that the content "do[es] not reflect or represent the views and opinions" doesn't absolve you of anything

An image from the Humble Bundle, advertising "The Unofficial Harry Potter Reference Library" supporting the Trevor Project

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Josh Watson @joshwatson.com · 21/07/2025

Tip for guys who don’t want to be creeps, *especially* with acquaintances or strangers: complimenting choices, rather than attributes, comes off as much more sincere and normal! 😬 “you have beautiful eyes” ✅ “that smokey eye is awesome!” 🤢 anything about body parts ✅ “that is a really cute dress!”

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21/07/2025

i love humans and humanity and hate hierarchy and power

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The truth of the matter is, autistic children learn to mask, and will modify their behaviour based on your demands, means you might think you have taught them to overcome their autistic traits. You ain't. What you have done is you've forced them to comply at a high cost to their mental health.

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da da™️ drew @adrew.dadguy.pro · 21/07/2025

how could it happen here? well reader, with gleeful evil.

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

You're not wearing a mask because you're Batman. You're wearing a mask because you're a state-sponsored terrorist who lives in the suburbs.

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

If you can't endure the risk to yourself and your family brought about doing the federal government's work, then simply don't do it. It's a job. Quit if you can't risk people finding out how you put food on the table.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

NY Times showing how to both sides the secret police abduction squads story

Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends Whom You Ask.
Los Angeles’s mayor said Sunday that masked immigration agents helped create a “reign of terror.” ICE’s director said agents could wear masks to “keep them and their families safe.”

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 21/07/2025

The utility of the internet was immediately apparent. Free global communication at a time when long-distance phone calls were charged by the minute and faxes were the only way to send documents quickly? That was adopted at record speed. But "AI" is a solution in search of a problem.

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Josh Watson @joshwatson.com · 21/07/2025

Eventually, every process on your Windows machine will be a WebView2 process and consume 1.5GB of memory

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 20/07/2025

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I remember once at work, we had a talk at work about bias in AI models, providing examples against women, LGBT, and immigrants. The speaker proposed no solution or an attempt at one - we just all kinda walked away with "Cool, glad we're being forced to use these or be terminated from our jobs."

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Trans people deserve youth. Trans people deserve old age.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/07/2025

stop. treating. it. like. a. person.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Please… for the love of god, just stop reading Harry Potter. There are other god damn fantasy series out there, and ones that don’t give money and attention to a person helping to directly harm trans people.

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Josh Watson @joshwatson.com · 20/07/2025

I saw someone getting angrily gestured at in traffic the other day, and instead of flipping them off, the other driver did a 🫶🏻 (they were at a stoplight) Somehow it was even more brutal than the middle finger

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 19/07/2025

this is it, this is the language i have needed to talk about the pronoun thing. that they are willing to admit to what would in any other context shameful ignorance

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Josh Watson @joshwatson.com · 20/07/2025

The Jumbotron would catch me sleeping in my seat You’d think this is one of those joke posts but it literally happened to me at a Celtics game in January

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

“More than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.” and yet people are still demanding US politicians enthusiastically support this regime. fuck that.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

imagine if political journalists showed the same solidarity for their illegally imprisoned colleagues that jake tapper showed for fox news when obama tried to move their seat in the briefing room to the second row

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 19/07/2025

What's so funny is the RNC's deep dive into their 2012 failures was extremely accurate and very flattering. The party completely ignored it of course, but at least it's better than what this report will conclude, which is trans people need to shut the fuck up basically.

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Josh Watson @joshwatson.com · 19/07/2025

Thanks for letting us know, Ted. I’ll pass

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 19/07/2025

Marco Rubio is really one of the most contemptible people in the administration bc he doesn't even seem like a true believer, he's just a power-hungry, unprincipled piece of shit happy to be cruel if cruelty is what gets you proximity to power

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 19/07/2025

"free" in that he's back in the country he was seeking asylum from. It's still very shitty.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 19/07/2025

Here's my argument about AI that's distilled down about as much as I can: if it was good for me, my boss wouldn't want me to use it so bad.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

One of the most bonkers responses to survivors who disclose that they’ve been assaulted is, “Well, he hasn’t done that to me!” Like, okay. Congratulations?

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I’m really gonna ask you please not to turn your nose up at the WSJ story and sneer that it’s a distraction. These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them. That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

nbcnews.com

Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide

Other Epstein victims credited Giuffre with giving them the courage to speak out.

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Josh Watson @joshwatson.com · 18/07/2025

Thinking really hard about getting a tattoo that says これを読めない and telling people it means “strength”

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21/06/2025

they will not stop at trans children. they want all children unable to refuse or escape their abuse

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Josh Watson @joshwatson.com · 18/07/2025

Who was searching this at 7:20am Eastern?

Google Trends output for "venous insufficiency deadly"

The graph is completely flat until a spike at July 17, 2025 4:20am Pacific, then jumps up later in the day when the news about Trump having venous insufficiency broke.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

hey, this is important.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/07/2025

the truth and reconciliation commission we’re going to need at the end of this should drop the hammer on everyone grifting off human misery and there will be no shortage of low hanging fruit to go after

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