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people can be parasocial with their hatred too, you know

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 56m

The Needle's piece is part investigative journalism and part polemic. If the story holds up, I expect it'll polarise people in weird ways. (Pro-AI trans people *generally* tend to be opposed to the panic merchantry Reed specialises in; anti-AI trans people form more of her core audience, e.g.)

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 54m

The negative polarisation here could be crazygonuts. But I think, come what may, it's worth reflecting on why so much of Our Media tends to specialise in selling fear to our communities--and on what incentives that creates, and why (if true) Reed was tempted in this direction.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 1h

It is maximally profitable right now to either sell panic *about* trans people, or sell panic *to* trans people. Both impulses feed the media consumer's desire to feel mastery over events. One is simple bigoted conspiracism, the other is a defensive crouch that offers a false sense of security.

Emily: I think about this as a journalist and a novelist: I cannot control how the reader takes what I write. Especially when reporting, I try to be as careful as I can, but somebody might read what I write and conclude, Well, we're all going to die. And there's such an incentive structure to walk right up to the edge of catastrophe or even stick a toe over the line, and even publications I think are terrific will get as close to that line as they can because they know that drives subscription dollars and clicks. That's not just true of trans media; it's true of the media writ large. How do you think about that incentive structure, especially as it relates to social media?

Me: There's two ways to generate clicks about trans issues. One is to sell panic about trans people; the other is to sell panic to trans people. The social media incentive structure there, as it is with so many issues, is the septic, perverted version of that old classic about local TV news: If it bleeds, it leads.

Selling people that sense of control is, as I noted, the same thing at the root of a lot of conspiracism: not to trust mainstream sources who tell you things aren't quite so bad or things could get better or don't panic. It's the cinematic logic of a disaster movie where the people who are saying, "Actually, you should panic!" are correct. Think about everything from the narrative structure of Independence Day or Mass Effect. The catastrophizer is actually correct against all the people saying, "I'll calm down. It won't be so bad." That story structure is very, very popular, and it gets you invested in the protagonist with a pleasing sense of dramatic irony for the audience. They know something many of the other characters don't or refuse to accept.

We are all reared on some version of this story, and it seeps into everyday life. There's an excellent piece from CBS News in 1967 by Eric Sevareid reporting on the findings of the Warren Commission [whi

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yupdown @yupdown.net · 3h

he's trying his best to give us free wifi

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dragon mom 🌙 @hecate.space · 29/09/2026

the Wii *was* my primary access to the internet for most of high school. My parents did not want me to have internet access & parental control locked stuff down on the Wii. They unplugged the router every night. I had to do the poorly documented "remove parental controls" escape hatch

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely, this is what bothers me the most, it's fundamentally changed my relationship with art where I'm greeting it initially with skepticism and scrutiny, I never want to feel that way about art.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 22h

Cw rape Look it is not guaranteed that when you see media guys doing hatchet jobs on survivors that either they've abused someone or their friends have some guys are in patriarchal ideology for the love of the game but god damn are they bad fucking people Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIS is an instrumental part of rape culture. This is the wider societal enabling of rape and smearing victims. This is what survivors often identify as the most traumatic part of the experience, and as a journalist who believes survivors I can say it’s one of the worst parts for me, too

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geckowo @geckowo.bsky.social · 22h

slacker (repost)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026

Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...

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New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN

A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...

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BratPupper/Scratch Pup 🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @bratpupperscrat.ch · 29/09/2026

sometimes you just need a bitch to fuck the you out of you

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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ari 💫 @arimelody.space · 28/09/2026

HI Y'ALL ARI MELODY LIVE IS BACK THIS WEEK!! we'll be kicking off tonight with some TRUCKIIING, a little dev stream on wednesday, and kicking off our october lineup with Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye. i'm told i should expect to get very scared and cry 💚️ 💫️ twitch.tv/arispacegirl #vtuber #envtuber

ari melody LIVE schedule: Euro Truck Simulator 2 on monday @ 6pm UTC, dev stream (new chat widgets!) on wednesday @ 6pm UTC, Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye on thursday @ 6pm UTC, and Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye on saturday @ 6pm UTC

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes you gotta fuck a girl so hard she has to reconstruct her personality from first principles

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes you just gotta fuck a girl so hard you both end up with different headmates fronting

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Girl I'm gonna fuck you so hard the memory foam mattress will get concussive amnesia."

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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Patricia Taxxon @patriciataxxon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

an unnoted variable is that all adults are former children & i can at the very least refuse to forget what it was like to be a kid and advocate for what i believe would have helped me

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lux ΘΔ @littlefox.pet · 29/09/2026

it's funny how my locale on my phone being es_ES will make bsky compose with language set to español by default no matter my account settings interfaz de mierda, joder

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lux ΘΔ @littlefox.pet · 29/09/2026

i worry sometimes that the experience of being on this website is normalising the idea that the hosts of your online spaces can just be openly hostile to you. like, some queers whose online presence started here cannot imagine how outrageous it would be if your forum admins went "eww furries"

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rooshoes @roo.shoes · 28/09/2026

very pleased that multiple people get this

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 02/12/2025

tbh. every single nation-state project on the planet has declared war on its women, queer, trans people under the banner of "fraternity", so all must eventually be swept into the dustbin of history. there is no nationalist state project that is not inherently patriarchal.

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Vesh @rexiafortuna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

rent lowering cumshots

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Kimberly 🐘 @elephanttail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

macrophilia is a fetish where you and one or more friends send numbers to each other and get horny about it

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rita @ritatreats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

unbelievable how true "bsky staff cant handle furries" becomes over time

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Jack Cabinet @jack.cab · 27/09/2025

I installed all 65 thousand Firefox extensions in a VM and it has yet to render a second frame

Firefox skeleton loader with a bunch of black to its right and bottom, task manager is open showing 299 mb of ram and 40 mb/s of disk and 46% cpu

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Taz🍀🌟 @tazzle.art · 28/09/2026

illustration for @suddenlyoranges.com 🦊💜 #furry #furryart

a POV illustration of an anthro fox with a purple heart marking, laying down on a soft bed and blushing as a character off-screen runs a paw through their chest-fluff

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‏ @innuendowo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[trying to come up with first date ideas with a terminally online t4t puppygirl] wanna go, uh, age regress [remembering the other stereotype] at the gun range

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mcf @mangycarface.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

puptides

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bran 👽 @pupnik.moe · 28/09/2026

yip 🦊🧡

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four* @f0urst4r.net · 27/09/2026

The College Experience Does Not Consist of Alcohol Parties and Sex It Consists of Getting Food Poisoning From Dining Hall , Finding Places To Take a Shit and Looking At List of Defunct NYC Subway Stations on Wikipedia During Lecture

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//JINX (Comms Closed!) @hojinxs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Shivers hard to draw :( #Splatoon

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dawn @catofinterest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

uh ? what are you even supposed to do in this situation ? 😭 happy flat fox friday!

"HEY!!" "Can't you draw a flat chest, idiot??" "If I see you give me more than an A-cup..." "I'm coming in that room myself.."; an artist attempts to draw my sona with sizeable breasts. they quickly scold them within their drawing software.

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Tropi/Frosti @tropbunny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Im just rabbit. Happy rabbit day!

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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tales From The Hood is such an unsung classic, and Clarence Williams III performance as the cryptkeeper of the whole shebang, is so great.

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

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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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Zed is not Dead 🏳️‍⚧️ @zed.gay · 26/09/2026

This is a PSA to everyone that came here from Twitter: YOU ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE OFF-SITE LINKS. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO MENTION COMMISSIONS OR PATREON. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO USE HASHTAGS. ALL OF THOSE FEATURES THAT TWITTER PUNISHED YOU FOR USING ARE FAIR GAME HERE. BE FREE.

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lux ΘΔ @littlefox.pet · 26/09/2026

You should seed your torrents btw

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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