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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Jake Slimeberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 26/04/2026
The BDS boycott against Xbox is specifically targeted with material goals. It is not a personal purity test one imposes upon purchases for the sake of gauging idealistic commitment. You cannot "what about" with other purchases when they are not part of a legitimate organized movement.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 10/11/2025
it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy
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Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I forgot I downloaded this
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DatNoFact @datnofact.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default* Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org www.theverge.com/news/767522/...
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Microsoft Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud
Word documents will be automatically saved to OneDrive
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
“The daily cost of the D.C. troop deployment is more than six times what it would cost to operate affordable housing for D.C.’s entire unhoused population. The government’s priorities could not be more clear," said @hannahomestead.bsky.social of @nationalpriorities.bsky.social
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Fascists have to resort to censorship and surveillance states and armed goons cuz their dipshit "policies" arent fucking popular! If they were popular, they wouldnt need this shit! Theres more of us! Theres always more of us!
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
As Dems struggle to find an off-ramp for the increasingly unpopular Gaza genocide their leadership spent 22 months supporting, they've settle on blaming "Netanyahu." I wrote about the rise of One Bad Man Theory and how it serves to obscure much deeper issues with the logic and reality of zionism.
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It’s Not Just 'Netanyahu': The Rise of Liberals’ One Bad Man Theory to Explain Away Gaza Genocide
Attempts to pin the horrors on “Netanyahu" obscure the reality of just how popular genocide is with US elites and within Israel itself.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It's a direct line. First, Microsoft's Azure enabled the mass surveillance of a civilian population living in apartheid conditions on the West bank. Then, that same technology was deployed in Gaza to support airstrikes into "densely populated" civillian areas. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
But the initial focus of the system was the West Bank, where an estimated 3 million Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation. Unit 8200 sources said the information stored in Azure amounted to a rich repository of intelligence about its population that some in the unit claimed had been used to blackmail people, place them in detention, or even justify their killing after the fact.

“When they need to arrest someone and there isn’t a good enough reason to do so, that’s where they find the excuse,” one said, referring to the information stored in the cloud.

However, Unit 8200 sources said intelligence drawn from the enormous repositories of phone calls held in Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza. One of the sources said that when planning an airstrike on an individual located within densely populated areas where high numbers of civilians are present, officers would use the cloud-based system to examine calls made by people in the immediate vicinity.

The sources also said use of the system had increased during the campaign in Gaza, which has killed more than 60,000 people in the territory, the majority of whom are civilians, including over 18,000 children.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.

Thanks to the control it exerts over Palestinian telecommunications infrastructure, Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
these guys have flooded our streets with gestapo and soldiers to roust our neighbors and demand papers over completely fabricated emergencies. one notable terrorist act on US soil with these freaks in charge and i cannot imagine there will be any limits to their savagery
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𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐠 @ruleo.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
THE BYRNE
ULTIMATUM
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Sick of seeing arguments about the inefficacy of collectively turning off the money faucet to someone who has personally funded global efforts to strip away the already-precarious rights and safety of trans folks. If you want to live that life, do it away from me and stop wasting time equivocating.
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 15/04/2025
I Like The Cool Stuff
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/04/2025
Every conference you speak at, you hope there's a thing you say that is memorable. Didn't expect mine at Reboot Develop to be "if someone shits on a table in your restaurant you don't say 'I lost a customer' either", in response to a remark about the economic incentive against banning toxic players.
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Georgeous McGeorgeface 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈🇪🇸🇮🇨🇳🇴 @georgeous.one · 10/04/2025
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ON MARCH 30TH, A FENCER NAMED STEPHANIE TURNER FORFEITED A BOUT BECAUSE HER OPPONENT WAS TRANS. HER REFUSAL TO COMPETE DISQUALIFIED HER FROM THE COMPETITION.

HERE'S THE THING, THOUGH: FENCING IS TYPICALLY A COED SPORT AT NON-ELITE LEVEL. TURNER HERSELF WAS COMPETING AGAINST CIS MEN (AND WON) A WEEK EARLIER.

TURNER'S ACTIONS PROVE THAT NOTHING ABOUT THE "TRANS ATHLETES" MORAL PANIC IS ABOUT FAIRNESS.

AFTER SHE MADE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES, A CONSERVATIVE GROUP GAVE HER A $5000 "COURAGE" AWARD FOR HER UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT. HER TRANS OPPONENT WENT ON TO PLACE 24TH AT THE COMPETITION.

SOPHIE LABELLE
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 08/04/2025
the BDS requests on microsoft are extremely clear and also targeted. they aren't "uninstall windows now and change your entire life," they aren't even a huge ask for games media outside of like exclusive world of warcraft streamers. there is no reason for the near total silence other than shame
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Tattoos by Doug Hardy @tattoosbydoughardy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Lmbo
Text of post: “pete !! @peterokii • Mar 28
oh poor baby 🥺🥺
do you need the robot
to make you pictures?🥺🥺
yeah?🥺🥺
do
you need the bo-bot to write you essay too? yeah ??? you can't do it?? 🥺🥺oò you're a
moron??🥺🥺
do you need chat gpt to fuck
your wife ??🥺🥺🥺
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Sleepaway Champ @sleepawaychamp.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I am an elder millennial. We were the last generation to drink from the hose. We played Nintendo and the loser would drink from the hose. We got summer jobs, earning $5 an hour drinking from the hose. We had no cell phones; if we were out late our parents had to trust we were drinking from the hose.
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Autumn @autumnalcoffee.exportaud.io · 17/03/2025
Quadrilateral Cowboy is a top 5 game of all time. Every Blendo game release should be a national holiday
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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 18/02/2025
Ten years ago we had Bob Hope, Bob Jobs, Bob Cash, Bob Constitution, Bob Vaccines, Bob Air Traffic Controllers
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It’s not that I have an ass that “won’t quit” it’s that it has no reasonable path to retirement in this country
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Wings of Silver @silverwingprime.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 17/11/2024
the great saiyaman stuff in dbz is so fuckin good i could watch 100 episodes of videl and gohan hijinks. trunks and goten are prefect additions to the ensemble. easily the best the show's been since the saiyan saga
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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
robert kennedy is going to arlington, and he's going to eat the unknown soldier
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jennywise 🎈 @hacksawjenny.rip · 22/10/2024
I don't want cool futuristic cars to look like Cyber Trucks. I want cool futuristic cars to look like they're designed by Akira Toriyama.
Bulma, Oolong and Goku in a convertible mini car that's blue and cute and chubby with the Capsule Corps logo on the side.
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