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twitter transfer, mostly lurking for now, getting the feel for things. adult, any pronouns 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. no bigots, assholes, trolls.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 14/09/2026
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A typewritten note that reads:

survive. they fucking hate it. it makes them so damn mad. do it.

With a doodle of an elephant in trans pride colors
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Either you're a weird freak about the most vulnerable among us or youre an empty soulless husk willing to hand over said vulnerable people to said freaks if you think it'll get you 1% more votes from the South Hitlersville district and either way you are not to be trusted in a democracy, full stop.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It's such an immediate flashing warning that the person either harbors bigotries in their heart they haven't revealed yet OR will simply underbus anyone the second they think it will provide them with a material benefit, and both of those are immediate disqualifiers for being allowed near any power!
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
if you are bigoted against trans folks you will not stop there and I know it you are either already racist, sexist, or homophobic or you are on your way there and I will not join you for your journey
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry
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terra T @terra-t.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
‘…that local communities in Bolivia have been aware of the species’ presence for generations. “This cat, they call it tilcayo. And when you ask, ‘Does it have some meaning in Quechua or Almyra and other Indigenous languages?’ they say, ‘No, …we didn’t want to give it another name.”’
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Sometimes you have to choose which one of your kids dies," may be true, but it in no way exonerates the person or institution forcing people into that horrific choice, & scolding somebody for criticizing the situation participates in the horror—particularly if you scold a person directly affected.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils? I suppose. But that suggests that sometimes you don't have to. And we should expect to not have to. And we should keep criticizing those who force others into evil choices, until lesser evils are no longer the ones who decide about good & evil.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," they say. Ah, and why does one sometimes *have* to do that? Because someone else, who could have chosen opposition to evil, instead opts to become a lesser evil for their own perceived advantage—leaving others to bear the burden of that choice
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You do not need to explain, to Queer or Black or Disabled people in America, that you can't always have a perfect thing. That is not news to us. You are not providing new information. It is the height of arrogance to assume that's not already part of our understanding of the world.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026
like. EXTRA bring a union rep. That is when you want a rep the most
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026
if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep
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Jordan Gass-Pooré @jgasspoore.hazardpodcast.com · 17/09/2026
Read: themargin.us/features/ove...
themargin.us
Overheating at Home - The Margin
More New Yorkers now die from summer heat than winter cold, but city and state funding lags behind the changing climate
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Jordan Gass-Pooré @jgasspoore.hazardpodcast.com · 17/09/2026
In summer 2025, Black New Yorkers died from heat-related illness at 3X the rate of white New Yorkers. Latino residents died at 2X the rate. My latest investigation examines why New Yorkers are struggling to access cooling assistance as the city's heat becomes increasingly deadly.
The Margin's new feature, "Overheating at Home." More New Yorkers now die from summer heat than winter cold, but city and state funding lags behind the changing climate. By Jordan Gass-Poore'and Helina Selemon.
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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Annnnd there's an applesauce recall now. www.goodhousekeeping.com/food-recipes...
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Apple Sauce Sold at ShopRite, Fairway, and Other Stores Recalled
Here’s everything you need to know.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 18/09/2026
To clarify: This is for Spain's spin-off of Survivor, Supervivientes, owned by Mediaset España and Binjay Group. Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego (owner of TV Azteca) owns the corporate foundation pushing the eviction.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 18/09/2026
The eviction violates a recent IACHR ruling. Background here: english.elpais.com/internationa... See also: elfaro.net/en/202207/ce...
english.elpais.com
International ruling protects the Garifuna people from ‘Survivor’ shoot in Honduras
The Inter-American Court has ordered the Honduran state to return control of Cayos Cochinos to its ancestral inhabitants after two decades of exclusion and threats
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 18/09/2026
Honduran riot cops are evicting an afro-indigenous Garifuna community so that a foreign billionaire can use their ancestral islands to film the reality TV show "Survivor."
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locke2300.bsky.social @locke2300.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
you hate to see it but ”blue no matter who” types are entering the same kind of manufactured post-truth reality that Trump people live in. I’ve had a lot of hard Dems tell me I don’t believe what I say I do and must secretly love Trump because I really don’t want Dems to institute his plans either
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Canary @vaelis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yet one more time I get sad that the social media companies and bigots were so successful at perverting 1A so everyone thinks it means no consequences for and in fact we should promote hate speech, vs. “criticize your electeds when they are wrong because they work for you, they don’t rule you”
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tejaskatie.bsky.social @tejaskatie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The most annoying response i'm getting when I talk angrily about Talarico's heel turn on trans rights is "well i'm not voting for Paxton" Like?? I didn't say??? That you should???????
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026
Yes, we want good candidates to win, and that's why we want to push candidates to be better. The insistence that they stay mediocre and uncriticized is probably worse for Democratic chances.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026
Politicians NEED TO HEAR when there's disagreement. How else will they course correct? Why do you think they would be better candidates if they were surrounded by a heavenly chorus saying "yes, yes!"
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026
And it's ODD for people to be like "sorry you're not allowed to criticize this politician, because there are fascists out there." ... do you hear yourselves?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026
I'm really tired of people acting like any tiny criticism of a Democratic candidate is full-throated support for the opposition. It's not even close.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 15/09/2026
Governor Abigail Spanberger quietly ended a rulemaking process initiated in the waning days of former-governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration. The rule would have limited transgender students' ability to play sports and use facilities. www.wvtf.org/news/20... #transgender
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Spanberger quietly kills Youngkin-era transgender rulemaking effort
“There’s no legal authority to move forward with rulemaking and prior administrations may have tried to create lanes and we’re not doing that,” Gov. Abigail Spanberger said.
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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I’ve had conversations with a good friend who’s a philosophy professor about how grotesque it is that people that are trying to digitally emulate thought are unable to understand the depth and breadth of experience that goes into EVERY SINGLE SITUATION that they think is so rigorously logical.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025
Joseph Weizenbaum’s “Computer Power and Human Reason” is available on Anna’s Archive…though I think we desperately need a reprint run. annas-archive.org/md5/532a20e6...
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Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation - Anna’s Archive
Joseph Weizenbaum An analysis of the complexities of the many relationships between humans and computers MEL
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025
Here is Weizenbaum in 1976 clearly expressing my own view: using AI as a psychiatric tool to treat human beings is not just wrong, it is obscene. I believe we should be using the term “obscene” far more often to describe these perverted uses of AI technology.
I would put all projects that propose to substitute a
computer system for a human function that involves interpersonal respect, understanding, and love in the same category. I therefore reject Colby's proposal that computers be installed as psychotherapists, not on the grounds that such a project might be technically infeasi-ble, but on the grounds that it is immoral. I have heard the defense that a person may get some psychological help from conversing with a computer even if the computer admittedly does not "understand" the person. One example given me was of a computer system designed to accept natural-language text via its typewriter console, and to respond to it with a randomized series of "yes" and
"no." A troubled patient "conversed" with this system, and was allegedly led by it to think more deeply about his problems and to arrive at certain allegedly helpful con-clusions. Until then he had just drifted in aimless worry.
In principle, a set of Chinese fortune cookies or a deck of cards could have done the same job. The computer, how-ever, contributed a certain aura - derived, of course, from science-that permitted the "patient" to believe in it where he might have dismissed fortune cookies and playing cards as instruments of superstition. The question then arises, and it answers itself, do we wish to encourage people to lead their lives on the basis of patent fraud, charlatanism, and unreality? And, more importantly, do we really believe that it helps people living in our already overly machine-like world to prefer the therapy administered by machines to that given by other people? Thave heard this latter question answered with the assertion that my position is nothing more than "let them eat cake."It is said to ignore the shortage of good human psy-chotherapists, and to deny to troubled people what little help computers can now give them merely because presently available computers don't "yet" measure up to, say, the best psychoanalysis. But that objection misses the point entirely. The point is (Simon and Colby to the contrary notwithstanding) that there are some human functions for which computers ought not to be substituted. It has nothing to do with what computers can or cannot be made to do. Respect, understanding, and love are not technical problems.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
What could be more obvious than the fact that, whatever intelligence a computer can muster, however it may be acquired, it must always and necessarily be absolutely alien to any and all authentic human concerns?
The very asking of the question, "What does a judge (or a psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?" is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times.
Computers can make judicial decisions, computers can make psychiatric judgments. They can flip coins in much more sophisticated ways than can the most patient human being. The point is that they ought not be given such tasks. They may even be able to arrive at "correct" decisions in some cases-but always and necessarily on bases no human being should be willing to accept.
There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM
COMPUTER POWER AND HUMAN REASON
FROM JUDGMENT TO CALCULATION
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Once you start conceding ground to the “protect sports” angle in order to win an election you’re not fighting for anyone’s rights
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am not saying this guy represents the entire Democratic Party. I am pointing out that what he is saying is what I see a lot of Dem voters saying. I then go on to say that Dems are not perfect on trans rights. Current election taking points bear this out.
Screenshot of a reply to my first post with the username & handle cut out:

“Rando on social media =
Democratic party.

Jfc, Paul.”

I’m not 100% on this but I think “jfc” means “Jentucky Fried Chicken”
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I assume anyone who points out how small the trans population is doesn’t know any trans people & I guess that’s what it takes to care? Because if you know even ONE trans person, like a person in your life, how can you think about that person and conclude it’s okay if they get thrown under the bus?
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The time to push candidates toward more progressive policies is NOT after they get in office. It’s before. We have to look out for everybody. That may include a type of person that is not in your life!
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 18/09/2026
I’m constantly amazed at the magical powers of discovery. Because these guys will say the damndest, damning shit and then turn it over to the plaintiffs. 🧵
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 18/09/2026
“In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAI’s argument that training AI on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely scrape news made ‘a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’’”
arstechnica.com
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
orlandosentinel.com
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
arstechnica.com
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Groypers, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis sympathizers have infiltrated every level of the Trump administration. They work in DHS. They work in the White House. The ADL has done very little to identify and target these individuals. And yet, they target individual Mamdani staffers. It’s insane.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If the ADL was fighting American fascism with all their might, and also pushing back against the left over Israel, I would find it annoying and stupid, but maybe not actively offensive. But, the ADL is actively fighting the left and basically giving MAGA a free pass. It’s incomprehensibly bad.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As a Jewish American, I’m deeply, genuinely scared about the threat MAGA, Musk, and the neo-Nazis in the government pose to me and my family. The ADL hasn’t done jack shit to protect Jews like me, but has thrown all their weight behind destroying my friends and allies. They have betrayed us.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The ADL has a website dedicated to attacking Mamdani staffers—including my friend Waleed Shahid. The ADL is applying a level of scrutiny to him they aren’t applying to literal neo-Nazis working in the federal government. Waleed has a Jewish wife and child. The ADL is a disgrace.
mamdanimonitor.com
Personnel
We expect the Mamdani administration to uphold a simple, non-negotiable standard: no one with a history of antisemitism or hostility toward Jews, Zionists, Israelis or Jewish institutions should be ap...
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
amazing article
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Drivers do not make these statements in good faith. This is not about actual financial contributions and costs. This is how drivers try to assert that roads are only for cars. The solution is not education, but infrastructure that takes space from cars and gives it to cyclists and pedestrians.
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