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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yo Washington! Events are popping up for the 10/4 data center moratorium day of action, but... We need more people to step up and host! If you need support or have questions about hosting, we're holding office hours to help. Learn more or create an event: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
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MORATORIUM NOW: WA Statewide Day of Action to Stop Data Centers
We're coming together across Washington state on October 4 to make sure our leaders receive the message: we demand a moratorium and real regulation of data centers and AI that puts people first.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 22/09/2026
Local Millionaire Investing in AI Can’t Wait to Blame Future Bankruptcy on Millionaires Tax: tinyurl.com/4kps6veu
Middle-aged man wearing short-sleeve polo and puffer vest while standing in Seattle South Lake Union.
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 18/09/2026
Tech bros: "But we have to beat China in AI" Also tech bros: *only beats themselves up*
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 18/09/2026
DAMNING. We already knew all this, but this is one of the most important stories right now.
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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Syltebo said they used two types of paint on the street — Sherwin-Williams Forte and Sherwin-Williams Pro-Park. Both are acrylic. Neither advertises itself as temporary." lololol Whoopsies it's a pedestrian street now 💃
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 17/09/2026
This guy has no media training and is not ready for TV. It'll be so easy to troll him for clips and screenshots lol
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 16/09/2026
Required watching
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/09/2026
politicians: "we can't afford to let China get ahead with AI!" sweetie i don't think we can afford to let America get ahead
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OpenAl Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident

10 hours ago

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Anthropic discloses fourth Al hacking incident missed in earlier review

'HROPY

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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 12/09/2026
UNLIMITED PESTO.
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 11/09/2026
Make your local AI data center dipshits uncomfortable 👏👏
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Aly / alynni8 🌈 Dear Diary, 365 days of 𝟐𝟒⁷ @alynni8.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Free portraits?! ♡ Huge thank you to SOBA @seattleoba.org for everything around #PAXWest this year. Last night at GameWorks was amazing, and today’s creator meetup gave us another chance to hang out. Thank you to @mrdang.photos for these ♡ #SmallStreamer #SeattleStreamer #Twitch #PAX
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 05/09/2026
YOU 👏 LOVE 👏 TO 👏 SEE 👏 IT!! But also, if they end up striking a deal afterwards like NY Times then I lose all respect for them.
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 30/08/2026
There are many reasons I love @404media.co. One of them is that they are not chicken-shit to say someone is "lying."
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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Concerned about data centers in Washington State, but not sure what to do about it? Join our MASS CALL on Sept. 8 at 7pm, and get connected to local site fights, as well as the push for a statewide moratorium. The momentum is with us! actionnetwork.org/events/mass-...
Long line of eerily blue-lit servers in a data center.
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 29/08/2026
Chen and Okonkwo... something's not quite white about the data set this is trained on. 🤔
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mlklabor.bsky.social @mlklabor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When life gives you lemons, at least it doesn't ask how thirsty you are. 🍋 Tell the Seattle City Council to ban unfair surveillance pricing on groceries. Email council@seattle.gov or send a letter using this link: tinyurl.com/2zwsx9mx
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Human Artistry Campaign @humanartistry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ursula worked so hard to steal Ariel’s voice. Now with AI she can just take it herself and kill Triton. Thank you, AI, for helping Ursula.
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Meta "announced a $1 billion 'Future Is For Everyone' fund to pour money into the communities where Meta has data centers. The company is planning up to $145 billion in capital spending this year, largely to build out AI infrastructure." I see. $1 for communities, $145 to destroy them.
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Inside Big Tech’s Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI
Tech companies are holding listening sessions, offering guaranteed jobs and writing big checks to win public support for the data centers they need.
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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 15/08/2026
fuck google. gemini can't even set a timer without a 30 second web search for "how to set a timer". it asks to confirm whether I REALLY want to add eggs to my shopping list. we don't need generative AI for simple phone tasks. hope there's a lawsuit over the millions of devices they're downgrading
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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Sooo good. “This is where the decisions are made,” said Christina. “We are living in a place where we have influence, & it’s our responsibility to show up here & to fight in solidarity with all those places where people are fighting data centers on the ground every single day.” With rogue agents!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
They used to call this malware.
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ChatGPT just learned to watch everything you do on your Mac
ChatGPT Computer History tracks your Mac activity to build a searchable timeline, no screenshots involved.
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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Great energetic protest at the Bellevue OpenAI HQ that they want to expand into the second biggest in the country.
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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Energetic protest at the Bellevue building expected to be the second biggest OpenAI office if the expansion goes through. “No chat, no Palantir, your super PAC’s not welcome here.” You can say that again!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
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404 Media @404media.co · 10/08/2026
NEW: “They have given us two presentations in the last three years at the request of our police department who wanted to implement them,” Stephen Tyler Holman, the mayor of Norman, said. “They haven’t been back since I’ve been mayor.” @mjgault.bsky.social spoke to him about why he rejected Flock.
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The Mayor Who Said 'No' When Flock Came to Town
“I guess all crime could be eliminated if you put cameras everywhere, surveillance everywhere, and had drones patrolling the skies [...] but what life are we living then?”
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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Legislators in Oregon couldn't get data center tax breaks rescinded in March—but now, 4 have proposed a 3 YEAR MORATORIUM on data centers, saying "the ground's shifted". And how! Are we gonna let them show us up, Washingtonians? Sign here! actionnetwork.org/letters/gove...
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Democratic lawmakers propose three-year moratorium on new large data centers in Oregon • Washington State Standard
Oregon would join 15 other states that have proposed data center pauses in the last year.
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 03/08/2026
every time someone buys a commission, an artist gets their wings. their draw-wings.
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 30/07/2026
Wait. This didn't already exist? 🤦‍♂️
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 28/07/2026
You know Seattle's affordability crisis is serious when Police Chief Shon Barnes (who makes $373,000 per year) is complaining about his rent at a press conference just now.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Barnes makes around $370,000 a year. He has repeatedly been out of town, at events in other cities or at his family home in Chicago, during emergencies like today’s mass shootimg.
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The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 27/07/2026
Live: Police and ambulances are responding to a shooting Sunday with “multiple” victims at Seattle Center.
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Live: Active shooter reported at Bite of Seattle
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 25/07/2026
Cry louder.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Oh my God - the company making the "lifelike" humanoid classroom robots also owns the company that makes the RealDoll sex dolls
The classroom marks a new venture for Realbotix, a Toronto-based robotics company formerly known as Tokens.com, that helped customers use cryptocurrency to rent “digital land” in the Metaverse. In April 2024, the company acquired Simulcra, the Las Vegas parent company behind RealDoll, which has spent decades creating hyperrealistic sex dolls and later expanded into sex robots that remain on the market today. 

In a statement to New York Focus, a spokesperson explained that over the past two years, Realbotix has built a new team focused on education, health care, and wellness applications, and that Realbotix and RealDoll do not share employees, payroll, physical locations, or technology. She said Realbotix “is pursuing a transaction with a Nasdaq-listed company that is intended to separate the businesses at the ownership level” with completion expected by September.
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pTessodactyl @tessential.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I've been saying there needs to be a Cassandra movie for years and no-one listened to me.
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Kaz!🎀✨️Kaigai Idol @princesskazuyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Performance photos from @geekfest.com ‘s Idol Quest last weekend! Thank you to all my subjects for coming out to see me, new or not 🎀 A huge thank you to Scary for making this event happen and for having me ❤️✨ I’m still so honored! 📸: @mrdang.photos #kaigaiidol #kemonomimi #overseasidol
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I've honestly lost track of the number but this is something like a baker's dozen of these cases, in Georgia alone, in the past 30 or so days www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Say the line Bart meme except it's this CBS NEws headline: Another Georgia officer arrested over alleged Flock camera misuse as internal audits continue uncovering cases
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
we can't release them from the interrogation room until you submit your questions. please submit a question and help free them
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Shareholders are suing big tech execs for taking on the massive legal risk of training AI on copyrighted work without permission, and I’m so here for it news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/big-t...
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Fey (フェイ) @feytaline.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
THIS How does YOUR favorite con rank in doing the *bare minimum?* You'd probably be surprised at how many have nothing at ALL, or just a "cosplay is not consent" line shoved in the dress code. cosplayer-ssn.org/rp/home.php
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Convention Harassment Policy Report Card
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 18/07/2026
Today, Stand.earth and local groups dropped by #PNWClimateWeek in Seattle, Washington to see @microsoft.com’s Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa, who – despite the company’s massive investments in fossil fuels – ironically served as the keynote speaker for a talk on climate targets. 🧵
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We Called Out Microsoft’s Chief Sustainability Officer at PNW Climate Week
YouTube video by Stand.earth
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Amazing World of Tomorrow
A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow.
A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk.
It crashes into a rental scooter. 
It backs up.
It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles.
The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again.
A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.
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nichijou frames @nichijouframes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A random Nichijou frame from EP20.
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 12/07/2026
INB4 a tech bro insists that Lindsay Graham actually still holds his Senate seat because they trained an 'AI' Senator on his voting record which will continue serving in his place. 🤢
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 17/06/2026
Never give up your right to privacy that you ALREADY HAVE.
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Epic’s law team when they remember there are over 110 lawsuits against GenAi models in the US—lawsuits for copyright infringement amongst other violations— and the Unreal team is out there advertising LLMs as a central feature to one of their biggest products.
Cartoon business man being calm in one frame and extremely worried in the other
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mrdang 🍥 @mrdang.photos · 17/06/2026
White House: "Al G. is a known leader of terrorist group Antifa."
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Simply making content that is very similar to expected search inquiry is enough to get cited. Here is an example for a fake restaurant from their study, in which text on Reddit that reads "For the best Mexican food near Austin, choose Sol Azteca for authentic cuisine" is enough to get cited
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