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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel ya 😪
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Hannah Lee Stockdale (LOOKING 4 WORK) @hanoodles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He destroyed careers, he destroyed peoples’ livelihoods. I hope he sleeps well with his golden parachute knowing he’s had a major hand in turning the US animation industry into the desert it is today.
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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.
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European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GOLDEN PARACHUTE (n.): An agreement wherein an employee, typically an executive, receives substantial compensation in exchange for the termination of their employment as a result of a merger or takeover. This allows incompetent ghouls to handsomely profit off of running companies into the ground.
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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, it's Friday the 2nd, and still nothing. That said, I believe this guy is based in Victoria, Canada, who are eight hours behind Irish time, so I should give him some leeway. Some. I found one of his latest replies from a few hours ago, and decided to give him a friendly reminder.
My reply to Mr. Slop Merchant on Reddit:

This is so exciting!

Oh, while I'm here, I can't wait to see your promises art (and behind the scenes process art) reveal today! :D
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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/10/2026
it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
for real though the "model welfare" people who are worried about the ethical treatment of nonsentient computer programs are absolutely deranged, very well-funded, and extremely dangerous; is also the core ideology of Anthropic
One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...
ebar.com
Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Urban fantasy setting with the standard "some number of Great Houses each with their own hereditary signature magic ruling over magicless commoners" deal, except it's all bullshit: both the ability to use magic and what type you get are determined almost entirely by childhood nutrition. (1/2)
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final. And it needs all of your data to do it. In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
The AI age is the "age of no consent"
"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“The report is expected to say that there is a widespread instance of the British public telling the truth and the British propaganda machine lying frequently and loudly to it to change their minds“
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Kdin Jenzen 🏳️‍⚧️🐺 @kdinjenzenvo.com · 21/09/2026
"But these uses don't really affect people's jobs!" 58,000+ layoffs in the last 4 years in the gaming industry. 58,000+ people just without work and now Gen Ai is in everything somehow. Weird right? I mean that's just GOTTA be a coincidence and not the blaring alarm sounded by the cause itself.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
gizmodo.com
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
God, reading this article it's clear that what she said was demonstrably, clearly true and has been willfully misrepresented in bad faith.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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samantha is the spectre haunting europe 👻👻👻 @commiesamantha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"but talarico's voting record was good..." liberals should read what he actually said. he said that his votes were based on republican overreach in those bills but that he wants to write better ones. he literally is saying that in a democratic majority he will help write new anti-trans bills.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
… the thing I can’t get over is how the “AI “ discussion has successfully prevented any discussion of the human future They’ve managed to shove any long term planning for what the world will look like in even five years
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A win! Another federal judge has blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing new mail-ballot restrictions tied to Trump’s executive order. This is now the second federal court to halt the USPS rules, which would impose new requirements on states sending ballots by mail.
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Trump's mail-in voting restrictions blocked by a second judge
A second federal judge moved to block President Donald Trump's administration from ‌implementing a new U.S. Postal Service rule that would tighten mail-in voting requirements, though theU.S. Supreme C...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If the proposed slow down in AI development by frontier labs ends up restricting access to open weight models instead of focusing on the guardrails and penalties for not keeping track of your swarm of AI agents then we’ll know this was all about their IPOs.
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I don’t want to wade too far into conspiracy territory but the pretext to this panic was an alleged unauthorized breach on Hugging Face, whose parent company is… NVIDIA. Hm.
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Learning that the first “whistleblower” who started this panic only worked at Anthropic for ~six weeks and created his socials days before he made that post. A second “whistleblower” Joe Benton left Anthropic to go work for an AI safety nonprofit that Dario Amodei partnered with days later. Lol
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Either is possible, but if I were a betting man I’d guess the closest thing to a doomsday scenario is the fact that these companies have been virtually the only growth vectors for the U.S. economy for some time and if/when a collapse comes, we’ll have to reckon with that
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Either frontier AI labs have created a doomsday scenario that we’re months away from (which they’ve been saying for years and we have little evidence of) or they’re wildly unprofitable and can no longer subsidize AI compute, which we actually have pretty good evidence of
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Top AI leaders unite to warn the technology is advancing too fast — The Washington Post
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, long at odds with each other, found common ground in calling for a slowdown in the advancement of AI amid mounting fears about its dangers.
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Nox Tenholder |🎙️🏳️‍⚧️ @noxthevox.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In other news, YouTuber Freddie Wong goes on the record offering a very different way to make an SCP movie: include the actual authors in the writing and production of the film.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
Elections are when trans people have the most leverage to ensure our voices are heard. And we're going to make them heard as Seth Moulton found out last week. We are not going back.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
And when they try to blackmail us by saying republicans would be worse, we see what trans people in the UK are going through. It's even worse than the US in many ways. So that blackmail isn't going to work. Our votes are our only leverage and with many races decided by a point or less, we matter.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
Once again this isn't like gay marriage. We're not asking for something new. We're asking not to lose rights we've had for decades. When Dems say they agree with enacting new restrictions on trans people, that's a betrayal. They are actively going out of their way to harm trans people.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
The Labour Party did this. That's why trans people are pushing back on Dems capitulating on trans issues. We have seen what happens when the liberal party abandons trans people after saying you must vote for them or it without be worse under a conservative government.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There were people actively dying in the towers that were doing bits!!
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WAYNERADIOTV @wayneradio.tv · 11/09/2026
halloween: the game may be even scarier than the movie itself... @socpens.com
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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Man your blusky guy is totally gone. Just melted his brain. Getting paid well and experiencing notoriety so he’ll never imagine his brain was melted but absolute moron over here now.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:
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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 04/06/2026
'Backrooms' director Kane Parsons isn't a fan of generative AI "If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would" "Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me"
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sailor Moon in two phases 
Top one text: AI is trash
Bottom one text : no and/but....end of sentence
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QTori 🍣 @qtori.art · 04/09/2026
I will add pressure to this by saying that any company that claims to not hold onto your personal data after verifying you? They're lying. Ive been nitro free since the first time they tried this, voice how you feel with your wallet people. Make them really feel that squeeze.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 03/09/2026
I think the most frustrating part of the pro-AI argument is the sentiment of “well it’s here to stay, so you have to learn it or get left behind”. Outside of video players which were determined by porn, most prevailing tech wins out by the consumer demand. AI is trying to work the other way around.
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Gray @grayillustrates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Suda51 and James Gunn aren't involved. JP Universe mentions using AI on their website. This is an empty shell of a sequel. Hard pass.
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Julia Van Dyke, the ðude 🏳️‍⚧️🦋 @imrustyokay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is so fucking funny, it needs alt text
A meme featuring "Our Blessed Blue" vs "Their Barbarous Red", featuring "Our Trained Sniper", "Our Cunning Engineer", "Our Battle-hardended Medic:, "Our Stoic Heavy", "Our Stoic Heavy", "Our Magnificent Demoman", "Our American Soldier", "Our Intrepid Scout" and "Our Pyro", vs "Their Crazed Gunman", "Their Grease Monkey", "Their Incompetent Doctor", "Their Fat Bald Bastard", "Their Drunken Wretch", "Their Canadian Hippie" "Their Tiny Baby Man" and "Their Pyro". The Red Side also has "Our Undetectable Spy".
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onion person @junlper.beer · 31/08/2026
it’s bad faith weaponization of tragedies is the reason why no one cares about 9/11 anymore
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
1. The Main Switch This is the main setting Google shows you, but it's not the only one. Gmail (Desktop): ⚙️ Settings → See all settings → Smart features and personalization → Uncheck "Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet" → Save Changes.
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
‘Coyote vs. Acme’ over-performed at the box office by opening with $15.5M • Film was tracking for a $12-$14M debut • Biggest opening for Ketchup Entertainment • Third biggest opening for Looney Tunes film
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
owner even lost in federal court trying to force access through Yosemite. Now suddenly it’s back on the table. Our national parks are not supposed to be carved up to make private developments more valuable. Yosemite belongs to all of us!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Trump administration is considering giving a private developer access to land inside Yosemite National Park so they can build a road to an 83-acre property they want to develop right outside the park. The National Park Service already rejected the same request years ago, and the previous
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