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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 3h

Just imagine how different things would be if we all had access to the same healthcare system that's keeping Mitch McConnell alive

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Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 03/03/2026

When critics say ai is being forced upon us because these people miss slavery, that’s not hyperbolic. AI is being used to extract your labor for no compensation, without consent and apparently even death isn’t a reason to stop.

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House House @househouse.com · 11h

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 20h

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17h

I don't have anything polite to say

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p4riah @p4riah.bsky.social · 18h

and im not talking in abstract. advertising is direct violence to body and mind. its assault and battery physiologically. its also deliberate mental torture. it is perfectly legal to defend yourself against that

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p4riah @p4riah.bsky.social · 18h

I've been saying it for years before ai, advertising is violence and abuse. and especially nowadays, those most vulnerable to these types of predation would, in my opinion, be justified to use all means in self defense

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19h

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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War-Bird: CEO of Freedom @warbirdactual.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Reminder this also applies to Scott Cawthon and Five Nights at Freddy’s.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22h

This is such important work, and the thing to keep in mind is that when AI people tell you that games will be personalized for you, this is the kind of thing they are more likely to mean.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Actual Cancel Culture of a significant cultural figure [unlike where far right extremists engage in hate speech & are held accountable]. It’s extremism like this, & the disinterest of the current UK Labour govt in stopping the shift to the far right, that’s deeply worrying.

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p4riah @p4riah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

any country where cops carry guns, really

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Throakensef @briggyp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Y’all I am tired of locking in. Lock me tf out, actually.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026

Also can’t discount just straight up shared bigotry across the economic political spectrum too.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026

..and it demonstrates their open minded and well placed faith in such in contrast to the imagined stubbornness of Black people who aren’t swayed by these displays

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026

This redemption arc people desperately craves allows them to believe in the general innocence and reasonable nature of every white person even those who’ve caused a great deal of harm…

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026

It’s a politics of white reconciliation premised on anti-Blackness.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Disclosure: I'm on the list. Blocked three minutes after one quote post saying he'd outsourced his judgement to a bot. My only direct contact with him all year. Meanwhile 168 accounts that sent him properly harsh posts were left alone. "Behaviour, not identity" 🥲

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is the man who decides how automated moderation treats trans people across this whole platform. On his own feed, with full control and 1,271 chances, this is what he built. Either he called it identity-blind and never checked, or he checked and shipped it anyway.

Grid where each small square is one of 1,678 accounts that replied to or quoted him, filled if blocked, grouped by the harshest post they sent. In every group the trans-identified row is more filled than the row for everyone else: 38% vs 16% for very mild, 47% vs 34% for mild, 71% vs 46% for moderate, 77% vs 59% for harsh.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Maybe trans people were just ruder to him." Fair. So I scored every reply and quote. Very mild posts: 16% of everyone else blocked, 38% of trans people. Harsh posts: 59% vs 77%. Same words, different outcome, at every level.

Chart of the share of accounts blocked, by the harshest post they sent him, comparing accounts whose bio says trans with everyone else. Very mild: 38% vs 16%. Mild: 47% vs 34%. Moderate: 71% vs 46%. Harsh: 77% vs 59%. All levels: 58% vs 32%. Caption: across 1,678 accounts, a trans bio goes with 2.5 times the odds of being blocked after accounting for harshness, plausible range 1.6 to 3.7.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Who is on it? 12.3% of the blocked say they're trans in their bio. Among people who talked to him in the same weeks and were left alone: 6.7%. That's a floor, as most of us don't put it in a bio.

Bar chart of the share of accounts whose bio says they are trans, in words. Blocked accounts: 12.3% of 1,157. Not blocked, interacted since 15 September: 6.7% of 719. Not blocked, interacted since January: 4.8% of 1,114. Caption: that is 1.8 times the rate.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Entirely opt-in", he says. You get blocked for how you talk to him. 46% of the people on that list had never replied to him, quoted him or mentioned him this year. They didn't opt into anything. They were found.

Four stacked bars showing what each blocked account had done before the block. First load, 342 accounts: 283 had replied to, quoted or mentioned him. Second load, 319: 182 had, 60 only used his name, 72 had no contact. Third load, 426: only 71 had, 210 only used his name, 91 had no contact, 54 unreadable. Blocked one at a time, 184: 147 had.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And most of it wasn't the bot. 1,087 of those blocks landed in three bulk loads on the morning of 30 Sept, before he even announced it. He calls that "a seed set of recent abuse". That list was his. Somebody chose it, and it's where the gap is widest: 2.8×.

Line chart of the running total of accounts blocked on 30 September, 06:00 to 15:00 UTC. The line is flat, then jumps three times: plus 342 at 08:23, plus 319 at 08:54 and plus 426 at 12:07, reaching over 1,100. A dashed line marks the public announcement at 12:33, after all three jumps.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety handed his block list to a bot. 1,271 people blocked in eleven days. He says it never looks at who you are. Blocks are public, so I checked. Trans people were blocked at 2.5× the odds of everyone else, for posts of the same harshness. 🧵

Title card reading "Who the autoblocker blocked". Three figures: 1,271 accounts blocked in eleven days, against twelve in the two years before. 46% of the readable bulk-loaded accounts had never replied to, quoted or mentioned him this year. 2.5× the odds of being blocked for a trans-identified account, against others who wrote equally harsh posts. Below, a quote from Aaron Rodericks, 1 Oct 2026: "These do not factor in your bio or your identity. I have zero clue who you are."

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breadedhamster.bsky.social @breadedhamster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We're gonna see shit in the next few decades that will make the great depression look pleasant in comparison. But there's not gonna be a new deal to bail us out because the bourgeoisie are too stupid to offer any concessions, even to save their own hides. You might have to literally eat the rich.

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breadedhamster.bsky.social @breadedhamster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's why they panicked when Mamdani opened those city-run grocery stores. The idea of poor people given any relief fills capitalists with severe anxiety. Actual demon psychology.

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breadedhamster.bsky.social @breadedhamster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They tell you "just eat rice and beans!" for now, but soon that's gonna turn into "just eat wild dandelions you dirty entitled poors!" when rice and beans becomes too expensive. Anything but a living wage or giving people food stamps.

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breadedhamster.bsky.social @breadedhamster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Economy so bad that food once viewed as exclusively for poor people is now too expensive for them and gets them labelled as "living beyond their means". I'm sorry but if fast food, stuff literally designed to be cheap and plentiful, is considered a luxury, then this is a failed state.

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p4riah @p4riah.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

why is it that every single meme compilation video on the internet is like, 21 minutes of hee hee haa haa and then at 17:56 its just 7 seconds of 'lol im a nazi'

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🏳️‍⚧️ Decomposing Princess Jackie @jackiesupernova.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is why you absolutely should not be using the cloud models. We don't have the infrastructure to power them cleanly. Powering Claude and ChatGPT is all incremental pollution, and for what? What have we gained?

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

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Munah @heathenqueen.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

When you understand that extrajudicial killings by police are actual executions you know this headline is a lie.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“This is why the left never wins” no it’s because the game was built by and for fascists!!! Shut up and figure out how to be helpful!

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The left isn’t weak because of infighting. The left is weak because every facet of our society and economy is geared to the benefit of fascism and white supremacy and it is the challenge of multiple lifetimes to dismantle all of that.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If your solidarity argument is “ oh my God can you believe they are treating me like Black people” You need to go back and consider what you saying

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p4riah @p4riah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

we keep going 'lets grassroots change social culture until a magical tipping point where ppl change things' & they take the things we build to do that, & use them to reinforce & strengthen everything we oppose we need to do both at the same time. prep culture while actively abolishing the top

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p4riah @p4riah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

srsly. we cant reclaim tech as tools for the ppl, or open source reform ourselves out of this. they take anything we build, corrupt it, co-opt it, make it disrupt everything even further im starting to believe bottom-up reform doesnt work until we do top-down abolition first for everything

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