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Violet 🍉 @permanentviolet.bsky.social · 3h

aka how twitch censors & discriminates against streamers

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Kara Corvis @karacorvis.vtubers.social · 26/09/2026

TLDR: Game is made by nazis

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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 26/09/2026

People’s ability to ignore the GenAI use by the devs because it’s a “good game” is going to become a trend isn’t it? Good game? Ah I’m having so much fun, this is great! Bad game? Oh I’m mad about the AI now!

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Violet 🍉 @permanentviolet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my toxic trait is thinking i have time to reread east of eden before october 1st

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it's gonna get hacked in like 3 days and everyone's verification materials that discord insists they don't keep is gonna get leaked. I fear that even if we had alternatives, nobody would move. Maybe if it screws enough people, maybe? everyone's so baked into this service though

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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Disable gambling ads:

Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Sponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Manage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this

special reward available for fanduel in discord, because what discord needed was ads for predatory online gambling, fuck discord and everyone that works in their company leadership

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

if you want shit to get better you HAVE to look for opportunities to leverage what little power you have towards that goal. you must. the world will not improve if people simply sigh and do nothing.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the most depressing person to argue with about AI is the doomer types who're like "AI is bad and ruining everything but also it's never going away so there's no point in getting upset when ppl use it". Like.... you have pre-emptively chosen to be a person who will not fight for a better world

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/09/2026

Rachel is in need of support and really gave her whole heart to paying people’s rent this year, so let’s make sure we take care of her, please!

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026

Nothing will ever be enough for these people.

Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/09/2026

this bigot is a republican

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Violet 🍉 @permanentviolet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh thank god. now i'm actually interested in this game

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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Dana Nightingale 🏳️‍⚧️ @danaenight.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

and so many men who know who the guilty parties are and would suffer no personal cost for calling it out remain silent or even join in the accolades because "it can't have been that bad" or "I'm sure he's changed" or "what if I'm guilty of the same thing? Better keep quiet"

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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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

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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

bootlicking will not save you.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 18/09/2026

Fortnite is selling your favorite characters back to you as husks aftermath.site/fortnite-kingd...

the Don Draper presentation meme with Kingdom Hearts characters in Fortnite on the easel

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"No government will ever care about you except for your ability to do work. Talk to your neighbours, care for each other" Spotted in Somerset, UK

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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if the game industry is going to keep using the slop machine to make slop for us, I will simply cease buying games. I have a library of non-slopmade games stretching back decades.

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matchstick 🧶 Wishlist Meander @matchstick345.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Meander does not use AI of any kind. I did not use AI for art. I had no art skills at the beginning of this project and every failed attempt was documented here. I did not use AI for code. I did not use it for anything else. Seems like a good time to clarify. #indie #gamedev

Screenshot of bluesky trending topics. Number 2 says "video game industry adopts AI tools."

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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is why this whole concert tour drama is really important. It's put a massive spotlight on the suppression tactics that have been going on for a while at this point and showing the flowchart they all abide by. Being moderate gets you nazi fans! Weird!! How interesting! What does that say

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Violet 🍉 @permanentviolet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

had zero interest in this game until now

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In good news, I’m now a published poet for a cause I couldn’t be more proud of — a charity anthology, with contributions from the most incredible swath of Native artists today 🪶 It releases this week, all proceeds going to Not Our Native Daughters. Nia:wen to the team at @madcavestudios.com!

NIN>
NOT OUK NATIVE DAUGHTERS
YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND
A CHARITY COMIC FOR INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
AN ANTHOLOGY TO RAISE FUNDS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, CREATED BY INDIGENOUS CONTRIBUTORS
FEATURING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM:
JIM TERRY • GORD HILL • CHAG LOWRY • WESHOYOT ALVITRE • SHAUNNA OTEKA MCCOVEY DAVID MACK • KELLY LYNNE D'ANGELO • STEPH LITTLEBIRD • ARIHHONNI (HONNI) CANNON
CLAY DAVID • MAYA MCKIBBIN • JACKIE FAWN • MICHAEL SHEYASHE • SHAUN BEYALE
ROY BONEY • GENE JIMENEZ • JON PROUDSTAR
100% OF PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO NOT OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2026

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

look lads. the newswire burst that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma spends "hours" responding to CS tickets - whether true or not - is low hanging corporate propaganda. throw that shit in the trash. it's an insult to your intelligence.

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Violet 🍉 @permanentviolet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

gamers, let this inspire you. show solidarity (for literally anything at this point) and stop supporting xbox

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

seeing all these artists sacrifice money for what they believe in is really quite moving.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:

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No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com · 15/09/2026

We're at 3,159 individual signatures on our pledge to boycott Xbox in solidarity with Palestine. Do you think you can help us get to 5,000 pledges by the end of the year? Message your friends, family, Discord community, online gamer friends - everyone you can think of! ❤️🖤🤍💚

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Jon Juarez @harriorrihar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some "recent" drawings:

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🍂 Buff 🍂 @guaranteedcrits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

it would be nice if more rich people with huge platforms werent conveniently always dead silent on human rights

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Very rare to see someone like this with principles

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I didn't need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to
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Free Palestine.
But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I've ever been on.

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Israel’s systematic starvation of Palestinians in Gaza is causing a generation of children with stunted physical growth and development. “What we fear is that we are facing the targeting of an entire generation.”

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Israel starved Gaza. Now doctors fear it has permanently damaged a generation.

In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel’s engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones, an...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Ms. Rachel post:
"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026

There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded in poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."

recordsofenemysurveillance.com

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the moon report 🌕 @seachanger.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

On May 1, 1886, after two years of planning by organized labor, 340,000 Americans walked off the job to demand an 8 hr work day. A few days later, cops shot at picketers, and on May 4th, when people protested, a deadly bomb was pinned on organizers at Haymarket Square. apwu.org/news/labor-h...

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May Day: Fighting for the Eight-Hour Day | American Postal Workers Union

Chicago in the 1880s was a hotbed of labor organizing. Fed up with the status quo, where industrial workers toiled long hours in squalid conditions, the International Working People’s Association form...

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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The 40 hour work week. Compensation for overtime. The right to organize and strike. These were not inherent rights given to all in the US and Canada. They were fought for by the courageous workers who came before us. On Labor Day, we remember how far we've come, as well as our fight left ahead.

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