Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Just gonna light this bag of dogshit on fire and walk away from the doorstep, but the people in media I hear saying AI has made them "more productive" appear to be producing less than ever, and worse things than ever. I wonder if they can even tell. 1265185657
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026I would also like for my siblings that live differently, more loudly, more radically than I do to have the same freedoms and rights as I should have. I am not an exception or a model tranny for cohering in the ways I do. There is and should be no “correct” way to “deserve” rights as a trans person 61222156
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886342301
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't 3371931955
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 10/08/2026Called my dad, told him I had shared this DAD: Glad you approved. I’m never sure about—I tried to hit all the points… ME: You did great. Lotta people said they wish they had a dad like you. DAD: Well, Stel, you weren’t born into money, but you were born to people who give a shit about you. Forever. 703047219
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname 6088381592
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Another study on youth transition that find that about 97% of all youth who says they're trans turn out to be. Only 1.1% who start HRT stopped it for any reason whatsoever. This is, like, the fifth youth transition study that I'm aware of, and all of their results have been identical. 192450831
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords. 613968936
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2 9437931405
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Once again, public libraries as infrastructure. We need to find them at a MINIMUM of 0.5% of the city expense budget. 4830216
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 14/07/2026If only someone other than literally every trans person on Earth had warned us! 17722
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 13/07/2026we've been tasked with finding the baddest bitches on earth to fill their meds dispenser and do basic self care are you bad enough to answer the call? weekly reminder 💊⏰ 118727
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The point of legislated dehumanization is never just the law itself but the creation of a climate in which institutions become more timid and companies more cautious. Erasure of a people under capitalism arrives first as a thousand risk calculations. 61402567
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...bangordailynews.comThese Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big TechDespite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful. 6666422477
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 05/07/2026I believe that we should all have the right to change sex, freedom from discrimination for changing sex, and access to the means of changing sex socially, bodily, and legally, without being subject to pathologizing regulatory regimes enforcing patriarchal law and mandatory heterosexuality. 101789474
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026On the fourth of July, 1980, about fifteen trans women went to one of the most upscale public swimming pools in Milan, took off their tops, and started lounging around. It was a Friday, and the height of the summer vacation, so there were plenty of families with young children around. 1/ 81505601
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will. 6731286
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)dogemperor (PLAY NEO:TWEWY, ZEPTOGRAMS) @dogemperor.bsky.social · 04/07/2026A gentle reminder that "Mount Rushmore" was carved by a KKK-associated white supremacist as a deliberate defacement of a sacred Lakota site, much as the same chud defaced Stone Mountain in Georgia to create a tribute to the Confederacy and white supremacy www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020... 1/xwashingtonpost.comThe creator of Mount Rushmore’s forgotten ties to white supremacySculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain outside Atlanta 15969414
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I’ve been out since 2012. It’s never been as difficult, as stressful, or as dangerous as it is now. Never. And as far as I can tell, we’re the only ones who even notice. 1559095
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Not gonna lie, the fact that AI data centers are being cooled while Americans die in the street from heat stoke is really pissing me off. 131541004
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/07/2026The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports. 8153281811
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War. 1713573942
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)ChocoMingo 🦩 @chocomingo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I'll say what Bluesky fails to address in v1.122 They've rolled out a new "adult content" tag applied on an entire account, hiding all their posts from users, including text posts, even if they may be SFW This update, while well-intentioned, defeats the whole purpose of the content filters system 10474714366
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/05/2026Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change. 2749411376
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...) 3230441335
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Check this shit out motherfucker [I go on a bizarre ban spree and crash my website, its not clear what kind of feature I was trying to vibecode] 111216263
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 17/05/2026There isn’t much left to say except that your children will be less well-rounded than you. Less well-read than you. Less intelligent than you. Less able to problem solve than you. Leas worldly than you. Less empathetic. Less equipped. And more helpless. For the first time in living history. 342882877
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 15/05/2026What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter. 5767201864
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 15/05/2026her name was juniper blessing. 8675171
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Open reentrenchment of white supremacy, across the South, at a staggering speed. 20458185
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)onion person @junlper.beer · 13/05/2026it makes me sad when i see trans people talk about how they hate being trans. while it's been tough and made my life harder in ways, it's also been one of the biggest blessings in my life. the perspective on life i have, people i know, and who i am are informed by me being trans 683430478
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I'm seeing a lot of hurt and fear from my trans friends on here, so let me just say: @distributeaid.org and I have your back. We're not afraid to materially support trans folks, especially in the south where most of our work happens. 218661
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/05/2026the fact that the average person just does not give a half of a shit about trans people and what is being done to us daily (and what is being threatened) is really really really starting to wear me down. just total apathy, even from the people that purport to care 31657283
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12/05/2026dear god PLEASE let this also lead to a wider acceptance that treatment needs to include *improving quality of life* and not just "how to make them have baby" 181601608
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Sen @dresdencodak.com · 11/05/2026"You're telling me you don't have alt accounts where you hate-follow people or like/repost yourself?" No, but it's probably because I'm not an insane person? 141681351
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 11/05/2026I don’t think they realize that the trans community has always been the backbone of Bluesky. We were doing super swell actually without having one overly-sensitive man in charge of this place. 611419
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/05/2026hating ai is a pro-social activity 81075247
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 09/05/20261/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count: 7343652090
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 08/05/2026bluesky banning the bot that tracks what accounts are banned is probably the most bluesky thing bluesky has ever done this is their final form 7922196
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 07/05/2026ICYMI: We have a new "AI Preferences" setting This allows you to announce to the entire ATmosphere network what you consent to regarding AI use of your public data. Other apps can see this but ~may not~ respect the settings We built this to give you a place to set these and will 100% respect them 14402153
Puzz (Cat Herder Arc) @puzzlingevidence.bsky.social · 07/05/2026At least in this hellscape we've got baby chicks. *10* hatched out of the 12 we put under our favorite broody hen. 120
Puzz (Cat Herder Arc) @puzzlingevidence.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Another reason I've been just really not here much. I don't wanna put in the work here to have it taken away by techbro bullshit yet again. 030
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Look at these fucking assholes. If anyone needs to be taken down a peg it’s whiny garbage like this who can’t handle people advocating for disability accommodations. Shut the fuck up. No offense. 44670117
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears (that we saw the head of Trust & Safety liking porn bots on his official account). It was their final, most essential command (to please stop mentioning that time that the head of Trust & Safety liked porn bots on his official account). 519945
Puzz (Cat Herder Arc) @puzzlingevidence.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Decides to check in on Bluesky for the first time in quite awhile. *OH* well then. 120
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft 8358691939
Reposted by Puzz (Cat Herder Arc)Micah @rincewind.run · 04/04/2026Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal 181650523