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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.

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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

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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:

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.

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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

New awareness campaign

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Kastor @kastor.sh · 31/10/2025

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 28/10/2025

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

newsweek.com

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Following Apple’s removal of ICEBlock, both Google and Apple have removed a similar app for reporting ICE raids called Red Dot. Google states it removed the app for targeting a vulnerable group that is at risk of violence — ICE agents.

404media.co

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Choose your online engagement.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

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Jess/Fawn (they/them) 🍉 @faunandgames.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Duolingo's CEO has been vocal about replacing human staff with trash AI that's more likely to get translations wrong and make your learning subpar. Stop using Duolingo. Uninstall it. Leave comments and reviews that you'll come back once they put people first again.

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Camp @campfireharve.st · 11/07/2025

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!"

This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows:

Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity.

When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers.

Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 21/06/2025

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

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Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu

From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's Al assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet.

Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off

They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it.

Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others

Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

Reporter: How did the Israelis treat you, we saw them giving sandwiches?
Greta Thunberg: They probably have posted lots of PR stunts, they did an illegal act by kidnapping us in international waters but that’s not the real story here. The real story is the genocide in Gaza and systematic starvation.
Reporter: Are you worried about the others?
Greta: Yes…I’m calling for everyone who can to mobilize to demand their immediate release and, of course, to demand not only humanitarian aid being let into Gaza but also a ceasefire and most importantly an end to the occupation, an end to the systemic oppression and violence that Palestinians are facing on an everyday basis.
Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”

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Gay Breakfast @ Nekocon @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Happy *quiet, chill* Pride.

The chill otter is laying down next to a phone with rainbow beams fanning out of it. They look at the phone and see it says June 1st, and after a brief contemplation, they snuggle up under a progress pride blanket, phone plugged in farther away. It reads “It’s ok if you are tired. Happy *quiet, chill* Pride.”

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Brazil has presidential elections next year and Google & Meta are openly sponsoring events of Bolsonaro and the far right. I fear this sort of thing will only grow stronger. There's no possibility of sovereignty & self-determination within an Internet dominated by billionaires & US companies.

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Notion is forcing you to pay more to support the crushing cost of genAI you didn’t ask for, now so is Adobe - more and more, companies are going to have to make someone pay for all this snake oil they bought… and it’s not going to be them.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This is so far over the line it’s disorienting.

Microsoft has disabled the ICC prosecutor’s email account.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org

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Noah🐞 @xandymars.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Here are options to use instead of Google: Chrome > Brave browser / Mozilla fox Google (search) > Ecosia / Brave / duck duck go Gmail > proton mail / tuta Docs > proton / cryptad / only office Calendar > timetree / fossify / proton Data is the new oil, don’t give them your data.

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 10/02/2025

Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including: • Pride Month • Black History Month • Holocaust Remembrance Day • Jewish Heritage • Hispanic Heritage • Indigenous People Month

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chervil @doginacafe.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

youtu.be/ilx1RWgF5j8?... my short film RING RACE! is now available to watch on YouTube!!! please consider checking it out!! :D

youtu.be

RING RACE! | Animated Short Film

YouTube video by chervil

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Akatan 🔜EF @akatan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

About that summer (12/?)

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MINTCHOC @mintchocochips.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Sorry i often forget to post here i'm just not used to it

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siseliestudio @siseliestudio.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I wanted to create a list of lovely artists I would recommend following, since they create cute, cozy, incredible and/or whimsical art 🧡 I am still in the process of adding people as I go, but could not wait to share! ✨️ go.bsky.app/KnP2LFM

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Marrie Atelier ✩ @marrieatelier.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Bom dia gente! Como nao consegui incluir todo mundo na primeira lista , fiz uma outra lista de artistas furries BR! Comentem se quiserem ser adicionados! go.bsky.app/2H5Fm44

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Marrie Atelier ✩ @marrieatelier.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

go.bsky.app/FLkxXVn Lista completa de artistas furries brasileiros ! (A lista fechou pois o máximo é 150 ) Dá sub ou compartilha <3

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MILESMEELEZZ 🐻 @milesmeelezz.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

With all of us coming here to Bluesky, we are all essentially hitting a big reset button. Twitter promoted a lot of toxic unhealthy traits in the pursuit for clout thanks to its awful algorithm. Here, those toxic fucks don't have an algorithm to push their bullshit. This is a huge chance for us.

An info-board summarising the difference between Twitter/X and Bluesky, and the potential advantages that come with the latter.

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Krystara⁷ @krystara.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Here's why we say to block instead of sharing bad actors here. The important part is that they can't even mention you so no dog piling easily. And also a block removes them from the thread. It keeps upsetting things from spreading.

docs.bsky.app

Blocking users | Bluesky

Blocking a user prevents interaction and hides the user from the client experience. Blocked accounts will not be able to like, reply, mention, or follow you. Their posts, replies, and profile in searc...

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