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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

So, how do we coordinate a mass account deletion? Like... I am rapidly losing any interest in being here. I will probably leave soon, and will definitely do so if it's part of mass action.

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/12/2024

I can do this

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

There are no heroes in the face of pain.

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 10/12/2024

Remember this. And tell other people. Don’t trust cops applies to not believing they will give you lots of money for information.

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I read a post hypothesing BlueSky is keeping a certain asshole "journalist" on the platform for fear of legal retribution. This scans. But so does making sure we keep the pressure on to make sure said "journalist" is kept on a tight fucking leash. (Which it looks like he might already be breaking)

Goose meme - WHAT KIND OF JOURNALISM, MOTHER FUCKER?

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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

more of this energy please

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ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

kinda feel like the Bsky team won't listen to trans users about this, so I'll say it as a Cis Person: I don't want Jesse Singal on here spreading his lying hateful "just asking questions" bullshit. he is not acting in good faith, he causes active harm, and he adds nothing worthwhile to this platform

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

what a great way to start the weekend 🥰🏳️‍⚧️💖🏳️‍⚧️

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

So much of parenting is just straight up bullying, echoed endlessly across the generations. A Mark of Cain, ripping across all of us, never dwindling, never diminishing. And we will never be better until the cycle is broken completely. We have only begun this work in the last 70 or so years.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is truly the best legal advice we can give.

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Jon @phyrkrakr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Rule #1 remains "don't talk to the cops", but I might have to amend rule #2 to say "anything you say online is being said to the cops"

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A year ago they were sued for using AI to deny elder care claims in spite of knowing it had a 90 percent error rate and that “only about 0.2 percent of policyholders will appeal their denied claims.” The suit is ongoing. The original clients are dead. www.newsweek.com/united-healt...

newsweek.com

A year before CEO shooting, lawsuit alleged UHC used AI to deny coverage

The lawsuit accuses UnitedHealthcare of using artificial intelligence to deny coverage to elderly patients.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 05/12/2024

This announcement got reversed almost instantly after a health insurance CEO got murdered on the street lmao

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em | שמחה @emgras.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Rudolf Rocker's Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory & Practice: Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"UnitedHealthcare makes its money by denying necessary care to people who need. Brian Thompson was a mass murderer. He killed adults, he killed children. He murdered them with spreadsheets and contracts. He did it for money. Thompson was...a very well paid killer." Via @matthewcort.land

Chart showing "Claim Denial Rates" of insurance companies, with United Healthcare the highest.

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Wild Geerters @steinkobbe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else

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Nice Dude (sincere) @sortabad.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

for context NYC offered a $10k reward for any critical information about the homocide which is about the cost of a single 15 minute ambulance ride after UnitedHealthcare denies coverage bc the EMTs responding to the call were out of network

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Misogyny and bigotry go hand in hand - because Bigotry is hard. It tends to crumble when you meet people from the out group and find them relatable. Misogyny lets you practice holding on to bigotry in the face of someone you see every day - your mother, sister, or aunt. Misogyny is practice.

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Read this. Then read it again. It's so good to hear someone I don't know capture my feelings so well.

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

OMFG. It's worse then I thought.

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

23 years ago, Enron declared bankruptcy. It was a huge story, spawning reams and reams of exhaustive coverage. It seems so quaint now. Since that one company collapsed due to fraud and mismanagement, we've since seen the *entire economy* do the same thing. We normalized *Enron*.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

one of the things i learned to hate most, living in ukraine just before the maidan revolution... it was everywhere, from the slick presidential helipads while people didn't have money for bread, to the bribes you had to pay to slick every administrative state interaction... it is so, so corrosive

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I'm not particularly superstitious, but I do hold on to this one irrationality: the burning of the goat DOES matter. My argument is that it hasn't burned for years now and shit keeps getting steadily worse. It was eaten by crows last year, but clearly that wasn't good enough.

A straw goat several meters tall, surrounded by a wooden fence.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If they win, they’d better put this guy on the money and the stamps.

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Yup! Stop sharing this asshole to dunk on him. Let the algorithm forget he exists. Don't waste your precious time giving energy to internet hate merchants.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The last year should have taught very well that liberals, progressives, and the left are not immune to misinformation. And if you think you’re immune, you are by definition more susceptible.

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I notice an uptick in "lol, look at this awful opinion" re-tweeeting today. Stop that. It makes shitty opinions go further, and tells Bluesky to show you more stupid shit. Do you want X? Because this is how you get X.

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Translation: The puritans were a religious sect that caused a civil war. They weren't persecuted for their beliefs, seeking religious freedom. They were escaping consequences for trying to create an extremist theocracy thru blood and violence.

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I am pretty convinced that the current ad market is rife with scammers making ads, and then different scammers *engaging with ads* to manipulate profits. I have no evidence for this, beyond a gut hunch that things don't get so profoundly fucked up and ineffective without some kind of feedback loop.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

american schools: on the first thanksgiving, the pilgrims and native americans shared dinner to celebrate their peaceful coexistence in the new world 😊 me: that sounds nice! what happened next? american schools: uhhhhhhh. dessert

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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 27/11/2024

Reformatting this whole thing. Blocklist for Hugging Face, the AI company that's proudly stealing your tweets

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It's important to note how *inadequate* a response this is. Meta seems to think the threat is contained to Threads, and not all social media. But I predominantly "scroll" here now. My Facebook engagement is waaaaay down as a direct result of BlueSky being so much better for scrolling.

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 25/11/2024

There is no "never asked for help" award, we need to stop nominating ourselves for it

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 24/11/2024

I keep saying this: far-right chuds want your *audience*. When you quote dunk some wanker with 10 followers, you're not owning them. You're *helping* them.

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Strange Shores @strangeshores.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Do blocklists update who I've got blocked if the person who made theist changes it? Or do I simply block everyone who is on that list, and move on?

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Coach Mustard (aka velospence) @velospence.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

man, Carl Sagan really had our number.

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few…

and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true…

we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition…

… but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

-carl sagan

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