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Threk

@threk.bsky.social
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Roamer of teh intarwebs. Loyal Minion to @overlairbee.bsky.social . Honorary Cosmian Spoon Saver for @claracosmia.bsky.social . (Straight, White, Male, Cis, Neurodivergent, He/Him)

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silverbeard2026 @silverbeard2026.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FYI
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wooot Stardew!
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greytdog @greytdog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The GOP has always cheated...and harmed Americans in order to gain and hold power.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2026
‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Now why is it not opt-in?” said Minton. “That’s what everybody here is spamming in chat. I get it. ‘Let me opt in versus making me opt out.’ There’s an honest answer, and I think most of you can probably appreciate this: If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in. That’s honestly the answer.”

This was followed by a torrent of all-caps chat responses that included “THEN DON’T ROLL IT OUT,” “SO WHY EVEN DO IT,” and “IF NO ONE WOULD OPT IN THAT MEANS NO ONE WANTS IT.”
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JoanKay @joankay.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?
The Theatrical Poster for "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Please check the air quality before exercising outside (and possibly even inside). I saw several joggers today out during what I understand to be dangerous air quality levels for that activity. I'm not a doctor, so if you quite fairly think I could be full of nonsense, please look it up yourself ☝️🧐
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica. 
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica. 
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
‪If you see this, post an Archer.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/07/2026
A Police Executive Research Forum report from 2014 showed that CBP officers were purposely placing themselves in front of moving vehicles, and then shooting at them. This isn’t something that can be reformed. Abolish ICE. www.npr.org/sections/the...
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Border Patrol Releases New Use-Of-Force Guidelines, Critical Report
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske said the release was a push for more transparency. The agency had previously declined to make changes recommended by the panel.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 07/07/2026
Doctor: "Are you sexually active?" Guy: "Well, I'm an alpha male and have a podcast about masculinity." Doctor: "A simple "no" would've worked."
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Evil isn't a mental illness. These people have made choices to be cruel.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Big Tech is organized crime. Most people won’t engage with that statement. They don’t want to confront what it means — how huge the problem is and how hard it will be to fix. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s true. Big Tech is organized crime.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/06/2026
Congress is considering a bill that would stifle free speech online and leave all of us vulnerable to online surveillance. Tell your representative: Censorship doesn’t keep us safe.
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Censorship Does Not Keep Kids Safe
KOSA is an alarming bill that would enable censorship and violate young people’s First Amendment right to freely access information. We must call on Congress to act now and protect free speech online.
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Real heroes do exist.
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I know I just posted about this, but I thought this response was even funnier.
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Mike Donachie @mikedonachie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Even Gail left Twitter. There was a time that following her there was my main reason to stay, but I’m done now, too. You should be done too. Nazis are evil.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ethics
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Naked News @nakednews.com · 18/06/2026
The Naked Nerd is BACK! The long awaited Naked Nerd episode with Kat Curtis is an absolute MUST-SEE for all lovers of nerd culture, gaming, or NUDITY! ➡️ www.nakednews.com/home?_utm=so...
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
SNAP helped 42 million people afford groceries each month in 2024. They each got about $6 a day. Take a look at this economy. Does it really make sense that we just took $6 a day away from 3.5 million people to give billionaires more tax breaks?
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Nerdy Nightly @nerdynightly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
SO THRILLED to share this first look at #StudentsOfStrixhaven! Our new D&D 5.5 Actual Play will explore the planes of @magic.wizards.com and travel the Omenpaths with my incredible players @claruspolaris.bsky.social @luastardust.com and @latinosagainstss.bsky.social youtu.be/fC-IDDtev5U
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Claes Holtzmann @claeshs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
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Devil's Panties @thedevilspanties.com · 08/06/2026
Prayers to Trump thedevilspanties.com/archives/17068 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/jenniebreeden
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Picking a favorite is tough. F.A.S.A.'s Star Trek, Shadowrun, and G.U.R.P.S. all come to mind, but in this moment I'm feeling nostalgia for T.S.R.'s Marvel Superheroes www.classicmarvelforever.com/cms/ Which I played in the early 90s when I was still actively collecting comics.
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Classic Marvel Forever - MSH Classic RPG | Home Page
An almost-complete MSH RPG resource, containing a plethora of gaming material for a Classic Marvel campaign, including a heap of character profiles, custom rules, a lively message board, links, and mu...
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
31% of Democrats polled said being transgender is "morally wrong". Five years ago it would have been a fraction of that. The propaganda is working, the silence from Democrats is deafening, & all of this is why every step backward can't go ignored for even a moment. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...
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U.S. Support for LGBTQ+ Issues Remains Down From Peak
Since 2021, fewer Americans have said that gay or lesbian relations and changing one's gender are morally acceptable and have favored legal same-sex marriage.
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Ceci Lia💘 RETIRED @heyimc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
** To ensure the safety of sex workers and to prevent violence and exploitation, they must be able to perform their work within a legal and safe framework!
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erin plasma @plasmasword.blacksky.app · 02/06/2026
at this point this is a straight up coup. this is the tech feudalist sector robbing everybody of a future. all of that, that could be jobs for your community, fixing your roads, giving your kids food, healthcare, building schools, instead going to the f'in palantir surveillance & genAI fiefdom
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It's good to see Bluesky can listen. Labeling people was never the answer. (Honestly I think this is just a manufactured problem to try and control people that don't fit certain norms) Bluesky's current system is adequate.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 02/06/2026
THERE ARE NO TRANSPHOBES WITH HONOR. NO TRANSPHOBE WILL SEE THE GATES OF STO’VO’KOR.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/05/2026
“The open internet as we know it allows people to access information anonymously, privately, and securely,” EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social told @pcmag.com. “It’s in danger by lawmakers who have good intentions but are writing broad laws.” www.pcmag.com/explainers/...
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Your Computer May Soon Require an Age Check. And It Might Not Take ‘No’ for an Answer
Age verification laws are moving beyond porn sites and social media. Soon, your operating system could be required to know how old you are.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is the standard tech playbook. Fire the engineers who know how the system works, fire the ones organizing labor, hope nothing catastrophic breaks before you can ship something splashy. Twitter did it.
Meta did it. Salesforce did it. Google did it.
We have all seen this movie.
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It's great that we're arresting SOME of the people involved in this, but why aren't we also arresting the people that stole content to train the LLMs to make these crimes possible? This is only dealing with half of the problem.
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The Reel Jon 🦌🎬🇵🇸🇸🇩🇸🇸🇺🇦 @thereeljon.cryptoanarchy.network · 20/05/2026
So in the wake of Google's full AI embrace on the search end, they've allowed Gemini to create Shorts from other people's videos, both horizontal and vertical. Here's how to disallow your videos from being used for it (for now) #YouTube #VSky #FuckAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3c8...
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Block All Remixes on Your YouTube Channel Fast!
YouTube video by Marcus Glass
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20/05/2026
When security agencies harm rights in the name of "protection," they become the threat. Civil society, legal community, activists, oversight bodies: we must ramp up the fight against normalized surveillance abuses. EFF’s new guide is here to help. Join us. eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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We Must Not Normalize Digital Surveillance Abuses. EFF’s New Guide
Poor accountability, feeble control mechanisms, and insufficient legal frameworks have led to systematic human rights violations in the Americas, with no consistent remedy or reparation to victims.
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We need Dems who will push the overton window on economics back to where it was when the U.S. economy actually produced a decent quality of life for everyone. Not "Centrists" who just Kowtow to the billionaires who just wreck things.
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Typical hypocrisy of the anti-sex-work crowd. It's all about the power to control and profit off the porn while denying control and profit to the creators. (In the case of AI porn the "training data" is the creator not the LLM or the prompt. The AI is just a tool to steal control)
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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I am not any kind of fundamentalist, and anyone can choose to celebrate how they want, but in my household we're Orthodox (May 25th) not Reform (May 4th.) Have a great holiday, however you celebrate!
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han solo and chewbacca are standing next to each other in front of a crowd
Alt: Han Solo winks.
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli
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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Please leave Substack.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...
The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate battle flag that belonged to the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, the flag was brought to Minnesota and exhibited at the state's capitol for several years before passing into the permanent collection of the Minnesota Historical Society after 1896 where it has remained since.
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Alex Jaffe, DC Comics Expert @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
PSA: SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN, one of the best superhero comics ever made, is FREE TO READ all this month on DC Universe Infinite.
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Superman Smashes the Klan | DC Comics Series
Explore the Superman Smashes the Klan comics series on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE, the ultimate destination to read DC Comics online | The year is 1946, and the Ku...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/04/2026
Consumer routers have had issues, but often because "manufacturers don’t issue patches or they don’t bother to notify people when their router is end of life and no longer receiving security updates,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @nytimes.com.
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The FCC Banned New Foreign-Made Wi-Fi Routers. Here’s What That Means.
Wi-Fi routers made outside the US are now banned. But you don’t need to toss yours out or buy a new one.
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Threk @threk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I've been working on computers for over 4 decades (professionally over 3), and think classrooms need to make books the default. They should only choose to use computers/tablets/etc in situations where there is a clear advantage.
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