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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I swapped over from Spectrum to a local ISP. Had everything in motion and the Internet set up, just needed to cancel Spectrum's service. I was on the phone with them for 40 minutes while they tried desperately to keep me as a customer. Still didn't cancel service. Got charged another month.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Strange, it may seem, but they give ball players real peculiar names these days.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...
thestranger.com
Forced Out: The Electrical Engineer
Anti-Trans Laws in Florida Forced a Woman to Quit Her Dream Job with NASA
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Oh, and signatures aren't even supposed to be in plain cursive. That is how your identity gets stolen because that is very easy to replicate.
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
My third grade taught us how to read and write cursive. I found out when I was in middle school that I was the last class to get to learn. The only reason I have ever needed to write a signature is for important documents and the one check that I might need to write every year. That is it.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28
a young, brown-haired, clean-shaven american man in a green army uniform. he looks stern.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
In two minutes this doctor explains why anti-trans hysteria is completely unscientific and based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how transitioning facilitated through the medical system actually works
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I did NOT read that as Gridlock at first
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Sorry, couldn't help it
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🙂
ICE slipping on ice
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M.A.D @m-a-d-31.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
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📺Hellaphim🦌 Undernegotiated BDSM @hellaphim.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The numbers aren't even fucking real; you are intentionally being played by botnets that Twitter itself maintains for false engagement. This has been verified multiple times. It's a fake social media site run by nazis that you are giving your artwork, fandom and writing to support. Cut the cord.
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This but 5s are also an *even* number
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I still have my StreamADay 500 shirt. I don't wear it anymore as it is getting worn out. Thank you for being such a cool dude through all these years and hopefully for many more to come
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/11/2025
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters”

The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist.

But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building.

I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
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wolfgun @wolfgun.space · 26/11/2025
discrepancies 1/3
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wolfgun @wolfgun.space · 26/11/2025
discrepancies 2/3
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wolfgun @wolfgun.space · 26/11/2025
discrepancies 3/3
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
oh man, oh god, oh man, oh god oh man
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Ed @ed3d.net · 02/11/2025
Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself. Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org
I'm supporting Feeding America!
To feed America’s hungry through food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
w o l f g u n is a perfect nesting ground for wasps
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
In all seriousness, it floors me to know that some people just refuse to accept any change whatsoever.
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Did they really name an air base after a band? That's so cool!
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 06/10/2025
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
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From Create Mode 
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Trump is saying if Democrats don't bend the knee and let him take health care away from millions, he's just going to turn around and inflict pain by firing American workers and withholding funding from our communities. That’s not governing. That’s a wannabe king taking hostages.
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"Logistics are gay"... Are we taking pointers from Russia?
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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The Weeping Somnambulist @pigeon75.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Coestar @coestar.live · 12/09/2025
on this day of deservance, fitting that we half-masted flags for a guy whose only achievement was twelve years of broadcasting bigotry
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Too bad the gif didn't work. You get the idea though
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Very strong
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
There must be records of old facebook memes in there that date back decades
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wolfgun @wolfgun.space · 24/07/2025
Interesting thing to ponder — wolfgun.bandcamp.com/track/set-yo...
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Set Yourself On Fire, by Wolfgun
from the album PROJECTIONS: THE OST
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Los Campesinos! @loscampesinos.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
In April we declined an offer of $60,000 to license a song of ours to an Airbnb commercial. Airbnb continues to make money from stolen Palestinian land and contributes to the housing crisis worldwide. We do not wish to promote or profit from this. Free Palestine. Eat the Rich.
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Good, it was all way too toxic. Really made it unfun.
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Still playing the silly Star Trek game? Have the politics of the community gotten any better?
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
RFK's brain worm wanted a change of pace so it moved heads.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Nydia Velázquez just introduced BOMBSHELL legislation to UNMASK ICE and stop agents from hiding behind masks: “You can’t hold someone accountable if you don’t know who they are. This is not Russia…Take the masks off.” Justice lives in the light!
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Verutrix @verutrix.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Love to see a deleeted fleet. They must have had such a wildly rediculous take that many people just couldn't let that stand.
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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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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/06/2025
Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025
trvr.org
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
this 48-second video of a protest in ontario, california is top-tier storytelling 🤌🏽🤌🏽
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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 09/06/2025
New Crow Time update [1/3]
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