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Moral realism and moral anti-realism just sound like slight rotations of the same object to me. I think you could measure the distance something is from eating and shitting by the amount of jargon on a given concept's Wikipedia article. I assume these concepts share a long path from there.

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 14/10/2026

you're not going to get everyone living in their own little world of AI generated fiction and AI generated news and AI generated video games and etc because there is value in sharing experiences with other humans. there is also value in custom bespoke stuff, of course. a new equilibrium will form.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images. The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This meme... "They don't want to torture, they want to endlessly 'critique' torture." 🫠

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/10/2026

The history of software is one of feminising and devaluing women's labour as nerdy, clerical, following specifications and requirements determined by men, and then valorising a presumed male hacker figure who disrupts and manfully disregards the needs of those relying on custodial maintenance work.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

really is a motherfucker knowing that if dem leadership/seniority signaled that trans rights were worth standing up for, every single person scolding and berating about how this sacrifice just HAS to happen would 180 overnight to "we draw the line here. abandoning people in need would be cruel"

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm forever frustrated by how little frivolity and humanity we let slip into the K-12 history curriculum. We spend so much time teaching history as a struggle for survival and dominance, we treat the act of being a person and enjoying life like an afterthought. Humans did more than try to survive.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

to be neutral choices. I'll give an example that's not about the past week, and hopefully isn't therefore high emotion: alt text. If the point is an accessible site, why is it possible to upload an image without alt text? Why is it in a second interface, requiring extra steps? Why is there a /

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wait, wait, wait... Is major planet a common term in astronomy/astrophysics? If so, that fixes one half of my gripe. Pluto isn't a major planet? Works for me. I still want shoot lasers out of my eyes at "a (dwarf) planet isn't a planet" though.

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Saraarrgh Clarke @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's incredible that the standard lib line rn is that trans youth are good enough to kill and die for imperialism but not to be allowed to play sports with their friends.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 01/09/2026

it's genuinely staggering just how many people repress themselves based on the ideology that "sex is inherent, unchanging, and permanent no matter what one does". such ridiculousness that one simply wishes to take a hammer to "sex" and smash it to pieces to free all people.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The US is targeting the anarchist collective that hosts the popular Noblogs wordpress platform as terrorists. This is truly batshit (as are their various obvious lies about Rose City Antifa etc). This is a HUGE attack on basic free speech. www.state.gov/releases/off...

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Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State

Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati...

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The biggest thing that already-progressive and already-socialist, whatever, people have to understand is that this issue is not primarily a technical matter. Money has technical aspects, but it foremost is a *social* matter. The notion of money scarcity is integral to a *moral* framework.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/08/2026

Tbh I don't think people should HAVE to wear helmets, but I absolutely think people should wear helmets when they can make that choice.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Avoid using images of big blocks of text on your website. Using actual text instead of images of text will help screen reader users, but also will help people with reading disabilities. Using actual text helps users who need to adjust the text's font, color, size, and alignment.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Misused like a toy embarrassingly taken out of its box and played with. Don't misunderstand me and think I approve of their use (flock cameras, not toys), but this is how they are meant to be used.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Unfortunately radical idea: no one deserves to suffer.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If you’ve followed me for a bit, you’ve probably heard me rant about how bad and just, openly sadistic women’s healthcare is, but I actually need you to be angrier about it than women are, because to a degree we have to just put our heads down and get through it.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Good. I hate how singularity-is-nigh fanatics and tech-bro owners have poisoned the initialism, not to leave out creative types that have reinforced that particular usage of the term with their ripostes.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Does Maine not do ranked choice voting? Could people not rank not-Platner as their first and then, if at all, Planter lower? Ultimately, it's Mainers' choice, but like...

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Eepy Welkin @eepywelkin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Like, hot damn, distracted/intoxicated driving is bad and cars are also broadly bad, but zero things are actually improved by everyone's car becoming a surveillance and snitch machine? Just fucking build public transit infrastructure, for fucks sake

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Now I want a violently magic magenta shirt and a black and white checkerboard pair of pants.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

1. People are not entitled to due process before I decide whether or not I like or dislike them or will vote for them. 2. My process of deciding whether I believe an allegation is not subject to the Federal Rules of Evidence. /1

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But Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Disregarding the alleged efficacy (or lack thereof) its interesting to me that the AI replaced the the management structure, but still needs physical employees. Almost like the "decision-makers" are the replaceable component in modern corporate culture or something.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Just got added to a list titled "Probably Unhappy." You're absolutely right, bud. 🫠

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Can we add posts where a block removes context to that too?

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"Taxpayer" implies the classist, racist role of "taxeater," and while it can technically be useful for modeling the behaviour of politicians—because many operate on the tax-to-spend model—it isn't even an accurate model of public spending for a government that creates its own money.

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Skull Issue @amagire.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

alternately, bsky please let me mute case-sensitively, I can destroy TACO and tRump all at once

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026

I know for a fact some people watching this are going to say "wtf that's Iran???" and I'm asking you to strongly question why that may have been your response.

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 03/04/2026

when you ask 85% of people on here why they hate AI or LLMs, they'll give you thought-terminating cliches or factually incorrect information it's a damn shame, because it weakens their positions when the correct and reasoned 15% is MORE THAN ENOUGH to tear the entire industry down

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

There is no "common pot" that we "pay into" when we pay currency in tax payments to our sovereign governments, and that entire narrative is a conservative-libertarian moral framework that reinforces the idea that the individual precedes the community. jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...

The “common pot” trope is very telling, as is the idea that we pay something “into” it. If we were all subsistence farmers, and grain or other produce from our farm were what we were “paying int” this “pot,” then what she said would make some sense, but why do we think of ourselves as independent subsistence farmers? Who told us to think that way? Who benefits from us thinking that way?

In this narrative, the public good is wholly dependent upon the confiscation of currency that people previously earned - and that somehow previously existed - in some market that itself somehow preexisted the state. Essentially, public spending becomes a form of forced charity from unconnected individuals, rather than a matter of predistributive justice.

This is not a truly progressive, emancipatory, universalist narrative about taxation. This is a libertarian caricature of a progressive narrative that, most tragically, nearly all progressive people have swallowed.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Capitalists are a blemish upon this earth.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I was not prepared for how much I'm enjoying The Hades Calculus. I had some trouble getting through the first fifteen pages or so. I'm not used to needing to look up words and "mellifluous" about had me giving up, but at some point I found myself two hundred pages in.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Anyway, wish that the anarchists and insurgents had succeeded more with uprisings, maroons, etc. without the centrist tyrant Lincoln and the union army, But either way I do think this country might've moved 5% less evil if every single slave owner had been stabbed dead and their wealth expropriated.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people. This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists. The study underpinning this played one particular trick. Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume this whole rant is based on a misunderstanding. It's bad because it mandates instead of funding some initiative and it's still unenforceable, but there is no verification in this bill. Ignoring the mandate it's actually fairly sensible.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026

I honestly wish there was a way to mute images that don't have alt text. How are you a journalist and not using alt text. It's absurd.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Yeah, she's either accepting terrible framing provided by whoever she's replying to or she setup the us-versus-them framing, with Jews as "them", all by herself. Which is wild because she goes on to double down on the post and also talk about how Israel is fueling antisemitism in a later post.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"I'm sorry," can be used, even without personal fault, to communicate sympathy and solidarity, e.g., "I'm sorry for your loss," is not an admission of murder.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It is unfortunate that Whiteness exists. It is unfortunate that Black people are given trauma and marginalized. It is unfortunate that the world does not have more compassion and understanding for this man and his struggles, and wishes for him to hide himself away from the world.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I know cis people don't realize the cruelty, so with gentleness and empathy for them, let me try to explain. Being trans is difficult. Instinctively, you already know this because you think it would be better not to be trans.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

You get a gold sticker if nothing on your website moves without me telling it to do so.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

With alt-text, useful principles to keep in mind.

A text post:

Useful Tips for Dealing with The Republican President

Bernice King, daughter of MLK and Coretta Scott King, posted this advice online around 2018. It's been edited:

1. Never use his name, EVER ("the Republican President" will do).
2. Remember this is a regime and he's not acting alone. It is a Republican regime.
3. Do not argue with those who support them - it doesn't work.
4. Focus on their POLICIES, not his orange-ness or that other one's makeup.
5. Keep your message positive. They want the country to be angry and fearful because this is the soil from which their darkest policies will grow.
6. No more helpless/hopeless talk.
7. Support artists and the arts.
8. Be careful to not spread fake news. Check it before posting.
9. Take care of yourselves, AND...
10. RESIST!

Plus, when you post or talk about the Republican President, assign his actions to "The Republican Administration" or "The Republicans". This will have several effects; the Republican legislators will either have to take responsibility for their association with him or stand up for what some of them don't like. He will not get the attention he craves.

Posted online in multiple places since 2018, including Reddit (r/Isbt) and Facebook.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Calling someone weird might give you good results if you're trying to upset them.

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Niko @visnul.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Hopefully you have to imagine, but how does being told that the things harming you are just distractions feel? Do you feel safe around those people? Telling someone that is minimizing their suffering, belittling their existence, and centering yourself. Is that okay? Is that what you want to do?

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 14/12/2025

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

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