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@xmech.bsky.social
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I'm a queer, disabled, white, trans, non binary but masculine, person. Or dragon. I am often a dragon.

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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That’s the thing about systemic violence. You’re part of that system whether you like it or not. You’re gonna be victim or perpetrator unless you actively jam the gears of that machine
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spencer @spencer7-5.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It is really annoying that all discussions of “restorative justice” have centered around a gaming youtuber and not a woman on death row with two botched executions
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I guess the lesson is that forced enfranchisement w/o improvement either the median voter or median voter access to decent political/social/policy coverage that they'll actually learn from is worse than our random enfranchisement model under the same conditions.
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Twisted Spinster @danceswithpugs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Mitchells Vs The Machines. The mall scene with the giant Furby has to be one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever seen.
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Andrew Gurza @andrewgurza6.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
disability rights (or the lack of them) will be your rights one day. and yes, I say this to absolutely scare you into thinking about disability. What rights will you want? Think about that.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
You know. I don’t think that there is any more crucial component to contextualizing & meeting our current set of problems than understanding this.
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Thaddeus is a girl's name 🏳️‍⚧️ @thaddeus.zone · 04/10/2026
the actual Great Replacement is tech bros replacing the economy with these snake oil factories
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
✅⚖️ #meta #facebook #CambridgeAnalytica
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I watched it closely because I thought it would tell me where we were. And it did. And no you don’t want to know.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026
ME: *muttering about deadlines* STEPKID: Ah, I see they’ve moved from ambient horror to jumpscare.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
do not be the person who fucks about this
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Even more depressing than the knowledge that congress is now overrun by effective altruist and overall TESCREAL cult member staffers, is the number of billionaires in these cults that are going to be created by the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Texas is basically saying it wants to encourage fraud as a matter of public policy and you should keep that in mind whenever you see a large firm incorporated in Texas
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Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 02/10/2024
now that it's october im legally allowed to post this
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026
I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So many. So many . And of different ages and generations . we need to make it fiscally responsible, morally sustainable and psychologically durable enough for ethical ambiverts to be in media and government again
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MinCup26 Quarterfinals 3 It's a pair of dissolvable beauties as rare and complicated #Julienite is against ubiquitous and straightforward #Halite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Split photo of close-ups of minerals bright blue julienite in radiating fan shapes within a dark rock and clear perfect cubes of halite suspended in clear liquid, tiny bubbles hanging onto some of the crystals
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stop calling people who wear masks and take Covid precautions the “forever covid” crowd. We’re literally the only ones trying to eliminate the virus. It’s not gone. It’s not over. It’s still disabling. People who deny this reality are the “forever COVID” crowd.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc
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Wylder 🏳️‍⚧️♿ $0/$1800 @wylder.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026
Cis folks need to shame other cis folks more for being terfs, if they want to actually protect kids.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
chronic fatigue (now ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome,, now long covid many of these predominant in women so many illnesses that could have been treated, studied, and offered people relief earlier if propaganda hadn't convinced everyone they were fake.
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He’s been doing this shit for 20 years and the schtick is getting real tired. You can’t promise ‘a city on Mars in 20 years‘ for over 20 years
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thomaslthomson3.bsky.social @thomaslthomson3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The wave of eugenics bullshit that the society-wide commitment to pretending that COVID was "over" in like 2022 unleashed, has served as one hell of a permission structure to allow SO MANY people's ableist bullshit to just pour out.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AAAHHH
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bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Portland/PDX/Multnomah County folks - any good date ideas in the area you've been on or thought about lately? Bonus points for something off the beaten path, but not required. Now that I've got someone to take I am now hungry for good ideas :)
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 7 It's blue skies ahead as multicoloured cubes of #Halite are up against the bubbly cool-toned #Chrysocolla. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Split photo of seafoam green minerals. One one side, translucent sea foam-green cubes on a crust of milky-white crystals. On the other, bobby aqua-green milky-translucent crystals perched on a grainy grassy-green base rock
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey, let's temporarily lower prices for most of the country at the expense of New England and the rest of the world until we drain our PADD 1A entirely and then have to go hat-in-hand back to the world market where everyone is really mad at us. It'll be GREAT!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We don't talk enough about the additional costs of homeownership.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 22/09/2026
great contextualization from @melodyschreiber.com
Kennedy only mentioned the measles outbreak once in a speech spanning nearly an hour and a half at an anti-vaccine conference on Thursday. He noted only that deaths from measles are headline news and he asked that severe side effects and deaths from vaccines get the same attention. About one to two people in a million experience severe side effects from vaccines, while with measles one in five people are hospitalized and one to three in 1,000 die.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 23/09/2026
Anyway, an old colleague at NDI started a 'state capture in America' newsletter to document the transition and aftermath, as Trump returned to the presidency last year — and ooof, how right that frame was.
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026
it will never not break my brain that the pandemic gave us a *better understanding of airborne pathogens* AND worse collective behavior around them in institutions
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 16 It's a pair of industrially-vital minerals for the final match of the first round as tin ore #Cassiterite is up against elemental carbon #Graphite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Split photo of cassiterite crystals, silvery to shiny black, in shapes similar to faceted gemstones and a flat, hexagonal graphite crystal jutting up, dark grey with a greasy shine.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It took *nine minutes* for someone to show up in my mentions and argue at me that the Democrats were still better than the Republicans. Like goddamn catnip, I swear to God. "PLEASE, CODDLE ME AND TELL ME THAT MY TEAM IS GOOD AND MORAL, THAT MY COMPROMISING IS BRAVE, THAT I DON'T NEED TO WORK."
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Lori 🐞🏳️‍⚧️ @loribug.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The other thing is largely a lot of us continue to vote for the lesser of two evils knowing full well the dnc is trending towards letting us get steamrolled, like damn we don't even get to bitch that we deserve better than the dregs even when we voted for dregs!
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 15 It's blue vs red for vibrant cyan-blue #Chrysocolla vs rich chocolatey red-brown #Xocolatlite. Are you with the hydrous copper silicate or the tellurate? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Split photo of rounded towers of aqua-blue crystals resembling a puffer spike ball and radial splats of reddish-brown crystals resembling lichen growth.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"It takes the Village to raise a child," but somehow I'm the bad guy for sending my daughter there!
The Village from The Prisoner tv show
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
one of the stadiums that said they would cancel Ed Sheeran's show if he brought Macklemore with him "because something something antisemitism" is literally hosting a concert by Kanye West
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