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Zopher

@zopher.xyz
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Software developer in Flyover Country, U.S. Probably older than you. Definitely at least as nerdy as you. Gay/cis/male, he/him or they/them.

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Mr. Moo Sky 🔜 Furpoc @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressedSponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressedManage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)
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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Skyblivion's release is "getting closer" as the massive Skyrim mod's makers start recruiting for a big final marketing push bit.ly/3UPktNe
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Skyblivion's release is "getting closer" as the massive Skyrim mod's makers start recruiting for a big final marketing push
Skyblivion's release is "getting closer", the modders behind it have said as they recruit for a big final marketing push.
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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 15/09/2026
The last couple of weeks have been such a tornado of nonsense, I couldn't help myself.
taggart-tech.com
Everone Is Lying To You For Money
The recent cyber incidents required a pivot from the frontier AI labs. The pivot? Lie and distract.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
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Ale H. Humano @catbaronale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
For those who are waiting for Grave Seasons like I am: Tenebrous publishes a book from one of the creators (Emmett Nahil) that’s a gay whaling ship era horror book called From the Belly store.tenebrouspress.com/products/fro... Good time to get it
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FROM THE BELLY - a novel by Emmett Nahil (print + eBook)
NEW WEIRD HORROR ON THE HIGH SEAS The whaling vessel Merciful has just made its strangest catch yet: a massive whale containing a still-living man secreted within its stomach lining. Sailor Isaiah Cha...
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Rual Storge @rualstorge.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Quietly dropping this without a peep from Twitch is some really shady bull crap. I've defended a lot of stuff Twitch does, but not this. At least have the stones to announce it versus being deceitful and trying to slip it by. If it weren't for current and pending EU regulations we'd never know :/
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IFIN @ifin-intel.org · 15/07/2026
Cursor will run anything called git.exe when you open it, but it isn't the only one. As a fork of VS Code, Cursor has inherited this behavior from its questionable parentage.
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Remember that Cursor git.exe bug? It's in VSCode too
CVSSv3: 7.5 The Cursor Bug is in VSCode Earlier this week, a potential vulnerability was discovered in Cursor, the AI-enabled development platform that is a fork of VSCode. This vulnerability is a file called get.exe in the root of a repo or any project folder will be automatically executed without user interaction. That was viewed as a potential flaw in the software, but apparently Cursor was told about it in December and has really had no response at all to it. Fast forward to today, when I...
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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 09/07/2026
I saw a post where someone made the connection that a company laying you off right after your product comes out is pretty much stealing your wages from you and, yeah. They’re double dipping, getting all the profit and not having to pay for the team that generated it.
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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
No corporation is your friend. Repeat this to yourself as often as necessary for it to stick.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
That’s what happens when you make promises to an entire generation of people and then fail.
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Dan "Leto" Hahn @danination.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A rise in creativity from who, or what, hmm?? Where did the AI get all its creativity that it's using to be creative for you, and did you pay whomever the AI is taking all its training from?
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StargazerKG 🌠🐉 Stellar Dragoon Vtuber @stargazerkg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Word on the street is there's a new scam making the rounds. Stay frosty. #vtuber #vsky
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seeeeew @seeeeew.de · 15/06/2026
Tired of having to scroll down to find the AI disclosure on Steam store pages during #SteamNextFest? Why not try my browser extension "AI warning for Steam," that displays it as an unmissable popup on page load? Available for Firefox, Chrome, and as a userscript. github.com/seeeeew/aiwa...
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GitHub - seeeeew/aiwarningforsteam: Browser extension to show the AI Generated Content Disclosure on Steam store pages as a modal popup, instead of just at the end of the page.
Browser extension to show the AI Generated Content Disclosure on Steam store pages as a modal popup, instead of just at the end of the page. - seeeeew/aiwarningforsteam
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
do you know what it’s like when flying while trans? do you understand all of our society is like this for trans people? from almost every angle? doooo you know how exhausting that is?
Did you know those TSA scanners have different options the operator must select when scanning someone? Male or female. Never mind that nonbinary people exist. Never mind that intersex people exist.
Never mind that trans men and women exist. There are even cis people whose bodies don't conform to what those categories imply.
Let's say there's a trans woman on HRT who has not had bottom surgery, which means they have to tuck in public (see TUCKING AND BINDING for more). She is a woman. Her ID says female. If she's going through the scanner, based on her appearance, or presentation, or even based on ID, let's say the operator correctly indicates female.
It scans her, and registers an anomaly at her crotch. Not only is she now possibly out to all the TSA agents present (which brings its own dangers as they may be transphobes), they have to resolve the situation. Two options: pat her down, or flip the switch and indicate to scan male.
This misgenders her. It scans her, and it registers her bra and breasts as an "anomaly," which is certainly how the bigots in society want you to think about trans people. And the only option they have left to get her through security is a pat down.So now a stranger is going to manhandle her breasts to be sure she's not smuggling weapons in her bra, and be sure that they're "really" breasts, and is going to manhandle her crotch to see what's down there.
Either way, again, she's suddenly out as trans to (or registered as trans by) all the TSA employees present, and everyone else in line who are now wondering what the hold up is.
Knowing the awful violence trans women face, you maybe see extra dangers here. You maybe also see the potential for sexual assault. And we have to go through all of this just because we want to fly somewhere.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.
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AstridTheHorrorGirl @astridcraft.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Builders in the 19th and 20th Century: "Asbestos should be in everything" Painters in the 20th Century: "Lead should be in everything" Tech Companies in the 21st Century: "AI should be in everything"
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marccus @rnarccus.art · 30/05/2026
Recent changes coming to the site enforce a complete blackout on the entirety of your profile, including SFW posts, if your account has been labeled as 'nsfw', profoundly limiting creators' reach by hiding all posts and interactions, no matter how innocuous
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💀 Spooky Cat 🍉 @catashtrophe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
i think my new least favorite phrase is "human in the loop"
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AstridTheHorrorGirl @astridcraft.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Thumbnail for a YouTube Video Essay that I could make but never will
A famous meme of a man with a row of dominoes, some tiny, some extremely large. The smallest of these dominoes is titled: "Horse Armor DLC in Oblivion" and is about to be knocked over, which would imply that the final domino, the largest one will topple a result. The final domino is entitled: "The AI Bubble Destroys the US Economy"
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Bobby, Multicolored Permanent @bobbeigh.com · 27/04/2026
Hey— so, earlier in April, I lost my day-to-day job. I wanted to take time to process two years contributing to a company leading to this moment. It doesn’t feel great, and I’m not okay. I have enough saved to weather this month’s expenses, but that will soon end. ko-fi.com/bobbeigh/goa...
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Support Bobbeigh | Bobby Cruz ❤️
Become a supporter of Bobbeigh | Bobby Cruz today!
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 27/04/2026
Notice more Starbucks ads and sponsored content lately? It's intentional. Here's why.
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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 17/04/2026
BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.
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Rual Storge @rualstorge.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
GenAI being shoved into everything is getting absolutely exhausting. Not in the "I'll give up and just accept it" more in the "I'll just turn off the computer and just do something else" way.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.
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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 24/03/2026
Well well well, if it isn't exactly what I said would happen. Google et al *hate* you and your website other than what they can monetize out of it. www.forbes.com/sites... taggart-tech.com/int...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/03/2026
Another day, another MASSIVE #Petrotech project Microsoft's latest fossil-fuelled data centre project will increase the company's emissions by a whopping 40% www.distilled.earth/p/microsofts... + my write-up on MSFT's decision to fail on climate here: ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/31/t...
It’s difficult to overstate the scale of this project. 8 GW is a bit less than the entire peak power demand of New York City.

That scale will come with major environmental impacts. Microsoft’s 1.35 GW deployment could result in 3.9 million tons of CO2 emissions per year by my estimate1. Last year, the company’s entire fleet of data centers emitted about 10 million tons. So this deployment would boost emissions by 40%.2

If the project scales to 8 GW, it could emit 23 million tons per year. That would represent about 35% of the entire coal-heavy state’s emissions.3a chart
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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 01/03/2026
I’m concerned stuff like this will lead to a “dark forest” scenario, in which the risks of open source outweigh the benefits. Not today, but it's not impossible tomorrow.
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hackerbot-claw: An AI-Powered Bot Actively Exploiting GitHub Actions - Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF Projects Hit So Far - StepSecurity
A week-long automated attack campaign targeted CI/CD pipelines across major open source repositories, achieving remote code execution in at least 4 out of 5 targets. The attacker, an autonomous bot called hackerbot-claw, used 5 different exploitation techniques and successfully exfiltrated a GitHub token with write permissions from one of the most popular repositories on GitHub. This post breaks down each attack, shows the evidence, and explains what you can do to protect your workflows.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/02/2026
CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.
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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 20/02/2026
For the second year in a row, we're celebrating International Transgender Day of Visibility by showcasing transgender runners on GDQ Hotfix!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Submissions are open now through March 1st and we can't wait to celebrate with you all when we go live March 21st-22nd! Submit a run: gdq.gg/TDoV-Hotfix
announcement for the International Transgender Day of Visibility Celebration happening March 21-22 on GDQ Hotfix featuring Coop with pink hearts around his head
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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."
pcgamer.com
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 04/02/2026
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis
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Dan "Leto" Hahn @danination.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
No, fuck you, remove the funding. Giving it to cops doesn't solve the problem, it just makes a different organization a bigger problem. Put the money into housing, or community mental health, or infrastructure for our crumbling roads, rails, and utilities. Put it into SOMETHING HELPFUL.
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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 05/01/2026
Look at this collapse in StackOverflow post creation! Over 186,000 in April 2022 to just 3800 in December 2025. data.stackexchange.c...
Line/scatter plot showing a massive drop in posts per month on Stack Overflow. Over 186,000 in 2022, to just 3800 in December 2025.
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Ilyon @ilyon.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Using AI for the "inspiration" stage is maybe its most soul-crushing use. The dreams, the creativity, the brainstorming... Is that the worst, most gruelling part of making art? Truly? This trend of "we're only using AI to take over the human creativity" as an excuse is baffling.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
In order for America to actually heal its divisions, we need to reckon with its two original sins: the genocide of Native Americans by the initial government structures during and after the Revolution, and the deliberate sabotage of Reconstruction by the racist remnants of the South.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 10/12/2025
I'm going to float this nuclear take: maybe students are increasingly turning to ShitGPT and other deskilling devices because the structure of the modern university has made it impossible for them to acquire skill in a deep way. Let me paint a picture for you.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 24/11/2025
In the running for "Overreaction of the Year Award," CEO Brian Niccol has barricaded his office to avoid striking baristas getting anywhere near him. No matter. We'll be waiting right out front when you're ready to talk, Brian!
A group SBWU members sit outside of an office, with one sign saying "BARISTAS ON STRIKE! UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES"
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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 21/11/2025
Mozilla's new strategy document makes it clear: it's an AI company, and the organization you trusted to protect the open web is dead. taggart-tech.com/moz...
taggart-tech.com
The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy
Mozilla's new strategy document confirms their position, and the end of their stewardship of the open web.
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Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This is the version of the post that everyone needs to see. And all you readers/authors despairing of non-comprehension, etc, we are gaining new fans of fantasy and SF. It might not be the fantasy or SF you personally read, but they're reading and buying where they weren't before.
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 20/11/2025
Mozilla: AI AI AI blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/r... No browser is safe.
blog.mozilla.org
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web | The Mozilla Blog
AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of  most apps, tools and technology we use today. It enables remarkable things: new way
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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 20/11/2025
I'm not as conversant with the latest in mobile malware, but this seems like a gnarly technique, and we don't have a lot of detection/prevention options on Android. www.threatfabric.com...
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Sturnus: Mobile Banking Malware bypassing WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal Encryption
Sturnus is a privately operated Android banking trojan with many fraud-related capabilities, including Device Takeover and capturing decrypted messages.
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Zopher @zopher.xyz · 20/11/2025
*nerd squeeing intensifies*
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 17/11/2025
I *do* think however that it's grotesque to be giving awards to companies that have laid off huge chunks of the workforce that worked on these games that are now getting awards
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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 05/11/2025
I tried all of the major Discord alternatives. Here's what I found:
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Discord Alternatives, Ranked
Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
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