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Trying to follow more local people and institutions in Bluesky. Highly recommend if anyone hasn't already.

Among other things, it helps remind me there's a world and community outside of here (and encourages me to scroll less).

The director of Melania movie

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

Long live Pretti.

Destroy ICE!

He was a person.
He was murdered.
He’s not a “stock” to follow.

What a ghoul of a person Trump is 🤮

he spat on a rental car and then kicked it twice. no ice officer was in sight, but five of them immediately jumped out to beat him senseless, and then tear-gassed a crowd of maybe 50 bystanders as a parting shot

Nearly sobbing on my kitchen floor because my silly DnD podcast @naddpod.bsky.social opened their latest episode with an MPLS fund call. I love our community, we will win!

Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 1 million reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material in 2025, with "the vast majority" stemming from Amazon.

COOL COOL COOL COOL.

you draw a nude fictional woman too short or you do sex work and you get debanked, but you plug enough CSAM into your ai training data that the NCMEC gets flooded with "more than 1 million reports of AI-related CSAM in 2025" and hey, thats just the cost of bizness bay bee

A girl just told me this scene from CUCKOO cracked her egg, so you can't tell me shit.

They’re holding a press conference to say “yeah we literally do not give a shit about the law and will do what we want” because they know they can get away with it because of all the other shit they’ve already gotten away with. They don’t even have to PRETEND.

Repeat after me, GMs don't need to use accents to run a creative & memorable game. Players or GMs using AI will never impress, but always irritate me. Be creative, innovative & original, something AI will never achieve. Repeative use of AI will bring only a ban from my games or my leaving a game!

No media outside of Kansas has picked up on the fact that the state just enacted a de facto public ban and papers-please act against trans people, and they won't, because trans people are only newsworthy if it furthers our dehumanization.

Google to pay $68m to settle lawsuit claiming it recorded private conversations The claimants say Google Assistant recorded private conversations without their knowledge.

Oh hey, that thing they said they definitely weren't doing, and a number of smart tech people said "No, they aren't listening, it's just coincidence and location data mixed with..." well guess what?

I can't even pretend to be surprised anymore.

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Jeff, he's never gonna pick you, buddy. Your never gonna be president.

Such a fucking loser and embarrassment for my home state.

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "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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Utah lawmakers sweep their own study on care for trans kids under the rug as they push to ban it As Utah's lawmakers move to ban gender-affirming care for transgender kids, they've avoided discussing a report they commissioned on the issue that says care helps kids.

Utah lawmakers asked for a review of studies on gender-affirming care's effects on trans youth after passing a "moratorium." Records show they planned on publicly discussing the report — until it concluded the care is largely found to have positive outcomes.

Now, they're pushing a permanent ban.

They really have no fucking idea what is coming. No fucking idea.

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

Why The New Babysitter is Worse Than The Original

You all know I've been saying FOR WEEKS that this needed to happen to strategically focus on what's happening at DHS. They need to USE this to do shadow hearings across the country, to call for the complete dismantling of ICE (yes) but also the apparatus of detention, to get local media coverage.

They say we live in a bubble when there is a dude so fully ensconced in podcasts, twitter, group chats, and stimulants that he thought he could dress like a literal Nazi and start shooting people in the street and be remembered as a hero

These people live in a shrinking and dying parallel universe

look, the right wing's fever dream of the left is simply not true. no elected official no matter what their political persuasion is gong to go on TV and urge their constituents to read some hot man-on-man smut [aide whispers in my ear] wait what

Reminder of what “good enough” safety standards for engineers gets you:

Shortly after the meeting ended, Leavitt beckoned me into her West Wing office for an interview with Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary. He promptly told me I hadn't seen what I thought I'd just seen. "He's always awake, always alert, always knows what's going on," said Scharf, whose job requires him to be in almost constant contact with the president. "His work pace is remarkable. My dad is a few years older than he is; my dad couldn't do the job that the president does. I don't think I could do the job the president does." He added, "It's not doz-ing. Sometimes if he's thinking about something - and I made that mistake at first too — he adopts a pose. He leans back or leans forward a little bit, and he either closes his eyes or looks down - because he often takes notes in his lap."

When the president rests his eyes, Leavitt chimed in, he's actually "actively listening." His energy levels are so good, she claimed, that even elite members of the military can't keep up with his work schedule. "The Marine sentries who stand outside the Oval Office, they had to request more staff and bring up more Marines because the president is in the Oval Office so much," she said. "They've never had to do that before. They had to request more guys to stand by the door because they are running out of men to fill the shifts." "He's working harder now than he did in his entire life," Leavitt added. "Even in real estate when he was on top of the world in New York."

Their lies are so funny that I legitimately now think he has days to live

email from bluesky Hi, We've reviewed a Post on your account @leyawn.bsky.social and found it violates Bluesky's Community Guidelines on Anti-Discrimination. We protect people's fundamental rights by prohibiting identity-based harm and hatred. For example: Do not attack, harass, or incite hatred or discrimination against individuals or groups based on protected characteristics such as age, asylum-seeker/refugee status, caste, disability, disease, ethnicity, gender identity, immigrant status, race, religious affiliation, sex, or sexual orientation. This includes hate speech, slurs, dehumanizing comparisons, supremacist content, conspiracy theories targeting protected groups, and coordinated harassment campaigns. The following Post was removed: imagine showing up to your office job and there's a crowd of people in the lobby heckling you every morning. "no one likes your emails" "your tie is ugly" lol. anyways i think everyone who works for ice should kill themselves Your post was classified as a Moderate Violation, adding 2 strikes to your account. You now have 2 total strikes. If you believe this action was taken in error, you can appeal within 14 days by emailing moderation@blueskyweb.xyz. Please include context about why you believe this decision was incorrect. Bluesky Moderation Team

according to bluesky, working for ice is a protected class against discrimination lol

"Your enemies on the so-called 'Supreme' Court have unwittingly made you immune to prosecution, my liege! Do not, I beg you, make the same mistake of Biden the Unready...have you heard the tale? I thought not. It is not one...CNN...would tell you."

We're owed a president with some virtuous scheming viziers after this. Some guy hissing "We must ban the SUVs sire"

“We lost all trust,” a current ICE official added. “I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.”

So Kyle Rittenhouse, who attended a protest armed with a loaded assault rifle and killed 2 people is a right-wing hero.

But Alex Pretti who had a holstered, permitted handgun, was recording ICE, and tried to help a pepper-sprayed woman deserved to die?

No one is buying this BS.

WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT, REUTERS?

WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN SOMEONE KEEPS TELLING SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE TRUTH WHEN THEY KNOW IT’S NOT THE TRUTH?

WHAT IS THAT CALLED? USE YOUR WORDS