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Zylla Black

@zyllable.bsky.social

(she/they) Lefty video essayist, independent academic, archaeogaming streamer, and sf/f fiction author. https://linktr.ee/Zyllable Pfp by Birdee Blake

1,623 Followers  |  395 Following  |  2,180 Posts  |  Joined: 22.06.2023  |  2.0236

Latest posts by zyllable.bsky.social on Bluesky

It's important to see that they are arresting Jews for protesting the genocide in Gaza. They want to call it protecting us, but they are the ones arresting us.

05.08.2025 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AI as it exists now is just a plagiarism machine that can't do half of what its proponents claim. It's always been the new NFT.

05.08.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"The contrast within the same series, written by the same author, helps make it obvious that for Miles and Grace, no matter how much they might try to understand other people's perspectives, they still don't see things the same way Robin does."

YELLING! AAAAHHH YES!

05.08.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep being extremely vocal everywhere about how much you hate generative slop. It does actually work. Every plagiarist machine apologist who said its inevitable and we just have to accept it is a fool.
Keep putting pressure, keep boycotting, keep abandoning services that use it, and keep yelling

04.08.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Jews protesting the horrors Israel's government is perpetrating in Gaza. We are many.

Standing up for humanity is *never* antisemitic. Calling it that distracts from the very real antisemitism we experience.

04.08.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Valve's "ain't give a fuck" stance does not always work out for us, but when it does, it does

04.08.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 261    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

04.08.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 16444    πŸ” 3726    πŸ’¬ 777    πŸ“Œ 636

I've led a student discussion every year since '15 regarding the Shoah Project's AI hologram-ification experiments with Holocaust survivor testimonies. About 80% consistently feel that while they benefited immensely from talks with living survivors, it cheapens the history to have fake avatars.

04.08.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
An anthropomorphic credit card wearing sunglasses walks into a storefront that features the Itch.io logo. A worried cashier stands behind the counter. Caption (from the credit card): Nice little platform you've got here. Be a shame if something happened to it."

An anthropomorphic credit card wearing sunglasses walks into a storefront that features the Itch.io logo. A worried cashier stands behind the counter. Caption (from the credit card): Nice little platform you've got here. Be a shame if something happened to it."

Facing backlash and mounting pressure, Mastercard denies responsibility for adult content bans β€” despite evidence and industry responses suggesting otherwise. Your calls are working. Keep it up.

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04.08.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1461    πŸ” 770    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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04.08.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i spent a literal decade being told that i was overreacting and that no way no how Roe was going to be overturned.

I'm getting the same reaction when I tell people that Obergefell v. Hodges (same sex marriage case) will be overturned sooner rather than later.

04.08.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1596    πŸ” 356    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 10

Big Jake! I miss him!

04.08.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

04.08.2025 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1354    πŸ” 463    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 38

lol love to be getting people in the second category trying to be like 'fake liberal!' 'bad jew!' about this shit

Honey, I'm not a lib. I'm a leftist. And so many Jews are anti-genocide that there are huge Jewish-led and rabbi-led protests in favor of saving the people of Gaza.

04.08.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And because language is use, the first is falling out of usage, which is disheartening, but something we have to acknowledge.

04.08.2025 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

*tired sigh*
The only thing complex about Zionism is that it means two very different things. One is the desire to visit Israel, make aliyah. Nothing wrong with that. The other is the desire to impose Jewish-supremacist rule on that whole area of the world. That's not okay.

04.08.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats, you win the internet!

04.08.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is important to talk about, incl where it’s more about Jewish trauma & where it’s got an understandable basis (Protest chants of β€œburn down Tel Aviv!” have been heard, perhaps less unreasonably, as calls for the mass murder of Jews.)

Accountability must include safety for *all* civilians. +

03.08.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 440    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 10

lol what

03.08.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Calling antisemitism when there is none makes it easier for people to ignore the real antisemitism.

03.08.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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03.08.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's really gross. And I do mean unsubtle as well as disgusting.

03.08.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Masked group with swastika flags marches on State House lawn in Concord Videos show the group tussling with passersby in downtown Concord. Police say they are investigating the incident

When I say that I as a Black anti-Zionist Jew in New Hampshire actually have to deal with *real* antisemitism I mean this happened today

Also yes I almost cannot believe this was a protest against Trump but here we are in 2025

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

03.08.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 431    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 12
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Welcome to August! Saturday streaming resumes!

Today, I'm back on @saveancientstudies.bsky.social's Twitch playing Outer Wilds and talking ancient artifacts and ruins in spaaaace! 12 p.m. EDT
#archaeogaming #AncientBluesky 🏺

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02.08.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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7TH GEN RISING STREAM 24/7 YouTube video by Tirrrb

Tirrrb is doing important work here

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02.08.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The ADL "was founded on the idea that Jewish rights and safety were inextricably linked to the rights of others. Once its primary focus became stopping anti-Zionism, its calculus changed. Its new version of Jewish defense was zero sum and dependent on a conception of a singular Jewish viewpoint"

02.08.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Diversity of tactics diversity of tactics diversity of tactics

01.08.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

01.08.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1619    πŸ” 478    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 0

If you can afford to put people in jail for being homeless, you can afford to just give homes to people who need them.

01.08.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 806    πŸ” 219    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 9

"The Left" is a phantasm; ill-defined and idealised for the purpose of outrageous and vague claims.
If someone says "the problem with the left" ask them: who specifically do you mean? Which organisation? Which person? Which outlet?

01.08.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 195    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

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