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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2h

Remember when NFTs were all the rage, and artists who would have *loved* to find some way to give material value to a digital file were looking on, mystified, saying ‘This is just an online receipt for a jpeg’, and people who were hyping it up told the artists they didn’t understand the technology?

ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 3h

We lost nothing but gained the phrase 'all my apes gone', so on balance I feel we're better off for their brief & idiotic existence

I paid £14 billion for this NFT image. Please don't steal it

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 6d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 16h

the Fianna Fáil spokesman on AI doesn't understand that if you build a solar farm to power a data centre, you are reducing the amount of physical space available to build solar farms for general supply. never mind the constraints mentioned in this clip

The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 16h

🗣️ "What I hear is... we’re going to privatise and hive off a part of our energy-generating infrastructure for one industry."

The panel debate the government’s new Private Wires Policy and what it could mean for Ireland’s energy system and consumers.

#TonightVMTV

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 16h

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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👻Wereman 🐺🎃 @spookarties.bsky.social · Dec 1

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

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☭Comrade Internet☭ @comradeinternet.bsky.social · 15h

Remember, for every person doing frontline work(anything involving active confrontation be it frog protests or anything spicier and more kinetic in nature), there is a critical need for something like seventeen people doing rear echelon work of every skill type.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 15h

"So what do you suggest we do to fight Trump?"

Find people in your community who need help, and help them. We all have skills. Maybe it's giving rides to people who don't have cars. Maybe it's going to the grocery store so your immigrant or racialized neighbors don't have to when ICE is around.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 13h

But it’s just one opinion. After all, it’s not like every request to make society healthier, safer, or more equitable from a non-dominant group has been met with “CHANGE?? ME?? ARE YOU CRAZY?” for the last…couple millennia. Oh.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 22h

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 22h

Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
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Previous-Camera1641

I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 23h

"So I'm closing my Bluesky account."
"Great."
"Now you can follow me on my substack."

"Okay but that's worse."
"You do see how that's worse, right?"

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Frith 🐉 An Odd Type of Dragon @oddtypeofdragon.bsky.social · 1d

I beg of everyone and every organisation this Halloween: if you're doing a PSA about what to do with your pumpkin afterwards, INCLUDE THE COUNTRY IN YOUR INFO(GRAPHIC)

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David Cordial @davidcordial.bsky.social · 1d

Ever and anon, every accusation is a confession
Leddin said one of his issues with the Greens endorsing Connolly was that it was indicative of a move towards social issues over apolitical green policy

It turns out what he actually meant is he's more of a centrist than he was a Green

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

Let's explore the Green credentials of Heather Humphreys - The woman former GP member Brian Leddin thinks should be president.
She advocated for an increased burn period during her time as Minister for Heritage, as well as prolonging the period during which hedgerows could be cut. #Spéirgorm 1/n

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 1d

Windows 10 users in the EU and UK, you can get free Extended Security Updates for a year just by:
> Settings > Windows Update > Check for updates. Click.
Scroll down to Enrol in Extended Security Updates (or similar wording).
Click on it.
Follow prompts.
Bingo, you're good for a year.

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CarolC @carolconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

I love that the director of the new film Good Boy said he knew many people would Google the end before going to the film, and he understood and was OK with that.

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CarolC @carolconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great article about the veneer of cheerfulness a lot of disabled people wear around others, and the consequences.

Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 1d

🧵
"How I’m really doing"

meglobalchronicle.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/h...

How appearances can be deceiving in terms of what people with ME can do consistently.

"So what people see when I post pictures of an outing are really exceptions based on adrenaline."

#MEcfs #PwME #CFS

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How I’m really doing
Gepubliceerd op 8 december 2024
Yesterday, a good friend asked me what I am truly capable of doing. For example, whether I can get dressed and go downstairs every day. Whether I can make tea or coffee for myself.

My answer:“No, I cannot get dressed every day. In fact, I haven’t done that in ages. Making tea and coffee isn’t that easy. If I do, it’s at the expense of doing something else.

For a while I had a kettle with hot water next to my bed but I spilled too often while pouring and as a result burnt myself.

I go downstairs on good days to have my meal lying on the couch. That’s possible for about three to four times a week But today I washed my hair and then I can’t do that.

So what people see when I post pictures of an outing are really exceptions based on adrenaline.

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social · 1d

Far-right X users who like saying "Orwelian" and "kafkaesque" should be forced to read ALL the books by the two authors and pass an exam on them.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Paul Tighe @paultighe.bsky.social · 1d

An informative 🧵.
Well worth a gander. (Wildlife pun intended.)

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

Let's explore the Green credentials of Heather Humphreys - The woman former GP member Brian Leddin thinks should be president.
She advocated for an increased burn period during her time as Minister for Heritage, as well as prolonging the period during which hedgerows could be cut. #Spéirgorm 1/n

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 1d

"calls into question, why are the Government not doing something about it?"
Unfortunately the answer is easy. Managing floods like this would need landscape scale action including rewilding rivers and rewetting land and the government are fundamentally opposed to anything positive for nature

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and Westmeath

Farmers along Shannon say lives 'destroyed by flooding'

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and W...

www.rte.ie

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3d

Who keeps casting him? Apparently, he does.

Allegedly, he attaches himself to a project as executive producer and puts up some of the budget as long as he can star in it.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 3d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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CarolC @carolconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

If you intend to be a writer you NEED to read widely, and outside of your comfort zones.

But if writing isn't on your personal To Do list, then yeah I absolutely support you only reading sports biographies or cats that solve crimes or whatever it is that you love. The world is on fire, be happy.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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