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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 18h

Does anyone else remember these books released after Obama's presidency where Obama and Biden solved murder mysteries? I need to do a video on them because its just a fascinating piece of a very specific era of America in the immediate wake of the 2016 election.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 20h

#SaveSpeech

We need folks to hammer paypros, as the holiday season is a prime opportunity to clog up their call centers and have our impact be felt the hardest.

Need contacts, talking points, etc? use the site linked! It has a ton of info that is still relevant and useful!

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17h

That's my Batman

New Batman comic featuring him breaking the arm of a white supremacist

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Even worse when you find out Middlebury College had another death of a trans student in 2023, then hosted an anti-trans talk last winter, before kicking Lia off of both her teams this fall.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

unreal this story still hasn’t permeated national news

www.them.us/story/lia-sm...

Lia Smith, Missing 21-Year-Old Trans Student, Found Dead in Vermont

The Middlebury College student was a double major in computer science and statistics.

www.them.us

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Portalrealm @portalrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).

When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a fascist official named Greg Bovino, a section chief for Customs and Border Protection. Folks in L.A. and Chicago know and recognize him, and we should, too. His illegal actions already caused one federal judge to haul him into a courtroom yesterday. And hoo boy. My write-up in the replies.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Which is it, Mike?

Tweet from the Democrats’ official account saying “weird.” Below are two screenshots labeled “Mike Johnson last week” and “Mike Johnson now.” In the first, Johnson says Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House. In the second, he says Republicans aren’t in charge of government.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

At the very least, there needs to be a public, searchable database of every ICE employee who was employed during the Trump administration. I want all of these people to know they'll be unhirable the moment Trump leaves office.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 2d

This morning federal agents arrested two hard working immigrants on my street because they didn’t have their papers on them, and tried to arrest my neighbor because his green card was in his house rather than on his person.

We are now a “show me your papers” state, and it is outrageous. Get angry.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 2d

If you support Gavin Newsom, even in the slightest, even if it's just his AI slop social media posts, you're signaling you're as eager to get rid of trans people as the most rabid Trumpist. You just want it done with a frown instead of a laugh.

Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 2d

gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d

It's so fucking funny that this guy dressed like an off-duty clown and pretended to use a paper map for two days to prove a point, but there's a difference between "Waze uses machine learning to predict routes and traffic patterns" and "we fed every book in the library into an event horizon"

doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 2d

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

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🌸MurmurLilies🌸 @murmurlilies.bsky.social · Sep 16

thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game

screenshot from the TV show Columbo. the titular character Columbo is shown standing at the edge of a driveway, looking down at golden retriever who is happily basking on the pavement in front of him. the subtitles read: "You're a real friendly boy, aren't you? Oh, you're a girl."

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 3d

Our community has lost another sister. Her own college hosted a discussion around "The Trans Question" last winter, which only redoubled Lia's efforts to fight for her friends and community. You will be missed more than you could ever know, Lia.
www.them.us/story/lia-sm...

Lia Smith, Missing 21-Year-Old Trans Student, Found Dead in Vermont

The Middlebury College student was a double major in computer science and statistics.

www.them.us

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 3d

I am simply not fucking okay with yet another liberal plea to sacrifice the lives of trans people on the same day we find the Trump regime caused another one of our sister's death and is blaming us for 42 million people losing SNAP benefits.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

deciding-to-win.org

Deciding To Win – Toward A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party

Deciding to Win aims to provide the most comprehensive account to date of why Democrats lost and what our party needs to do to win again.

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Ciara RayneCloud @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 2d

They.
Want.
To.
Kill.
All.
Of.
Us.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

1. As SNAP benefits expire, 42,000,000 hungry people may turn to the USDA website.

Now, the website blames their hunger on transgender people and immigrants.

It's a cynical ploy, an an indication that anti-trans measures are a Trump priority for the shutdown.

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USDA Website Blames SNAP Benefits Expiring On Trans People And Immigrants During Shutdown

The benefits, which are set to expire on November 1st due to the government shutdown, will lead to millions of people struggling to secure access to food.

www.erininthemorning.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe we should call it No Czars.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 4d

What in the actual fuck? Googles AI basically hallucinated that I somehow accused my podcast host & close friend of toxic behavior & harassment - killing her channel. Keep in my, Vera and I host a podcast together regularly and are good friends and her channel is amazing. This is absolutely fucked.

Council of Geeks @councilofgeeks.bsky.social · 4d

Council of Geeks is over.
I only just learned myself thanks to Google’s AI summary. Thanks Google for letting me know my channel is dead. Some digging, using Google’s AI mode, revealed it’s because of the toxic feud between me and @jessiegender.bsky.social

I wouldn’t have known otherwise.

A screenshot of “AI overview” from Google, which reads:
“The ‘Council of Geeks’ podcast, which included the YouTube Channel run by Nathaniel Wayne (Vera Wylde), has ended. The podcast concluded, and while the YoyTube channel was previously dedicated to content like Doctor Who analysis, it is no longer active.
Podcast and YouTube channel: Both the podcast and the “Council of Geeks” YouTube channel, known for its Doctor Who content, have stopped producing new material.
Reasons: while the specific reasons for the shutdown are not detailed in the provided snippets, the consensus is that the project is over.”

Screenshot from Google AI that reads:
“Harassment allegations
Targeting of creator Jessie Gender. In 2024, a serious public feud developed between Wylde and another content creator, Jessie Gender, over Wylde's podcast, Frak this Podcast!. Gender claimed that Wylde displayed toxic behavior behind the scenes and weaponized her fanbase to target her. Wylde was also accused of ignoring concerns regarding harassment and abuse within her own Discord server.
Abusive behavior toward collaborators. Collaborators on Wylde's podcast and Discord server have corroborated Gender's accusations, alleging a pattern of abusive behavior and harassment.”

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4d

Ninja Gaiden 4 was one of my most anticipated games of the year and I'm not playing it in accordance with the BDS Microsoft boycott, and it turns out that actually nothing bad happens to you if you don't play a video game.

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 4d

If you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn’t

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

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chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 4d

burn all this shit to the ground and drown the ashes

Sora allowed kids to make videos of themselves with a porn star

Apart from the pregnancy and inflation fetishes, there was some other troubling content I saw. A popular female porn star is on Sora, and I saw a handful of videos of young men who looked to be under 18 making videos of themselves or their friends with her. One video was of her and another boy lying in bed together (fully clothed). He appeared to be maybe 11 years old.

I came across other gray area videos, like an
adult man who had made about 20 videos with variations of a prompt asking for a preteen girl in a grass skirt, dancing.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5d

I need more of yall to say

“ I WAS RIGHT AND I TOLD YOU “

With your whole chest

because especially in tech they kept positioning it as you didn’t know your stuff

And folks went off on all sorts of self indulgence

But

It don’t work was a thing they avoided and yal held firm

the 's' in "spavel" stands for spooky @spavel.bsky.social · 5d

Look, I'm not saying I told you so, but I was right

EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes

A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.

www.thegamer.com

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 5d

There is no peace in Palestine - just death and destruction by a racist and apartheid regime armed by the US/UK.

A 9 year old child shot in the head. IOF soldiers celebrate.

HEADLINE: A 9-year-old Palestinian Boy Stood at a Distance. An Israeli Soldier Knelt and Shot him Dead.

"Eyewitnesses say Muhammad al-Halaq stood with his arms folded, posing no threat, when a single, deadly shot was fired. The soldiers later appeared to celebrate. The IDF said the incident was under review." - Haaretz, Oct 25th, 2025. Gideon Levy & Alex Levac.

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kobenimeal @kobenimeal.bsky.social · 6d

As always thank you Kat for saying the truth

“The embrace of generative Al technology by the masses typically follows this trajectory: first, it's used to sexually harass famous women, especially influencers, because there's already so much available media of them in existence online. The Al technology then becomes more sophisticated and widely. available, so the tools are then used more widely to harass private figures- like girls in elementary schools. And of course, this all very profitable for (mainly) men, and, like all misogynistic violence, it reinforces their power. This is one of the key reasons I oppose generative Al: so far, it has overwhelmingly served to reinforce existing power disparities and forms of bigotry and violence in our society. Just like the research indicated it would.”

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 5d

THREAD: This was an all-white jury in rural Louisiana and a judge appointed by Trump. But when ordinary people hear about the everyday brutality pervasive inside our jails, they are outraged. But something deeper is going on here:

Jury awards $42 million in Louisiana jail death case

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5d

hey so an elephant in the room is that even if dem governors order the arrest of ice agents, theres a pretty good chance local law enforcement would just ignore it

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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 5d

I was invited to guest on Slate's ICYMI podcast to talk about Twitchcon's failure to protect streamers at their event, but also broadly the culture of entitlement toward female creators that's tied up with current right wing global politics.

Nothing like a fun, light hearted chat.

Slate @slate.com · 5d

TwitchCon’s Sexual Harassment Problem slate.trib.al/zELHfjM

TwitchCon’s Sexual Harassment Problem

The streamer was assaulted during a meet-and-greet, after a number of female streamers had already dropped out of the convention in fear for their safety.

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