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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 6h

Here is a link to it:

O&O ShutUp10++: Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

With this tool you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 and Windows 11 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far.

www.oo-software.com

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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 6h

Let’s you turn off all the telemetry and data hoovering, one drive, AI, all that shit.
i’ve tested what network activity looks like while idling with wireshark after turning it all off and the only thing my machine did was periodically ping out to my router to check for a network connection.

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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 6h

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes.
It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click.
I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 13h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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SK8 Park @sk8parkdiscord.bsky.social · 1d

SK8 the Infinity fans! Preorders for the fan collab calendar CLOSE on ✨November 14th!!✨ Don’t miss out on this incredible project, where passionate fans created gorgeous artwork out of love for this special series. 🥰 Tell your friends! #sk8theinfinity
sk8park.bigcartel.com/product/pre-...

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elianthos @elianthos.bsky.social · 2d

Georgi and Mila as Dawn and Dusk stars dancing in Klimt cosmos space capes sauce. A #fanart for the
#YuriOnIce #ユーリonICE Star*dust zine. #georgila #rarepair

Georgi and Mila from Yuri!!!on Ice as stars dancing. Their starry space and Klimt patterns capes creates a vortex effect as a nod to spiral galaxies. Two golden stars glow above their foreheads.

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court carnaby ☀️ @snidy.bsky.social · Feb 27

chibi #jayvik for @cmvalii.bsky.social 💘🪲

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kitsuneart 🦊 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · 2d

Hey #PortfolioDay ! ✨ I'm Lucia, London based comic artist & illustrator! I love creating comics with a strong emotional core and queer themes. Always happy to collaborate on interesting projects!

🦊 www.kitsuneart.net/comics
🦊 www.instagram.com/kitsuneart/
💌 [email protected]

comic page from a sci-fi retelling of Through the Looking-Glass. First panel is a bird eye view of a female presenting character with pink wavy hair, piercings and an undercut, dressed in dark blue clothes. The colour palette of the page (and the whole comic) is pink/blue. The character is extending their hand to touch a sci-fi looking portal/mirror. Second panel is a close up on the character's eye with caption "I will not fail...".

Comic page from a project titled "Change. Colour palette is orange, white and teal blue. First panel shows a guy's back, a cigarette on his left hand, his right hand scratching his neck. He's looking at the moon from a balcony filled with plants. Caption reads "it can't be helped...I guess it's true what they say...".
Second panel is a close up on the guy's smile as he's showing his fangs.

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 2d

Submissions are open until 30 November, with an extended window to 15 December for trans and BIPOC writers.

This subs window is for issues #1 & #2 (Spring & Summer 2026). #writersky 🌈📚💙

Full guidelines on our website:

Submissions — Bona Books

www.bona-books.com

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 2d

Follow us to hear all the news, and - if you know any queer writers - please share this FAR and WIDE.

We're ravenously seeking:

QUEER FICTION, up to 6,000 words, in science fiction, fantasy or speculative horror ($0.08 /word)

QUEER SPECULATIVE POETRY ($50 /poem)

No reprints. #writersky 🌈📚💙

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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TheOASG @theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Yuuri Eda & Asumiko Nakamura's Sensei's Mail-Order Food: The Complete BL Manga Collection is now available for purchase in print and digital format

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kitsuneart 🦊 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · May 27

❤️ Support Human Artists ❤️

Share their work, drop them a kind word, tip their ko-fis, join their patreons...it matters more than you think.

We have to show up for each other while we still can. We have to uplift each other.

Picture of a sticker made by Kitsuneart with succulents around it.
Two hands covered in red tattoos of roses, thorns and stars are holding a votive red heart. Text inside the heart says "support human artists".

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Shannz 💚 @sashannz8.bsky.social · 2d

Hi all, a dear friend is without her disability payments for 2 months & her phone was just shut off. Her mom is in the hospital & she needs her phone on asap to receive Dr calls. If everyone can please help or share, it would mean the world. She only has paypal: @/krystenJFloyd. Thank you! 🙏🏻✨️

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Lina Torva @linatorva.bsky.social · 3d

#jayvikhurtcomfortweek day 2
Disability

To be gentle with you when the whole world is not

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SK8 Park @sk8parkdiscord.bsky.social · 4d

More celebration square sneak peeks! 😍 Meet the artist behind them: heirophantomthief!!

The SK8 the Infinity collab fan calendar Preorders are open now!! All proceeds go to helping create an amazing experience at @nijifestival.bsky.social 2026. 🙌🏼🏳️‍🌈

sk8park.bigcartel.com/product/pre-...

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Solis Sequentials @solissequentials.bsky.social · 4d

I'm hoping to avoid bots. I think I have a good starting point to talk to some people.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 10d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 6d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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HC•° @hollycircling.bsky.social · 4d

milly milly milly

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Rum 🔞🫟 Commune Whore @rumrumaart.bsky.social · 6d

Jayce was the last thing Viktor saw each time he died.

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 5d

Good time for a reminder that anyone using generative AI in their comics or in any way defending this environment-destroying plagiarism machine gets a lifetime coverage ban at BF.

Be better.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Snail @slumpsnail.bsky.social · 6d

Porque yo te lo prometí

#JayceTalis

Portrait depicting Jayce Talis in his astral form in season 2 of Arcane. The portrait is front facing, his gaze is looking ahead and his expression is a mixture of yearning and love. The background has small stars surrounding him and the gold wisps from Viktor's broken mask.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 18d

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 18d

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 7d

The most damning thing about this is that yes we are all very bad at the cha-cha slide

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 7d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 7d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 7d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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