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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · Jan 27

i’m just quoting this so i can pin it.

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · Jan 27

your trans friends are sadder than they've ever been, and would love a check in

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 11h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 11h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 3h

Yup. Homophobia due to a “pure political calculation” is still homophobia.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 3h

a lot of the way homophobia works is by preemptively attributing homophobia to others. "I would love to sell you this house because I'm not racist, but the neighbors would object."

If you're LGBT identity keeps you off the ticket, that's homophobia. it doesn't matter what was in Harris' heart. 1

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 21d

Seriously, if you actually believe (falsely) that @KamalaHarris is homophobic, as opposed to simply making a pure political calculation re: her analysis of the best running mate in order to optimize her chances of defeating Trump, just...WTF? bluevirginia.us/2025/09/tues... h/t @magi_jay

Magdi Jacobs: "Harris was describing the nation as she sees it, not the way she wants it to be. We all need to put a stop to these forced conflations; They put us on a path where we cannot tell the truth in pure descriptive terms w/out fearing moral condemnation of our normative values."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 3h

so cool how republicans will be lockstep in defense of their pack of baby hitlers while democrats will oust any millennial or zoomer from their ranks for saying that maybe insulin should be free or that we shouldn't send 45 trillion dollars a month to israel's ethnic cleansing budget

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

jd vance is currently defending this

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3h

Young Democrats: hey maybe don’t kidnap my international friends

Young Republicans:

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 3h

When do you think the last time any of them ever touched a renter was?

Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 3h

The demographics in this photo say more than the signs ever could.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 4h

America didnt even do this when Kennedy was assassinated

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3h

I feel like *sigh* this too is an anti-trust concern

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 11h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 11h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3h

If visa processes your chatgpt payment after this then it’s just obviously anti competitive / market fixing for them to refuse to process indie artist porn comics

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 4h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 4h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Marie @marie.tech · 7h

Can't imagine why students at Brown this year would want to not ID as non-binary as much as they used to.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement

“Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

www.advocate.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 6h

The boring and obvious take that anti-woke positions have the effect (and in many cases the intent) of making it acceptable in polite circles to be a degenerate racist was and remains correct.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 5h

the spectacle as a deescalating tactic, absent anything to deescalate, can easily devolve into stuntery and cosplay: nothing materially impacted, but people pat themselves on the back for the sweat from dancing around for a couple hours, as if they had done something other than tire themselves out.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 4h

This is a good crowdsourcing project. Suggest you look through for names in your state, see who you can connect them to. For example, there’s this guy.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 4h

in jars in the garage?

Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 5h

ain’t no 12 year old who knows who Trelaine is

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 5h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h

I know this is a very difficult story to report … but finding out whatever we can about these people being killed in extrajudicial executions at sea seems like a pretty high priority right now.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 9h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve now reached the point in the Bluesky post cycle where the funny replies have ended and now it’s people restating my point but also seeming like they’re mad at me for some reason

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h

Just gonna leave this here.

In survey data, LGBT young people report consistently worse mental health than heterosexual young people.
Whether this is because LGBT causes mental illness (i.e. the minority stress or anomie hypotheses), or because
mental illness causes individuals to be LGBT is beyond the scope of this work.2

Footnote 2: Meyer, I. H. (1995). "Minority stress and mental health in gay men." Journal of health and social behavior: 38-56; Michael Bailey, J.
(2020). "The Minority Stress Model Deserves Reconsideration, Not Just Extension." Archives of Sexual Behavior 49(7): 2265-2268.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h

You know what? I have time today. Let's have a look.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 9h

Frying brains online

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