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Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · 16h

It’s about every 10 posts that I am shown AI slop generations. I am blocking and clicking “show less like this.”

Nothing changes. Bluesky, this isn’t platform engagement. I am going to close the app every time one of these pops up.

Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · 18h

His finger is in position to fire. I know most of these guys aren’t trained much but putting your finger on the trigger or within the trigger guard is only for when you are intending to shoot and have a target. It’s basic gun safety.

Zoomed in photo from the post, focusing on the Federal Agent’s weapon. The agent’s finger is on the trigger and within the trigger guard. There is a red circle drawn to highlight this.

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Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · 7d

Actually disgusted with how much AI garbage slop is showing up on my discovery.

Bluesky, I am an artist. Like I actually make art. Please stop showing me AI slop.

Ive seen people get banned and warned for calling it slop so I cant wait to see what happens.

Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · 8d

Bluesky needs to realize that we can leave this site just as fast as we left Twitter, Meta sites, and others. Those sites have resorted to AI and Bots for keeping engagement up. They need to ask themselves if they want a dead, Nazi and bot riddled, site or if they want actual engagement.

onion person @junlper.beer · 9d

i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here

Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 9d

So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from:

WhiteWind
Skylight
Bluescreen
Flashes

Basically all ATproto apps/projects?

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9d

The real reason why Bluesky is failing so bad at moderation is simply because they're scared of congressional investigations by Republicans and having to spend millions on lawyers they they don't have to defend against it. It's all political and about self preservation.

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Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · 16d

I hope everyone realizes they are going to try and use ICE during the mid terms to pick people out of line. It doesn’t matter that you’re American, they gonna grab you and release you after the election. They’ll do it in blue districts they think will change elections.

Use early voting!

Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · 16d

They are inciting violence against us. This is proof that their misinformation campaigns are working.

To all the dems complying in advance: we’re all watching. We will include you with the regime when we prosecute them. Tossing us aside failed all over the world, it’ll fail here too.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17d

This is now the second attempted terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community in a week as "revenge" for Charlie Kirk. This follows an attempted mass shooting of a gay bar in Arizona.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Texas man accused of plotting Pride parade shooting as revenge for Charlie Kirk

Exclusive: ‘Come on bro let’s go hunting fairies,’ Joshua Cole wrote to a friend two days before the Abilene Pride Parade, according to an FBI probable cause affidavit reviewed by The Independent

www.independent.co.uk

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17d

Bad Bunny was announced as the Super Bowl halftime performer and it's triggering all the worst people. I'm here for it. Boricua!

Tweet from The Redheaded Libertarian claiming Bad Bunny is a “demonic Marxist” given a global stage during a Christian revival. Attached is a TikTok video still showing Bad Bunny performing onstage in red lighting, surrounded by masked dancers in dark clothing.

Tweet from Robby Starbuck with text criticizing the NFL for picking Bad Bunny as the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer, calling it political and noting his comments about ICE raids and Trump. Below the text are screenshots: a USA Today headline about Bad Bunny excluding the U.S. from his tour over ICE fears, a Fox News headline announcing him as the halftime show act, and two photos of Bad Bunny in artistic makeup and outfits.

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Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · 18d

Libertar para Palestina y que viva Borikén libre

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 18d

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

South Bay Queer Solidarity @sbqsolidarity.bsky.social · 19d

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights!

Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...

#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia

Action Needed: Urge Governor Newsom to Sign Five Critical Trans Rights Bills

TransFamily Support Services is proud to co-sponsor five critical trans rights bills that have officially passed the California Legislature. This is a major victory—one made possible through a powerfu...

transfamilysos.org

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18d

Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization.

archive.ph/yA2Wh

Alt text: Screenshot of a press release titled “Genspect Calls for Re-Psychopathologization of Transgender Identification.” Subheading: “Statement for Immediate Release” by Genspect, dated 27th September 2025. Below the title is an abstract graphic of a stylized “G” composed of textured shapes in teal, purple, and pink. The text beneath reads: “On day one of the Genspect conference in Albuquerque, Mia Hughes announced the official launch of Genspect’s Re-psychopathologization campaign in her talk defining transgender identities as extreme overvalued beliefs.”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20d

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Supergiant Games @supergiantgames.bsky.social · 20d

🌒HADES II v1.0 is OUT NOW!! 🌘

Battle beyond the Underworld in our bewitching sequel to the godlike roguelike. Go Kill Time!

Nintendo Switch 2: supergiant.games/h2switch2
Nintendo Switch: supergiant.games/h2switch
Steam: supergiant.games/h2steam
Epic Games Store: supergiant.games/h2egs

Hades II – Nintendo Switch™ 2 Edition for Nintendo Switch 2 - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Hades II – Nintendo Switch™ 2 Edition and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

supergiant.games

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Sep 2

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024.

It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness.

They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.

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foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) @foxyoreos.bsky.social · Aug 6

It's like a virus. If they put out a statement at 2 weeks and we stop, then the next time they censor even more, we'll have to call 4 weeks to get them to even make a statement.

The fight won't be easier to win a year from now. We just have to be relentless, we can't give them a recovery period.

Coffee cat @honeyedcoffee.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · Aug 6

Spoke with an anon source who had an interesting insight into Visa policy. Per a convo with their bank on the Steam/itchio situation today, Visa put new restrictions into place due to a new "government policy." The exact phrase used by Visa. No specific country was listed as the source of the policy

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Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · Aug 5

My grand parents and great grand parents came from Puerto Rico to the States because they had to. They couldn’t survive on the island because of what the US did.

Bad Bunny’s music video references the protest in 1977. Many immigrants in the US were displaced BY THE US.

A screenshot of the Nueva Yol music video, by Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny. The image shows the head of the statue of liberty with the light blue Puerto Rican flag draping over the forehead from the crown at night.

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Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · Aug 5

“You like blueberries? Why do you hate strawberries!?!?”

“You want our party to fix its problems? You’re evil.”

“You’re suggesting something in place my idea of how to handle this? Rude.”

Be better. They want us burnt out with infighting. Focus on the real issues. Call bullshit where you see it

Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · Aug 5

It is a bad faith tactic to say you are the enemy if you raise concerns.

Ya’ll see this everyday if you’re on social media. In politics it’s “if you dont agree then you must be the opposition”

In everyday life it’s, “oh you like this thing? So you hate this other non-mutually exclusive thing?”

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Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · Aug 5

I feel this. I accidentally saved over my file from a recent piece and because I lost the layers I’m just not sharing it incase of an accusation. Im proud of it too 😔

Your art doesn’t look like AI, though it means that people are profiting off of AI that steals art like yours.

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Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · Jul 31

POC points out a reoccurring problematic/racist behavior of the yt person.

Yt person: “that really hurt my feelings. Don’t do that again.”

😔 its exhausting.

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Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · Jul 27

It’s so hard to take the name “Clank” for the warforged equivalent in Daggerheart. I keep picturing the Starwars droids saying it.

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Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · Jul 25

You know your cooked for the day when even Bad Bunny not getting you out of bed. I’m still movin tho 😭

Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · Jul 19

Shout out to Jimmy Carter for freeing the Four and giving us a chance. You’d never see a modern president do that. They’d have disappeared.

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Hesi @hunterhesi.bsky.social · Jul 19

Colonizers. Gentrifying our towns, taking our land, killing our sacred animal, passing barbaric laws. I want to remind everyone of March 1st, 1954. We have seen this facism from the US since 1898. Boricuas fight back

The US country has always done this. The current admin is just bringing home now.

The original puerto rican flag. Light blue triangle on the left side extending towards the middle, with a single white star in the center. Three red stripes with two white stripes between each red one.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Jul 12

There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America.

Guess which one they want you to focus on.

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