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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 6h

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 10h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 7h

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Alma @lasalma.bsky.social · 6h

I finished Alan Wake 2 just the other day, that's perfect timing

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Astri Elise L’Estrange @astrilestrange.bsky.social · 11h

Her er det så mange skjermbilder og saker å legge ved at jeg vet ikke hvor jeg skal starte engang. Den typen eskalerende, målrettet dehumanisering transpersoner møter i USA er nettopp sånt asylprogrammet eksisterer for å beskytte sårbare grupper fra.

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🎃SCARE-sha🎃 @spacethey.gay · 9h

you fool. there will be no designer vaginas under communism. instead there will be ten thousand highly skilled surgeons churning out thousands of the most pristine and ideologically pure vaginas ever constructed by human hands. our brave trans healthcare doctors will all receive the order of lenin

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 14h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
X.com
Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Alma @lasalma.bsky.social · 14h

Oh hey, the "ceasefire" was total bullshit, as anyone with even a modicum of pattern recognition could have predicted

they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 15h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Sven Egil Omdal @svenni.bsky.social · 18h

Dette er Aftenpostens prioritering: 20 frigitte israelere får fire sider, inkludert hele forsiden. Bilde av samtlige. De er individer. 1700 frigitte palestinere får to små avsnitt, uten navn eller bilde. De er en underordnet, uviktig masse. Slik bidrar Aftenposten til å forsterke maktforholdet.

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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 1d

Newgrounds has a very helpful guide for detecting AI audio over at www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-in... for anyone interested in catching AI-generated music. Don't rely on any service that uses AI for detection, that's just using slop to find slop and you'll get false positives/missed catches.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 1d

Violent radical transgender leftists

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Alma @lasalma.bsky.social · 1d

Colonialism is alive and kicking and it should make us all sick.
This is land theft masquerading as de-escalation.
There is no justice here, and so there cannot be peace. Israel must be held to account, forced to return all land they have stolen, and pay untold reparations (at minimum)

Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

Israel is retaining control of 58% of the Gaza Strip, including the majority of its farmland in eastern Gaza.

Western Gaza was largely built on top of sand dunes, as you can see from the aerial image in the post below.

ISRAEL'S WAR ON GAZA
Israel's withdrawal to the 'yellow line'
In the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan, Israel is set to withdraw its troops to the agreed 'yellow line' within 24 hours, after which a 72-hour period will begin for the handover of Israeli captives.

Israel retains control of 58%
of the Gaza Strip

[map of Gaza showing the area still controlled by Israel in yellow, with a yellow line surrounding the area in which Palestinians are allowed to reside]

eyal weizman @weizman... 1d g ...
This aerial image from the 1960s shows that the 'yellow line' of Israel's redeployment in Gaza is roughly matching with the border of the area's coastal sand dune, leaving Gaza without the absolute majority of its agricultural areas on the fertile soils in the east.
[B&W aerial image of Gaza showing a yellow line separating the area where Palestinians are allowed to reside in the west from the area in the east. Sand dunes are visible in the majority of the now built-up area for Palestinans]

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Alma @lasalma.bsky.social · 1d

The ending was fucking perfect. The ambiguity was the fucking point

Alma @lasalma.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone who said Alan Wake 2's ending sucked...
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No

Alma @lasalma.bsky.social · 1d

You ever end up avoiding a game you played most of the way through, despite being heavily invested in it, just because you don't want it to end?
I had that with Alan Wake 2, and just now coming back to it

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 3d

It's Brian with a word bubble that says

I want more seven out of 10 games with whatever graphics and weird ideas made by cool people that don't use ai and I'm not kidding

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Alma @lasalma.bsky.social · 1d

You ever end up avoiding a game you played most of the way through, despite being heavily invested in it, just because you don't want it to end?
I had that with Alan Wake 2, and just now coming back to it

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 2d

OpenAI is fucking disgusting and so are the people who use it

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Alma @lasalma.bsky.social · 2d

The quickest way to make me not wanna interact with anything you're producing is to use "AI"

Shenpai @shenpai.gay · 2d

This shit really be pissing me off bruh, I wanted to look for ren faires here in germany and the first link I click on has AI generated assets like, I aint going there man, you are cheap enough to not put effort into this, which means I doubt your quality irl as well.

Any Germans have recs perhaps?

Alma @lasalma.bsky.social · 2d

Fascism is a snake that eats itself

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 2d

persecuting minority groups who they imagine are poisoning society is an inherent part of the ideology, they need it, even if they were handed an ethnically 'cleansed' fascist state it would collapse in a witch-hunt for secret jews and suspected homosexuals and insufficiently committed fascists

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 2d

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Apayauq 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🇵🇸 @apayauq.bsky.social · 2d

boikott fretex folkens

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 3d

How the media are gaslighting trans people

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 3d

Because it needs to be said:

The Salvation Army does not exist to save you

The Salvation Army exists to convert you

And if they cannot convert you, they will not lift a finger to save you

Do not support those whose “charity“ comes with conditions

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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