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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 1m

yeah madlibs was fun and didnt poison entire metropolitan area!

dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 4m

isn't ai just madlibs?

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 33m

"I was blindfolded & cable-tied for 5hrs. They separated men & women placed us in vans. woman sitting next to me had been handcuffed so tightly that she was screaming in pain. When they finally removed her handcuffs, it took several attempts b\se of how badly her flesh had swollen around the metal"

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 55m

I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Naoise Dolan | ‘You’re here now’

The steel handcuffs the Israeli guard locked on me were ‘Tri-Max Made in England’. Clanking mine to the beat, I sang...

www.lrb.co.uk

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 30m

should i make a youtube videos based on letterboxd or i cna make tapes and mail them

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 1h

3/ A thread
bsky.app/profile/hold...

Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · Apr 3

#BetterHelp - Acknowledging it's hard to go in-depth in this format. Begin Thread 🧵

1/ Please understand BH is owned by #Teladoc, a multi-billion$$ publicly traded corp with global influence.
BetterHelp was their 2015 entry to mental health “care”

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 1h

2/ the pop-up message at the article webpage contradicted:
"If you click 'I Agree', we may also share PII with third party advertising partners to deliver more relevant ads and with analytics partners to improve our services. .."

and #404Media continues to influence for #BetterHelp 💀

[screenshot from webpage containing earliest archive (July 29, 2025) of article]
We process personally identifiable information ("PII") and personal health information to conduct our business and provide you with effective service as described in our Privacy Policy. Some data processing and sharing is required for our product to function and cannot be disabled. If you click 'I Agree', we may also share PII with third party advertising partners to deliver more relevant ads and with analytics partners to improve our services. To learn about who we share your data with and why or to opt out, go to Sharing Settings.

[reference url added to screenshot:]
https://web.archive.org/web/20250729220602/https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/general/what-is-the-betterhelp-controversy-data-privacy-facts/

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 1h

1/ #BetterHelp by #Teladoc has published how they rehabilitated themselves since the 2023 FTC settlement. A classic PR piece, w deceptive claims abt transparency. Never a word about sharing & use of so-called "de-identified" info. #CrisisTextLine - same playbook.
www.betterhelp.com/advice/gener...

What is the BetterHelp Controversy? Data Privacy Facts | BetterHelp

The BetterHelp controversy refers to a settled 2023 FTC claim. Get the facts on what happened and how BetterHelp responded.

www.betterhelp.com

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 1h

@404media.co i will never trust you or your journalism as you take money from better health i am so frustrated only @holdspacefree.bsky.social has held them accountable...how will I trust a publication that talks about ai, surveillance, and power....sponsored by betterhealth!!!

Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 1h

2/ the pop-up message at the article webpage contradicted:
"If you click 'I Agree', we may also share PII with third party advertising partners to deliver more relevant ads and with analytics partners to improve our services. .."

and #404Media continues to influence for #BetterHelp 💀

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 2h

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

The header of the appeals court decision:

NUMBER 13-25-00005-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

The conclusion of the appeals court decision, which states: The trial court's judgment is reversed. We remand the cause to the trial court with

instructions to (1) grant appellants' TCPA motion to dismiss, (2) award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to appellants in accordance with the statute, (3) consider whether to assess sanctions against Haas in accordance with the statute. See TEX. Civ. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009(a).

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 3h

Shop to fight terrorism

Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social · 12h

Kind of literally

www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

User Clip: Bush shopping quote

Bush Oct 11 2001

www.c-span.org

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3h

Oh this little rat liar fuck "I had no idea when I said verified adults would get erotic content that people would run with it and not the part where I said we're limiting privacy and freedom to teens who we are still happily allowing to use our product that tells teens to kill themselves"

Sam Altman on Twitter like yesterday or idk the day before:

Ok this tweet about upcoming changes to ChatGPT blew up on the erotica point much more than I thought it was going to! It was meant to be just one example of us allowing more user freedom for adults. Here is an effort to better communicate it:

As we have said earlier, we are making a decision to prioritize safety over privacy and freedom for teenagers. And we are not loosening any policies related to mental health. This is a new and powerful technology, and we believe minors need significant protection.

We also care very much about the principle of treating adult users like adults. As Al becomes more important in people's lives, allowing a lot of freedom for people to use Al in the ways that they want is an important part of our mission.

It doesn't apply across the board of course: for example, we will still not allow things that cause harm to others, and we will treat users who are having mental health crises very different from users who are not. Without being paternalistic we will attempt to help users achieve their long-term goals.

But we are not the elected moral police of the world. In the same way that society differentiates other appropriate boundaries (R-rated movies, for example) we want to do a similar thing here.

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 8h

sexual violence is one of THE most universal and timeless technologies of oppression in all of human history. it is a foundational component of war, of genocide, of colonialism. it is an expression of the right of the invading body to consolidate power thru the fragmentation of the subjugated body >

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 8h

CW: SA
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i hate to be on my usual fucking bullshit but it really needs to be said that these are rape threats.

they also stripped her and filmed her.

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg was beaten and tortured by the Israelis. They learned how to call her a whore in Swedish, and forced her to wear the Israeli flag.

The Swedish foreign ministry abandoned its citizens in Israel, and downplayed what they went through.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Beating, kicking, and threats of being
gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla are now sharing details about their five days in Israeli captivity - and how Swedish Foreign Ministry staff left
them without help. Aftonbladet's investigation shows how the Foreign Ministry downplayed the
abuse in its communications. Her red suitcase lies in the hall. "Whore Greta"
someone has written in large black letters. Around the text: an Israeli flag and an erect
penis. The bag was confiscated by the Israeli military from the boat - and returned to her like this. She
laughs.
- They're like five-year-olds!

- They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me.
Greta laughs.
- Then they ripped off my frog hat, threw it on the ground, stomped and kicked it, and kind of threw a tantrum.
- They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. 'A special place for a special lady', they said. And then they had learned 'Lilla hora' (Little whore) and 'Hora Greta' (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time.

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 3h

lol oh my god

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Professional Husband @bajaenjoyer.bsky.social · 20h

The stuff they drew on her suitcase man, the fixation on sexual humiliation you get from Israelis in uniform is something else

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 20h

They filmed her naked during a strip search too

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 3h

Jfc every day I hate it

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 3h

This is a chilling reminder that RFK Jr. is destroying our public health systems, threatening American lives, and undermining medical research.

These Surgeons General are right: this is bigger than politics.

For the health and safety of all Americans, RFK Jr. must resign.

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 3h

picture of me wearing a scarf, sraring at the camera, hand posed so my head is resting on my hand,

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Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 4h

Here’s a reply I prepared earlier about machine learning.

Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 10h

ML being jammed into "AI!" is something that just continues to piss me off no end.

I feel like it's only there to try and provide credibility to bullshit generators, and graphics regurgitators.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20h

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.

YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 16h

youtube is down like what do i do with my life

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 17h

Jfc

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 17h

whats even the discourse ??

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