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Venal Ant Libel 🔔

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Valentina Bell, most of the time 🇵🇦🏳️‍⚧️🇻🇪 Available with more Spanish at @[email protected] also tumblr

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Venal Ant Libel 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · Apr 17

Some assholes want to be quote-dunked to collect victim sympathy and for a humiliation fetish. Don't show your feet for free.

Venal Ant Libel 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · Apr 17

Please please please do not forget the hard posting safety lessons from Twitter.

Don't quote dunk.
Screenshot.
Don't give your platform to assholes.

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 7h

They forcefemmed Zenigata

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 9d

bluesky: community moderation! we're all about community moderation! we want you to moderate yourselves! we are giving you the tools to do it yourself!

one of the biggest and longest running community mod lists:

Vergil @ ✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️ @vergiliaux.art · 9d

BSky hid @asukafield.xyz's transphobia mod list. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Blue Sky's interface for hidden moderation lists, saying the following: "This list, created by @asukafield.xyz , contains possible violations of Bluesky's community guidelines in its name or description." Offered choices are to unsubscribe or go back.

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 5h

Directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman built much of the documentary from footage that incarcerated men secretly recorded with contraband cell phones. As a result, the film offers an unfiltered view inside a system where overcrowding, untreated addiction and violence are routine.

How Filmmakers Uncovered ‘Embarrassment of Horrors’ In Alabama Prisons

The directors of ‘The Alabama Solution’ discuss their piercing new documentary and what they hope people will take away from the film.

www.themarshallproject.org

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3h

Americans are really spending their own tax money on getting brainwashed

Truthout @truthout.org · 4h

A new firm will geofence the actual boundaries of every major church and Christian college in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Coloardo and then “track attendees and continue to target [them] with ads” on behalf of Israel. The $3.2 million contract also includes paying pastors to produce content.

New Campaign Aims to Flood Churches and Christian Colleges With Pro-Israel Ads

The campaign is part of a larger $3.2 million contract that also includes paying pastors to produce content.

truthout.org

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 6h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Cat Blackard 🌈🌴✨ @catblackard.bsky.social · 3h

Is the very IDEA of #TronAres bringing you down? What if there was a Tron story with a prominent queer/trans narrative in it? Well folks, there is. It's an audio drama I co-starred in. Enjoy, programs.

Tess "The Egg Prime Directive" Tanenbaum @drtanenbaum.bsky.social · 4d

I wish more people knew about City of Daemons from @omniverse.bsky.social - a Tron story made by two trans lesbians (and Doug!)

The queer Tron narrative that Disney will NEVER make!

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Venal Ant Libel 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · 3h

"Why are you so being so cruel to the person that screwed you over?"

Venal Ant Libel 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · 4h

Walter White the shepherd: I am the one who flocks

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 5h

walter white becomes an influencer: I am the one who tiktoks

ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 5h

Walter White after commandeering the Maersk Alabama "Look at Me! I am the one who docks"

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Rebecca Kling @rebeccakling.bsky.social · 5h

The trans motto

A screenshot from Twitter with the text "improved live laugh love just dropped" and a photo of graffiti reading "trains, sluts, drugs"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 12h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 20h

So Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe are all gonna ban ChatGPT from receiving payments now, right?

Right??

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

I agree that there’s some real horrific irony in AI conglomerates being permitted to launch the Madness Inducing Porn Spigot while actual, human porn producers are getting harassed off the internet.

Space Man @spaceds8008s.bsky.social · 23h

It feels like such a slap in the face to sex workers and nsfw artists who are actively being censored by payment processors atm. Of course visa/mc are ok with this because its a rich white guy doing it AND they get access to all that VERY PROFITABLE PII. Disgusting.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Again, this is not what needs to be done. "Why are you breaking the law & violating the Constitution & your oath of office?" is the question. When he doesn't answer it, the next journalist needs to ask it, & then the next one, & the one after that. Stop giving him & John Thune free passes every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many responses savaging the looks of these men. It's taking the easy way out. There are plenty of people who look like those men and are not racist sacks of human refuse. Something is deficient in their souls. In their minds. In the manner in which they were raised.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Venal Ant Libel 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · 5h

bsky.app/profile/octo...

Nerine 🏳️‍⚧️Ⓐ @octonion256.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing thread, thank you. A few links from my collection, if they're useful.

No, AI is not accelerating scientific progress
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

They are bad at summarizing
futurism.com/ai-chatbots-...
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

Venal Ant Libel 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · 5h

Check this #thread
bsky.app/profile/octo...

Venal Ant Libel 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · 1d

We need a resource where to point at, when facing ai advocates, users, and normies. A summary of all the harm genAI does to humans and nature.

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Sophia J. Turner 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophiajt.com · Sep 10

I've been wanting to do this for a while, so here we go. This is a thread of some of the reports coming out about the issues with genAI, specifically negative impacts on people.

I'll do my best to keep this updated while it's relevant.

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Jaime Mosquera 🏚️ @elsombreronart.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #PortfolioDay y'all! I'm a Colombian trans butch artist who makes horror, particularly gothic and surreal hauntings, who's #WFH looking for #comics work! And if you're an editor, I have some very fun and spooky #GN pitches you can check out 👀

💌 [email protected]
🔗 elsombreronart.com

Panel 1: Ovidio sits in front of a body covered in a sheet, text says: we shudder to think we sit in the jaws of her death, soothe ourselves against the same teeth that bit her

Panel 2: someone unseen steps forward, text says: that we might unknowingly wander into the end of our lives in the same place we found the beginnings of it

Panel 3: a reflection in the water of Ovidio reaching for the body and someone reaching for them, text says: the seeds of love a poor shield against a cruel hand

Panel 4: Ovidio looks behind them as a hand reaches towards them, text says: that the hand we love may reach towards us in violence--

Page is greyscle with red accents in Ovidio's hair and the yarn that moves through the page, frames some of the panels, forms a pomegranate, and ties around Doe's hand

Panel 1: a lamb cowers at the shadow of a jaguar at the end of the hall
Panel 2: overlaying sequence of the lamb running
Panel 3: the lamb bumps into the wall
Panel 4: the lamb tries to cry out as a shadow of claws come down on them
Panel 5: a woman sleepily opens a door with a candle in her hand, asking "what's all this noise? Did something happen?"

Ovidio floating between two trees that have blood and missing posters on then. Below them are green mushrooms and crashing ocean waves and they're taking a picture on a camera

Post card of multi colored houses of a variety of sizes. There's a rainbow gradient over them and a grainy off white background. The houses get bigger from the left top corner towards the bottom right corner.

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 1d

Sonic saying, "Support your local, human, erotica creators. You need chatgpt to suck your e-dick for you? You absolutely fucking LOSER"

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Venal Ant Libel 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · 7h

unless some criteria are installed, the more identification data is required, will risk the more misidentification

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 11h

I'm sure there are many lovely marketing people/studios out there. However, this kind of thing happens so often that if you say you work in marketing, I am immediately FrySuspicious.gif

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 12h

So, I stumbled across this animation (left) that a professional studio made for a commercial client last year and a lot of it seems VERY familiar to my 2023 'PEAS' animation (right)...

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Venal Ant Libel 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · 18h

My personal headcanon:

Piranha from The Bad Guys: transmasc

Gangle from The Amazing Digital Circus: transfem

Venal Ant Libel 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · 18h

[Roblox oof sound + reverb]

Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 21h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 23h

lead, petroleum, and asbestos are the holy trinity of "genuinely extremely useful and the best at what they do, but will also absolutely fucking kill you" because if you don't know about lead poisoning, climate change, or mesothelioma, there's really nothing that beats 'em.

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