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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 15h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 3h

"EHRC accused of trying to impose segregation ‘rarely seen outside of fundamentalist regimes’"

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/14/e...

EHRC gender guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable', says charity boss

The Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) proposed Code of Practice changes have been labelled "discriminatory and unworkable".

www.thepinknews.com

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 15h

Between this, Musk’s MechaHitler making porn, & payment processors punishing sex workers/artists that make adult material, I hope it’s more obvious than ever what the wealthy who believe they rule over us think.

“We can do whatever we want, including plagiarized porn, and the marginalized cannot.”

The Verge @theverge.com · 19h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 3h

Being asked on question time if you would nationalise large breasts

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 1h

"Big Nationals"

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 1h

I am NOT returning that ring of healing

The Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 1d

morrowind concept art is funny

Wood elves

- All black eyes
- All women gorgeous
- All men have lost their power of glamour

Image of wood elf woman is beautiful, image of possible wood elf male looks like a gremlin

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Kelly² @anarchakelly.bsky.social · 1h

The guys in the camo obscuring their faces are 99.999999% of the time the bad guys.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 8h

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 6h

youtube going out of their way to ruin their UI and break the extensions that make their awful website usable

again

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 7h

A four panel comic strip. An anthropomorphic wolf man runs into an office where three others are working at their desks. He says, "The fire marshal is coming for annual inspections!" In the next panel, a seated wolf is playing with a remote control airplane, and a smoke detector with an open battery compartment is mounted on the wall above him. The first wolf says "Put that 9 volt back in the smoke detector!" In the third panel, an anthropomorphic dog holds a power strip while standing next to a sculpture comprised of multiple power strips. The first wolf says "Hide your..."Daisy Chain Power Strip" sculpture!?" In the fourth panel, a bear proudly displays his t-shirt which reads "I love storing combustibles around radiators." The first wolf, in exasperation, yells "CHANGE YOUR SHIRT!"

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8h

i think one very clear lesson of 2024 is necessity of having media infrastructure to reach public. right now legacy media is either passively or actively complicit and social media increasingly owned by allies of administration

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 13h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 17h

Guys, I'm starting to suspect conservatives weren't worried about ideological indoctrination in public schools, so much as the kind they don't like

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dferrer.bsky.social @dferrer.bsky.social · 12h

We had an outage because Qwen 2.5 refused to do anything for a prompt that was modified to add a table of markets with Taiwan and China as separate countries. Wouldn’t do the SA task without a disclaimer that Taiwan is an integral part of China added. Not a sex thing but censorship is insidious

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Trev @videomonger.bsky.social · 7h

Reviewbrah, exhausted, stares at the camera. In his hand, a taco. "Everything Keeps Getting Worse" the title says.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 10h

Had an affair with her source and all she got was a book deal, a cushy Vanity Fair editing gig and a year off. Real tough to be “exiled” these days

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 10h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11h

@grayathena.bsky.social said it better

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 10h

normalizing fascist interference now for posting

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 11h

based based based

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Shawn Robare @shawnrobare.com · 11h

I mean, I have the whole team, and even a signed Mark Linn-Baker All Star card!

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Shawn Robare @shawnrobare.com · 11h

But do you have a gem mint Bronson Pinchot rookie card?

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 18h

Actual safety notice from my alma mater:

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses being used exactly as everyone expected

The techbros are not okay (it’s a completely open campus…not all the buildings, obviously)

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Office of Public Safety

Crime Safety Advisory:
Suspicious Occurrence Reported

Dear USF Community,

We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus. Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms.

While no threats or acts of violence have been reported, we want our community to stay informed and take steps to support one another.
If you encounter this individual or any suspicious activity:

Take immediate action to report the incident at the time it occurs by calling Public Safety Dispatch.
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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 13h

"can you tell the difference between a meaningful and serendipitous moment in the real world and the howl of 1000s of gpus trying to optimize for you lingering on your phone for 0.5s longer?"

"can you?"

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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 13h

After waiting for an hour and a half for her son to be released to her, the boy’s mother was told he was instead transferred to an ICE facility in another state.

13-year-old boy arrested by ICE in Massachusetts and transferred over 500 miles from family

After waiting for an hour and a half for her son to be released to her, the boy’s mother was told he was instead transferred to an ICE facility in another state.

reason.pub

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