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Hi! I'm Cleo, a progressive activist and content creator / YouTuber / livestreamer with a special focus on feminism and, more specifically, gender-based censorship--also known as topless equality. Find videos here: toplesstopics.org

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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 22d

I'm still waiting for someone to offer an argument for why nipples that "look female" are "sexually explicit nudity" but nipples that "look male" are not, that doesn't boil down to "because misogyny."

meme with the "male" and "female" symbols, with a vaguely identifiable photo of a cropped nipple inside of each, captioned:
(next to the male symbol) "safe-for-work, nonsexual, child friendly"
(next to the female symbol) "sexually explicit, adult nudity, dangerous to children"
Bottom caption: Make it make sense.

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lawngnomesorceress @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social · 13h

these ai coding platforms made the mistake of trying to use a subscription model for something that lights up the same dopamine receptors as gambling. all genAI has some RNG baked in, so you end up with users rerunning prompts to get a good result like they're pulling the lever on a slot machine.

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Hexagonal @hexagonal.bsky.social · 12h

AI lets you replace your gross human developers for the low, low price of *checks bills* $15k a month. Oh.

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 12h

It's very funny that they decided to open, like, an infinity cost buffet, but 100% never asked anyone who had run an actual buffet what that might look like, and how to incentivize subscriptions while disincentivizing overconsumption.

Imagine anyone in AI had ever had a job? Like any job?

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Booodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 11h

They say it's not a viable industry without stealing other people's work, but it sounds like it's just not a viable industry.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 11h

Yeah I don't know how these companies intend to make profit. Is there even a plan? OpenAI valuation is at $500B based on what?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 16h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Ivan Nevarez 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🫘 @ivannevarez.bsky.social · 11h

I have yet to see an ICE, or any Fed, video of them taking on an actual gang infested area of any city. Of actually rounding up gang bangers, maybe even with a gun fight. You'd think they'd advertize the shit out of that if they did.

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Hideinplainsight @profusional.bsky.social · 11h

Just read the ABC piece. All they’re doing is stenography with no actual investigative reporting. What a complete joke that organization has become.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 12h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 8h

Is there another time in American history where a state of emergency was declared in response to federal action?

LA County declares state of emergency to aid residents hit by immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted Tuesday to declare a state of emergency that gives them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration...

www.wcvb.com

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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 8h

But bluesky is totally different from every other mainstream platform when it comes to insane censorship, yep, totally 🙃

ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 11h

"what are you adding to the conversation besides a pitchfork" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 11h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgJW... another video creator i like weighs in on the cancel culture run amok issue i constantly rant about lol

The Problem with Accountability Culture.

YouTube video by Stanzi

www.youtube.com

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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 11h

youtube version already at 2 likes and 1 dislike, lol. DON'T LET THE HATERS WIN! KEEP THE LIKES IN THE LEAD! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK3U...

Topless Topics Discusses Sealioning, Debate Bros, Bear Vs Man, and Jubilee vs Charlie Kirk

YouTube video by ToplessTopics

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 16h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 19h

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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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 11h

Patriarchy unfriendly version: videos.trom.tf/w/szsPSHReCK...

NSFW Behind The Scenes video editing Livestream clip: Topless Topics Discusses Sealioning, Debate Bros, Bear Vs Man, and Jubilee vs Charlie Kirk

Topless Topics Discusses Sealioning, Debate Bros, Bear Vs Man, and Jubilee

A "highlight" clip from the "nsfw behind the scenes video editing" livestream I did today (10/14/2025) at https://www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics where I paused amid editing my "why it's rude to sa...

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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 11h

NSFW Behind The Scenes video editing Livestream clip: Topless Topics Discusses Sealioning, Debate Bros, Bear Vs Man, and Jubilee vs Charlie Kirk

youtu.be/vK3Uk2cFf2s

Topless Topics Discusses Sealioning, Debate Bros, Bear Vs Man, and Jubilee vs Charlie Kirk

YouTube video by ToplessTopics

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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 17h

now streaming at www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstop... and on our Discord server (join at www.toplesstopics.org/chat ) while I (hopefully) finish editing my "why it's rude to tell a woman 'nice tits'" video!

ToplessTopics - Watch me stream now on joystick.tv

editing

www.joystick.tv

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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 1d

I really don't think getting naked is an effective way to protest the ice raids. It's making yourself the center of attention and the spectacle, it's not mocking the fascists' absurdity like the frog costumes etc do.

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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 1d

Writing a chapter in my medievalish novel on my laptop by candlelight because our power went out two hours ago and I only have a little battery left is peak irony, lol 😂

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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 2d

I'm kinda worried my MC might be a little too tortured and pathetic right now, lol... He gets stronger in the second half of the book after a bunch of stuff happens, but I don't want people to only read the first few chapters and think "this is too depressing, he's such a whiner" 😅

ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all need to be more careful about blindly subscribing to those "follow lists"... I just blocked someone whose profile said a bunch of my mutual nudist followers also follow, even though all they did was repost nudist photos alongside porn, with sexual terms in the descriptions for each.

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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 2d

I know, I've tried a few of them, but pretty much all the names they generate just don't feel...right. I've had better luck looking at real maps of places around the world then frankensteining names of things together until I like them. It's entirely vibes-based 😅

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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 2d

Missed a Topless Topics livestream? Don't worry, you can still watch the VOD recording on our website! Uploaded weekly after each stream at toplesstopics.org/VOD yes, even the sub-only patriarchy-unfriendly uncensored streams!

nonsexual topless thumbnail of me indicating with my arms the information about the VODs (sendible has a strict character limit on alt text so I can't describe the image further%2C sorry)

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