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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 39m

a lot of tech bosses seem to be allergic to two basic things their workers axiomatically accept

1) a woman can say no

2) a man can transition into a woman

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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 23m

that person pattern matches well to someone enjoying fighting online just for fighting's sake

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 16h

Hahahaha!

Thanks to ya'll here on Bluesky I found out my doctor was doing something illegal. Went to report it and found out that the agency where you report it to is permanently closed.

So that's cool and fun and the government is functioning perfectly, no notes.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 22h

yesterday on twitter, some of the biggest far right doxxing users were suspended and then elon musk caught wind, and reinstated them. get everyone you can off twitter. it is firmly a pro-doxxing-if-you’re-far-right platform

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

“Screwworm is dangerously close”: Flesh-eating parasites just 70 miles from US

The detection was along a heavily trafficked commercial thoroughfare, USDA says.

arstechnica.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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kay @dogthoughts.link · 16h

Adding a boykisser to my PS1 to remove its region lock and make it play PEPSI MAN

A custom PSNee modchip board installed inside of a PlayStation 1. There is a boykisser on the modchip

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 4h

"I don't hear her talking about women's rights, I just hear her talking about trans people." absolutely spot on about Rowling.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 1h

this is a very good read, but I accidentally left the tab open after reading it, and the webpage background kept tanking youtube video framerate until I closed the tab 😅

Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 23h

"I wrote because I believed in an idea that feels almost silly now: that visibility would lead to acceptance.

That if people just knew the stories of trans people, understood our humanity, they’d stop seeing us as threats or curiosities or political pawns."

@parkermolloy.com

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 14h

this officially tops the "outage caused because the request to send an email was phrased too aggressively", a previous high water mark for LLM censoriousness breaking prod

dferrer.bsky.social @dferrer.bsky.social · 15h

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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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 12h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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nnnilabs.net @nnnilabs.net · 20h

@aisler.net loot part 1/3! PCBs hold up to close inspection and look very delicious too😋

these days, I always get mine with the rapid registration stencil, a template for which can be freely downloaded and printed!

thank you Aisler for the constant support!

(NNNI25 for €10 off at Aisler😇)

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AISLER @aisler.net · 2h

We'd like to show you another part of Campus Tirol Motorsports formula student car: A self developed Accumulator Management System. It consists of the AMS, nine Cell Supervision Circuits and a Precharge Circuit. The team wrote more about the project in this post: community.aisler.net/t/self-devel...

Cell Supervision Circuit (CSC) board developed for Campus Tirol Motorsport’s 600 V accumulator. The elongated PCB integrates voltage dividers, an LTC6812 IC for measurement and balancing, and edge connectors for integration into the CSC Mech housing.

Side view of a fully assembled accumulator stack used in the team’s electric race car. Multiple CSC boards are mounted on each module, linked by orange power and data connectors. The lower compartment houses power electronics, including precharge and AMS boards.

Top view of one of the nine accumulator stacks from the Campus Tirol Motorsport Formula Student race car. Each module contains multiple lithium-ion cells monitored by narrow Cell Supervision Circuit (CSC) boards. The CSCs handle temperature and voltage measurements for individual cells and connect via orange high-voltage and data connectors.

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Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 5h

I'm surprised by fact I am not female in my records any more - I've been registered as female on my medical records since 2007.

She booked me in for an ultrasound and will see if there's any way to confirm eligibility for routine mammography. I was calm throughout and think that helped her relax.

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Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 5h

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

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Pedro Soares @peachflavor3d.bsky.social · 21h

Good stuff here!

St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 21h

I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.

From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.

Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...

This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 1d

I said after the SC ruling that we'd basically already defeated them, however much shit they throw at us. Trans people will always exist. They can't bring about a world without trans people in it. So naturally they're demoralised, because they might win the odd battle but they can never win the war.

Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1d

The way gender criticals keep revealing that they truly thought once they made being trans in public illegal trans people would just quietly go away is so infuriating and insulting, but at least they sound really demoralized from it. I hope it's bad enough that they fuck off!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets.

Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6

Article excerpt: Emily said she made clear the family didn’t have Venezuelan passports but was told that wouldn’t be a problem; the U.S. government would procure any necessary documents for them. They said the operator gave them an Aug. 1 departure date and told them to expect their plane tickets by email.

Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved with their children to Columbus, Ohio, where Deybis’ nephew let them stay in his unfinished basement apartment until their departure. The plane tickets never came.

Then the nephew was detained in a traffic stop and deported. Panicked, Emily and Deybis said they called the toll-free number again and again, leaving messages that went unanswered. Emily submitted a new application and sent more emails.

Article excerpt: ...They found travel agencies that offer to procure travel documents at a cost but said they were told the Venezuelan government requires an arrival date and proof that plane tickets have been purchased. Emily and Deybis can’t afford them.

“Thank you so much for your patience and we understand your frustration,” they heard back in another email. “Wait for new instructions from DHS.”

As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent.

“We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 22h

“the people targeting trans people now want them to regret being visible. they want trans people to wish they'd stayed quiet.“

this is, as expected, very good, and hits hard as someone newer to social media who’s like “what am i even doing? why am i doing it? *should* i be doing it

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 19h

My humble (if cluttered) workbench. This is my cozy place!

My workbench. There's an open area in the center, but the rest is filled with old PC motherboards in testbenches, soldering equipment, test equipment, keyboards, and wires. The area surrounding is stacked with boxes, old cd-rom drives, compact Macintosh computers, Commodore 64s, Amigas, MSX computers, etc.

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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 16h

> brands that nobody uses

uhhh Huel?
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

two of the products we tested — Huel's Black Edition meal replacement powder and Naked Nutrition's vegan mass gainer — had enough lead that our experts caution against using them at all

a single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600% of CR’s level of concern for lead

Two plant-based protein powders contained enough lead that our experts advise against consuming them. Naked Nutrition’s Mass Gainer powder contained 7.7 micrograms of lead per serving, which is roughly 1,570 percent of CR’s level of concern for the heavy metal. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition powder contained 6.3 micrograms of lead, or about 1,290 percent of CR’s daily lead limit.

Two other powders contained lead between 400 and 600 percent of CR’s level of concern: Garden of Life’s Sport Organic Plant-Based Protein and Momentous’ 100% Plant Protein. Consumers should limit these to once a week, Akinleye says. (See company responses below.)

The only non-plant-based protein powder with lead detected at over 200 percent of CR’s level of concern was MuscleMeds’ Carnivor Mass powder. Six additional plant-based powders, five dairy-based powders and shakes, and one beef powder contained lead above CR’s level of concern.

We also found measurable levels of cadmium and inorganic arsenic in some products. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition plant-based protein powder contained 9.2 micrograms of cadmium, more than double the level that public health authorities and CR’s experts say may be harmful to have daily, which is 4.1 micrograms.

Another plant-based option, Vega’s Premium Sport powder, had enough cadmium that one serving would also put you just over that level. In one dairy-based product, Optimum Nutrition’s Serious Mass whey protein powder, we also detected 8.5 micrograms per serving of inorganic arsenic, which is twice the limit of what our scientists say is safe to consume daily.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

two of the products we tested — Huel's Black Edition meal replacement powder and Naked Nutrition's vegan mass gainer — had enough lead that our experts caution against using them at all

a single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600% of CR’s level of concern for lead

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michael black @michaelblack.bsky.social · 19h

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

nearly all the plant-based products we tested had elevated lead levels: vegan powders had 9x as much lead as dairy and 2x as much as beef

though dairy-based powders had the lowest levels, half were still too contaminated for safe daily use

you may be asking: how could this be? well...

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