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He/him. The Internet was a mistake. Avatar from @drawfeeshow.com, probably drawn by @atnathanyaffe.bsky.social; banner drawn by Fiona Staples (it's Lying Cat from Saga) 💖 @geisslertube.bsky.social

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Doogie2K 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦 @doogie2k.bsky.social · Dec 10

Gonna pin @mommunism.bsky.social's resources for Gazans in English and Arabic to my profile for right now, because I seem to get 5-10 new Gazan followers every day right now. Hopefully y'all see this and get introduced to Molly and how to use Bluesky well!

bsky.app/profile/momm...

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Dec 9

حسابات من غزة
معلومات بلوسكاي

Accounts from Gaza Bluesky Information

www.canva.com/design/DAGWp...

Accounts from
Gaza
Bluesky Information
(This information is from the Bluesky community, not Bluesky the company)

حسابات من غزة
معلومات بلوسكاي لا
(هذه المعلومات مقدمة من مجتمع بلوسكاي، وليس من شركة بلوسكاي)

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1h

If you can't afford a subscription, you can pay for single paywall drops! That's $2 dollars per article. Each piece we run is edited and copy edited, and our freelancers are paid. Most importantly, we are not beholden to corporate censorship.

Eight Years After #MeToo, the Intimacy Coordinator Backlash Has Arrived

Intimacy coordinators were supposed to make sets safer. Instead, they've become a flashpoint.

the-flytrap.ghost.io

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 1h

Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.

Spotify is running ICE hiring ads boasting wild signing bonuses

Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.

bit.ly

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Doogie2K 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦 @doogie2k.bsky.social · 1h

I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be smooth and he's gotta be larger than life

Why did this song jump into my head? God only knows. But it still slaps.

Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by bonnietylerVEVO

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2h

"All it took was an international terror campaign run by the government to prove it's natural to be cis"

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 3h

Frying brains online

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Doogie2K 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦 @doogie2k.bsky.social · 1h

Orange

Doogie2K 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦 @doogie2k.bsky.social · 2h

"Leftist fascist" is literally a contradiction, fascism is a far right ideology.

You want to talk about authoritarianism or dictatorship, those words work just fine.

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blights u @bitesu.kawaii.social · 2h

anyway hi I just dropped 2200 on my luxury bones and my HSA is cleaned the fuck out and any help at all is welcome please im still loopy lol

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2h

One of the most messed up parts of the "nazis are sexy and funny now" GQ article about Nick Fuentes is that it doesn't cite a single source or data point. It's all just vibes. I have no idea how something like this made it past an editorial team unless it was clearly a story they wanted to tell

traced this rumor across TikTok and Tumblr. I watched fancam edits, mapped accounts, and interviewed a dozen people in their twenties and early thirties, both people who’d made posts about Fuentes and those whose fandom was more private.

TikTok is where most outsiders misread the signal. Fuentes is extremely shareable — he basically speaks in soundbites. Every other line is a joke, and many of those jokes land. When they don’t, that in itself can be funny. His thick Chicago accent, his cartoonish tone of voice—the man was made for broadcasting, for better or worse.

It’s true that he has inspired a viral “sound” several times, but on TikTok that doesn’t equate to fandom. A sound is just a short audio clip that users layer under their own videos. It might come from a movie, a podcast, or a livestream; it doesn’t matter who said it. What matters is how easily it can be reused to set a mood or deliver a punchline. Popularity here measures remixability, not admiration. Serial killers, pedophiles caught red-handed, and random bystanders could theoretically all go viral this way. Fuentes happens to clip well.

There is a dedicated and TikTok-native Fuentes fandom, but searching through the misspellings and alternate tags that users reference him with (to avoid the filter TikTok uses to suppress content about him), only a few prolific editors dominate the results. The rest is noise—ephemeral accounts spun up around attention spikes.

The interviews I conducted reflect what the feeds suggested. Several sources said their very online friends, regardless of politics, share Fuentes clips because he’s funny. The same people said no one they know actually watches his multi-hour streams. One woman described him as “weirdly unhateable,” and suggested he’s a bit of a meme—another way of saying the trend is more of a joke than a nascent political shift.

There is, however, a small female fandom orbiting Fuentes, many of whom identify as being on the left. On Tumblr, a community cal…

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3h

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6h

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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Doogie2K 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦 @doogie2k.bsky.social · 2h

Angel Swords seeing the Sword it's all coming together

Doogie2K 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦 @doogie2k.bsky.social · 3h

I have so many friends who recommend it and it's on my Jellyfin server; I just have to actually sit down and *watch* the thing.

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Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · 3h

he just sitting there

Screenshot of a quagsire sitting in a pond in new Pokémon snap

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Doogie2K 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦 @doogie2k.bsky.social · 3h

I need to watch that show someday, so I can have a second favourite genderless being after my spouse.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3h

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 3h

genuinly how everyone should be proceeding

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3h

"The case is proceeding."

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa says the US-backed agreement to end Israel's war on Gaza will have no bearing on his country’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/xhyzpq

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Doogie2K 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦 @doogie2k.bsky.social · 3h

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Jard Wolves Of London @jaredof.bsky.social · 3h

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 3h

No one cares about your prestige reading. Just read what you want.

You don't have to finish a book you don't like. You're not hurting the book or the author's feelings

Not every book has to be for edification. Read for fun for fucks sake

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 4h

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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Doogie2K 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦 @doogie2k.bsky.social · 3h

yeah man I wonder what's happened in the last couple of years that might have affected this

(dunking on the study not OP to be clear; also see last reskeet for a thread with more details on why this is bunkum)

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 3h

Frying brains online

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 3h

You know what? I have time today. Let's have a look.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 3h

Frying brains online

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Doogie2K 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦 @doogie2k.bsky.social · 3h

hee hee hee hee hee hee hee

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 4h

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 3h

the truth is out there and now on a nice print 👽 you should hang it on your wall and confuse anyone who comes into your home ✨ available in the out of this world paperback shop: paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com

Photo of a print featuring the Paperback Paradise book The Alien That Sucked Me Dry

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ETPC with realistic blood @etpc.bsky.social · 3h

if you tell me i need to use frame generation in your game with a 50xx series card to get 60fps, i will assume your game is not worth playing because i will never fucking use frame generation oh my god it sucks ass IT SUCKS ASSSSSSSSS

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

The RFK Jr. “Lentil purée with sausages” thing is fake.

(Normally I’d post an image of the thing going viral, but it’s honestly too gross.)

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