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Jason

@greedyrunner.bsky.social

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I say we nuke the entire site from orbit It's the only way to be sure PhD student of Scottish mountaineering history and culture. He/Him https://medium.com/@GreedyRunner

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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social · May 14

I've had a couple of drinks, so here's my unfiltered thoughts. My trans friends rule, and the 'reasonable' transphobes that have popped up once or twice on my timeline can just fuck off and die.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1h

"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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

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 · 5h

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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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1h

GODDAMN, that man could make a good picture.

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 3h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 1h

*looks at a political ideology with literally 0 political power* how can I shill for the Dems when they can of make it clearer they'll sell trans people down the river without a second's hesitation?

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 10h

The context on which this was said does not make it better unfortunately

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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I believe that the far left is preying on the desperation of trans people in the search of cannon fodder for their revolutionary fantasies and it is hurting people. We cannot afford to eschew electoralism, nor can we take peace for granted.
Small Deborah @seldomseenstan • 7h
What is with your constant punching left recently? "The left" and especially trans leftists have literally zero power. Do you not think that this energy is best used elsewhere?
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.
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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 1h

hi #PortfolioDay ✨

I’m Laci, planetary astrophysicist turned full-time artist. I love merging science + art through vibrant space paintings!

website: stellerarts.com
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30x30” oil painting of the Pillars of Creation. There is a partial checkerboard pattern across most of the piece, which weaves together 2 JWST images. The red orange squares are mid-infrared light. The purple blue squares add in near-infrared light bringing thousands of stars into view.

Close up of 30x15” oil painting. This section of a star-forming region looks like the skull of a dragon or Leviathan in dark brown set against a lavender background. The background fades into pink and a peachy orange moving from left to right.

24x24” oil painting of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. A vibrant circular-shaped explosion of magenta, orange, lime green, yellow, and light blue against a background of deep teal with peach stars. The painting is based on a composite image of x-ray, visible, and infrared light. At noon, 4 o clock, and 8 o clock are subtle triangles singling each type of light.

A 24x24” oil painting of the Ring Nebula. Most of the piece is a vibrant ring of complex details beginning with a blue-green center transitioning into orange, yellow, peach, then red. Outside the ring is a deep blue and black. This is the planetary nebula from JWST in near-infrared light. At 11 o clock is a small hexagon and 5 o clock has a larger hexagon. The hexagons are from another JWST image in mid-infrared light. The colors are inverted in the hexagons and the center area (now in red) has more structure at longer wavelengths.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 4h

This is devastating.

I think for my age, he’s *the* generational genius of pop music. That he’s a unique vocal talent, on the level of Marvin Gaye, goes without saying, but his colossal musical intelligence is what made him D’Angelo. A unique musical intellect.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

D’Angelo, Grammy-winning neo-soul pioneer, dies aged 51

Singer known for tracks such as Brown Sugar and Untitled (How Does It Feel) died at home from pancreatic cancer

www.theguardian.com

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🎃It was a Hotblack night🦇 @invalid-handle.com · 6h

Listening to the Live in Stockholm bootleg seems a fitting tribute to his artistry and work. An absolutely amazing performance

I think it may be available officially and on streaming platforms now too?

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Addled Pixie’s Chasm of Spasm 💀🧟👻 @addledpixie.bsky.social · 3h

I hope the sentencing at the trials results in each and every one of them being placed on an unmotorized boat in Venezuelan waters.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian did a profile of Linehan last month in which they described a 57 year old man’s years-long obsession with harassing trans people as “gender activism”

What’s next? Is Tommy Robinson a race activist?

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social · 1h

Aw, thank you 😊 🖤

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 4h

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 2h

Remember all those things we've been saying about conservatives for years?

It was all true.

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 4h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

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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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3h

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Cake’
(Yes, it is a painting - from Third Picture Book, 1971)

Photo realistic close-up in watercolour of a large slice of cream filled Victoria sponge

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Dave Stieber @dstieber.bsky.social · 10h

“…the LANDBACK movement is about changing the power structures that created the possibility of our genocide & oppression in the first place. We’re fighting to return public lands to Indigenous people and undo the structures that allowed them to be taken”
inthesetimes.com/article/indi...

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, We Don’t Need Celebration. We Need Our Land Back.

We’re fighting to return public lands to Indigenous people and undo the structures that allowed them to be taken in the first place. Join us.

inthesetimes.com

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Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 4h

If you think Trumpism will simply end in three years, you are naive. Left unopposed, global populism of the sort Trumpism represents could dominate for a generation. This could be the rest of our lives, and our children’s, too.

So why are we doing so little?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4h

It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

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Charlie @charliem.bsky.social · 4h

As someone else said on here, if this technology was so great at creating things, its owners would sell us the great things it produces, rather than access to the tech itself.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

Stop trying to eradicate trans people, Sonia.

You'd be amazed how much that would help.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

Privileged ‘gender critical’ transphobes abusing their positions of power in National newspapers to propagandise their own personal brand of hate to attack trans people are a fight actual feminists could do without.

… But here we are! 🤷🏼‍♀️🙄😣

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 14h

The socially liberal Nicola Sturgeon iteration of the SNP was destroyed with the false flag incident providing the trigger being that old Swiss Army Knife for authoritarianism, trans rights.

Since then, two Christians have led the party. #r4today
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Full spectrum dominance and the war on trans rights

Sometimes a little reflection is required and the politically aware person needs to step back and assess the wood while defocusing from the trees. When we are in the middle of a Steve Bannon style zon...

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ala8.bsky.social @ala8.bsky.social · 2d

Starmer will lose that battle with Frog face Farage, he is alienating the left and middle over immigration and welfare cuts

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15h

The government continuing to incite fear and hatred against members of the public here, hand in hand with our horrible, poisonous media outlets, both to evade responsibility for their own conduct and to fill space that might otherwise be stories about how unpopular they are and how much they suck.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17h

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 16h

This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Spooky Leia🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @madamephosphorus.bsky.social · 15h

Vetoing HRT stockpiling is so fucking ghoulish.

If trans people make it the next 4 years en masse, it will be from our own strength, not because of the Democrats.

"You can change your name, but you can't stockpile on life saving care!" Kiss my ass.

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 23h

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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