Barbie Devyndarbė
@katchin05.blacksky.app
brown glass bottle full of shavings from the sun🌅 Black magic in a cheetah print coat. I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
practitioner of radical hospitality 🍞🌹 avid traveler. cat lady 🐈⬛🐈⬛, DINK & #childfree fun auntie. general enthusiast. #AuDHD. 🍉🇵🇸🇸🇩
practitioner of radical hospitality 🍞🌹 avid traveler. cat lady 🐈⬛🐈⬛, DINK & #childfree fun auntie. general enthusiast. #AuDHD. 🍉🇵🇸🇸🇩
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I really just wanna talk about the Sims and where to get lunch on my next trip. I’m tired.
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Spooky Bitches, it's your time!
So tomorrow is Mardi Gras *and* lunar new year *and* the beginning of Ramadan?
February 17, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Spooky Bitches, it's your time!
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The point is--Generative AI is being used to create fake additional content for even niche historical topics, like the exhibits within a World's Fair pavilion. These images are going to continue to get more realistic. It's dissipointing to have to add this new layer of vigilance to research.
February 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The point is--Generative AI is being used to create fake additional content for even niche historical topics, like the exhibits within a World's Fair pavilion. These images are going to continue to get more realistic. It's dissipointing to have to add this new layer of vigilance to research.
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“We shouldn’t use such a damaging and unethical technology” is taken as an inherently unserious position and that’s the problem right there
February 17, 2026 at 3:21 AM
“We shouldn’t use such a damaging and unethical technology” is taken as an inherently unserious position and that’s the problem right there
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why isn't the left engaging seriously with the fascist imaginary machine, people love the fascist imaginary machine, the left is clearly wrong about this, like they were wrong about crypto and NFTs and the metaverse
I think this is directionally correct and honestly I'm less concerned about what it means for the left's take on AI than I am for the left's ability to metabolize new information and changing circumstances generally www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 17, 2026 at 4:35 AM
why isn't the left engaging seriously with the fascist imaginary machine, people love the fascist imaginary machine, the left is clearly wrong about this, like they were wrong about crypto and NFTs and the metaverse
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Metabolize this, Dan.
February 17, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Metabolize this, Dan.
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I'm more concerned about technofascists destroying our planet, and trying to destroy our way of life, than I am about whether or not claude can make me a home budget or analyze data at my job.
I think this is directionally correct and honestly I'm less concerned about what it means for the left's take on AI than I am for the left's ability to metabolize new information and changing circumstances generally www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 17, 2026 at 5:33 AM
I'm more concerned about technofascists destroying our planet, and trying to destroy our way of life, than I am about whether or not claude can make me a home budget or analyze data at my job.
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Rest in Power Dr Linda Davis 🖤
Linda Davis, a K-8 teacher in Savannah, Georgia, was killed in a car crash by a man fleeing ICE
Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said
www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...
Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said
www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...
February 17, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Rest in Power Dr Linda Davis 🖤
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Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇
February 17, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇
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The thing that I do hate about memes is that certain things have their context removed to be funny and 3 seconds before Tyra does the "we're rooting for you" bit she says "when my mother yelled at me like this it was because she loved me!!!"
That is INSIDIOUS. Heinous. Absolutely not.
That is INSIDIOUS. Heinous. Absolutely not.
Tyra saying she wants to start Top Model up again should be seen as a threat to national security. Stop her at all costs.
February 17, 2026 at 5:30 AM
The thing that I do hate about memes is that certain things have their context removed to be funny and 3 seconds before Tyra does the "we're rooting for you" bit she says "when my mother yelled at me like this it was because she loved me!!!"
That is INSIDIOUS. Heinous. Absolutely not.
That is INSIDIOUS. Heinous. Absolutely not.
Man has never watched ANTM, and we had to pause in the middle of episode to because he was LOSING IT. “She was ruining these girls lives! How is this shit real?”
The ‘ethnic swap’ had his jaw on the floor. “This shit has to be satire. This is like a South Park episode! She is an insane person.”
The ‘ethnic swap’ had his jaw on the floor. “This shit has to be satire. This is like a South Park episode! She is an insane person.”
February 17, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Man has never watched ANTM, and we had to pause in the middle of episode to because he was LOSING IT. “She was ruining these girls lives! How is this shit real?”
The ‘ethnic swap’ had his jaw on the floor. “This shit has to be satire. This is like a South Park episode! She is an insane person.”
The ‘ethnic swap’ had his jaw on the floor. “This shit has to be satire. This is like a South Park episode! She is an insane person.”
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Tyra saying she wants to start Top Model up again should be seen as a threat to national security. Stop her at all costs.
February 17, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Tyra saying she wants to start Top Model up again should be seen as a threat to national security. Stop her at all costs.
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“We don’t just want ICE out. We want our city back & all of the people who call it home.”
In Minneapolis, community care is the model for resistance, Anna Simonton reports. Locals from all walks of life are using whatever skills & resources we have to stand up to Trump’s deportation forces.
In Minneapolis, community care is the model for resistance, Anna Simonton reports. Locals from all walks of life are using whatever skills & resources we have to stand up to Trump’s deportation forces.
In Minneapolis, community care is the model for resistance
Locals from all walks of life are using whatever skills and resources we have to stand up to Trump’s deportation forces
prismreports.org
February 16, 2026 at 4:25 PM
“We don’t just want ICE out. We want our city back & all of the people who call it home.”
In Minneapolis, community care is the model for resistance, Anna Simonton reports. Locals from all walks of life are using whatever skills & resources we have to stand up to Trump’s deportation forces.
In Minneapolis, community care is the model for resistance, Anna Simonton reports. Locals from all walks of life are using whatever skills & resources we have to stand up to Trump’s deportation forces.
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I adore the abrupt tonal shift in this from idealistic desires to the difficult path to get there...
February 1, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I adore the abrupt tonal shift in this from idealistic desires to the difficult path to get there...
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Langston Hughes (1943)
February 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Langston Hughes (1943)
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I love when yall (Black women) use blush. It always looks amazing.
February 15, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I love when yall (Black women) use blush. It always looks amazing.
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Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop:
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
February 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop:
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
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“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
February 16, 2026 at 12:13 PM
“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
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"...and not rely on santa court daddy to sort everything out for us. It hasn't so far and it will continue not to."
i wish those solely/mainly concerned with voting learn this, too
i wish those solely/mainly concerned with voting learn this, too
What does this mean we should do? Everything.
We just have to do everything we can to protect people, pressure the other 2 branches of govt, and build society and community differently - and not rely on santa court daddy to sort everything out for us. It hasn't so far and it will continue not to.
We just have to do everything we can to protect people, pressure the other 2 branches of govt, and build society and community differently - and not rely on santa court daddy to sort everything out for us. It hasn't so far and it will continue not to.
February 16, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"...and not rely on santa court daddy to sort everything out for us. It hasn't so far and it will continue not to."
i wish those solely/mainly concerned with voting learn this, too
i wish those solely/mainly concerned with voting learn this, too
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it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters
My god do we need UBI
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.
www.nbcnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:56 AM
it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters
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Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.
Rather obviously so. European governments are closer to the Trumpists in practice than people would like to think.
EU’s deportations plan risks ICE-style enforcement, rights groups warn
Crackdown on undocumented people could lead to home raids, surveillance and racial profiling, 75 organisations say
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.
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Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
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Finally, my account has been reopened.
Thank you to everyone who showed support and took the time to speak up and write. You can follow me here.
Thank you to everyone who showed support and took the time to speak up and write. You can follow me here.
palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.
![Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸
@Tamer_Alnoaizy
BlueSky is one of the worst platforms I have ever dealt with. Within seconds of creating a second account, after my first one was shut down just two days after it was created, my account was closed again. This happened despite the fact that I hadn’t posted anything or followed anyone. I was only in the process of adding a profile photo, yet I received an email claiming that my account was “spam” and that it was “causing harm.” What kind of logic is this?
The painful truth is that the account was shut down the moment it became clear it was created from inside Gaza. It seems we are no longer allowed to write or speak about what is happening to us here. They are not afraid of content itself, but of our voices and the reality we carry with us.
Millions are spent to silence these voices and to erase the truth. I am exhausted by this platform and by how our photos and videos, which document real suffering, are treated as “violations of community standards,” as if pain itself has become a crime.
What is happening is not simple moderation or policy enforcement. It is an attempt to erase our existence and bury the truth. And honestly, this is shameful and unbearably painful.
[the original poster has included two screenshots showing the email from bluesky admin informing him that his account has been taken down for being 'spammy, inauthentic or disruptive to users'. it's the standard boilerplate you get when they take moderation action.]
2:45 PM · Feb 10, 2026
https://twitter.com/Tamer_Alnoaizy/status/2021234178461704409](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2l6seozmjsqc4kfukjejat77/bafkreiga45xjdal6lfcqt2zmambaymeoelxafbrlt7fi2nmoahpbqj3cja@jpeg)
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Finally, my account has been reopened.
Thank you to everyone who showed support and took the time to speak up and write. You can follow me here.
Thank you to everyone who showed support and took the time to speak up and write. You can follow me here.