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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · Nov 15

Me and the Coterie after defeating the Sabbat attack on our Haven

a group of people are walking down a sidewalk and one of them is wearing a purple skirt .

ALT: a group of people are walking down a sidewalk and one of them is wearing a purple skirt .

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 13h

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 10h

These issues are YET MORE reasons that masking in public during an ongoing pandemic, during collapse of healthcare systems, during an attack on public health, while fascism grows stronger, in a world where healthcare isn’t a universal right… is, in fact, the reasonable, scientific, & moral choice.

Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 10h

Medical racism, like medical misogyny, is a real and under-reported issue that has been stealing years and shortening lives for generations.

We have statistics and studies showing that doctors are less likely to take claims seriously when they come from black folks, from women.

It costs lives.

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 14h

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 12h

This is also a disability justice issue.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Selene 🏳️‍⚧️ | ⚸ @selene.euyis.me · 10h

consult chinese astrology sources for the base properties of your post according to your current location, time and date and add what's deficient to achieve posting balance

Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 1d

Bsky PSA:

Post with intention, post with energy dynamics in mind

diagram of five elements with lines showing the interplay between them
the elements are Horseshit (nonsense), Bullshit (not true), Batshit (insane), Apeshit (rambunctious), Dogshit (very poor quality)
Below is a key indicating Generating Interaction and Overcoming Interaction

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 9h

I never want to hear a democrat say "we need a strong Republican Party" again.

Republicans never say that about democrats and for a good reason.

Because they want to win. We need a weak broken and powerless Republican Party.

They have never been right and want us dead.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to think of a better demonstration of where cis allyship ends tbh.

Your medical needs are impossible for me to help with - it might cost me more money! - but you are SO valid.

Spooky Leia🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @madamephosphorus.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3d

socialist sopranos memes
@gabagoolmarx
It's called emotional labor, T. It used to mean you had
to smile at work or something but now a bunch a online
weirdos say it means you don't gotta be a good friend
to someone no more

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ratarchy ΘΔ @maya-klenger.bsky.social · 1d

We live in a society where, every time an activity or profession gets equal and active participation of women and other minorities, White Male Flight occurs, those activities become considered "unimportant", their funding cut, those who remain demonized. They see non-white non-maleness as taint.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

The GW for 'Warhammer is for everyone' post was about the make up of the player base, (ie not just cis straight white men). It's not saying it catered to all tastes.
Bigots cant make this distinction. To them your gender/race/sexuality dictates your taste. Women like X. Gay people like Y.

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ratarchy ΘΔ @maya-klenger.bsky.social · 1d

This is how masculinity is not at all entirely legible. Of course there are things like beards and chest hair or we, but so much of it is also defined as inherently superior and "everything that femininity isn't" while femininity is defined as inherently inferior. Similar construction with whiteness

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

Cuz sharing is caring and resource secrecy is for dweebs: For the past week, I've been starting my mornings by doing a lesson from this ridiculously comprehensive Godot Action RPG tutorial.

It's amazing. Dude basically teaches you how to make Legend of Zelda: LTTP.

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Make a 2D Action & Adventure RPG in Godot 4 - Tutorial Series - YouTube

This tutorial series covers how to build a top down 2D game that features action, adventure and light RPG mechanics, using Godot 4 & GD Script.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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Handler Scylla @connieshortfor.bsky.social · 1d

one of the fun things about sharing a submissive with Kallidora is that the very clear power disparity between us creates a hierarchy wherein the one called "Mom" is solidly above the one called "Daddy" and i just really really like that the genderfuck girlfather exists beneath the Divine Feminine

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Peanut (Repost Pinned) @peanutium.art · 1d

I have a dentist appointment this Wednesday that I need $250 for if anyone can help me

$givepancake
paypal.me/inosaramet
Venmo: pancakewitch

a raptor standing in front a of media podium with a bunch of microphones on the podium

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Good night and sub to my newsletter

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Kill Their Inner Cops

Who needs the National Guard when your state troopers are perfectly willing to crack protester skulls all on their own? Listen, Illinois governor JB Pritzker is not perfect, but he's my guy. Or at le...

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Peanut (Repost Pinned) @peanutium.art · 1d

$450-1k would fix all my problems rn

Peanut (Repost Pinned) @peanutium.art · 1d

need someone to give me $200 so i can buy battlefield 6 for me and my bestie

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Ⓐnarchohoodism @161bklyn.bsky.social · 1d

The truth about this little shitbag is that he is more fascist than DonT. He is very fucked up even comparing him to the head fash in charge. He’s self described white supremacist, male supremacist, incel, and hates anyone not white. And declares that openly. He’s a lil bitch, but influences many.