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schmaniel 🇵🇸 @schmaniel.bsky.social · 36m

living in fear is being Black, brown, or trans in america today

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 13h

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 13h

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

reading the visual studio code patch notes is nuts because like 90% of it is AI shit every time any time i ever bother to check it. what about features that are useful like omggggg

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8h

I hope someone raises hell at The Fenway Gala.

Sweasel von Trapped in Montresor's Cellars @irritatingly.gay · 8h

They sent me a fundraising email YESTERDAY and then pulled this shit.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

It is engineering malpractice that this site has not yet implemented an option to allow people to private their accounts, given that they’re a US based company, and the US is going through what it’s going through.

But hey, waffles, amirite.

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schmaniel 🇵🇸 @schmaniel.bsky.social · 1h

if you're satisfied with the state of the dem party and still blame voters for when they lose, this is what that says about you

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 7h

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 12h

The Independent: “Fears for fragile Gaza ceasefire after seven Palestinians killed and aid cut off.”

The civilians in Gaza are homeless and hungry. We're their voice and means of survival.

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And to others. ❤️🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 12h

Just a reminder the word remigrate is open Nazi language and should be seen as a threat of violence.

When the neo Nazis use this term their is another two words they use after it which are :or die

It’s important to understand the context that the word Remigrate is a threat to leave or be murdered.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

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

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 7h

Now that the "war" is "over" will Bluesky let Palestinian accounts actually stay on here or nah

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castawayfarm.bsky.social @castawayfarm.bsky.social · 7h

A Venn diagram of men who are predisposed towards domestic violence and men who would join ICE is a single perfect circle.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 6h

i find the porn app thing so disturbing because i assume the son is still taking himself to town & doing something weird like swapping his sim card or using a porn burner phone & i can’t imagine making that much of my masturbatory life about my dad. a real gross “don’t think about elephants” sitch.

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 6h

Trump 1.0 had a vice president who couldn’t be alone with a woman who wasn’t his wife
Trump 2.0 has a house speaker who monitors his porn intake with his son via an app

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 6h

The way my opinion on Kathy is a swinging pendulum…

bsky.app/profile/zacp...

Zac Parker @zacparkerwny.bsky.social · 7h

This theory is novel but not the true answer. As Kathy Hochul is a committed Bills fan, her governorship follows the traditional Bills 2020s season format of a very good start, followed by a series of entirely avoidable losses, which then ends at a pivotal moment and leads to a long win streak.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5h

I understand that there are right ways and wrong ways to have the age conversation about Dem leadership and I don’t know how I feel about specific solutions like age and term limits. I do know THIS PART HERE is a problem bigger than any one individual 78-year-old and it’s making us all furious

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 7h

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 7h

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 7h

yeah. to them it's an abstraction. it's not real. it's just another "blue team red team" game. so then you show them. you make them watch the documentaries. and then you watch as the cognitive dissonance kicks in, and they find a way to justify it to themselves. every cis person i know does this.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 7h

"At the end of the day, if you're born a bloke, you're going to men's prison and we'll deal with you there."

So that's where we are in Australia. Everybody knows what she means here. She means that trans women get raped with government approval. That's how they "deal with us" in men's prisons.

Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 9h

More on the horrifying new policy of the NT Government, to send trans women to men's prisons, exposing them to significant risk of violence and sexual assault. #ntpol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Advocates condemn NT leader's comments on trans women in female prisons

The Northern Territory government has doubled down on its stance against detaining transgender women in female prisons, as a local LGBTQIA+ group says it is "horrified" by the comments.

www.abc.net.au

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 5h

I try to convince myself that we have cis allies and then I watch the completely apathetic reaction of every cis person, even the otherwise good ones, to the fact of V-coding, and that conviction shatters under the weight of the truth

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Winnie Madikizela’s boo @dre-withwithout.blacksky.app · 8d

If you can share, boost, spread and donate. I truly appreciate it.

Thank you 🙏🏽.

Love you, regardless

gofund.me/34d23778

Donate to Help me receive my little brother Dravin Matiste, organized by Andre Small

It’s taking me a lot to do this and I was just here asking for help ma… Andre Small needs your support for Help me receive my little brother Dravin Matiste

gofund.me

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 3h

for obvious reasons they couldn't get a woman to stand next to jared leto.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4h

The #Tron franchise will likely be retired from the big screen

(via THR)

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2h

Please help Mohammad if you can

Mohammad❤️🫂 @mohammad02.bsky.social · 3h

don't understand why everyone shares but no one donates 😢💔
My brother is in an emergency situation 🚨🆘🏥
Even the smallest donation can help me provide his treatment 🙏🤲
Please, give him a chance to recover quickly 🌟💫🤍
😭⬇️❤️🫂
gofund.me/bf57c49a

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 10h

OpenAI 2022- ChatGPT will cure cancer and solve the climate crisis

OpenAI 2025- ChatGPT will tell you that your dick is the biggest it’s ever seen

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

"As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow...erotica for verified adults."

www.axios.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2h

I know I have a few journalists following me...I hope some of you will stay on this. There are many organizations sitting on millions of dollars that people from around the world donated for the people of Gaza. This money needs to get to the people it was meant for so they don't have to beg anymore

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

It's not just UNRWA, every organization has received a record amount of donations they haven't been able to give to Palestinians in Gaza
www.reuters.com/world/us/pal...

Palestinian Americans fundraise for Gaza, as aid groups receive record donations

Palestinian Americans and aid groups in the United States are raising funds for Gaza, which faces a deepening humanitarian crisis as the Israel-Hamas war enters its fourth week - but they have as yet limited ability to get supplies into the besieged enclave.

www.reuters.com

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Mr Halloween @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah man, for sure

Google trend chart showing Charlie Kirk flattening two weeks after his murder

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 11h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 17h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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