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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 4h

my bluesky makes me so unemployable i s2g

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Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 5h

LinkedIn is the worst for email push notifications: "Someone in a sector adjacent to yours dropped a Biro on the floor today! Want to congratulate them on their latest achievement!?" Fuck. Off. Please.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 9h

I feel genuinely delighted that some people have decided they want to speedrun [checks notes] probability

v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 9h

how to speedrun random chance graham.build/s/a-blog/028...

Unfair Flips World Record Strategy

Unfair Flips is a game about flipping a coin to get 10 Heads flips in a row.

graham.build

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E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 6h

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Because they know international governments won't do anything.

Edvin Alpros Ⓜ️ antisocial dominans minister @edvinalpros.bsky.social · 12h

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Rami 🫶🫶🫶 @rami---r.bsky.social · 10h

Yesterday, I went back north where our home once stood. I found only dust, ashes, and memories. 💔
Now my children sleep under the open sky, cold and afraid. We have no shelter, no roof, nothing.
Please help me get a tent or a small place to protect my family from winter.🙏
🔗 gofund.me/edd687b8

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 4h

..why would you make this?

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 5h

being anti-authoritarian extends to corporations with more global influence than most nation states btw

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 5h

fucking mood

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 5h

LinkedIn can step off for sending me emails saying I've "missed notifications". No I haven't, it was deliberate, I don't care who in my connections have been playing a dumb puzzle game and I don't care for your sycophantic dog-shit corporate social media platform anyway shut up

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 6h

International Pronouns Day happens each year on the third Wednesday of October.

You can find our pronoun resource here: transactual.org.uk/pronouns/ We created it to go in email signatures to explain why people choose to share their pronouns in emails.

#InternationalPronounsDay #PronounsDay

Image shows a rainbow sticker with the text "my pronouns are" with a list of different pronouns. Text reads: International Pronouns day

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 13h

finally AI comes for my job, a guy who writes erotica containing heavy use of the phrase “as a result”

The Verge @theverge.com · 23h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 1d

we were making out and she shoved me into a door, my hand got trapped and scraped a fair amount of the skin off so now I have a scar and reduced sensation between two of my knuckles

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1d

HEY DIPSHIT WHY CAN I GET A DESIGNER VAGINA UNDER SOCIALISM THEN

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
X.com
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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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men.
Studio executives, so many people.
After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her.
What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1d

Okay fine: many readers do not know how to read books

That's fine

many writers don't know how to write them either

They think it's just words

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 1d

Have you considered that I am not in fact american and I'd just rather not be so reliant on bluesky's US servers and whilst I may have the ability to run my own I don't particularly care to, so I may as well support some folks who seem to want to do a good thing?

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Mega Meg, The Bourgeois Transsexual @lotushomage.bsky.social · 3d

(Cw slurs) So I have recently begun deep diving into queer academia, and have been reading Trans*
A Quick and Quirky Account
of Gender Variability, by Jack Halberstam. I‘m a bit disappointed to read what I’ve found so far, but I did find some unintentional comedy!

He thinks RuPaul is trans.

Text defending the use of a slur (tr****) while calling RuPaul trans.

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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 2d

They tried to use Christianity, but the church at large is having none of it. Two popes have embarrassed Vance, and the current one continues to.

It’s hard to whine about “religious freedom” when you’re pepper spraying clergy and denying communion to detained immigrants.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 2d

While nobody should be calling themselves an ally, the first step to being a good ally is the willingness to make their own life worse to avoid contributing to oppression

Most self-proclaimed "trans allies" do not clear this bar

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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 2d

‘Are you willing to state in an offhand manner that you support trans people?’

And

‘Are you willing to forsake a paying gig to support trans people?’

are two very different questions.

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Helena Athena Isabella @helabella.bsky.social · 2d

Add to that the fact they're not actually invested in our survival at all... Like, would it be nice if trans people had rights and were allowed to live in peace and happiness? Yeah, sure. But that's not important enough to them to actually do something about it.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 2d

OKAY BRIEF ANNOYANCE TIME, BABA YAGA DOES NOT MEAN BOOGEYMAN SHE'S A FREAKY LIL WITCH IN HER CHICKEN LEG HUT

THE JOHN WICK FRANCHISE GOT IT MIXED UP Бабайка OR BABAYKA, WHO 𝘐𝘚 ACTUALLY THE BOOGEYMAN

RANT OVER

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Dark Reading @darkreading.bsky.social · 2d

Latest on @darkreading.bsky.social DR Technology: Financial, Other Industries Urged to Prepare for Quantum Computers https://zpr.io/L3Jx5HNQTg7u #DRTechnology #darkreading #cybersecurity

Financial, Other Industries Urged to Prepare for Quantum Computers

Despite daunting technical challenges, a quantum computer capable of breaking public-key encryption systems may only be a decade or two off.

zpr.io

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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