Arakus
@arakus99.bsky.social
she/her | 26 | autistic trans girl who likes video games (esp. indie FPSs), Doctor Who, and staying inside like a lil hermit | avi from celeste by exok games
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our bluesky safety manager replied with this to a woman venting after ICE kidnapped her husband, and then banned her.
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
our bluesky safety manager replied with this to a woman venting after ICE kidnapped her husband, and then banned her.
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
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#SaveSpeech
Next week, Chat Control is going to go through more Trilogue negotiations. currently 23 member states support CC while only 4 oppose.
Contact your MPs/MEPs and demand they say NO to Chat Control!
fightchatcontrol.eu
Next week, Chat Control is going to go through more Trilogue negotiations. currently 23 member states support CC while only 4 oppose.
Contact your MPs/MEPs and demand they say NO to Chat Control!
fightchatcontrol.eu
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
fightchatcontrol.eu
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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An experienced organizer I really respect once reminded folks "you can't always win, but you can always, always inflict a cost. Those add up."
You cannot match the size and resources of these organizations that are abandoning trans youth and sacrificing trans lives, but you have one advantage they do not: an ability to maintain a relentless focus upon them.
Make it your work, every week, to think about how you can punish them.
Make it your work, every week, to think about how you can punish them.
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
An experienced organizer I really respect once reminded folks "you can't always win, but you can always, always inflict a cost. Those add up."
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If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
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#SaveSpeech
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
#SaveSpeech
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
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“what if they change their mind later” is never asked about cis kids going through puberty, even though they might be trans, which reveals that cis people view transness as a defect
The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!"
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“what if they change their mind later” is never asked about cis kids going through puberty, even though they might be trans, which reveals that cis people view transness as a defect
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One of the many bizarre aspects of the last few years of the UK's trans panic has been the apparent inability of anyone making decisions to remember that there are already laws in place that address the existence of and provision for gender reassignment.
2/ The instructions are just… fascinating? Well, every piece of public record I’ve uncovered on this subject so far has been fascinating, but this paragraph is exceptional.
It contradicts the Supreme Court directly, comprehensively, and unequivocally.
It contradicts the Supreme Court directly, comprehensively, and unequivocally.
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
One of the many bizarre aspects of the last few years of the UK's trans panic has been the apparent inability of anyone making decisions to remember that there are already laws in place that address the existence of and provision for gender reassignment.
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"you can discriminate anyone based on vibes" is not the already unreasonable exception to human rights the interim guidance was, while still pretending to comply
it's straight up declaring the framework of universal human rights is no longer part of the law at all
it's straight up declaring the framework of universal human rights is no longer part of the law at all
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"you can discriminate anyone based on vibes" is not the already unreasonable exception to human rights the interim guidance was, while still pretending to comply
it's straight up declaring the framework of universal human rights is no longer part of the law at all
it's straight up declaring the framework of universal human rights is no longer part of the law at all
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actually it's worse than i thought. that ehrc guidance means that any woman in the country, cis or trans, can be discriminated against and the proprietor or employer can deflect any legal woes by saying 'well, i mean, i thought she was a tranny'
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is legalising sexism
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is legalising sexism
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
actually it's worse than i thought. that ehrc guidance means that any woman in the country, cis or trans, can be discriminated against and the proprietor or employer can deflect any legal woes by saying 'well, i mean, i thought she was a tranny'
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is legalising sexism
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is legalising sexism
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#SaveSpeech
Ana's situation has gotten more severe. This is blatantly targetted debanking and [extremely unfortunate] proof that these call campaigns are getting under paypros skin
Keep calling Visa and MC and demanding they stop discriminating against adult content!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Ana's situation has gotten more severe. This is blatantly targetted debanking and [extremely unfortunate] proof that these call campaigns are getting under paypros skin
Keep calling Visa and MC and demanding they stop discriminating against adult content!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
#SaveSpeech
Ana's situation has gotten more severe. This is blatantly targetted debanking and [extremely unfortunate] proof that these call campaigns are getting under paypros skin
Keep calling Visa and MC and demanding they stop discriminating against adult content!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Ana's situation has gotten more severe. This is blatantly targetted debanking and [extremely unfortunate] proof that these call campaigns are getting under paypros skin
Keep calling Visa and MC and demanding they stop discriminating against adult content!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
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November 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Things are getting very scary in the US with these bills, please call if you live in the US.
#savespeech
#savespeech
I really need folks to call their reos and yell about the high priority bills. Things are moving along and legislators are getting a surprising amount of SUPPORT for these policies
Please do not assume this cannot happen. Please call, get your friends and family to call. Please.
Please do not assume this cannot happen. Please call, get your friends and family to call. Please.
now that the govt shutdown is over, y'all will need to really yell and scream about these bills because many of them are going to be pushed again.
tell your representatives to OPPOSE these shitty policies!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
tell your representatives to OPPOSE these shitty policies!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Things are getting very scary in the US with these bills, please call if you live in the US.
#savespeech
#savespeech
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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Banks are targeting individuals by name because of their "high risk" line of work who are too outspoken. This is why we need you to stand up for nsfw creators
Friend tried to donate to my Throne, flagged by fraud detection at Bank of America — bank identified the transaction as specially for “giantess voretuber Ana Valens”
I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!
I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Banks are targeting individuals by name because of their "high risk" line of work who are too outspoken. This is why we need you to stand up for nsfw creators
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This is why yall need to continue to contact your representatives about paypros, this is banking discrimination
Friend tried to donate to my Throne, flagged by fraud detection at Bank of America — bank identified the transaction as specially for “giantess voretuber Ana Valens”
I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!
I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!
November 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This is why yall need to continue to contact your representatives about paypros, this is banking discrimination
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Remember, this is not over. This is a bone thrown to shut people up.
There's no letting go. Keep up the pressure. Hell, ramp it up to 11 because this act of treason masked as "safety" MUST BURN IN FIRES OF HELL!
#chatcontrol
There's no letting go. Keep up the pressure. Hell, ramp it up to 11 because this act of treason masked as "safety" MUST BURN IN FIRES OF HELL!
#chatcontrol
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Remember, this is not over. This is a bone thrown to shut people up.
There's no letting go. Keep up the pressure. Hell, ramp it up to 11 because this act of treason masked as "safety" MUST BURN IN FIRES OF HELL!
#chatcontrol
There's no letting go. Keep up the pressure. Hell, ramp it up to 11 because this act of treason masked as "safety" MUST BURN IN FIRES OF HELL!
#chatcontrol
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Please wear a mask when you can. Even if you don't always, even if it's not the best mask, even if you didn't this morning and you'd feel silly if you did now... any amount of masking is better than none. Nobody is perfect, we're all doing our best, please mask and protect yourself and everyone ❤️
January 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Please wear a mask when you can. Even if you don't always, even if it's not the best mask, even if you didn't this morning and you'd feel silly if you did now... any amount of masking is better than none. Nobody is perfect, we're all doing our best, please mask and protect yourself and everyone ❤️
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#SaveSpeech
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
#SaveSpeech
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
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#fightchatcontrol #PrivacyisaHumanRight #DONOTCOMPLY
In light of Chat Control 2.0 being pushed to what seems like the final vote, I'm gonna compile several FOSS/E2EE apps, tools, etc for people in the EU
- @signal.org
- @session-app.bsky.social
- element.io
- Silence: f-droid.org/packages/org...
In light of Chat Control 2.0 being pushed to what seems like the final vote, I'm gonna compile several FOSS/E2EE apps, tools, etc for people in the EU
- @signal.org
- @session-app.bsky.social
- element.io
- Silence: f-droid.org/packages/org...
Element | Secure collaboration and messaging
Element is a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted messenger and secure collaboration app. It’s decentralised for digital sovereign self-hosting, or through a hosting service such as Element Matrix Servic...
element.io
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
#fightchatcontrol #PrivacyisaHumanRight #DONOTCOMPLY
In light of Chat Control 2.0 being pushed to what seems like the final vote, I'm gonna compile several FOSS/E2EE apps, tools, etc for people in the EU
- @signal.org
- @session-app.bsky.social
- element.io
- Silence: f-droid.org/packages/org...
In light of Chat Control 2.0 being pushed to what seems like the final vote, I'm gonna compile several FOSS/E2EE apps, tools, etc for people in the EU
- @signal.org
- @session-app.bsky.social
- element.io
- Silence: f-droid.org/packages/org...
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Denmark is attempting to push Chat Control 2.0 through at the last minute TODAY!
You can read more about it here: www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-cont...
And find a way to contact your reps here: fightchatcontrol.eu
Call them, mail them, spread the word!
You can read more about it here: www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-cont...
And find a way to contact your reps here: fightchatcontrol.eu
Call them, mail them, spread the word!
CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!"
Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a "deceptive sleight of hand," a mandator...
www.patrick-breyer.de
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Denmark is attempting to push Chat Control 2.0 through at the last minute TODAY!
You can read more about it here: www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-cont...
And find a way to contact your reps here: fightchatcontrol.eu
Call them, mail them, spread the word!
You can read more about it here: www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-cont...
And find a way to contact your reps here: fightchatcontrol.eu
Call them, mail them, spread the word!
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Adding a few more screenshots about how to find and disable YouTube rubbing vasoline on videos you post, because my god was this obnoxious to find for real.
This is an opt-out for specifically creators.
And if there's a way to do it on mobile, I don't know it.
This shit sucks...
This is an opt-out for specifically creators.
And if there's a way to do it on mobile, I don't know it.
This shit sucks...
November 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Adding a few more screenshots about how to find and disable YouTube rubbing vasoline on videos you post, because my god was this obnoxious to find for real.
This is an opt-out for specifically creators.
And if there's a way to do it on mobile, I don't know it.
This shit sucks...
This is an opt-out for specifically creators.
And if there's a way to do it on mobile, I don't know it.
This shit sucks...
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There’s no screening for ovarian cancer and it’s really difficult to spot: you can’t squidge your ovaries in the shower to check for lumps. Also it’s very good at masquerading at other things, like IBS and diverticulitis.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
There’s no screening for ovarian cancer and it’s really difficult to spot: you can’t squidge your ovaries in the shower to check for lumps. Also it’s very good at masquerading at other things, like IBS and diverticulitis.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
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This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.