Ethan
@eeeeeth.bsky.social
tech worker, luddite, citizen
🏳️⚧️ they/them
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
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Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
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Pre-transition // Post-transition
July 18, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Pre-transition // Post-transition
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i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is
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i love new york city. many people are weird about it but it’s a special place. and i’m very relieved that we did not allow a politics of despair to get a foothold
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
i love new york city. many people are weird about it but it’s a special place. and i’m very relieved that we did not allow a politics of despair to get a foothold
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So block the official government accounts and don't do any trolling or harassment of those accounts, it's exactly what they are hoping you'll do. Remember that the people who own and operate this place are NOT your friends in fact they fucking hate you, so keep your shit tight.
October 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So block the official government accounts and don't do any trolling or harassment of those accounts, it's exactly what they are hoping you'll do. Remember that the people who own and operate this place are NOT your friends in fact they fucking hate you, so keep your shit tight.
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A Congresswoman calls for everyone like me to be locked up. The world's richest man proposes I be subject to a Nazi medical experiment. I no longer flinch at the sight of the soldiers with assault rifles on my commute. A billboard for AI tells me "keep thinking." One cold brew with oat milk, please
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A Congresswoman calls for everyone like me to be locked up. The world's richest man proposes I be subject to a Nazi medical experiment. I no longer flinch at the sight of the soldiers with assault rifles on my commute. A billboard for AI tells me "keep thinking." One cold brew with oat milk, please
“the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”
i’m beginning to think we might not see the “justice” in our lifetime, and that’s incredibly grim
i’m beginning to think we might not see the “justice” in our lifetime, and that’s incredibly grim
September 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
“the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”
i’m beginning to think we might not see the “justice” in our lifetime, and that’s incredibly grim
i’m beginning to think we might not see the “justice” in our lifetime, and that’s incredibly grim
liquid glass feels like a cheesy ubuntu skin from 2012
September 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
liquid glass feels like a cheesy ubuntu skin from 2012
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The problem centrists have is that their ideology is ~75% an affective one. If you created a firebrand, these people would hate that on principle. Anything that inspires a mass movement is "unserious" in their eyes. It's a cult of inaction for inaction's sake
September 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The problem centrists have is that their ideology is ~75% an affective one. If you created a firebrand, these people would hate that on principle. Anything that inspires a mass movement is "unserious" in their eyes. It's a cult of inaction for inaction's sake
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does my refrigerator get sad when i close the ahh i can’t even make jokes about this anymore. you people are fucking morons
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
does my refrigerator get sad when i close the ahh i can’t even make jokes about this anymore. you people are fucking morons
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looking at a bunch of bees in the garden. they don’t care about any of this computer crap
August 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
looking at a bunch of bees in the garden. they don’t care about any of this computer crap
I wish there was some way I could tell bluesky that I literally never want to see content about sports
August 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I wish there was some way I could tell bluesky that I literally never want to see content about sports
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August 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Twin Peaks: Andy Brennan vs plank. He’s ok!
August 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Twin Peaks: Andy Brennan vs plank. He’s ok!
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Trans people are now banned from UPenn, Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, intntnl track & field, the Olympics, chess, darts, most federal jobs, the US military & intelligence services, federal facilities, public bathrooms in most states, & many local sports. Seems bad! Let me know what I missed!
August 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trans people are now banned from UPenn, Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, intntnl track & field, the Olympics, chess, darts, most federal jobs, the US military & intelligence services, federal facilities, public bathrooms in most states, & many local sports. Seems bad! Let me know what I missed!
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Liberals willing to embrace anti-trans bullshit because they like Buttigieg don’t believe in anything.
No, he didn’t have a point. No, The Advocate did not take him out of context. No, there’s no middle ground.
The issue here is simple: It’s human rights or discrimination.
No, he didn’t have a point. No, The Advocate did not take him out of context. No, there’s no middle ground.
The issue here is simple: It’s human rights or discrimination.
July 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Liberals willing to embrace anti-trans bullshit because they like Buttigieg don’t believe in anything.
No, he didn’t have a point. No, The Advocate did not take him out of context. No, there’s no middle ground.
The issue here is simple: It’s human rights or discrimination.
No, he didn’t have a point. No, The Advocate did not take him out of context. No, there’s no middle ground.
The issue here is simple: It’s human rights or discrimination.
Maybe, but also words mean things and there is a stark ideological difference between the individualism of liberalism and the collectivism of democratic socialism. That distinction is meaningful
The vast majority of Americans voters understand Barack Obama to be “liberal” and Bernie Sanders to be “very liberal,” this attempt to import a meaningful left-liberal distinction into American politics is an annoying affectation by people for whom politics exists entirely on their phones
Oh u think the Democratic socialist is liberal I’m sorry for your accident
July 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Maybe, but also words mean things and there is a stark ideological difference between the individualism of liberalism and the collectivism of democratic socialism. That distinction is meaningful
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The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
forward.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
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I don’t want to mock basic people. Basic people are also people. But, no one is doing anything amazing with ChatGPT. They basically found some new socks at TJMAXX. It’s an update of sorts but no reason you should remember it.
July 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I don’t want to mock basic people. Basic people are also people. But, no one is doing anything amazing with ChatGPT. They basically found some new socks at TJMAXX. It’s an update of sorts but no reason you should remember it.
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ChatGPT cannot admit any such thing. These reporters are engaging in versions of the delusion that is afflicting the man in question.
These things are designed to reflect back what you want to hear and validate your thesis of whatever.
These things are designed to reflect back what you want to hear and validate your thesis of whatever.
ChatGPT admitted it failed to interrupt a Wisconsin man’s apparent manic episode. OpenAI says it’s trying to reduce ChatGPT’s reinforcement of negative behavior. https://on.wsj.com/4eZktQs
July 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
ChatGPT cannot admit any such thing. These reporters are engaging in versions of the delusion that is afflicting the man in question.
These things are designed to reflect back what you want to hear and validate your thesis of whatever.
These things are designed to reflect back what you want to hear and validate your thesis of whatever.