golvio
@golvio.bsky.social
Current interests: Legend of Zelda (the wildly speculative/transformative side of things), Slay the Princess, my eclectic musical tastes, writing, reading, horror art & fiction, social justice.
Not a minor. Don’t follow me if you’re uncomfortable w/ that.
Not a minor. Don’t follow me if you’re uncomfortable w/ that.
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This is a moment of uncertainty and fear in sex ed. Governments are restricting access to sexual health information with tactics such as age verification laws and treating sex ed as pornography to deny young people access to information that provides them with accurate sexual health information.
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is a moment of uncertainty and fear in sex ed. Governments are restricting access to sexual health information with tactics such as age verification laws and treating sex ed as pornography to deny young people access to information that provides them with accurate sexual health information.
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Conservatives went from “it’s a hoax” to “he’s not in the files” to “he barely even knew Epstein” to “yea he was there a lot but he didn’t participate” to “ok but how old is 15 really?”
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Conservatives went from “it’s a hoax” to “he’s not in the files” to “he barely even knew Epstein” to “yea he was there a lot but he didn’t participate” to “ok but how old is 15 really?”
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I am also *that person* who mentions that we have lost some trust but it's just aa much about institutions making commitments in 2020 that they walked back within 5 years and colleges who say all your learning can happen in a chatbot which devalues actual cognition.
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I am also *that person* who mentions that we have lost some trust but it's just aa much about institutions making commitments in 2020 that they walked back within 5 years and colleges who say all your learning can happen in a chatbot which devalues actual cognition.
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Happy International Men's Day!
Men can be strong, smart, creative, and compassionate. We are not constrained by our manliness, but can flourish within it in a way that brings joy and hope to others and to ourselves.
Men can be strong, smart, creative, and compassionate. We are not constrained by our manliness, but can flourish within it in a way that brings joy and hope to others and to ourselves.
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Happy International Men's Day!
Men can be strong, smart, creative, and compassionate. We are not constrained by our manliness, but can flourish within it in a way that brings joy and hope to others and to ourselves.
Men can be strong, smart, creative, and compassionate. We are not constrained by our manliness, but can flourish within it in a way that brings joy and hope to others and to ourselves.
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As with anything, we should oppose behaviour that perpetuates unacceptable conditions, but also take care not to dismiss or discourage the behaviour and mindset we *want* to see. Celebrate positive growth, nurture healthy masculinity and masculine people.
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As with anything, we should oppose behaviour that perpetuates unacceptable conditions, but also take care not to dismiss or discourage the behaviour and mindset we *want* to see. Celebrate positive growth, nurture healthy masculinity and masculine people.
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It can be tough to see a world that's so full of hostile, self-absorbed, predatory, delusional, brutish and pathetic men, and to have most of our role models - even from early childhood - be defined by their capacity for physical violence or domination of others.
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It can be tough to see a world that's so full of hostile, self-absorbed, predatory, delusional, brutish and pathetic men, and to have most of our role models - even from early childhood - be defined by their capacity for physical violence or domination of others.
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Over 20 states changed their vote-by-mail rules this year. 😵💫
When voters are confused about how to vote, they are more likely to choose not to vote at all, and lawmakers count on this to stay in power.
When voters are confused about how to vote, they are more likely to choose not to vote at all, and lawmakers count on this to stay in power.
Twenty-three states have amended their absentee/mail-in voting laws so far this year - Ballotpedia News
news.ballotpedia.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Over 20 states changed their vote-by-mail rules this year. 😵💫
When voters are confused about how to vote, they are more likely to choose not to vote at all, and lawmakers count on this to stay in power.
When voters are confused about how to vote, they are more likely to choose not to vote at all, and lawmakers count on this to stay in power.
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I think people fall way too much into the trap of nostalgia when it comes to filmmaking and look, there is a lot of crap out there but theres a lot of good stuff around too lately! you just haven't been watching it shrug
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I think people fall way too much into the trap of nostalgia when it comes to filmmaking and look, there is a lot of crap out there but theres a lot of good stuff around too lately! you just haven't been watching it shrug
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they think that people don't pay attention and they are correct. So they will *give* you back $2000 with his name on the check to distract you from the fact that you paid an extra $6000. So you are actually $4000 in the hole. A lot of people will think they are ahead.
The $2000 rebate checks “are a budgetary shell game. Tariffs have already cost American families nearly that much — an average of $1,800 .. Don’t look for logic here. There is none.”
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
they think that people don't pay attention and they are correct. So they will *give* you back $2000 with his name on the check to distract you from the fact that you paid an extra $6000. So you are actually $4000 in the hole. A lot of people will think they are ahead.
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You ever think about how beautiful and rare your friends are and stare into space for 10 minutes because in all the wretched terrifying universe somehow something still managed to give you the miracle of their presence?
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
You ever think about how beautiful and rare your friends are and stare into space for 10 minutes because in all the wretched terrifying universe somehow something still managed to give you the miracle of their presence?
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I'm sure many people have mentioned this, but I think it needs to be mentioned again: women do not have yearbooks. Children do. Because yearbooks contain photos of high school students. Or younger.
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I'm sure many people have mentioned this, but I think it needs to be mentioned again: women do not have yearbooks. Children do. Because yearbooks contain photos of high school students. Or younger.
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I do not use Windows but if you do, here's how to make your computer better
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I do not use Windows but if you do, here's how to make your computer better
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saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
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Since people asked, my top places for trans people right now are France, Australia (parts), Canada (parts), Spain (though politics there are tenuous), Iceland, Uruguay.
It's being reported that New Zealand has banned puberty blockers for transgender youth. I removed New Zealand from my recommendations to families fleeing a while back after the far right saw a surge in power in the country.
Sad day for NZ trans youth.
Sad day for NZ trans youth.
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Since people asked, my top places for trans people right now are France, Australia (parts), Canada (parts), Spain (though politics there are tenuous), Iceland, Uruguay.
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Weddings in Gaza used to be a time for celebration. But now, weddings that people once dreamed of only exist in their imaginations, writes Hassan Herzallah. After all the loss, the waiting, & the silence of two years, Gazans are trying to rebuild not just their homes, but the meaning of life itself.
Gaza, where love and loss share the same breath
Weddings in Gaza used to be a time for celebration. But now, weddings that people once dreamed of only exist in their imaginations
prismreports.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Weddings in Gaza used to be a time for celebration. But now, weddings that people once dreamed of only exist in their imaginations, writes Hassan Herzallah. After all the loss, the waiting, & the silence of two years, Gazans are trying to rebuild not just their homes, but the meaning of life itself.
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ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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potential bad news for people who value...water
(I'm using 'potential' bc it is still a *proposed rule for now, and you have time submit comments and/or speak at upcoming public meetings and make your opposition known www.epa.gov/wotus/public...)
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
(I'm using 'potential' bc it is still a *proposed rule for now, and you have time submit comments and/or speak at upcoming public meetings and make your opposition known www.epa.gov/wotus/public...)
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Supreme Court Helped Trump Deliver More Pollution In Your Drinking Water
A proposed rule change from Trump’s EPA would strip federal protections from 85 percent of the nation’s wetlands.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
potential bad news for people who value...water
(I'm using 'potential' bc it is still a *proposed rule for now, and you have time submit comments and/or speak at upcoming public meetings and make your opposition known www.epa.gov/wotus/public...)
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
(I'm using 'potential' bc it is still a *proposed rule for now, and you have time submit comments and/or speak at upcoming public meetings and make your opposition known www.epa.gov/wotus/public...)
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Here is where you too can donate $ to the Land Defenders at Hunters Mountain.
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Here is where you too can donate $ to the Land Defenders at Hunters Mountain.
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I have been on media almost everywhere (locally) but here about this- let me give you an update about our work to protect a public park, an ecologically significant beach area, from being developed into a golf course.
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I have been on media almost everywhere (locally) but here about this- let me give you an update about our work to protect a public park, an ecologically significant beach area, from being developed into a golf course.
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This widespread image purporting to show one of Donald Trump's supporters wearing an "I don't care if Trump is a pedophile" shirt is doctored.
The original is from 2018 and shows the man in generic campaign attire supporting the 2020 Republican ticket.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
The original is from 2018 and shows the man in generic campaign attire supporting the 2020 Republican ticket.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
November 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This widespread image purporting to show one of Donald Trump's supporters wearing an "I don't care if Trump is a pedophile" shirt is doctored.
The original is from 2018 and shows the man in generic campaign attire supporting the 2020 Republican ticket.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
The original is from 2018 and shows the man in generic campaign attire supporting the 2020 Republican ticket.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Literally almost half the US stock market is dependent on this, and any appearance we are not already in a recession is due to this.
Sam Altman, if he survives the bubble popping, will be a bigger pest for the next 25 years than dot com cockroaches like Thiel and Elon.
Sam Altman, if he survives the bubble popping, will be a bigger pest for the next 25 years than dot com cockroaches like Thiel and Elon.
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Literally almost half the US stock market is dependent on this, and any appearance we are not already in a recession is due to this.
Sam Altman, if he survives the bubble popping, will be a bigger pest for the next 25 years than dot com cockroaches like Thiel and Elon.
Sam Altman, if he survives the bubble popping, will be a bigger pest for the next 25 years than dot com cockroaches like Thiel and Elon.
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This is an excellent story. We got similar pitches from the same writer at Defector and if they had not been entirely generated by someone plugging prompts into The Fabulism Device they really would've been cool.
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is an excellent story. We got similar pitches from the same writer at Defector and if they had not been entirely generated by someone plugging prompts into The Fabulism Device they really would've been cool.
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After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
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Republican leaders don’t care if Americans go hungry w/o SNAP, if citizens are detained by ICE, if migrants are killed in illegal strikes on “drug boats”, or if millions die from USAID cuts.
But when it comes to their rich friends in the Epstein files, they suddenly must protect the “innocent.”
But when it comes to their rich friends in the Epstein files, they suddenly must protect the “innocent.”
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Republican leaders don’t care if Americans go hungry w/o SNAP, if citizens are detained by ICE, if migrants are killed in illegal strikes on “drug boats”, or if millions die from USAID cuts.
But when it comes to their rich friends in the Epstein files, they suddenly must protect the “innocent.”
But when it comes to their rich friends in the Epstein files, they suddenly must protect the “innocent.”