Leave Meta apps. Leave and never look back.

A few hours after posting this, Sama'a told me that Israel has resumed bombing the Strip. Please give what you can to help her family survive.

My mistake, you are correct! I generated the file, but I did not give you a download link — let me go get it for you [pretends to walk down stairs behind couch]

“At toilet time, you sign in via a fingerprint sensor so that the device knows who's using the facilities. (Please wash your hands before signing out or tracking your progress.) Then, check in with the app for the day's analysis and trends over time.”

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

Alright, man. But a lot of us said this was happening at the time and got yelled at by people like Chris Jackson for not being sufficiently appreciative of Joe Biden's foreign policy genius.

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

A trans Royal Mail worker who was bullied, harassed & assaulted by colleagues has just won a tribunal for sex discrimination.💕🏳️‍⚧️ Major bloody news, yet silence from BBC, ITV, Guardian etc. If Forstater or Rowling got looked at by a trans person it’d be front page for weeks. The silence says it all.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Oh, and it turns out the guy with the umbrella is definitely a new breed of activist

It's extremely hard to convey to the average cis person just how bad the harassment of trans people on social media has gotten and how aggressively we're targeted, because if you've not been on the receiving end of it for years, you can't really grasp how relentless it is, and how isolating it is.

As the mod who tamed a big news site's notoriously annoying comment section that serially harassed many of the site's authors, it's 100 percent obvious that the problem here is the same problem I solved back then. A moderation team can't earn buy in from a community they're openly contemptuous of.

Florida sheriff's department used ICE to round up sex workers under pretense of fighting human trafficking and child exploitation. Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

If you're not an artist but you followed a nsfw artist over to bsky, use that feedback form to tell bsky that. Remind them they're opening a traffic and funding sinkhole that extends well beyond the "icky" creators they want to get rid of

I think fundamentally, the ability to care about the rights of a small and vulnerable minority (of whom you might know no members) is an important sign of whether you are committed to human rights out of principle, or out of mere convenience.

But if you put cat ears on a drawing, Mastercard gets to delete your bank account

This is a new development in ICE tactics

We don't say sex work is work because it's a cute slogan. We say sex work is work because sex workers are left out of conversations around labor rights. Sex workers have the right to safe workplaces and legal protections. Sex workers shouldn't fsce discrimination because of archaic morals.

this gay bitch killed 3 people #art #digitalart #originalcharacter #oc

thinking about all the institutions and public figures, up to and including barack obama, who thought kneeling at a football game was disrespectful and out of bounds but have rushed to have statements about charlie kirk and the importance of free speech

"Degradation" and "fantasy" are so vague, but to see cat ears and fairies specifically mentioned let's me know they intend to be extremely broad with how they interpret it. This is "degenerate art" levels of censorship. We need ppl to start calling in the numbers we had a month ago about this

Okay at this point you have to ask yourself “If I was actively collaborating with Trump to make sure he stayed in power while pretending to be in opposition, what would I do differently”

This popular meme is a joke about the sexual assault and murder of a trans man, Brandon Teena. Most don’t know that. Now you do. Now spend some time thinking about why you don’t know that.

Woah, incredible. The release of Everybody’s Golf: Hot Shots today has crashed both the eShop and Steam. Guess fans are really excited to see a sequel to their beloved game after seven years

It bugs the fuck outta me there's this new wave of people who think Doug, Rob and his company are cool when it was proven ages ago through the Change the Channel document the Walker Brothers are massive assholes. I dealt with Doug's shit behavior at a con ages ago so I can back it up with how he is

They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with! All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!

This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I don’t think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemns anti-trans hate in wake of school shooting, calls for unity: “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity” #NOH8

having watched some of the robin w manifesto video myself i can def also say this is ideologically incomprehensible beyond a general obsession with serial killers and both nazi and soviet aesthetics.

Something I won’t ever do is answer for another trans person’s violence. One transfem did a shooting? Fuck off if you think I should go out of my way to “condemn” more than I would when the hundreds of right wing men do it. Happy to condemn you being an opportunistic little cunt about it though.

It's wild how all those bad things seemed to 'stop' right at the 25 year mark for declassification. I'm sure the things not yet declassified from then to now are all on the up and up lol

let us be done with Harry Potter AUs. bring back Highlander AUs. I don’t want to know what house your faves are sorted into. i want to know what sword they use to play the Game. 😤

In June, Latricia Green pleaded for a protection order from her ex-husband. It was denied. She asked again in July. It wasn’t served. She was shot and killed by her ex-husband this morning inside a Detroit hospital

the dems backing newsom just want a trump of their own. their not-so-ironic worship of him is less a satire of trump & his followers and more an emulation. the glee taken in doing something naughty that you imagine will annoy your enemies is part of the original package too

20 Aug 25 -- Bluesky has suspended multiple trans users for anti-J.K. Rowling posts even when they didn't mention threats or violence. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

anyway i won't forget how 'purity testing' went from being applied to 'people mad about low student loan debt promises' to being applied to 'people mad about genocide/having their own rights considered an acceptable sacrifice'

ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified

this is why adult creators are really emphasizing that non-creators be the ones who contact paypal. Of all the paypros, PP is the most likely to act in a retaliatory manner towards individual accounts. If you dont make adult content or youre just a commissioner, you are able to help a LOT

he's literally kitty cat #art #originalcharacter #dnd #furry

brb heading to New York to uh, check up on this reporting

i think the next bullshit tech bubble will be the one. going all in on the next piece of shit thing

Thinking now of the “language” in the Large Language Model. The ideology of AI suggests language is singular, multiple languages are merely a problem to overcome in the quest to reduce the world and its denizens to interchangeable parts for sale and exploitation

feds embedded in cartels launder their money via launderers who are feds and then they use that money to buy guns from arms dealers who are also feds and then

Fuck censorship. They're coming after you next, whether you make porn or not. I have never sold NSFW services or artwork, yet here's my termination from Stripe! Fully SFW, innocent headshots of furries = adult content. This is what we've been trying to fucking tell y'all this whole month!

Pls note that it also has a representative from a Palestinian digital rights org. (I am just so tired when people here on Bluesky go like "Palestinians have no solidarity with other minority groups, esp. queer/trans people" bc that fits their stereotypes and ignore everything like this.)

Studying languages, cultures, and histories from all over the world is absolutely necessary to interact as global citizens. Please support language programs everywhere.