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“AI is just being used as a placeholder” is the new “I am a fucking dickhead.”

Nobody can explain how Australians peacefully marching against Israel’s genocide could cause anyone to commit such shocking acts of violence, so it would be nice, & not undermine police investigations, if politicians, the antisemitism envoy & the dreaded media stopped lying.

"Disability organisations reiterate the call for the Government to stop all Centrelink payment penalties and end the Targeted Compliance Framework following another alarming report from the Commonwealth Ombudsman about the harms within the mutual obligations system" dana.org.au/call-to-end-...

Scoop: the pro-teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months was funded & co-staffed by its co-founder's ad production firm that was simultaneously making gambling ads The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban. www.crikey.com.au/20...

The Shovel has it right

Sarah and Neilly's most recent video is so wonderful and please support the Ko-Fi they set up that I'm gonna link below...

COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.

Feeling very good about cancelling my Netflix subscription last month

Big red flags in leaked NDIA plans: A computer tool would decide NDIS budgets. No human review. No independent reports considered. No real right to appeal. Full response: everyaustraliancounts.com.au/eac/every-au... #ProtectOurNDIS #EveryAustralianCounts

Genuinely absolutely fucking delusional fuckwits in control of these changes. “We listened to participants” no you fucking did not you fucks. You have learned FUCKING NOTHING.

Politicians love to talk about "kids safety" until you ask them to do something that would actually keep kids safe like fund housing, healthcare, education, outdoor spaces, arts programs, etc. That's because most of them use "safety" as a euphemism for surveillance, control and domination.

I’m used to bad opinions coming from people not on the NDIS, but when they come from people who are it really makes me fucking furious. Stop throwing disabled children under the bus. What the fuck is wrong with you.

i love when tboys are like i can't be a man bc i feel very insecure about my identity as a man. baby boy that is the most man thing you can do

"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE GIRLS "UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE CHILDREN thank you for your attention to this matter

Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

Without downloading new pictures, describe your gender.

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

I only recently found out what rpf is (real person fiction, like fan fiction except it's about, you know, real people), and I am extremely unhappy about it

There is something annoyingly affirming and also agonising about getting shirts for tall men being advertised to me on Instagram

I genuinely could not care less about what people buy with food stamps. I wouldn't even give a shit if they used them to buy cigarettes and vodka

When you refuse to touch Microsoft’s stuff because of its whole “we love aiding a genocide” thing you really get a feel for how much of the gaming industry it’s gotten its grubby little mitts on.

That a well-crafted story does not become less compelling when you know some of the plot points ahead of time is the opinion which fire cannot melt out of me; I will die in it at the stake.

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

Petition to reinstate gender affirming care to QLD trans minors. More info in the link. transjustice.org.au/review/

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

My anti-censorship stance has basically nothing to do with how I feel about any particular kind of potentially-targeted content and everything to do with the fact that I do not trust corporations or governments as far as I can throw them with the authority to make that determination.

I sure wish academics were as concerned about eugenics as they are about chatgpt🥴

Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt

me: “why am i, an Autistic person, currently experiencing the worst mental health in living memory” [goes online] also me: “oh right”

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

You can't be a centrist under a fascist regime. You're either fighting, or facilitating. There's no secret third thing. Except dead, I suppose.

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

Hello everyone. You may know Gretchen Felker-Martin has once again been suspended from bc they do that whenever some chud complains. Her brand-new ongoing DC series was also cancelled for the same reason. It’s stupid fascist bullshit as usual. Gretchen’s work rules. Consider supporting her here:

My favourite theme in all media is what it means to be human, with a particular interest in robots. The current AI bullshit is absolutely ruining my favourite thing.

Being trans is great, but it would nicer during a time when my mere existence is not a form of protest

10 months in the making, Play for Peace bundle launches to raise money for Palestinian Aid: aftermath.site/play-for-peace...

Not gonna support any flavor of fighting for trans rights that doesn't include bodily autonomy including access to transition medication and surgery. Sorry, but that's a red line for me, and if you don't see the importance of those items, we're not *actually* on the same side of this thing.

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic

This is my most confrontational post of the day: please watch Armond’s video & think on it. It isn’t at all progressive or leftist to spread disabling disease in an ongoing pandemic. There are more Armonds than you know, & folks who don’t mask are making more each day bc most spread is asymptomatic

the average cis person's opinion on trans people seems to be "they shouldnt be allowed to transition until a decade after puberty, also i prefer them when they pass. no i dont know how any of this works and i wont listen if you try to explain"

This month my support coordinator is quitting, my psychologist is quitting, and my GP is quitting. Truly what the fuck is happening.

And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. That the bourgeois are not human.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.