white activism culture is tiring.. i don't think you can ever really be ready to understanding the struggles of marginalized PoC, especially non native eng speakers, if ppl are just casually, reinforcing colonialist values deeply ingrained in them

the POPUP INTERNET CAFE art show is opening on valentine's day! i personally think it would be a great place to take a date! and of course i'll have computer-themed valentines available! 💘🍒

I saw all that to say, all tech will eventually become popular. Running platforms is not cheap. Build tech to make it easy for people to migrate platforms when one becomes problematic. Build adult content friendly cloud storage (NONE OF IT IS.)

As a user affected by the Australian rollout: they're lying about pre-verification. Every Australian Discord user with whom I regularly interact is over 30, but we were still all required to verify

The footage out of Sydney overnight is abhorrent. Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees. Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?

debuting my @leaflet.pub blog, pet.heika.dog, with a post about colonialism in the atmosphere:

So you can actually sign into your Bluesky account with the blacksky.community web app and set this field on your profile as well !

The ability to edit your profile's pronouns are now available on the blacksky.community web app. Reload the tab/page to see the update. Pronouns are visible when viewing a user's profile and also as you reply to their posts. Thank you @thisismissem.social for your contributions.

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The pronouns labeler shut down but there's a new one over here

So you aren’t even asking us to participate in some open governance process under a racist, murderous regime You’re making ad hominem attacks, performing blatant racism and making baseless accusations to force us to wait on the actions of a 3rd party private company under a racist, murderous regime

It’s ad hominem attacks, blatant racism, accusations of selfishness, and of misusing my influence White people are on here calling themselves Harriet Tubman — saying they’re doing the Underground Railroad! 0_0 There is no protocol process. Paul, Daniel, Divy and Bryan come up with an idea and ship

I think the other piece of this that comes to mind for me is that, by and large, software developers as a culture lack class consciousness. If you're pulling down a mid six-figure tech salary, you're rich *and* you have more in common with someone in homelessness levels of crushing poverty than […]

If all people are coming away with is that elites abuse children they don’t get it. Elites don’t own abuse. Abuse is a problem with all strata. Abusers are privileged & protected & that’s why they’re our most powerful.

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it's bandcamp friday! you can finally get my snowdrop track on bandcamp! along with another cozy lil tune! paperaviator.bandcamp.com/album/since-...

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

Please speak up for Rodney. A year in an ICE camp is beyond comprehension. Public pressure works. If enough people speak up, a life may be saved. Many of the deaths in ICE custody have been due to medical neglect… let’s make sure Rodney isn’t one of them.

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

every xenoblade 1 cutscene

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS! Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!

Exclusive | The Albanese government is handing access to Australians’ biometric data and ID documents to US agencies like ICE, and not telling anyone. @keanebernard.bsky.social reports.

not very productive for me to be around here a lot… i don't do much. i'm just mostly spreading what you already know. i will get back to doing the little things i can do that matter. including taking care of myself so i can continue to do these little things that hopefully contribute in the long run

“Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @RollingStone.com. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...

people who i respect (as in, not just straight up tech bro) who i'd expect to be against genAI are jumping onto claude/"agentic" tools. am i missing something here? what makes these supposedly "ok" AI code tools? i have zero interest in these but am puzzled as to why the casual acceptance of these

Talking in a group is hard

Been a while since I did a General MIDI transcription, but just finished one using an experimental tracker/DAW-ish thing I've been working on! (more on that in the future) 🎶 "Sophisticated Fight" from Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter [remake]

Pokemon Silver of all things, helped me to process my very unstable childhood. This is an ode to one of my favourite games. #blog #gaming #pokemon

Isso tbm fica de lembrete pra nós - a experiência com games de um brasileiro médio nos anos 2000 foi mais próxima de um iraquiano (q tava sendo invadido!) dq de um americano comprando jogo original na loja. Era assim no Iraque, Brasil, Filipinas, Malásia, etc... cabe a nós contar essa história.

There's a rot -- a eugenicist, transhumanist, techno-optimist, new-atheist rot -- in elite institutions that connects Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Silicon Valley, CBS, Palantir, and ICE. It sweeps in Epstein, Bannon, Thiel, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Joe Rogan, and all these other IDW / NeoRX creeps.

you risk begging the question of why it's you who's doing this, instead of someone else. and the answer is, of course, because no one can do what you can do. no one is weird like you're weird. no one is broken the way you're broken. no one's spark of life has been shaped like yours has.

wrote this in a discord server but I feel like sharing it here too

The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

I did some mix consulting on this and I still can't believe it's real GO WATCH GO LISTEN IT'S REAL GOOD

i wrote the theme song for #MIKUEXPO2026 with @flavorfoley.bsky.social ! with this, i hope to bridge the gap - like miku has for me so many times. thank you all; we hope you get to enjoy hearing CONNECT:COMMUNE live 💚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF91...

Everybody fucks up early on (some people worse than others). You will often forgive other people for the fuck-ups of their youths, but will be hard on yourself for your own. Anybody over 30 would give you grace, knowing you were just like them. Respect yourself to give yourself that same grace.

The coverage and response from the commentariat and our political leadership to the pipe bomb attack at the Invasion Day rally was so muted, that even I didn’t find out about until the next day. But I know about it now and what it says about us a country, so I’ve written about it here for Crikey.

NEW: Australia’s sovereign wealth fund now owns more than $100 million worth of shares in Palantir, a controversial tech company that’s powering the Trump administration’s anti-immigration efforts.

Invasion Day in Perth was targeted with a homemade explosive device yesterday. Aboriginal communities are under threat from neo-Nazis, racists and white supremacists. Yet politicians don't write special laws to combat hatred and violence against them. thewest.com.au/news/perth/i...

now's maybe a good time to remember that duckduckgo is just a bing reskin rather than its own actual search engine

They're so ANGRY that we take care of each other, and not just angry. So CONFUSED by it. And that is why we will win

Conformity to what's expected drains so much joy from life. I see it in conformity of relationship/marriage expectations too when it comes to independently enjoying hobbies and supporting each other's interests. So many non-queer couples seem to feel that should just stop for whatever reason?

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

Dangerously unchecked surveillance and rights violations have been a throughline of DHS since the agency’s creation in the wake of the September 11th attacks. In particular, ICE and CBP have been responsible for countless civil liberties and digital rights violations. (1/3)www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Thank you to everyone who helped out on this. The video game industry is a global one.

we've raised an incredible $5500 so far 😭 thank you all for your support to date & check out the new dono goal!! tonight, i begin FF14 for the first time (with the help of @vulpixie.bsky.social 🦊) - come hang out and donate to charity!! going live at 7PM ET tonight @ www.twitch.tv/mellana