My time on bluesky is numbered. I will not be uploading my face scans to EpicGames or any 3rd party Nor will I upload face scans or government IDs to bluesky If my account gets suspended or deleted you know why ID/Face scanning can fuck off, I will not comply And you shouldn't either

The national level Democratic Party of 2025 is more conservative and openly bigoted than bush era republicans.

The national level democrats have literally sold out every citizen for cash from the techno fascists they consider friends. These people are more dangerous than the bush era republicans and more corrupt. bsky.app/profile/clim...

Fuck'em this technology is bullshit, there is no reason to comply with blueskys shitty "EpicGames" data selling garbage

The enshitification of bluesky has been going on for some time, now they are pre-complying with age gating content in regions there are no laws Talk about some bullshit Make matters worse? Its bugged and locking people out of their accounts 👍

"Age assurance" systems don't work, except as data collection strategies for creating large pools of sensitive information that is easily hacked and misused. Bad idea.

Bluesky's "birthday requirements" have been rolled out as the biggest bag of fail I've seen in a while Many of my friends cannot use the site, the brithday updater doesnt work. I was born in year 0002, because the birthday selector is broken AF I know a few people just perma locked out 👍

Spent a little time today asking Grok AI to write about its primary sources, and "guardrails" in the form of a poem After asking it to use full quotes, the replies got a little interesting Pretty sure nothing new here, but still I find the user-list very interesting for the "live feeds"

When you have people taking part in a genocide visit your country, they will bring that "kill the outgroup" energy with them Simply seeing a Palestinian flag or keffiyeh is enough to activate the genocidal rage in public streets

Ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social is a person we know and interacted with daily. She has always used the platform honestly. It's telling that there's even from Bluesky no details about what specifically she violated. @safety.bsky.app @bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app review Ruaa's case, restore her account.

It’s wild having been on the other end of this dynamic as this is exactly how it works usually with connector information sharing accounts between networks and boom.

Remember, if you want to discredit anyone on the left it just costs a little bit of pocket change to the Internets local botfarm... And before you know it every online "leftist" will be repeating the solidarity breaking lie easy peasy movement breaking made easy

Porn was only ever the cover. In half the country, these laws now effectively mandate facial scans to access any material deemed "harmful to minors" by the state attorney general or a conservative parent. What they passed is much, much broader than people generally realized.

Democrat losers given a chance would have run Harris 2024 with a Cheney/Musk/Adolf Hitler triple-threat ticket if they could just get the re-animation technology to work... Then: "blame those damn lefists" whos "vote doesn't matter" but need to "vote for them anyways because its their birthright"

No tech for you You'll be happy with a chromebook tied to OpenAI and you'll like it

we vote the bums out

Jefferies has more in common with the GOP at this point in history, he just prefers softer optics on the violence he inflicts on others That said, the democrat party mainstream will fight tooth and nail to make sure he stays in charge of congress, even if means losing midterms

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

So called "Democratic strategist" posting polymarket slop as if its polling Things are not looking good for midterms y'all Not with absolute dumbasses like this whispering in the halls of power

Its not enough that the AI Bubble is going to dry up all RAM, SSDs and other silicon based products from the consume markets When it crashes we'll also be looking at not just a shortage of any useful technology, but tons of unusable garbage made to run AI and nothing else What a waste of resources

Chat Control 2.0: We scan you, but don't you dare scan people in charge! Nothing sus there at all!

With american schools blocking tools like "github" and "gitlab" from their network in favor of "AI Coding Platforms" I fear a lot of kids are going to come out of school knowing less than nothing Apparently schools are now blocking a lot of educational resources, in favor of contracts

Often times people talk about not feeling "normal" feeling like they would do anything to be "normal" But, there is no such thing as normal. Normal is just what a specific person is used to Ask 100 people, get 100 definitions Normal, is just you and your bias radiolab.org/podcast/9169...

KOSA and COPPA 2 are being pitched in congress as a package deal, including age gating/government ID requirements to use the app store on your phone If you live in the USA, now is the time to get ahead of this Before our access to a free and queer internet are taken from us, forever

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

Apple is anti-union. Tesla is anti-union. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.

Vote the moderate spoilers OUT

Can’t think why a trans person wouldn’t come forward to the British Transport Police and report that they’d been assaulted. Total mystery. 🤔

Pro-Israel cutout is bragging about another flagrant ceasefire violation

Alberta gov used the notwithstanding clause to prevent court challenges to laws impacting trans youth & adults student pronoun changes at school girls’ and women’s sports medical therapies for young people looking to transition During Trans Awareness Week and on the eve of Trans Day of Remembrance

You exist to buy products. It is the only useful feature of the american population. You are nothing more than a consume, and if you do not consume you will be punished Now this holiday season get the fuck off your ass and mindlessly consume products

This skeet could also be written as simply: Why america has no leftists

Have you called your state Congress person to say what the fuck is wrong with you yet? Heck, ask the staffers how they can live with themselves working for such disgusting weasels who oppose the very people they claim to represent www.newsweek.com/full-list-of...

The so-called "big tent" of the US Democrat party only opens on the right hand side, the left-side door on the tent has been welded shut

Its impossible to avoid the horrors of american living today Masked ICE agents abducting people US Military deployed on american cities to inflict random violence Rising inflation of the US dollar while the ruling class cashes out And yet the average american says "meh, what else is on TV today"

The democrat leader of the house, Mr Jefferies thinks social safety programs (food assistance, unemployment, access to healthcare) is the REAL enemy And people expect him to lead the party against Trump? Why would he he already votes with the GOP. Yet another democrat spoiler who stops all progress

I fail to understand how the current democrat line up is supposed to stop the rise of fascism in america Most of them are progenocide extremists. Try to understand, if you're totally cool with killing an entire group of people for the crime of existing. Why would any of Trump's policies bother you?

A lot of people asking themselves what they would do during a fascist take over in their country. Well you're doing it now, and for many people it means doing absolutely nothing while the other half of the country celebrates inflicting pain on others.

Shot, chaser.

those who trade liberty for the guise of convenience, deliver us to our techno-oligarch overlords on a silver platter

We collectively did this to ourselves too. This just like the near death of privacy is a series of choices people kept collectively making. None of this had to be like this but as a species we keep turning everything into a janky unreliable hellscape. We need to do better before we can't anymore.

The thing is, the internet was meant to be YOU (browser) -> HOST Maybe some people will cut out the middle man :) Even the "DDoS" protection they offer is minimum at best and doesn't stop most modern attacks anyways

LOL cloudlfare is down The site that man in the middled the internet has taken a vacation

Is this real? Did the CIA just try to bay of pigs mexico?!

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It’s particularly important to note that legislation to limit what kids can do and see online also limits what *everyone* can do and see online, censors broad swaths of the internet, further disempowers marginalized tech users, and allows the fascist government to control what is on the internet

I have heard a lot of people say "but you'd be silly to think the government doesn't already have you on a list" While people like to think of the US government as some magical all knowing list haver, the truth is the government does not really keep lists of "who is trans" -- Until now