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@frankiealt.bsky.social
She/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Ancom, queer, bookworm
Let's be very clear. What Amnesty have done here isn't just bad for the trans community. This is bad for every single persecuted minority in the world because they have shown that money and threats will remove opposition to persecution. Think about it.
The EU’s new biometric border system will force non-EU travellers to hand over fingerprints and facial scans, creating serious privacy risks. The EU says this makes borders smarter and safer but biometrics cannot be reset like passwords
Straight cisgender people have to be aware of the 'two tier policing' and speak out on it A cishet man says "punch them in the balls" *and* physically assaulted a teenager, he gets a compensation payout A trans woman says "punch a terf" doesnt assault anyone, gets jail time
A trans girl in the UK will face consistent messages she's not accepted & doesn't belong from a young age. Toilet segregation, banned from sports, banned from Brownies, denied healthcare. school's free to outright deny her identity. Treated literally as subhuman. Because of Labour.
Clive Lewis MP@labourlewis.bsky.social · 4w agoAll sexualities, genders and cultures should be free to celebrate their identity in our public spaces. The fact that county councillors think their priority should be denying this shows everything we need to know about Reform in power.
They want me to disappear. What they don't understand is that I already spent decades buried inside a life that was never mine. I fought too hard to become myself. I will never go back. medium.com/@geekonaleas...
The Girl They Want to Bury Again
There is a girl they want to erase.
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🚨 #ChatControl 1.0 HAS PASSED - despite a majority voting against it (314:276) 🚨 After the EU parliament has rejected #ChatControl TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. TODAY the EU parliament has voted YES for #ChatControl 1.0😡
X violating user data in 2022 led to an FTC order requiring it to take platform security seriously and periodically report to the regulator. Its new petition to waive those requirements should be fully rejected.
EFF and Allies: X’s FTC Petition to Waive Privacy Violation Order Should be Rejected
X Corp. should not be able to escape privacy compliance because it changed its name. On May 15, X Corp. filed a petition before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to set aside or modify an order issue...
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Age verification will NOT make the internet safer Pass that on
Nathan Pizzacat@framolianking.bsky.social · last mo.Age verification will NOT make the internet safer! Pass it on!
I actually cannot imagine a nightmare worse than being sent to a men's prison. It's so transparently evil and unjust and no one cares at all
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor Women Scotland won another case against the Scottish government, this time at Court of Session. Trans prisoners must now be housed in birth sex prison as a result of 2025 FWS. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2621030...
NEW: A global movement to defend the open internet 🌐 #StopKillingTheInternet brings creators, communities and civil society together to say: the Internet must remain open, private and free. ORG is joining the movement as the UK moves to ban social media and scan devices. Find out more ⬇️
Stop Killing the Internet: New global movement launches
Stop Killing Games has teamed up with global rights respecting organisations, including Open Rights Group, to form Stop Killing the Internet, a global movement defending the open Internet.
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On June 17th we're talking to Cyptografur Soatok and Equilabs founder Luísa Franco Machado about censorship and targeted surveillance facing LGBTQ+ communities. Join us and learn how to push back. eff.org/livestream-...
EFFecting Change: LGBTQ+ Solidarity Against the Tide of Surveillance
LGBTQ+ communities are facing an escalating wave of censorship and targeted surveillance, but we can push back through mutual solidarity. Join us live to learn how safer virtual spaces get built, how
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Non-zero chance someone told her that AI was capable at bug detection.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoBrooke Rollins says DHS wants to put "AI on drones" to detect screwworm
Some truths are never meant to be seen. Around the world, ordinary people discover evidence of corruption, abuse, and wrongdoing. Speaking out can come with risks, but staying silent can come with consequences too. Support @torproject.org ecosystem to protect truth: internetfreedom.torproject.org
Read books. These books you could buy @ Neo-Cypherpunk Summit & support freedom cause: "The Politics of Privacy" curated by @pg.web3privacy.info "Vanishing Culture" by @internetarchive.eu "Decolonizing Money" by Julio Linares "Blockchain Radicals" by @tbsocialist.bsky.social
They'll do everything except hold big tech accountable.
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 2mo agoLaws restricting social media access based on age are spreading across the globe—from Australia and the UK to Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and the EU. These policies create serious risks for privacy, free expression, and access to information. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Some questions are difficult to ask out loud. Around the world, people use privacy tools to search, learn, connect, and find community safely online. Support @torproject.org ecosystem protecting your freedom: internetfreedom.torproject.org
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"everyone here has the same opinions and you're not allowed to disagree with them" which opinions. which opinions specifically
Yes. I fucking want a bubble. I admit it. I do not like being in "exciting" discussions on X about how specifically i should be killed. If thats bad then so be it.
Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 2mo agoi think, end of the day, the real problem with Bluesky is that most of its users are here *because* they want to be in a bubble. and they can tell themselves that it’s just about not being around Nazis it supporting Musk, and that’s part of it, but also there’s a palpable desire to be ensconced.
JK Rowling mentioned four times as often as actual trans people in media coverage of 'trans issues', research finds www.wearequeeraf.com... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
JK Rowling mentioned four times as often as actual trans people in media coverage of 'trans issues', research finds
The rapid rise of 'gender critical' organisations in the UK shows ahigh volume of anti-trans media coverage and increasing spending by 51 organisations
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Meanwhile, publishers are blocking the Internet Archive, a digital library, from archiving their journalism due to fears of "AI scraping." That's right -- the same papers selling their work to AI companies are blocking a nonprofit archive due to "fears of AI." (2/3) www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...
More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots.
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