Jiraffe

@jiraffe.bsky.social

He/They. NB or something, figuring it out. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights are Human Rights 🇵🇸 Free Palestine 🦒 Jiraffe should be spelled with a J.

I spent twelve years in Mississippi and that state could’ve turned blue years ago if not for how rigged the deck is down there. That the voters exist isn’t the shocking part, it’s that they’re breaking through generations of reinforced suppression.

when artists said this in 2022 they were laughing at us, so 🤷‍♀️ (but realtalk, I'm glad more people are waking up to it now)

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.
The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.
Al companies turned all of it into products worth billions.
And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.
We built the library.
Someone else started charging admission.

Went ahead and confirmed with an onlyfans link. Looks like Bluesky decided sex work isn't something they want seen now that they have a user base. SW and furries were a lot of the early user base because they weren't censored. Now they aren't appropriate for bsky's ai bro culture goals.

Bluesky's new "Add a link" interface. A link to "onlyfans.com/whatever" has produced an error "This link can't be added. It goes to a site that's blocked on Bluesky.
🔞🏳️‍🌈 Domi, Best Boy & OnlyWans’ Prince @ comms open in pinned! 💜⛓️😈@domiwoof.xxx · 2w ago

wait what fansly is blocked on bluesky?

A screenshot showing fansly is blocked on bluesky

So many choices. “A young man.” OR “A longtime Republican operative” “A former aide to Republican Senator Josh Hawley” “A young man with deep ties to Republican candidates” But, “a young man.” We see you @wsj.com.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3w ago

A young man asked Abdul-El Sayed if he would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. The tense exchange has turned into a highlight for the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan. Here’s what happened.

This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3w ago

NVIDIA seems to be channel stuffing, forcing Amazon and other customers to take early delivery. The argument that these things are "scarce" when you don't even have anywhere to plug them into is nonsense...unless NVIDIA is saying you NEED to take them now, or else. GPUs are stacked in warehouses.

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

I just want some dems to come out and say with conviction that racism is bad and transphobia is bad and ableism is bad and homophobia is bad and fuck, it seems like almost none are doing that.

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 3w ago

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Divest from Harry Potter and JKR, y'all. It's okay to feel sad about no longer engaging with something that meant a lot to you, but a fictional world that funds a very real assault on trans rights will never be more meaningful than caring about the safety of trans folks.

Tilly Bridges@tillybridges.bsky.social · 4w ago

Welcome to #TransTuesday! There is NO ethical consumption of Harry Potter Not the books, movies, or tv show. Not licensed games or merch. Not fanfic. Not even pirated. EVERY bit keeps the franchise alive and enables JKR's transphobia If you truly care about trans people, you need to let it die