The religious right is steadily expanding its definition of what is sexual — and restricting what it deems acceptable in public spaces. Tech companies, in want of less oversight, are taking the hint. The deplatforming that started with sex workers / kink / trans has come for gay bars.

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 21h ago

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

wild that a class of workers widely denigrated for being "unskilled" and lacking intelligence cannot be replaced with a so-called "superintelligence."

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AI is currently not good enough to take fast-food orders. www.bbc.com/news/article....

Okay. So here's what I know - I lost my day job. - I hated my day job. - I liked having a lot of money and health insurance. - But a lot of money never made me happier, I just owned more stuff. - I do still need health insurance. - I'm really fucking good at lettering comic books.

You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 3d ago

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

Jodie designed the logo of @herecomestomorrow.net , among other more important projects. She's an incredible and skilled artist, and you'd be lucky to hire her.

Jodie Troutman@longtalljodie.com · 2d ago

Okay. So here's what I know - I lost my day job. - I hated my day job. - I liked having a lot of money and health insurance. - But a lot of money never made me happier, I just owned more stuff. - I do still need health insurance. - I'm really fucking good at lettering comic books.

Well, now I have to ask the question. Are we sure Pierre "threw himself" in front of the truck?

zenlike@zenlike.bsky.social · 24h ago

So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.

AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"

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From: Me To: Whomever needs to hear it Subject: Harry Potter Just fucking let it go. Seriously. I get it. It's a source of joy. But your joy has been weaponized. You have been made a participant in cruelty, whether you see it or not. Let. It. Go.

This would not work because: 1) The men who follow an ideology that I am genetically inferior and incapable of self-governance frequent establishments that rely on de facto segregation. 2) These men are often in severely altered states due to a reliance on ketamine and other illegal substances.

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · yesterday

The best cure for ideological bias is find someone on the other side and go to lunch with them.⁣ ⁣ Sometimes we disagree about facts. Sometimes we disagree about values. Figuring out which is which is fun part. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/my-libertarian-friends-were-right

Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is why I get pissed off when anyone accuses me of being an elitist when I say young people should go to college if they can. I say that because my dad was a local lineman and contractor who did heavy physical labor for years and has had chronic back pain since his early 30s

No, bsky user with 2500 identical posts and a single follower. My bugs are not AI. Not even this one I shot earlier in the week. I don’t need AI. I have 20 hectares of restored rainforest next door. Genus Amastus, maybe A. hyalina 🌿🌱

Bea Leiderman@bealeiderman.bsky.social · 2d ago

I happened to pick up this moth off the canvas by the lights with an almost perfectly matched leaf. Eois 🌱🌿

Abolish ICE.

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · yesterday

“Pierre Damas Bel ‘leaves behind an enduring legacy of love, family devotion, intellectual promise, service and kindness,’ Ruby said, reading from his obituary. He said Pierre Damas Bel’s life is a reminder ‘that a person does not have to live many decades to make the lasting impact.’”

#boktober 3

Part two of the version with ALT text. Apologies of missing it in the original!

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. - Version with ALT text! Thank you @virginiaopossum.bsky.social for the help!

YES. Jefferson, noted human trafficker, had his friends write about how Adams was "mentally deranged….a hideous hermaphroditical character" Cranks have been with us all along folks

Dan Bongard@danbongard.bsky.social · yesterday

On a related note, anyone who thinks that negative campaigns full of disinformation and dirty tricks is something new should take a moment and read up the Adams/Jefferson campaigns.

Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…

Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

Reminder: Not only is widespread voter fraud a Republican myth, but vote-by-mail is critical to safeguarding the voting rights of those with illnesses and disabilities, who may find waiting in an Election Day line to be physically taxing. These voting laws are key political determinants of health.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 22h ago

“The ultimate goal was to create chaos and doubt in the vote-by-mail process,” said the American Postal Workers Union president. “You’re creating a rule to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.”

Eternally grateful for the opportunity to continue doing something so ridiculous.

I feel like in literally any other context, if you gave 6 figures to a teenager with no assets, income, credit, or work history, when said teenager struggled to pay back those 6 figures, you'd be told "you made a shitty deal, eat the loss, sucks to suck" but school is the exception for some reason

I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · yesterday

It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”

fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying.

Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."

Just like when we say, "Hey, seems this dude is probably a piece of shit, maybe don't watch his Netflix special?" no one is suggesting calling the cops. You don't need to start invoking the language of jurisprudence. The state has nothing to do with this situation.

💡Oh my gosh, brainstorm.💡

Gracklepalooza is winding down, but it’s been a good one this year! While most are gone, there are still a few around though! This male Common Grackle was flying to the next tree over, and wanted to make sure we got a good look at his “common” colours🤣 #Birds 🪶

This is part of rape culture