Leona Neelam Maple 💛🍁 (she/her)

@theleonamaple.bsky.social

I am your sensitivity reader & DEI product specialist 💛 Watercolor hobbyist 🖌️ 🎨🫟✨ Newbie wrestling fan | Performer, streamer, Desi af, demi-pan queer, cat gal, ADHD spoonie theleonamaple.carrd.co

I’m tired of old ppl in Congress on the left thinking the problem with tech companies will be solved by just taxing them more. Sure, they need to pay more in taxes but what they really need is to be regulated and held accountable for the products they unleash on the public

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 2d ago

Do you use Instagram or Gmail? You could be helping to train AI. Big Tech has turned what all of us helped create into a trillion-dollar industry. It’s time to tax AI so you can share in its success.

Also I just updated my OBS and WHYYY did they get rid of the ability to only monitor something with no output?!?! So useful for stream managers when tech stuff has to get adjusted on the fly and now I don't have that option. 😭

Leona Neelam Maple 💛🍁 (she/her)@theleonamaple.bsky.social · 3d ago

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The practice of AI companies secretly buying millions of old books (some vanishingly rare), scanning them for AI training, then destroying them, epitomises everything that is wrong with today's exploitative AI industry. 🧵 1/2

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3/3... buying their products and using their digital services. You are literally being an involuntary advertisement for Wizards because many, many people who play do not track what is happening in the industry, at Wizards, or anything else except that they play on Saturday afternoon.

2/3 And please don't show up in the comments with "Who pays for D&D?" or "I just use the SRD." You're still participating in the Network Externalities operation that Wizards established. You playing D&D and introducing new people to D&D increases their footprint and the likelihood of people...

Just your regular reminder that there are other #TTRPG alternatives to #D&D that aren't leaning on AI. You really like 5e, but don't want to support AI? Tales of the Valiant or Level Up 5e. Looking for an old school vibe without the headache of ThAC0? Basic Fantasy. Like crunch? Pathfinder. 1/3

Matt Caulder (They/He)@mattcaulder.com · 2w ago

Man, thankfully no one is playing or making stuff for this bad game run a billion dollar company that's putting AI into everything! www.geeknative.com/225567/hasbr...

Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps

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I also think you reeeaalllyyyyy need to look at these numbers and think very hard about how much you’re equating American involvement in Israel to American Jews.

Just to be really, really clear here: a Jewish person is very much better informed about what is and isn’t antisemitism then a goy. And this is a shocking reply, frankly. Y’all deeply DEEPLY need to learn that you are not the experts on other culture’s experiences.

AJ
@amandajane5.bsky.social
Or I'm going to rely on my actual life experience and tell you to fuck off, because last time I checked you're no the arbiter of what is or isn't antisemetic.
9:11 PM • Jul 27, 2026

I’m reposting this interaction because it’s something *white people especially* need to work on. It’s SO COMMON when conversations about racism especially come up. Pointing out you’ve said something bigoted is not an insult. You’ve done harm!! You have to see it as opportunity to learn and grow.

This defensiveness is how you become an adversary rather then an ally. I actually would have been happy to have a conversation in this case and educate about the unconscious stereotypes and bigotries going on. But instead I’m positioned as the asshole for asking someone to do better.

If someone tells you that you’ve said something antisemitic your reply should be “oh my gosh I’m so sorry could you help me understand how so I don’t do it again?” Alas.

Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.so...
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You are missing my point by a mile and doing a bunch of antisemitism
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AJ
@amandajane5.bsky.social
Wow, well fuck you too.
9:04 PM • Jul 27, 2026
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