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I used to really connect with AI characters in scifi, like Data, since they thought and saw the world differently, like I did, but holy shit as time goes on I really think the Butlerian Jihad was right.

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 20 days ago • 1330 comments

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

submitted 20 days ago • 2228 comments

5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house) 1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said 2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book 3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane 4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins 5. Get a library card

submitted 21 days ago • 292 comments

Trump just signed an executive order banning gender affirming care for trans youth nationwide (under 19). Specifically directs the DOJ to investigate providers under criminal and federal consumer protection laws. drive.google.com/file/d/1oTIm...

submitted 26 days ago • 50 comments

DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc

submitted 32 days ago • 70 comments

Well, day one. Take care of each other, everyone. All we can do for now is build community and solidarity and keep aware of what's going on. Correct disinformation when you hear it, look out for those being targeted, and please mask.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

On this day, let’s also remember the work and legacy of Mrs. Coretta Scott King: www.autostraddle.com/how-coretta-... #MLKDay

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Via @maketheroadny.bsky.social: If ICE shows up, know your rights. “ICE does not have the right to enter your home without a valid warrant signed by a judge.” maketheroadny.org/we-protect-us/

submitted 37 days ago • 30 comments

“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run. …the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”

submitted 39 days ago • 9 comments

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

submitted 40 days ago • 1426 comments

There are families who will never be able to come back from this devastation, and many of them were in generational homes, passed down from people who bought homes in the 1970sand 80's in Altadena. All of the fires are a tragedy, but especially for those who don't have the resources to rebuild.

submitted 45 days ago • 46 comments

very simply, it's them or us

submitted 45 days ago • 21 comments

Anyone who thinks this attack on higher ed is going to stop with the humanities or courses on race and gender has another thing coming - Florida is already targeting classes on “Labor and Globalization” and “Introduction to East Asia” for removal from the curriculum

submitted 93 days ago • 40 comments

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

submitted 88 days ago • 138 comments

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

submitted 59 days ago • 211 comments

Briana Boston said "delay defend depose" to an insurance corp. She owns 0 guns—but was arrested, charged w/terrorism, & given $100K bond Brad Spafford called to assassinate Kamala. He has multiple illegal guns, 150 bombs, & lied to FBI—but NOT charged w/terrorism, & given $25K bond Beyond Absurd.

submitted 53 days ago • 24 comments

The fact that the FBI didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...

submitted 53 days ago • 658 comments

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

submitted 58 days ago • 88 comments

🚨Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store during the duration of our ULP strikes. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/sbwo...

submitted 64 days ago • 102 comments

The first federal health care ban is here. Democrat backed and and passed. Democrat president to sign. My own Colorado state senator is cool with this. Burn in hell with blood on your hands, liberals.

submitted 66 days ago • 7 comments

What a cool country we have. Best one in the world. Anyway please join us in protesting the arrest of librarians for doing their jobs!

submitted 67 days ago • 8 comments

Here are the democrats who voted to no longer cover gender affirming care for military kids. SHAME ON EACH OF YOU Bennet (D-CO) @bennet.senate.gov Blumenthal (D-CT) @blumenthal.senate.gov Brown (D-OH) Cantwell (D-WA) @cantwell.senate.gov Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Coons (D-DE)

submitted 67 days ago • 65 comments

If you cannot afford the official Nosferatu casket, a good economical alternative is to have yourself cremated and store your ashes using the popcorn bucket as an urn. With this method, you can save enough for at least two years worth of avocado toast, and it makes for tasteful mantelpiece decor.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

He wrote that lawmakers did not press about his legal qualifications. Instead, he was asked whether he “celebrated the anniversary of 9-11.” “Even more revealing, however, was the tone. The underlying premise appeared to be that because I am Muslim, surely I support terrorism and celebrate 9-11.”

submitted 69 days ago • 4 comments

I am sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Imad who is fundraising for his nephew Khaled who is still in Gaza (he’s also raising for another family member Hamza who I will link below too). Khaled was injured by shrapnel in his neck and eyes almost a year ago and needs evacuation.

submitted 71 days ago • 6 comments

Retweet to save an artist's life

submitted 342 days ago • 354 comments

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submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

submitted 72 days ago • 130 comments

The unholy pterodactyl shriek that came out of me when I found out Lower Decks finally made Garashir canon

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

PSA that gumroad will start taking 30% cut from the artists if their product was found on "search" and "discover" page this start in 2025. Kinda of remind you that Gumroad is not a payment processor, there's no reason for them to take 30% off artist. Please repost this #gumroad #psa #artist

submitted 74 days ago • 84 comments

1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters. She's fighting back.

submitted 73 days ago • 755 comments

Kiwifarms bullies trans people to suicide. Singal needs to be gone NOW, @jay.bsky.team. He is testing you, and you are failing us.

submitted 73 days ago • 13 comments

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

submitted 75 days ago • 817 comments

Jordan Neely was unarmed. He needed support and care. Instead, he received a death sentence. His family grieves while the man who took his life walks free.

submitted 76 days ago • 83 comments

“If you witness someone being detained by ICE, take photos, and write down other relevant information from a safe distance. Immediately after, call the Immigrant Defense Project’s hotline at 212-725-6422 to report the raid and find out if the person/s will be eligible for an attorney.” #HereToStay

submitted 76 days ago • 8 comments

🚨Settings->Siri->Apps->(pick an app)->UNCHECK LEARN FROM THIS APP🚫.🚨 Congratulations, now A.I. won't be learning from your apps without your permission on your iPhone. Took me a bit with a gazillion apps, but easy to do.

submitted 79 days ago • 36 comments

“One migrant teenager is dead and another was seriously injured in a Lower Manhattan stabbing on Thursday night carried out by a group of attackers allegedly angered that the victims did not speak English, law enforcement sources said.”

submitted 79 days ago • 15 comments

Whenever I explain that almost 95% of the disinformation that gets laundered through mainstream media comes from 10 people who are all in the same group chat together, people look at me like I'm a conspiracy theorist. But it's true.

submitted 79 days ago • 32 comments