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AGC of Privacy at LTK. Board member @ Engine.is. Queer. Dorky. Respect your pronouns, awkward at my own. Lawyer, not really searching for redemption. @nsqe basically everywhere.

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It is now Prime Day. 🚨

It's almost "Prime Day". If you look on your favorite shelter's website or instagram you might find that they have an amazon wishlist and that many of their items might be on sale. I hate amazon, I definitely encourage people to shop local whenever possible, but I'm just putting the info out there.

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Tomorrow is (another) internet law day at the Ninth Circuit, with the court hearing arguments California's Age Appropriate Design Code (Netchoice v Bonta) and CA's social media reporting law (X v Bonta). For Our amicus briefs in each case: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

EFF Urges Ninth Circuit to Reinstate X’s Legal Challenge towww.eff.org The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal appeals court to reinstate X’s lawsuit challenging a California law that forces social media companies to file reports to the state about

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Saw someone’s take is “Bouie not being here won’t make or break” this site. I am happy to say some things about how platform migration works. It’s true, one user never makes or breaks anything, but for U.S. users the presence of young Black folks has driven the popularity of new tech for decades 1/?

There have been SO DAMN MANY (mostly white, mostly male, mostly techbro, mostly pretty privileged) people who have been super obnoxious about berating folks who haven't deleted their twitter accounts yet. Y'all, I was here when Black Twitter flooded here. And then left. Like I was on Mastodon when.

One more thing. This is why so many Black users have stayed on X despite, long before the discourse noticed his awfulness, having nicknamed Musk “Apartheid Clyde.” People go where their people are, they migrate for community. (I know “community” has been a hard to grasp concept on here.)

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What happens to a largely US-controlled internet after fascism? I'm hoping we don't find out, but do these now, not later: - Make sure that you have ways to contact your core groups outside of social media. - Back up everything you don't want to lose online.

I know so many people (people who are not part of the Elon cult, people who are otherwise sane and normal) who keep insisting Elon may be an asshole, but he's a genius, and they keep pointing at Starlink as his great triumph. And going LA LA LA when I point out all of Starlink's disasters.

He is not sending anybody to Mars. Ever. I mean...

20 satellites fall from sky after catastrophic SpaceX rocket failure, triggering investigationwww.livescience.com Twenty doomed Starlink satellites, which were prematurely released during a botched Falcon 9 rocket launch last week, have burned up in the upper atmosphere after falling back to Earth, new data confi...

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I really wish people who dislike each other for reasons would just leave each other alone

I know I know, bsky is only for shitposting and doom-mongering, but I want to show some art things for just a minute, please bear with me. I normally keep this to insta where it belongs, but I’m a little proud of these.

I have finished Bury Your Gays and it is fucking incredible Scary and brilliant and I love Tara so much y’all All the little details, all the plot pieces that pay off so well later on, just so good. I…can’t tag Chuck when I’m on mobile? Wtf bsky

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I might feel somewhat better if I heard all the pols, pundits, & columnists say in the next breath after "Joe must go" that Kamala will be a brilliant, winning candidate. Instead, they not-so-secretly root for some (literally) white knight to rob both Biden and Harris of their duly-elected right.

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Breaking: hackers stole call and text records for "nearly all" AT&T customers. Shows which phone numbers a customer called or texted. A staggering and unprecedented data breach. Data usually only available to authorities; now hackers got it www.404media.co/hackers-stea...

Hackers Steal Text and Call Records of ‘Nearly All’ AT&T Customerswww.404media.co In one of the most significant data breaches in recent history, hackers stole AT&T customers’ call and text metadata spanning several months.

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The base of the Democratic Party is the black community (black women especially) and I just hope we make sure to listen to them before giving a rats ass about Michael Stipe and George Clooney.

For those of you keeping score, three more members of Congress and Michael Stipe have asked Joe Biden to withdraw from the campaign tonight

'He needs to stay': CNN struggles to find Black voters who want Joe Biden to drop outwww.rawstory.com CNN's Eva McKend traveled to the Dallas convention of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation's most prominent historically Black sorority organization, where Vice President Kamala Harris, herself a former memb...

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I haven't felt this self-conscious about my stutter since becoming an adult. People are being relentless ableist assholes. Please understand how speech disorders work and realize whatever shit you're thinking about Biden, we can perceive what you are essentially saying about ALL OF US.

Hey wow as someone with a stutter y’all are not kind At all Do you know what happens when you have the kind of stutter where you swap words? Your brain makes an association in a split second and you go “no, not that”, especially when nervous, and it just blorts out of your mouth.

Okay can we please stop this bullshit and get back to fighting the fascists now?

Biden's fine. Our party, on the other hand, is just giddy over the opportunity to But Her Emails ourselves to death again just so we can claim the moral high ground. Christ, it's fucking exhausting.

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this is literally evidence that he is still sharp. people with significant cognitive decline don’t catch flubs like this in real time. people with dementia don’t catch them at all. it’s like calling someone feeble who tripped over a curb and regained their balance without falling.

Now everyone--The Times and, sorry to say, MSNBC--is noting every missed syllable. The man has a stutter. I don't stutter but I am a mushmouth who speaks too fast and slurs words. I've had to overcome fear of public speaking. I have empathy for Biden. The press has empathy for no one (but Trump).

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Speaking as someone who often gets names flipped - that's something my co-workers can vouch for, I'm sending very strong "fuck all y'all" waves at a lot of people right now.

About damn time. This was a shockingly stupid lawsuit and it's ludicrous it took this long — all the way up to the Supreme Court and back down — to sort out. And, side note, this is a delightful decision to read: www.aclu.org/cases/doe-v-...

This is very good news.

Mckesson v. Doe | American Civil Liberties Unionwww.aclu.org Can a protest leader be held legally responsible for injuries inflicted by an unidentified person’s violent act at the protest, when it is undisputed that the leader didn’t engage in or intend violenc...

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This is very good news.

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New from the New York Times Editorial Board: Donald Trump is unfit to lead (gift link)

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Leadwww.nytimes.com He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed America. Voters must stand up to him in November.

Call your congressperson and ask them to support this. I'd call mine, but she's right there in the cosponsor list.

NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Just remember: the fascists do not have to win. It is not inevitable.

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I rather like this:

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proving love sometimes means takin a risk. i mean EXISTING is just about the biggest risk there is. but dang what a reward to sit here for a moment and breathe the air and see the stars. what an adventure

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Listen, if the Biden campaign wanted to quell concerns about his age, they would have put him out there, like in the post-debate pressroom, a rally, an event at the Stonewall monument, a national address, a medal of honor ceremony, a meeting with governors, another rally, and televised interview.

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you are not crazy, this is an entirely true statement that many, many more people need to print out, tape up to their mirror, and ground themselves with every morning. it is fucking JULY. everybody needs to pop an edible and calm the fuck down.

Am I fucking crazy, or has this been one shitty debate performance, followed by a week plus of story after story about "panic" etc? No new evidence that he's unable to do it, just constant "people are saying"?

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So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America? That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.

This has actually been my example since the whole "OMG BIDEN SHOULD DROP OUT" bullshit began: You know the Rolling Stones are touring, right? Do you think they should stop? Go google Mick Jagger's age and then go google Joe Biden's, I'll wait.

The only person who gets a Sir out of me is Sir Lewis Hamilton. The rest of y'all are on a first name basis.