Visual Artist who lost their sight... now just a blind swordsperson who is too verbose for twitter (they/them please)

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Joined April 2009
I'm raising money for Cue’s vet costs. Click to Donate Please share this. I worry I didn’t write this well. gofund.me/0a15b310
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“Do you think the Covid virus was made in a lab?” I don’t care. Seriously. I do not care. It would change absolutely nothing for me either way, so I don’t see the point of expending any mental energy worrying about it. No matter where it came from, it’s here, and must be fought.
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I've uncovered why LADWP water rates are skyrocketing. LADWP's supplier said water conservation was too successful, leading water use/revenue to collapse— justifying a 40% rate hike. They asked us to save water, so we did. But we saved too much, so they're spiking our rates.
An independent, non-city-affiliated audit of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power rates has been ordered by Mayor Karen Bass, her office says. ktla.com/news/local-news/ind…
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Hozier called on the Irish government to approve visa applications for students in Gaza during a surprise appearance at the first show of Macklemore’s “Free Palestine” tour: “55 students in Gaza who are awaiting for their visas to be approved for scholarship places they earned and are waiting for them here in Ireland. And the government has no approved their visa applications… It’s baffling why it hasn’t been solved yet, but if you want to sign a petition, there it is behind me on the screen.”
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I do not care how cringe people think this is, They are right. The internet used to be fun and it belonged to all of us. And it still can be if we fight for it.
How is the internet less private than in 2006, when the whole family shared one computer? Back then, the internet was weird, personal, and all of ours. So, we got your favorite meme legends back together to say it louder: What happened to the internet? 1/3
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Three Democratic female candidates for Congress have been hit by cars over the past few days. Peltola, a woman running for Congress in TN, and a woman running for Congress in OH.
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I think even just looking at the replies to this and the kinds of things terf say when someone treats trans people as human tells you all you need to know about which side has the humanity and good sense
rest 🙏🏻 ✨✨ with trans voices in london ❤️❤️🥹 thank you for your channelings and moving your wild and hair-up-on-arms magic with me. i love you 🫶🫶🏳️‍⚧️ alanismorissette.lnk.to/rest…
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DC introduced a trans lesbian character 33 years ago, you are late to the party and a total loser
Apparently, DC Comics thought it was a GREAT idea to have one of their first and most prominent lesbian characters (Batwoman) start dating a MAN who runs around dressed like a Japanese schoolgirl with programmer socks and cat ears. Wtf is this homophobic garbage, @DCOfficial?
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Excellent. Notable that Laura Kelly, the popular two-term governor of Kansas, has likewise vetoed every anti-trans bill the legislature has sent her way
#KansasSenate Adam Hamilton on transgender rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself.” “I’m gonna love the trans person as well as the straight person, male or female. We have to do better than picking on small groups. What’s happened is we’ve turned a group of people into a campaign issue because it polls well.”
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intersectionality was explicitly never meant to be a ranking system for oppression 💔💔💔
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Modern western culture has always proven itself to be utterly apathetic to the suffering of others if it doesn't affect the specific individual who's being appealed to. The "fuck you, I've got mine" ideology is virulent and widespread
“The moment you compromise the rights of a trans person… you compromise the rights of every [person]” True, but depressing that this framing is still politically necessary. It shouldn’t matter if it serves my own needs to stop injustice; someone else’s needs should be enough.
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There's a whole universe of weird and fascinating movies out there. We can't even grasp it. Humanity does not need slop.
Chronopolis (1982, 53min) Streaming on Eternal Family. Powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Directed by Piotr Kamler. Presented with aaa Production, France
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kevin mcshea retweeted
“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” — Aldous Huxley
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Joshua Michael found an access token on Flock's public website. No login required. No authentication. Just sitting there. He downloaded Flock's entire database. 300,000 device locations. 170,000 cameras. 130,000 other hardware units. 27,000 acoustic detectors. Made a map. Published it September 23. The Senate held a hearing on Flock the same day. Cited Michael's research. Flock panicked. Sent a cease-and-desist. Used a brand-protection vendor called Doppel to claim trademark infringement. The map said it wasn't affiliated with Flock. Doppel didn't care. Michael's site went dark. Then Proton moved it to Swiss servers. Now it lives on protonmcp.org. Untouchable. Uncensorable. Hosted by an encryption company in a country that doesn't care what Flock wants. The irony is crystalline. Flock left an access token on the internet. Michael used it to download their own data. Published it. Flock tried to suppress it. Proton said suppressing it is suppressing information. Which is true. The map shows Flock has 150,000 more cameras than they publicly claimed. Shows acoustic detection units mapping human speech across the country. Shows which police departments have access to the whole network. Flock doesn't want that visible. So they tried trademark infringement. Which only worked until Proton decided transparency matters more than Flock's feelings. Now everyone can see exactly how many cameras are watching their car. Where they are. Which cops can see them. Michael warned Flock about the exposed token in November 2025. Flock ignored him. Then got mad when he used it. The surveillance company that claims to protect privacy just tried to suppress the only map showing how much they actually surveille. And failed.
‼️ Proton is hosting a map of 300,000+ Flock surveillance device locations that Flock tried to get taken down. Researcher Joshua Michael says he pulled them from Flock's own systems via a token left open to anyone. Proton calls the takedown "an attempt to suppress information."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is the correct link: proton.me/flock-camera-m…
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this seems really bad. goodnight everyone!
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios. The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios. Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said. Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior. Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
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"What was your biggest impact on the internet?" i phototshopped this meme and it went triple mega platinum overnight bc everyone thought it was real 😭 sorry paris!
"What was your biggest impact on the internet?" this singular drawing
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it's worse than that. google cut down the forest WITHOUT A PERMIT because they know they're too big for small countries like ours to fight. they got off with a "oops haha sorry lol"
JUST IN: Wolves are reportedly roaming into Finnish villages after Google cleared over 56 million square feet of forest for AI data centers.
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whenever someone brings up using AI for creative work, I think about this what we create also creates us
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‼️ BREAKING: The private keys of 8 certificates from Indian certificate authority eMudhra were compromised, Mozilla says. Firefox blocked them within 3 hours. Each key should be a 116-digit number, but one was just 4. Anyone can guess them and forge HTTPS certs for any website.
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Replying to @dontforgetchaos
Websites are files on a computer. When you view a website, you are asking the computer to send you the files, then your browser shows them to you. 70% of the websites you see use PHP to make them interactive. So you can send things to the website too and it can respond. E.g. filling in a comment box and hitting 'post' adds the comment as a row to a spreadsheet. PHP has a flaw in its code that allows anyone to gain control of the computer that has the website on it. The organisation that provides PHP announced the vulnerability before a patch was available, meaning we're in a window where everyone knows about it (including baddies) but the good guys don't have an official solution. Some are just turning off their websites and waiting for the solution. Others are trying to fix it themselves. General chaos and lots of stressed techies across literally the entire planet because this affects the entire internet.
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So many hours wasted on imagined wokeness ruining games while Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia just took a shotgun to one of the most legendary studios
BREAKING: BioWare is shutting down and the next Mass Effect game is canceled, according to a new report. bit.ly/4iwUR0J
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