Berix

Berix

@berix.bsky.social

27 (she/they) 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ Transfem writer & chef from up north. Hobbies include tech, art, literature, gamedev, & photography. Pro-Worker and Pro-LGBT+ always pfp & banner by @mikasackerman4.bsky.social

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Thousands turned out to celebrate in the Serbian capital after the country's student protest movement ousted Aleksandar Vucic from power in a landmark election. reut.rs/4BqRvns

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One of the most important financial stories out there if you want to know how and why the same five evil guys wind up owning everything.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social

“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.” www.wsj.com/finance/the-...

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This is why I hate the “it has to be subtle!!!” Critique of queer media. The fact that we can’t just say what we are or what the character is is so reductive and constraining to so many queer writers. Don’t let cis people dictate how you show you identity. They don’t know what they’re saying.

JenWave1995@jenwave1995.bsky.social

When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

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i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

David Brauer@dbrauer.net

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

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Get ready for all your Microsoft products to get even worse. We need to find ways to move off of all billionaire-owned internet services and software. A practical consumer issue as well as a critical political necessity.

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David Ellison and his co-CEO Ynon Kreiz sent out an email to Skydance employees today offering up voluntary buyouts and also implementing a five-day-a-week in-office work policy. And so it begins...

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I a just old enough to remember what the aftermath of 9/11 was like, and even then a member of the Bush administration saying something this Islamophobic would have been unthinkable. Sure they still thought these things but getting rid of the norms that kept them from saying it has been awful.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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sorry, but it's very hard to take your warnings of existential risk seriously when you are simultaneously throwing up to $120 billion at Elon Musk

ESG Hound@esghound.com

*ANTHROPIC AGREED TO SPEND UP TO $120.5B ON SPACEXAI DEALS - for you @ed3d.net

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It's weird seeing AI bubbles across the world begin to collapse in real-time because AI continually needs more input to function, every time it's used its trained and becomes shittier, but nobody's writing their own code now, so it's a death spiral for everyone who needs claude to work

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no, it's not a burrito taxi. there are three different burrito orders in one vehicle, you see, so actually it's more like a burrito bus. transit needs to work for everyone, including food items.

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ive never liked putting my stuff behind a big paywall. i did it for years cuz like, you know how Bills is but like, i never LIKED doing it. i dont like scheduling "ok i hold onto this for 3 weeks then i post a teaser, then i post it another few weeks later' that shit is hell it sucks its not fun

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This is worth noting for a lot of people, really. If you're following artists who aren't putting stuff behind paywalls, consider throwing them some tips anyway as a thank-you to ensure they keep making the stuff you like!

Dieselbrain@dieselbrain.bsky.social

like i really just wanna Make Shit and show people and folks who want to see more of it happen will occasionally throw me me like $5. but i want EVERYONE to have it. you know? [also: this is not a judgement of folks with strict exclusivity. fukkin, do what you gotta do man]

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For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social

“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.” www.wsj.com/finance/the-...

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I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

kotaku.comWhat Does It Even Mean To ‘Save’ Mass Effect? - KotakuThousands of fans are rallying around a campaign to save the series after BioWare's shutdown, but what does that look like?

A month and a half ago, I was genuinely prepared for the worst when it came to my current job... Now? I got a greater new position for all of the upcoming changes, Friday I got a lil gift card for really stepping up to this week's challenges, and toady's meeting really got everyone excited 😁

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It's something that some folks may feel is blase or hokey, but it's genuinely true that it's the people that make life worth living. It's why I treasure collaboration and cooperation so deeply; It doesn't just help my own life, it helps uplift others as well!

Whether its a grand scientific endeavor, a community project, an artistic project with teams of dozens or hundreds, or something as humble as a cafe, it's always the people who make it all happen and make the world a hopefully, joyful thing to live in beyond just paying rent. People are the best 💜

A month and a half ago, I was genuinely prepared for the worst when it came to my current job... Now? I got a greater new position for all of the upcoming changes, Friday I got a lil gift card for really stepping up to this week's challenges, and toady's meeting really got everyone excited 😁

The reason I joined, the reason I'm still there, the reason I want to stay, and the thing that keeps the whole business afloat and makes it great for both the staff and customers alike comes down to 1 thing: The People! Great people getting together can accomplish great things & build great memories

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i recommend ppl who want to vote in toronto to explode 💥 for olivia chow because there is yet another generic conservative with a hideo kojima naming scheme (john tory, rob ford, now brad bradford) attempting to sell the city to the Fordian knot of highways that is the Province & it's a close race

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"私はあなたを私の思考の中に呼び起こし、闇よ、あなたと二人きりの時間を過ごすだろう。" Samarie fanart from Fear & Hunger. #art

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The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

Waldo@waldo42.bsky.social

Something happened in the 70's that crystallized politics (and many other topics) into a new set of assumptions and priors. It gave rise to Reaganism and completely crushed New Deal Socialism; Dems that eventually reemerged were and still are centrists scared of their own shadows.