Obi-chan

Obi-chan

@obbychan.bsky.social

Here and there and back again Occasionally NSFW ☺️

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The leading opposition parties vying to replace Netanyahu share his opposition to including Israel’s Palestinian citizens in any governing coalition, by the way!

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the so-called “Arab Parties” would have 50% or more of the vote if all of the people living in the territory over which the State of Israel exercises control could vote

Ben Miller@benwritesthings.bsky.social

Netanyahu’s party appears to have come first in Israel’s elections. Highest ever vote for the Arab parties. As ever, the choice is between multiracial democracy and ethnonationalist fascism.

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this is good advice. this includes things like quote dunking and sharing screenshots. we don't need to engage with any of these jackasses at all, and angrily boosting them helps literally no one

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

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We are relieved to see that another Bolsonaro will not take power in Brazil. But only grassroots action can address the deeper issues at play. “If Bolsonaro wins, they kill us—if Lula wins, they let us die.” crimethinc.com/2026/09/29/i...

crimethinc.com"If Bolsonaro wins, they kill us; if Lula wins, they let us die.”What the 2026 elections in Brazil mean for the Americas.
NPR@npr.org

Brazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff. n.pr/48eAvU9

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We won not only against Bolsonaro, but against the full force of the USian's Big Techs, Meta, CIA, Trump, the Brazilian right-wing elites, the billionaires' press and more.

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waking up from a nap to check my phone and see unambiguously good news for the world… honestly a little beautiful. fuck bolsanaro fuck zuckerberg and musk and everyone who controls the internet and thinks they can just take the whole world away from us for free

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Replying to @headfallsoff.com

it’s the most obvious wedge issue in the history of time. they dont care about sports, they want to make it impossible to be trans legally and socially and should be responded to as such. if you start earnestly debating about competitive integrity you are doing their work for them

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Replying to @mattielubchansky.com

what does it say about the national party that there are candidates running on the dem ticket buying ads saying that some people are technically subhuman without reprimand or even comment. would you abide that for any other group or is this one special

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As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

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people need to pay far less attention to what bernie sanders says about ai and far more to what aoc says about ai. sometimes you do just need to step back from the apps and the screens.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

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moving over to bluesky from twitter was huge for my mental health because twitter sucked so bad but over the years bluesky has now become pretty much just as bad because well it is also literally just twitter. we did build the demon again to be fair

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Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

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Replying to @chanda.blacksky.app

Borders kill people. Borders kill wildlife. Borders are a waste of resources. Borders reinforce nationalism. Borders promote war. Borders promote colonialism. Borders promote global capitalism. Fuck borders.

This is fucking psychotic. More and more I believe that AI is a tool of white supremacy and fascism

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Everyone should do this. Ask your favorite devs to do this. See how they respond.

The Daily Game News@thedailygamenews.bsky.social

Penguin Colony blocked from sale in Israel at developer's request, publisher confirms thedailygame.news

Go straight to hell

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on El-Sayed: "His name is actually Abduladadalalalala. It's Adulbabababababa Mohammed Al-Sayed. So his middle name is Mohammed. So I was right. He's a jihadist."

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👇👇👇 #publishing #booksky #writingcommunity #writersky #kidlit

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this.

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seeing people genuinely suggest that the game awards are rigged for gta 6 is so funny because i promise you if there’s one thing you don’t need to trick gamers into doing it’s celebrating the very expensive and highly marketed release as an artistic masterpiece. they will do that for free

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Seeing the expected “and yet they use Windows” responses to this frankly incredible move from House House and I sincerely hope games coverage can take this opportunity to teach audiences what an organised boycott actually is.

This Week in Videogames - TWIV@thisweekinvideogames.com

Big Walk will not be coming to Xbox "in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft," per developer House House. BDS previously designated Microsoft as a boycott target, and called on users to boycott Xbox products in April 2025.