⚭ arabella²⁸

24, queer, thank fuck (they/she) 🫶🏽🇧🇩 suck it & see. multifandom; just here to chill really, being me. *i also rt as a means to return to it*

[Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA]

If you’re shocked they handcuffed a dead man, you shouldn’t be. Most police departments do this.

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

It’s impossible to build anything in America but 3 Flock cameras on every intersection across the nation deployed in ~1 month

[Jen @JenResistedAGN]

Trump gave the ugliest Americans permission to bask in their racism, ignorance, and cruelty. They voted for him because of this, not in spite of it.

[Christina Henderson @chenderson]

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell is essentially on paid sick & medical leave.

The same employment protection he has spent his career blocking other Americans from having.

[Jenna @starshipTARDIS]

Oranges in my local grocery store are around $1.50 per pound, which means a 900 lb bin of oranges is worth $1,350 and the person harvesting the oranges only gets paid $24. That's 1.7% of the value of the product, while doing difficult & potentially dangerous manual labor.

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

A reminder that it is official policy of the European Union to deny a genocide that is still being carried out and that everyone has been watching take place in real time, in intimate detail, via the internet.

[4̶𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡༒ @OGsDontFold]

Unpopular fact : keeping disability payments below the poverty line is straight up eugenics.

[Mike @hammerito]

No one wants to admit that we've cut kids off from all public life except working dogshit minimum wage jobs because they're kind of annoying sometimes and the private equity firm that runs Orange Julius figured that out before parents did

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Dutch intelligence agencies got caught training AI on citizen data they weren't supposed to have.

the CTIVD, the Netherlands' official intelligence oversight body, published a report finding that AIVD and MIVD staff accessed and retained massive bulk datasets in ways that violate Dutch law.

names. phone numbers. location data. social media. communication content. millions of entries. some from government sources. some commercially purchased. some stolen by criminals and bought on the dark web.

and then Bits of Freedom, the Dutch digital rights organization, flagged something buried in the report: the agencies appear to be training their own AI models on this data.

this is not the first time.

in 2020, the same watchdog found the same agencies had retained citizen data far beyond legal limits. after complaints, they were ordered to delete it.

six years later: same report. same finding. same agencies.

but now with AI in the loop.

the data that was illegally retained is now reportedly being used to train models that will make future surveillance faster, more accurate, and more autonomous.

you cannot opt out. Unlike commercial AI companies, there is no settings menu. no privacy center. no right to delete that you can actually exercise.

Bits of Freedom put it directly:

"They seem to be buying data from criminal data breaches. aren't they supposed to be protecting us from those?"

[Sunny Giron 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @sunny_giron]

We can live without data centres and billionaires but we can’t live without water

[foxy marxist ☭🔻 @FoxyMarxist]

In Philadelphia a Black trans woman, Dominique Rem'mie Fells, was violently murdered at age 27. She was ripped apart into a river and a garbage bag

Now, two gay men have been violently murdered, also in Philly

If they come for us in the morning, they will come for you at night

[thizzical ✌︎ therapist @hellaclitean]

unironically I kinda believe we can’t afford to chop trees anymore. they just take too long to get resilient and the climate is gonna be hella different by the time they’re mature now.

[🇵🇸🧚🏽 @notcishet]

i will also be highlighting Black queer music on the posts so if you’re an artist please reach out too!

[Kitty-Bit Games & Cosplay~ @kitty_bit_games]

To all companies:
Just remove it all, nobody wants your AI garbage forced into everything.

[alan b. @inceptstellar]

the responses to this are making me feel insane. it's extremely upsetting chris nolan exhibiting common sense and basic human empathy is so rare these days people see this clip as an anomaly and not the norm

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A year ago, CDC made Cyclospora surveillance optional. It had been tracked for 28 years.

Today: ~3,000 cases across 31 states, no confirmed source, and CDC’s own count (843) is trailing what states are reporting by thousands.

[💕 Doll Face✨ @smoke_nd_pearlz]

I’m actually very fucking pissed at this.

[Nora @Heal_within96]

What no one tells you about the Bosnian genocide is how some rich White people from Italy, France and the UK paid upwards of $90k and extra to kill children for 'snipper hunts.'

[Skribz @SkribzSt]

Harry Kane was an activist when the world cup was in Qatar.

Very British behaviour. Cognitive dissonance is their superpower.

[ᴅᴏᴏᴍᴇɴɪᴄ @dinosaur_info]

could never have happened without ring doorbells convincing paranoid americans that surveilling your neighborhood is a good tradeoff for not necessarily preventing package theft but at least catching it on camera and complaining about it on neighborhood watch facebook groups