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Blink Kitty Love @blinkkittylove.bsky.social · 26m

yeah. poems on bricked computers I've lost the power cord for

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 43m

I don't suppose I am the only one here with plenty of "forgotten" poems, stories, and even novel drafts on floppy discs (themselves forgotten and almost certainly lost).

bbc.com/future/artic...

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 14h

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 15h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Blink Kitty Love @blinkkittylove.bsky.social · 14h

2019 was an amazing production; search it out on line

A DAMNED Heine @adamheine.com · 15h

The 1993 film of this play was the first time I ever realized how GOOD and RELATABLE Shakespeare can be. Until then, I had only ever read it on the page, understanding not a word.

This clip, too, is even better.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 19h

“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?”

W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America

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Blink Kitty Love @blinkkittylove.bsky.social · 19h

Getting back in the quick cook a block of ramen in chicken broth soup mode. Need actual fennel seeds though. Penzey's only has them ground.

picture of soup with chicken, spinach, ramen noodles showing

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Dr Rebecca Hall I’m Spartacus! @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been working on this for 2 years. There have bumps along the way, crazy drama that could be in a soap, but the time is now. Help me build a freedom school. Help me fight fascism:

Dr Rebecca Hall I’m Spartacus! @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 3d

www.kickstarter.com/projects/wak...

Wake Productions

An AfroFuturist Education Project in the Black Radical Tradition

www.kickstarter.com

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 22h

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 22h

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Blink Kitty Love @blinkkittylove.bsky.social · 21h

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Feb 9

"The structural gap between the standard [French] dialect and what most educated urban people speak in most circumstances is considerably wider than for
any other major European language."

This & similar articles mention C'est- cleft, skip "ne", rare use of inversion , use "on", Y a vs Il y a, etc

If This Is French, Then What Did I Learn in School? on JSTOR

, George McCool, If This Is French, Then What Did I Learn in School?, The French Review, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Dec., 2003), pp. 288-299

www.jstor.org

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23h

Yeah there needs to be a shorter term for generative hallucinatory cryptoklepty masquerading as AI. I'm all for separating that shit from the AI looking for objects in space and cures for cancer

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

people are like "we need to call ai by what it really does, like llms" but i don't know what to call the awful image generation ones

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Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 23h

give us this variant, cowards

the rotting 90's movie costume of one of the TMNT

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Blink Kitty Love @blinkkittylove.bsky.social · 23h

Lunch break with @worldsurfleague.bsky.social women's replay. Want to paint those colors.

almost translucent aqua green surf breaking into white crests

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

My dope friend Adrian, who is trans, interviewed 90 transgender Texans. His project is finally out: www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

We surveyed 90 trans Texans. Most said they’re living in fear and weighing a move

Respondents said anti-trans policies have complicated their sense of home in Texas and pushed them to consider leaving the state.

www.dallasnews.com

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Blink Kitty Love @blinkkittylove.bsky.social · 1d

Maki in the morning

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Freeyore @mewefree.bsky.social · 1d

This is Darryl “Cornbread” McCray. He’s the first person to ever do graffiti as we know it back in 1960’s #Philly.

This is him telling the story of how he tagged an elephant in the Philadelphia Zoo. He also tagged the Jackson 5’s plane. 😭😭😭😭😭

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 2d

Spent five years in Paris, left 15 or so years ago. The photographs Brent posts of Paris are astonishing and hopeful.

Gritty, grey side streets for cars are now green and lively with people. Bicycle lanes on rue de Rivoli?? The only time I saw bicycles on it was the finish of the Tour de France.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

momentummag.com

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Blink Kitty Love @blinkkittylove.bsky.social · 1d

My Nobel Prize in Literature thought: Dolly Parton. They gave one to Bob Dylan.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1d

The clearest thing that democracy has going for it, per the political science literature, is that it's really good at preventing famines

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Blink Kitty Love @blinkkittylove.bsky.social · 1d

Dude gives good quote

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Blink Kitty Love @blinkkittylove.bsky.social · 1d

Bringing humility back. People who want power should have to pass a test like this. Also congrats!

Gayle Eubank @gaylestorm.bsky.social · 1d

An AP photographer knocked on one winner's door at 4 am, waking up the dog and, eventually, her husband. When he told the scientist, she said, "Don't be ridiculous." Journalists' lives can be fun sometimes.

apnews.com/article/nobe...

Your phone rings, and it's a number from Sweden. Do you answer? A Nobel Prize winner didn't

This year’s Nobel Prize science winners got the good news from early morning phone calls and door knocks.

apnews.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 1d

It’s OFFICIAL: there are more marble statues of old guys over in the House of Representatives than there are actual Republican House members!

If those statues could talk: What are the Epstein files? What are they so afraid of? They haven’t been to work for how many days? 20. Did you say 20? 20.

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 1d

#Comics folks, I need you to pull up to this one.

The world sucks right now, and we have the opportunity to do a little bit of good for a displaced and marginalized member of our community. Please join me in supporting this KS campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

If you're somebody who values supporting marginalized voices in comics, here's your chance to put your money where your values are!

The writer of this RINGO NOM’D INDIE COMIC (and a very dear friend of mine) is a Syrian Refugee who has been through more continuous hardships than I have space to list here; constantly navigating visa applications, unstable living conditions, predatory landlords (limited options as a refugee).

Anas just wants to make comics and live a normal life like what so many of us take for granted. Backing this campaign will help Anas to take the next step toward freedom and autonomy, helping to fund a move to another country with more stable employment options. This is truly one of the most important comics purchases you will ever make.

Middle Eastern and North African comics creators are some of the most underrepresented in the comics industry of the western world. Anas isn’t running a GoFundMe to support this move, and is not asking for charity. Simply, Anas is using their talent for storytelling, along with Dennis’ gorgeous art, to offer you a beautiful experience in the comics medium, that also goes toward funding a better life for Anas.

I’m so proud of Anas, and humbled by their experiences and perseverance. I would like to see Anas’ Dream realized, and I’d love to see this community help to make that happen. Please join me in pledging to the Etheres Kickstarter campaign! (link below).

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

in my heraclitus era, refusing to believe in anything but flux. in my parmenides era, refusing to believe change exists and insisting the entire world is an illusion. in my diogenes era. sleeping in a jar, throwing chickens at people unprovoked, wandering around with a lamp.

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Blink Kitty Love @blinkkittylove.bsky.social · 1d

hmmm

˚ʚ Belle ɞ˚ @ working too damn much @torrent-empress.bsky.social · 1d

so apparently you can make an rss feed-friendly longform blog on atprotocol and it can communicate with all the fediverse/atprotocol app views (including bluesky) but it's not under bluesky!!! about.leaflet.pub

me and @hikatamika.com cooking ideas with this

Leaflet Manual

Leaflet is a tool for writing and publishing together!

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