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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ

@britpoptarts.bsky.social

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Catless cat lady wrangling tiny hausweezlz, progressive Dem leading w/ kindness & cuss words, collector/enjoyer of music, books, movies, tarot decks, yarn, rings… Mostly harmless. Good weird. Interested in many things (ADHD). She/her. I have no $ for you.

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · Feb 15

There's a personality type that enjoys abusing power over others and deals with shame (usually due to a strict religious upbringing) by deflecting what shames them most on others to prove they couldn't possibly be one of "those" demonized Bad People.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 9h

Worth noting that from the very start, Musk pitched Neuralink as an AI-human interface (this is from 2020)

www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/30/1...

“On a species level, it’s important to figure out how we coexist with advanced AI, achieving some AI symbiosis,” he said, “such that the future of world is controlled by the combined will of the people of the earth. That might be the most important thing that a device like this achieves.”

How brain implants would bring about such a collective world electronic mind, Musk did not say. Maybe in the next update.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11h

I am straight-up going to have nightmares about this

In the video Smith posted online, he said Neuralink engineers had started using language models including ChatGPT and Grok to serve up a selection of relevant replies to questions, as well as options for things he could say in conversations going on around him. One example that he outlined: “My friend asked me for ideas for his girlfriend who loves horses. I chose the option that told him in my voice to get her a bouquet of carrots. What a creative and funny idea.”

These aren’t really his thoughts, but they will do—since brain-clicking once in a menu of choices is much faster than typing out a complete answer, which can take minutes.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11h

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

www.technologyreview.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 17h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Rosegarden54 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 14h

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

Currently in Chicago...

This looks peaceful to me...

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 7h

💙💙💙

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 9h

The President is a r*pist.

We should never stop being pissed off about this.

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idflux @idflux.bsky.social · 8h

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

www.theatlantic.com

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

Governor Pritzker Is Correct about
Dementia Donnie.......

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That One Chick @bethechange19.bsky.social · 8h

Very important post imo, read the alt text, about John Steinbeck

ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 8h

"John Steinbeck once did something few writers would ever dare. He hid in a migrant camp under a fake name — just to see if America would treat him like one of its own. It didn’t."

"The FBI opened a file on him, calling his work “dangerous” and “un-American.” He received death threats. Armed men from the Associated Farmers of California watched his home day and night. A friend once asked if he was scared. Steinbeck just smiled and said, “No. I’m ashamed it took me this long to pay attention.”
He won the Pulitzer, then the Nobel Prize, but he never forgot the camps. “I am not a writer of escape,” he said. “I am a writer of the people who cannot escape.”
John Steinbeck didn’t just write about the American Dream — he lived with the people who were denied it. And in the dust and hunger, he found not just despair, but dignity — the kind that refuses to die, even when everything else is gone."

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 7h

Gloria Steinem once slipped into fishnet stockings, a corset, and those iconic rabbit ears — not for glamour, but to uncover the truth. In 1963, long before she became the face of second-wave feminism, Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny at a New York club."

"On the outside, it glittered with champagne, celebrities, and sophistication. Inside, it was a trap of exhaustion, harassment, and endless rules: “Don’t gain weight. Keep your tail fluffy. Smile, no matter what they do.” The experience seared her. “I saw how women were bought and sold, even under the glitter,” she later said. Her exposé, A Bunny’s Tale, ripped the satin curtain off the fantasy, showing America that glamour could mask humiliation.
Her courage wasn’t born in a vacuum. Steinem’s father abandoned the family when she was a child, and she spent her early years on the road with her emotionally fragile mother. She learned what it meant to feel invisible, underestimated, and alone. When she entered journalism, editors often gave her “women’s pieces” — fashion, lifestyle fluff — instead of hard reporting. But Steinem turned those limits into tools. “If they won’t let me write the big stories, I’ll make the small ones speak for millions,” she said, and she did.
The Bunny story made her name, but the 1970s made her a movement. She co-founded Ms. magazine, delivered electrifying speeches on women’s liberation, and transformed her aviator sunglasses and long hair into a symbol of defiance. She marched for abortion rights, workplace equality, and against domestic violence — all while surviving smear campaigns that claimed she was “too pretty” to be serious or “too radical” to belong.
What’s often hidden is her quiet struggle with the spotlight. “I’m an introvert in public,” she admitted. She battled self-doubt but carried the weight of a generation, giving women words for what had been silenced.
Gloria Steinem didn’t just fight for feminism — she learned how the world overlooked her and turned that invisibility into power. She slipped into disguises, magazines, and movements until she made the nation listen. “They thought I was nothing,” she said. “So I became everything.”

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Violet💜 @sfvioletnyc.bsky.social · 8h

I got news for these idiot Ice Pedos, most intelligent and normal people run from masked thugs who are chasing them.

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SABUCH @sabuch.bsky.social · 8h

I hope to hell an attorney goes at his fucking assholes. I’m so sick and tired done the bitch and jackasses!

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Brian Morans @whpshw.bsky.social · 8h

The environment in 2028 better be so hot that these ICE goons self-deport themselves.

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Royalrash @theroyalrash.bsky.social · 9h

How pathetic are these men

These are kids who clearly would not have 🆔

What kind of Law enforcement agents would expect 15/16 to have 🆔 while riding bikes

Fucking 🐈🐈🐈🐈

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lennyprbst.bsky.social @lennyprbst.bsky.social · 9h

The MAGAs might actually care about him hurting boys. Might. Or their homophobia would kick in.

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Joe @apollonhya.bsky.social · 9h

Well when you have an elected pedo trafficker, I've heard another reason they wont release the files is because little boys are in there as well. 🐘

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elda64.bsky.social @elda64.bsky.social · 8h

These masked terrorists kidnapping people are a bunch of racist bullies. I'm sorry to see brown skin and darker skin people joining Trump's Gestapo. They will be indicted for this horrific illegal abuse.

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Rachel Lauren @simplehomemadedays.bsky.social · 8h

The Face ID👀 and asking for their address? For 15 yos? this is getting insane. Can they not see the lunacy? The ICE agents get privacy & anonymity with their masks but these kids don’t. 😡