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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

Some folks who preordered are starting to receive their copies of Read This When Things Fall Apart! ❤️

The book is supposed to be published on November 4, but I am so happy some folks are getting it early. It's needed now.

Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 14h

My pre-ordered copy arrived today. Thank you for this gem of a book.

The cover of pre-ordered and delivered before publication date Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis edited by Kelly Hayes.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 3h

I’m sure this has already been covered ad nauseaum, but I think the best thing about stuff like this is that it not only takes away the MAGA narrative that these protests are violent, but it also mocks the administration too—they’re so unserious that people wear inflatable costumes to protest them.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

Portland 🔥

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 3h

fresh out of the oven is the whole point, st viateur at the supermarket are a disappointment every single time

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 6h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 5h

few understand how to really appreciate the montreal bagel, if you meet it bagged the next day that's a very incomplete experience, ideally it hits your mouth before ever cooling

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 5h

it's not quite crisp enough but the window of still biking but cool can close rapidly have to take opportunities when they arise

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 5h

it's that time of year again (a cool night and hot fresh montreal bagels immediately enjoyed)

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 14h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 18h

Not the first time a tyrant has been plagued by frogs.

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 6h

Let’s get to 10k. 385 dollars to go.

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · Sep 1

For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are.

I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.

Donate to Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over, organized by F Theory

Short version first: I’m an undocumented freelancer/gig worker with no health insu… F Theory needs your support for Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over

www.gofundme.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 6h

oh they filled in for the thunderbirds last weekend so that's two branches of the armed forces canada is stepping in for 😂

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 6h

my sister is in san francisco, where it is fleet week, and the blue angels have been replaced by canada's snowbirds because the US is going great

they made a heart over the bay, which is a rather sweet gesture

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 7h

Costa’s hummingbird drinking from an ocotillo. 🪶

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 12h

“Again space is full of voices, the entire body has become heart.”

—Hélène Cixous

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 8h

feel like the odds are good he tried to apply LLMs to his gambling addiction and didn't increase his gains

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 8h

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those controlled by a Democratic governor that everyone keeps saying is in "the resistance?"

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 8h

After ordering people out of the street, ISP cleared the entire “free speech” zone into the street before “curfew.”

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 15h

"Only the brazen can say, 'I was not here'…

It never occurs to them that they live on the cumulative hurt of others.

They want to start the clock of social justice only when they arrived. But one is born into history, one isn't born into a void."

- Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door…, publ. 2001

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 16h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

"I don't really read much ... oh this is by paolo coehlo you should read it"

(if I had a dollar for every time a man has said that etc etc)

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12h

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 14h

Thread.

Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 16h

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 12h

"Gaza’s vegetation, too, is largely dead. UNEP [United Nations Environment Program] has said that 97% of tree crops, 95% of shrubs and 82% of annual crops are gone."

Drone footage above Gaza City shows the toll of 2 years of war

New drone footage shows what remains of Gaza City after two years of war as a ceasefire holds in its second day.

apnews.com

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 12h

"for non-fiction just a page summary is enough"

saturday is a big bring your man who doesn't read so good to the bookstore day

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

next thing you’ll tell me is that the same society that sneers at public displays of charity towards the most weak and vulnerable will elect, in turn, a government that is entirely predicated on terrorizing its own domestic population of ethnic minorities, laborers, and the poor writ large

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