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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 2h

White women falling all over themselves to defend Bari Weiss as some sort of fucking girl boss just showing their whole asses by not even bothering check in with her new employees to find out how the first week went. Spoiler alert: not good. www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

'We Just Got Elon Musk-ed'

Bari Weiss’s first major move as CBS News chief has staffers on edge—ordering every journalist to submit a written memo justifying their work, in an apparent Elon Musk-style loyalty test.

www.status.news

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 3h

This should be hung from every overpass in Virginia.

Sticker based on the Don’t Tread on Me Gadsden flag popular among Libertarians. It is seen on many Virginia license plates. Sticker has a snake that is google eyed with text No One’s Treading on You, Sweetie.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

we need to abolish this shit

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 9h

“Free knitting classes for furloughed feds have been a regular offer at the Fibre Space yarn shop in Alexandria, Virginia, since 2013, when the government shut down for 16 days. Fibre Space staff and volunteers held the classes again during the 34-day shutdown of 2018.” 🎁🔗

Furloughed and frustrated, feds channel stress into new socks

Since 2013, the Fibre Space yarn shop in Alexandria has offered free knitting classes for furloughed federal workers during long government shutdowns.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 10h

It’s amazing how something as simple as using Montreal steak seasoning can trigger memories. From first tasting it on food prepped by a family friend. He passed about a decade ago, but his family’s kindness still lives with me. And I think about the times I have used it cook for my friends.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t tell if it’s my age or what, but for me and so many people I know, we’re going through the worst year or two of our lives both personally and professionally, not including all the things happening politics wise. Though some of it’s also related to policy, but a lot isn’t.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I actually think the theory implies that ezra klein is a dummy but more on that later I guess

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 1d

ESP grilled meat.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I really recommend browsing a reddit called "Is this AI?" for this purpose. people post questionable images and commenters weigh in on their validity, but are required to provide specifics as to their reasoning. once you start seeing the signs, it gets easier and easier over time

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · Nov 12

Here's a why and here is a how:

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An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 1d

Update actually a pumpkin. It’s motherfucking gourd season.

Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 4d

Urban watermelon. Stay weird.

Building with a huge watermelon growing down one story from a garden with a watermelon

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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 1d

Especially for @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social ❤️🐸❤️

How do frogs sound in different languages? Coa, kwak, ribbit .. my favorites are the hungarian frogs that just go brekeke ❤️🐸

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 1d

Have not confirmed, but here are specific numbers...

NEW details on impacts of the layoffs that took place today:
- Commerce: 315 employees
- Education: 466 employees
- Energy: 187 employees
- HHS: Between 1,100 and 1,200 employees
- HUD: 442 employees
- DHS: 176 employees
- Treasury: 1,446 employees
- EPA: 20-30 employees

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 4d

Urban watermelon. Stay weird.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 4d

>30 on one window for me. There should be an h-index for windows and tabs.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 4d

This is out of date, but I love that MoCo has pages like this and one on where to drop off various donations. montgomerycountymd.gov/agservices/f...

Pick-Your-Own Opportunities, Office of Agricultural Services, Montgomery County, MD

You can come out to the berry or pumpkin patch, apple or peach orchard and pick your own (PYO) produce at several Montgomery County farms. Explore our map to find PYO locations and learn more about in...

montgomerycountymd.gov

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 5d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr