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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 9h

Glad to see the "Chicago rat hole" (rodent-body imprint) of January 2024 Internet fame was studied more, but just to add my $0.02: Many folks missed the tracks leading away from the body imprint, meaning the squirrel (not rat) fell & splatted in wet concrete, but then walked it off. 🧪🐿️🐾

Photo showing the outline of small rodent body as a negative (concave) impression in sidewalk concrete, with left two limbs clearly defined but missing the upper right limb (arm) and only part of the right rear limb (leg); a thin tail is implied by a pointed imprint behind the main body imprint. The photo is labeled with "Direction of rodent movement" and a red arrow pointing to the upper right of the photo, and a red circle is around a set of rodent tracks in the upper right near the body imprint, labeled as "Rodent tracks."

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🖤👻 Ashley Mayhem 👻🖤 @misskittyf.bsky.social · 7h

Today was a Gay Holiday and no one told me?

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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ky @kymiera.bsky.social · 5h

this has already happened.

Tony Khan, President and CEO of All Elite Wrestling

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Andrew @andrewcyberkop.bsky.social · 2d

If you buy an NFT of a stock in OpenAI you should have to wear a big bell like a goat for the rest of your life.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3d

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Project Monarcha Lewinsky @felrender.bsky.social · 9h

Indigo Prophecy/Farenheit, anyone who speaks positively about a David Cage game around me gets put into a special section of the mental rolodex

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 11h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 12h

It's a little funny that half of the 18 countries having "no kings" rallies are monarchies 👑

Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 15h

This is amazing. Thank you, world!!!

#USDemocracy

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 13h

a little late but what an innovation lol www.billboard.com/lists/top-10...

Billboard launched the debut strip club chart in August, and will continue to track the top-played strip club hits each month throughout the year.

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 18h

I should start doing these when I can #PortfolioDay

Hi! I'm Moz [They/Them]. I write and draw my own comics, I was lead illustrator on the RPG Masks: A New Generation, and I have worked in character design.

you can contact me at MLeeLunsfordArt[at]Gmail.com

Original skateboarding character comic page showing off various tricks, including one big panel showing 5 steps of a trick's motion

An original character design by me of a graffiti artist fighting game character

A fight scene from my original comic Nix of Nothing, in which the titular character fights a monster

Fan art of Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen/Ghost-Spider fighting Mary Jane Carnage

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ky @kymiera.bsky.social · 16h

mtg in 1993: we named a bunch of cards after our coworkers

leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 20h

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

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ky @kymiera.bsky.social · 19h

i had a copy of batman: year one that i was forced to buy from the library for this reason

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It's Topher Winward! ✌️ @topher.io · 1d

Happy World Standards Day! Which, hilariously, is not actually observed on the same day by all standards organizations

Though World Standards Day is officially 14 October, the date of observance varies by standards organization. The American National Standards Institute celebrated the day on 12 October in 2023 and 14 November in 2024.[6] The World Trade Organization and the Standards Council of Canada observe it 14 October, as intended, though the Standards Council of Canada celebrated on 12 October in 2012.[7]

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 1d

despite everything it'sa you

NTom64_HFC @ntom64.bsky.social · 1d

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

the photo they use is of Lakota spiritual leader Arvol Looking Horse, who has done really amazing work for his people and folks all around the world

we made this video with him

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤

Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

rest in power miss major. this is what it means to constantly be negotiating your existence!

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d

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Oats @mangedugruau.bsky.social · 1d

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 1d

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Jeremy Anninos @anninosart.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ellen from ZZZ!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 1d

no one is safe

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

A good way to go insane is to reread stuff published in November 2008 www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme...

The Obama administration will have no difficulty in closing Guantanamo. But how can the US atone for the use of torture on Donald Rumsfeld's watch? By ratifying the Torture Convention, for a start. And then by taking an initiative that would, for the first time, provide a meaningful safeguard for its prisoners of war, namely by waiving its right to confidentiality in Red Cross prison visitation reports.

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