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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 3h

Let's start normalising NOT calling this crap #AI. Because there's nothing intelligent about it. It's #LLM (large language model) slop. Or to be truly accurate: LLM #IP (intellectual property) theft slop.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19h

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”

collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 3d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 23h

Courtesy of Link himself

Fund Friday post :

Happy Friday Yall. Post fundraising links, cashapp links, whichever campaign needing help on . ♥️

Screenshot of a text message conversation on a purple background. The first message from AJ Link at 7:48 AM reads: “Howdy pals. Can I ask for a favor. If anyone has capacity or time today can they do a fund Friday post. I know lots of people need help.” This message has a heart reaction. The second message, also at 7:48 AM, replies: “Obviously what everyone does with their CPU is sacred. So no pressure.“

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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Isis E. "Dread Dragon" Prosser @isisstormdragon.bsky.social · 6h

ICE must be destroyed.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5h

Posting this for @darthbluesky.bsky.social to see when he comes back from his weekend off

A ghost holding a red and blue striped box filled with French fries.

“NO MATTER WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE, THERE'S SOME FORM OF POTATO THAT CAN MAKE IT BETTER.”
@jess.a.creates

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 20h

You don't become an artist who's any good if you don't love the work itself. Even the parts that are a struggle.

What we don't love is the marketing, promo, admin, etc. When you start, you don't think you're signing up to be a wildly underpaid arts admin, but 80% of professional art time is this.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 14h

It also makes blocking/muting words more effective, if those words happen to be included in the alt text.

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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 1d

For newer users of BlueSky, please alt-text your images. It helps people who use screen-readers or who have slow internet connections understand the image you've uploaded. Make the web accessible.

I rarely reshare images without alt-text & I know others do the same. Alt-text your images for reach

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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 5h

A tiny dik dik.

An unsolicited dik dik.

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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 5h

Watching for Geoguessr reasons. ;)

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 5h

Ich habe so viel gelacht, dass ich geweint habe

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6h

No Kings
All Frogs

there won’t be an inflatable costume left for miles around

Micah @rincewind.run · 22h

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Deeply Unsexy Scary Gorgon Costume @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Nick pics.

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Deeply Unsexy Scary Gorgon Costume @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited picnics.

A lovely little picnic in an alpine meadow

A lovely little picnic near the Eiffel Tower. With an eclair and some booze, no less.

A lovely little picnic featuring an alarming number of hearts.

A lovely little picnic which is mostly just books, if there’s a good looking pie and a basket of apples to munch on.

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Deeply Unsexy Scary Gorgon Costume @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Pickwicks.

An illustration of Mr Pickwick from the Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

John Bunny playing Mr Pickwick in the 1913 film of the book

Mr Pickwick played by James Hayter in the 1952 film The Pickwick Papers.

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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 6h

Unsolicited dik dik pic.

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Eric Ansley Díaz @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 7h

Unsolicited Dick pic.

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 11h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 19h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 9h

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Not only this is amazing because part of fascism is the destruction of joy but it also makes it look ridiculous that the military is being deployed to put a stop to this

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

War is hell, Portland style

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 9h

N95 or better on your face, please. Get in touch with your local mask bloc!

BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 9h

It is not too late for you to start wearing a mask in public.

It is not too late for you to start advocating clean air.

It is not too late for you to learn how to build your own air filters or to tap in with folks already doing so.

They want you sick. They want your neighbors sick. Tell them no.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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