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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 1h

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 3d

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 1h

This is my happy place.

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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 18h

This isn’t data, it’s a warning. Serious 30 month and 9 month rainfall deficiency in the Mt Lofties, SE SA and the Otways…levels which in the past have led to catastrophic bushfires. Prepare people…clean up, repair, save cash and insure. And join community agencies now. #auspol

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The Coast Guard spent $172 million on the jets, according to The New York Times.

Coast Guard Reportedly Spent $172 Million On Private Jets For Kristi Noem’s Use

The Coast Guard spent $172 million on the jets, according to The New York Times.

www.forbes.com

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 2h

This. It gives Newspeak.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 6h

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 4h

Village cop in Japan doesn't understand basic Japanese law, thinks foreign residents need to carry their passports

mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Japan police wrongfully arrest foreign worker for not carrying passport - The Mainichi

MORIOKA (Kyodo) -- Police in Japan's Iwate Prefecture wrongfully arrested a foreign worker earlier this week for not carrying his passport even though

mainichi.jp

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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 4h

Willow update

We put the fire in.
And she acted acordingly

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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 -COMMISSIONS OPEN- @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 3h

Doodle

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 2d

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that he gets to keep his health insurance while he worked to gut everyone else’s including his constituents

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 2d

HAPPY FRIDAY! While this is hilariously apt, I also feel like it is a good summation of how we all feel at the end of the workweek.

Survivors of a slasher movie sitting on the bumper of an ambulance at the end
[Picture of Winnie the Pooh, Tiger, and Rabbit all sitting around a table with mugs in their hands]

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 3d

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation.

"Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies.

Text and image generation
Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 2d

Likely all the rich people who don't want to be taxed. Anything to protect their hoard.
The attacks on racial background and religious alignment are trying to distract from the greed. This should be a class war.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 2d

Dying to know what the training set of the model is based upon. Someone in his comments celebrated 'review without bias', however, training data collected from humans inherently contains bias.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3d

I'm not an ethicist by training but "we just built a machine that does x, it's up to people what they do with it" is not a great position to fall back on.

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SPiNDLE @aidenr0.bsky.social · 3d

i bring women kissing to your TL but cute this time

An artwork by Spindle of the characters Asimov (on the left), a half-elf with white hair, sitting on Ottilie's lap (on the right), a human with brown hair. Ottilie is holding Asi's hands and kissing her cheeks, while Asi is smiling widely looking super happy

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 2d

OK, going to have trouble paying rent again this month due to back injury.

Would appreciate so much the spreading of my online shop to get some cool orders sent out next week.
All signed.

davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 2d

EA staff and CWA rally against $55bn Saudi-backed private acquisition of EA, with formal petition to regulators.

www.eurogamer.net/ea-union-wor...

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The REAL Texas Paul @paulsrockinbluesky.bsky.social · 16d

"To whom it may concern,
As stated in the Discord Terms of Service,
You have the right to opt out and not be bound by the provisions requiring arbitration by sending written notice of your decision to opt out to Discord by email to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com. The notice must be sent within 30 days of this Terms of Service taking effect, or your account creation on the Service.
I hereby exercise the aforementioned right to opt out and not be bound by the provisions requiring arbitration. This email is a written notice of said decision."
Sign with your legal name, discord username, your email address and phone number
Send to:
arbitration-opt-out@discord.com

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 3d

Reposting again for those who missed it:

The REAL Texas Paul @paulsrockinbluesky.bsky.social · 16d

here's a reminder that discord has adopted a new arbitration policy, which means you have under 30 days to opt out of it

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 3d

Huh. I noticed I lately haven't seen a post from that one big art account championing for activism against this platform or real world petitioning. Did they leave bsky?

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Oppai<3 🔞 ( Coms open ) @idrawoppai.bsky.social · 3d

Mai my oc commission

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 3d

🤢🤢🤢

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