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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 15h

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 18h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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SofawolfOne ❄︎ 🐕 @sofawolfone.bsky.social · 36m

I was recently in SF for Make With Notion and spent four days trekking all over the city. There were lots of cops, standing around being visible and bored.

I saw no crime.

There were lots of poor and broken people though, and insufferable rich prats hate nothing more (despite having caused them).

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Renegade Roo @renegadekangaroo.bsky.social · 12h

If I was a deer, I'd totally have a festive bell around my mudflap as soon as November starts to celebrate the holiday spirit 🦌

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Cricket @krysiilys.bsky.social · 20h

for riderkicking~ 🐰🚬❗

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 21h

Just felt like sharing this today. No reason.

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 1d

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SofawolfOne ❄︎ 🐕 @sofawolfone.bsky.social · 22h

We don't hate America, just rich people, Republicans, and everything this sad, pasty white, empty-headed jellyfish of a Russian asset pretends to stand for.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Larrson @larrson.bsky.social · 22h

First #FursuitFriday of the hockey season! Let’s go ILANURS

🪡 @twinkyarts.net

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 1d

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are looking up at the same spot in the ceiling.
Green: Do we have a dead moth on the ceiling?
Blue: No. It's alive.

Green turns to look at Blue, whose eyes are still on the moth.
Green: It's what?
Blue: It sits in a different spot every morning.

Both of the foxes return to looking up at the moth.
Green: Should we do something about it?

Now Blue turns to look at Green, who keeps staring at the moth.
Blue: Make it pay rent?
Green: I think it flinched.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23h

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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SofawolfOne ❄︎ 🐕 @sofawolfone.bsky.social · 1d

I know those paws!

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Keovi // KeoviART @keoviart.bsky.social · 1d

Paws Paws Paws!

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 2d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Sylvia Ritter @sylviaritter.bsky.social · 2d

I am a bit sad today, because I won't be able to finish the next animal illustration, inspired by the Ubuntu release, in time for the official release date tomorrow.
It will probably take another 2 weeks.

Nevertheless, Focal Fossa will ensure the focus remains high. Boop the nose for good luck!🍀

A cute young Fossa looking into the camera. The focus lies on its head and eyes. Invites you to boop its nose. Surrounded by pastel swirls. Inspired by Ubuntu release 20.04 LTS. " title="A cute young Fossa looking into the camera. The focus lies on its head and eyes. Invites you to boop its nose. Surrounded by pastel swirls. Inspired by Ubuntu release 20.04 LTS. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Focal-Fossa-828503863

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SofawolfOne ❄︎ 🐕 @sofawolfone.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, lots of things; but admittedly they were all during the old days of social media before it was a Nazi bar.

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Gingersnap @foxtart.bsky.social · 4d

My cartoonier version of Robin

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 4d

Thread.

When Enron collapsed, taking Arthur Andersen (then one of The Big Five accounting firms) with them the two big issues were:
1. Enron’s corporate culture which was dependent on the value of their shares always going up.
And
2. Their Mark-to-Market bookkeeping system

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 4d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 5d

Folks, i need a job or a contract so bad. I'm a full-stack developer, i work in several frameworks (including #laravel and #yii2), and with several CMSes (notably #craftcms and #expressionengine but i can also work in Wordpress). I've got SQL wizard skills and a deep focus on #a11y . Please hire me!

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SofawolfOne ❄︎ 🐕 @sofawolfone.bsky.social · 6d

This is honestly what large swaths of cops and the military have always been. This is just what happens when you remove even the slightest semblance of the rule of law and accountability.

The strain of fragile, egotistical, violent meatheads runs very deep and wide in America.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 6d

Genuinely incredible how unprofessional these guys are. One dude yelling in your face and you immediately assault them on camera?

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 6d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Sully Dawg @sullydawg2.bsky.social · 8d

Fox propaganda is obvious and only works on the uninformed

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SofawolfOne ❄︎ 🐕 @sofawolfone.bsky.social · 6d

I scrolled by this and then had to go back and confirm that it said what I thought it said.

Brilliant hook.

Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 6d

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Jeff Eddy @ordercollie.com · 6d

The first step in doing so is becoming aware of when you are being manipulated, and the quickest route to this is mindfulness and intentionality.

Learn to step out of your thoughts and examine them, and ask whether what you are thinking is serving you or someone else.

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Jeff Eddy @ordercollie.com · 6d

The worst part of all of this is that the emotional hollowing-out of people is exactly the intent of the people behind GenAI.

A populace unable to think for itself is easy to manipulate and exploit.

Defending the sovereignty of your mind is no longer just a good idea, it is part of the resistance.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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