Pierre 🍉
@speciesbeing.bsky.social
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Bad writer. Even worse poster. Good politics, at least. RT=/= endors Please subscribe to my substack: https://speciesbeingblog.substack.com/ Abonnez- vous à mon substack, s'il vous plaît J'apprends le français. Si tu parles français, dis bonjour 🙂
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speciesbeing.bsky.social
"Dragons are a girl's best friend" as the AI dragon transforms into an amorphous blob.
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nisrinelamin.bsky.social
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
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speciesbeing.bsky.social
He's also shaped like a refrigerator. lol
speciesbeing.bsky.social
I try not to criticize opposition tactics because I'm not out on the streets, but this thread makes some interesting arguments.
taliajane.bsky.social
as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:
50501movement.bsky.social
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.
speciesbeing.bsky.social
Oh damn, I need to check if that came in. lol
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srirachachau.bsky.social
It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”
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mahtowin1.bsky.social
Mskwaasin Agnew (Cree and Dene), an Indigenous rights advocate & harm reduction worker, was on the Gaza flotilla. “It was important to express my solidarity, and Indigenous solidarity, with the understanding that none of us are free until we’re all free,” she said. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
Activists released from Israeli detention share their experiences
Two Canadian flotilla activists who were released from Israeli detention, including Mskwaasin Agnew, are sharing their experiences.
www.aptnnews.ca
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ramiismail.com
Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
mondoweiss.net
NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
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aubreyhirsch.bsky.social
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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internethippo.bsky.social
The entire economy depends on this horseshit so it's your patriotic duty to ask the computer to honk your bingus several times a day
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hyperallergic.com
“[AI is] not a good knockoff. The ultimate goal is never to be as good as the art — the goal is to be good enough to get on the page, get the consumer to use it, and get rid of the worker.” —Molly Crabapple, artist
Can Artists Stop the AI Slop Machine?
A recent workshop in Manhattan's Lower East Side challenged the notion that the takeover of machine learning is inevitable.
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karlbode.com
I like this false claim that they just magically "fixed" the mental health issues of their unregulated bullshit machines so therefore you can fuck your phone now

they're hemorrhaging money and desperately need to goose engagement after badly flubbing the last release
Sam Altman: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults."
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
And you, governor, should stop providing state cops to police protesters for ICE at Broadview.
govpritzker.illinois.gov
ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.
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lhistorienne.bsky.social
If you’d like to help me pay for my prescriptions while I’m furloughed, consider buying some of my books directly from me! DM for details 🏴‍☠️📚🖤
lhistorienne.bsky.social
If you enjoy my work, please help me continue to do it. Snag one (or all) of my books as I’m furloughed and help me pay some bills! 🏴‍☠️📚 DM me! #SkyStorians #PirateHistory
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captainruck.bsky.social
I never connected these, despite railing against both the UK's trans panic and boarding school culture separately, but it makes sense. Of course you'd be worried about being sexually assaulted in a bathroom if you went to a boarding school where that's the norm. "Bullying, beatings, and buggery!"
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davidsirota.com
This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.
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brendelbored.bsky.social
JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...
CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy
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gregdoucette.bsky.social
This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down
paleofuture.bsky.social
"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”
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anjalikdayal.bsky.social
you can read absolutely anything: good books, silly books, pulp, comics, magazines—it doesn't have to be good, well-written, or well-regarded; it doesn't even have to be interesting to anyone else. it can still bring you joy to dip into another world and come out seeing your own a little differently
wiswell.bsky.social
Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.