shawniee 𓅒
@sraf10million.bsky.social
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math professor, fiction, idiot, really bad artwork is mine, he/him, writing pop-up book about the eight different geometries in dimension 3
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sraf10million.bsky.social
this is one of my all time favorite inktobers because it is literally the design schematic for the final chapters of my novel.
sraf10million.bsky.social
this is for 5 october 2023 in the #inktober challenge. the prompt is "map."
a map (not to scale) of the finale of a story, featuring a homestead, a train, several roller coasters, and some of the paths taken across tall grass fields by the principal actors.
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ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social
I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.
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stephenwest.bsky.social
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.
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aelkus.bsky.social
he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office
atrupar.com
Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."
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jessdkant.bsky.social
“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”
The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It
A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.
futurism.com
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brewergnome.bsky.social
This is happening right now, to a friend of mine in Chicago. This is a peaceful area, with no previous unrest or crime problem. Just people trying to live their lives. My heart hurts. They're having conversations no family should have to have.
A white box with text. "Y'all. They're tear gassing my neighborhood. Right by the place we get hummus from. Right by where we get the extra large pizzas for sleep overs. Tell your people."
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nora.zone
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
parsnip.bsky.social
why is sentence two in every story not "congress has not authorized the use of military force"
sraf10million.bsky.social
if most voters in the country made three calls to their rep and senators (taking a total of 8 minutes) to say "stop this," then it would stop.
brunojnavarro.bsky.social
ice’s illegitimacy grows with every passing day
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
"ICE" beating man during arrest in Santa Ana California.
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.
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enirenberg.bsky.social
Not enough news outlets are making it absolutely clear that last night’s RIFs are unlawful
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themilfmag.net
nobel prize. right fucking now. im serious.
Certain types of sea urchins will pick up a shell with their tube feet and ‘wear’ it, with a behavior known as “covering reaction”, mainly because they shy away from light.

So aquarium enthusiasts 3D-printed tiny hats and they actually wear them.
sraf10million.bsky.social
we can take it back. just fyi.
sraf10million.bsky.social
beautiful judicial prose for the end of democracy in america.
asharangappa.bsky.social
"If we were even to suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs."

Oh Alexander, honey.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Quoted by Judge Perry today in her opinion in Illinois v Trump
sraf10million.bsky.social
the view from my back deck. we put a pergola over it.
a square grid, the roof of a pergola, below the cloudy sky.
sraf10million.bsky.social
i don't have them but i endorse this message (for the right reasons).
sraf10million.bsky.social
we could have a democracy again if a majority of people simply took 8 minutes to make calls to their representative and senators and say "I don't want this and I'll vote for your opponent next time if you don't do something"
audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
sophiesherry.bsky.social
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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gregsargent.bsky.social
JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
In addition to gifting Trump a jet, Qatar is building a $5.5 billion Trump golf resort in Qatar, are major investors in two Trump developments in Saudi and Oman, among other things.
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wrwitching.bsky.social
"There is no insurrection.

[...]

The only issue is whether the Supreme Court will allow the president to say that there is an insurrection, and then use his own patently false proclamation to justify flooding American cities with soldiers to “fight crime.”"
Trump is the insurrection
And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.
www.publicnotice.co
sraf10million.bsky.social
i corrected it. that cord wasn't even being used. pure waste/fraud/abuse etc.
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paleofuture.bsky.social
The Portland frog protester has become a WWII-era meme
World War II-era poster that reads "this man is your FRIEND, He fights for Freedom" with the word Canadian