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T Dot 📸

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Analog girl in a digital world 🌍 Trying to manage my attention and take as many pictures on film as possible. Yashicaflex C & Pentax 17 & Polaroid

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T Dot 📸 @strictphotos.bsky.social · Jan 25

I’m a Black woman in the South. My whole life is political.

But I write and take pictures too 💅🏽💅🏽💅🏽

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 7h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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T Dot 📸 @strictphotos.bsky.social · 7h

“China’s stance is consistent,” the Commerce Ministry said in a statement posted online. “We do not want a tariff war but we are not afraid of one.”

Oof.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

China signaled that it would not back down in the face of a 100% tariff threat from President Donald Trump, urging the U.S. to resolve differences through negotiations instead of threats.

China vows to stand firm against Trump's 100% tariff threat

China is signaling that it won't back down in the face of the latest tariff threat from U.S. President Donald Trump.

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T Dot 📸 @strictphotos.bsky.social · 14h

That pozole renewed my spirit 😭 🥘

T Dot 📸 @strictphotos.bsky.social · 15h

1. Biggie/Tupac beef
2. Aaliyah’s death
3. AOL
4. 9/11
5. Y2K

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 16h

What 5 events defined your childhood?

1. Nixon
2. Apollo (I remember 13!)
3. The Bicentennial
4. The Energy Crisis
5. The Iran Hostage Crisis

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 16h

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Italia 90
2. Live Aid
3. Charlie Haughey telling us all to tighten our belts while buying his mistress couture in Paris
4. The Troubles
5. 35-40 classrooms in school & teacher strikes

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T Dot 📸 @strictphotos.bsky.social · 18h

Telling my business 😭

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 19h

Right here… dassit!!!!

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T Dot 📸 @strictphotos.bsky.social · 22h

Period!

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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 1d

The average cost of electricity in America is skyrocketing.

We know how to provide electricity reliably and cost-effectively. But some people have allowed the deep ruts of our political partisanship to warp how they think about the best way to generate electrons, somehow making this political.

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T Dot 📸 @strictphotos.bsky.social · 1d

Garrett Morris is criminally underrated!!! I grew up with him as Stan the station manager on “Martin,”but very cool to read more about his time on SNL.

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

On the actual 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live (today), here’s an article I wrote about it last year, with remembrances from Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman and many more. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/a...

When ‘Saturday Night Live’ Debuted, They Were There. Here’s What They Remember. (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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Herdwick Sheep @herdwicksheep.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a whole year since the Northern Lights lit up the Lake District skies.. and what a sight it was! 💚

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 1d

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

we have an inexpensive thing in our house right now that makes other little useful things and yet everyone’s boss isn’t demanding everyone get 3D printers - curious!!

Laruna Softpaw @larunasoftpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of, why didn't 3D printers get this much attention? It's something that's actually really cool that has practical applications. Is it because they're too cool and useful? Is it because it's harder to scam people with them?