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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 2h

we edit with AI

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 4h

it’s good but definitely surrealist :-)

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 6h

cover of an animated film called “The Tune”

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 9h

It might have gotten him off, being cruel to her in the heat of the moment, but that’s not the kind of thing you pull on a partner unless you’ve negotiated it beforehand AND she knows damn well it’s not true!

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 12h

(Here in the south this is a perfect example of “Oh bless his heart [non-derogatory]”)

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone needs to see this kitten lose a fight with this pop-up cube this morning :-)

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 13h

Day 12: sexy tariffs! I think they’re kind of reaching on this one, but at least SOMEONE thinks they’re sexy?

model wearing a short, tight dress with dollar bills printed on it and “TARIFF” stamped across the chest

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 1d

The Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking is AMAZING and everyone should read it :-D

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 1d

Day 11: sexy lobster! I hope she doesn’t intend to hold a drink or anything.

Model wearing an inexplicably fuzzy lobster hood and claws with a very short lobster-colored dress

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 2d

“I should relax! Except I feel guilty if I’m not optimizing my relaxation time…”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

the Portland Protests, annotated

פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 3d

Frogs? Talmudic
Toads? Not Talmudic
Chickens? Talmudic
Turkeys? Not Talmudic
Weasels? Talmudic
Ferrets? Not Talmudic
Camels? Talmudic
Elephants? Eh, hardly Talmudic
Big Bird? Very, very Talmudic

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 2d

Day 10: sexy Scrabble board! Seems like hot librarian but with extra steps, honestly, but mad props to the model for really trying to sell it.

A blonde model chews sexily on a pencil while wearing a short Scrabble-board-printed dress and red high heels

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 2d

Day 9: sexy ketchup bottle! Because nothing says sex appeal like having to be held upside-down and your head bashed into the floor a few times to get you going…

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 2d

Was out of town and missed a few days :-/ Catching up for day 8: sexy pizza rat! Seems a bit late, to still be for sale in 2025, but who doesn’t think subway rats are sexy?

A blonde model wearing a very short rat-patterned dress with pizza slices glued over her hips

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Chris Adams @brick-fedora.bsky.social · 2d

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 2d

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 5d

Smh. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That's So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.

futurism.com

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Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · 5d

The Oatmeal has a take on the whole AI art thing that I really appreciate. I particularly like the point about art being emotional nutrition and AI art being like eating styrofoam - it’s there, it holds its shape, but it doesn’t fulfill its purpose. Comic here: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 5d

Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/

4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

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