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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 4h

If you have a 3d printer and would like to make your own (or see a video of them in action) I got them on Maker World.

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Decorative Pass-Through Pumpkins by MeasureOnce MakerWorld: Download Free 3D Models

Boost MePlease boost if you like my model! For commercial license please visit www.patreon.com/MeasureOnce

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 4h

Making pumpkin fidgets (where you can swap the inner section) for my family and the few trick-or-treaters we get, and I didn't love the copper filament for this as much as I expected. Maybe I just need to make better color combos. I am planning on Tiffany's blue pumpkins.

Small 3d-printed pumpkins in a variety of colors with striping of other colors. You can swap the inner sections between them to get different combinations.

Me taking the center out of a purple and black pumpkin.

And I've taken the orange center out of a nearby white pumpkin.

And I've swapped them like an amazing magician so I have an orange and black pumpkin and a white and purple magic.
*Wendy does jazz hands* Ta-dah!
Yes, maybe a video would have been better. But, a video? In this economy? No, I'm kidding. I'm just terrible at videos and crap like that.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17h

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 11h

A lot of us will make the most we ever will if our books were recognized as stolen in the Anthropic lawsuit (which excluded a lot of books due to copyright registration.)

And it's a bit demoralizing to realize that's how our books suddenly have value...as fodder for a plagiarism machine.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 1d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 11h

Not in all caps, but I have that shirt. I'd buy it again to give PBS money though, and I get comments every time I wear it.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 7h

Did you know it was several decades before handwashing in hospitals was implemented after it was found to be necessary in 1846? We’re in the same boat today, except w/ airborne transmission—yes, in 2025. Unfuckingbelievable. So unnecessary, maddening, irresponsible, & dangerous. #MasksInHealthcare

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 8h

This isn’t fearmongering — it’s reality. Hospital-acquired COVID can delay care or cost you your health — even your life.

Infection control measures — masks, ventilation, testing, and staff/patient protections — should be standard care in every healthcare setting.

Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...

Prognostic Chats @PrognosticChats

Some day you’ll be in hospital for surgery or chemotherapy or with another illness & a nurse, or doctor or visitor at the next bed, or the patient opposite you will give you a Covid infection & your treatment will get delayed & your life will be put at unnecessary risk.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 8h

I made some art tonight to celebrate this occasion. 🐸✊

a digital art piece with teal circular wingdings in the background, a drawing of the inflatable frog costume and over it in all caps in neon green "become ungovernable"

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 9h

Evening golden dragon

#watercolor #gouache #fantasyart #dragons #PNW

Painting of a golden dragon twisting its body through the forest. Ferns are on the ground, and light shines through in a spotlight. Text reads kamakru.com. Signed Katie Croonenberghs 2024

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Robert Manchild @robertmanchild.com · Aug 18

had to quit my job so i could read emails from my kids' schools full time

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 10h

Have had that. It sucks.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 11h

“One person was bitten by the bat and is now seeking medical care, the county said… Any direct contact with a bat should be treated as a potential exposure, even if there is no visible bite or scratch, according to the county’s news release.”

Rabid bat bites person in southeast Michigan

The rabid bat found in St. Clair County has triggered warnings from health officials who say even minor contact with bats can be dangerous.

www.mlive.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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SCaryJo @caryjo.bsky.social · 12h

Some days you sit in the gravel and a duck waddles up to poke you in the pants.

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 11h

One thing AI is good for is reminding people how even the very worst movie they’ve ever seen is better than AI “movies”

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 11h

I ended up with massive bruises from this the last time. The squishing was nothing to the handling without care.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 11h

What they say while assaulting people is specifically designed to give them immunity (despite already having qualified immunity!) from their actions. The ISP is basically yelling "stop punching yourself" while attacking peaceful protesters.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 11h

it will never not be weird that there are people who believe this shit

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 14h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 11h

A lot of us will make the most we ever will if our books were recognized as stolen in the Anthropic lawsuit (which excluded a lot of books due to copyright registration.)

And it's a bit demoralizing to realize that's how our books suddenly have value...as fodder for a plagiarism machine.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 1d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 22h

Yeah no I'm leaving the moment I get a real job again (I suspect I'm a little too feral to be hired at something real, but that's the plan) (surely I can be redomesticated!)

The profit/loss document for my life isn't really working out, oh well

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 1d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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