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Disney Prime Video + @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 8h

The Muppets Take Portland (2025)

The Muppets fuck around with the National Guard in front of stores that are not boarded up. Voodoo donuts is open late.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 2h

From the linked blog, “generative AI cannot tell a user how it arrived at a decision when it grades or evaluates work” - this is key and if parents are unaware of what’s happening (which they are) they should use this to push back. Demand the explanations for evaluations.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8h

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it

but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 13h

Trump admin plans to RIF 1100-1200 HHS employees according to court filing

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 2h

As I understand it, the ‘brains develop until they’re 25’ factoid simply means brains continue developing indefinitely, and 25 was the end point of the studies only because it was an age that everyone understood was well into adulthood. We need fewer credulous idiots giving credence to bigots.

Claire's Trans Talks @clairestranstalks.bsky.social · 6h

Part 2 of the Gender Clinic Files is out, looking at the impact if Cass recommendations for adult services were introduced, affecting more than 32k young trans adults just from the current waiting list.

Huge thanks to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series.

Majority of adults waiting for Trans+ healthcare are under 25

Two-thirds of Trans+ people would lose care if all Cass Review recommendations implemented

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Gary Dorr - TARDIS Cabinets @tardiscabinets.bsky.social · 1d

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Donate to TARDIS Cabinets Relaunch, organized by Gary Dorr

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gofund.me

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 6h

Young Indy departing in a train, hearing T E Lawrence say “We offered them a new world…”

Lawrence continuing, “and they made the old one over again.”

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 11h

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 22h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 7h

I'm not even watching the game but we are all Watching The Game.

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 7h

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 7h

This is what I mean when I say, when it comes to political positions, most ppl just run on vibes. 100% feelings-before-facts. Japan is screaming towards a population crash at 1,000 MPH, it's not reversible at this point. But you have political parties agitating to return to hermit kingdom status.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 7h

Japan’s far right is on the rise, alarming foreign workers. Nowhere is that anxiety more apparent than in the city of Toyota, where immigrants power the economy while facing political backlash.

Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them

In the city of Toyota, immigrants help power the economy while facing political backlash.

bloom.bg

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What's Scarier Than The World We Currently Live In? @afbourque.bsky.social · 7h

Canonically she's shorter than Fjord... but she's also WIDER than Fjord, so it balances out.

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What's Scarier Than The World We Currently Live In? @afbourque.bsky.social · 7h

November 19.

November USED to be the 9th month (it's what November means; then the Romans shoved two new months into summer, and September, October, November, and December's names stopped making sense).

NINEteen.

And it's the closest to a 20 you can get while keeping the nines rolling...

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What's Scarier Than The World We Currently Live In? @afbourque.bsky.social · 7h

So many critters goin' nuts because there's not enough Yasha...

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 7h

By the time this game ends Kevin Costner will have built an entire baseball field.

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 7h

It is the top of the 15th. I am watching a cricket fan complain about the length of this baseball game.

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 7h

A 65 year old what, though.

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

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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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 7h

The innings will continue until morale improves.

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What's Scarier Than The World We Currently Live In? @afbourque.bsky.social · 7h

They gonna taste nasty by now.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 15h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Sam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social · 17h

Need to wait for exact numbers of Federal layoffs

But at least right now, this is affecting a lot of agencies

Some that didn’t even take a big hit during DOGE

Hard to imagine this not dominating news in NOVA as this unfolds

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Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 7h

There's nothing in the rulebook that says a Muppet can't pitch in extra innings

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 13h

I think this guy is actually president imo

Trump is a doddering old man, barely aware of his own surroundings, getting worked over by underlings.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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What's Scarier Than The World We Currently Live In? @afbourque.bsky.social · 7h

I can't tell if you're being accurate or sarcastic, because it's fucking Fox.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 9h

I think a lot about how Michelle Obama remarked on regularly being in rooms with the most powerful and wealthy people in the world and her chief takeaway was that they're just not that smart

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