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AWerewolfRidingAVampireRidingAJackOLantern @amrawramb.bsky.social · Nov 6

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The ACLU is Fighting Back Against Trump

As the Trump administration moves toward the White House, the stakes could never be higher. But the ACLU is ready to fight back! As President-elect Trump lays out his dangerous agenda, the ACLU is co...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4d

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 6h

People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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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AWerewolfRidingAVampireRidingAJackOLantern @amrawramb.bsky.social · 6h

The inevitability of the McDonald's McD.L.T. box.

The motherfuckin' McD.L.T. sandwich box. It's like a.... brassier of styrofoam to keep the two halves of your sandwich separated for.... some reason?

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 6h

remember when post malone hosted an apex legends tournament to raise funds for trevor project and there wasn't a single queer/trans person invited lmao

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 13h

The controversial Riyadh Comedy Fest ended today, to be followed in December by the Saudi capital's music festival Soundstorm with Post Malone, Halsey, Benson Boone, and more

Post Malone, Halsey, Benson Boone, & More Playing Controversial Riyadh Music Festival Soundstorm

The comedy world has been in an uproar over the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which ended today after two weeks of performances in Saudi Arabia’s capital. Extremely popular comics including Kevin Hart, Dave...

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16h

Appendix 2: on tools

A tool is *for* something. If the things generative AI tools are *for* are not conducive to learning a given subject, generative AI is not a tool for learning that subject. Establishing that and then talking about how to integrate it into courses on that subject is incoherent.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 18h

Appendix 1: on gun analogies

Nobody ever asked me to teach gun safety in history class. The reasons are so obvious they don't need stating and have nothing to do with whether gun safety matters.

But I am being asked (not politely) to spend history class helping people to learn how to use Al.

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 14h

The authoritarian coalition continues cracking. Trump is weak and his party knows it.

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Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 9h

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 10h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 6h

SPD put out this blog post about a recent success on "organized retail theft."

The TL;DR: Police arrested five people at a mall for stealing a total of $460 in merchandise. Combined.

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Organized Retail Theft Operation in Westwood Village Nets Five Arrests - SPD Blotter

Seattle police officers arrested five suspects, ages 38-65, during an Organized Retail Theft operation in Westwood Village Wednesday. On the afternoon of Oct. 8, patrol officers and detectives in the ...

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 7h

Lol someones feeling a mite prickly

Bill Burr Fires Back at Critics of His Riyadh Comedy Festival Appearance: “Sanctimonious C***s”

The veteran comedy superstar “doesn’t give a f***” what anyone thinks of his recent trip to Saudi Arabia: “If it affects my career, I've been to LAX enough in my life, I'll f***ing sit home for a litt...

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 7h

They're calling her "the most ready for prime time candidate of all time"

American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 9h

WATCH: Winsome Earle-Sears says her opposition to marriage equality or her support for LGTBQ+ Americans being fired for being gay is "not discrimination." #VAGov

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AWerewolfRidingAVampireRidingAJackOLantern @amrawramb.bsky.social · 7h

Is it better on Linux? I have it on Windows and I don't really like it 😆

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 9h

pelvic thrust risk of going insane

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Jun 30

A peculiar softness #anatomicalart #botanicalart #surrealism

A painting of a recently excised rabbit heart with forget me nots growing from it in multiple places.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING

New York Attorney General Letitia James has issued her first statement in the aftermath of being indicted by President Trump’s DOJ.

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 14h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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AWerewolfRidingAVampireRidingAJackOLantern @amrawramb.bsky.social · 10h

I hope you are wildly successfull but also that you have at least one copy of Horrible Girls left at Short Run 😆

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 11h

it's genuinely weird to live in a time where politico, owned by naked right wingers in the tank for trump, axel springer, writes flatly that "trump is using the DOJ to persecute his perceived enemies"

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 11h

Without ACA subsidies, a couple in Peabody, MA earning $85,000 a year could see their monthly health care premium increase from $892 to $2,096.

Republicans shut down the government over this and want families to pay thousands more.

Democrats want to keep insurance costs low.

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 11h

Slopsploitation

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14h

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h

I am once again asking... does anyone in the Trump administration know what habeas corpus is?

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Invertober day 5!

A loose interpretation of a painted spiny lobster (Panulirus versicolor) (and now I have the Miami Vice music stuck in my head😂)

#Invertober2025 #SciArt

Digital drawing of a painted spiny lobster which has striking black and white stripes interspersed with pink and teal coloration with a little bit of yellow.

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Srutis 🔞 @srutis.bsky.social · 11h

The US economic collapse on it's way with the rapid deflation of the tech sector because of the AI crash that is assured to take place will lead to a global great depression. It will also, in a grim repeat of history, cement fascist political powers in the EU & UK even further if not intervened

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