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Blenster 🅅

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I break things and write detailed reports. Rapid Prototyper. Maker. Apprentice Knifemaker. Sometimes I try to help explain social situations to dudes. Trans rights are human rights and Black lives matter. I love you.

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · Apr 5

Support my amazing sister and her beautiful handmade cards by buying one here: www.etsy.com/shop/artistc...

#MakeAllTheThings

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 9h

sky says trans rights

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The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.bsky.social · 11h

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 4EVR

www.tomshardware.com/software/win...

Legendary Microsoft developer reveals the true story behind the most famous product activation key of all time — infamous Windows XP 'FCKGW' licensing key was actually 'a disastrous leak'

It would have taken most people more than 24 hours to download the XP ISO and key back in 2001.

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 12h

I've been there; one hospital has refused to give me any meds despite it being the 5th or 6th stone I'd had at the same ER until I laid by the toilet on the floor for awhile.

They were mad I couldn't lay still enough for the CT scan. It ended up being a 7mm.

Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 12h

I've had several surgeries and a good chunk of passable stones that didn't hurt bad enough to go to the hospital.

Unfortunately I've had several that really messed me up.

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 13h

Massive relief. I feel 10 pounds lighter.

I'm just not checking a scale for confirmation. LOL

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 13h

Definitely not a fun time.

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 13h

Such a massive relief.

Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 13h

I have passed somewhere around 32 now. Probably more.

Some hurt more than others.

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 14h

Just got out of my urologist and for the first time in many years: no kidney stones showing on my x-rays!

Stone free baby!!!!!

Such a relief.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 16h

When parakeets cosplay

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 17h

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her) @nrlines.bsky.social · 17h

Did you know the winds carry the story of you? They tell of how when the old gods ran out of hope they created you from dreams and starlight. The four winds hold you and carry the whisper of your song and the howl of your rage. You are so wonderous and I am so thankful I exist in the same tl as you!

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 19h

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 18h

That's wonderful!

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 19h

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 19h

I annoyed my college roommates by being able to knock out papers the night before they were due and getting As and Bs reliably.

I had too aggressive of a class schedule and could barely keep up with the 21 class hours; I was a dumb kid who bit off more than I could chew.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Dolly Parton is living proof that it’s possible to become successful and stay a good person who gives back and I love that so much

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 1d

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 1d

I re-watched Ghost Dog and RZAs soundtrack (heck, the whole soundtrack) is simply amazing.

Wonderful.

That beat in the opening song - Raise Your Sword - is captivating.

Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 1d

Congratulations!

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 1d

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A drawing of a black cat resting under a blanket. The caption reads, "please be patient with yourself; it all feels overwhelming because it IS overwhelming"

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 1d

I see so much gaslighting of people who are struggling to find jobs at junior and mid-level cybersecurity by folks who got their last job or first job before 2023. It's unreal and uncalled for. The market and the automation in the hiring processes have gone to hell. www.reddit.com/r/SecurityCa...

From the SecurityCareerAdvice community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the SecurityCareerAdvice community

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 1d

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