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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 27

One day's tomato harvest. #gardening

Fourteen cherry tomatoes in a small bowl. Some are red and some are orange. They were tasty.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 27

It's hydrangea season again! #gardening

Hydrangea blossoms we gave to my mom who likes hydrangeas. They are white with a little bit of a pink tinge (the camera makes the pink stand out more than it does in person).

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CHOAM Nomsky (frightening) @samthielman.com · Jul 25

This is such a good point. Ozzy Osbourne had a band called Black Sabbath and invented heavy metal music and Hulk Hogan was in the Rocky movies and had children's shows and action figures. Ozzy is now universally beloved and people are holding marathon forgetting sessions to rid themselves of Hogan.

Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 Anime-Nia (Fresno, CA) @sonicmega.bsky.social · Jul 24

Watching the shift in response between Ozzy and Hogan’s death should serve as a reality check to everyone that in life, it doesn’t matter how much money you manage to accumulate or how you express yourself - people will remember you for who you were as a person, esp. others.

Be a force for good.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 25

So, in conclusion, always secure your load. Don't be like Mr. F150, sitting on the shoulder looking like a putz and probably wondering a) how much trouble he'll get in for this and b) if someone is hurrying home right now to put their dash cam footage on YouTube.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 25

One minute we were driving along normally; then other cars were swerving and putting their hazard lights on and we about had heart attacks because it took us a few seconds more to detect the banged-up bathtub in the middle of the highway that everyone else was avoiding.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 25

Saw this firsthand driving on the highway the other day. It must have just happened no more than a minute or two before; there were no cops on scene, and traffic hadn't even appreciably slowed down yet.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 25

PSA: If you're moving a big metal bathtub in the bed of your pickup, even if it FEELS like it's not going to go anywhere no matter how many bumps you hit 'cause it's heavier than a dead star...you still need to tie it down.

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DJW 🎨 🔞 @djwaglmuffin.bsky.social · Jul 21

"I don't want to raise my children! Let's let Visa do it!"

That's all I'm hearing right now. Nobody knows what a god damned power button is, or what parental controls are, or, you know , TALK TO YOUR KIDS!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 19

you rail against how wasteful AI is since it’s an idiotic technology and yet you meet your basic needs using modern conveniences? interesting.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Jul 19

this fucking sucks so bad lmao

r/DefendingAlArt u/storytellerai • 9h
Anti Hypocrisy. They never tell you all the "bad" things they do.

[AI generated cartoon man saying "AI uses too much power" surrounded by examples such as "uses chemicals to clean"]

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 19

Ah yes, those damn anti-AI art people, driving their misshapen avocado cars everywhere, throwing away 160,000 pounds of trash and then somehow flushing a separate 160,000 pounds of trash down their toilets. Have they no shame?

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · Jul 17

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your children are not extensions of you. They are their own people. They have rights. It is your job, should you have children, to protect those rights. And it is the community’s job to call you the fuck out if you’re not doing that.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 17

She's trying to say fox. We maybe should have preemptively given it a name (that sounds nothing like fox or fuck), but we were too sleep-deprived to think ahead to the toddler mushmouth stage of learning to talk.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 17

Until my toddler's pronunciation gets clearer, her emotional support stuffie's name will unfortunately be Fuck.

Toddler's emotional support stuffie. It's a fox. A FOX.

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · Jul 17

It's true; there's just a lot of darkness to muddle through first 🤘🏼😈

inner darkness aside I am filled with whimsy and love
[Illustration of a unicorn with a red eye and its legs over a barbed wire fence]

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · Jul 15

Speaking as an academic, and as a punster: I am in awe.

Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Jul 15

Ah yes. The best article title ever

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 15

UPDATE: Her dad is now "the most worst person in the world," beating out actual genocidal dictators, because he insisted she throw away her cookie wrapper in the food waste trash can instead of the wastebasket that happened to be closer to her. Fathers are wholly included in the "joys."

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 15

Is this "the joys of motherhood" that the Bible thumpers and pro-natalist tech bros won't shut up about?

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 15

Got the stinkiest of stink eyes from my oldest this morning because I noticed she'd left her dinner leftovers out the night before and put them in the fridge...not knowing she'd deliberately left them out so they'd spoil overnight and she wouldn't have to eat zucchini casserole.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Jul 10

When I talk about my opposite and naked hostility toward AI, people will point to emergent technology in the past that disrupted. But the thing is were I there at the time, I would have been an opponent of that too. This does not mean I am anti-technology, or didn't want the tech to develop. 🧵

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 10

Oh, the things I could achieve if I had half the tenacity and conviction of a toddler steadfastly refusing to eat her eggs (which she likes and asked for) for some goddamn reason.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 8

My older kid left for summer camp today, and apparently made us an offer we couldn't refuse on her way out. 😳

My kid's hobby horse tucked into her bed with its head resting on the pillow.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · Feb 15

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games!

Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI.

You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:-

www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

A graphical asset in the shape of a cog. It contains the following text 'This developer assures that NO GEN AI' was used in this indie game

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roygbiv @bocuma.online · Jul 6

AI has allowed the most incurious people on earth to briefly surface like cicadas before fizzling out and leaving the landscape dotted with their abandoned husks. Just IMO

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 5

I don't like fireworks, but please enjoy this picture of a well-fed monarch butterfly caterpillar on the butterfly weed plant at my inlaws' house. #gardening #butterflygarden

Big yellow, black and white-striped monarch butterfly caterpillar with long cartoon-looking antennae snacking on a butterfly weed plant with clusters of small bright orange flowers.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · Jul 2

The fun thing about the age gap between my kids is, it's just big enough that by the time the older one finally stopped making massive messes by picking up big globs of cooked rice and eating them like apples, the younger one discovered the joys of doing just that.