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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

excellent explainer

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a great example. Yes, the Portland frog is real. Yes, there is more than one of them. But this is AI slop. General public sees this and maybe thinks it’s all AI slop? Maybe starts disbelieving real videos from Portland. Fascists happy.

You think you’re helping with AI slop but you’re not.

Resist ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏽✊🏼 #portland #portlandoregon #resist #portlandfrog #antiice

TikTok video by BeniTo

www.tiktok.com

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 1d

No, but last time we spent an overnight at a friend's house, they were a 100% ingredient household and had nothing he ate (I brought cheerios for him). On the way home, he exclaimed how he didn't know how anyone survived without Goldfish in their house.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 1d

I just caught him trying to pack potatoes.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 1d

Two ears.

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Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 1d

With alt text

Image in the style of the Obama 'Hope' poster featuring a cross-looking frog wearing star-spangled banner cravat and cape above the word 'Hop'

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned not to ask the seven-year-old what to pack for an overnight trip because now we're arguing about how many ears of field corn he can bring.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

After decades of progress on closing the pay gap between men and women, it’s now widening. For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row, according to recent data from the Census Bureau.

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

wapo.st

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

“Yes but judgement of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstract and empirical concept such as being or to be or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself.”

RIP to a great one.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!

Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, nooooo.

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 1d

As Jonn says in the piece: no. The problem is that not enough people see how extreme it has become.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 1d

This is genius.

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

This, from a woman who was probably not born when Elliott Smith died, makes me happy.

www.instagram.com/p/DPkNM2Jjgsp/

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

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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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 2d

Happy radiator season, to all who celebrate
archive.org/details/Radi...

Color photo of a radiator painted red with white designs of spirals and flames. Caption reads Perfection Ornamental pattern of American Radiators. Decorated in strongly contrasting colors for Billiard Room, Theatre Lobby, Hallway or the like, where forceful effects are desired.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2d

It's gonna have a giant T on it.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2d

Like, is this the "we destroyed antifa" arc?

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2d

What victory is he planning on winning before building this?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

it's giving Germania

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! I do have hopes that actually seeing and interacting with people a few times a week will be a good thing. It's just stressful to think about at the start. I've been home for almost eight years.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 2d

i’ve been struggling to re-work a book that i love but didn’t sell. the book means a lot to me– it’s about aging and fighting against violence and communities of marginalized people- and i do not need AI to do the work because the block is not about labor it is about love for the characters i made

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2d

I'm currently being interviewed for two hybrid roles (in-office three days a week). I haven't worked in an office since 2008, and it's a little intimidating.

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Infopoint #Klimawandel #Artensterben @infopointa.bsky.social · 2d

#Nestlé ist stillschweigend aus globaler Initiative zur Reduzierung von Methanemissionen in der Milchwirtschaft ausgestiegen
www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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