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Tyver Foucault @thedoorthedoor.bsky.social · 12h

Electric rainbows were a fire hazard and were discontinued in the 50s but you can still find them sometimes in vintage storms

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 16h

I know a lot of people are still absorbing judge Perry's order against national guard deployment in Illinois. A couple things to keep in mind:

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 16h

Looks like we didn't have to wait for tomorrow for the written order: bsky.app/profile/jons...

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 19h

U.S. District Judge April Perry's temporary restraining order is in:

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 18h

she usually takes a nap around 4:30-5 but lately she seems to enjoy the full "tucked into the covers with a head smooch" experience for it as well

A small black cat sleeping with their head tucked in beneath a black comforter.

A sleepy black cat. They have one eye half open and their head poking out from under a red comforter.

A small black cat sleeping, with their head poking out from under a red comforter.

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404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1d

Chicagoans still marching on Michigan Ave chanting "up up with liberation, down down with deportations!"

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 1d

oof yeah that's rough. I'm trying something similar on the concert/morale front but I have them pretty spaced out/no big events preceding (I know it would probably be a PitA, but y'all are welcome to join me @ the Denver show)

A meme of Ryan Gosling looking forlorn in a white T-shirt, with the text "When you accidentally socialized on the weekend n now you have to disappear for the next 3 months in order to restore your aura" above him.

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 1d

I feel kinda bad because technically this is bad news, but it looks like AFI might be sold out. :/ on the other hand, maybe it makes the decision easy?

AFI - The Masquerade

www.masqueradeatlanta.com

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 1d

it's this and then one just pouring in vanilla extract while staring dead at the camera and going, "I know exactly what I'm doing"

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bobby bacchanalia @buddyblanc.bsky.social · 1d

of the remaining aspects of self polled, 8% responded 'just kidding', 3% with 'just kidding... unless...', and 14% 'undecided'

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 1d

now attempting to syncretize this with my at least 75% serious belief that Crack the Skye is a religious text

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Cosimo Galluzzi @cosimog.bsky.social · 1d

I'd like to request a late checkout

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

A screenshot of the poem "To The Stone-Cutters" by Robinson Jeffers.

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore-defeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly:
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth dies, the brave sun
Die blind, his heart blackening:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found
The honey peace in old poems.

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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 3d

A Colorado case going before the U.S. Supreme Court this week could set nationwide precedent for whether states can bar licensed medical professionals from performing the widely discredited practice of conversion therapy on LGBTQ+ kids.

U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s conversion therapy ban

The Colorado Attorney General’s Office will argue that trying to change a young patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity is substandard medical care.

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

also this is a clear indicator of my age but my first thought there would be Stone Temple Pilots >.>

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

need to figure out a way to train my brain not to react to a crisis within 30 minutes of waking up, the issue being that the raven that would remember that takes a few moments to get online whereas the "FUCK" raven never sleeps

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 4d

Tron gives an inaccurate impression of how many guys live in your computer. It makes it seem like thousands of guys are in there. In reality only about 10 guys live in your computer and less than half of them ride motorcycles

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Rhigu (comms open!) @rhigu.bsky.social · 4d

Alexandru for AsmoGrimae.bsky.social

Thank you so much again!!❤️

A man sits in the dark with a large black sword and a fanged deer skeleton. There is a steppe fire in the background.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 4d

the article in question so you don't have to dive in there

anyway as usual not a professional that just feels like a situation ripe for further terrible ideas

Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit

A U.S. district court is scheduled to consider whether to approve the settlement next week, in a case that marked the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems.

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 4d

to be clear this isn't smugposting; just noticing some of the initial excitement over the list settling and people seemingly realizing this

given that it's in the article I dunno that I can blame reporting, but it did seem like a weirdly underpublicized point? could just be in the wrong circles but

V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · Sep 8

the article actually links to the fair use case/judgement that led to the current one and... I guess I'm just not sure a lot of people actually know what it ruled against; it wasn't the training, it was -specifically- the piracy

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 5d

It is! It's that massive chandelier that watches over you in the Organ Room.

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V (vǫrð náfjarðar) @disirexmachina.bsky.social · 5d

Post a non-religious photo that you think of as holy

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jun 26

See point #2, here, specifically, about the danger of "age verification" tech and ID retention

a hybrid signal @unknown.garden · Jun 26

i've yelled about it before in the context of Patreon, if you're new around here unknownbinaries.tumblr.com/post/7275574...

If I Close This Account, Here's Why: | Patreon - dev/zero

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Elliott Dunstan @fiversdream.bsky.social · 6d

The speed of the I Told You So here is genuinely worrying actually

Like y'all couldn't keep the data safe for a little bit longer? You couldn't keep up the pretense for like. A little bit?

The Verge @theverge.com · 6d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 6d

#inktober 3 or four: They're Encouraging The Haunting

Ink drawing of a nonbinary person with dark eyes, dark hair and numerous tattoos, looking tired and desperate, ghostly figures behind them

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