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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 8h

Free #video #idea for any #YouTuber rich & #crazy enough to do it: World's largest #quadcopter #drone made from the parts of four full sized #helicopters.

#ideas #DoIt

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 8h

#UnpopularOpinion: Unsweetened iced tea is delicious, but sweetened iced tea tastes the way I imagine a diabetic's piss would taste. It is truly vile, a crime against taste.

Same goes for hot tea: adding sugar or milk or anything else just ruins perfectly good tea.

#IcedTea #TheSouth #tea #Britain

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 8h

Officials push new ban as thousands of households keep iconic creatures as pets: 'They will understand eventually'

#parrot #parrots #AfricanGrayParrots #animaltrafficking

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Officials push new ban as thousands of households keep iconic creatures as pets: 'They will understand eventually'

"We face a challenge."

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 8h

Also #pagan #neopagan #witch #witchcraft #gaia #Earth #MotherEarth

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 8h

‘All the #trees are dead’: Ancient #California #forest gets wiped out

#science 🧪 #environment #environmentalism #fire #ClimateChange #sad

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‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out

Old growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic example in California.

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 8h

‘All the #trees are dead’: Ancient #California #forest gets wiped out

#science 🧪 #environment #environmentalism #fire #ClimateChange #sad

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‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out

Old growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic example in California.

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 8h

#Scientists discover #brain circuit that can switch off chronic pain | ScienceDaily

#science 🧪 #neuroscience #pain #ChronicPain #CFS #fibromyalgia #fibro #medicine #news #goodnews

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Scientists discover brain circuit that can switch off chronic pain

Scientists have pinpointed Y1 receptor neurons in the brain that can override chronic pain signals when survival instincts like hunger or fear take precedence. Acting like a neural switchboard, these ...

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 8h

Do any other #plural authors ever model characters after other members of their system?

#plurality #multiplicity #PluralMind #multiple #DID #MultipleConsciousnessComplex #MCC

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The Thems &ΘΔ @chaoscorvid.satan.social · 14h

The one on the right is literally more attractive because she looks like a FUCKING PERSON

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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Ness @nesstheenby.bsky.social · 14h

So that's Deutsche Bank, The Bank of England and the IMF warning about the AI bubble bursting now. Oh and JP Morgan's boss and the Federal Reserve Chair

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Zyraph Chronicros [Motiat Chain Council] @zyraph.drag.li · 11h

Here's the thing: Banning VPNs will actually get enterprise companies (which use VPN tunnels for legitimate purposes) in legal trouble. People need to access work services from home, and VPNs are literally the only widespread way to do that. Banning them will effectively ban working from home.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 10h

My new favorite #euphemism for #semen is "erectoplasm."

#words #funny #NSFW #LOL #FunnyWords

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 18h

Footage from last Sunday's "Pastries & Pajamas" protest at #ICE in #Portland. The crowd was chanting at the retreating DHS agents: "DHS! Doesn't Have Sex!" (starting around 6:58)

#PDX #Oregon #resist #resistance #DonaldTrump #GOP #Republicans #Republican

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Portland HUMILIATES Trump as His Plan IMPLODES

YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 19h

#resist #resistance #fascism #anti-fascism #DonaldTrump #FuckICE #GOP #republicans #republican

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 19h

#KristiNoem is claiming that #ICE has arrested "the daughter of the founder of antifa." She expects her to give them info to take down antifa. LMAO! #Antifa isn't an organization, it's a political and moral stance. Saying "founder of Antifa" is like saying "founder of thinking murder is wrong."

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 19h

#KristiNoem is claiming that #ICE has arrested "the daughter of the founder of antifa." She expects her to give them info to take down antifa. LMAO! #Antifa isn't an organization, it's a political and moral stance. Saying "founder of Antifa" is like saying "founder of thinking murder is wrong."

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 19h

The starting location for the "emergency" World Naked Bike Ride #protest this Sunday has been announced!

#WNBR #WorldNakeBikeRide #NakedBikeRide #protests #resist #resistance #Portland #PDX #PortlandOregon #Oregon #ResistFascism

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‘Emergency’ Naked Bike Ride announces starting point

The ride is set for Sunday, October 12, beginning at 3:00 p.m.

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 20h

It is trivially easy to poison Large Language Models. #AI #anti-ai #LLM #chatgpt #resist #GoodNews #sabotage

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Data quantity doesn't matter when poisoning an LLM

: Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 23h

I firmly believe there should be no #religious exemptions for any crime, nor any exemptions for reporting certain kinds of crime like child abuse /murder. There should be no "sanctity of #confession." If you believe otherwise, you are an evil person.

#Christianity #Catholicism #religion #ChildAbuse

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe a #ControversialOpinion, but if you're a member of the #clergy & someone confesses to you about committing #murder, #rape, child abuse, etc on someone, & you fail to notify law enforcement of the crime so the criminal can be brought to justice, you should be charged with aiding & abetting.

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe a #ControversialOpinion, but if you're a member of the #clergy & someone confesses to you about committing #murder, #rape, child abuse, etc on someone, & you fail to notify law enforcement of the crime so the criminal can be brought to justice, you should be charged with aiding & abetting.

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 23h

Remember when #Google actually worked? And worked better than the #Tumblr search function?

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 1d

I would at least say a prayer over the small animals, but sacrificing parts of small animals seems a tad excessive to me. Still, open to other POVs since the character isn't me.

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for your help! Do your prayers or offerings change significantly with the size of the animal? IE, do you make the same spiritual effort for small birds and fish as with deer and big game? What about snails and crabs?

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 1d

#Billionaires have found a new way to extort #money out of people and trap them in #MedicalDebt: #medical #CreditCards.

#scams #AmericanHealthCareIndustry #BigPharma #EatTheRich #anti-capitalist #anti-capitalism #EndAllBillionaries #resist #resistance #leftism

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Billionaire Banks Found a New Way To Trap You In Debt

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 1d

Even though English is my one & only language. #ADHD

Speaking/writing, for me, is often like when you're loading a Power Point presentation & some of the image files won't load, or the text is corrupted into identical squares because the computer forgot where that particular font is stored.

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 1d

My #ADHD #memory issues mean sometimes I sound like #English is my 2nd language, cuz I use the wrong word for something cuz the one I need is hiding, or I'll say something like "the thing with the four pokey thingies," even though the word "fork" is in my permanent memory, & has been since I was 3.

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 1d

My #ADHD #memory issues mean sometimes I sound like #English is my 2nd language, cuz I use the wrong word for something cuz the one I need is hiding, or I'll say something like "the thing with the four pokey thingies," even though the word "fork" is in my permanent memory, & has been since I was 3.

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, duh. Granite is for sure hard enough to drill through wood. The real question would be how to make it easier and faster than grabbing the bare stone and pushing down while trying to turn. Handles, leverage, that sort of thing.