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Tom K

@gctom.bsky.social

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Elementary school teacher. Cognitive science and how brains learn. Baltimore Orioles

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Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · Feb 15

"Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."

Does this even matter?

6/20

#BookSky #20BookChallenge

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 23h

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Midge @midge.bsky.social · 1d

People over 40 watching birds at the bird feeder

Picture of a crowd going wild with enthusiasm

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Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 1d

They’re all obsessed with children and their private parts it’s fucking disgusting

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 1d

He’s definitely made the proof that he’s a dangerous moron

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 1d

The fact that these people just say their plans out loud—"to make the proof," "taking away freedom of speech"—somehow inoculates them. It allows some people to hear it amid all the other craziness and just move on.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 2d

🦋BUTTERFLIES🐛

Sonyō-in (尊陽院), a sub-temple of Honpō-ji (本法寺), has a rather stunning ceiling.

not yet a butterfly
even as autumn passes
the caterpillar
秋を経て蝶もなめるや菊の露
-Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉)
Trans. Reichhold.

#Japan #butterflies #蝶々 #Kyoto

Sonyo-in's sumptuous coffered ceiling features paintings of flowers and butterflies on a gilded background.

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 2d

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Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 2d

She goes to different school

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Dec 2

90 years ago, prominent German physicist Albert Einstein, artist Kathe Kollwitz, writer Heinrich Mann, & others appealed for a unity coalition against the Nazi Party in coming elections.

United the other parties could narrowly win. Divided Hitler would win. The opposition didn't unite.

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Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 2d

That’s why the Orioles traded his bitch ass lol

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Zeboyd Digital Entertainment @zeboydgames.bsky.social · Jul 10

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you.

They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 3d

I hope this is right and I would be extremely happy to eat my words and be wrong if in two years we look back on this and realize it's wrong.

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 3d

Contrarian point: it's really bad but at the same time US political media is already so in the tank for trump that I don't know how much this moves the needle. If anything weiss is so incompetent and unqualified that maybe it ends up just discrediting mainstream coverage that's already not adequate

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 3d

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 3d

We are in late-stage authoritarian media takeover.

Fox and CNN are owned/controlled by rightwing billionaires.
Twitter and Truth Social
WSJ and WaPo
CBS and ABC
Newsweek, Sinclair, now Tegna; TikTok getting close.

We are far along in the Putin-mold media takeover plan.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 3d

this is an extremely high priority.

“Murdoch Fox” and “Ellison CBS” should be said by every Democratic politician at least once per day.

Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 3d

It's incumbent upon the Democratic Party to educate the public on why CBS news is not to be trusted anymore.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d

The imperial presidency, created by both parties since WWII must be dismantled. Every one of the aircraft carrier-sized loopholes enabling the POTUS to act as a Mad King by waving his hands & invoking “national emergency” etc. must be closed. Democracy requires it.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

All of these excesses can be reined in, if not entirely eliminated, by Congress—or at least by a Congress not under Donald Trump’s thumb. All it needs is the wisdom to recognize its own crucial role in creating this problem.

Reining in Rogue Presidents

How ambiguities in the law gave Trump power he could seize—and what a future Congress can do about it.

www.thebulwark.com

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 3d

If an autistic person “seems fine,” ask what it took for us to appear that way. Masking isn’t thriving it’s surviving in a world that punishes difference 👌🏽

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3d

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Firing RFK Jr. Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Drew @4484.cool · Feb 25

When you see this guy going around town in his little car, do what I do and say "From one lowly worm to another, keep on truckin', brother!" - Drew4484