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DaBella @highme.org · 18m

fucking extra cooked

Derek Smalls’ Moustache @smallsmoustache.bsky.social · 15h

Asking AI to analyze the cookie you just ate isn’t remotely the same as asking it to answer something supported by 250 years of a well-documented and studied Constitution, written Congressional rules and established precedent.

Maybe try asking AI how AI works.

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DaBella @highme.org · 20m

yeah we're cooked

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Sun Shade ☀︎☂︎ @sunshade.blue · 16h

We cannot truly be at a place where typing into an ai prompt and then reporting back with what the ai said is somehow considered active participation in conversation

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

average portlander meeting an ICE goon in january

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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DaBella @highme.org · 43m

ah, that's fun

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DaBella @highme.org · 47m

I imagine any reduction of airflow on those is going to hamper the efficacy of the costume staying inflated.

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DaBella @highme.org · 49m

Dag, I didn't think it was Portland at first because those cops didn't look right. I saw it included in somebody's wrap up last night and assumed they verified.

Thanks

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Chad Lykins @chadlykins.bsky.social · 3d

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Carol Fenton @cfpdx.bsky.social · 3d

KATU interviewed the guy in the frog costume at Portland ICE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlDR...

Outside the Portland ICE facility amid ongoing protests and the legal battle over the deployment

YouTube video by KATU News

www.youtube.com

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Humanizing Through Story @yourstorymatters.bsky.social · 1d

We’re just $500 away from being able to replace our stolen telephoto lens and repair our damaged 24–70mm lens. These tools are essential for continuing the work of Humanizing Through Story, documenting truth and dignity in the face of injustice.
givebutter.com/ReplaceStole...

Replace Stolen & Damaged Camera Lenses

By Humanizing Through Story

givebutter.com

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 21h

MICE (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) needs volunteers! If you're around Boston and love comics and want to help out in December, you can get more info here (and sign up to volunteer!) www.micexpo.org/volunteer

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DaBella @highme.org · 2h

How much for just the wheels?

Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 3h

See this ~148k-mile 1997 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado RZ listed now on BaT!

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1997-toyota-land-cruiser-prado-90-series-2/

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3h

Johnny Cash performed for prisoners at Folsom Prison. Today’s Nashville country stars would be performing for the ICE agents locking them up.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 19h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 15h

Please read. We have just 10 days to muster the resources to help recent DV survivor Chris & precious 14 y.o. feline Zoe on their journey to a safe new home. DV makes you feel small & worthless. Donations & reposts say to Chris: YOU MATTER. Thanks. 🧡🧡🧡
www.gofundme.com/f/moving-to-...

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 3h

A ball of puffy inflated letters forming five words. Each word is a different color for legibility purposes and streams of color are running out of the letters onto those below and dripping off the roughly spherical mass. The entire thing reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12h

For the people who have guessed that I and @chucktingle.bsky.social are the same person, here are the two of us in the same place at the same time. Two buckaroos proving love is real!

Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 12h

nerds (affectionate)

A picture of two men standing together in a pink lit bar. One is wearing a mask that says “Love Is Real” and a sequin jacket. The other wears an “alpha Male” tshirt in pink with jeans.

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DaBella @highme.org · 14h

Foghorns of mediocrity” is 🤌🏻

Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 14h

After 20 years doing this job, I've come to the conclusion that people who angrily lash out when they find out that some people write things that they don't want to read are truly some of the dreariest, stupidest people you can encounter on social media. Just total foghorns of mediocrity

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine starting from the premise "Johnny Cash was uncool" and then not only going on to write another thousand fucking words about it, but being allowed to put it in the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 19h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 15h

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 17h

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything by AI. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed with AI, or buy anything sold or processed with AI, or process anything sold, bought, or processed by AI, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed by AI.

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t want to generate or receive an email, document, manuscript, PowerPoint deck, post it note, grocery list, novel, film, or hit list that has been generated with AI.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18h

I write because I love writing. I love writing even when I'm struggling with a writing problem that is killing me. Finding a way through that problem is both intensely rewarding and also helps me become a better writer. There is no reason for me to ever outsource that.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 16h

#MSH45 | Richard Lasher
You've been at a job long enough to know a decent colleague to chat with.

The more you get to know them, the more they share. What's fact or fiction? You don't know, but you listen.

Then there's one story that's so over the top—a bona fide lie. But then, a photo appears.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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James Benton @jamesbenton.bsky.social · 17h

My new protest tactic would be “therapists for justice”. Just walk up and ask ICE probing questions.

When did your dad hug you?
If you could say anything to your mom, what would it be?
When you were a kid, who was your male role model?
Do you think any woman has truly understood you?

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DaBella @highme.org · 16h

lol whut

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 17h

There's no sci-fi dystopia as bleak as millions of people taking advice about pregnancy from Donald Trump.

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Dutch Pendergrass @dutchpendergrass.bsky.social · 20h

Fascism got you down? Ask your doctor if drugs and alcohol are right for you.

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