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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · Apr 26

at some point I set this anigif as my bsky profile header image just to see if it would be animated; it wasn't, obviously, but then I just left it there

hoetic kate @poetickate.bsky.social · Apr 26

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

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Dani @daniexists6.bsky.social · 3h

I think it's funnier that someone got this signed by the original Turtles.

the ad from above, but signed by Renee Jacobs (April O'Neil, with a "guess not...", Barry Gordon (Donatello, with a "YEAH RIGHT!"), Townsend Coleman (Michelangelo, with a "Still here!"), Rob Paulsen (Raphael) and Cam Clarke (Leonardo, with a "Crystal Ball, anyone?")

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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 1d

like is this not the same song

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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 1d

Truly Madly Deeply: youtu.be/WQnAxOQxQIU
Green Greens: youtu.be/jSZqwNPxXu8

Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply (Official Video)

YouTube video by SavageGardenVEVO

youtu.be

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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 1d

today I was listening to the 1990s single “Truly Madly Deeply” (Savage Garden) against my will in a Lyft, when a car passed us with a stuffed Kirby plush hanging from its rearview mirror. my brain radio started playing “Green Greens”; it was at that moment I became convinced that a mashup would work

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 1d

Thread on white power dickheads trying to start riots in disguise, because their narrative is empty bullshit.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

increasingly thinking these might be the only ethical scifi novels to write...

Mel G. @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 2d

Accepting recommendations for scifi novels about dismantling the torment nexus

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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 2d

noice

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · May 25

Tina Fey, perhaps best known for her voice work on the 1997 Williams pinball machine Medieval Madness,

upper play field of pinball machine showing plastic castle, ramps, trolls.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 2d

This is a really excellent piece from Emily Writes, about genocide and incitement and political violence and victimhood.
#nzpol

sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 2d

Just leaving this here.

www.emilywrites.co.nz/dogs/

Winston Peters, the victim.

Winston Peters needs you to know that he's a victim. He's a victim. And his dog is a victim. His house is a victim. What he has been through is worse than anything anyone else has ever been through. W...

www.emilywrites.co.nz

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XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 2d

CNN is 🤏🏻 close to publishing a story about the climate impact of allowing disabled people to live.

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 2d

laugh is a weird-looking word

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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 2d

almost 10 years ago I got wildly sick in Copenhagen, and the clinic was SO SORRY they had to charge me *anything* since I was not a citizen. It was $40 and I LAUGHED ’n LAUGHED

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 2d

Take the 5 min. I access everything except slack, the public library, medical device monitor, and email from my browser these days

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day

You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

www.pcmag.com

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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 4d

wow it only took one tap through to see. thanks Chris

Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 4d

this is worse than the bunnies on the trampoline!!!!

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 5d

absolutely brutal

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mikeolds.bsky.social @mikeolds.bsky.social · 5d

I would go with this

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 5d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 5d

me: I just bought a hat that says ‘critic’ on it! I’m going to be *insufferable*

my friend: I already have one that says ‘art critic’. We can wear them together

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Kiyone @kiyonescarlet.bsky.social · 6d

lol

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Duncan Robson @duncanrobson.com · 5d

Warning if you’re thinking of switching to mastodon. This post did well on there

Duncan Robson @duncanrobson.com · 7d

My phone vibrates when I buy European DVDs from my friend the pope

That’s right I can I palpably paypal my papal PAL pal

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 6d

Jesus. I had no idea.

From hyperlinked slate article source: From fiscal years 2005-06 through 2012-13, 144 female inmates were sterilized by a procedure known as a bilateral tubal ligation.
The last of these female inmate sterilizations occurred in 2011.
Although various surgical procedures may result in a female's sterilization, bilateral tubal ligations are generally surgical procedures that are performed for the sole purpose of sterilization, and state regulations impose certain requirements that must be met before such a procedure is performed. However, the state entities responsible for providing medical care to these inmates— Corrections' and the Receiver's Office-sometimes failed to ensure that inmates' consent for sterilization was lawfully obtained.
Overall, we noted that 39 inmates were sterilized following deficiencies in the informed consent process. We found two types of deficiencies. First, we found no evidence that the inmate's physician— the individual who would perform the procedure in a hospital or an alternate physician-signed the consent form as required by state regulations. Second, we noted potential violations of the required waiting period between when the inmate consented

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mcc @dryad.technology · 6d

The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 6d

your reaction gif game continues to astonish

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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 6d

I mean there’s literally nothing wrong with it