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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 5h

Katie Wilson: clean, accessible, and safe bathrooms!

Bruce Harrell: talk to the 10-foot AI hallucination wall!

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 6h

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 14h

Nobody encouraged me.
School education had nothing.
If anything, everything was saying how horrible being trans is.

I’m still trans.
I still transitioned.

I’m still mourning the years I lost because I didn’t know it was an option. I hate the society that hid this from me.

Fuck transphobes.

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 15h

‘Section 28 2.0’: New “transphobic” curriculum restricts teachers from encouraging Trans+ pupils to understand their identity 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/

RSE guidance is “patently and cruelly transphobic” - community responds to ‘Section 28 2.0’ curriculum

It has taken a "trans exclusionary" approach and received widespread condemnation from the LGBTQIA+ community

www.wearequeeraf.com

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JR Mayer @jrmayer.bsky.social · 1d

Now I finally understand the "Seattle Process" - it's just extra innings!

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Katie Campbell, KUOW @katiecampbell.bsky.social · 1d

HUSKY STADIUM HAS HIT ITS STREAMING LIMIT IM NOT EVEN JOKING! Everyone is running to the nearest location!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

New England can only dream of California’s bold “eat my ass and hair” approach to rich sociopaths trying to keep people off the state’s 100% public beaches.

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 2d

HAHAHAHAHAHA get fucked you rich asshole

Carlsbad homeowner ordered to remove private gate to public beach, fined $1.4 million

John Levy was penalized by state Coastal Commission for a string of Coastal Act violations stretching back years

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 2d

(I hate irregardless so much omg.)

a man in a star trek uniform is making a funny face and raising his hands in the air .

ALT: a man in a star trek uniform is making a funny face and raising his hands in the air .

media.tenor.com

Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 2d

Irregardless, if enough people say 'PRY-mer', they'll have to note it in the dictionary.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 2d

US cities: take note

Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 2d

The head of Vancouver’s transit agency can sum its ridership recovery in one word: Frequency.

“Running the bus every 30 minutes isn’t going to cut it if you want to grow ridership.“

Many Vancouver 🚌 run every 5min or less, and the SkyTrain runs every 3-4min, via @davidzipper.bsky.social

The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery

The Canadian city’s transit agency, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why riders returned.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that AI "wouldn't have to be good at making decisions...It merely has to be considered a plausible competitor to human decision-making long enough to dislodge the existing human decision-makers" has some overlap with this from @spavel.bsky.social uxdesign.cc/the-fastest-...

The fastest gun in UX: Why your team is telling the wrong story

Designers are skipping steps of the process in a rush for faster outputs. But the contest that really matters is the race towards…

uxdesign.cc

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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 2d

"the tech industry's weakness is that it has never understood the emotional and social complexity of actual human beings." www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press

DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.

www.techpolicy.press

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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 2d

"the median price of an electric bus bought by a
US transit agency in 2024 was $1.1 million."

www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...

www.brookings.edu

Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 2d

You can see it in context here: www.balmuda.com/lovefrom-bal...

(and also buy a $4800 Jony Ive-designed sailing lantern if that is your thing.)

Sailing Lantern | LoveFrom, BALMUDA

Sir Jony Ive（サー・ジョニー・アイブ）率いるLoveFromとバルミューダのコラボレーションにより誕生した、特別なLEDランタン「Sailing Lantern」

www.balmuda.com

Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 2d

y tho?

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 3d

Another image from this summer Greenland adventures, this time during a moody day with a bit of fog, and the signature red sails.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 3d

Not that it isn't completely worth missing in the first place...

@nonesrex.bsky.social posted 53 minutes before this screencap was taken:

Wrong. Obama had the military oath changed. They pledge allegience to the President as well as the Constitution now. None of them know a think about the Constitution so they just blindly obey the President.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

I can never find any of my shit because Download, Picture, and Document are far from mutually exclusive categories. Putting everything on Desktop just always works.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

whew. that took a while! but it looks like i'm done! all blobbed up in blobtown!

screenshot of a notice that says "You are good to go! You have all 4131 of the expected 3669 blobs. You're done!!"

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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 4d

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you Del Taco quesadillas with no green sauce.

strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 4d

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 4d

Just in case:
mastodon.cloud/@speightscraft
#fuckaas

speightscraft (@[email protected])

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mastodon.cloud

Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 4d

Got a couple of these today. Block and report.

Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 4d

Respectfully, text scammers, you really need to try a little harder.

A screenshot of a text message that reads "Can you donate to get college students pizza on October 18, No Kings Day?"

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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 4d

#Bloomscrolling #FloralPhotography #Flowers #PNW #NoFilter

Image of an orange rose in a garden with manicured grass. Trees in the background, some of which are just starting to change color for Fall. The cloudless sky is bright blue.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 5d

Tapping the sign.

It's easy to mistake the polish of a prototype for the quality of the idea

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 6d

this is beautiful. we outnumber them by thousands to one.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 6d

Went Maximum Fall™ with @reamimator.bsky.social. Pumpkin patch. Corn maze. Apple cider donuts.

View of a pumpkin patch with orange pumpkins in the foreground and a cluster of trees on a hill in the background below perfectly blue Autumn skies.

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