Hello darkness my old friend 🌃
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Dora. She/her/ella, 34. ♌🇩🇴 Baking. Fandom. Feminism. Free 🇵🇸. Latine issues. Lingerie. ML. 🏳️🌈 issues 🚫 TERF/SWERF. Writing.
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I'm back! With a brand-new fic :D
Written for the @anomalousrpbang.bsky.social with art by Sassy_Babe
🍊⚔️ Broken Edge of a Dream: archiveofourown.org/works/66217504
[Nami/Zoro | 7K | 3/3 Chapters]
Set during the Aqua Laguna and inspired by Langston Hughes' poem, Return to the Sea
Written for the @anomalousrpbang.bsky.social with art by Sassy_Babe
🍊⚔️ Broken Edge of a Dream: archiveofourown.org/works/66217504
[Nami/Zoro | 7K | 3/3 Chapters]
Set during the Aqua Laguna and inspired by Langston Hughes' poem, Return to the Sea
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Writing about people donating trash is — and I kid you not — the only thing (so far) to almost get me fired. White people were LIVID. And organized to get my university fired for it.
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
I had a womens studies professor try to coax a class to understand that it’s not ’wrong’ for an alcoholic homeless person to take your change you tossed and spend it on alcohol. People were livid lol. It really changed my perspective on giving. its freeing to give without expectation.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Writing about people donating trash is — and I kid you not — the only thing (so far) to almost get me fired. White people were LIVID. And organized to get my university fired for it.
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
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Butlerian Jihad now.
Sure sure you might say that my client's knife "caused" the victim to stop being able to pump blood to their brain, but Hume's 𝘌𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 really makes it clear that we should all have some reasonable doubt about the concept of "causation"
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Butlerian Jihad now.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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i love our brazilian cousins very much LMAO
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
i love our brazilian cousins very much LMAO
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Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
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Part of what we lost when newsrooms shifted from dedicated beat reporters to freelancers is the ability to push back/question.
News sites uncritically reprint marketing and propaganda, lending it authority it doesn't deserve and actively contributing to misinformation.
As with Elon, so with Sam.
News sites uncritically reprint marketing and propaganda, lending it authority it doesn't deserve and actively contributing to misinformation.
As with Elon, so with Sam.
Exclusive: OpenAI has projected 220 million people will be paying for a basic ChatGPT subscription by 2030 as it follows Slack’s and Spotify’s business playbook.
Read more from Sri Muppidi 👇
https://thein.fo/4insfpg
Read more from Sri Muppidi 👇
https://thein.fo/4insfpg
OpenAI Projected at Least 220 Million People Will Pay for ChatGPT by 2030
To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used to increase paid users. It’s hooking up most of its users—which now number more than 800 million—with ...
thein.fo
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Part of what we lost when newsrooms shifted from dedicated beat reporters to freelancers is the ability to push back/question.
News sites uncritically reprint marketing and propaganda, lending it authority it doesn't deserve and actively contributing to misinformation.
As with Elon, so with Sam.
News sites uncritically reprint marketing and propaganda, lending it authority it doesn't deserve and actively contributing to misinformation.
As with Elon, so with Sam.
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We need your help. Because 404 Media uses Ghost (a privacy-forward stack) we don't know much about our readers. Do they find us through articles, or podcasts? Are readers on Bluesky, Mastodon, both? Please fill this out to help us grow sustainably, it takes 1 min! www.404media.co/please-pleas...
Please, please do our reader survey
It'll take just a minute and help 404 Media figure out how to grow sustainably.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We need your help. Because 404 Media uses Ghost (a privacy-forward stack) we don't know much about our readers. Do they find us through articles, or podcasts? Are readers on Bluesky, Mastodon, both? Please fill this out to help us grow sustainably, it takes 1 min! www.404media.co/please-pleas...
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X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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For @404media.co this morning: a group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild. And I got to see it.
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
For @404media.co this morning: a group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild. And I got to see it.
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
I'm back! With a brand-new fic :D
Written for the @anomalousrpbang.bsky.social with art by Sassy_Babe
🍊⚔️ Broken Edge of a Dream: archiveofourown.org/works/66217504
[Nami/Zoro | 7K | 3/3 Chapters]
Set during the Aqua Laguna and inspired by Langston Hughes' poem, Return to the Sea
Written for the @anomalousrpbang.bsky.social with art by Sassy_Babe
🍊⚔️ Broken Edge of a Dream: archiveofourown.org/works/66217504
[Nami/Zoro | 7K | 3/3 Chapters]
Set during the Aqua Laguna and inspired by Langston Hughes' poem, Return to the Sea
archiveofourown.org
June 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I'm back! With a brand-new fic :D
Written for the @anomalousrpbang.bsky.social with art by Sassy_Babe
🍊⚔️ Broken Edge of a Dream: archiveofourown.org/works/66217504
[Nami/Zoro | 7K | 3/3 Chapters]
Set during the Aqua Laguna and inspired by Langston Hughes' poem, Return to the Sea
Written for the @anomalousrpbang.bsky.social with art by Sassy_Babe
🍊⚔️ Broken Edge of a Dream: archiveofourown.org/works/66217504
[Nami/Zoro | 7K | 3/3 Chapters]
Set during the Aqua Laguna and inspired by Langston Hughes' poem, Return to the Sea
Only on Staten Island smh
Apparently one GameStop store used a stapler to attach receipts to Switch 2 boxes and the staple ruined the screen...another person commented their unit and others were affected at the same store www.reddit.com/r/GameStop/c...
June 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Only on Staten Island smh
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I’m so grateful to St. George’s Episcopal Church in Bed-Stuy and Church of the Open Door in Downtown Brooklyn for inviting me to join your beautiful services this Sunday morning.
June 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I’m so grateful to St. George’s Episcopal Church in Bed-Stuy and Church of the Open Door in Downtown Brooklyn for inviting me to join your beautiful services this Sunday morning.
Happy #CaribbeanAmericanHeritageMonth to the beautiful people of the Caribbean and in the diaspora 🇦🇮🇦🇬🇦🇼🇧🇸🇧🇧🇧🇲🇻🇬🇨🇺🇨🇼🇩🇲🇩🇴🇬🇩🇬🇵🇭🇹🇯🇲🇲🇶🇲🇸🇵🇷🇧🇱🇰🇳🇱🇨🇲🇫🇻🇨🇸🇽🇹🇹🇹🇨🇻🇮
June 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Happy #CaribbeanAmericanHeritageMonth to the beautiful people of the Caribbean and in the diaspora 🇦🇮🇦🇬🇦🇼🇧🇸🇧🇧🇧🇲🇻🇬🇨🇺🇨🇼🇩🇲🇩🇴🇬🇩🇬🇵🇭🇹🇯🇲🇲🇶🇲🇸🇵🇷🇧🇱🇰🇳🇱🇨🇲🇫🇻🇨🇸🇽🇹🇹🇹🇨🇻🇮
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The calculus the government is making that more diseases spreading should mean less vaccines & less funding for medical research?
a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical formula .
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical formula .
media.tenor.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The calculus the government is making that more diseases spreading should mean less vaccines & less funding for medical research?
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In 2023, three states passed laws to prevent utilities from charging customers for lobbying, advertising, and other political influence activities. Customers have already saved hundreds of thousands of dollars.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...
Colorado and Connecticut lowered utility bills by reining in lobbying
A handful of other states have introduced similar legislation with the aim of saving ratepayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
www.canarymedia.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In 2023, three states passed laws to prevent utilities from charging customers for lobbying, advertising, and other political influence activities. Customers have already saved hundreds of thousands of dollars.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...
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How’d I miss this? “It’s Denali,” says @lisamurkowski.bsky.social
www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...
www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...
Murkowski: “It’s Denali.” | U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
www.murkowski.senate.gov
February 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
How’d I miss this? “It’s Denali,” says @lisamurkowski.bsky.social
www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...
www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...
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A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves.
For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.
A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.
www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...
For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.
A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.
www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...
Port: It's not just about kids, and it's not just libraries
Legislation under consideration in Bismarck wouldn't just restrict access to books in schools and libraries. The language of the bill also applies to private book stores.
www.inforum.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves.
For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.
A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.
www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...
For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.
A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.
www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...
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It took me years to admit to myself (and others) that I was disabled. My disabilities are invisible & I used a tremendous amount of energy keeping them hidden
Ableism is powerful, and internalized ableism is a difficult thing to wrestle with
If society were more inclusive, we wouldn’t be so scared
Ableism is powerful, and internalized ableism is a difficult thing to wrestle with
If society were more inclusive, we wouldn’t be so scared
February 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
It took me years to admit to myself (and others) that I was disabled. My disabilities are invisible & I used a tremendous amount of energy keeping them hidden
Ableism is powerful, and internalized ableism is a difficult thing to wrestle with
If society were more inclusive, we wouldn’t be so scared
Ableism is powerful, and internalized ableism is a difficult thing to wrestle with
If society were more inclusive, we wouldn’t be so scared
The American Medical Association is truly a villain
February 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The American Medical Association is truly a villain
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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
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Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit.
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
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January 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit.
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...