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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 6h

This is why no one should trust an Israeli ceasefire.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: Palestinians moving back towards Gaza City are being fired upon.

Israeli forces say the ceasefire does not exist until the government votes for it.

At least 8 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 18h

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 7h

1979-03-04 C1635740 OV - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/2kwVG77

A white oval sits adjacent to a turbulent area in Jupiter's South Temperate Zone, in this two-frame mosaic from March 4, 1979 (courtesy of #Voyager1).

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 9h

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 11h

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Disabled Persons Assembly NZ @dpanz.bsky.social · 6d

Disabled Māori face higher rates of hardship, poor health, and exclusion. Huhana Hickey calls it what it is: poverty by design.

‘Poverty in Aotearoa is not accidental’: How our systems deliberately keep people poor

All of this is avoidable – so how do we fix what's broken?

thespinoff.co.nz

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 7h

I’m sure it’s helping these babies but

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 7h

I think we need to go back to basics. If my phone rings, I pick it up and say "hello?" Then you respond, "hello, can speak to" or "hi, it's [insert name here] or "hello am I speaking to..."

You do not respond with "hello?" which results in us saying "hello?" 12 times for I say WHO THE HELL ARE YOU

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 16h

#nzpol

GOOD NEWS ALERT 🚨

Today the government relented to pressure from the @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social and retained the requirement for contracted workers to be paid at least the Living Wage rate in Government Contracts. Around 5,000 workers will likely benefit from this decision

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20h

this is not a bug, it is a feature

all of these companies have a fucking platform. that's because they are trying to replace direct human-human relationships with mediated human-platform-human transactions

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 9h

"Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right."

#OnThisDay, 9 Oct 2012, Malala Yousafzai survives an assassination attempt by the Taliban. She continues to campaign for education for girls and women.

A teenage Malala speaking before the attempt on her life.

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🎂 Sydney Screams 🎉 BIRTHDAY MONTH @sydneyscreams4u.bsky.social · 22h

porn is not evil.
sex is not evil.
pleasure is not evil.
kink is not evil.

none of them are things to feel shame or embarrassment about.

none of them deserve the heavy-handed censorship that they're facing.

resist oppression (even if you don't partake in what is being oppressed)

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 10h

Almost every paper for my degree was started between 12am and 3am the day it was due. Top marks each time.
Slop can foad.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 15h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 11h

Make the healthcare system shit enough and it will solve your super problem.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 17h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14h

This is important.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 17h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 11h

In addition to the other excellent replies about collectivism and evidence, a singular thing an individual can do is push back against sexism and racism when you encounter it in everyday life.

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 22h

Junk as in it doesn’t last. Shein sattelites.

They stuff up astronomers too.

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 1d

Same for NZ. #nzpol

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2d

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

www.spiegel.de

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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 2d

14 years ago Paul Callaghan gave this talk. It leaned in to the idea of making Aotearoa New Zealand a place where talented people wanted to live. Our government is hell bent on doing the opposite.
@nzscientists.bsky.social
#NZPOL

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 1d

Before you diagnose yourself with depression check to make sure that you’re not simply surrounded by arseholes.

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 1d

IDK I think an oppressive patriarchal culture might have more to do with it.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Health Rounds: Genetics play a role in higher depression risk for women reut.rs/4h4G2An

Health Rounds: Genetics play a role in higher depression risk for women

Genetic factors contribute more to depression risk in females than in males, according to a large Australian study that may help further understanding of why women are more likely to suffer from the condition.

reut.rs

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 1d

Add this to the child slavery. Nestle sucks.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions reut.rs/4h4mgoA

Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions

Food group Nestle said on Wednesday it had withdrawn from a global alliance for cutting methane emissions that aims to reduce the impact of dairy farming on global warming.

reut.rs

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

In principle, this might actually work if the blower is strong enough.

🦇Klovar🦇 @klovar.cc · 1d

place the chemical warfare filter on the frog air intake

BECOME UNSTOPPABLE

adult inflate frog costume with air intake

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 1d

Hi. I dont post often about raising funds because its frankly humiliating having to always beg, but if you can spare some bucks, bills are kicking my ass and im on 35% of minimum wage and falling. Help is appreciated. Share if you cant help.

Support Hiding from plagues

ko-fi.com

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 1d

Junk

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

earthsky.org

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