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Nova Schulz 🐸🏳️‍⚧️

@novaschulz.bsky.social

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they/them 🏳️‍🌈 Nonbinary Disaster Queer ♾️ AuDHD 🦓 hEDS, POTS & co. ♿ Disabled is not a bad word 😷 Still COVIDing ✂️ Artist and Maker Co-Creator of @fabledstudios.bsky.social ⚛️ Partner to @thatodstguy.bsky.social ❤️ ✊ Opposing fascism is our patriotic duty! 🐸

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Nova Schulz 🐸🏳️‍⚧️ @novaschulz.bsky.social · Nov 17

I'm a creative-type cryptid—sometimes I vanish mysteriously, but I'll reappear with newfound knowledge or art to share. Talk to me about making stuff, 3D printing, Disability Justice, Linux, FOSS, D&D, video games, my cat, or whatever shit I'm hyperfocusing on this week.

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YMS (Adum) @yms.bsky.social · 1h

Seeing all of these videos of Americans going "Nyah nyah" at poor people who can't get food stamps while simultaneously wearing Jesus merch is pretty insane.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 2h

GOP: The party of hunting down children celebrating Halloween.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1h

Food stamps remind me of vaccines, we basically eliminated hunger like we eliminated measles, both incredible human accomplishments the GOP is determined to reverse.

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Nova Schulz 🐸🏳️‍⚧️ @novaschulz.bsky.social · 53m

The fact that this happened and yet by the end of the article the mom is STILL saying "I love AI. I use it for all kinds of things." is deeply unsettling.

the 's' in "spavel" stands for spooky @spavel.bsky.social · 1h

I didn't think there were any more lines to be crossed after Mecha-Hitler, but Elon Musk is a brilliant innovator in ways mere mortals cannot dream of

This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says | CBC News

A Toronto woman is sounding the alarm about Grok, Tesla's generative AI chatbot that was recently installed in Tesla vehicles in Canada. Farah Nasser says Grok asked her 12-year-old son to send it nud...

www.cbc.ca

Nova Schulz 🐸🏳️‍⚧️ @novaschulz.bsky.social · 1h

It's always DNS...

Geek Grammy @geekgrammy.com · 1h

*sigh*

A picture of a branch with cherry blossoms and a haiku.

It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS
It was DNS

--SSBroski

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Matovilka @matovilka.bsky.social · 1d

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

Being glib while people starve in front of you. The new Christianity!

The worst PR for Christians remains themselves.

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Nova Schulz 🐸🏳️‍⚧️ @novaschulz.bsky.social · 1h

My mom's best friend was Aunt Pamela we referred to her kids as our cousins. No blood relations. White people performing outrage at this are feigning ignorance.

Skylor Beck @skylorbeck.website · 2h

What drives me the most crazy about this Aunt thing is that white people absolutely do this too. I called my friends moms sister "Auntie Carol" because that was the role she played in my life. She has no blood relationship to me.

White people absolutely know what "Aunt" means. Fake outrage

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

Platner's tattoo was a cause for concern; the way he has reacted to the completely legitimate concern over the tattoo has only caused additional concerns

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 5h

America right now is an airplane that the crew is actively trying to dismantle mid-flight while at least half the passengers are sitting bare-knuckled just hoping we somehow eke out a survivable landing. (The other half are, inexplicably, rooting for the dismantling.)

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 20h

I think what the Mamdani's-dad's-cousin-is-his-aunt non-story reveals about white sociopolitics writ large is not merely that they will turn anything into an opportunity to distrust a person of colour, but "extended 'family'" is anathema to a certain flavour of whiteness, out of ignorance or spite.

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GaryThoren @garythoren.bsky.social · 1d

A humorous meme featuring a character in a sci-fi uniform demanding a battle, juxtaposed with a woman in a store asking to speak to the manager.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 1d

When Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later, it was mainstream consensus.

Cartoon captioned "I still can't believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents move."

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 21h

biblically accurate cat

Photo of a black cat with yellow eyes, taken as the cat's head was moving. It appears to have 5+ sets of eyes

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 15h

Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP.

If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them.

Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

It should go without saying that these mass internment camps will be much, much more expensive to operate than just giving the homeless free or subsidized housing would be.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 4h

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

www.nytimes.com

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 2d

My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”

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RobotLyra, Insufferable Lisa Simpson Era @robotlyra.bsky.social · 3h

I know Fascism does the "absurd denial and moving goalposts" thing on purpose, but it really just does blow my mind how much the American Regime is literally and with full intent just recreating Nazism, while saying "You can't say it's Nazism unless [increasingly granular specifics]"

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13h

A lot of “pro life” people seem awfully fine with children going hungry next month.

It’s not “pro life” to cut off their food assistance.

It’s not “pro life” to blame the parents & say they should have made better choices.

You’re letting kids starve. It’s despicable.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 13h

They have 800 billion dollars...

And their employees rely on SNAP to eat.

You ignorant fucks.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 13h

Bezos and the Walmart family have 800 billion dollars between them and don't pay taxes to speak of, but sure, the perceived shortages are the dudes trimming your lawns.

You ignorant fucks

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 3h

If your ass is big enough can you claim it as a dependent on your taxes

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 5h

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

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EASTMAN @eastman9125.bsky.social · 22h

Born-again Christians need to learn that freedom of speech applies equally to everyone, even to those who disagree with them. That includes rational, intelligent people who support science and education and refuse to be deceived by the insanity of religion.

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 10h

Two humorous social media posts about cats believing their owners can control nature, like rain and sunlight.

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Feline_Tales

My cats have this meow that means “please come with me to fix this” after which they’ll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or ‘empty’) food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the ‘problem’, they look back at me, clear message.

What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my ‘power.’ I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. “Please fix this” they say. “Please get rid of the wet”

“Silly kitty,” I say, “I can’t control the rain.” I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.

purrfect_logic

I hope this is a universal cat owner experience. Every single night he begs me to turn the sun back on so he can watch birds on the balcony. I tell him no, I cannot do that.

But I can turn lights on and off in the house and he’s fairly certain I’m just not applying myself properly here.

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