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Lwaxana’s Earring

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Klingon boob windows are an under-utilised fashion statement. All Trek is good Trek. Can we try an alternate reality, maybe? she/they 🌈 Bundjalung Country.

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Lwaxana’s Earring @sacredrixx.bsky.social · Dec 11

“A box? For me? You shouldn’t have. And it’s the perfect fit!”

Image shows a box sitting on grey tiles. Inside the box is a tabby cat. Mainly the head of the cat is visible and she is looking at the camera.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 5h

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 14h

For newer users of BlueSky, please alt-text your images. It helps people who use screen-readers or who have slow internet connections understand the image you've uploaded. Make the web accessible.

I rarely reshare images without alt-text & I know others do the same. Alt-text your images for reach

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 11h

Here's a great Shot debut from David Rayfield. "Writing has nothing to fear from AI – just from those who support it"

Writing has nothing to fear from AI - just from those who support it - The Shot

“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text,” said Facebook VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, in a...

theshot.net.au

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 18h

Upload your scanned ID they said. It will be fine they said.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a brilliant article.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 4d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 2d

Good morning.

#BOTD #filmsky #moviesky

A blond woman wearing a futuristic red and grey uniform is seated at a spaceship console. She's turned toward the camera, smiling a big, happy smile.
Sigourney Weaver, born on this day in 1949, as Gwen Demarco in a scene from the film GALAXY QUEST (1999)

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Filmsky moviesky MOVIES films botd happy birthday Hollywood legends sexy actor actress star comedy action science fiction sci-fi 90s

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No Context Earl Grey @frames.earlgreymemes.club · 2d

TNG; "Relics"; Geordi La Forge getting mad at someone off screen, with caption: I've tried to be patient, I've tried to be polite.

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Lwaxana’s Earring @sacredrixx.bsky.social · 2d

This is very good and well worth your time. A cartoonist’s take on AI art from The Oatmeal.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Lwaxana’s Earring @sacredrixx.bsky.social · 4d

Australians.

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No Context Earl Grey @frames.earlgreymemes.club · 6d

TNG; "Parallels"; an #iconic shot of alternate Riker from the Borg-stricken universe on the Enterprise view screen; his beard is Fallout survivalist style and his signal is filled with static; Worf is working the tactical station behind him

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Lwaxana’s Earring @sacredrixx.bsky.social · 4d

It’s definitely worse whenever someone is watching.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 10d

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

But a still graver scandal of AI— like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency-is the technology's colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole—and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays.
Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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Lwaxana’s Earring @sacredrixx.bsky.social · 6d

Ugh.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 7d

It’s just so weird to me how people just see art as a product and not a tool of human connection and communication. Like that’s the whole fucking point.

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Lwaxana’s Earring @sacredrixx.bsky.social · 7d

Nice!

Lwaxana’s Earring @sacredrixx.bsky.social · 9d

Creeque

Dave Cactus @davecactus.bsky.social · 9d

Alley

🎃punkin spice spooky geist💀 @pretty-vulgar.bsky.social · 9d

Oop.

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Lwaxana’s Earring @sacredrixx.bsky.social · 9d

One of the free to air channels is playing it. It might be available on their streaming service. Maybe 7…

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 11d

Give ICE the respect they deserve.

[Sound on 🔊]

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 14d

Here's me. "The Yanks are cooked (and cooking the rest of us)"

The Yanks are cooked (and cooking the rest of us) - The Shot

American authoritarianism is an echo of tyrants’ past and its own unique perversion: shrouded in goldleaf, ski masks, and utter bullshit.

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 13d

"Robo-debt was a spivvy, slick, slogan-driven lazy shortcut. It was illegal; it ignored due process; and it didn’t save money. Its costs are still growing. It spat on Australians.
The new welfare cop beat up everyone it saw, rorted the payroll, cost billions in compo and left its own unpaid debt."