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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 12h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Dianthus @diandianthus.bsky.social · 1d

Ever wondered what stories are being told elsewhere? Help us raise funds to translate non-colonial African languages books into English!

https://ko-fi.com/africantranslationproject

You can check their art shop for my zine! You can even donate your own art to the shop! Any reblog helps too!

Image description: A book opens to blooming flowers. Text reads, "The African Translation Project. Donate money or a flash-scope creative piece to raise fund for global fiction and African voices", followed by the URL the post links to. The graphics is in the colors of the South African flag, which are black, green, red, yellow and white.

Fern, various leaves and abstract graphics in soothing indigo, green and white. The text reads: "Slow growth, or 10 ways I cope. A zine on the subject of self-care", followed by the URL the image links to.

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🌑 Selene 🌑 @nightwandererart.bsky.social · 1d

My versions of illustrations originally made by Kay Nielsen for East of the Sun and West of the Moon.

From 2024.

ink + watercolour + coloured pencils

#art #darkfantasy #kaynielsen #illustration #traditionalart

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Ouroridae | Springeddon>Brisnova>Comic Fiesta @ouroridae.bsky.social · 1d

Aphrodite fanart but from the second game this time!

[ #hades #hades2 #art ]

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 18h

Ho. Ly.

If there ever was an ad for changing browsers and having trackers/adblocker extensions, this would be it.

I genuinely don't comprehend how people rawdog the internet.

Luc @aura.dog · Aug 16

Chrome's adblock dying has really just shown how bad ads have gotten now huh

This appeared and fullscreened my window, hid my cursor, for clicking on a youtube download link lol

old people are just not built to handle this

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Dave Manson @coachmanson.bsky.social · 19h

Please share widely.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19h

Corporate media has completely ignored that since January, the number of 287g agreements between ICE & local police has gone up nearly 4X. We need to repeal these.

I'm a human rights lawyer. I wrote this piece on how to protect ourselves from ICE fascists.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...

How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids

Answering common FAQs on countering ICE raids, and providing 7 meaningful ways to better protect our immigrant and undocumented neighbors

www.qasimrashid.com

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 11d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 20h

have said before but my old coworker who was an mis director and a superintendent had a saying: two groups you never want to piss off - (1) old ladies in sneakers with nothing but time and (2) parents of students with disabilities

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21h

Hey, Sydette needs help. She is one of the people who makes the world brighter and better simply by existing. If you have the capacity, please consider dropping her what you can.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 23h

Paraphrasing something I think I remember @shaunvids.bsky.social saying: "They once made an identity of their hobby, but aren't enjoying it like they used to, so they want to believe it's because somebody's making their hobby worse, not because they themselves changed."

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 23h

That's what really bothers me, those fashy youtubers do such a disservice to their audiences, and it works because in keeping them angry and feeding them new nontroversies with their outrage content mills, they're keeping them engaged. But it's doing something lamentable to them in the process.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

.. right now the Fediverse just reads like a bunch of people using “community” to avoid their glee at a fractured media space because it will help their newsletter subscriptions and marketing plans

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I have real worries about that kind of segmentation because it can be really hard to prove a negative. how do you track what voices you’re NOT hearing? any amount of slicing and dicing platforms by interest or affinity or group feels like losing what was good about when Twitter was good

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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 23h

If there is really no alternative to closer defence integration - no capacity for choice, in other words - as all quoted experts seem to suggest, then this begs a more fundamental question that calls for an honest, broad public discourse:

To what extent is Canada still a "sovereign" state?

Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 1d

My naive wish is that even one Canadian journalist, one politician, one security analyst, would address the implications of Canada choosing military integration with an authoritarian power that no longer respects the rule of law or international law.
Looks like that’s not going to happen today.

Golden Dome signals change to Canada’s long-time opposition to joining U.S. missile defence

Canada opted to stay on the sidelines in 2005 as the U.S. developed defences against ballistic missiles

www.theglobeandmail.com

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˚ʚ Belle ɞ˚ @ working too damn much @torrent-empress.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know who needs to hear this but:

PLEASE REMEMBER CLIP STUDIO HAS A HAND SCANNER THAT WILL REPLICATE A HAND 3D MODEL TO YOUR HAND'S POSITION.

DON'T SUFFER IN SILENCE TRYING TO DRAW THAT HAND POSE

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

but since i’m not a ghoul who only cares about elections, the thing here that made me cry is that it seems to have a genuine “actually not only are trans people not a threat, they’re pretty amazing” vibe that i don’t think i’ve seen in a big campaign before & it isn’t a condescending “wow so brave.”

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland with the words you 're welcome

Alt: Alice from the Disney Alice in Wonderland curtseying. Caption reads, "You're welcome."

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine using Meta’s AI in educational contexts or having it integrated into edtech products. When it’s overseen by MAGA representatives like this, imagine asking it what Antifa means, if there is a relationship is between race and IQ or what is causing climate change.

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Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 1d

Pilot for a new Netflix reality show: a truck full of beautiful women pulls up and gives you a makeover, ZZ Top materializes out of thin air and gives you the truck, then they enlist some friendly bikers to beat up your bullies www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDc...

ZZ Top - Legs (Official Music Video) [HD Remaster]

YouTube video by RHINO

www.youtube.com

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

They're going to gut their labor costs in a fool's errand to save their investments before it's completely kaput.

Rough times ahead for lots of people who have no working definition of rough *as well as* the rest of us.

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

We have decades of evidence that regularly repeating statements that "ironically" borrow from the language of bigotry and apply it to inapposite targets genuinely do alter the taboo threshold at which the speaker both believes in and is willing to express bigotry against actual marginalized groups!

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I reported it as disinformation.

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