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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 41m

the fact he sounds exactly like you'd expect a stuffed frog to sound is why this is the rightful winner

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Char @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 1h

It all dovetails very neatly with the "consumption as praxis," too. "If I like a thing, I must explain why it's actually good and woke" (supernatural, teen wolf, etc) And "if I dislike a thing i must find a moral reason, especially if it has the representation I claim to want" (steven universe, etc)

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 4h

The late antique communion bread find was exciting. And it again came up what the oldest bread known is. As Stephanie Wong and I wrote about, the oldest extant bread appears to be from Jordan—not Turkey. hyperallergic.com/878348/disco...

Discovery of 8,600-Year-Old Bread Gives Rise to Half-Baked Claims

Turkey’s narrative surrounding “the world’s oldest bread” raises questions about how archaeological heritage is used for nationalistic ends.

hyperallergic.com

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Oct 11

If you like National Coming Out Day, you'll love National Coming Out Week and National Coming Out Month and National Coming Out Every Time You Meet A New Set of People Or Switch Jobs Or Start Going to a New Dentist Or Some Other Fucking Thing because hahahaha it never fucking ends!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3h

"Nobody will do that though." Oh I guess there's nothing to be done, then. Very convenient if what you'd like is to avoid having to do anything.

I've noticed "we're cooked, it's over" is often the call of the person whose strategy is to hope they will not be in the oven.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 3h

Let's be clear on who Christopher Columbus was, a conquerer who spread disease & slavery who was so sadistic in the ways he treated natives he appalled the architects of the Spanish Inquisition. That's the fact of him there is to reclaim.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 5h

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Jazzy Oliver - Voice Actress @ladyjazzington.bsky.social · 15h

BUT HEY!

THAT'S JUST A Segway to remind you that the FNAF creator/this movie's screenwriter, Scott Cawthon, donates the money he makes from FNAF stuff to far right politicians, many of whom are currently trying to make things worse for everyone, specifically trans people. Don't support this film.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 15h

MatPat has been cast as Toy Bonnie in ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 22h

You know, "Refusing to pay the troops, signaling that you intend to keep the government shut down indefinitely, and then trying to fight a trade war you literally cannot fight with the government shut down" is the stuff regimes do when they're pretty deep in a death spiral.

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Char @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, i have my own issues with adobe (my company pays for it, which is why I use it), but I also know a lot of big youtubers DO use adobe products, and there's lots of other programs that use speach to text, so...

Char @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 19h

"But Ray" you may say "that's still autogenerated & AI!"

The difference is that this way, as I mentioned, you can edit it when it makes mistakes (it's bad w/ proper nouns). Also, transcription is a great thing to automate bc it's time-consuming & doesn't require decision making.

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Char @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 19h

So TIL premiere can generate a transcript for you now, which you can edit word by word when it fucks up and turn that into captions.

Big youtubers really have no excuse for auto-generated subtitles now.

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pye @raptor.on.computer · 22h

when the autism pays off and you zoom in on a 1989 British history museum liopleurodon for 99p in a charity shop, which goes for £62 on ebay ✨️

SCREAMS

a liopleurodon figure sitting on a wooden table

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Jones tried to warn us about this

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social · 2d

Link requested this be boosted so we can help Dr. Divya raise money for Palestinian families in need.

It is also a good day to reinstate Link’s account.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, some advice if you plan on spending time outside in an animal costume, sharing for no particular reason:

-You will sweat a lot more than you think. Have water/snacks

-You cannot move well (the Left Shark guy is a trained experienced professional dancer). Don’t run or you’ll trip and fall.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 23h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 1d

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Char @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 23h

I am sorry, fellow trans people on my phone, but I cannot linux. I have failed you.

I'm pretty tech savvy but "having to figure out how to edit someone else's code beyond replacing file/directory names because it won't compile properly" is about where I tap out.

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Ash G. (the G is for Ghost) @kilomonster.art · 1d

I will gladly draw all of the frogs as a symbol for the movement, explicitly to take them back from the fuckers who co opted Pepe for their nazi shit.

A cheery, cute frog looking up and flipping off the camera while saying “fuck off, fascists.”

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Char @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 1d

I actually heard back from tech support and apparently its a known bug, but if anyone's got a work around that'd be great, bc i have almost no mobile data lol

Char @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 1d

So apparently bluesky has decided it hates our wifi? It works with mobile data, other wifi, and vpns, but on our wifi (moble and desktop) it just doesn't load. Anyone delt with this?

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Vyria Durav, Dragon Princess of the Night @vyriadurav.bsky.social · 1d

If you grew up in the US, you are almost undoubtedly culturally Christian, in the sense you've internalized some of Christianity's specific viewpoints. A common example of this is the 'but I said I'm sorry, you can't be mad at me' response to being called out for being racist/queerphobic/etc

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