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Erin Maher

@theerinmaher.bsky.social

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TV writer (SWAMP THING! SHINING VALE!) Friend to books, horses, and old movies. I block all MAGA, TERFs, sea lions and AI users. I am pro-Oxford comma. Living in Occupied L.A.

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Erin Maher @theerinmaher.bsky.social · Mar 23

Reminder, if you care, I am blocking AI users. There are plenty of things you can use as a banner or avatar that aren’t using people’s stolen work or helping destroy the environment.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3h

LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

There is a whole category of Milkshake Duck Nobel Prize winners

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 6h

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16h

When "all of this" is over and the centrist pundits and politicians are kissing Musk's ass again, don't let them. Don't let anyone ignore that Musk is a mass murderer.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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montygibbon.bsky.social @montygibbon.bsky.social · 17h

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 15h

BASEBALL FANS UPSET AT RECEIVING EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF BASEBALL

"I came here hoping to see the normal amount of nothing happening. But this is more nothing than I prepared for," said one attendee.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 1d

There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.

But no $ for health insurance for Americans?

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 15h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 15h

Good lord! The city wants to FENCE MacArthur Park, a protected city landmark (HCM #100) that has never been cut off from the community.
www.laparks.org/sites/defaul...

This $2.3 Million scheme will be discussed by the Rec and Park Commission on 10/16 at 9am.
ens.lacity.org/rap/agenda/r...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, nothing says rock n' roll like middle aged men criticizing young people's appearance.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 1d

when people say genAI is the future I am struck by how short sighted and fatalistic this is as a concept

it’s recycling our past for the future, it’s drinking our filtered waste while not thinking about how many times you can do that, it’s hoping tomorrow’s answers have already been said

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Erin Maher @theerinmaher.bsky.social · 15h

Why yes, I did just block somebody for saying “who would care?” if everyone in the US dies behind the gutting of the CDC. We have become an absolutely despised country.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 20h

As a straight young white man who covers Christian nationalism, I would perhaps have asked Doug Wilson some follow ups on this if it were running it in the NYT as part of his 10K-word defense of Christian nationalism.

For example:

“That really happen?”
“You sure about that??”
“But did it tho?????”

Wilson: No, I grant the point in principle. I don't believe that classical liberalism gets everything wrong. I really don't believe that.
And I enjoyed very much the country I grew up in, and I received many benefits from that era. So that point's granted.

But on the dank right, I believe that the liberal treatment of young white males has been one of the causes for this recoil and eruption. What you had was a toxic combination of a bad economy of young men being told repeatedly that they are the cancer of the planet, that their masculinity is toxic, that their skin is the blight of the world, and their heterosexuality is a hate crime.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 23h

please teach your children about meter and scansion we are facing a fucking global crisis of this shit

Post from a redacted user:
Baby in a placenta I know I know, it's serious

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a.
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.

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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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