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Luv 💜 @luvamistoole.bsky.social · 3d

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 2d

One thing I've tried to prepare myself to do if I see this happening with no rapid response nearby: approach the person if possible & ask their full name + a phone number for a loved one, so at least someone knows what's happened. Easier said than done for many reasons, but it's what I've got.

Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 2d

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 3d

Please support my wonderful friend Mahmoud and his family ❤️

My name is Mahmoud @tahany1287601.bsky.social · 6d

Celebrating our amazing brother! He graduated high school with a GPA of 87.3% in the science stream. His big dream is to study dentistry. We're from Gaza, and due to the difficult circumstances, we need help paying our first semester's university fees. More details in the first comment.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 7d

if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE

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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 10d

and the weight we once / thought a burden turns out to form / the pulse of our life and the compass for our brain

Toward The Space Age by Mary Oliver

We must begin to catch hold of everything
around us, for nobody knows what we
may need. We have to carry along
the air, even; and the weight we once
thought a burden turns out to form
the pulse of our life and the compass for our brain.
Colors balance our fears, and existence
begins to clog unless our thoughts
can occur unwatched and let a fountain of essential silliness
out through our dreams.

And oh I hope we can still arrange
for the wind to blow, and occasionally
some kind of shock to occur, like rain,
and stray adventures no one cares about --
harmless love, immoderate guffaws on corners,
families crawling around the front room growling,
being bears in the piano cave.

James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 11d

Congrats! Loved the intro chapter, excited to tuck into the rest

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 13d

Do you worry that directing commercials will influence your style?

First of all, I have no desire to create a unified style. For each of my films I am looking for the most suitable approach for the theme. The commercial work I do is completely different: advertising is devoted to what one sees, to what one shows; while in cinema the most beautiful is what you don't see, the abstract or intangible. As a film unfolds, the spectator takes into account all the things outside of the film itself, the physical parameters of....

...the screen. The films that I like always have, in one way or another, this kind of beauty. Cinema conveys poetry; it's capable of revealing the invisible poetry that occurs in life itself; the lights, the colors, the bitter experiences of humans, their exchange of words, the state of the sky. Sometimes, it's a material poetry based on technical decisions: a camera movement or the musicality of a change in shot can conjure up this poetry. (From The World of Jia Zhangke)

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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 14d

Chantal Akerman
taking a haughty drag of a cigarette: "I took two hours of someone's life."

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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 16d

Just watched Carpenter's Prince of Darkness for the first time and it's a new favorite

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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 17d

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 17d

Very sad about the loss of D’Angelo, such a wonderful artist with the voice of angel. Voodoo and Black Messiah are two of the best albums of all time, both very important to me in college

James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 28d

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 28d

Gaza fishermen able to fish for first time thanks to sumud flotilla distraction

they STILL FED MY PEOPLE. 🥹

James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · Sep 29

Thank you for reporting. Fyi Alexa uses they/them pronouns

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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · Sep 27

Jesse Bryant, a sociologist studying right-wing environmentalism at Yale University, sees the issue as emblematic of a larger trend. He said the bigger issue lies in the fossil fuel industry’s funding of nearly every conservative political issue in the United States.

“Fossil fuels have seeped into every crease of American politics,” he said. “So if you're concerned about this connection between anti-trans legislation and fossil fuel dollars, it's super important to acknowledge that money in politics is a gigantic problem—specifically fossil fuel dollars in American politics."

Keeping trans people in the margins is the whole point, though. The fossil fuel industry has a vested interest in maintaining the cultural status quo: the white-picket fence in the suburbs where the white wife stays home to take care of her white kids and her white husband drives to work in his gas-guzzling car.

Queer families, especially queer families of color, don’t fit this image.

“What trans and queer movements are doing is challenging a gender binary that that entire dream rests upon,” said Dr. Cara Daggett, a senior fellow at the Research Institute for Sustainability in Germany, where she researches gender in American culture and its connection to energy.

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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · Sep 26

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons

www.theguardian.com

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Sep 24

Dear friends,
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem

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Satwat Rehman @satwatr.bsky.social · Sep 20

Mahmoud’s account has been deleted again on Bluesky. He’s struggling to raise funds for his family. Please can you help by sharing and/or donating. Thank you 🙏🏽
He’s been verified by @mommunism.bsky.social

chuffed.org/project/1336...

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · Sep 18

I'll be speaking with @jwassers.bsky.social on Friday, October 3 (3:30pm) at the Wagner School at NYU on the topic of music, Southeast Asia, and transnational aesthetics.

It's a joint book talk! Jeff's is lovely (and available as an audio edition). Come one come all.

www.nysean.org/events/songs...

Songs Beyond Borders: Thailand and Transnational Musical Connections — New York Southeast Asia Network

Join NYSEAN and NYU MAIR for a talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Benjamin Tausig about the way that music features in their new books and how they engage with songs in their various writings. B...

www.nysean.org

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · Sep 12

Anyway, there's a truly horrifying number of Palestinians telling me they're on the streets in the south now.
No tents, no food. Nothing.
I feel that should be very high up in the news mix.

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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · Sep 6

45 of my dad's articles...jesus. The effort of a lifetime

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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · Sep 6

Surprised to find myself on here (under my deadname). Apparently journal articles aren't included in the settlement class, but I do feel slimed!

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Sep 4

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector

As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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