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Captain Suboo baja blast: the falafel lobbyist @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social · 2m

it's at 66% folks! Let's make it 99%

Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 3m

Hi, I'm Julie!
After being fired in February I moved from North Carolina to be safe in Oregon because I am trans.

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 3m

Hi, I'm Julie!
After being fired in February I moved from North Carolina to be safe in Oregon because I am trans.

I can get access to my lifetimes worth of belongings if I can raise the rest of money needed to finish paying the movers.

Please share and donate if you can
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Donate to Help Julie Find Safety in Oregon, organized by Julie Kitchen

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

I’m cool with using LLMs for stuff like “writing regexes” but why would I use them to do things my brain actually likes doing and finds rewarding?

why would I outsource eating a really good hamburger to someone else? that’s my fucking hamburger

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

while I acknowledge that LLMs do have some uses for stuff like “producing code with knowledgeable human supervision,” this perfectly reflects how I feel about using it for my own creative work

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

Federal workers: If you were impacted by the Trump administration's just-announced mass layoffs, our reporters are here to listen.

We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously.

Here's how to get in touch securely 👇

How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica

Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 1h

This movie disturbed my grandfather when it came out.

I do not blame him.

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 1h

We need to take *all their wealth* as punishment they cannot be trusted with an iota of power.

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Toroth (they/them) @torothhatchling.bsky.social · 3h

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Donate to Help Me Avoid Homelessness Before the Year Ends, organized by Shawn Struck

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Cakes de los muertos 💀, ETQ @aielcakes.bsky.social · 2h

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 3h

Hi, I'm Julie!
After being fired in February I moved from North Carolina to be safe in Oregon because I am trans.

I can get access to my lifetimes worth of belongings if I can raise the rest of money needed to finish paying the movers.

Please share and donate if you can
gofund.me/60b1e917

Donate to Help Julie Find Safety in Oregon, organized by Julie Kitchen

Hello, I'm Julie Kitchen! My previous fundraising efforts were able to raise enough mo… Julie Kitchen needs your support for Help Julie Find Safety in Oregon

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 3h

If they had done those things Biden would not have lost

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 3h

Suddenly having to pay the 75% that was part of your salary when you have no job is fairly brutal.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 4h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 3h

Hi, I'm Julie!
After being fired in February I moved from North Carolina to be safe in Oregon because I am trans.

I can get access to my lifetimes worth of belongings if I can raise the rest of money needed to finish paying the movers.

Please share and donate if you can
gofund.me/60b1e917

Donate to Help Julie Find Safety in Oregon, organized by Julie Kitchen

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4h

Trump just threatened to impose severe, unprecedented tariffs on Chinese imports. He won’t negotiate with Xi at the upcoming APEC summit, choosing to sink the global economy. The Dow is already down 300 points. This will devastate American small businesses and cause your expenses to skyrocket.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19d

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 4h

Hi, I'm Julie!
After being fired in February I moved from North Carolina to be safe in Oregon because I am trans.

I can get access to my lifetimes worth of belongings if I can raise the rest of money needed to finish paying the movers.

Please share and donate if you can
gofund.me/60b1e917

Donate to Help Julie Find Safety in Oregon, organized by Julie Kitchen

Hello, I'm Julie Kitchen! My previous fundraising efforts were able to raise enough mo… Julie Kitchen needs your support for Help Julie Find Safety in Oregon

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I'm Julie!
After being fired in February I moved from North Carolina to be safe in Oregon because I am trans.

I can get access to my lifetimes worth of belongings if I can raise the rest of money needed to finish paying the movers.

Please share and donate if you can
gofund.me/60b1e917

Donate to Help Julie Find Safety in Oregon, organized by Julie Kitchen

Hello, I'm Julie Kitchen! My previous fundraising efforts were able to raise enough mo… Julie Kitchen needs your support for Help Julie Find Safety in Oregon

gofund.me

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

for real, though, i think the ridiculous inflatable costumes are a major flaw in the armor that can be heavily exploited, portland protestors are leaning all the way into our reputation and making heroes out of inflatable frogs and villains out of the security forces

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20h

Some good news!

A librarian got fired for refusing to remove LBGTQ books and sued the county, its board of commissioners, the library board, and members of both government boards for violating her 1st amendment rights, and discriminatory and retaliatory firing.

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Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16h

this isn’t funny portlanders only turn into inflatable frogs when their neighbors are being kidnapped by a fascist secret police force

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 16h

I would explode like the world's grossest piñata.

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 16h

I listened to peaches by the president of the United States of America for 12 hours while drinking coke slushies for caffeine to finish my papers in college like god intended.

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

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 17h

Reminds me of a story my wife told from when she was a preschool teacher. She told a little girl to put on her shoes because it was snowy. The girl refused, went outside, and said, “my feet are cold.” They told her, “that’s consequences.” She threw a fit, yelling, “I don’t like consequences!”

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 2d

you don't get to count on votes from people you are letting get exterminated. if you let a fox kill the chickens, should you still expect eggs in the morning?

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