Trystan
@trystancarter.bsky.social
Librarian 🌱🕹️🏀
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Trystan
@trystancarter.bsky.social
· May 28
Today is the International Day against Homophobia and as a librarian I need to convey this message (image by @bossdog.bsky.social)
Reposting this and pinning it since it's an evergreen sentiment unfortunately
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I understand that legally OpenAI can’t admit that they didn’t know or predict this would happen but they can’t cite “misuse” of a wholly new technology that they popularized and kept the internal workings of secret. I hope they lose this badly www.theverge.com/news/831207/...
OpenAI denies liability in teen suicide lawsuit, cites ‘misuse’ of ChatGPT
The case is ongoing.
www.theverge.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I understand that legally OpenAI can’t admit that they didn’t know or predict this would happen but they can’t cite “misuse” of a wholly new technology that they popularized and kept the internal workings of secret. I hope they lose this badly www.theverge.com/news/831207/...
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
These are two of the best games I've ever played please buy them and play them and love them and let them change you
Clones, sleepers, aliens, androids, an Orchard, and the Starward Belt — what more could you ask for?
Save 33% on both 1000xRESIST and Citizen Sleeper 2 with the Clones & Consciousness bundle!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/61076...
Save 33% on both 1000xRESIST and Citizen Sleeper 2 with the Clones & Consciousness bundle!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/61076...
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
These are two of the best games I've ever played please buy them and play them and love them and let them change you
Sports are great 😭
October 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Sports are great 😭
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Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.⚡ My new piece for Back to Know Future, a Back to the Future Halloween themed art show hosted by Know Future Gallery. It was a blast painting Christopher Lloyd as a spooky Doc Emmett Brown.
#art #watercolor
#art #watercolor
October 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.⚡ My new piece for Back to Know Future, a Back to the Future Halloween themed art show hosted by Know Future Gallery. It was a blast painting Christopher Lloyd as a spooky Doc Emmett Brown.
#art #watercolor
#art #watercolor
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Too many $5/month bonus podcasts popping up. How many $5/months you think we all have to listen to you all talk an extra half hour?
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Too many $5/month bonus podcasts popping up. How many $5/months you think we all have to listen to you all talk an extra half hour?
Yesavage is putting the “savage” in “Yesavage”
October 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Yesavage is putting the “savage” in “Yesavage”
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you love to see it
October 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
you love to see it
It’s a great time to ditch Xbox and join the successful BDS boycott of all of Microsoft: bdsmovement.net/news/microso...
October 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It’s a great time to ditch Xbox and join the successful BDS boycott of all of Microsoft: bdsmovement.net/news/microso...
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the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
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This is great. Proof that good reporting, targeted boycotts (@bdsmovement.bsky.social), and keeping the conversation going work.
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is great. Proof that good reporting, targeted boycotts (@bdsmovement.bsky.social), and keeping the conversation going work.
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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NO BOSS NO MASTER'S - GOT A SHIRT OF THIS ONE AT dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
September 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
NO BOSS NO MASTER'S - GOT A SHIRT OF THIS ONE AT dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
Rent shouldn’t be so high anywhere that when one of the few subsidized spaces has to be replaced, it nearly ruins the lives of the people who lived there in the interim. I’ll never understand why Kelowna is so overpriced. www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...
Former residents fearful, skeptical, hopeful over plans to replace damaged Kelowna subsidized housing complex - Kelowna News
Former residents of a Kelowna subsidizes housing complex question why it took 18 months to announce plans to replace the damaged building.
www.castanet.net
September 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Rent shouldn’t be so high anywhere that when one of the few subsidized spaces has to be replaced, it nearly ruins the lives of the people who lived there in the interim. I’ll never understand why Kelowna is so overpriced. www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...
Genuinely curious what they need to drop the “apparently” here. The man has one of the most distinctive signatures ever and he shows it off constantly
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released an image of a sexually suggestive note and drawing apparently bearing President Trump’s signature, taken from a 2003 book celebrating the 50th birthday of Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has insisted he never wrote such a note. nyti.ms/46kvJmW
September 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Genuinely curious what they need to drop the “apparently” here. The man has one of the most distinctive signatures ever and he shows it off constantly
Smokers must love this shit
September 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Smokers must love this shit
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Trump is turning international students against the US, but Canada is completely missing the opportunity because we’ve decided to blame immigrants, and specifically international students, for social problems to distract from capitalist profiteering.
We need to lift this cap.
We need to lift this cap.
International student visas for Canada plummet | CBC News
Permits for students from abroad to study in Canada plummeted in the first half of this year, with nearly 90,000 fewer issued than a year earlier, when the federal government introduced a cap on inter...
www.cbc.ca
September 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Trump is turning international students against the US, but Canada is completely missing the opportunity because we’ve decided to blame immigrants, and specifically international students, for social problems to distract from capitalist profiteering.
We need to lift this cap.
We need to lift this cap.
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Sword of the Sea: what a stunning, lovely and succinct game. If you have PS+ it’s a must play.
September 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Sword of the Sea: what a stunning, lovely and succinct game. If you have PS+ it’s a must play.
Labour Day feels so divorced from its origins I thought it was celebrating people giving birth up until a few years ago. So, yes, we need a stronger labour movement!!! Unionize! It rocks!!!
A reminder that if we hope to ever rebuild an economy that works for everyone, we need a much stronger labor movement.
September 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Labour Day feels so divorced from its origins I thought it was celebrating people giving birth up until a few years ago. So, yes, we need a stronger labour movement!!! Unionize! It rocks!!!