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Velvet Sparrow

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Smart-ass So. CA gal. No. NV Sierras Writer/Origami artist with LOTS of chickens. Unrepentant Romantic/Rogue Snarker/Chaotic Good. AI = Block! Eastern Sierras, Nevada jackshenhouse.blogspot.com

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Velvet Sparrow @velvetsparrow.bsky.social · Dec 2

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AuroraPeachy 🍑 @aurorapeachy.bsky.social · 8h

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Suzan Phoenix @sphoenixwriter.bsky.social · 1d

HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...

Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go

Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…

www.grammarly.com

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Velvet Sparrow @velvetsparrow.bsky.social · 2h

You look amazing, and I'm so glad you're happy.
You set a great example for others making the transition to persevere, thank you. 🙂❤️

Velvet Sparrow @velvetsparrow.bsky.social · 2h

Latest egg #donation!
Vital now that the government has cheerfully halted the #SNAP program.
Three dozen went to the kid's ukelele group, the other five went to the food closet.
Fellow #ChickenSky folks, I'm challenging YOU to also donate #eggs! Get those cackleberries gathered up & taken in! 🐓🥚😀

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Velvet Sparrow @velvetsparrow.bsky.social · 13h

I'm surprised we still have power, to be honest. Usually they shut it off in winds like this.

Velvet Sparrow @velvetsparrow.bsky.social · 13h

Howling Nevada Windstorm is upon us, so no sleep for anyone in the household.
Carrying a worrying amount of brushfire smoke, too.
Off to try and find out what's burning and where...
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Velvet Sparrow @velvetsparrow.bsky.social · 20h

So wonderful...what a brave, bold breath of fresh air.
But I'm genuinely worried...I hope he has an excellent security team that keeps him SAFE. 😕😬

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22h

Huge news from California: "Prop 50 represents Democrats’ first significant victory against President Donald Trump’s unprecedented plan to rig the midterms" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Dems win major victory against Trumpism as Prop. 50 passes in California

The Golden State ballot measure cancels out Republicans' Texas gerrymander.

www.motherjones.com

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Velvet Sparrow @velvetsparrow.bsky.social · 21h

Here's hoping that tonight is a set of hands firmly gripping the Republican lunch table and about to flip it ENTIRELY over. 😈

Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

Velvet Sparrow @velvetsparrow.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, anyone who has ever had a turkey flog them knows their concern is REAL. 😬

Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · 22h

They look so affronted at the presence of this turkey.

Velvet Sparrow @velvetsparrow.bsky.social · 22h

I get that every so often too. But if I go to their profile, the post is there and I can reply.
Seems to be a BlueSky hiccup...?

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Purpzie 🐦 @purpzie.com · 22h

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO CONGRATS NEW YORK

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 22h

Reposting some pigeon art because I've been working on sewing together a pigeon-themed blanket today.

Digital art close-up of a very fluffy pigeon from the top down, in a vague heart shape. It's very pink and lavender, surrounded by tinier bits of fluff and feather.

Digital illustration of a human hand holding a feral pigeon that is grey with dark and lighter spots and a light head. In its beak is a red thread that holds a golden, vintage key. The thread loops around the fingers on the hand.

Digital bust painting of a pigeon's head, with beautiful teal and purple neck feathers and orange eye.

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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · Jun 28

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children's children,

Fox News screencap listing "Zohran Mamdani's socialist promises." The list has been poorly edited to just say "GZDoom texture filtering turned off by default."

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 22h

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

Madeleine Swann @madeleineswann.bsky.social · 1d

Recipe: the key to creamy cream free soup is hiding in your pantry
Person: OK i'm hiding in my pantry, what next?

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A.D.🍀🦩 @adwills.bsky.social · 2d

I hope openai gets sued into oblivion, and when they get to oblivion, the void lords banish them to the shadow realm, and then when they get to the shadow realm, they get annihilated by a blue eyes white dragon

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Velvet Sparrow @velvetsparrow.bsky.social · 1d

Brian Aherne nailed the sexy-scruffy look.
64.media.tumblr.com/101b82f3c142...

if there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the at: Image

nonbinary intp alien | 30s | eclectic art historian

64.media.tumblr.com

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no context our flag means death @ofmdnocontext.bsky.social · 4d

october 31st vs november 1st

Edward Teach standing in front of a wedding cake with black around his eyes.

Edward Teach standing in front of the crew in his rice sack onesie making his apology speech.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

(🚨) NEW at PROOF: It is 8PM the night before Election Day, and *this* is the breaking news the whole world should be talking about.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump’s Involvement in An Apparent Obama Assassination Plot Was Just Discovered—Then Systematically Covered Up

As America heads to the polls in early November, this would seem to be the biggest legal and political scandal US media is by and large doing nothing to draw voters’ attention to. Proof has the story.

sethabramson.substack.com

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Brosephus @brosephus.bsky.social · 1d

It's the first Tuesday in November. Get out and vote like the existence of your country depends on it. All races matter, especially the local races. That's where the politics meet the road.

Voting is the most basic and important of all civic functions in a functioning democracy.

a man wearing a wig and sunglasses is pointing up in front of a sign that says vote

ALT: a man wearing a wig and sunglasses is pointing up in front of a sign that says vote

media.tenor.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Election Day with critical races in several states. This is the first general election where voters get to tell Donald Trump what they think of him so far. Don’t miss your chance to make your voice heard! Vote like your country depends on it. Because it does.

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 1d

“We can’t police that whole thing,” Common Crawl said. “It’s not our job. We’re just a bunch of dusty bookshelves.”

Meanwhile, CC has accepted hundreds of thousands in donations from AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. And it expressed open antagonism toward the media:

In our conversation, Skrenta downplayed the importance of any particular newspaper or magazine. He told me that The Atlantic is not a crucial part of the internet. “Whatever you’re saying, other people are saying too, on other sites,” he said. Throughout our conversation, Skrenta gave the impression of having little respect for (or understanding of) how original reporting works.

Skrenta did, however, express tremendous reverence for Common Crawl’s archive. He sees it as a record of our civilization’s achievements. He told me he wants to “put it on a crystal cube and stick it on the moon,” so that “if the Earth blows up,” aliens might be able to reconstruct our history. “The Economist and The Atlantic will not be on that cube,” he told me. “Your article will not be on that cube. This article.”

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Velvet Sparrow @velvetsparrow.bsky.social · 1d

JFC 😠

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 1d

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies

Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

www.theatlantic.com

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tara @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 2d

How it feels sometimes

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