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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 8h

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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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 10h

Every time I’ve been called mean, EYE feel like I was just being direct/firm. Which can be a bit confusing because where I’m from, everyone is very direct/firm.

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janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 19h

10/10

janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 23h

I do not shop at hobby lobby. I hate them. I will thrift and order online first.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Jump in where you can to improve and expand public libraries. www.librariesforthepeople.org

For The People

www.librariesforthepeople.org

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janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 23h

😂 I still use bedspread regularly?!?

I have gotten called old for saying pocketbook, dungarees, and suggesting castor oil.

Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

One of the wildest things the internet ever called me country for was saying "bedspread."

Since I also still eat things my great grands ate (I was eatin neckbones before I grew teeth) I'll give y'all that.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 1d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Traveler Farlander @twfarlan.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI is not a tool for creatives. It's for people who resent the time, effort, and collaboration of creation.

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 1d

Nick Cannon to his non-Mariah kids:

Cocoa Chaos @seauxcocoa.bsky.social · 1d

Yall be in my heart... but remembering your names...

a bald man wearing glasses and a suit is sitting in front of a microphone with his hands outstretched

ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a suit is sitting in front of a microphone with his hands outstretched

media.tenor.com

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janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 1d

I guess they are going to have Joann's at Michaels.

I know there's a lot going on but people in h0bby l0bby strongholds need them to hurry up.

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janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 1d

Fancy equipment and higher quality materials does not replace skill, practice, and talent.

tru @thetrudz.photo · 1d

Apropos last repost, another sleight of hand that gen ai proponents like Miller engage in is suggesting gen ai is like photography. NO.

In the past, I mentioned how they’re conflating perception with process to obscure gen ai being theft & labor exploitation and to alter what “photography” means.

tru @thetrudz.photo · Aug 18

They’re using a perception parallel as a process parallel. As photography was a technological shift some ppl didn’t like then and gen ai is one many loathe now, they claim writing prompts in a theft machine is equal to study, composing, creating & developing/post-processing photographs.

No.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 1d

“It’s here to stay.”
“It’s not going anywhere.”
“Get used to it.”

Notice the robotic repetitive propaganda that tech billionaires spit into the mouths of proponents like a mother bird feeding babies is never about ethics, always about force, while pretending the force is natural not man made.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 2d

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 2d

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 2d

Also, sometimes the perpetrators (minor kids) really aren't going to be okay without serious and major interventions.

You do not get to hold the victim hostage or guilt trip them if you decide to center the perpetrators.

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janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 2d

You wouldn't want the victims to end up stuck in harmful lifelong patterns because the adults around them were weak and compromised them.

janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 2d

There are incidents between minors that do not deserve another chance.

The rush to play both sides and absolve perpetrators is about normalizing the abuse and ensuring that the victim understands their lesser place. This is particularly harmful to minor victims.

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janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 2d

There are incidents between minors that do not deserve another chance.

The rush to play both sides and absolve perpetrators is about normalizing the abuse and ensuring that the victim understands their lesser place. This is particularly harmful to minor victims.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 3d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 2d

I think they can be worked with but not at the expense of a harmed party (also often kids).

Demanding victims be a part of the repair for the perpetrator reinforces the subservient position of the victim.

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janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 2d

Yes, of course 😊

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

Bookshop has free shipping today, in case you’re looking to pick up the hottest (and also only?) student loan industry heist novel of the year.

The Payback: A Novel

A Novel

bookshop.org

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janiyah @yahjaniyah.blacksky.app · 2d

📚🫶🏾

ABC and you and me by corinna luyken
Danbi's Favorite Day by Anna Kim
Dolly Parton Coat of Many Colors, El abrigo de muchos colores
Grandpa & Jake by Julie Fortenberry
The Rabbit Listened by Corinna Doerrfeld
Somewhere, Right Now by Kerry Docherty

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 2d

Everyone needs to know that Dolly Parton responded to a climate disaster in her community with a temporary universal basic income for everyone who lost their homes.

Here's a short documentary about it:

The Great Equalizer: What Dolly Parton & a Tennessee Wildfire Can Teach About Universal Basic Income

YouTube video by In The Mesh

youtu.be

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 2d

I've wished (outloud) for people on the outside to get a more realistic account from local trans people of the systemic problems of being trans in 🇳🇴. Maybe more people will listen now.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 2d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 2d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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