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𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔟𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥 🩸 @trannieoakley.meangirls.online · 2d

blood sacrifice tonight?
blood sacrifice for the harvest moon, queen?

Vi of the Pink Oak @anviloftheoak.bsky.social · 2d

This is so metal, I wish everybody had the right to keep whatever organ the doctors remove from them. It breaks my heart to see it mandatorily going to medical waste

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Vi of the Pink Oak @anviloftheoak.bsky.social · 2d

Monday you can fall apart /
Tuesday Wednesday fall apart /
Thursday you can fall apart /
It’s Friday /
Fall apart

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Vi of the Pink Oak @anviloftheoak.bsky.social · 9d

The number one unexpected worry I get from people when I tell them I moved continents with my cats is whether the cats are able to understand other cats in Brazil or if they’re having to learn the Brazilian meowing dialect. I… I don’t know?

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Vi of the Pink Oak @anviloftheoak.bsky.social · 11d

asked a venue security guard if they sold earplugs and he immediately turned into Autism Guardian 2000. went around the whole venue looking for their sensory kits and only stopped when he found me ear muffs and sunglasses 😮

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Enigmatic White Woman @worstgirleva.bsky.social · 11d

you can make anything stronger by adding the brazilian prefix. jiu-jitsu? brazilian jiu jitsu is stronger. wax shave? brazilian wax shave is more effective. butt lift? brazilian butt lift is hotter. hatsune miku? you already know

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12d

Disappointed to read that the one thing was not “don’t consult a chatbot.”

Next Time You Consult an A.I. Chatbot, Remember One Thing

www.nytimes.com

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 15d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 14d

Please don't call it that

What You Will Need
• Experience: 5+ years as a video editor or producer-editor ("preditor").

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Vi of the Pink Oak @anviloftheoak.bsky.social · 14d

I just attended the coolest event with wine, great food and painting 💙 I love my giant fipsh and her tiny boyfriend

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 14d

just found a bullet casing with the entire bee movie script on it

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Vi of the Pink Oak @anviloftheoak.bsky.social · 14d

I’m taking Prozac and now the cat is taking Prozac as well, because anxiety runs in the family

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 15d

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 17d

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

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Vi of the Pink Oak @anviloftheoak.bsky.social · 17d

This slaps! I love the background

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 17d

A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home

Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies

www.theguardian.com

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Faith ➡️ Lightbox Expo AA506 @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 19d

And here's the vignettes! These costumes were so fun to design 🥳

Knights of Guinevere end credit illustration 2- 3 vignette illustrations of our main cast in fantasy/knight garb.

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Vi of the Pink Oak @anviloftheoak.bsky.social · 18d

Holy shit the Knights of Guinevere pilot is 🔥🔥🔥

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Vi of the Pink Oak @anviloftheoak.bsky.social · 21d

I had forgotten how much of family life involves running little side quests for other people

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Dr N. Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 23d

I see so much of this in academic funding calls ‘we are looking for projects that explore how AI can help to solve … hunger, violence against women and children, poverty, etc.’ But there’s no space in there to say: ‘um, what if AI is not the right tool for this’

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 23d

AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly
www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...

The False Promise of “AI for Social Good”

Abeba Birhane refutes industry claims about the technology's potential to solve complex social problems.

www.project-syndicate.org

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tutti pizzas, kebabs e delicatessens @tuttigachimuchi.bsky.social · 23d

stop brazil. your meat is too tasty, your payment system too efficient, your democracy too estado de direito. they gonna kill you

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The Economist @economist.com · 29d

AI agents promise to “put our brain in a jar while a bundle of AI systems does our living for us”, writes Meredith Whittaker. “But as in fairy tales, so in life: relying on magical fixes leads to trouble,” she warns

AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker

The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security

econ.st

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Vi of the Pink Oak @anviloftheoak.bsky.social · Mar 20

partner: I just don’t think Caju has a resting bitch face
Caju:

Picture of orange cat looking very grumpy

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Christ Cooper is God’s Favorite @christcooper.bsky.social · Jul 22

anyway 💁‍♂️

a meme that has been altered with three texts saying “butlerian jihad tonight” with a side eye emoji, “butlerian jihad tonight queen??” and “butlerian jihad tonight” with another side eye emoji

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