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avalonlights @avalonlights.bsky.social · 2h

Horatio Hornblower hahaha

Dee Nitemarez - V I D E O G H O U L @deeliteyears.bsky.social · 8d

Urusei Yatsura

Your sex life is now called the last thing you watched. What's the title?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

"On Wednesday, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, rode the full route of the M57, a crosstown bus that traverses Midtown Manhattan and is one of the city’s slowest, to remind New Yorkers that he wanted to speed up their commutes."

Mamdani Rides Slow Bus to ‘Fast and Free’ Buses Event

www.nytimes.com

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 12h

A professor let me write one double-length paper across two classes I took from him. It counted for basically all of my grade. I wrote 20 pages in three hours a few days before Christmas and got an A.

This had a deleterious effect on my belief that I shouldn't just wing it in important situations.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 14h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 2d

- put down the damn AI.

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Gentletrees @gentletrees.bsky.social · 3d

I love fantasizing about what would've happened if Jet had won that fight.
#atla #Jet #Zuko

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 2d

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh

Anyway, back to toiling

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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avalonlights @avalonlights.bsky.social · 1d

your cat is a cartoon character 😆❤️

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Saf @safk-art.bsky.social · 1d

been rewatching season 3 and decided to color this one lol

#strangerthings #steveharrington #robinbuckley #strangerthings3 #artwork #Ozerov #strangerthings

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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avalonlights @avalonlights.bsky.social · 2d

aah that makes my heart happy! 🫶

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brawls @brawlite.badvibes.party · 2d

without reservation, lean into the things that make you happy, even—and perhaps especially—if they are cringe-worthy or deemed embarrassing by others. you only get one life: you might as well spend it doing the things that bring you joy.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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avalonlights @avalonlights.bsky.social · Oct 25

The piece my icon is from, based on a great little #halloween #harringrove ficlet from way back by flippyspoon. 🎃
avalonlights.tumblr.com/post/7650514...

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avalonlights @avalonlights.bsky.social · Nov 2

#harringrove vs. pumpkins 🔪🎃

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avalonlights @avalonlights.bsky.social · Nov 7

Didn't get this done in time for Halloween, but I finished it up today. Here is Billy stabbing something big and orange for all of us. 🎃 #harringrove #steveharrington #billyhargrove

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avalonlights @avalonlights.bsky.social · Nov 25

At first glance this might look like serious medieval AU fanart.
....It is not. It's because Dacre looks like human shr- *shot* 🤭
#harringrove #steveharrington #billyhargrove #art

Listen okay, it is still SO FUNNY TO ME that some rando told Dacre that he looks like human shrek (true, complimentary) to his FACE when he was out to dinner with the Power Rangers cast back in the day. I'm sorry Dacre. Anyway, this is fanart of Steve Harrington and Billy Hargrove dressed as Prince Charming and human Shrek, from Shrek. It's a Shrek joke. I'm sorry.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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avalonlights @avalonlights.bsky.social · 3d

Unf!! 😍

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julie @juuriin.bsky.social · 3d

billy’s neck is his weak spot
#harringrove

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Chris Lau Manson 阿劉 @chrislaumanson.bsky.social · 3d

Look at the bravery of these folks.

And then look at the cowardice of the thugs. Watch them flee once they've been inconvenienced.

These are petulant children cosplaying as "warriors".

Resistance comes in many forms - making things inconvenient for the fascists is often incredibly effective.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 4d

Could you call them up to defend your people against ICE and the cops? There are no rules anymore, get creative and have FUN

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people.

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