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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 13h

Open your networks & your checkbook.

Offer direct support to those who seek help via #TransCrowdFund #SettlerSaturday #DisabilityCrowdFund & your local mutual aid society.

#MMIWG2S #LandBack
#BlackLivesMatter
#TransPowerNow #SayGayAnyway

There is one boat. You'd best believe we are all in it.

Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 13h

If you live in the US, put your elected representatives' phone numbers in your "favorites" list on your phone.
You can also start w/ the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121
Don't know what to say? follow @celestepewter.bsky.social here or sign up for susanrogan.substack.com/subscribe
Get loud!

Subscribe to Rogan's List

ways we can help save our democracy. Click to read Rogan's List, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

susanrogan.substack.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 13h

Need reproductive healthcare by mail? aidaccess.org

Need an abortion?
ineedana.com, abortionfinder.org, heyjane.co

If you're worried your abortion or pregnancy outcome could be criminalized:
reprolegalhelpline.org

To support providers, donate to
keepourclinics.org & abortionfunds.org

Aid Access

Get abortion and miscarriage care, wherever you are.

aidaccess.org

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 13h

Good night, good people.

Be kind, be curious.

Begin again.

(I write at least - and usually just - one #haiku I can stand to share every day. Some days I post them here. Eventually they get archived at butwait.blogspot.com/search/label.... Please poke around there and find your favorites.)

But Wait, There's More!

Every day, at least one haiku I can stand to share. Sometimes, stuff about lesbian parenting or social justice activism.

butwait.blogspot.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 13h

Had to break the news of D's death by suicide to three more people today.

I am so tired.

#TransLivesMatter
#PleaseStay

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 13h

fewer flowers now
with hardly any bees
and our friend gone, too

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 13h

TL;DR = too long, didn't read

AI;DR = AI, didn't read

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 14h

our(AI)boros

anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 14h

UPDATED: The sprawling network of AI funding and client connections.

Added:
- NVIDIA investing in OpenAI
- NVIDIA investing in Intel
- AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs

A network diagram showing relationships between major AI, cloud, and hardware companies. Two arrow types indicate relationships: blue arrows mean “A funds or invests in B,” and yellow arrows mean “A is a client of B.”
• NVIDIA funds Lambda, CoreWeave, Intel, OpenAI, and Crusoe, while being a client of Lambda, CoreWeave, and Intel.
• Lambda is funded by NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Google Ventures, while being a client of Dell, Supermicro, and NVIDIA.
• CoreWeave is funded by NVIDIA and OpenAI, while being a client of Supermicro, Dell, and NVIDIA.
• Crusoe is funded by NVIDIA, and has Oracle as its client.
• OpenAI funds CoreWeave, and is funded by Microsoft, NVIDIA, and AMD, while being a client of NVIDIA, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, AMD, and CoreWeave.
• Microsoft funds OpenAI, while being a client of Lambda and CoreWeave.
• GV/Google funds Lambda while being a client of CoreWeave.
• Oracle is a client of NVIDIA and Crusoe.
• Dell is a client of NVIDIA.
• Supermicro funds Lambda, while being a client of NVIDIA.
• AMD funds OpenAI, while having OpenAI as its client.
• Intel is funded by NVIDIA, while having NVIDIA as its client.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 14h

So @ftrain.bsky.social came and sorted out how to fix AI on the latest @flaminghydra.com podcast. Whew! we should have asked him on sooner

AND @sirosenbaum.bsky.social breaks down the worst anti-trans amicus brief you ever heard of in your life, you won't believe it

flaminghydra.com/issue-418/

Base meddling / Machine learning

S.I. Rosenbaum on a wretched amicus brief; Paul Ford and Maria Bustillos sort out the AI thing

flaminghydra.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 15h

Listen to the voices of families being torn apart by this administration's draconian practices.

Then tell these stories to anyone who will listen.

Hell, tell them to people who seem like they don't want to listen.

Call your electeds, make a plan to get into the streets for #NoKings on 10/18...

Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 18h

I've never seen anything like this in the history of American Families United. 💔

Please read this heartbreaking story of one of our deeply loved members and leaders, Julie Moreno, who just landed back in New Jersey this afternoon from a trip to Mexico.

Here's her story... 🧵 (Then please amplify.)

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Fallon | find me on disabled.social instead of this nazi bar @fallonturing.bsky.social · 16h

SOLE SOURCE OF INCOME HERE AND EVERYTHING IS UNDERPRICED

Fallon | find me on disabled.social instead of this nazi bar @fallonturing.bsky.social · 5d

I'm opening up EMERGENCY COMMS! Please commission me for custom hats, scarves, gloves/mittens, or socks! I will take 3-4 of these. Note that I still probably won't be able to ship anything until after I return home in late October.

#BSNM #CommissionsOpen #OpenCommissions #Knitting #Knitsky #comms

CrippledCommie's Commissions

Commissions Open! Click to see CrippledCommie's commission menu.

ko-fi.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

There is one boat. We are all in it.

Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
Trevor Project US LGBTQ: (866) 488-7386
LGBT US Hotline: (888) 843-4564
US Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255

US Runaway Safeline: (800-786-2929)
US Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233

💔 ✊ 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 PLEASE REPOST, THX!

Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

Open your networks & your checkbook.
Offer direct support to those who seek help via #TransCrowdFund #SettlerSaturday #DisabilityCrowdFund & your local mutual aid society.
#MMIWG2S #LandBack
#BlackLivesMatter
#TransPowerNow #SayGayAnyway
We all deserve lives of play, peace, love, & belonging.

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

If you live in the US, put your elected representatives' phone numbers in your "favorites" list on your phone.
You can also start w/ the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121
Don't know what to say? follow @celestepewter.bsky.social here or sign up for susanrogan.substack.com/subscribe
Get loud!

Subscribe to Rogan's List

ways we can help save our democracy. Click to read Rogan's List, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

susanrogan.substack.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

Need reproductive healthcare by mail? aidaccess.org

Need an abortion?
ineedana.com, abortionfinder.org, heyjane.co

If you're worried your abortion or pregnancy outcome could be criminalized:
reprolegalhelpline.org

To support providers, donate to
keepourclinics.org & abortionfunds.org

Aid Access

Get abortion and miscarriage care, wherever you are.

aidaccess.org

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

Good night, good people.

Be kind, be curious.

Begin again.

(I write at least - and usually just - one #haiku I can stand to share every day. Some days I post them here. Eventually they get archived at butwait.blogspot.com/search/label.... Please poke around there and find your favorites.)

But Wait, There's More!

Every day, at least one haiku I can stand to share. Sometimes, stuff about lesbian parenting or social justice activism.

butwait.blogspot.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

so many photos
of the place where the monarch
had just flown away from

(the monarch here is the butterfly)

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Moss Puppy Magazine @mosspuppymag.bsky.social · 1d

Moss Puppy Magazine is excited to announce our nominations for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards!

We're thrilled to honor these pieces and support Monarch! 💜 🌈 🐶 @monarch.qla

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

😉

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

Well did you?

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

Long is beautiful! Roll it on out here!

Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like #CostCo might be my source for the updated Novavax COVID-19 #vaccine again this year. (I like the Novavax option because I have been less reactive to it than the MRNA-based vaccines... your mileage may vary!)

www.costco.com/Pharmacy/adu...

www.costco.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
Trevor Project US LGBTQ: (866) 488-7386
LGBT US Hotline: (888) 843-4564
US Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255

US Runaway Safeline: (800-786-2929)
US Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
💔 ✊ 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 PLEASE REPOST, THX!

Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

Let folks know that they are loved, that the world needs their light, and that there are still resources out here for people who are struggling.

There is one boat. We are all in it.

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A photo of a rainbow flag taken from inside a room, looking out through a mullioned window from which is hanging a classic rainbow flag. The bottom portion of the window has translucent, multi-faceted privacy screen.

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