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🎨Artsy Marxist🎨 (commissions waitlist open) @artsymarxist.com · 1h

Hi yall 💚 I’ve got several original oil/acrylic paintings and prints available on my new website solinga.art 🖼️🖌️🎨 You can purchase there or via bluesky dms! Details about each available painting below🧵👇

futuristic solarpunk city with turquoise river running through it

waterfall in Laos with sunlight shining through the trees

biodomes illuminated by the glow of a gas giant in the sky

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‽ @carriwitchet.bsky.social · 2h

this is the greatest advertisement of all time!

"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

YouTube video by Telepathic Instruments

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 7h

Due to staff shortages, wizards are developing bad backs.

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The Mental Elves @thementalelves.bsky.social · 20h

DWP in bed with mental health charities makes me sick. I saw a 10 week singing for wellbeing courses recently and wanted to go. Until I read the blurb stating someone would be there to help with work searching...

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it's frank-en-SCHTEEN 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 14h

you don't have to believe in the concept of a soul to see that Nick Clegg has the demeanor of a man who's sold his

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.

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 17h

Bluesky are resharing this after they revealed yesterday that every photo uploaded here is sent to an external company that is selling GenAI services.

Note that none of them are actually confirming that none of these images are being used by that external company to train their systems.

Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you’d like.

None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.

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‽ @carriwitchet.bsky.social · 1d

this is so blatantly an SWP meeting! 🙄

'This party is bigger than me or Jeremy'

YouTube video by The Crispin Flintoff Show

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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 1d

Inspired by an earlier design by the brilliant #rubyetc

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‽ @carriwitchet.bsky.social · 1d

you're no American!!!

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‽ @carriwitchet.bsky.social · 1d

men always let me down tho Zack, so how are you any different?

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Let's make hope normal again.

youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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‽ @carriwitchet.bsky.social · 1d

thank you for reminding me!

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

Bernard said: “It’s on my list. The problem is I now can’t find my list. It’s probably in one of these 47 notebooks. I’ll have a look for it – right after I finish this level of Farm Heroes Saga.”

Autistic woman will definitely book ADHD assessment at some point

An autistic woman unsure if she also has ADHD has announced plans to try to get assessed at some vague, indeterminate point in the future. Emma Bernard, 34, who exhibits a lot of ADHD traits, is…

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Elsa Williams @elsawilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Keep seeing that AI generated image trend of adults being embraced by their ‘inner child’ selves. And I’m sorry but I don’t believe for one second that our inner children would be anything other than appalled at us

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 2d

“It just wasn’t meant to happen! Having a stable income and a roof over one’s head is simply a luxury not intended for some of us,” Bernard explained.

It wasn’t meant to be, says autistic woman after 978th failed job interview

An autistic woman emerging from yet another catastrophic job interview has reportedly consoled herself by saying it just wasn't meant to be - the world of employment, that is. Emma Bernard, 34, from…

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 2d

Spirituelle [speer-uh-chuh-WEL]
(adj.)
- Having or marked by a refined and especially sprightly or witty nature.

Used in a sentence:
“Beneath the severe tailoring and modest coiffure hid a most alluringly spirituelle creature—impishly selcouth, mischievously malapert, and brazenly aware of it.”

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 2d

Captioned full version of my speech on intersecting trans and disabled issues and solidarities at the DPAC protest at Labour conference.

It was very windy ha

Also yes I was shouting bits of it because another noisy demo appeared part way through.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ms...

Speech at the Disabled People Against Cuts Demo at Labour party conference

YouTube video by SpoopySpoonie

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 3d

Crunt [krunt]
(n.)
- A blow on the head with a club.

Used in a sentence:
“Elbert, having been the unlucky recipient of a crunt during yesterday’s ballgame with the neighborhood boys, awoke to find a most inconvenient lump he’d soon have to justify to his fretful mother.”

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 5d

Roll up, roll up - we’re teaching you how to cobble together a career in the arts! All the soft skills the neurotypicals just seem to know but nobody tells us? We’ve got you covered!

Save the date and sign up to our Patreon at any paid level to join in!

Employability skills in the arts virtual workshop - Sunday 26th October 6pm | The Daily Tism

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‽ @carriwitchet.bsky.social · 5d

the autistic hive mind is inherently indecisive!

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ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social · 5d

The whole Mill team went to Crumpsall yesterday to meet the community affected by yesterday's attack. We spoke with them, and prayed with them - many of whom were so deep in prayer for Yom Kippur, they didn't even know that two people had been murdered just down the road.

The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 6d

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’

Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall

manchestermill.co.uk

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Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 6d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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‽ @carriwitchet.bsky.social · 6d

#DarkWoke 🔥

#DarkWoke

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