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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 12h

It seems impossible that any of this happened, but it did

The popularity of “John Brown’s Body” among Union soldiers was a testament not merely to Brown’s rehabilitation but to his canonization. Like the Biblical prophets whose imprecations he echoed, Brown had little honor in a country which he believed to have invited divine judgment for its sins. But his words, deeds, and death were sanctified when the war came. In 1857, Illinois Senate candidate Lincoln pronounced Brown a fanatic, insisting that “not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary” to achieve abolition. In 1861, President Lincoln, still hoping to avoid war, was reported as saying that “emancipation would be equivalent to a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale.” In 1863, Abe the Emancipator commanded thousands of troops—including former slaves—who marched to kill enslavers and liberate their captives, singing of a “terrible swift sword” not unlike the one which Brown wielded at Harpers Ferry. It was fitting, then, that at Cooper Union—the site of Lincoln’s most extended denunciation of Brown’s actions—Frederick Douglass recruited Black troops for Lincoln’s army by promising that “[e]very honest soldier who marches into Virginia goes there to carry out the object that led JOHN BROWN to Harpers Ferry.” Reluctantly but ineluctably, Lincoln proved Brown right.

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Disney owns FX, therefore Deandre “Sweet Dee” Reynolds is a Disney Princess.

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Then Perish

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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Phil Kapitan - Marx Appreciator 🏴🍉 @phil-kapitan.bsky.social · 5h

Even if that were true, which it very much unfortunately isn’t…good, fuck off and die then 😒

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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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · May 28

a quiet night 🍃🦖
in the forests of late triassic argentina, dusk is approaching, and a male herrerasaurus is preparing to embark on a night-time hunt with his mate. at 6 metres long, his size wards off most rivals, though he still carries battle scars
comm by @ansh7163.bsky.social!

a bust of a herrerasaurus based on specimen PVSJ 53 against a forested backdrop. he is moderately feathered, and his colouration and patterning are reminiscent of a melanistic jaguar. his eyes are dark amber, and he has a visible scar on his face

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

France (and eventually Citibank) *getting* reparations from Haiti for losing their slaves is one of the biggest atrocities of the modern era, and...stiff competition there

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10h

France asking for reparations from Haiti for losing their slaves is basically a moral monstrosity.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 10h

And it may seem like not a big deal. But while *you* are great people who accept queer kids, that's not as common as you'd hope.

New research shows only half of gay or lesbian people have parents who accept them.

Only 31% of trans people have parents that do.

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 11h

any tax benefits provided to parents are in fact morally wrong

those tax benefits should accrue to children, and children should be able to legally recover them from parents if they weren't spent in their interests

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 10h

a homeschooled child, in point of fact, has *no* enforceable legal rights. there is no legal requirement a child be allowed to speak with *any* adult other than their parents, it is completely legal for a parent to keep their children 100% incommunicado and the law assumes this is fine.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1d

the belief that a parent's religion exempts a child from human rights protections is the single toxic root of all conservatism. regardless of if you're LGBT or not, ending the idea that parents have the right to indoctrinate their children is essential to preserving your human rights

Nick @boylan.xyz · 1d

Supreme Court poised to rule that religious beliefs allow for child abuse over the states interest in preventing child abuse.

Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

NYT: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Vex Corvine @vexcorvine.itch.io · 12h

And if you want to show a dyke some love and help hir eat, buying my writing or donating to my top surgery would be grand ways to do so! 🧡💛🤍🩷💖

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Dick van Dyke might have heard Pete Hagseth say “no more beardos.”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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The Pit of Za’al, the mineshaft city-state that will be the political and cultural hub of the Undermutants

The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 1d

When one thinks of the 20th century, one thinks of America. When considering the 19th, we think of Britain. For the 18th, France. For the 17th, Germany. For the 16th, Spain. I wonder who will be the 21st century’s.

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Rapid Onset Gooner Dysphoria @melancholytheclown.bsky.social · 1d

So an anime girl with prosthetics was labeled "explicit sexual content", & then we learn that prosthetics are commonly labeled this way, & then we learn that automod has been outsourced to this ai company, & THEN we learn that the ai company might be using all our images to train ai & mods go silent

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.

AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive

Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.

thehive.ai

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

Here are the 10 states that will see the highest premium increases for families that lose tax credits if Republicans refuse to act.

West Virginia 387%
Wyoming 382%
Alaska 346%
Tennessee 320%
Mississippi 314%
Texas 289%
South Carolina 285%
Alabama 284%
South Dakota 235%
North Dakota 234%

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

"AI is not just a technology. It is a social problem. There is zero reason to allow it to run us over without a plan to mitigate its completely predictable negative effects." Another must-read banger from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Announcements Only @acvalens.net · 1d

Automation labeling individuals with prosthetics as “adult content” needs to be understood as ableism, full stop

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

It's an automated system, so unfortunately this is an error that gets made surprisingly often with prosthetics.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

These two things are of a piece, even if the motivations and details differ.

Trump’s justification for his authoritarian crackdown is an America that doesn’t exist.

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Lizzie O’Leary quote post of a CNN post that pairs the headline “What is the insurrection act?” with an image of an on fire Winchell’s Donuts from the 92 LA riots.

O’Leary: Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsk... • 57m
This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.
CNN:
@cnn.com • 7h
"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes
Zachary B. Wolf. cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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The original fascist famously lost the war they started!

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