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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 1h

Sure could have used a 24/7 urgent care clinic tonight. Last night? This morning? Taking bets on whether we’ll get out of this ER waiting room before the weekend.

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 5h

Haha no. Look at how big it is!!!

Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 6h

Miiiiiight have gone to Spirit Halloween today.

A replica of the Red Light, Green Light robot from Squid Game in Spirit Halloween

A closeup of an ear wearing an iridescent moon-shaped earring with two crystal-shaped danglers hung from the moon on chains.

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 12h

When the satire is more truthful than the news.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"Whether a person is undocumented or not is anyone’s guess, which is why the safest bet is to question everyone."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ice...

ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize

“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in t...

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 16h

Britain withdrew from the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates) because they couldn’t afford to govern them any more. That might count?

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 2d

She’s up and this picture does not do her justice.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone needs to see AI for what it is—a project that undermines truth & agency while transferring wealth from individual creators to Silicon Valley companies & VC’s. Rooted in exploitation of humanity & the planet, it’s a tool for the radical right to claim dominion & end representative democracy.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

These are profoundly anti social tools that erode the social fabric. Their main purposes are harassment, abuse, demolishing consent and furthering an authoritarian project.

Any uses outside of that are incidental.

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 2d

How is this different than any other day EDMOND

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

What ho! The Emperor’s guard! The guard, what ho!

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 3d

Well it’s “should I put on another sweater or should I turn on the heat” season! 🍁

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 4d

Influencers? Meanest thou the three Fates who weave, measure, and cut the whispere-thin yet iron-strong threades that bynde togethir all of spacetyme and that spelle out, yn sorcerous glyphs unreadable to any save the three, everyethinge that ys, was, or will be? Aye, Ich knowe of influencers.

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George Fraser @frasergeorg.bsky.social · 5d

There is no Alberta oil. It's Canada's oil. There is no Saskatchewan potash. It's Canada's potash. The entire country has the right to your resources, according to Scott Moe.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

www.cbc.ca

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 5d

In memoriam...

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, man, what a relief!

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 5d

There is still beauty in the world if you know where to look.
The fiery hues of Fall leaves drifting in the sun, or the way malevolent fogs roll through town, carrying the swirling spirits of those lost at sea.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

"AI" is absolutely and ONLY a marketing term, and at this point if it's being used, the intent behind it is to overpromise to the consumer/end user on the program's actual capabilities. And, of course, none of the "AI" is actually intelligent in any meaningful way.

derickhuth.bsky.social @derickhuth.bsky.social · 6d

It would be neat if it wasn’t marketed as AI. Predictive statistical modeling doesn’t really slide off the tongue I guess

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 6d

It does make me feel weirdly better that even the pope has strangers explain his job to him on the internet

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 7d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 7d

I just left the world’s most awkward voice mail. Honestly. Why am I like this?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

At the end of the day, so much of these moral panics are driven by eugenics and the belief that certain people shouldn't exist.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum.

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Alt text: A screenshot of a New York Times article titled “Should the Autism Spectrum Be Split Apart?” The image shows a woman with dark hair tied back with an orange patterned ribbon, smiling and leaning forward near a window with sunlight coming in. She is wearing a light orange top with thin straps.

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 7d

As a citizen of the Land Of Superfluous Ford F-150s, I would LOVE to see this happen here!

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 8d

On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.

The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)

Direct democracy!

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Valerie Freeland @valeriefreeland.bsky.social · 7d

For a project that never came to fruition, I interviewed ordinary people about their pre- & post-Kamloops knowledge of Canada's genocide. One woman who grew up beside the school said, "we ALWAYS knew more children went in than came out." May we never be unhaunted by the past that isn't even past.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 7d

I spent 12 years working with the survivors of St. Anne's residential school in their attempt to get justice. The government spent millions fighting people who could barely afford the bus ride to the hearings.
There is no reconciliation without justice for St. Anne's.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Dark Shadow of the Residential Schools Remain

Last Wednesday, I stood at the gates of the abandoned Fort Qu’Appelle Residential School in Saskatchewan.

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 7d

I’d be up for it.

mave @mave.bsky.social · 7d

I’m not saying it would fix everything, but have we considered a nationwide dance craze

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 7d

“That kind of quiet is not neutrality. It is defiance armored in discipline. The officers knew that showing too much resistance might cost them. So instead they weaponized nothingness.”

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 7d

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The Deafening Silence

I watched the coverage of Trump and Hegseth speaking to the military yesterday with a kind of uneasy fascination.

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 8d

Literally learned the words to the opening song so I could sing along. One of my earliest exposures to folk music.

Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 8d

On Sept. 30, 1958, Canadian children were treated to a new show.
It featured a giant who told them to "look up!...waaaaaay up!"
For the next 27 years, the show was a fixture on CBC and is beloved to this day.
This is the story of The Friendly Giant!

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Bob Homme as The Friendly Giant, wearing a rustic, beige tunic with brown accents, holding a small xylophone and two violins, with a colorful giraffe puppet with a harmonica and a chicken puppet on his shoulders, set against a plain blue background.

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone else take ecofeminism in undergraduate school, or was it just me?

Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 8d

Reading list.
www.caranewdaggett.com/articles