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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2h

Trump: “I don’t know what could be worse than Portland. They don’t even have stores anymore”.

Portland: Busts out the inflatable frog, raccoon, bear and unicorn for a late night dance party.

This isn’t a city of dangerous criminals.

It’s a city of artists. Of writers. Of weirdos. Of resisters.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 3h

Bok bok

A painting of a chicken with a black tufted head

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 5h

two kermit the frogs are standing next to each other and one is wearing a red sweater

Alt: kermit and his nephew Robin dancing next to each other. Robin is wearing a red jacket, implying kermit is naked

media.tenor.com

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 6h

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever made. Except that’s an evergreen statement at this point.

A pile of zines called DONT BUILD THE TORMENT NEXUS!

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 6h

A black and white photo of Yulia Apollonovna Schucht, wife of Antonio Gramsci who was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926, and remained in prison until shortly before his death in 1937.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 6h

Between Pepe and the Portland Frog, there's going to be a history student several decades from now going "Why frogs though?"

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 7h

I remain so over the fucking moon about lettering this book.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 7h

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 7h

Please someone in LA…do the funniest thing and start the Butlerian Jihad in an Erewhon.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 7h

awesome!

( I would like to be a poltergeist right now. That would be a career more in line with how much I knock things over around the home.)

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vincent, a future poltergeist @papa.yaga.gay · 7h

I did this workshop in August and cannot recommend it enough. I’m not new to public speaking but I don’t do it as frequently as I’d like, and Mike helped sandblast the rust off that part of my brain.

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe someone you work with needs help talking to people or giving feedback.

www.eventbrite.com/e/presenting...

Presenting Work with Confidence!

It doesn't matter how good your work is, if you can’t present it it's going in the trash. Come learn how to present with confidence.

www.eventbrite.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe someone you work with needs help talking to people or giving feedback.

www.eventbrite.com/e/presenting...

Presenting Work with Confidence!

It doesn't matter how good your work is, if you can’t present it it's going in the trash. Come learn how to present with confidence.

www.eventbrite.com

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 8h

Antifa

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVQF...

Cabaret | 2014 Tony Awards

YouTube video by Matt Hagmeier Curtis

www.youtube.com

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 8h

I guess those are tactical food trucks.

www.thesquarepdx.org/see-the-squa...

Come find a brick on Pioneer Courthouse Square!

The Square is a symbol of Portland, and the bricks symbolize the people that make Portland such an extraordinary city. Search bricks, explore Portland's Living Room and buy your own piece of The Squa...

www.thesquarepdx.org

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 10h

My wife @pattyskuster.bsky.social is in Portland today. It’s a war zone, insurrectionists and sunflowers everywhere.

Pretty flowers at the downtown farmers’ market.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 16h

a year ago, AI companies were promising "superintelligence" that would make 40% of workers redundant and fundamentally reshape human productivity and the economy.

now, they making slop versions of tiktok.

altman is cooked

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12h

Rated PG!

A child could just roll up to the theater in 1982 with a sawbuck from mom’s purse and get a small popcorn and enduring trauma.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 13h

See, people think AI is useless, but without it this dude would have had to imagine burning down an entire neighborhood all by himself

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

The suspect accused of igniting the fire that destroyed LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood allegedly used a ChatGPT prompt to show "a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it," months prior, officials say

Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ

The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.

abcnews.go.com

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 13h

People in this city still remember a horrific cane corso mauling death in a luxury apartment building. Correctly charged as murder.

I got a dog I could manage with one free arm.
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

www.sfgate.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

An accused Defendant does not have to prove ANYTHING. If I present zero evidence at trial, and the state has not proved its case, my client walks.

*EVERY* ACCUSED DEFENDANT *IS* INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED OTHERWISE.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 13h

Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 15h

intellectual property is communism of the mind

“Moral policing and leftist ideology are destroying America's AI industry. I've cancelled my OpenAI PLUS subscription,” another replied, implying that copyright law is leftist."

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 15h

the only thing people want to do on Sora, it seems, is generate images of copyrighted characters. now that they can't, they're crashing the fuck out www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 1d

This is a wonderful meditation on what AI cannot do.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 1d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

therumpus.net

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