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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 3h

"English degrees are useless" says man who needs ai to write an email

Jenn Manley Lee @jennmanleylee.bsky.social · 6h

I follow three Reddits: fountain pens, what is this thing and the Portland one. the above post gives you the vibe of that third one.

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Jenn Manley Lee @jennmanleylee.bsky.social · 6h

From r/Portland
www.reddit.com/r/Portland/c...?

A pixelated picture of a wizard frog in front of the PDX ICE facility against an orange sky. Below is a caption that read "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 6h

The New Zoo Revue is coming right at you motherfuckers!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 7h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 9h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 7h

The "Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet" aspect of this REALLY speaks to me. Like, this man just needed to let a map POUR out of him and used whatever piece of paper was closest.

The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 7h

The first Silmarillion map. Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 7h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 11h

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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Jenn Manley Lee @jennmanleylee.bsky.social · 7h

I appreciate a "Very British Bigotry" So very much for blocking the sewage from flooding my feed.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 8h

Note: if you use basically *any* community modlist, you won't even see their account. Very British Bigotry, Asuka, etc already block em for you.

You have to purposely expose yourself to all the worst fucking people around, for you to *even be able to see it*

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 8h

Pathetic Pamela Jo

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 9h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 4d

I think it’s very telling that most of these people have drawn their bigotry line in the sand about AI but have never posted about ICE or Gaza.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 9h

A few of the seven etchings that comprise Käthe Kollwitz's Peasants’ War series (ca. 1901–1908) about the innate dignity, courage, and strength of the poor. More in our latest post here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kollwitz-peasants-war/

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Synthetic Squirrel @queer.codes · 3d

these pet rock enthusiasts are getting out of control

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 19h

Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?

There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!

docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

Screengrab from Blacksky migration guide:

blacksky algorithms

A Warning: Anyone else using a blacksky.app handle will receive a warning at first and then a suspension.

Alternative PDSs for Everyone
Blacksky Algorithms also operates two other
PDSs that are open to anyone:
• myatproto.social - Open to all
• cryptoanarchy.network - Open to all

These servers run on the same infrastructure as blacksky.app and are maintained by the same team, but are available for anyone to use regardless of background.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 1d

From what I've seen reported his 'nuanced vision of the military's purpose' was the same one that Arlo Guthrie reportedly said to the military psychologist at his physical when he was called up for the draft.

Four paragraphs of the lyrics of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" (1967), from a Google search, including typos copied below with a couple of the typos fixed:

Came to talk about the draft.

They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. 'Cause I wanted to look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York, and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I walked in and sat down and they gave me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the psychiatrist, room 604."

And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL, " and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't feel too good about it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

comic from webcomicname.com, "different"

panel 1: pink blob creature: "I want things to be different"

panel 2: creature smashes everything

panel 3: creature stands in wreckage: "oh no"

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lil miss anthrope @lilmissanthrope.bsky.social · 2d

i am also racist against: pocket calculators, casio watches, and the original blackberry

i know six different slurs for the apple newton

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

Drawtober Day 6: The Witch's Familiar
#drawtober #Halloweenie

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2d

Writhing scene of grotesque heads (ca. 1520) by Daniel Hopfer, a German artist who is widely believed to have been the first to use etching in printmaking.

One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/grotesque-decoration-with-animal-heads/

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Miranda Miller @randymiller.bsky.social · 2d

I think it’s cool that every social media site is run by adult babies who think they’re reinventing the internet from first principles

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

one of the tells of fashtech is that they never shut up about decentralised open source and FREEDOM but then it turns out to be full of obscured central points of control

awful.systems/post/5833209

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 2d

If you just watched Last Week Tonight's segment on how presidential libraries are propaganda and thought "but what if this was an action-adventure comedy for kids?" boy have I got the book for you.

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 2d

What wonderful news for a Monday :) Actually, I suppose it's wonderful news for any day :)

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 2d

This photo (c.1901) shows two boys exposed to smallpox. Only the boy on the right had been vaccinated.

Smallpox is one of the deadliest & most contagious diseases known to man. The virus killed over half a billion people in the 20th century—three times more than all that century’s wars combined.

A black and white photo of two boys. The boy on the left has a severe case of smallpox, with pustules all over his face and chest and arms. The boy on the right has no pustules.

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