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Executive Officer In Charge of Radishes non-competitive poster and earnest motherfucker gender casual COVID-hermit tired #MakeAThing Even if you're "bad" at it. #AbolitionStories #ArtILove https://linktr.ee/jkmakes

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · Mar 21

Here's an easy way to share how my project works:

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 16m

"Person with profound insights and the willingness to say them" is VERY DIFFERENT than, like... "magical fortune teller," you know?

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2h

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30m

have I mentioned lately that the U.S. is too corrupt to pass even a basic internet-era privacy law and is actively dismantling our cybersecurity regulators

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 27m

anyone want some radish?

A huge black radish, the size of probably both my fists put together, freshly wrestled from the ground.

JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 28m

freeze tonight

bucket of partially ripe sweet peppers in a bucket in the garden.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 34m

Killing Klan members is "too controversial for the moment"

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 19h

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 32m

just its frequent usage to describe people in a way that made no sense to me if "prophet" meant they were future telling

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La Girafe @lashawndab.blacksky.app · 2h

The PBS live stream chats are filled with people calling Speaker Johnson a liar.

I’ve never seen anything like it.

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George @hannahtempler.com · 4d

like, the main purpose of generative AI is to simply override the inconveniences of humans – boundaries, consent, and wages. thats what it does at its core

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

I launched the Giving Circle in lieu of monetizing my newsletter. So it is powered by my newsletter readers. I appreciate everyone who contributes. Together we have donated $25,360 so far this year. ko-fi.com/prisonculture

Support PrisonCulture's Giving Circle

This is PrisonCulture's Giving Circle. Instead of monetizing my newsletter on Substack, I am setting up a giving circle for any one who would like to support the newsletter. ALL funds will be donated ...

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 1h

this explains / changes some things ☠️

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine going through life with an actual education. ✨

JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 1h

I feel like this should not be new information to me in my 40's.

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 1h

Wait, "prophet" can refer to just... telling truths and new ideas and moral insight??

The future-telling specific definition at MW is THIRD??

O_O

Definitions for the word prophet
1 one who utters divinely inspired revelations: such as
a often capitalized : the writer of one of the prophetic books of the Bible
b capitalized : one regarded by a group of followers as the final authoritative revealer of God's will ie Muhammad, the Prophet of Allah
2 one gifted with more than ordinary spiritual and moral insight
especially : an inspired poet
3 one who foretells future events : predictor

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 13h

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 1h

One of those bits of learning when you go "oh there's a word for that?"

JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 1h

www.tiktok.com/@lporchestra...

Nothing like a bit of melisma to express yourself. #ClassicalMusic #BaroqueMusic #Soprano #LearnOnTikTok

TikTok video by London Philharmonic Orchestra

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 1h

Oh it's just.... using musical slurs in singing
LOL

JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 1h

doesn't REALLY clear that up but it's an arrow

and now I'm on YouTube

this period of history where you can wonder about something and look it up in fucking moments and know something new... whew.

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

Melisma

YouTube video by Classics Explained

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 1h

word of the day for JK

melisma:

a group of notes or tones sung on one syllable in plainsong

melodic embellishment

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m...

Definition of MELISMA

a group of notes or tones sung on one syllable in plainsong; melodic embellishment; cadenza… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 1h

Hmmmm
Bernard onto something maybe idk

Text from a letter to pope eugenics 3 from Bernard of clairvaux
See where your accursed occupations are bound to drag you if you carry on
drag you and saving
as you have begun, that is to say, giving yourself wholly to them and
nothing of yourself for you. You are wasting time and, if I may play Jethro to
your Moses, you, like him, are wearing yourself out in foolish labour over
things which are nothing but an affiction of spirit, the dissipation of your
mental energies and an expense of grace. And what does it yield you in the
end but cobwebs?

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 2h

New art for my classroom arrived! From @ollycostello.bsky.social & words by @prisonculture.bsky.social.

Poster on a school linoleum floor. Black background, shovel and garden fork around which are growing colorful vines with beans and flowers. Other veggies and plants, too. Words by Mariame Kaba: Transformative change happens when we are willing to build the things we know must exist.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2h

A reminder that if you buy anything from our Free Palestine collection, 50% of profits will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund: theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com/products/sao...

Saoirse don Phalaistín Shirt

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 15h

Tiny tortie cat
Coat matches colors of chair
Sorry I squashed you

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 2h

Clearly 😆