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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3h

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 3h

Means testing costs money.

It makes conservatives feel like they are preventing abuse (benefits going to the "wrong sort"?), while also codifying abuse (questioning people's need, excluding people with needs from the benefit).

The cheapest way to provide benefits is not to means-test them.

Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 4h

They always want to attract moderate voters and yet they always cut the material reasons they might do so. Sorry but I don't think the diner class wants to "only" have their premiums go up substantially instead of catastrophically and still foot the bill enough for high income tax breaks.

Dems open to income cap on ACA subsidies

An income cap is almost essential to a potential deal.

www.axios.com

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💀 evelynn 💀 @ladyartaud.bsky.social · 3h

for the love of god can we stop means testing social services???????????

Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 4h

They always want to attract moderate voters and yet they always cut the material reasons they might do so. Sorry but I don't think the diner class wants to "only" have their premiums go up substantially instead of catastrophically and still foot the bill enough for high income tax breaks.

Dems open to income cap on ACA subsidies

An income cap is almost essential to a potential deal.

www.axios.com

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 10h

Happy World Cephalopod Day! 🐙This sucker for adventure feels its way through the world!

With thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors packed into each sucker, the giant Pacific octopus has a real sense for exploration.

A red-colored giant Pacific octopus with one eye poking out from its body while stretching out its arms, and showing off its white, round suckers

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 3h

Not good. Age verification is a whole can of worms Australia shouldn't even think about opening. And yet.

The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 4h

📢 The commissioner insists age verification can work, despite expert warnings of deep flaws with just over two months until the start of the ban.

‘No playbook’: eSafety boss backs social media ban despite expert warnings

www.smh.com.au

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

White professors leaving having a bigger impact than the destruction of entire departments and years of Black professors being pushed out is kind of the problem

And it still terrible this is happening

But “where we are” is factually just

“But wait this is happening yow white people »

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

www.propublica.org

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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 8h

Jordan knows a lot about covering for a sexual abuser from his time at Ohio State.
It should be no surprise that his party is refusing to seat a Democrat who will sign the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.
#SeatGrijalava
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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CNN Anchor Leaves GOP Rep Momentarily Dumbfounded After Exposing Hole In His Story — HuffPost

A simple question spiraled into a heated exchange.

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 7h

Okay, whew, because I was a little confused.

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 7h

So are you arguing that English spelling isn't somehow related to language evolution and time variation? Because it is...

In Japan, the US pressured them to alter their standards. I imagine some countries might have made centralized decisions to update.

English is very decentralized...

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 8h

Click through on this one. It's wonderful.

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 11h

@theoatmeal.bsky.social absolutely nailing the sadness in AI art and dissecting the myth of “talent” in art/artist discourse.

Art is "emotional nutrition" and "consuming AI art is like eating Styrofoam."

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 8h

I love everything about this.

"Virginia Woolf was a storyteller. Shel Silverstein was a storyteller.

You work in tech, shitbird."

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 11h

@theoatmeal.bsky.social absolutely nailing the sadness in AI art and dissecting the myth of “talent” in art/artist discourse.

Art is "emotional nutrition" and "consuming AI art is like eating Styrofoam."

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, what a great concept for a collection!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 1d

bluesky decentralization in action:

- bluesky the corp bans a user
- user’s data is alive on their blacksky PDS, an indie server
- blacksky will deploy their own API server which will bring back the user to everyone else
- user keeps their data, identity, followers. nothing is lost

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 8h

Sky Roberts "said Johnson’s refusal to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva—whose signature could supply the decisive 218th backer for a discharge petition compelling a floor vote—was inflicting real harm on those 'victims and survivors' still seeking answers about the late sex offender’s network."

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 8h

“Virginia Giuffre’s brother has torn into House Speaker Mike Johnson, accusing him of playing politics with survivors’ pain by stalling a vote to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.” www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epst...

Epstein Victim’s Family Slams Speaker Johnson Over ‘Political’ Move to Delay File Release Vote

The House Speaker is accused of refusing to swear in a new Democratic congresswoman to delay a vote on the release of the Epstein files.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 8h

Bet you any money she's got someone in her family who is directly impacted.

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 8h

Thread.

Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 8h

"In an extensive interview Tuesday, Greene, R-Ga., accused her party of not having a plan on health care and made the case that it should be working to fix the problem now."

Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on her unexpected break with Republicans over health care in shutdown fight

The MAGA firebrand sparked criticism from GOP leadership after giving voice to a key Democratic demand — extending expiring Obamacare funding to avoid premium hikes.

www.nbcnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 8h

I guess this means that French would also be anomalous by this metric. From what I've seen, sound change quickly outstrips orthographic change and then governments have to take steps if they want to update how things are written (it was done in Japan under outside pressure).

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 8h

Some of these girls look like they're 12.

VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 9h

It was not just Trump and Epstein it was also Trump and Casablancas and the teen models they groomed and booked for “career building” dinners with older men.

I remember this. Does most of the press have amnesia?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year

In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it

www.theguardian.com

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Yes Mum @yesmum.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah and by bombed out we mean coffee shops that are nicer and more comfy than my living room

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 10h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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holdmybooks @holdmybooks.bsky.social · 8h

It's Project 2025. This deprives her Congressional district of their elected representation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 8h

This sounds like a great idea

newscreatorcorps.org/about/#mission

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