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Wrath @cscnme.bsky.social · 1h

Tomorrow on Fox News:

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 1h

There is no single way to resist; only the courage to invent one. 👍

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1h

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Mother Bones, alt curmudgeon @l1vy.bsky.social · 9m

People in there talking about their emailed paper submissions like THOSE are old-fashioned (because now they're screened for LLM and plagiarism). 😂

Not only were my UG papers turned in on paper, we selected our classes by entering a big room full of physical cards that you had to be quick and grab!

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jen @thejenlife.bsky.social · 49m

Did people write papers before the night before they were due??!?!

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 48m

wrote my capstone paper in grad school the day before and got a score so high I didn't have to edit it even though there was a process that almost ensured everyone would have to rewrite. when I told my favorite professor this years later it was the closest I've ever seen her to dissapointed in me

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 47m

Reminds me of this classic: bash.rip?190832

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blue @salivationarmy.blacksky.app · 45m

an email i've gotten from a professor:
"no one's ever asked me for a one hour extension before! go right ahead"
i had a quiz and a paper due at the exact same time and it's still fuck AI

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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ANF @anfmyers.blacksky.app · 36m

in college, I put together a my final presentation for a lighting course in the class before I had to present 50 minutes later.

I got an A. AI can suck my dick.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 31m

I’ve never read The Merchant of Venice, but I wrote a paper about the dichotomy between Portia and Jessica’s approach to defying the law (and men) the day before it was due after my Shakespeare professor begged for “anything but R+J”. I got an A. Brains can do it better than AI. And it’s fulfilling!

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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Brutalism Connoisseur @jmings.bsky.social · 7h

That's my MAN(sard)

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 3h

6: mama, can I ask a question

me: sure baby

6: how old will you be when I am 20

me: actually now is not really a good time for questions

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Liam Jeffries @sorathecyclist.bsky.social · 3h

This is the absolute dream challenger to Jeffries. Please, please, please let this happen.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 5h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6h

The next Supreme Court term is shaping up to be the most consequential since 1937. Depending on how it rules, it may cease to be accepted as a legitimate arbiter, and even nullify its own power as an independent judiciary.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

They are, and the consequences are extremely dire, but that pales in comparison to the much bigger problem: we don't have a legitimate president of the United States right now. What we are to make of his enablers and supporters who have thereby also delegitimized themselves is a secondary problem.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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Mother Bones, alt curmudgeon @l1vy.bsky.social · 47m

Wrote my 1st college paper on Henrik Ibsen after midnight the eve of due date, tiny PENCIL handwriting on both sides of a single loose-leaf paper, because that was the only piece of paper I had. But I read source material myself, in Norwegian. Turned it in 8 a.m. and yes, got an A.

Take that, LLM!

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1h

habeas corpus is the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote about Alma, Rodney Taylor and the various ways ICE is a risk to the disability community.

They don’t care about accommodations.

They’ve dismantled the oversight committees.

People are dying and becoming disabled inside these camps, and we must speak out:

Disabled People are Being Mistreated in ICE Detention Facilities

Why is no one talking about it? Where's the media? Where's the public outcry? Another example of the pervasive nature of ableism and how society views disabled people as expendable.

www.disabledginger.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

Rodney Taylor still needs our help!

He’s still locked in an ICE camp.

He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs.

He’s still facing deportation to Liberia.

He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored.

Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE

Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

www.disabledginger.com

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Leila Zai @fireshadow.bsky.social · 4d

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
open.substack.com/pub/disabled...

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE

Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

open.substack.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you toeveryone who shared and signed the petition to free Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in ICE custody for over 8 months.

What’s being done to him and other disabled immigrants is appalling, and we need to apply public pressure & help as many people as possible:

Sign the Petition

Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention

www.change.org

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 3h

This is it. Seems mysterious to some folks, but it's not at all. This is how it's always been. Destructiveness is easy [and fun for people who like to ruin lives].

Mother Bones, alt curmudgeon @l1vy.bsky.social · 4h

I know it seems mysterious, but it's just because it's a WHOLE lot easier to wreak havoc and destroy things, smash and grab, than it is to collaborate and painstakingly build up useful things that can endure.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 5h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 10h

full interview: youtu.be/7yXlxO1wk2I?...

Pritzker to Trump: 'Come and get me!'

YouTube video by MSNBC

youtu.be

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