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Callan S. @leavesdancing.bsky.social · 1d

She was so good overall! Quiet but interested when walking around, didn’t jump on people, and was very polite. Even the piano playing didn’t phase her!

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Callan S. @leavesdancing.bsky.social · 1d

So bored, mother. Waiting is hard! @jordansbrock.bsky.social #uglydogs

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Callan S. @leavesdancing.bsky.social · 1d

Fierce Aleya hunting bugs and relaxing on the grass, waiting for @jordansbrock.bsky.social

White woolly husky puppy relaxing on the grass

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Callan S. @leavesdancing.bsky.social · 1d

Aleya, at Walter Reed for @jordansbrock.bsky.social’s doc appt.

Aleya, 7 month old wooly white husky puppy, new service dog in training.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 1d

The right to read belongs to all of us, but rights only survive when we defend them. ALA is standing with library workers, parents, and readers to push back against censorship. You can donate to support our work at ilovelibraries.org/1984.

Censorship is so 1984, but supporting libraries is so 2025.

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🎃SCARE-sha🎃 @spacethey.gay · 1d

from a purely economic standpoint, thats a 46% return on investment. literally wasting money by not doing it!!!

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 2d

A bully believes that kindness is weakness. A fool believes that bullying is strength. A true warrior knows that a bully is weak, and that compassion and kindness are strengths they could never comprehend.

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Callan S. @leavesdancing.bsky.social · 3d

I haven’t seen Titanic, either.

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 3d

Don't go into tomorrow worried about how you are going to cope with it. Go into it knowing that you will cope with it, come what may. Knowing that you are a warrior, that you are worthy, come what may.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

"AI" is absolutely and ONLY a marketing term, and at this point if it's being used, the intent behind it is to overpromise to the consumer/end user on the program's actual capabilities. And, of course, none of the "AI" is actually intelligent in any meaningful way.

derickhuth.bsky.social @derickhuth.bsky.social · 6d

It would be neat if it wasn’t marketed as AI. Predictive statistical modeling doesn’t really slide off the tongue I guess

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

This is tech/marketing people leveraging decades of science fiction media presenting "AI" as generally encyclopedic and infallible. People think they're getting JARVIS, when what they're getting is the machine version of that annoying dude in your dorm confidently spouting bullshit on every subject

Geoff Balls @geoffballs.bsky.social · 6d

This marketing term is causing untold harm, of course, mostly to the naive and gullible. But it’s surprising how many educated and apparently intelligent people are placing an unwarranted degree of trust in these programmes.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 8d

Over the past century and a half, the US military has developed an entire body of law relating to the legitimate use of force that Hegseth completely erases here. To most in the armed forces, it is important to have a code of ethics (no matter how imperfect). Otherwise they are just hired killers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open"

That's it. That's the whole story.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 8d

Yes. (And still getting "standoff" BS and "who will blink first" and "who will voters blame" from news.)

Trump and MAGA control the *entire* government. It's a simple fact:
- White House
- Senate
- House
- Scotus
- OMB (to the hilt)
- Every regulatory agency

They're in command. It's on them.

OBrienSci @obriensci.bsky.social · 8d

I do not understand why they cannot get the headlines right.

Just follow the gop playbook!

“Repubs control it all! The shutdown is on them!”

As nauseum.

Don’t lead with the nuance.

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 8d

Cynicism is often the easiest position we can take, surrendering before even putting up a fight. Empathy and hope, a hunger for something better, are worthier paths. After all, it takes courage to strive for better days, to right what's wrong, to seek the sun even through the darkest of clouds.

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Callan S. @leavesdancing.bsky.social · 9d

Mazikeen: Just a borzoi girl and her purple octopus plushie.

A red brindle borzoi on a bed with a blue bedspread with a purple octopus plushie.

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boreian 🇨🇦 @boreian.bsky.social · 11d

if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼

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Jordan @jordansbrock.bsky.social · 11d

Look who’s in @leavesdancing.bsky.social’s car!!! #UglyDogs

We couldn’t have done this without you. The UglyDogs are the best people ON THE PLANET. We’re so grateful to every single one of you. Now I’m gonna go have a little cry and pad my incisions so I can get all the puppy cuddles.

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Callan S. @leavesdancing.bsky.social · 14d

Take care of yourself, and good luck at your appointment! ❤️

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Spy Fi 🇺🇦 @spy-fi.bsky.social · 18d

People what’s stopping you from dressing like this

John Saxon as Dylan Hunt, Janet Margolin as Harper-Smythe, Ted Cassidy as Isiah, Christopher Cary as Baylok promo picture for “Planet Earth” (1974).

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 18d

Kahless tells us that in the face of censors, of oppressors who would use your words against you even if true, you must speak out all the more loudly. All you do by silencing yourself voluntarily is save them the effort of silencing you.