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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 8h

Coping

Yeah, I'm knitting. I'm also reading - every day, after work, for an hour. And writing. A thousand words every day, after work. And working in exercise next week. In adapting to a new job - a commute, even - that's fallen by the wayside, but I'm aiming to be in an exercise routine by…

Coping

Yeah, I'm knitting. I'm also reading - every day, after work, for an hour. And writing. A thousand words every day, after work. And working in exercise next week. In adapting to a new job - a commute, even - that's fallen by the wayside, but I'm aiming to be in an exercise routine by Thanksgiving. Pru has a gym - unsupervised, so not like HBO's gym where there were trainers - but at least I can lift some controlled weights and get some steps in.

newvirago.com

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 10h

I think more people should be aware of how much cool stuff Link does in real life. He’s not just a poster.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 10h

Or...protein-of-your-choice and pepper sandwiches?

Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 10h

Or sausage and rice? Sold separately for those who need it, put together for those who need THAT?

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 10h

Have you tried risotto? Would that fly?

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 10h

> LLMs and generative models are not “progress”. They’re products and we ban those all the time.

www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/they-ba...

by @baldurbjarnason.com

'They ban products, don't they?'

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

www.baldurbjarnason.com

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 10h

Aw, sorry!

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 12h

There's always a baked pasta. Lasagna, stuffed shells, manicotti, ziti (well, I suppose that might be considered casserole-like).

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 12h

And it hurts so much to see brilliant women with prescience and acumen being ignored. I just hate it so much.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 12h

This photo is incredible. It's like a distillation of exactly who white techbros don't listen to because they've got their heads so far up their own asses, they simply cannot see (or don't care about, because it'll never affect them) the damage they are doing.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, this seems sketchy

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 14h

Er, yeah. Almost as if all the value of the company was vacuumed up by a private investment group?

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 15h

There have been many movies with the "guy's mistresses discover each other, fight, them team up to ruin him." Never has it been 17 mistresses and never has it been a bishop.

This is going to end up a movie.

Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 1d

"A Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 secret mistresses has been exposed after some of the women found out about each other and nearly came to blows."

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

Ciro Quispe López has handed in his notice to Pope Leo after an investigation by the Vatican over claims he had a string of lovers including a nun

www.thetimes.com

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 14h

Emily Dickinson! Emily Dickinson!

Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 18h

Here’s the thing I wish everyone could hold in their minds about writers—we love em dashes. We use em dashes. We are humans and not AI. We will not be deleting our em dashes just because AI uses them too. We were here first. You can pry my em dashes from my cold dead hands. F*ck AI.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 15h

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 15h

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 15h

I love that show so much. Cried at the very end.

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Alex Mack 10 🇯🇲 @chillarybanks.com · 16h

Jesus man. It shouldn’t even have to be like this.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

abcnews.go.com

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17h

That they want people to work for nothing is on brand.

Slavery, or some kind of feudalism, is their ideal social order.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 17h

And no severance!!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18h

Actually, I think the far-right is accurately identifying an existential issue.

So many of the most vehement far-right were either heavily bullied or did the bullying.

Teaching empathy to the next generation is fundamentally at odds with conservative political philosophy.

That's why they hate it.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 19h

End of an era.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 22h

It's terribly childish, but when everybody started using the phrase President Musk, he got the boot. IJS.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 1d

Officially entering runny nose season

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

Applications for JamCoders, a 1 month free algorithms & programming camp for Jamaican high schoolers, are now open.

Head over to jamcoders.org.jm#apply. No programming experience required for students.

We're looking for students & teaching assistants.

Deadline January 31.

JamCoders

jamcoders.org.jm

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 1d

You are. I await your additional tough guy scars.

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