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Maria Bornski
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Once (and maybe future) software person
Current artist (https://www.mariabornskistudios.com)
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mariabornski.bsky.social
I've been trying to figure out what I'd answer the "what's your weirdest quote from The Simpsons that you use frequently" and haven't been sure.

But this is causing me to realize I probably quote The Simpsons A LOT without actually realizing I'm quoting it...
tkingfisher.com Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Oct 2
“I am so smart! S-M-R-T!” comes up a LOT.
October 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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ygrene.bsky.social
me: i want to sleep in a human-sized hotdog bun

911: sir that's.....ok actually that sounds great

me: so who do we call

911: [shouting in background] we're checking now
September 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
This is Bryan Stevenson— attorney, NYU law prof, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, author of "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption". He has 2 degrees from Harvard and has argued cases at SCOTUS.

He say some judges instantly hate him and often mistake him for client he is defending.
jazzreads.bsky.social JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · Sep 28
So exhausting..
September 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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elderman.bsky.social
This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin
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synecdochic.dreamwidth.org
September 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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evandahm.bsky.social
obv significant that they admit this, but my understanding has been that this was self-evident? like you need a model of "what's true" in the system for it to be able to check against, and no such model exists?
September 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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courtneymilan.com
I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.
azansel.bsky.social AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · Sep 19
Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.
angryblacklady.blacksky.app Imani Gandy Cane 🎅🏾 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Sep 19
white cis men blocking people of color and other members of vulnerable communities because their risk factor is a lot different than ours is peak white nonsense.

It's also how I know they don't give a shit about us.
September 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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kbspangler.com
Over the last few days, I’ve learned that this guy who said vile things about me and those whom I love was coded and sold as a young Mr. Rogers to a very receptive audience. Has helped me understand the general response.

Journalists, however, are really blowing the moment by going along with it.
clairewillett.bsky.social Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Sep 13
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
September 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
This is exactly the right way to think of this; precisely what I'm saying, yes
electricland.bsky.social Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · Sep 9
I saw a thing the other day that basically said “no matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is ‘what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”
September 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
ALSO PREORDER THE SIDEQUESTED BOOK, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF KOALAS
kbspangler.com K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · Aug 30
NO NO NO NO WE ARE IN BOOK PREORDER MODE!

PREORDER SIDEQUESTED!!!

THE GOAL IS TO GET A PROFESSIONAL MANUFACTURER TO MAKE AND SHIP PEONY THE VULTURE PLUSHES TO THE ENTIRE WORLD BUT WE CAN'T GET THERE WITHOUT SHOWING HOW MUCH PEOPLE LOVE SIDEQUESTED!!!

sidequested.com/preorder-boo...
August 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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aegtx.bsky.social
every city should have a hot dancing librarian
stevemullis.net Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · Aug 29
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”

Cities:
August 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
A drawing of a horse. The front half of the horse is black. The back half of the horse is white. The tail is black. Text reads: I defragged my zebra
August 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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meganpiont.bsky.social
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!

California (by county/area)
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Massachusetts
North Carolina Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State

Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Hand holding small black and white hand lettered zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe" hand holding open zine. Pages read: "S Size of group, A Actions/Activity, L Location, U Uniforms/Clothes, T Time/Date, E Equipment
August 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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grigorylukin.bsky.social
Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"

grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...

#Worldcon
August 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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kivanbay.bsky.social
"Why do homeless people freak out like that, it's scary?" Consider how absolutely freaked out you would be with no actual safe space for yourself
August 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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kivanbay.bsky.social
Mental illness does contribute to people becoming homeless but I think sometimes people don't think about how being homeless causes and exacerbates mental illnesses. Please try to consider how your brain might be doing with a lack of privacy and constant trauma.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 21
JD Vance on homelessness: "I don't know why we accepted that it was reasonable to have crazy people yelling at our kids. You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family. Those are your streets."
August 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Holding all my kanaka comrades in my heart I read about these tsunami warnings. Keep safe, everyone in Hawaii.

“Take urgent action to protect life and property, including evacuations.”

Good guidance in this article about what to do:

www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/07/29/t...
LIVE: Tsunami warning issued for Hawaii after M8.7 earthquake off Russia
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says the earthquake struck at 1:25 p.m. HST off the east coast of Kamchatka.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
The latest PTWC continental advisory has max. wave height forecasts that put the threat into perspective. Most areas on the north american coast expecting less than a foot, with a few notable exceptions. www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

Hawaii is a different story. www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...
July 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
8.7 magnitude (!) earthquake off Kamchatka triggers tsunami warning for the Aleutian islands and tsunami watches down the Pacific coast www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...
July 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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sleary.bsky.social
ADHD friends, if you happen to be taking something for anxiety or depression, and you throw in something for allergies, you might have three or four things on this list. Stay cool.
ha4rvey.blacksky.app ha4rvey (he/him) @ha4rvey.blacksky.app · Jun 21
This is super-important, so have a little alt text:
June 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.
June 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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aprilglick.bsky.social
“I asked ChatGPT”
“I asked grok”

I asked Han Solo and he said we had a slight weapons malfunction, but, uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine, we're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
June 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
mariabornski.bsky.social
I still quote this at least weekly
katecarp.bsky.social Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · Jun 19
If we're sharing cultural artifacts from the Iraq war era with the youths, I am generationally required to share this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpj...
The End of the World
YouTube video by AlbinoBlackSheep
www.youtube.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM