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Mary Gillis

@marygillis.bsky.social

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Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase writer/editor at The Beaverton she/her | Vancouver B.C. Articles: https://www.thebeaverton.com/author/mary-gillis/ Money for me? Sure, go ahead: https://ko-fi.com/marygillis

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm not "wasting time scrolling social media." I'm gathering telemetry.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9h

Once you get a taste for writing speeches for maniacs, it's in your blood

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Isabel Zaw-Tun @izzyzaw.bsky.social · 14h

everybody’s jealous of me since I decided to get plastic surgery to have Cuttlefish skin. they‘re resentful because I camouflage myself as a brick wall or a gorseberry bush in order to steal their croissants off their plates at cafes. I’ve never felt so beautiful

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

thank u potato

strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 12h

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 10h

(not saying all YouTube creators are soulless slop machines, just, you know, the one who's being quoted)

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 10h

I can't even imagine how disconcerting the mechanical soulless slop machines must be if you're an organic soulless slop machine.

MrBeast: AI means it's 'scary times' for YouTube creators

He says he's worried about what will happen to millions of creators when AI videos are as good as normal ones.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

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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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 15h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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headless horseDan @etbeeegood.bsky.social · 11h

having a lil private Halloween candy festival in the garage w some moths

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 10h

In conclusion, SENSE8 is a land of contrasts.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 11h

For a show that's about empathy, a LOT of hired goons die in SENSE8. Like, a lot. Just so many dead, faceless goons. And I feel bad for their families, because of all the empathy the show encourages me to have.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 11h

Something that's so refreshing about SENSE8 is its earnestness. Yes, it occasionally gets too earnest, and the overarching plot is kinda silly (the end goal of the evil corp is pretty meh), but mostly it's just a very sweet show about how empathy and connection are good. Also, fighting and sex.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 11h

And goddamn, I forgot how hot Wolfgang is.

I admit, I do have a thing for violent, taciturn male characters who are as loyal as they are emotionally damaged. See also Amos in THE EXPANSE.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 11h

SENSE8 was so much fun. Not perfect, but so much fun.

And it looks gorgeous. If anything, it's even more beautiful now than when it was new, because since then TV show aesthetics have been getting more and more flat and boring. This show cost a fortune but every cent is on screen.

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Nate @thenatewolf.bsky.social · 11h

No, terrible public library website, I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at those who have failed you.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11h

There are plenty of hilarious things about Stephen Miller that have nothing to do with his height. The fact that he's afraid of Black people. That he hasn't emotionally matured because a Latina curved him for being a weirdo. That he looks like Dracula and Goebbels had a science baby.

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 18h

Archeologist: we've decoded the Rosetta Stone! Now we can read Egyptian hieroglyphics!

Reporter: amazing! [pointing to image of a bird] what does this one mean?

Archeologist: that means "bird"

Reporter: ok... [pointing to image of a cat] and this one?

Archeologist: you're not gonna believe this,

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 11h

Any day now the ass-kissing will work...

youtu.be/fRy0NpBmP44?...

No tariff relief for Canadians after Tuesday’s meeting in Washington

YouTube video by CHCH News

youtu.be

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, the horror of the timeline changing is the point of my post.

Kinda weird that you read it and felt I needed to be informed about the existence of Simpsons floating timelines. Do you also think I need to be informed that the characters rarely change clothes?

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · Aug 10

what exactly happens when they run out of seniors

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 10

“Computing graduates are feeling particularly squeezed because tech firms are embracing A.I. coding assistants, reducing the need for some companies to hire junior software engineers. The trend is evident in downtown San Francisco”

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 12h

The cosmic ballet did not go on.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 13h

The plot of the next Simpsons movie should be the kids at Springfield Elementary digging up a time capsule that was buried 40 years ago and realizing they're the same children who buried it because their world hasn't aged in 4 decades.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: "I will never, ever comprehend how humans can be so evil that you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades [..] of suffocating oppression, apartheid, occupation."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Genocide

Thunberg Confirms Abuse by Israeli Abductors, But Urges World to Focus on Gaza Genocide | Common Dreams

"This genocide and other genocides are being enabled and fueled by our own governments, our institutions, our media, and companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity."

www.commondreams.org

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 18h

A bill that basically allows teachers to acknowledge that trans people exist is too spicy for this nazi fluffer

Republicans latched onto the legislation as an example of "gender ideology" at work in state government, with the Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones (R) demanding Newsom veto it.
The bill promotes the "theory that reproductive anatomy does not necessarily determine a person's gender," Jones wrote in a message to Newsom.
"For third grade students the framework states,"
'When
providing instruction on sexual and reproductive organs, teachers can introduce the concept that gender does not always match the sexual and reproductive organs described," Jones said.
"Teaching controversial gender theories to students as young as eight or nine years old is not a practice that most Californians support, nor want to see happening in our schools."

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 18h

Think of the time savings!

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Mark Hill @mehill.bsky.social · 18h

I've never been tempted to give spammers my money until today, when my inbox received "Empty Your Bladder TWICE AS FAST with THIS Powerful Japanese Move"

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