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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 12m

Yes.
And just assuming the kids will be in financial/physical/mental shape to provide the care is also highly unrealistic.

Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 14m

Sounds fascinating but I once again am logged out and it doesn’t seem to remember who I am and my life has too much admin to work this hard to read an article.

A pity.

Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 4h

Can’t do live shows/second round of milking the success, if your voice actors are AI.

Just saying.

(And yes, I am sorry this clip comes from the lesser Jimmy’s show.)

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23h

KPop Demon Hunters is a brilliant film, but it’s also lovely seeing its voice actors, songwriters, and singers become stars after years of struggling in the industry

It’s pretty bonkers this is not a real band, and EJAE (lead vocals) hadn’t performed in a decade until this
youtu.be/8y-ViyUk7Dk?...

EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami from KPop Demon Hunters: Golden | The Tonight Show

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 4h

As teachers are fond of saying to so many students, “She disappoints me because she has so much potential.”

Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 4h

I know people back home who would totally pose for a photograph for a laugh.

However, I don’t think this man has the same self awareness.

Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 4h

Completely agree.

Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 13h

No, she shouldn’t have to.

But I genuinely appreciate that she did.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 14h

So could there be a run on the Starbucks’ bank?

Theoretically.

As I am curious.

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

“Starbucks holds nearly $2 billion of customers’ money in its rewards program. That’s more than the total deposits managed by 85 percent of chartered banks, making the coffee chain one of the biggest financial institutions in the country.” jacobin.com/2025/10/bank...

Everything Is Becoming a Bank

Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy, crippling pro...

jacobin.com

Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 16h

That’s a lovely story (and adorable family photo).

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 21h

I watched a few with my kids, but they are teens. I thought they were beautifully done, but they are not light and fluffy.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

I have no patience for anyone justifying killing children on mass scale for the actions of adults.

Can you imagine if Biden wiped out entire communities where Jan 6 participants took shelter after the event?

It would have been considered abhorrent and unjust.

As it should be.

As is this.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

Same opinion of writers who talk about how we need to adapt.

Look, my brain is not short of story ideas.

And frankly, most stories, at their core, are not original.

So if you are using AI, what are you bringing to the table that I haven’t already read before?

Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d

If I ran a consulting firm, I'd be yelling as loudly as I could that we will never use LLMs in lieu of the work of our experienced, talented, brilliant people. If a consulting firm's work is so shitty that it can be replaced with an LLM, then they should go out of business as soon as possible.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, why do people struggle to understand nuance and complexity…

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

It does grab the attention.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

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To all the people who “never saw this coming,” I had many reasons to insist my kids attend (local) RSA schools and not use their US passports. But one was over concerns about where the US was headed.

My US family had words.

I stood firm.

And I am not sorry.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

Nephews in US college went from selecting colleges by, “Which one did I most want to attend,” to “Which one might stills be here in 4 years.”

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

So many different feelings on this one.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

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

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

www.pbs.org

Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

That would be good. Please and thank you.

Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.
The moment I saw that unicorn (pre-frog) I was, “The optics is perfect.”

B/c it is all well & good to keep saying, “Non violent protesters,” but it’s totally a different thing when the public sees blow up cartoons facing guns.

All the classics should be there: Elsa, Shrek, Bambi, Ms Piggy…

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t understand who they are trying to appeal to.

It’s like news stations trying to become Fox News when the people who love Fox News already have Fox News.

X and Truth Social types are never going to love it here. It’s just a place to harass in between their real hangouts.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah.
I had a lot of hope for this place but now it is starting to feel like the final year before someone walked in carrying a sink.

And yet, I still want the place to succeed despite itself.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

The more I read the responses by BlueSky's dev team, the more annoyed I am about the ways that they've squandered the promise of what this site could be.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

I'm suprised he didn't say worse.

Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

I was explaining them to someone last night.

I think their brain about broke.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d

Reports that the South Africans on the flotilla are released.

Flotilla detainees | Six South Africans arrive safely in Jordan

Six South Africans who were detained when Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla have arrived safely in Jordan.

www.enca.com

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone?

Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 3d

Does anyone speak Greek?

Trying to confirm the meaning of "Kaneís" - which, according to some of the internet, means "nobody" but the internet being what it is...I thought I'd ask more of it.

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