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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10h

His “crime”? A burglary charge from when he was a teenager.

The state of Georgia granted him a full pardon.

He just got engaged, he runs a barber shop and hasn’t had so much as a parking ticket since.

His health is deteriorating in custody and he needs us to get loud for him!

Sign the Petition

Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention

www.change.org

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Salmon Toro&Tenmi🍉 @salmontoro.bsky.social · 14h

That’s what I suspected but couldn’t remember for sure.
Why GDC wants to go that way IDK.

Salmon Toro&Tenmi🍉 @salmontoro.bsky.social · 14h

I thought this would be Turkey!
But the show proved me immensely wrong.
I still watched it.
Mr Villain’s Day Off was glorious.

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Salmon Toro&Tenmi🍉 @salmontoro.bsky.social · 14h

No kidding.
How is E3 holding up after it stopped being a big press event? :/

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 17h

I am fascinated by how ubi has welded the aesthetics of politics in its games and marketing for decades, but always been profoundly cowardly about engaging with them. Political aspartame.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 20h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Salmon Toro&Tenmi🍉 @salmontoro.bsky.social · 16h

Oh no

Salmon Toro&Tenmi🍉 @salmontoro.bsky.social · 16h

Ticket prices have always been extremely painful for full passes. I suppose the venue is increasing rent but GDC has no other means to make money.

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boney🔞💖 @boneyhag.bsky.social · Aug 5

he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵

how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org

info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

drawing of a man laying on bed with an old school phone in hand. he has a speech bubble that says "I'm so confused~ is what i'm buying illegal?" the text on the page says "keep calling and writing until payment processor censorship is reversed. one call a day makes a difference! mastercard and visa's statements aren't good enough. let's keep up the pressure together!"

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17h

Because customer service chatbots are famously beloved by all. This definitely won’t devolve into dying people yelling “REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE” and jamming the 0 button

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 1d

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

buff.ly

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岩根雅明 @animator1965.bsky.social · 1d

テストアニメ112作業配信　アナログ＃17 www.youtube.com/live/6kCiPX7... @YouTubeより

テストアニメ112作業配信　アナログ＃17

YouTube video by 岩根雅明アニメスタジオ　Iwane Masaaki’s Animating Studio

www.youtube.com

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Salmon Toro&Tenmi🍉 @salmontoro.bsky.social · 2d

I’m absolutely mad at CNN trying to fault the poor and sick cuz I know how much private jets pollution!

www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...

Carbon pollution from high-flying rich in private jets soars

“The problem is that the 26,000 aircraft and the individuals using them will say ‘We are just a small group. We are not relevant in terms of emissions.’ But everybody else will look at the small group...

www.pbs.org

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Salmon Toro&Tenmi🍉 @salmontoro.bsky.social · 2d

How much pollution is private jets causing?

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Salmon Toro&Tenmi🍉 @salmontoro.bsky.social · 2d

Murrikan really drive everywhere no thanks to their transit hate 😭

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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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電ファミニコゲーマー @denfaminicogame.bsky.social · 3d

『DLsite』がクレジットカードに代わる新たな決済手段「みんなの銀行決済」の提供を開始。口座直結型の即時決済サービスで、スマホ完結型のデジタルバンク「みんなの銀行」の口座と「viviON ID」を連携することで利用可能に
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2510062e

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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RyanKamos @ryan-kamos.bsky.social · 13d

From Orange Season to Project Evertree.
I've learned a lot in these past few years!

#pixelart #art #gamedev

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Sarah Gaines @sarahgaines.bsky.social · 3d

You got that right ✅️

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 3d

I only noticed one inconsequential error, which is pretty amazing for anything having to do with color, and, more importantly, he corrected some information for me and introduced a new way of thinking about the central issue.

Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 3d

Tor is one of my favorite YouTubers, and for a non-expert, he does a REALLY good job of exploring the relationship of color, language, and perception in this video.

China's Lost Color

YouTube video by Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities

youtu.be

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The Verge @theverge.com · 5d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 3d

people who built bsky:
-trans women (bsky protects jesse singal)
-Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism)
-SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK)
-organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse)
-artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

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Salmon Toro&Tenmi🍉 @salmontoro.bsky.social · 3d

Dear collective barkeep intelligence of this site, maybe someone can help Ami make this at home 🙏

There’s so many reasons not to give the Mouse corp your money too.

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Salmon Toro&Tenmi🍉 @salmontoro.bsky.social · 3d

Oooh this is a great idea!

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 3d

Flatten out an N95 and duct-tape it to the inside and you're golden.

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日本アニメフィルム文化連盟-NAFCA- @nafca-official.bsky.social · 4d

昨今話題になっている生成AIについて

日本語原文です。

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