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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 14h

Decided to check FB for like my once a year check, and found this from 13 years ago.

Remember when the web wasn't all algorithms?

Jesus this was depressing.

A shoddily-censored screenshot from FB. It reads, from 13 years ago today, "Today, Facebook decided to show me a post from Barack Obama even though I don't like him on Facebook.

None of my friends shared the post. Facebook simply decided to tell me what I should like."

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 1d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 23h

Specificity, even specificity we don’t necessarily share, is deeply compelling. We need politicians willing to have personalities and cultures.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 23h

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 23h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

Was just about to google whether or not the rate at which your fingernails grow as you age changes because I swear I did not have to trim them this much as a kid.

Then I remembered I used to chew my nails.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 1d

I love this paragraph:

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 2d

I just think any company “too big to fail”, aka their destruction would destroy the economy, should be bailed out and the promptly cut to shreds by the FTC because they are clearly violating some antitrust statutes. It should be illegal to be too big to fail.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI is regurgitated gobbledygook that says nothing at all no matter how many words it uses, there is never any point or progression to the words.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 2d

*whispers* Listen to me. You’re a better writer than any GenAI. No matter how hard you find it to put things into words, no matter how artless the words are, how stiff it feels and how confusingly it is written.

You are still better than AI. Because you are actually trying to communicate something.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 2d

For me, there was this, but at base it was even simpler:

Whatever my attitude about it was, the people I wanted to follow didn't feel safe or welcome there.

I'm not joining a site to be somewhere alone, but to be where people are that I want to be in community with.

Mastodon turned them away.

Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 2d

"Go to Mastodon". I tried that. But it came off as a honey pot for people who get sexually aroused by the thought of watching normies try to install Linux.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 2d

IDK what else you call "People boarded up their windows and doors with plywood with 'There are children upstairs' painted on it and a civilian is killing other civilians and also you can't go outside after 7pm."

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 2d

As someone from Kenosha…IDK, I feel like the first shots in this have been fired.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 2d

People are red-state, blue-state thinking about this when everywhere is purple which makes everywhere a potential war zone.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 3d

Same reason the UK cops have been annoyed at protestors going "floppy"--it's hard to hold them and they look ridiculous needing five people to carry one skinny teenager.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 3d

This is actually very good to know - it's very easy to blow up a workbook to 20, 30GB if you're not careful

ScrivenerApp @scrivenerapp.bsky.social · 6d

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: The file size of an image imported into Scrivener does not change when you scale it down in the editor. An 8GB image will still be 8GB.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 3d

....I mean, this is a thought about like, 50 years from now?

S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking about all the schoolchildren who are going to learn about designating "Antifa" as terrorists and reading that "Antifa" was short for "antifascist" and just boggling.

Yeah, kid, us, too.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 4d

My iPhone autocorrects “apple” to “Apple” and I actually hate this.

Self-absorbed mfers

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 4d

Bigoted against a fancy pencil. Com’on.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 4d

Robots do not have genes to be eugenicist about. It is a bunch of electrified rocks. Be serious, people.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4d

Using the language we use to describe machines and applying it to humans is dehumanizing, because--wait for it--humans are not machines.

The word we use when we describe machines with human language is "anthropomorphizing."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4d

sorry if the eugenics issue that is getting your goat right now is not *gestures wildly at pile of ableist anti-vax bullshit* and is instead that you think the billionaire's pet toy should be treated like a "real person," your judgment is sus.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 4d

I feel similarly to "We've all gotten used to [something that's actually avoidable if you try for even five minutes]"

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 4d

Not an educator, but if you personally want to get back into reading books, here's what helped me (thread)

A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly bless any educator doing battle with modern-day attention spans

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

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