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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 6m

Everyone needs to know that Dolly Parton responded to a climate disaster in her community with a temporary universal basic income for everyone who lost their homes.

Here's a short documentary about it:

The Great Equalizer: What Dolly Parton & a Tennessee Wildfire Can Teach About Universal Basic Income

YouTube video by In The Mesh

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 15h

• post a 5 film marathon where all 5 films are by different directors yet thematically cohesive

• post a film with a female cinematographer

• post a film with a Black director

• post a film directed by and about lgbtqia+

• post a poorly-reviewed/low RT or boxd score film you still love

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 22h

#Photographer Bernd Nowack Shares the Story Behind Viral #Photo of the #Moon Perfectly Centered Behind a #Tree

Link for more info: mymodernmet.com/full-moon-tr...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 20h

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

The TESCREAL Bundle

The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.

www.dair-institute.org

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 20h

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 16h

Using social media as an artist isn’t working anymore when your art isn’t only words and then offline there are no jobs for traditional workers themselves let alone for indie workers to change to.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 16h

A platform that doesn’t allow let alone prioritize visuals not gonna work for me. This the thing that always gets forgotten when ppl suggest folks delete or leave other platforms. There’s really nowhere that exists for photographers AND doesn’t let their mask slip against marginalized users. BOFFUM.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

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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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 18h

As I think about the soon to be migration from #thisplace I'm reminded of when we lost Livejournal.

I'm tired of digital refugee migration whenever the oppressors decide they don't want to tolerate "the lessers" anymore.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 17h

Wish I could relate.🥲🥲

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Mumbo Mouth @lotusgoon.bsky.social · 18h

Nina Simone in Central Park, 1958, photographed by Chuck Stewart

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21h

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20h

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

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

abcnews.go.com

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 20h

“How Black Women Ceramicists Shaped Art History” hyperallergic.com/1045792/how-...

How Black Women Ceramicists Shaped Art History

“Body Vessel Clay” at the Ford Foundation Gallery spans three generations of artists who embody continuity, molding the past and present.

hyperallergic.com

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 23h

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Excerpts from article (Leslie Vooris; LA Times) read:

“Tilly is not a person, not a performer, not even a flawed human being struggling toward art. It is a coded composite, a computerized ideal of cinematic beauty. It can be programmed to pout and cry but never to feel.”

“Supporters of Tilly Norwood describe it as the future of film because it is controllable, tireless and freakishly forever young.”

“An actor is an artist. An AI ‘actor’ is an asset. Tilly is designed to ‘perform’ only what its programmers and managers decide. It has no agency, only branding. SAG-AFTRA has already warned that AI models are built on the backs of countless human performances, without consent or compensation - which of course is not true innovation but a kind of creative thievery.”

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 23h

In the northeastern London borough of Redbridge, a community arts program has transformed a simple electric truck into a vibrant, mobile artwork.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/colo...

a side view of a colorful van that has been transformed into an artwork

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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Emmanuel Todd Lopez Jr. @wholesomedeve.bsky.social · 1d

He runs like a bad kid lol

Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 1d

Face this song does not require all that running ..the end 💀 😂

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 1d

I feel you.🫂

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 1d

You’re so lucky.😭🤎

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mojizele solarte (she/ her) @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 1d

Okay, instead of complaining about how bad I want to be sedated right now:

I saw Clipse on Saturday (for freeeeee). I got an incredible photo of them.

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Finch in Al-BOO!-querque 👻 @finchinabq.bsky.social · 1d

I calculated that the DVDs would take up five shelves, and by god, I was exactly right! But I suppose I’d better leave one empty shelf for inevitable future acquisitions. 😬

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