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Visionary Locomotive Works @visionary1126.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello!
My name's Thomas - Visionary Locomotive Works.
I love trains, and draw them, model them, and customize them. Both with and without faces.
I also do a variety of other artwork. I hope you enjoy them!🚂🚗

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 17h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 20h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 9h

#WIPwednesday

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Gzei ❓❗ @gzeidraws.bsky.social · 8h

Ms. Marvel 🌟
#MarvelTokonFightingSouls #Marvel

MARVEL Tōkon Fighting Souls: Ms Marvel in her Tokon outfit, giving a huge grin and a sized up thumbs up with one hand.

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Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.social · Nov 25

It's finally getting cold, and the birds are becoming
r o u n d

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Lucca (🏳️‍⚧️Aunt Tifa👊) @spookalucca.games · Jul 27

Current call to actions include:
- EFF: act.eff.org/action/congr...
- www.stopkosa.com
- actionnetwork.org/petitions/ce...

The goal of this is to signal to lawmakers this bill is not popular and shouldn't be brought before Congress (should die in committee or elsewhere).

These links have scripts!

Stop KOSA

KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!

www.stopkosa.com

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 8h

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Underpalewater @underpalewater.bsky.social · 2d

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 15h

I've been seeing my favorite fuzzy friends around! 🍂🐛

Illustration of a wooly (sometimes spelled woolly) bear caterpillar. It's fuzzy and cute and has a happy little smile. There's lines radiating around it and above it says "it's wooly time!" in lowercase hand lettering. The background is a light orange checkered pattern.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 13h

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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🚂 🏳️‍⚧️ I R M A 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 @ironirma103.bsky.social · 10h

Happy lesbian day!

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Milos15Gameplays @milos15gameplays.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a while since posting a fully finished art, but here it is. The first illustration I did for Thomas goes Fishing.
#TheRailwaySeries #ThomasTheTankEngine #RWS #Thomasgoesfishing #TTTE

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

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konno @konnosaurus.bsky.social · 23h

a collection of friends! #ttte #tttefanart

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that I have a video up this week about Banned Book Week

They Started Banning Books. Now They’re Banning Everything Else.

YouTube video by Anthony Gramuglia

youtu.be

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

just an obscene lie, but because it's "will be" nothing happens. Oracle is posting razor-thin gross profit margins (which do not mean they're actually making a profit, by the way!). Oracle lost $100m in three months on renting out Blackwell GPUs.

www.theinformation.com/articles/int...

In the three months that ended in August, Oracle generated around $900 million from rentals of servers powered by Nvidia chips and recorded a gross profit of $125 million—equal to 14 cents for every $1 of sales, the documents show. That’s lower than the gross margins of many nontech retail businesses.

As sales from the business nearly tripled in the past year, the gross profit margin from those sales ranged between less than 10% and slightly over 20%, averaging around 16%, the documents show.

In some cases, Oracle is losing considerable sums on rentals of small quantities of both newer and older versions of Nvidia’s chips, the data show. A spokesperson for Oracle, which doesn’t publicly disclose the AI cloud server unit’s financials, did not have a comment on those figures.

The 14% gross margin figure appears to take into account the labor, power and other direct costs of running Oracle data centers, including depreciation expenses for some of the equipment. Other unspecified depreciation expenses would eat up another 7 percentage points of margin, the documents show. Equity analysts such as Gil Luria from D.A. Davidson say they tend to account for depreciation of chips and other data center equipment when calculating a cloud provider’s gross margin, as the equipment is a key cost of selling cloud services.

That dynamic seems to contradict Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s recent comment that the release of newer chips essentially wipes out demand for older ones.

Oracle’s margins are also affected by how many of its servers customers are actually using—and paying for. Utilization of Oracle’s GPU cloud servers ranges between 60% and 90%, depending on the type of Nvidia chip that powers them, according to internal documents.

In the three months that ended in August, Oracle lost nearly $100 million from rentals of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which arrived this year. That’s partly because there is a period between when Oracle gets its data centers ready for customers and when customers start using and paying for them, the documents show. It’s not clear what causes the gap or how Oracle plans to shorten it.

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Laura Beltran (Commissions Open) @laurabeltran2001.bsky.social · 1d

COOL AND BADASS art trade with @segastarlight.bsky.social #arttrade #art #fanart

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

The Washington Post is Fox News in print

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Maybe Train Enthusiast @cobramerciless.bsky.social · 1d

Egg.

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 3d

Your periodic reminder that "biological sex" is a propaganda term spread by anti-trans groups, largely pushed by Christian Nationalists orgs like Alliance Defending Freedom; Family Resource Council & Family Policy Alliance; and the Heritage Foundation.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Sex and Gender Definitions in Legislation

docs.google.com

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1d

Cis friends and allies: Do you see how "biological" is simply a slur when used by transphobes to demean trans people?

"Birth name" is a term we already have (not that that would be any more defensible, just less insane-sounding). "Biological" here is solely a dog-whistling cudgel against trans ppl

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "The judge also would not refer to the defendant by his biological name -- referred to him by the pronouns."

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Super GHOUL Girl @supergeekgirl.bsky.social · 1d

We are LIVE on Twitch! Come hang out as we try out Digimon Story Time Stranger!
(and yes, I WILL get back to Cyber Sleuth, don't worry!)
www.twitch.tv/super_geek_g...

Super_Geek_Girl - Twitch

What is up, fellow geeks? Super Geek Girl here, AKA Ariel Graham! I voice Karane Inda in 100 Girlfriends, Samidare Asahina in Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Tia in Overlord, and more! Come watch me p...

www.twitch.tv

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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