vernie, the bone hydra
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they/them, mid-30s. artist-ish, writer-ish, & reluctant iowan IG ☞ rainbarrelbindery
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California license plate with text "BUNTA 2".
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ca-dmv-bot.bsky.social
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Verdict: ACCEPTED
California license plate with text "GAY".
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wkdart.bsky.social
Of course not lmao Generative AI is entirely built on the of stealing art and prose you did not create and throwing it in a blender to make something that vaguely resembles what you want. That's literally the type of user base you've cultivated. You want thieves to pay to steal? Are you serious?
iansociologo.bsky.social
So many billions spent on the build out of infrastructure for a product that hardly anyone is willing to pay to use.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/o...
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
John Darnielle just gave a shout to Chicago for showing the country how to turn up when the fascists show up. ❤️
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courtneymilan.com
To be clear: I already believe that the Roberts court lacks legitimacy, and that enough members of the court have engaged in open corruption that none of its opinions should be given precedential authority.
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courtneymilan.com
There is no measured way to say what I am about to say.

If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court.

I do not say this lightly.
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alusuralwusta.bsky.social
New article alert!

Join us in exploring a phrase from Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī’s 13th-c. geography. He refers to the Damādim of northeast Africa as “Tatars of the Sūdān.” Hannah Barker interrogates the racializing discourses at play in such comparative claims.

[image: British Library Or 1524]
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krebsverena.bsky.social
"Something happened in Northeast Africa in the early thirteenth century.

It was swift, violent, destructive, and perpetrated by non-Muslims.

It might have been accompanied by an outbreak of disease; it might have had apocalyptic overtones; it might have been several events rolled into one."
Screenshot of the article abstract: The Tatars of the Sūdān: Race, Place, and Power in Ibn Saʿīd’s Geography HannaH Barker Arizona State University Abstract Scholars in the medieval Islamicate world occasionally compared peoples of the far south and the far north, referencing their barbarity to illustrate the effects of extreme climate on human bodies and societies. This article discusses a specific north-south comparison: the portrayal of the Damādim as “the Tatars of the Sūdān,” introduced by Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī in his thirteenth-century geography. He used it to connect the Chinggisid devastation of Khwarazm in the thirteenth century with the Damādim’s devastation of the Nūba and the Ḥabasha in Northeast Africa. Analyzing this comparison in a historical and discursive context tells us little about the Tatars, Northeast Africa, or the Damādim. Instead it reveals Ibn Saʿīd’s work as a racemaker. His comparison emerged in a historically specific moment: it was shaped by the imposition of Tatar rule in the Islamicate East and the constructs of the intellectual community in which he participated. The fact that Ibn Saʿīd invented entirely new content for the term “Damādim” and that this came to be adopted by his peers illustrates how racial stereotypes could change. Finally, the comparison reveals the power dynamics of racialization, as Tatars and Turks holding power in the Islamicate world could intervene in Islamicate racial discourse in a way that Black Africans could not.
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artherstory.bsky.social
Title page to Cinquante octonaires sur la va [sic] vanite et inconstance du monde … 1607, calligraphed & illustrated by #EstherInglis (Franco-Scottish, 1570/1-1624). Held in the Royal Collection Trust, rct.uk/collection/1... #womenartists #artherstory
The title page of a calligraphed manuscript, with text in capital letters within a box outlined in blue, surrounded by a thick border of flowers and butterflies, predominantly in blue, red and green against a gold background. Around the very edge of the illustration is a much narrower border of alternating red, green and gold diagonal stripes.
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sovereignbeast.bsky.social
It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
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celestielf.bsky.social
The fight for trans rights and the fight for our planet are one in the same
sovereignbeast.bsky.social
It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
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chrisplevs.bsky.social
This a beautiful and accurate recount of what these past weeks have been like.
mskellymhayes.bsky.social
As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.
Fighting for Our Stolen Neighbors: ICE, Tear Gas and a Guitar Blown Open
"Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human," says Jessica Darrow.
organizingmythoughts.org
vvoogs.bsky.social
was rooting for canada at this point for the rugby world cup so i'm pretty bummed :( watching them play this tournament has been amazing!
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dly.bsky.social
i can't afford therapy so i just shovel Oreos into my mouth as i stare into the middle distance
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cait.bsky.social
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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cait.bsky.social
when the youtube video says "now don't worry if you weren't chronically online enough to understand all of that" but you understood all of it
nanalan frowning really hard
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divyampersaud.com
YOU WILL LIVE YOU WILL LIVE YOU WILL LIVE

I refuse
I refuse
I REFUSE
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lexialex.bsky.social
The United Nations was created in 1945 to replace the ineffectual League of Nations after it failed to prevent the Holocaust. Here we are 2 years into a full blown live streamed genocide and they invite Hitler to the mic. Who gives a shit that some people walked out...he should have never been there
adamjschwarz.bsky.social
A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I actually want people to express moral shock at horrible shocking things. I don’t think that’s naive, I think that’s a sign their heart still works
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raygunsite.com
4PM Today (Friday, Sept 26): Protest at the Neil Smith Federal Building in downtown Des Moines in support of Dr Ian Roberts.

Dr Roberts was detained by ICE in Des Moines and, apparently, driven to an ICE facility in Council Bluffs.