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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 9h

I'm kind of tired of pretending that "sense of brotherhood" is a real, meaningful term and isn't just a euphemism for men's spaces where they bond over misogynistic humiliation rituals and coach each other on how best to commit sexual assault.

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 6h

If you're trying to "solve art" you're either incredibly stupid or incredibly evil. Art isn't a problem, it's a solution

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 2h

I went looking for a good link about Newt and Susan Smith, and found this from 2016:

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A very long list of dumb and awful things Newt Gingrich has said and done

Still, he may have a prominent role in the Trump administration.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 2h

"So you're telling me there's a chance of meatballs."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 3h

Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 3h

okay I'm sorry to literally beg for this, I've done part time jobs and you all have been amazing sponsoring for me doing work around the community But I go 1400 a month rent is due at the end of the month and I'm freaking out, they can delay it until the 8th but I think I honestly can't pay it

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 5h

campus rape culture isn't a problem specific to Cornell. After my own activism at my old college, I met many (and taught some) activists across the country. I beg people to look beyond one case to see a systemic problem.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 9h

the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 4h

tim robinson making a ridiculous order at the drive thru

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Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 3h

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 9h

Chat, is it good when a site's head of trust and safety uses an automated system to block half the users?

Screenshot of Aaron Rodericks, Bluesky's head of trust and safety, saying "Automated block actions on my account so that I can stay unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my lane. Focused. Flourishing. TBH it was well overdue.

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Kali Kittie @infatuatedkitty.bsky.social · 6h

PLEASE THIS IS SO SO URGENT!!!!! I was hoping using a photo would help get more boosts ):

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Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 6h

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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 4h

Last day. I still have a fairly significant chunk left. :-/

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 6h

Lately I've been thinking a lot about Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man" and AI. He was so ahead of his time in so many ways - or maybe squarely in his time but so many missed the very obvious signposts of where we were heading. Gonna be spoilers in this thread for a 25-year old book.

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404 Media @404media.co · 4h

"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after using ChatGPT.

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Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 7h

listen everyone, i’m getting sick of all the criticism. this is my first blender project. i’m still figuring out how pivot points work. i am also aware that at frame 860 he teleports to fairfax along the x-axis. i’m working on it

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 11h

and she was right!!! he is so handsome!!!!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 9h

Those arguing for mass-adoption of AI art always seem intent on proving the wrong thing; that AI tech will change beyond all recognition. They seem less inclined to prove their argument's much wilder claim; that human nature, and all previous modes of taste, emotion and investment, will change too.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 5h

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 5h

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.

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Jennifer de Guzman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 6h

I wonder what AI dudes like this would say if you asked them why people create art and enjoy art that other people create and have been doing so for millennia.

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phil @philjamesson.com · 7h

as always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery

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R.C. Murphy @rcmurphy.bsky.social · 6h

Still no donations this week. I don't know what else to do. All I can ask is that people keep sharing. Maybe a miracle will happen this week.

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 4h

#JoyScrolling The full Pink Panther theme on acoustic guitar: absolutely *delightful*

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when they say classical guitar ain't cool... (pink panther)

YouTube video by Lucas Brar

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 7h

“AI is just another tool.” No one’s arguing that. We’re arguing that it’s a *bad* tool, right now often dangerously bad, and that if it’s going to be used at all, some very fundamental problems with it first need to be addressed.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 7h

Everytime I see someone talking about Talarico's chances in Texas, I just want to claw my face. I. Do. Not. Care. Manchin and Sinema and Lieberman and Fetterman should have taught you a lesson. If you betray trans people for "electability reasons" you are not to be trusted.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 7h

Twice in the last few weeks, friends have commented how thoughtful it is of us to have crafted this peephole in the blinds for our cats on the staircase landing. But that was the work of orange tabby, Junior, who laboriously crafted it over a period of weeks. Just enough to see out.

A set of blinds, closed, with just a small square notched out at cat height

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♡Haunted Kate 🇵🇸 🍂 @katespeace.northsky.social · 7h

good guy fisk

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 8h

you'd think that if Eliezer Yudkowsky really was the greatest genius of our era, he could have seen this coming

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 7h

at the end of the day, [false statement asserted as a truth].

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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 7h

Tony Yazbeck and Michael Berresse's Broadway Backwards performance of "Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag" is my personal "Umbrella". The voices. The acting. The execution of the choreography. The inhumanly impeccable unison on "Hot Honey Rag". Wow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1OY...

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Tony Yazbeck, Michael Berresse - Chicago's "Nowadays / Hot Honey Rag" 2014 Broadway Backwards

YouTube video by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

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snuffbait mahjong @incognitosystem.bsky.social · 7h

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tht guy from the bear losing his shit captioned with

"OHHHHH GOD OH FUCK SOMEONE ORDERED FOOD FROM MY RESTAURANT AND NOW I HAVE TO MAKE IT AHHHHH"

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 7h

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees For the trees have no mouth And they must scream

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 7h

i agree. even if the ai “writing” is “perfect,” i don’t want to read it. just like i wouldn’t want to live off meal tablets. who would?

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badly drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social · 7h

May I present: in defence of pretending to be an artist by using AI

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 8h

This is very much my thinking on generative AI. Right now, it’s a complete nonstarter—built and maintained through unethical means and environmentally calamitous—but somehow remove those issues, and it seems like a thing that still largely takes value away from the world and that I don’t want.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 8h

aaaigh

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Mara Doesn’t Wanna Be Homeless @marawamona.bsky.social · 9h

Arthropreneurs

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Becca Petunia 🏳️‍⚧️ @tallgirlpetunia.northsky.social · 9h

Today is Fran Brill's birthday! She's the legendary puppeteer and voice behind such Muppets as Prairie Dawn, Betty Lou, and Elmo's best friend Zoe. Celebrate by listening to my interview with her from the third episode of A Prairie Dawn Companion! www.toughpigs.com/pdc-103/

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A Prairie Dawn Companion – A Conversation with Fran Brill - ToughPigs

The legendary Fran Brill talks about her career on Sesame Street in this exciting new episode of A Prairie Dawn Companion!

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Mara Doesn’t Wanna Be Homeless @marawamona.bsky.social · 9h

💚🤎 As a dame, I’m always doing this.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 9h

US healthcare system: iN oThER cOuNtRieS YoU'lL wAiT mOnTHs fOr aN aPpOiNtMeNt! Also US healthcare system: Wheelchair order will take 4mos. Me: cool so if I started the process on 8/24-- US HC system: --no that's 4 months AFTER your specialist appt. That takes 6 weeks to schedule for 3-4 mos out.

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Rocket Girl Erin 👩🏼‍🚀🚀🔆🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 HELP! READ PINNED SKEET! @rocketgirlerin.northsky.social · 9h

Last day. It's been a bust so far. 😞

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 9h

I'm in charge of decorating for our Halloween event again and I managed to subtly convince everyone to do Snow White with me (by saying we're doing Snow White and I'm Snow White)

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Go Out$ide 🩵💚 it's not my birthday but still be nice to me @iloveoutside.bsky.social · 9h

is supposed to make you uncomfortable! that's the point!

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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 9h

It's a start.

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Serenity "🜔🝆🜌🜂" Dee 🍜 @sapphixy.bsky.social · 9h

an excellent thread

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