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The initial payment overdue for September is $481 so when we get the mail on Monday, there's most likely gonna be a shut off notice needing that in full (plus potential late fee). Just like there was last month where we had to get MA help to pay that then Tribe had to help with next overdue amount

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 23h

Up at 4am after a night of what basically amounted to just a few naps 🫠 insomnia is obnoxious. at least I don’t have to work today though

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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ShouXin手訫 @shouxin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some little cats: playful, quietly sulking, or simply enjoying a long stretch. Each has its own mood, free-spirited and a little unpredictable. There’s something so charming about cats just being themselves. #shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #pet #sketch #sketchdaily

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a homemade strawberry cake

painting, on a road in the middle of the forest at night a skeleton in black clothes holds a strawberry shortcake being followed by a ghost, a capybara and a cat

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/09/2026

These clowns want to cede the most important decisions in comics storytelling to a fucking bot. And you know this would lead to further underpayment of artists. Boycott any book or publisher that uses this.

Walk me through what the platform actually does.

You put in a manuscript. The system spends time studying the story, including the thesis, the background, the protagonist, and the emotional beats that pay off for a reader, and produces a storyboard that gets you to roughly 60–70% of a finished product. Then an editor, the author, and an illustrator go in and shape that further, because a purely AI-generated output tends to lack soul and be generic. This is not a self-driving car. It's more like handing a Ferrari to someone who already knows how to drive.

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it's not hyperbolic to say that if the ways you talk and think about disabled/sick people (as well as the COVID precautions we may take) are indistinguishable from how fascists talk about disabled/sick people—even down to the same statements—then you have a fucking problem.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

raise their goddam taxes holy shit

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HELP BEX! bit.ly/HelpBex @ovaettr.gay · 25/09/2026

Elias has lost sight in one eye, we can't let him lose the other. He is a boy who is too young to lose his life to this war. This is horrific and I wish them great fortune and many donations. Let's share, do our part, offset tax dollars that were spent causing this destruction of life. #HelpSky

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Help Mohammed and his famile.

Father's Urgent Call: Save Little Elias's Sight and Life

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEED MET!! Thank you to everyone who boosted!!

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UPDATE: EXTREMELY URGENT Rocci is at risk of losing his current job if he isn’t able to get the remaining $20 ASAP for gas so that he can make it to his work place! PLEASE HELP

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Still no movement! please contribute if you can and BOOST!! We are almost out of time!!

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

STILL NOT MET, PLEASE BOOST AND HELP IF YOU CAN deadline extended to early tomorrow morning, this is urgent!!

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

PLEASE HELP THERE IS ALMOST NO TIME LEFT AND HE NEEDS $20 STILL

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🚨URGENT MA REQUEST🚨 Goal: $30 Deadline: TODAY 1pm MDT my friend Rocci is in need of gas for an interview this afternoon! The job opportunity would be incredibly helpful to him and would make a huge difference in him finding housing. CA: $roccihowweii PP: RocciHowe

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Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No movement yesterday bc I wasn't here to boost. I'm sorry we have to do this again. Really hoping to hit $1300 before Tuesday. Sitting at $1130/2k Please help us make this goal.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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hell yea depression is pumpkin flavored now @liminalclown-e.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

47 minutes, actually lol This has not been a priority & becomes less so each week The economy shitting itself doesn’t mean stop keeping people housed, it means prioritize things that can’t wait This can’t wait & this will unjustifiably ruffle feathers despite telling the truth

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

PLEASE HELP BRITT!!!! Any amount helps! Boosting helps! Please don’t look away!

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So I’m going to be brave and try dancing again via a local studio that offers adult classes, with a trial class in a couple weeks, because I really want to dance again I’m nervous about being physically fit enough to keep up, but hopefully a beginner class will be doable, fun, and rewarding

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚨 9 days with zero support. Our situation is extremely bad. Here in Gaza, asking for help is not weakness; it comes after all doors were shut in our faces. We are in urgent need of assistance to provide food and basic daily essentials for my kids. Please share 🧡 tinyurl.com/2etna36k

A collage of 5 photos of Ziyad and his sister Mirna, playing, smiling and posing in the rubble of Gaza. On the top left and bottom right photo, they are with their mother, also smiling.

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Britt is asking for help with the most basic of basic needs

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Kokoro @livelyprancing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

💌 Message from Ahmed 💌: I am a human being just like you. Look at me with compassion. All I need is to live with dignity and freedom. Be my support and stand with me ; I am human.💔.. chuffed.org/project/1696...

A picture taken at night of Ahmed wearing a kuffiyeh with a destroyed apartment behind him.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."

Rohan Paul
@rohanpaul_ai
Jacob Coxon's next interview on CBS News (ex Anthropic+Open AI researcher who resigned)

"We can't just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers. Like it's not that difficult to find yourself because an AI is just code. It could transfer itself over the internet to a different place and then you unplug it here, but it's actually still over there and maybe it makes 10,000 copies of itself and they're all cooperating."

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From "CBS News" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

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🌈miski🌦️ @miski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I cannot overstate the power of sharing and gushing about art you like. it is *everything*

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just had another crazy thing happen but it’s local news worthy and I’m not about to potentially doxx myself by sharing specifics. I’m officially cancelling all of my stressful, optional tasks for the day. No more productivity from me until tomorrow.

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A mouse got into my room today, which was not the kind of thing I’ve ever come to expect being on the second floor??? We’ve had them in the basement, and guess that it hitched a ride in a container we recently brought upstairs. The mouse was released back outside. That’s enough commotion for today

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Silver🇵🇸 @silverhairprincess.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Cmon people, Britt needs our help. They’ve been homeless for over a year. Click the link in the quoted post and give them a few $ that you can spare and help get them their most immediate needs met. If we care about helping others let’s put our money where our mouth is.

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sorry I’ve been away from here, I’ve been very drained from work so socials have taken a backseat to self care whenever I have free time. Hopefully things will calm down for me soon and I can get back to regularly interacting on here 💜

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Astrid @curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ok y’all, where can I find Paralives mod/CC makers other than simply browsing the steam workshop? I’d love suggestions for who to follow!

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DontgiveupHope @giveunlimtdlove.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

PLEASE IF I DONT PAY TODAY THE POLICE COME TOMORROW AND KICK US OUT WE GOT NOTICE 2 DAYS AGO PLEASE LLEASE I HAVE UNTIL 12 NOON TOMORROW I HAVEBT PACKE LIV HAS BEEN OFF DIALYSIS A WEEK AND A DAY PLEASE PLEASE IMBEGGING

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The U.S. described updating world maps to show the *correct* size of Africa (and everything else) as a “radical ideological project”

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Again, we do not use sticker mule! And that includes Rockin Monkey since they are part of sticker mule now.

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If it's not yet the Halloween season, why did a goblin in a stovepipe hat trap me in an underground maze made of moldy candy apples and anatomically whimsical plastic skeletons?

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Nika but possessed ✨🍂🖤 @nikatyler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“aside” nah we’re not normalizing the slop ❤️

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hegelian vs predator @reachrachelkahn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Dogs' eyes track human faces the same way humans' eyes do, focusing primarily on the left side of the face. But they don't have the same gaze bias when looking at other animals, which means dogs are explicitly reading our faces for emotional context in spite of/including the species differences.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A lot of people are acting like bullying is ok just because you’re not sentient and that’s wrong, I don’t say mean things to my toaster

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICE is once again active across Chicago's southwest side today. Rapid responders are reporting ICE active in Chicago Lawn, Gage Park, and near the Ford City mall. One RR team reports ICE agents were seen leaving a CPD station lot on 63rd & St. Louis, but I can't independently confirm that right now.

8/27/2026 – FORD CITY, IL 🚨
🕥 8:10 a.m.
📍 Cicero Ave y 73rd St
🧊 CONFIRMADO : Presencia de ice en el área.Vehículo observado de ice en la zona de Ford City. Última vez visto dirigiéndose hacia el sur por Cicero Ave.
🚗 Vehículos Observados:
Ford Explorer Negra BT86603
📣 SI VE ALGO DIGA ALGO DE INMEDIATO.

ALERTA COMUNITARIA – GAGE PARK, IL 🚨
📅 Hoy - 08/27/2026
🕥 8:55 a.m.
📍 55 y Pulaski
🧊 CONFIRMADO : Presencia de ICE en el área. 1 persona detenida
🚗 Vehículos Observados:
Dodge Durango Blanca
Chevy Tahoe Negra
Ford Edge Azul
📣 SI VE ALGO DIGA ALGO DE INMEDIATO

8/27/2026 rapid response alert of ICE agents and their vehicle seen leaving a Chicago police station lot on St. Louis & 63rd Street.

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Zee (missing life's little cues) @miscue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Holy shit YES! Good news!

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