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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 5h

LibreOffice is free, open source & available for windows, ios & Linux. It does everything that MSoffice does except cost a fortune, spy on you & interfere with your work with AI nonsense.

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Lelani Arris @arthurdent2022.bsky.social · 3h

Last week after a Windows update my work computer suddenly demanded that I sign in or provide a license to keep using Office. My tech guy was out of town so I just downloaded LibreOffice and was back at productive work in minutes! Seriously, f$&@ Microsoft 🤷‍♀️

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 4h

Do you think it was because I wouldn't sign her petition to the city council to ban Pride events a few years ago?

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's a hearing I'm watching where the people have $21K/month in guaranteed income like pensions and are filing bankruptcy. Seems like a skill issue. If I had $21K/month, I could top up people's fundraisers *so much*.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/10/2026

In July, we released Courtney 50.0. It may not be the fastest writing machine, but it has been honed fifty years of intensive language training. Based on the benchmarks demonstrated by this chart, Courtney 50.0 crushes the competition so significantly that we should have used a log axis.

An incredibly long graphic, using the graphic in the post text at the very bottom (a chart showing Open AI vs Grok vs Fable release date on the X axis, and model number on the Y axis). There is a long piece of whitespace, and then Courtney 49.0 and Courtney 50.0 are graphed at the very top.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now accepting good thoughts, prayers, whatever you've got: just applied for a job with my local Legal Aid, in line with the career change I'm working on. It'll work out or it won't but it would be AMAZING to get a foot in the door with an organization I wouldn't mind ending up at for good.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remember that morning just over 25 years ago when 13 people told 2,977 people "I'm not even mad"?

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even if you think a death penalty is theoretically reasonable... Even if you further think a nonzero rate of the wrong person getting the death penalty is OK... A 1/8 rate is BONKERS. "We're, like, almost 90% sure" isn't the "beyond a reasonable" doubt that's supposed to apply to shoplifting.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Continuing saga of the coworker who gives out tracts: Today I asked to put her on a reference list bc I need six non-overlapping with bosses, and she said she didn't know me well enough. I feel you should be able to describe someone on a character level *before* you tell them they need Jesus.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Cornell rape gang" is the same number of syllables. Just saying.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/09/2026

Go read Diane’s books! Seriously, they are the best!

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every single company is run like an investment whose only responsibility is short term "line go up". A sock factory will sell the knitting machines to bump the YOY numbers and then act surprised when they can't make any socks to sell twelve weeks later.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

LRP: additionally important to know that if you’re allergic to coconut, you’re also allergic to most activated charcoal products. Many of them are made using burned down coconut husks, but no one advertises that/it’s extremely hard to find out. So be careful this Halloween season!

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At the risk of jinxing tomorrow night's lecture, this International Shoe case is not nearly as bad as y'all said. I was expecting to be in the early stages of PTS by the time I finished the pre-class questions.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is some bullshit Anyone whose school is not safe related to this, please HMU for math lessons.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is what happens when nice people get corrected on a thing they messed up:

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fuck gatekeepers 💗 Thank fuck for people. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-supe...

It's a Superpower??
Season Two
£3,440
Target: £30,000
11%
78 supporters
82 days left

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

FYI, even if you have annoying amounts of paper trash and a finite bin, no matter how useful washing it down the drain as ash sounds, your bathroom window is probably not rated to ventilate well enough to burn it in the bathtub.

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Leonard J. French @piratelawyer.com · 25/09/2026

As an overseas voter, I was very surprised when I did not receive my general election ballot as required under the law. youtu.be/xOERrcNXfZA

youtu.be

They are already messing with my vote

YouTube video by Lawful Masses with Leonard French

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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 23/09/2026

I am trying box. I am trying REAL HARD.

Cardboard box that says "Do not break down"

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TFW you try to figure out if your mood and focus tanking for the past couple days has been related to a migraine on Sunday, so you find this page americanmigrainefoundation.org/living-with-... , where the gradient behind text could damn near give you another migraine

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Migraine & Mental Health - American Migraine Foundation

Migraine and mental health share a complex relationship. In this guide, we walk you through the facts and provide tips and resources to help you manage both.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Photography by Douglas 🍁 @darkwaterphotos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

⋰ My therapist: "And what do we do when we feel overwhelmed by the state of the world?" Me: [clings fiercely to the side of an oak tree and vibrates at 100 decibels] 🌿🪶🦉🪰🪳🍁 #TreeScreamer #AggressiveVibrations #VibeCheckFailed #BugsWhoYell #Nature #OhMyDouglas #InsectsOfBluesky

A vertical silhouette shot of a cicada resting vertically on the side of a rough, dark tree trunk. The insect's body is in deep shadow against a soft, light-blue-to-white gradient sky. Its translucent wings trail downward, catching the light to highlight a detailed network of golden-brown veins.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You can tell how vicious they are by the flooped out snuggling.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dammit, I forgot to say why there wouldn't be a 1367(b) clawback.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Could they come up with a process that would break down and string together protein like making rayon does for cellulose, so hair and nail clippings could be made into silklike yarn/fabric?

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey can someone please follow me? While I usually don't care about the metrics here, I'm at 666 now and was raised part fundie so it would be slightly more comfortable to bump past that.

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StayingCovidSafe @starlightshelling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

FYI: Covid is spiking. Mask!

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Midterm in civ pro tomorrow so today is ideal timing to take apart and clean the nooks and crannies of my travel mug's top.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The absolute refusal to learn from anything even once is why you should try not to put the literal stupidest people alive in charge of your country, don't do it again

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New framing for "defund the police" just landed:

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So that's the secret!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

DAMMIT...husband has COVID round 2. His round 1 was in mid-'24 so only a two year not having it streak. Very likely caught it whilst at a doctor's office for something else (prep care for a foot surgery, which will now be postponed). Fuck *everyone* who thinks passing this shit around is OK.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Me: "I get that we have to do it the way it's done, but wouldn't it be more efficient if..." Professor: "Yes."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/09/2026

the whole Republican argument for years has been “elect us because government is terrible and corrupt and if you put us in charge we will prove it to you by being terrible and corrupt” and Trump has injected the whole thing with steroids and I really think we should try a different option

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A word of advice: when you hear people say that they will build a better world on the rubble of this one, pay close attention to who they say will be doing the building, and who they say will be buried in the rubble.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This fact also completely defangs any argument about “job creators.” Job creation means nothing when the jobs being created don’t lead to any reasonable standard of living.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/09/2026

Who could have guessed that the machine that assembles pieces of other people's thoughts in a meat grinder without proof assembled other people's thoughts in a meat grinder without proof?

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 06/09/2026

Status report, "Just Mentioning This..." Redux: I note an uptick in recent days in Discourse on alternative YA material about wizardry. So if you're interested, please note: the 9-book package of these are on #sale! 🙂bit.ly/YWNMESET

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YW New Millennium 9-Volume Box Set

Our New Millennium Editions box sets are optimized for each of the devices appearing under the price listing. Please click on one to choose the format you prefer.The New Millennium Editions of So You ...

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Might sound nuts but I think the cat who has to take nightly meds understands they're helping her somehow. She could hide, but instead, jumps up on a table next to the climbing structure platform I put her on to take them, when I'm measuring it out.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"First of all, it's a box, and she's a cat. Second, there's a tree, and she's a cat. Both of these weigh in the same direction. Oh my God I just applied a factors test to our cat, I have GOT to make this lawyer thing work out."

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Next week, billionaire donors and their puppet politicians will gather at a convention in Dallas to toast their own corruption. In the shadow of this Billionaire Ball, we’ll be collecting food to help Texans struggling with rising grocery prices. JOIN: bit.ly/GroceryDriveTX

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just from the headline, shit like this got my maiden surname pronounced funny.

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