Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialRebecca M-O @reduplicater.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Crop art at the Minnesota State Fair! It is what it says it is - art made from various parts of crops, primarily seeds, lentils, and grains, occasionally leaves or flowers. For any non-Minnesotans viewing this, I'll start with mostly less political pieces. It's harder than you might think. 12407148
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.sociallukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hey sorry I missed your text are you guys still growing stronger from the things that did not kill you 1845474
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 03/08/2026Small Town’s Make-Out Point Purchased By Multinational Make-Out Conglomerate theonion.com/small-towns-make-out-p… 171573188
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialLeslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Google Reader obviously 17214
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialAzure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I drank one beer at 2 PM and laid down and pulled the earth over me like a blanket and snow fell and grass grew and I turned into a little hill 10613103
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites. Yes. A MILLION. This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp... 🔭 🧪scientificamerican.comDon’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night skySatellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet 651491816
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now." 4563901531
halliepayne.bsky.social @halliepayne.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Powerful. We may not know exactly, “but we know enough” 000
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 24/01/2026"We have to help people understand what is (the current, shared reality), we must collectively imagine what can be (a future possibility), & we have to diligently labor for what must be (organizing to sustain life/livingness & for liberation)." @prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.inthesetimes.comRead This If You're New and Trying to Find Your WayAbolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward. 014077
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialDr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026The revolution will be mindful. And it you can be a part of it, even if this is not the generation where the illusion shatters everywhere. 181
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialDr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026We could just be here together in reflection and wonder. No bombs, no ads, no predatory corporations. Just work and play and care and gratitude and sometimes sadness and pain. With grace, we could be getting more skilled, more open, more wise for the fleeting hourglasses of our own lives. 1132
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialkottke.org @kottke.org · 03/10/2025When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years. “All those hard cases doing hard time melt like butter on a summer sidewalk when they visit the felines, feed them, watch them chase the birds and bees…” [prisonjournalismproject.org]prisonjournalismproject.orgWhen Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 YearsI had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass. 05213
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialChris Cooper @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Elon Musk is floating the idea of a third party to change American politics. In Anatomy of a Purple State, I wrote a bit about the possibility of a 3rd party taking hold. The context of the book is #ncpol, but the same thing applies in CA, TX, MN, ME, AL, NE, MI, SC… 139829
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialGarrett Merz @garrettmerz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king 361236642412
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/06/2025 the neighbour who was here yesterday pitching a fit over the length of my lawn came back 10 min ago to tell me that he's been watching news and I should not worry & long as he lives here they will have to go through him first and thing is, it wasn't just Walt Whitman who contained multitudes 906204596
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialNash @radiodeadair.com · 11/06/2025Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.extremetech.comChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too. 140173546054
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵 191103874334
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialRad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 07/03/2025 9790372298
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialJean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 22/02/2025Be ungovernable Comic by @chazhutton.bsky.social 27920
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore 717122453474
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Incredible follow-up on Hurricane Helene victims from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.com‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors help each other as disinformation swirlsMountain communities in southern Appalachia begin rebuilding after climate crisis-fueled disaster 27229
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13/02/2025just as odin gained the gift of wisdom through self-mortification, so also will we be blessed by touching the stove 1428231
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialAshley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/02/2025We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time. 11596891809
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls 49100901982
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialMike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...blog.archive.orgEnd of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs 4803277312100
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialKaren Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/ 21161242339
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/01/2025please meet my beautiful son, Life’s Rich Pageant 976106
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time 444335365481
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialeve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Crazy that blue sky has 20 million users. That's pretty close to half the amount of records nickelback sold 54129387
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialSeamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Reader, I do not know the demons that haunt your dreams, the frustrations and insults of life that have brought you to your knees, the sadness you battle in your heart. But know this: there is pure goodness in this world. It exists. Sometime we see a glimpse of it. Today, I got such a peek. 461377149
halliepayne.bsky.social @halliepayne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Working in education with NPS in Alaska in 2008, the message on climate change data was you see it in the coldest places, coldest time of year, coldest part of the day, ie when you isolated changes in average winter-season nighttime lows, the change was punching you in the face even in pre-2010 data 053
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialJudge Anon @judgeanon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Finding out that Lake Superior "Never gives up its dead" because it's so cold that the colonies of bacteria that decompose corpses can't survive in it so those bodies never fill up with gas and surface, all because I looked up the lyrics of a 1976 folk song, is what the internet should be more like. 441893489
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialKIMBLY NOT HERE TRY VENMO @k1m.bsky.social · 10/06/2024me when you get me a little treat 20793132
halliepayne.bsky.social @halliepayne.bsky.social · 13/11/2024“There in the place of fracturing—bodies, unions, families, democracies—is where we encounter the urgent need for goodness, and it is asking something of us.” 010
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/05/2024The people who complain about class warfare won the war - the richest 400 Americans now pay the same effective tax rate as the poorest half of America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 511954814
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialDan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024We need more music where the singer says "take 'em for a walk, Artie" and then a guy with a clarinet just goes nuts for like 8 minutes 12983001354
Reposted by @halliepayne.bsky.socialkottke.org @kottke.org · 05/11/2024Tony Hawk posted a photo from the 70s of a girl skateboarding in the rain to his Instagram: “New fav mystery skater unlocked.” Jeremy Markovich found tracked down who she was. [ncrabbithole.com]ncrabbithole.comTony Hawk wanted to track down a mysterious skateboarder from 1979. We found her.A photographer snapped a shot of Shaunda Shane skating down her street in Fayetteville when she was 10. How did the world’s most famous skateboarder see that picture 45 years later? 15813
halliepayne.bsky.social @halliepayne.bsky.social · 11/11/2024learn from childhood how to be spend time with oneself. That doesn’t mean be lonely youtu.be/_Vvdtaaprzwyoutu.beA Message to Young People from Andrei TarkovskyYouTube video by CRITERION 020