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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 17/08/2026

Alright, internet, which game did I play? I’ll post hints for a bit until the final reveal, unless someone gets (or googles) it first. 😁

A pen and marker map of a structure built up on mostly one island and three smaller islands, separated from what appears to be mainland, with occasional labeled areas. Colored areas include pathways, grass and trees, cliffs, and ocean. Structures are uncolored. A clipboard holder is visible at the top of the photo.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 15/08/2026

I’ve been rewatching Flying Castle Laputa and this is a Dola appreciation post.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 13/08/2026

昨夜、妹と一緒に街を出て、近くの森にある小川の浜にペルセウス座流星群を観ました。その結果、この写真。流れ星を約３０観たけど、携帯で撮った写真にはありませんでした。残念。でも、天の川がとっても綺麗背景ですね。🤩

A photograph of the milky way as seen from the ground with the naked eye, with the dark outlines of pine trees blocking the very corners of the view.

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

my extremely petty gripe with AI is that I am paranoid about using em dashes — one of my favorite punctuations — now that I know how commonly AI uses them in writing, and I can’t use the verb “grok” anymore which was a really fun and useful word before it got absolutely ruined

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 26/11/2025

ガーデンを歩くとき、写真を撮って、その後弟の側に追いつくために走った時の一つ、「私、インタバル・トレーニングにしているね！」と言いました。弟は「君、公園や自然の場所や博物館に行くとき、いつも同じものだよ。今日だけじゃなくて、いつでも面白い所に行くとの普通は止まり走りだ。家族の中ではもう慣れているよね」と言ってくれました。なぜか分かりませんけと、気に入れましたものです。

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 26/11/2025

今日の投稿は駐車場での撮った最後の写真。オレゴン州の意外又は面白いものの一つ：夕方にでも、朝露が時々まだあります。それとも、一日中、露が集まり。まだよくわかりませんけど、綺麗です。葉では複雑の面を出す植物には、特別に美しいです。

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 25/11/2025

It’s time for another photo! This was a fabtastic collection of lichen and moss on a bare yet vigorously budding deciduous shrub in the parking lot rather than the garden proper. I was quite taken with the dense setae on the buds.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 24/11/2025

又のオレゴンガーデンからの写真。光と影を混ぜるともっと綺麗なイメージを作ることになるだと思います。でも、撮った後、目のイメージに比べると、いつもちょっとがっかりします。目が素晴らしい機会ですね。

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 24/11/2025

Take the estrogen, if that’s what you need to do! (Or the testosterone, if that’s more your style!)

A collage showing two photos of the same person: on the left in a men’s dress shirt and tie with short hair, a noticeably high, balding forehead, narrow eyes, a slight unibrow, a closely trimmed mustache, soul patch, and very small beard covering only the chin, and an overall masculine look, smiling but tired; and on the right 10 or so years older with long gently curly hair framing the face and exposed upper chest, bright open eyes, separate and shaped eyebrows, no facial hair, fuller cheeks and narrower jaw and neck, and an overall feminine look, with her tongue stuck playfully out.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 24/11/2025

I found myself at the Oregon Garden this weekend. I took so many photos of things I was excited to see, my camera roll overflows! For documenting the experience, I guess to start, here is a shrub I admired for its flat, scalloped growth planes and the vibrant contrast between its new to old growth.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 15/11/2025

Bad (but kind of awesome?) selfie from assessments last night. I had to make sure my hair looked not incredibly awful after taking off my helmet. Damn do, I miss derby!

Photograph of a woman squinting at the camera with her head tilted forward, to get a better view of the top of her head. She is wearing a white tank top jersey and glasses. The background is a nondescript wall with an exposed electrical conduit protected by equally nondescript painted PVC pipe.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 11/11/2025

今日、1年以上の隙間後、ローラーダービーの練習を参加しました。この辺の、私が今以前参加しなかったリーグです。真面目でローラースケートや体を利用するのはすごく楽しかったです。まさか45歳のアタシまだダービーギャルなの？私の人生は仕事と猫の親をすることを収めるだけでわないか？いや。心で感じる。スケートする方がもっといいです。

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 19/10/2025

ちょっと日光浴中で体に雨降させて、嬉しかった。

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The Verge @theverge.com · 14/10/2025

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?" Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 14/10/2025

今日もう一つなのサンフランシスコで撮った写真を投稿します。これは「Monterrey Cypress」（ヒノキ科の部分）です。写真を撮った時は知らなかったけど、この木はカリフォルニア州の北以外、自然に生えません。けれども、とても綺麗だから、他の国や場所で植えてあります。

A photograph showing seed cones on a limb of a Monterrey Cyprus tree, with dense green foliage in the background below and slate-colored skies above.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 11/10/2025

If you follow me you know I can barely draw a decent rendition of a photo—but in my main chosen creative field, this resonates hard. Why on earth would I *not* want to do the work that sustains me?

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Leonard C Suskin (he/him) @czhorat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

AI stuff feels opposite. Much AI art has the form of traditional art - you get drawings, videos, etc - but without an artists' intention. As is the case with sampling, there's less perceived craft. There's not, however, the intent behind it. There's no artist. It's art shaped, but is not art

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Leonard C Suskin (he/him) @czhorat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This feels of a piece with the modern movements expanding the question of what art is, though if inverted Compare to Duchamp's "Fountain" in which something that is NOT typical art is presented as such, by intention and setting It isn't art-shaped, but is art

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

media.tenor.com

a man giving a thumbs up to a dog with the words do not blow this for us below him

ALT: a man giving a thumbs up to a dog with the words do not blow this for us below him

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 30/09/2025

Another photo from my San Francisco trip: I don’t know the plant (iNat says Arbutus / strawberry tree) but I was tickled by this whimsical inflorescence.

A photograph of a hanging cluster of small pink, bell shaped flowers, on a plant with broad green leaves and deep red young stems.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

when we talk about censorship of sex and sexuality, I'll be honest, this is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night above even my own work being blacklisted. at best right now we've got "it's okay if it's in an educational context" but who decides that, and how

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/09/2025

Trump and Dems are officially meeting Monday. This is after Trump cancelled his last meeting with Democrats because they were holding firm on immigrant and transgender protections. The Republican budget has dozens of anti-LGBTQ+ riders. Call your Dem senators, people, don't let them capitulate.

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Trump to meet with top congressional leaders as a government shutdown looms

The gathering at the White House on Monday comes after Trump canceled an earlier meeting with Democratic leaders.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 27/09/2025

先週、サンフランシスコに行きました。色々の植物写真を撮ったけど、その中で一番気が入ったものはこれです。海の際や風吹いてある丘の地に育つ通り、葉が強くて、少し革のようのものです。でも、その冴えない景色から、そんなに鮮やかな花が出ます。見たと少し驚きで嬉しかったの。あの日は誕生日だから世界からプレゼントをうけたかんじでした。

A photograph of a wild California Poppy growing through bark mulch along the margin of a sidewalk. Its leaves are a dull silvery green, and bright orange and yellow flowers are blooming.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Call your senators and your house rep. Make a stink by being clear that abandoning trans adults and children is a no-go. Cis people, call and be loud for us. We are tired.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 22/09/2025

So, I’m nobody on here, but I can at least be part of a statistic, hoping it leads to change. During the proposed #BlueskyBlackout2025 against over-broad #bskycensorship re: consent in art, I want to speak out. This policy as written has serious problems, and I hope we can fix it before it’s live.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 30/08/2025

私はバイリンガルだと言うのはもう認めることは正しいか正しくないかどうかわかりません。実は、英語がどうゃってうちの脳に消除した場合、まだ日本語で考えと欲しいものを表すことが一応できるはずです。けど、まだ新聞や小説は辞書を使わないと読むことができません。私の会話でのある言うことはデコボコだと思います。けれども、スムーズではないのに、できます。脳でのある私の声が時の半分以上日本語であるのです。もしかして、認める条件は、他の人との即時の会話が成功にある状態だかもしれません。そんな条件を認めると、私はまだまだでしょうね。でも、人々が私が書いたことが理解できれば、ほぼ同じことではありませんか？

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 19/08/2025

The heartbreaking thing about this is that there’s already a proven way to invest lots of money in a knowledge machine that produces unforeseeable results that include fantastically profitable ideas (and some life-saving ones) and generally benefit society and this machine is called a university

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Jennifer Kirton @jenktn.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I have no sufficient words to express it but PBS is one of the all time great American institutions of learning and culture. A bastion of American excellence sent out to the larger world. I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s being targeted. But it’s unfathomably sad and to the detriment of us all.

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Sam @sambeawesome.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

You know what'd be super funny? Not just blowing up their call centers, but their mail. Mastercard 2000 Purchase St. Purchase, NY 10577 US Stripe 354 Oyster Point Blvd. South San Francisco, CA 94080 US Paypal 2211 N 1st St. San Jose, CA 95131 US Visa 900 Metro Center Blvd, Foster City, CA 94404

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 07/07/2025

Just found out that Nujabes / 瀬葉淳 was killed in a traffic accident fifteen years ago, and I am instantly in quiet, full-body tears. I’m detecting a pattern here.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 04/07/2025

Campaign to officially make Roman letters an abugida when pronouncing initialisms.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 26/06/2025

Oh, to be as carefree as this squirrel, casually sleeping on the side of our fence.

A photograph of a light grey/brown squirrel, lying drowsily on its belly on top of a wooden fence, with arms and legs draped on either side. There is greenery in the background and the fence has a lattice top section just below the board the squirrel is lying on.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 25/05/2025

この辺は、テキサスに比べて、一切違っている植物があります。今日、この地域にいると絶対役に立つ言葉「苔」を覚えました。日本語で、地衣類の名の末には「コケ」がよく付けてあるけど、今までその部分の意味を知っていませんでした。

A photograph of moss growing luxuriantly on the branches of a magnolia tree, with leaf shade creating a suitable microclimate despite bright clear sun overhead.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 09/05/2025

Kitties adapting pretty well to the new environment!

A photograph of an orange cat and calico cat lying adjacent on a black comforter, with the orange boy visibly grooming the side the calico girl’s face. Both cats look very pleased, with faces raised and eyes closed to slits.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 06/05/2025

To mark the occasion, here is (one of) my very photogenic cat(s). 😻

A macro photo showing an light, striped orange cat with white mouth and chest fur, licking his upper lip and looking very focused on the task at hand. His lip is curled back over itself to execute the lick properly.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 05/05/2025

Long overdue for a checkin. 😅 We made it to Oregon successfully and I’m officially an Oregon resident now! Took us just over a week to reach the important milestone of all of our stuff being in the house (even if still in boxes), and I have at least once called the new house “home”. Hiatus over?

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 24/04/2025

Today’s the day. Texas, it is with sorrow and frustration that I say good bye. You could have been better. My people and places are amazing. I wanted to take my leave, not flee. じゃ、又…はないかもね。

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The Bush administration disappeared people too, sent them to a different gulag at Gitmo and other black sites, kidnapped people off the street of Milan, tortured them, in the name of "a different kind of war." We didn't come close to holding them accountable. We're seeing the cost of that now.

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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Making myself a schedule of fun things I like to do in order to stop staring at my phone or the ceiling while dissociating. This is a normal thing people do, surely.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 11/04/2025

Another small hiatus life update—we closed on the new house today! Less than two weeks left in Texas, and I’m eager for us to be gone. At the same time, it’s sad to leave so quickly; there are so many things to say good-bye to that I won’t be able to properly see myself off from.

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monkeyrotica @monkeyrotica.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Parents: Kids spend too much time on the phone. In my day, we went outside and didn't come home until the streetlights came on! Also parents:

PRIVATE PROPERTY

NO

SKATE BOARDING

BICYCLE RIDING

ROLLER BLADING

SCOOTER RIDING

VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Okay, all. I have a call to action for all CA residents. If you're not a CA resident, please help share and boost? 1. Most of you know what happened to me last month. If not, my @calmatters.org op-ed was posted this morning. I'm working on changing the penal code.

calmatters.org

How a well-intended California domestic violence law results in victims being arrested | Opinion

The California Penal Code requires officers to make an arrest in domestic violence incidents, sometimes leading to victims being detained.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/03/2025

Working on my public comment for the government's "Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan." Lemme know what you think. Due today by 11:59 pm ET. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I am a writer, filmmaker, and photographer.

So-called "A.i." technologies like ChatGPT and Dall-E are based on the theft of my work and the work of millions of creators like me.

So-called "A.i." text technologies like ChatGPT constantly present false information as fact, spreading dangerous ignorance and disinformation.

So-called "A.i." technologies like Dall-E allow the creation of fake imagery that enables dangerous political disinformation.

So-called "A.i." technologies like ChatGPT consume massive amounts of energy and water and endanger the environment.

My conclusion is that the current implementation of these technologies is immoral and unethical and violates copyright law. These technologies should not be encouraged, aided, used, or subsidized by the government in any way.

One very specific suggestion is that a so-called "A.i." company should be required to obtain the permission of every single creator for every single work it wants to use before it uses it, and the company should be required to immediately remove all work for which it do not have such permission from their databases.

Thank you for your attention.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 15/03/2025

この頃、世界各地現在の状態の為にうちと共に泣いて抱きしめるサービスがあってば良いだと思います。それはカウンセリングだと言えるはずだけど、私の経験でカウンセラーはほとんど本当に慰めたことがありませんでした。具体的に感情を援助する役目の会社がある場合にあってば、必ず雇うつもりのよ。世界が難しくなりました。

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