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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

March rent is past due, and thousands of Minnesota families can't leave their homes to earn it. @ziibiing.com and an entirely volunteer team built standwithminnesota.com from the ground up. No org. No funding. No bureaucracy, and no delay. Just people who saw a crisis and started moving. 🧵

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Stand With Minnesota

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Was searching online for an eggy crepes recipe, and I can't say I'm disappointed for this being at the top of my results. As a grown up "syrup on everything" kid, I can get behind this recipe

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Gaby, Haunted Librarian @blackheartwings.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Evil thing have occurred in the myservalwings household today

A screenshot of the Croissant Curry from Pokémon Legends Z-A

A photograph of an in-progress plating of the croissant curry in real life. There is a small tower of rice in the center of a plate ringed with small croissants with Japanese curry getting spooned on top.

A photograph of the croissant curry in real life. There is a pile of rice in the center of a plate ringed with small croissants with Japanese curry on top.

A photograph of an in-progress plating of the croissant curry in real life. There is a pile of rice in the center of a plate ringed with small croissants with Japanese curry getting spooned on top.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Might not be the best decision in the sense that anyone could pick up the handle and impersonate him. But for regular people who don't have to keep up a public image, I fully agree.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Ideally, turn off your phone completely before attending political activities or crossing the border. That usually encrypts your device which makes it more difficult to read the data on disk. Not always a perfect solution but a better one. www.infosecinstitute.com/resources/op...

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

ohno. now I've discovered 3D DIY stickers. this might actually be just the distraction I needed

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Really awesome article about AI and education. I love the discussion around decoupling the feeling of learning vs actually learning, and how discomfort is often required for learning but understandably avoided when given the opportunity with AI.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

More like make friends with your local farmers and make sure you can trust their honesty and cleanliness long term. Shorten that supply chain, because you can't live until old age from one panic buy in your freezer

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/04/2025

I will once again be dragged for this, but I am once again begging you to stop advocating for illegal actions on social media www.wired.com/story/massiv...

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It's true, I think I'm a bit biased because I learned about the scientific method and how to identify good sources 🫠

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

That is a true statement. What else do you want from this interaction?

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I take the stance that boycotting is only for those who can. I have elderly family out in the country that realistically need a service like Amazon to save them aching bodies, money, and time. If you believe avoiding Target will harm your community, I hold no grudge 🤷

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Not to mention AWS, it's the leading cloud provider. It's been scary every time they have an outage because you can see all the other companies that are crippled because of it.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It's getting so hard to find, can I ask where you buy it from?

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What bothers me is all the science around vaccines is free on the Internet. You can find it explained hundreds of different ways, down to the biochemistry happening in your body, and yet some choose fear over knowledge.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Looks like a Terastallized pokemon, he so shiny and blue

A screenshot of a Terastallized Quaxly from Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. It's a white cartoon duck wearing a blue hat with a water spurt shooting out of the top of the hat. The entire character is glistening like a blue gemstone.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Right, I was calling back to the original post and lamenting how even if they are worth the cost, many families will not be able to pay the price. With a quick Google, I can't find any kids clothes besides pajamas that are made from American grown fabric...

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It's worth it if you can afford it. I can't imagine trying to clothe a whole family with that price point. That's like $1000 for a week's worth of outfits, that will need to be replaced at least once a year for growing kids.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Soylent is mostly just a soy protein shake with added vitamins and minerals. Most of the flavors have a pretty similar "beige" taste, but I like the chocolate mint. They also have caffeine versions which work really well for breakfasts. 40g protein is hard to beat for sure!

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I still order Soylent from time to time 👀 Their marketing on college campuses really worked on me, and life doesn't always give me enough time to make a proper meal. I am curious about Huel Hot and Savory meals, I've heard the recipes are hit and miss.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Day Owl makes really high quality sustainable backpacks. For a while they even tried to take in old bags of any brand, repair them, and then resell to reduce waste. They don't give the vibe of a Trump supporter imo. Seriously if you're in the market for a good commuter backpack I highly recommend

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GingerOfOz @gingerofoz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I loved @anhdangerous.bsky.social 's original artwork so much that I had to make it myself. It houses an OEM PsOne, with a handful of mods, including a functional (but not comfortable) Claw Based controller.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Maybe I didn't find this groundbreaking because I already feel the weight of masking as influencing so many of my unhelpful mental traits 😅 I think I also assumed that most people mask (sometimes categorized as code switching etc) and felt it the same way I do.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I have heard it helped many and I'm thankful it has! It was just the top recommended book and I was disappointed that it made me feel more alienated than accepted

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

My disclaimer is that I listened to the audiobook which is spoken by the author (maybe my anxiety interprets their flat affect as more hostile than intended?), and that I only got to halfway through chapter 5.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

It feels to me like it's focusing too much on autistic folks being victims of society and has an attitude of blame when there is no one group to blame, there is no single fix, "unmasking" is not something you can just choose to do one day and instantly be accepted.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Who are these evil neurotypicals trying to harm disabled folks? I believe it's more of a lack of understanding and sometimes lack of empathy. I think the author is conflating non-autistic people with societal standards which are nebulous and upheld or broken by many groups, even autistics sometimes

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

One excerpt from the intro: "Almost every person with a mental illness or disability has been crushed under the weight of neurotypical expectations, and has repeatedly tried and failed to earn acceptance by playing the rules of a game that was designed to harm us."

A screenshot of a Google book preview at the following link. https://books.google.com/books?id=x-E2EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT4&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Example here, I got coordination in 3 clicks but that's not the same as "coordinated" 🥲

Screenshot of the game referenced. There is a mind map starting with the term "merger". The goal is to find the word "coordinated". I clicked on the terms "joint venture", then "cooperation", then "collaboration" and the word "coordination" appeared. However that is not close enough to the goal word of "coordinated".

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I know your name is quite literally real photos but this turkey looks like a puppet in a horror movie 👀 maybe I just don't usually see wild turkeys this close up? They're pretty gnarly creatures

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megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I tried (and failed) to get Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi to explain his new game, to a T, to me. instead, I had one of the most fun, baffling interviews I've ever done www.wired.com/story/katama...

It’s a game about a teenager who’s stuck as a T-pose and trying to figure out where the T-pose is coming from. It’s a game about—umm. [Long pause] Do I need to explain? [Another long pause] No. [Laughs]

That’s fair. Who is this character? How would you describe them?

A teenager, 13-years-old, female or male, whatever I mean, I don’t care—stuck in a T-pose, for some reason.

What makes T the perfect pose?

Because it’s perfect! You are perfect. I think it’s just perfect.

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Proton @proton.me · 28/03/2025

How we use the internet is largely shaped by a handful of US-based tech giants. US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant. Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first. 1/16

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I think I learned that I like mind maps so much I could poke through infinitely without hitting the goal word and be happy. However it does bother me when I hit the right word but in a different form. So "build" is not "builders" is not "building" and I might need to backtrack to get the right form

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Was there any particular takeaways that you really enjoyed from the book that maybe I missed?

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I actually didn't like what I read from this book 🫣 I felt like it pitted autistic and allistic against each other, and didn't give me anything new in my own research about autism that I couldn't find through Google. But maybe that's just me.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I wonder if filtering out posts that have only a photo would help? I don't think I can do that without some programming though.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The discover feed is politically opposite but just as nauseating as Facebook with all the rage bait...

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Stone countertops can't (shouldn't?) be painted over to change the color scheme of the room, so it's probably a safe item to get in grey. Walls and accessories are best for pops of color imo.

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Writing down my thoughts always helps me, hope you can find some peace soon 🫂

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A person of refined taste I see 🧐

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Liz @lizzythenerd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

If he started on Feb 3rd (from what I can research), he is legally required to "step down" by June 13th. It's also possible he's stepping down now, to leave eligible days to pick it back up later in the year. It's fun to think he is somehow giving up, but that's an assumption so far.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

On the other site, Studio Ghibli-style AI output is going viral and allow me to just say it is profoundly depressing to see that stuff being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art "an insult to life itself"—and this in turn is an insult to him.

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alex @dremenec.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 24/03/2025

new thing in the bubblesort store: soft circuit kits & with a zine on how to make light up corsages 🌸💡 shop.bubblesort.io/products/flo...

a mint and lavender caboodle case filled with LEDs, conductive thread, coin battery, and alligator clips, with a zine and a corsage with a plastic pizza toy and artificial pink and lavender flowers

an assortment of toys, artificial flowers, and cabochons on a pink background, with some corsages made from them. the corsages have sewable LEDs in them and are lighting up.

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