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U.S. government has a duty to promote the general welfare. It's right there in the Constitution. #VoteBlue 🌊

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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 1h
The Detroit Free Press is now including AI summaries at the top of their articles. Great message from The Mgt.: "Here's important news, don't bother reading it." Are they paying for this "service", or being paid to promote AI, I wonder.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h
Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight “There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2026
And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Imagine the way this would shimmer with every movement.
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Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Cotton T-shirt worn #onthisday in 1979 by a member of the Texas delegation to the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C. #OTD 📷️ Texas Fashion Collection, UNT Libraries
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The only way to use generative AI in a way that protects and supports human creators is — don't use it at all. It's built on the theft of real people's work.
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Frank&Stein @brandtandstein.com · 14/10/2026
This isn’t it, folks. There’s no way to use generative AI without supporting wholesale theft, supporting billionaires and hedge funds over creators, and supporting every piece of misinformation and shoddy regurgitation from the software. This isn’t it.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
That's a classic. Congratulations!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/10/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said.
I KNOW.
“I tried to live a good life. Does that help?”
THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
That library was practically my second home when I was growing up in Columbus. The original Carnegie building is a wonder.
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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Good morning butterflies, it's #MineralMonday again! Of quartz, we're still celebrating the winner of #MinCup26! 🧪⚒️💎
Qurtz exhibit, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
That looks so comfortable! Twenties chic, but you don't have to be stick-thin to look good in it.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Voldemorticia
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A year later: the school gave an award to the 8th grader with the best grades. That was me. They decided to give two awards, one to the boy with the best grades and one to the girl. Because God forbid a girl be acknowledged as better than any boy. Can you guess what radicalized me?
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
When I was in 7th grade, another girl told me to stop answering in class so much, or boys won't like me. As young as I was, I realized that if I hid who I was, it wouldn't be me they liked, so what was the point?
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think I've always known. But then, when I discovered science fiction fandom, I realized that I wasn't weird, I was just out of context.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Make it red, blue, or yellow, and it's a Starfleet dress uniform.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/10/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies “I had to learn. All my life. The hard way. And the hard way’s pretty hard, but not so hard as the easy way.”
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I love that yarn. Kiddo has good taste.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'd love it if zinnias self-seeded. But they're worth the small effort of planting the seeds myself.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
💯
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Sometimes I need a clue about what the image is, and what it might mean.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I plant zinnias for the butterflies. And for myself, of course. I love zinnias.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/10/2026
Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent “I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE’S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED “LIVING.” WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN?”
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It was meant for a big compliment! So much skill went into your drawing.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I love this very much.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This reminds me of watching the sun set over Lake Michigan. Truly beautiful.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
For some reason, this makes me think of M. C. Escher.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A laundry is a valuable community service.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Congratulations!
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Wow!
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I was grateful to this Monarch butterfly for posing for me.
An orange and black Monarch butterfly sits with its wings closed, facing right, on an orange many-petaled zinnia, with another single-layered orange zinnia above and behind it and a darker orange single-layered zinnia blurry in the foreground. The background is a dark green blur of leaves.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Heinlein way underestimated how crazy the Crazy Years would get.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Way back in 2005, the Henry Ford had an exhibit of Elizabeth's wardrobe, which she'd bequeathed to the museum. I was especially fond of the 1920s and 1930s dresses. (BTW, the wall of shoes in the Fabric of America exhibit was just a small part of the shoes in the 2005 exhibit!)
Three vintage dresses displayed against a red background: 1928 pink sleeveless dress made from sheer material, longer in the back than the fron with a low waist, embroidered with bugle beads and rhinestones. Ivory silk chiffon floor-length dress with low scooped neckline and wide straps outlined in rhinestones, with a narrow belt of rhinestones an elaborate floral design on the right side trailing from the waist to about knee height. Turquoise silk dress with a scoop neckline filled with lace, hankerchief hem just below knee-length, and bows crafted from rhinestones on the left shoulder and the left side of the low waist.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: The Light Fantastic Four
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This video is as traditional as turkey for Thanksgiving.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses" applies to everything in life. #GNUTerryPratchett #Discworld
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Getting half a dozen fundraising texts per day from candidates in other states.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This took me a second.. 😅
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I was thinking of this bowl, too. (And the bowl always makes me think of The Luggage in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.)
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Important kitty news! www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...
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Litter of Five Cheetah Cubs Are Born at Smithsonian Conservation Campus; Cheetah Cub Cam Returns | Smithsonian Institution
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Making Money “Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.”
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NOM! Now I'm thinking I should put cookies out for my chipmunk, but the squirrels would probably mug the poor thing and steal the cookies.
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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Vimes would NEVER.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Unfortunately, some parents even need to be taught that it's important to hold their babies and interact with them face to face.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I remember colored toilet paper. I remember when the manufacturers were persuaded to stop making it because the dye was definitely not good for the water system.
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Nice bird feeder you got there, pity if something should happen to it."
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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Squirrels are furry vikings.
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