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Renee

@renaissancedreamer.bsky.social
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Subsisting off the coconut mono-culture of this tiny island. Random posts. Food Sensitivities. Cats. Science. Plants. Politics; it affects everything. Twitter: Renee@Varmint_Vittles

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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ok but you’re the fun sister.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He seems to believe his brain has none of the atrophying 🫠
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Underground speeding auto-driving cars.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RFK Jr. shut down the Integrated Research Facility in Frederick, MD last year and then decided to move it. Does anyone know if operations have resumed, as promised? They do a lot of really important work on high-risk pathogens.
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Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick
IRF-Frederick serves as a responsive and collaborative resource that facilitates multidisciplinary research to understand, treat, prevent, and eradicate diseases caused by novel, emerging, and highly ...
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And, on the off chance he isn’t actually as dumb as he sounds, he’s never cared because he believes his constituents are actually that dumb and nothing he says will deter them from their sycophancy.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
China’s gamble on clean energy is going to pay off. In AI. In industry. In healthcare. In agriculture. In environment. In manufacturing. In scientific progress and leadership.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Manual labor isn’t romantic but it’s *actually* essential in a way that mine is not. I wish we spent less time on soft-focus paeans and more on making these irreplaceable jobs as safe and physically undemanding as possible + remunerated in proportion to how screwed we’d be without that work.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Guess that depends on the size!
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Hot McDonald's BBQ Sauce Pour
Alt: Hot McDonald's BBQ Sauce Pour (Backlit ladle pouring steaming sauce)
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I didn’t know this! Good bye shortened from God be? It makes sense
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It all delegitimizes actual art as if saying, this artist couldn’t possibly be this good, this must be AI. Excellent art has always existed. AI is the interloper.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Idk “take care” sounds pretty inclusive of everything. Take care of oneself. Idk how someone can get defensive of that one. Breaking down “good” bye sounds like funky English. Like the opposite is “bad” bye? Curses?
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think that people have forgotten that there was a higher percentage of job loss for women during the pandemic? Could it be related to that? A rebalancing as things may still be recovering?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Also, hospital maintenance =/= engineer
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“the most successful period of time for a president in the history of our country” Not so much for the plebes! Now where is that taxpayer money?!?!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The universe is balancing that all out by making our politics much darker 🫠
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Gwyn Thompson @gwynthompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And to think that “Bigly Intelligence” was right there and he missed that opportunity
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Predictive text on shrooms
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The experiment has been run. In Quebec low cost daycare resulting in tens of thousands of additional women joining the workforce. The increase in taxes to both provincial and federal governments were more than the cost of the subsidy.
ippr.org
Lessons from Quebec's universal low-fee childcare programme | IPPR
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Guess that should help pinpoint which plane to avoid boarding
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
Women who have been in abusive relationships understand the kind of man Trump is better than any journalist & if we had a better media system we would have heard from those women more from the beginning. Journalists often *sound* like people trapped in those relationships! Same rationalizations!
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Maybe they’ll blame AI for this mishap, obviously no person was actually thinking
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can't, and shouldn't seek to, replace public schools or libraries with bookstores. You can't replace a public good with a private business, no matter how well-meaning or well-organized it may be.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our week of high 80’s is 5-degrees cooler than the norm and we are all very excited about it. Seriously. Not even joking.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
lol I was going to recommend him laying off the pumpkin spice lattes but you may be onto something
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That may be a philosophical question
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I guess they want you to first be born to then give you cancer.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
PFAS, forever chemicals, are a-okay. Hellooooo cancer.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fancy vehicle for a cheap wheelchair
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible Bread Zeppelin
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Is that beige?
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
She might’ve done some of her own walking away too
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The recent chronic rains here in Fl has been intense. Every day and sometimes several times a day, it’s raining.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge…more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures… .” ~Samuel Gompers, 1893.
This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, Samuel Gompers, wearing glasses and a dark suit coat and tie with a white shirt.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They build for AC here which is unfortunate. Cause when the power goes down, people die.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I unfortunately know a person who is convinced there’s people at the schools that will turn her kid and honestly, I feel really bad for her kids. Cause. Wow.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh, shit has happened lol. Lots of shits
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I always mix up that rhyme. I just had to remember it as stay away from the one with the pretty colors that touch each other (red/yellow).
Picture of a coral snake (yellow color bands framing alternating larger bands of either red or black). Snake is outside on the ground which looks dry; dried leaves, grass, gray sand.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
😍
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When you’ve gotta get your kudos on Bsky cause irl your friends will load you up with unpaid fix-it requests
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When I say I want Nuremberg like trials, I am not kidding. Every person who has assisted this administration in their crimes needs consequences. It is the only way to safeguard against future transgressions by them and others who would see them get away with their crimes.
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My autocorrect gaslights me. I’m constantly second-guessing my word choices as being Not Words as autocorrect will change my legit words for other words. Who needs this in their lives?
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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
An important read on the unacknowledged physical and emotional toll of caregiving www.msn.com/en-us/entert...
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