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Mz Taylor

@rhythmrunner.myatproto.social
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Educator. Lover of art, poetry, Jurassic Park, and bunnies. If you don't value human rights and justice, we're not friends.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Ever had the feeling like you suddenly realized every crumb of perseverance & determination you ever scraped together the past mumblety years was actually being borrowed against your future resilience but the bill came due while you weren't looking & now both stores are depleted, or is that just me?
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Ms "I Want To Eat Your Brain" ugh, no, not YOURS, gross! 🤢 @brainmist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Seriously though, this kid is going to self-emancipate with no difficulty: their father clearly never had any interest in them as more than a possession.
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Mz Taylor @rhythmrunner.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
Horrific and deeply sad
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As part of a contract I'm doing for a bunch of First Nations cultural institutions, I built a Canadian Indigenous cultural institutions directory. With museums, archives, language, cultural centres, as well as funders. Check it out here: www.indigstitutions.org
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Indigenous Cultural Institutions of Canada
A directory of First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultural institutions across Canada: museums, cultural centres, longhouses, heritage villages, arts societies, libraries, archives, language and culture o...
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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As the bigger sweets were intended for display they typically featured auspicious motifs, such as cranes, pines and turtles. When finished the 'sculptures' were often coloured with edible paint to enhance the designs🎨🖌️ #干菓子 #higashi #japanesesweets #traditionalsweets #京都
Large kigata with a pine, turtle and crane motif.A large higashi partly painted to show how the original would have looked for display.Large moulds with a shrimp (lobster) design...this is an auspicious motif seen around the new year.Wooden moulds for sakura and ume blossom designs.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anyway the book is out of print but available at the Internet Archive, and I’d forgotten how funny it can be. For example, the chapter titled “Rights the Average Incarcerated Heterosexual Serial Killer Has Access To (That You Don’t)” archive.org/details/whyy...
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Why you should give a damn about gay marriage
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If folks do want to help out, I am not earning an income right now, obviously, and xmas is coming. The kids gave me their wish list. If sugar settlers want to help fulfill this wishlist, it would really help us retain some normalcy this season. www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/...
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Check out my list on Amazon
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Mz Taylor @rhythmrunner.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026
Read this. Read it read it read it.
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Mz Taylor @rhythmrunner.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026
Fantasia "Night of Bald Mountain". Spooked the dickins out of me.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
just kind of an ah-hah moment. there’s an expectation to make your point fast and punchy, like sand is falling through an hour glass. the internet has fundamentally changed the way we tell stories.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i’ve noticed recently that when i’m having an in-person conversation, i feel this internal pressure to make my point faster/a perception that the other person is growing impatient. and i realized it’s because we’re so used to getting info in quick clips now that a longer explanation feels foreign.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Them raccoons ain't right @chrisraccoons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Are you ready to be a hero at work? bsky.app/profile/dwsh...
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i would rather remove my eyeballs than witness an AI tingler cover
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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🐸😼FROLICKING ANIMALS & AN ANCIENT TEA FIELD🍵🌿 The Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (鳥獣人物戯画), a set of four scrolls depicting anthropomorphic animals, is considered by many -though it features no words- to be the earliest form of manga (漫画) in Japan. #Kyoto #Japan #京都 #folklore
Scenes from the 'Choju-jinbutsu-giga' (鳥獣人物戯画), a set of four scrolls depicting anthropomorphic animals.Scenes from the 'Choju-jinbutsu-giga' (鳥獣人物戯画), a set of four scrolls depicting anthropomorphic animals.Scenes from the 'Choju-jinbutsu-giga' (鳥獣人物戯画), a set of four scrolls depicting anthropomorphic animals.Scenes from the 'Choju-jinbutsu-giga' (鳥獣人物戯画), a set of four scrolls depicting anthropomorphic animals.
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 01/10/2026
Here are 16 Canadian-owned brands you can buy instead of the usual grocery store picks. 🇨🇦 #BuyCanadian ✅ Get my free weekly newsletter: farandwide.news Note: A previous version of this graphic listed a Canadian-owned company which had moved its production to the U.S.
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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“It’s okay to let AI write trashy formulaic books while humans handle the proper literary fiction” is such a shitty, insidious take, not least because we know what is defined as “not real literature” can shift. For one snob it’s romance, for another it’s horror, fantasy, all genre fiction.
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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you ask me, “let AI replace other writers, but it won’t replace me, a Proper Writer, because I’m built different” people belong on the trash-heap right alongside the most ardent AI evangelists.
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.
Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
YouTube is absolutely choked with AI-wriiten, AI-illustrated, AI-read sludge; cliche-ridden, replete with stereotypes, pandering to envy, spite, victimhood, schadefreude, and prejudice, yet purporting to be real. And I'm here to tell you: people, especially older people, BELIEVE IT’S ALL TRUE.
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Reconciliation prompted us to relinquish negative feelings over the past, but many, including myself, were not willing to do that. Because we have not severed from the past. The past endures,” says Billy-Ray Belcourt in an interview about his latest book.
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Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Poems Insist on Indigenous Freedom
In his first poetry collection since 2019, the acclaimed author from Driftpile Cree Nation challenges readers to imagine new political possibilities…
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Eric Reese @reeseer83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
States like to present lethal injection as a clean, almost medical, form of execution, but it's all just prison warden chemistry experiments administered by amateurs and should rightly fall afoul of the 8th Amendment.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 30/09/2026
recommended reading today — Aaron Hemens’ interview with Phyllis Webstad, published two years ago on @indiginews.bsky.social. Webstad is not even mentioned on the federal government’s webpage for NDTR/Orange Shirt Day indiginews.com/news/orange-...
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Orange Shirt Day’s founder fears Sept. 30 is being co-opted from residential ‘school’ survivors
‘I don’t want Orange Shirt Day to be forgotten — it was started by a survivor,’ says Phyllis Webstad, whose 11-year-old event now coincides with National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Stanley Park in Vancouver is one of the most beautiful urban areas in Canada. With 500,000 trees, it is larger than Central Park in New York. Inhabited by humans for thousands of years, it has a deep history. This is the story of that park. 📸 Wikicommons 🧵 1/12
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 1885, Montreal was ravaged by smallpox. To stem the spread of the disease, public health officials enforced vaccinations. Those that mistrusted the vaccine rioted in the streets. This is the story of the Montreal Smallpox Riots. 📸 McGill University 🧵 1/10
An old-fashioned illustration depicting a group of people in a train compartment. A man in a suit is assisting a woman who appears to be unwell, adjusting her clothing or providing aid. Other passengers, including a woman seated and a child standing nearby, observe the scene. The setting includes detailed period clothing and interior design, with luggage and fabric draped around.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Ben @liztruss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Pride cometh before the fall” - a guy who just learned that June is before September
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“If you're causing division between Indigenous and non-Indigenous and not letting non-Indigenous people participate in the sharing of the land, that's not right...” Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew tells First Nations, whose reserve lands account for just 0.5% of the province.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 28/09/2026
quiet quitting, you mean acting your wage
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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Mz Taylor @rhythmrunner.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026
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Tony Stark Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr. Iconic Pose
Alt: Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in Iron Man, Iconic Pose on front of big explosions!
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Mz Taylor @rhythmrunner.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026
Same. Super cis. I have the privilege to know so many amazing trans people, so if the trans-ing were actually a social contagion as they imagine, I'd have caught it. Still cis here. Not shockingly, cis people aren't trans. 🤷‍♀️
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lucindacatchlove.bsky.social @lucindacatchlove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fun fact, bees on cocaine exaggerate about the flowers they found to other bees.
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 22/09/2026
the best case scenario is everything stays exactly the same coalition with the electorate even further annoyed at him and millions of dollars unnecessarily spent and millions of people’s time wasted
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

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AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
thesauri sometimes do more harm than good man
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
To those who had a really, really hard day of being a human and didn’t say anything… Thank you for staying 💚 I’m so happy you survived the day. You are worthy of nice days. See you tomorrow? ✨
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watch 194 Films by Georges Méliès, the Filmmaker Who “Invented Everything” (All in Chronological Order)
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Watch 194 Films by Georges Méliès, the Filmmaker Who “Invented Everything” (All in Chronological Order)
Georges Méliès directed, produced, edited, and starred in over 500 films between 1896 and 1913, most of them brimming with special effects the filmmaker himself invented. Before Méliès, such things as...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Locking people up for using drugs will never make sense to me. The people I've known who've used drugs, in spite of the threat of severe consequences, did so bc they are not/were not okay. Locking people in dungeons traumatizes them further and makes these patterns even harder to break.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New jersey: A huge Hollywood style sign spanning the entire state that says NOT NEW YORK
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment “Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.”
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