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Robin Gee

@robingwhiz.bsky.social
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Academic librarian. Sometimes I draw things. He/they 🏳️‍⚧️

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
WIP vs Final of my painting of Lothlórien Watercolour and acryla gouache. First image is the watercolour layer. Prints on INPRNT
A rough watercolour painting of LothlórienThe final painting of Lothlórien, after the acryla gouahce layer has been applied.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/07/2026
NEW: Cops around the country have used Flock cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “person on skateboard,” and “person wearing orange vest and construction hat,” according to data reviewed by 404 Media.
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How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Me...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
this is why "and you're surprised?" is one of the top 5 most infuriating online responses to sharing upsetting news. surprise is not the only emotion, and it's not the only factor that makes something worth drawing attention to. it's weird to pretend being blasé about horror equals moral superiority
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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 16/07/2026
None of this is anti-technology, but it is a call for basic scrutiny: who profits, whose kids are the test cases, what embodiment choices are actually encoding, and what happens to the data. Salamanca deserves better answers than "it's a closed system, trust us." 16/16
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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 16/07/2026
As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵
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Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher
Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.
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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 09/07/2026
I went into a fugue state and cartooned my feelings at reading this passage. I have floppy dark hair and round glasses. My head is tilted back, my mouth wide open, steam billowing out of it looking like a smoke stack. Mr Darcy’s words hang prominently around me. 

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 25/05/2026
I loathe the cult of the car.
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by hazel (@sodiumPen) on X(dot)com

europeans will ride a train going 200 mph through the alps while drinking wine and americans will sit in traffic on 1-95 for three hours eating a gas station sandwich and say "at least i have my freedom" brother you are imprisoned by a honda accord

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE shot this man, a loving husband and father of three, dead, for the crime of going to work Tuesday morning. His family's gofundme for funeral/services is about halfway to its goal gofund.me/660ca4364
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Donate to In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old, organized by LULAC Institute, Inc.
On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old
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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 07/07/2026
If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts, without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings. Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.
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Robin Gee @robingwhiz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
When I say I love Welcome to Night Vale that doesn’t mean I want to actually live in a Night Vale-esque country but here we are I guess
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Slavery is still legal in the United States. The only requirement is incarceration.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
sometimes i’m just out & about enjoying myself & i think, this is what they’re trying to take from us. this beautiful moment, having a traditional ethiopian coffee service at a tiny restaurant in a strip mall in a little appalachian town, this is what those reactionary freaks want to take from us!!
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
100 years ago.
The klan marching in front of the US Capitol in 1926
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Robin Gee @robingwhiz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Teaching online has made me realize how heavily I rely on in-the-moment knowledge checks and feedback from students… so many times this semester I think I’ve written a good assignment and then go to grade it and realize the instructions were not nearly as clear to students as I thought
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The media is abnormalizing Mamdani as pathologically as they normalize Trump
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/06/2026
there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless
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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 14/06/2026
This from @grantbrisbee.bsky.social on the Giants Pride Night situation is worth your time today.
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Giants pitchers' Bible verses on Pride Night caps show how they've missed the point
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/06/2026
ah, I was wondering why the NYT was having a panic attack yesterday lol
nyt headline 

Mexico Can't Go On This WayMexico amends constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore boss's calls, messages and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods & bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified...politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews…incompetence &unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc”
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
this is such a good example of someone asserting that incivility lives in actions that hurt people, not in questioning those actions
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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 31/05/2026
I've said in the past that everyone has a drug, a cult, and a diet out there that will hack their brain and ruin their life, but I lack a certain pity for the people for whom all three are being glamoured by a chatbot that insufferably and smotheringly coddles them.
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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 08/05/2026
if you're not watching these you are sleeping on the weirdest and coolest baseball history series around from the folks who made the great History of the Seattle Mariners video
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 08/05/2026
After a trough of relatively less activity, that is fewer people calling me for help, I'm back up to 10 active habeas cases. I do not want to cause anyone undue alarm, but ICE has changed tactics and seems more likely to detain people when they go in for routine appointments with ICE.
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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Altered version of the aforementioned Boston Globe opinion piece by Richard Hanania.

Headline: "I didn’t hop into a cab for the last 25 miles of this marathon. But so what if I had?"

Subhead:  "Lots of people can run but can’t run far. They should be allowed to get a machine’s help."
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/04/2026
new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:
Critically endangered crafts
Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge.
Arrowsmithing
Basketwork furniture making
Bell founding
Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED
Bow making (musical)
Bowed-felt hat making
Chain making
Clay pipe making
Clog making
Coiled straw basket making
Coppersmithing (objects)
Copper wheel engraving
Currach making
Cut crystal glass making NEW
Devon stave basket making
Diamond cutting
Encaustic tile making
Engine turned engraving
Fabric pleating
Fair Isle chair making
Fan making
Figurehead carving NEW
Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW
Flute making (concert)
Fore-edge painting
Frame knitting
Glass eye making
Glove making MORE ENDANGERED
Hat block making
Hat plaiting
Horse collar making
Horsehair weaving
Linen beetling NEW
Linen damask weaving
Maille making
Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW
Metal thread making
Millwrighting
Northern Isles basket making
Orrery making
Paper making (trade and manufacturing)
Parchment and vellum making
Piano making
Pietra dura NEW
Plane making
Plume making
Pointe shoe making
Pottery (trade and manufacturing)
Quilting (frame NEW |
Rake making MORE ENDANGERED
Rattan furniture making NEW
Saw making
Scientific and optical instrument making
Scissor making
Sieve and riddle making
Silk ribbon weaving
Silver spinning
Spade making
Spinning wheel making
Straw hat making
Sussex trug making
Swill basket making
Tanning (oak bark)
Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW
Thatching (Scottish vernacular)
Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW
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Tinsmithing
Wainwrighting
Watch face enamelling
Watch making
Whip making
Wooden fishing net making
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Bring Me The News @bringmethenews.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Ramsey County investigating ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a possible kidnapping More: bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/r…
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Strap in!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Being into cats feels so debasing. You give everything over to this animal — time, labor, money — but when you want them to sit next to you, they refuse and jump away. When they finally sit on your lap, you sit motionless to the point of physical pain, afraid to disturb them. Humiliating.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/04/2026
Can’t think of anything to do right now? Help pay a Minneapolis immigrant family’s rent!
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 07/04/2026
new mural going up on nicollet ave in whittier, minneapolis depicting alex pretti filming federal agents with his phone during operation metro surge before he was shot and killed, just 4 blocks south of here
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
we have impoverished every social program, made all of our lives worse, all so we could pour more money into our military than anyone else. and our military has not been able to win a war in 80 years. we are being scammed.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman
One of Altman's batch mates in the first Y Combinator cohort was Aaron Swartz, a brilliant but troubled coder who died by suicide in 2013 and is now remembered in many tech circles as something of a sage. Not long before his death, Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. "You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted," he told one. "He is a sociopath. He would do anything.
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
None of this started with Trump - it's baked into the DNA of a nation-state that was built on the genocide of Indigenous peoples and the kidnapping and enslavement of people from Africa. The US has never not been violent.
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The purpose of a system is what it does, and the US is a bunch of weapons companies in a trenchcoat, committing as many war crimes as they can get away with so a few extremely rich people can get even richer.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/04/2026
It is really, really wild how persistent and prominent this remains in common LLMs. There seems to be an air of "well they fixed that" and it is 100% not true: most of the energy just seems to be going towards 'being plausible enough to be accepted', ie style and not accuracy or truth
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Michael G @michael21910.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
David Simon said it best
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.
NYTimes Headline: The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote
Subhead: Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote--the husband's. They say the idea is catching on.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
a 2-part tale of how off-year governor races have consequences
A screengrab summarizing a story on Virginia quitting 287g at the state level.A screengrab summarizing a story on NJ barring 287g .
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
St. Jerome
a stylized 3d render of st. jerome at his table, drawing jesus yaoi. a lion watches.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 26/03/2026
everyone outside minneapolis watching our mayor
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legalized gamboling @ohtazer.goblinmo.de · 23/03/2026
as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.
subway ad that says "your idea could be live by the time you reach your stop"
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
University admins: let's have a robust debate about AI where you agree to use it!
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Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Our partners at Homeline and with the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department are warning that we are now seeing a staggering spike in eviction filings.
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Mayor Frey vetoes Minneapolis ordinance to extend eviction notices
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has vetoed an ordinance that would have extended eviction notices to 60 days, up from 30, until August for renters in the wake of increased immigration enforcement.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵
A quote by Rick Owens. It reads: "Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead."
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Big Dyke Energy @azurebitch.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Genuinely give AuDHD people basic income and housing, give them a bit to settle into their routines and recover from the trauma of survival, and then be ready to see shit pop the fuck off
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside
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