Reposted by Vegetable RespecterTallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 9hforgot to put in the quit #critterposting 04412
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious. 5159991630
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12629731773
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterCole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not enough people take seriously "funding delays"/"bureaucratic nonsense can kill people" but here it is right here. If I was mad when a patient died because it took a few extra months for lawyers to try to look for a legal basis for an international data transfer, I'm incandescent, now.cnbc.comNIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn't haveA delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options. 317584
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them. 441720334
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New: USPS is to put cameras in its trucks that continuously record. This is to gather data on roads, signage, and to improve "community safety," the agency tells me. The cameras are marketed to capture passing license plates too, but don't run ALPR software www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...404media.coUSPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. 46366153
Reposted by Vegetable Respecterflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine. 8335166
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt. 833112971
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hmmmm. Setting aside the Oprah part, this windows vs mirrors thing is a corruption of Dr Rudine Sims Bishop's foundational work on kidlit about windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. scenicregional.org/wp-content/u...scenicregional.org 59536
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterThe Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 30/09/2026Newly proposed federal rules would have “disastrous” impact on Medicaid, insurance funding, state says coloradosun.com/2026/09/30/h...coloradosun.comNewly proposed federal rules would have “disastrous” impact on Medicaid, insurance funding, state saysProposed federal rules could cut hundreds of millions of dollars annually for Medicaid and also impact health insurance programs, state says. 0811
Reposted by Vegetable Respecter👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is why I've always disagreed with the idea that "art" is purely subjectively defined. Art is a communication. The listener/viewer completes that communication in recieving it, but it is the intentionality of the creator that makes it art. "AI music" is no more music than traffic noise is. 1230777
Reposted by Vegetable Respectershaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i know a lot of people really, really want gaza to be a two-sides issue that maps cleanly onto US electoral politics, but it isn't. the mainstream of both parties supports the genocide, because the US as an institution supports the genocide. i know that's uncomfortable but you can't run away from it 141564199
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling. 781556638
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/07/2026you 👏🏼 cannot 👏🏼 automatically 👏🏼 detect 👏🏼 plagiarism > the available detection tools are neither accurate nor reliable and have a main bias towards classifying the output as human-written rather than detecting AI-generated text link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/link.springer.comTesting of detection tools for AI-generated text - International Journal for Educational IntegrityRecent advances in generative pre-trained transformer large language models have emphasised the potential risks of unfair use of artificial intelligence (AI) generated content in an academic environme... 518862
Reposted by Vegetable Respectermattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 4996491739
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this 414557701
Vegetable Respecter @skylinegardener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Dead would be too good for Turner are you fucking kidding me. 0140
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Further proof that Musk is doing a Remo Williams. He's pretending to build rockets that might someday work by getting 10B in taxpayer funds and spending 1B blowing it up and pocketing the other 9B and then asking for another 10B. His rockets will never work because they aren't supposed to.theverge.comHonda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocketWill SpaceX have more competition? 461996476
Reposted by Vegetable Respecterim nicebat 👼🦇 dead dove do not eat @nicebart.bsky.social · 28/09/20266 IS A YES NO ON THE RESTmy.cheddarup.com2026 General - MO Amendments - Cheddar Up2026 General - MO Amendments - Boots on the Ground Midwest - Cheddar Up. Collect online payments for events and fundraisers with Cheddar Up. 021
Vegetable Respecter @skylinegardener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hey that song by Malek Azrael that keeps playing on the bridge fucking sucks and I hope he pulverizes a toe on a dresser or some shit. Dookie ass stupid ass song 000
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterZohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026American fascism is just family annihilation writ large, murder-suicide as a political platform 27918
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterIda B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Beginning in 2027: “If your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, music, & cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest.” newrepublic.com/post/213446/...newrepublic.comTrump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of DegreesUnder a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan. 24226
Vegetable Respecter @skylinegardener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Haircut with our lady keeps getting pushed back and my hair went from acceptable to 5’5” polish Anton Chigurh in a day. 100
Vegetable Respecter @skylinegardener.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please God I’ve seen what you’ve done for Pompeii and I’m just asking for this one little thing. 010
Reposted by Vegetable Respecter(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 23/11/2023There's a thing I've been thinking of that I call "disclamation", where you build systems where, because of the diffusion of authority you sort of disclaim responsibility for bad actions onto policies, procedures, contracts, rules, algorithms, &c 38028
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterHALLOWEENTime, M.D.🇵🇸🏳️🌈 @saigontimemd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026 17919
Reposted by Vegetable Respecter🎃trash🎃 (haunted) @dollarpbr.gay · 24/09/2026just learned engels HATED “A fair day's wage for a fair day's work” so much that he put forth his own slogan RIP engels you woulda loved posting on bluesky dot app 814720
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face. 82089207
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460661071
Vegetable Respecter @skylinegardener.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This sounds like dogshit and anyone who falls for it is a mark. 010
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterBoots on the Ground Midwest @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Read this two-part investigation on CoreCivic, the for-profit prison in Leavenworth, Kansas ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 122
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterArkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 23/09/2026More Americans lose SNAP as Congress weighs food stamps’ future arkansasadvocate.com/2026/09/23/r...arkansasadvocate.comMore Americans lose SNAP as Congress weighs food stamps’ future | Arkansas AdvocateTens of thousands of Americans continue to lose access to food assistance each month, even as Congress debates slowing down major cuts to federal food stamps. New data from the U.S. Department of Agri... 4117
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterKCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 23/09/2026Federal immigration enforcement led a meatpacking plant to delay some shifts Wednesday and caused a school district to warn that students may have had family members detained.kcur.orgICE agents in Kansas cause schools to warn families and meatpacking plants to delay shiftsFederal immigration enforcement led a meatpacking plant to delay some shifts Wednesday and caused a school district to w 11510
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterMeredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.c-span.org 38247351069
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterWarren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hey folks, with everyone going back to school and a ton of new e-bikes going around, I wanted to re-share the Bike Streets app. It's a curated bike navigation app built around the network of streets that people actually ride on. It's free to use! Check it out and let me know what you think! 410426
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterCurb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A lot of people are rightfully realizing that there is no popular input in how things go, that the government and especially the State are not responsive to democratic forces, but not realizing that “I will vote for 99% Hitler” is a major reason things got to be this way. 29815
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with. 8443471335
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterAlexis @patterned.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Welcoming fall with a new carving; maple and oak leaves. 🍁 #art #linocut #printsky 0282
Reposted by Vegetable RespecterAsh @fishyash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2... 2227041662
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