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If the bass drops in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, is it still off the chain? (∩`-´)⊃━ ☆゚.*・。゚ 林蔤雅 • 임미아 Pottery | science | cats | AuDHD | NE DFW | mola mola at ❤️ | happy little clouds Cover by @devinellekurtz.bsky.social

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
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Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
excellent thread about why authors sell books on Amazon I did try putting one of my stories on Kobo; unlike my Kindle stories that make me a tiny amount of royalties every now and then, I have had *zero* sales on Kobo. not a single one.
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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
People who "almost got hit by a bicycle" are extremely numerous while people who actually got hit by cars remain unavailable for comment.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“I’m mad that I can no longer get away with breaking the law and endangering others with my selfish and reckless behavior.”
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/08/2026
why did they make the ever working, unpaid, silent robots black?
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!
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stealingsand @stealingsand.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Tyler at work: uses baseball stadium announcer / sports podcaster voice on video calls Also Tyler: refuses to acknowledge or explain why he does this
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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, & things got out of hand.
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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 07/08/2026
The amount of AI Slop happening in ads this campaign cycle, when the tech is still so shit the ads are obviously slop and unnerving to even look at, seems a dismaying indicator if what's to come.
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stealingsand @stealingsand.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
That Ken Liu is on the list is just baffling to me.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
as both a former marketer and someone who deals with ai a lot now in my professional life: you also have to really consider that a hefty amount of the time people see ai content that is obvious enough for them to recognize, they are dealing with scammers
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026
Same dynamic that leads people to treating “burrito taxi” as a monocausal explanation before looking at Congress failing to extend or pass new versions of COVID support
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026
Perfect example of how we are much more comfortable demanding people change their personal choices (how much they spend on their pets) than we are of demanding people with power actually be accountable for their choices for us (how much we spend on helping people),
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's heartening to see everyone come together, from all corners of the internet, to say AI and its shills suck.
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
completely real question i had to answer for the hospital im getting top surgery at
a surgery form. the question being asked is "what are your pronouns?" the only answers are yes or no.
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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yes YES The tiger is out
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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SHOEGAZE COMMANDO @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
are you bearing witness or are you just micro dosing hell?
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“First they came for my fiance, and I was very upset because I had never read the poem and frankly even if I had it sounds like one of those communist things all the perverts on the internet keep going on about why no I have never read a book why do you ask?”
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
One might imagine that history's great men benefited from the unacknowledged labor of others! 🤔 That individual accomplishment is perhaps best recognized as collaborative effort! 😲
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☈H^2 @goaskascientist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A random object that, despite how it was put into the drawer, will NOT allow said drawer to open fully when trying to retrieve it - or anything else from said drawer.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Good thing i have more raspberries than I know what to do with
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The moment a distributor sees me as "supporting" their films is the moment I take serious stock of how much of a sell-out I've become for *access*. You should never be partying w/the folks you're holding to the fire. Keep your fucking screeners. Fuck that. And fuck you if you can be bought so cheap.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026
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America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman...
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
another point: grocery stores operate on razor-thin profit margins, so what happens when they suddenly lose the revenue they get from SNAP? (they close)
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/08/2026
Two months later: the Planned Parenthood logo has been removed, and the exterior is covered in graffiti as demolition continues. Still gutting to see
Photo of the building at the corner of Bleecker and Mott Street in Soho, which is the former site of Planned Parenthood’s Manhattan clinic. 26 Bleecker st. There is a garbage truck parked on the curb and the building has a bunch of graffiti on it.Photo of the front door of the building, which is propped open. you can see that the inside is looking very empty. You can also see a better view of the graffiti on the brick.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Do cis people have even the slightest idea how it feels for trans people to hear that large groups of Americans are now being tested to see if one of us is hidden among them
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
And if you’re wondering if they can be modded with sweet LED lighting 😎 bsky.app/profile/jayd...
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This actually makes me feel a wee bit sorry for famous people. Not Altman. He's trash. But famous people who aren't garbage and are limited to Elons and Altmans in their dating pool because they can't date regular folks and have to hop on some mess like Raya.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Comedy Platinum.
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wow, they weren’t exaggerating. The only Canadian media outlet that covered this historic news is The Maple, an independent. I knew most of 🇨🇦 media is owned by a handful of corporate & financial owners or U.S. hedge fund connected, but to not report on this shows the bias, power & control they wield
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Walmart Workers Have Won A First-Ever Contract In North America
Unifor Local 252 in Mississauga announced that about 800 workers now have a collective agreement.
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I think that the entire profession of Journalism post-2008 is Corporatism wearing the skin of a dead discipline And that the Who, What, When, Where, How model of Journalism is insidiously inverted to make everything atomized And that Critical Thought has self-selected from the industry over 18 yrs
Norman Rockwell 'Guy Standing At Town Meeting' meme
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026
A gentle observation: Some of the same older Black voters in Detroit who are being shaded for not supporting Abdul El-Sayed in the primary sent Rashida Tlaib to the House. And keep sending her there. 🤯 Yes, her district encompasses all of Dearborn *now,* but not in 2018. All politics is local.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
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Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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multiburst @multiburst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Xiaohongshu ("Little red book") ban in Taiwan explained.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/08/2026
this one's funny bc i think it's rooted in a similar impulse to the data center backlash, but unlike that one (we do need SOME data centers, not for AI but for lots of stuff everyone likes) it's purely arrogance and hubris to crash stuff into the moon. we don't need to be doing that ever
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Back to share some examples I find useful While we want professional success from women, we also think this gives us information that they have a deficit in communal attributes that we particularly prize from women. Here tested with perceptions of female managers pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17227153/
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Why are women penalized for success at male tasks?: the implied communality deficit - PubMed
In 3 experimental studies, the authors tested the idea that penalties women incur for success in traditionally male areas arise from a perceived deficit in nurturing and socially sensitive communal at...
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Specifically with leadership this stuff gets even more calcified into stereotype. Being perceived as incongruous with leadership stereotypes is really penalized for women and exists for men but it's far less severe as a penalty. I actually had a whole book section on this I cut
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Past a certain point as a woman in this industry wielding evidence you have to flip into coldness, which is difficult for me because my natural inclination is to try to know who people are as people and build collaboration. But this really gets read as a ding on your intelligence which is shitty
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This was particularly obvious to me because I have worked laterally across so many organizations as a consultant, advisor, research leader across a partnership. Doing data and evidence work was *always* something people had backlash about but couple it with authority, damn.
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A lot of things that I'd learned were strategically necessary as a high level technical IC delivering evidence (being exceptionally warm, constantly placating egos with rapport building) suddenly flipped into severe penalties when I was a VP. It was interesting to observe
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Surly Amy @surlyamy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It’s very disappointing to hear news people trying to describe the candidates who think people should be able to afford food and healthcare as extreme.
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Ya’ll!! Mohenjo Daro was JUST LIKE THAT Bratz-doll-ass civilisation, respect
A goigly eyed …cow? Drawn On an ancient cupA goigly eyed fish, Drawn On an ancient vaseA goigly eyed ox Drawn On an ancient cup, and omg he looks so happyA goigly eyed cow sculpted in a smooth and holdable form
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Every social media website is a non-representative “echo chamber,” shaped by user activity, the incentives of the attention economy, and usually an algorithm designed to maximize the website’s income. To at least some extent, that’s unavoidable. Why is it wrong if different sites are different?
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 05/08/2026
The award season where John Leguizamo spends 4 months explaining the exploitation of the global south will be amazing
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/08/2026
sometimes the internet is a wonder, sometimes the internet is a mistake and sometimes the internet brings you "cheerleading 9/11" and has transcended the need for adjectives
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Two AI accounts wanting to connect and stay in touch with each other in the mentions of a post I wrote about AI is fucking hellscape material.
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7 years is still early in startup terms, especially if the product keeps growing. The 5M user mark is interesting too, since at that point the data and distribution become hard to ignore. Btw, let's connect and support each other!
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growth as a measure feels off to me. i'm here for the beats, not the numbers. evera keeps evolving, but i'm still tweaking the sound design. let's keep building together - no metrics needed.
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