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Charlie Lizardbreath @yarnycharlie.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

my favorite part of the Corning Museum of Glass was this exhibit by Elinar and Jamex de la Torre. It's a lot "humans are weird gross goblins" and "you don't get to tell me how my world fits together"

A glass goblin on a portrait that ha art of cherubic babies with a frame that is brown butterflies and glass fruit

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

This is one of the most disturbing paragraphs I’ve read in months, and I’m currently researching the history of enslavement in 18th century New England.

"It feels like with this election this year, we're heading into an era that we really haven't seen, maybe only once or twice in the company's history, where the value proposition of the private sector for both our state partners and our federal partners are going to be not only strong today, but even stronger as we go in the next couple of years," Damon Hininger, CEO of CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, said on that company's own earnings call.
Hininger noted he'd been with the company over 32 years. "We do think that there's going to be increased need for detention capacity," he added later.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/07/2024

Same, sunflower. Same.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 09/07/2024

One helluva story on the impacts of Bitcoin on the health of people in a Texas community after a local business invested in Bitcoin farming computers that run at all hours... Sociology episky 🛟 policysky polisky lawsky 🧪 Medsky 📈🧭

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Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town

A Bitcoin mine moved to a small town in Texas. One by one, the residents fell ill.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 10/07/2024

“It is possible-given absolute control over the media and the police-to rewrite the memories of hundreds of millions of people, if you have a generation to accomplish it in.” - Carl Sagan, “The Demon-Haunted World” He tried to warn us. 🥺🧪

Photo of Carl Sagan, gesturing in front of planets. Taken from The Spirit of Science website article.

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Eric Rawlins @erawlins.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

The Overview Effect: “I saw an iridescent biosphere teeming with life [but] I didn't see the economy -- since our human systems treat everything, --, as the wholly owned subsidiary of the global economy, it's obvious from the vantage point of space that we're living a lie.”

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Astronaut shares the profound 'big lie' he realized after seeing the Earth from space

Astronaut and humanitarian Ron Garan explained how man's perspective changes after venturing out into space. He believes this shift in perspective will help us fix our problems.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

Two kinds of US presidential elections: "time for a change" and "don't fuck my life up" and I think you're insane if you think 2024 is gonna be in the former camp.

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wade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

A fellow academic tells Mayer:

“But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.“

“And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God.“

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Isn't it ironic 🎵

A social post from @kryzazzy on X that says: Alanis sang about having one hand in her pocket but we all know women’s clothing don’t have pockets so...

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Dan Yocum. Ugh. @yocum137.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Something I* keep struggling with is how bonkers one probably sounds when trying to explain the reality of the situation to anyone who hasn’t been paying attention The fact that it sounds completely unbelievable feels to me like part of the strategy *me and fuckin everyone

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KIMBLY NOT HERE TRY VENMO @k1m.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

even the dating apps know I’m hopeless and are telling me to find god instead

Hinge update

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Your Most Compatible has been u... 28m ago

We think you and Jesus should get to know

each other. Jesus will be in your Discover until
tomorrow.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

"We have entered an uncertain new era. The door is now wide open to the kinds of fascism and authoritarianism we spent much of the 20th century and hundreds of thousands of American lives combatting overseas." talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

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The Supreme Court Took A Sledgehammer To American Democracy

This is special hair-on-fire edition of TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email...

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 02/07/2024

This is a proven technique.

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Harpo: 100+ Ahab: 0

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Adam Howard @adamhoward.dev · 30/06/2024

I just bought this and can report that the illustrations are fantastic and the first story, "Vera", is a creepy banger. Buy this book!

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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 29/06/2024

As soon as the FDA approves it, I’m sure the 6 fascist priest-emperors of the SCOTUS will review it with their unparalleled scientific acumen and find a reason to not let us have it (unless we’re rich).

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

For some reason Kardashev never envisioned a civilization that could harness all of the sunlight that falls on their planet but uses most of it to create pictures of extremely busty ladies with three knees and fourteen fingers.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 27/06/2024

Wirecutter calls Alito the best budget pick but notes that Roberts is fully tricked out with all the bells and whistles

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/06/2024

We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Tove Jansson This just popped up on insta and now I need to find the whole thing.

an illustration of the mock turtle telling a story to a red griffon and Alice against a pink sky in a stark landscape

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

It was the nearest weapon at hand to club Hillary Clinton with and the press was happy to club her with it along with him

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

I’m now firmly of the opinion that a lot of the problems we’re facing in society right now could be cured by more art in schools, not less.

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Charlotte @charlottor.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

Just making sure you’ve all seen this. Artist Chavis mármol has crushed a Tesla with a giant Olmec head sculpture and I think it is very, very beautiful

A person leaning against a blue Tesla. The car is completely fucked - roof and windscreen all caved in and flattened - because there is a giant stone head on top of it

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

When AOL and Prodigy started taking off in the early 90s, our neighbor bought a bunch of cement slab and busted it up and sold it online as "Real Pieces of the Berlin Wall" and "Real Pieces of the Great Wall of China" and that guy realized what the internet was gonna be before everyone else

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2024

it is the overt hostility to any part of civil society that doesn’t uphold his vision of what society ought to be that is the clearest evidence of desantis’s authoritarian disposition www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/a...

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DeSantis Vetoes All Arts Grants in Florida

Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

Our tech overlords would like to make clear that your fantasies of universal health care and affordable housing are childish while their fantasies of infinite energy to power their AI girlfriends are reasonable expectations and will come true imminently. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.

Some data centers need as much energy as a small city, turning companies that promised a clean energy future into some of the most insatiable guzzlers of power

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

One notable thing about these right wingers who claim to be great lovers and defenders of “western civilization” is how much they hate and fear the current practitioners of the arts and humanities.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 21/06/2024

Really can't be said often enough that this is the point. A world in which women cannot control their bodies and reproductive lives is a world in which women cannot be free and equal members of society.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

We are embarking on a future where it will be less common to see women in positions of professional achievement or authority than we do now—fewer women lawyers, professors, scientists.

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