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Fiber artist, day-dreamer. Interests (partial list): nature, art, photography, music, books. Mostly I lurk.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Administrative agencies: very dangerous, must be line edited by Matthew Kaczmaryk President: operates behind a curtain, no peeking
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 29/06/2024
God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."
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To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Board
Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
In preparation for the Biden and Trump presidential debate today.
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 23/06/2024
It is my personal opinion that menopausal hot flashes are the last of one's fucks burning up.
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Pawluh @pawluh.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
I put tennis balls out on the patio to see if the baby raccoons would play with them and...
Two baby raccoons with their paws on a yellow tennis ball mid play. The mama raccoon is behind them.
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David Marshall @illdave.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2024
one of my deep seated beliefs is that elephants are one of the other high level intelligences on this planet and that if there is a judgment day humanity will be held to account for our crimes against them www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
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Elephants call each other by name, study finds
Researchers used artificial intelligence algorithm to analyse calls by two herds of African savanna elephants in Kenya
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Don't worry kids, it's just an awkward coincidence that major news outlets like @washingtonpost.com and @thedailybeast.bsky.social are replacing their top editors with right-wing propagandists before the most fraught election in American history.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
This is why book bans are on such a steep incline. The far right extremists who organize them are capitalizing on easily inflamed bigotries to defund institutions of public learning bc it's the most effective and cheapest way to cling to their power.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Just fold the studio into Disney and kill it already. Make Toy Story sequels till the sun fucking burns out. Love how this shift conveniently happened when more woman/POC were really pushing to direct their own stories. Defining their experiences as not "universal" is saying the quiet part aloud.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
TRUMP: If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone. Yes. If you commit 34 felonies by filing false business records to cover up election interference, you too can be convicted by a jury of your peers via the due process of our criminal justice system.
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Bob Morris @bobmorris.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
“ Interviewers: I beg you. Stop asking Republicans if they think the trial was “rigged.” Ask them if they believe that candidates should be allowed to make illegal hush money payments to further their campaign. Ask them, specifically, which evidence they think the jury got wrong.”
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Richard Linklater's romantic thriller Hit Man is minor Linklater but major fun, w/ movie-star-in-the-making Glen Powell as a philosophy prof who moonlights as a fake contract killer (based on a real guy!). See it in theaters to show Netflix that, yes, we still like movies. slate.com/culture/2024...
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Finally, an Honest-to-Goodness Great New Rom-Com
Hit Man is actually funny, actually sexy, and announces the arrival of a major new movie star.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
GOP campaigns staffed with young operatives who are into Nazi stuff is bad actually. Very charitable explanation of "just trolling" is still quite bad. Do you know what they called people who weren't into Hitler's worst ideas but backed him because they liked how it bothered people they hate? Nazis.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 20/05/2024
Now I’m no tech visionary, but if I asked a very famous actress to provide the voice for my product and she turned me down, I would not simply use her voice anyway (Statement from Scarlett Johansson on OpenAI’s “Sky”)
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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2024
English actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and The Lord of the Rings, died on Sunday. He was 79.
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Bernard Hill, who starred in 'Titanic' and 'The Lord of the Rings,' dies at 79
The English actor played Captain Edward John Smith in the 1997 film Titanic as well as King Théoden of Rohan in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
The people who complain about class warfare won the war - the richest 400 Americans now pay the same effective tax rate as the poorest half of America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 04/05/2024
#DYK  it's rumored that the character design for Yoda was inspired by tarsiers?   The resemblance is uncanny! ‌ Happy  #StarWarsDay, and May the 4th (of nature) be with you. 🌍🧪
Picture of a furry, sleepy tarsier clinging to a tree with text saying: Saturday, it is. Awaken the force will...but later"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
denver students chanting “i don’t see a riot here. why are you in riot gear?” at the cops assembled
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Laura L @lalalowe.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Happy 460th birthday to William Shakespeare! #literature #shakespeare
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
They've done it! Voyager 1 is talking to NASA again. After 5 months of absolutely heroic efforts from the JPL team, they isolated a single faulty memory chip in one of the onboard computers. The coding workaround sounds both cunning and devious, and it's worked. 🥳🧪🔭 ℹ️: blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/
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Voyager
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Now that Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley are calling for the National Guard to be deployed to Columbia, it's worth remembering what happened when the National Guard was deployed to Kent State and Jackson State some 54 years ago. New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS: open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
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Bloodlust
This afternoon, Senator Tom Cotton — whom you might remember from his previous principled stances like “drivers should simply assault left-wing protesters,” “the military should simply attack left-win...
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 21/04/2024
I sure did. And here’s what I said.
Remarks delivered at April 18 2024 student-faculty-staff press conference at Columbia University, outside the President’s House, in the wake of riot police removing peaceful protestors from campus.*

My name is Joseph Howley and I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics. I'm here as a member of several faculty groups: Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, the AAUP, and a group of more than 20 Jewish faculty members who two weeks ago sent a letter to Minouche Shafik ahead of the Congressional hearing expression our grave concerns.

I'm here today to stand with our students.  I have previously risen on occasions like this to speak as a Jewish member faculty because it seemed important to me that Jewish professors be here to say certain things. But I’m here today simply a professor, as a member of this community, as someone who walks their kids to school every day across this campus, as someone who of playing the identity politics games, of being divided from the restYesterday our university leaders went in front of Congress and in the face of absurd and hateful interrogation from white nationalist lawmakers, conceded a series of laughable and dangerous propositions about the nature of language and politics and our university. Worse, they endangered the professional reputations and safety of faculty members by discussing discipline and hiring and firing on live television and seeming to bargain away the careers of my colleagues in the face of political pressure.

And today, still clinging, after six months, and an actual chemical attack on protestors on our campus, still clinging to the idea that rhetoric and words are a form of threat and unsafety on this campus, in the name of public safety, they have endangered every single member of this campus community and our students in particular by bringing the police onto campus.

I wish the last few months had left me with greater confidence that the University’s response today was about how students weMajor decisions at this institution are being guided by people who are more concerned with PR and appeasing Republican House members and special interest groups than with the values of a liberal education and a just society.  This is what happens when faculty are not in the room. This is what happens when expensive lawyers who don’t know our institution or values are brought in to enforce our rules and discipline our students and advise our leaders.  We get cops dragging students off campus  when we have done find without them for more than fifty years.  I need to stress as a member of this faculty what a violation it is of historic norms on this campus to see riot cops breaking up peaceful protests. It will be an historic stain on our reputation and is already a deep wound in our community.

Today more than a hundred of our brave students risked arrest and violence at the hands of police standing up for something they believe in. I can’t help but contrast their courage and principlesColumbia can either be a world-class place of research and learning, or we can be an institution that resorts to law-and-order responses to protest even when there’s no threat to safety or operations, but we can’t be both.

We can either be a top tier university  that supports the safety and well being of all community members or we can be an institution that allows nationalist politics to dictate speech codes and use of force against our students. But we can’t be both.

Tonight hundreds of faculty are going to bed wondering, what now? what’s next? what can we do? I don’t have any good answers, but I know one thing: we all need to stand with our students. We need to ask, how did this happen? How did our leaders get such bad advice and make such terrible mistakes? In the absence of real leadership we the faculty all need to pull together and create space to ask these questions, to heal and repair our community, and reclaim this proud institution. And that begins with getting nationalis
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F4YR @fight4yourrights.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
Eine dringende Bitte an alle: Checked Meldungen bevor ihr sie teilt. Im Zweifelsfall teilt lieber nicht als Falschmeldungen zu verbreiteten. Nutzt gerne die Tipps von @onthemedia.bsky.social #israel #iran #fakenews
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Jamey Perry @jameyjean.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
HERE WE FREAKING GO AGAIN I’m stuck in the Richmond VA Airport, where I have flown for the @NWBA’s National Championships WITHOUT EITHER OF THE WHEELCHAIRS I BOARDED WITH IN LOS ANGELES @AmericanAir how did you lose ALL my mobility for the weekend????? #FlyingWhileDisabled
A white woman with blonde hair sits in a crappy airport wheelchair that she has to be pushed around in, despite being an athlete in town for a national tournament. The look on her face reflects her frustration.
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Once again for those in the back:
No such thing as consensual rape
Ectopic pregnancies cannot be reimplanted
Rape zygote are not expelled by the female body
Heart cells beat in petri dishes and are not a sign of intelligent life
And women are not your property
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
The grand old trees of England provide spreading shade not just for picnics and blanket liaisons, but for a folklore of wonder. Here lives the Pans' echoing music, the spying eyes of the Devil's own magpies. Here are lovers' buried tokens, the silver bones of Faeries. – #CLNolan
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Frank Cvetkovic @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Did you feel the EARTH MOVE this morning? That is but a TASTE of MY POWER. If MY DEMANDS are not met within the next 72 HOURS, then I shall BLOT OUT THE SUN. The clock is ticking.
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Encephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
Everyone should have at least one pet cause that doesn't affect them at all. If someone only cares about the systems of oppression that affect them personally, assume they don't actually want to dismantle power structures. They just want to replace them with others that will benefit them.
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 23/03/2024
I don’t know who wrote this, but it’s absolutely perfect
• X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn't get that, you didn't get X-Men.
• Black Panther is about civil rights. If you didn't get that, you didn't get
Black Panther.
• Captain America literally fought the Nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn't get that, you didn't get Captain America.
• The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance is Anti-Fascist. If you didn't get that, you didn't get Star Wars.
• The Punisher isn't meant to be a role model for police or armed forces.
So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn't get that, you didn't get The Punisher.
• Deadpool is queer. He's pansexual. Fact. If you didn't get that you didn't get Deadpool.
• Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races, and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women's right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances
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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 19/03/2024
It's because we all have day jobs, advances are pennies, publishers don't market, one underperforming book tanks your career, and we're expected to be well-tuned brand machines on social media websites designed to suck our souls dry.
Tweet text: what are peoples thoughts on why fiction writers are producing so much less work than in the past, say up into the 80s but moreso w/r/t the writers of the early part of the 20th c. for the most part we dont have major writers who publish 10, 15, 20+ books anymore.
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
This list largely delights the shit out of me.
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Christine Boylan @kitboylan.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Friends in #london — we are doing a two-night staged reading of my quick and dirty little drama about AI, the future, and human evolution. Come on over and hear it ! www.bespokeplays.com
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Whoa, using satellites to map agriculture! The future is now, and by "the future" I mean 1966, when Project EROS was announced. Landsat 1 launched in 1972. Landsat's still going strong, we're up to Landsat 9. But, hey, more taxpayer dollars in billionaire's pockets, sounds good.
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Pretty depressing day at work today with lots of staff updating their resumes as we grapple with NASA's decision to shut down Chandra, the world's only ever high resolution X-ray space telescope, still returning fabulous science discoveries. Still hoping this can be reversed
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
The obvious Kate Middleton explanation is that Prince William's sent them into hiding based on intelligence that soon the Exiled Prince Harry, emboldened by his father's illness, will land his troops of Canadian, Australian and American loyalists to seize the British Throne. No mystery here.
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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
an actually good Sydney Sweeney-themed think piece is “The Money Is in All the Wrong Places” by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social defector.com/the-money-is...
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The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defector
You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Rape isn’t about sex, it’s about control. Banning abortion isn’t about protecting life, it’s about control. The GOP frontrunner is a rapist who wants to ban abortion. It’s. About. Control.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a US citizen is above the law – a proposition that, if affirmed, would destroy the moral, legal, and political foundations of the Court itself.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
DocuSign now says they'll be using your data* to train AI. *Anonymized. But that's not really a thing. DocuSign makes software to sign documents online. All types of contracts and other docs use this service now. Info: support.docusign.com/s/document-i...
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@nixcraft

Docusign just admitted that they use customer data (i.e., all those
contracts, affidavits, and other confidential documents we send them)
to train Al. There also doesn't appear to be a way to withdraw consent,
but I may have missed that.


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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
Remember that DOJ sought expedited review of this issue from the Court last year (skipping the circuit courts). They refused and punted it to the DC Circuit, which took months; then dilly dallied all this time after the DC Circuit’s decision, before finally issuing a grant. It’s pretty transparent.
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Lizzy Esq. @lizzyraven.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Over 800 private jets were used to attend the Super Bowl.
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