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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 6h

hard to explain, but cellphone last thing before i got to bed and first thing after i wake up is actually good for me. all the studies saying otherwise didn’t take me into account when they conducted them

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 8h

$30 isn’t enough to buy a silk scarf, which is just a solid colored rectangle

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 9h

it’s circled back from exhausting to amusing how much mental effort i need to exert to get all my laundry done in a normal time frame

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 12h

:(

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 13h

yeah i guess it’s just like, you know when you sleep and stuff it might be good to remove every once in a while, no reason

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 13h

dillin says “there’s a game that involves creepy things in the woods” and i am immediately transported to the one shot podcast studios

Superdillin (Mirror your pronouns) @superdillin.bsky.social · 13h

Just played a deeply sad, beautiful game with some of the best tragic storytellers I know.

@edwardspence.bsky.social
@ameliasom.com
@blackgirlmage.bsky.social
And Tyler Lamb

Are all SO outstanding to listen to, to play off of, to visit dark places with.

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Superdillin (Mirror your pronouns) @superdillin.bsky.social · 13h

Just played a deeply sad, beautiful game with some of the best tragic storytellers I know.

@edwardspence.bsky.social
@ameliasom.com
@blackgirlmage.bsky.social
And Tyler Lamb

Are all SO outstanding to listen to, to play off of, to visit dark places with.

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 18h

that’s a really cool amulet you have there, when was the last time you took it off?

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 20h

talking with my siblings and we might become a “running on thanksgiving” family. not in the turkey-trot 5k sense, but each of us in convinced we’d be the fastest in a 100m sprint

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 1d

using phone before bed is different when i do it

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 1d

BIRTHDAY!!

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 1d

hell yeah

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 1d

gonna be in town for 40 days straight, so excited to be able to invest in good groceries again

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 1d

noted 👀

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 1d

stella… i have plans…

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 2d

most bizarre way to reclaim the concept of frogs from the alt right but sure let’s do it

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 2d

aside from everything i just can’t buy that an llm is the most efficient or useful way to solve any of the problems ai wants to solve like my GOD

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t believe in the good or bad immigrant framework but thinking of older women in detention is gut wrenching. No one deserves to be in those conditions but it feels so demeaning to think of elders in those places.

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Historically Black Dice @historicblackdice.bsky.social · 2d

discord.gg/ftmVFHtYbq

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 2d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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