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Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

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It's okay, we're professionals. Fully grown. 3D sculpt and print enthusiast. The rest at discretion. Yes the net.goth one.

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · Aug 30

Fear of the other is the disease of every human age.

Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Violence comes from fear, and love drives out fear" should be such a simple, unassailable, straightforward thing to read, but in a world so saturated with fear and hate it's like a hammer blow.

Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · Aug 28

This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.

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SHARE MY PINNED 📌 @pavlovforgoths.com · 1d

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 2h

You'd think people would have learned this lesson from the case of the hackable cockring that hard-locked, but no.

Don't buy smart objects that can ruin your day!!

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 2h

Anything you rely on to stay alive shouldn't have an Internet connection.

Let me repeat: It's dumb to have smart things that can ruin your day.

No smart thermostats.
No showers or faucets.
No BEDS
No cars.
No fridges or stoves.
No medical equipment that won't operate independently.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 3h

Ai is an integral part of modern fascisms unreality state and people are not at all prepared for what is coming for the world as it becomes the weapon it was always being created to be.

Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 19h

We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.

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又甜又圆太太 @adulture.bsky.social · 10h

black armory bread clips 🎨

#destiny2art

bread clips with destiny 2 iconography and lettering

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Arthur Gain @arthurgain.bsky.social · 7h

The painting I made for Guillermo del Toro’s @realgdt.bsky.social new movie 'Frankenstein' is on display at the exhibition at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London. If you’re in the area, don’t miss this breathtaking show

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OuterBoroPrincess @outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 5h

They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.

Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 6h

Ngl, seeing “you’re holding the nazi tatted racist white man to impossible standards” as a Black woman, aka the demographic ACTUALLY held to impossible standards, pisses me off deeply. The bar is so low for them and they still can’t clear it, but we’re “ideological purists” for pointing that out.

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Savannah @pnwpotato.bsky.social · 12h

My mutual Fernando is diabetic and urgently needs funds to get some food. Blood sugar is dropping fast and this is verging on a medical emergency. Please donate if you can and share!

$r9994k
Venmo: ElixirSpice
paypal.me/aafira

Post from X by user ElixirSpice, with a photo of a blood glucose reader showing a downward trending reading of 77. The post reads:

"Please retweet. I'm still at $20 and I'm going to have put in an Uber eats order so that I don't end up in the hospital. I drank the last of my maple syrup around 7pm to raise my glucose but it's dropping again.

$r9994k
Venmo: ElixirSpice
http://paypal.me/aafira"

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Lynn | Settiai @settiai.bsky.social · 5d

I'm still living in a hotel and struggling to cover bills, and I could use any help that I can get. Donations are appreciated so much, but even just sharing this post to get more eyes on it is very helpful as well. #HelpSky #MutualAidRequest

cash.app/$Settiai
paypal.me/poicelle
venmo.com/u/Settiai

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Yoshi Yoshitani @ NYCC 2162 @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social · 1d

WIP

This months Patreon theme is Shibari vampires

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20h

whomst amongst us

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Smug Orange Man says “Let he who has NOT had a Nazi phase cast the first stone”

Panel 2: Orange man shits his pants as he is simultaneously pelted with a shitload of stones

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 20h

Our bailout would be cheaper than Argentina's.

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D2 Postin' ⬛️⬜️🟪 @destinythememe.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween in the last city sucks

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Destiny 2 Team @destiny2team.bungie.net · 1d

Festival of the Lost begins today! We have one quick update regarding rewards before our spooky event kicks off. Last week, we noted that players could earn up to two bonus Eerie Engrams per day from Portal Activities. To get more treats in your hands, we're increasing the cap.

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tonnerre comics @tonnerrecomics.bsky.social · 1d

i've found this amazing archived book called the woods which is ideal if you're looking for refs for drawing men & women in (slightly sexually charged) magical forest scenes.

archive.org/details/wood...

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Michael Rosenberg @mrosenberg.bsky.social · Oct 15

A recent post on regeneration of the large claw in fiddler crabs got me thinking about the rare double-handed males, i.e., males with two large claws.

Here is a good example of one on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171933073

🦀🦑🧪 #Fiddler Crab

A double-handed male Atlantic Fiddler Crab, Leptuca pugilator. Photo from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171933073

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Hesse 👒 [bæddelstar galactica] @thatdoll.online · 2d

it's only cucking if you feel shame about it, otherwise it's just sparkling compersion

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 1d

I assume so because I hadn't really added to my list for a while, and since the gov.troll accounts joined I can't shovel fast enough.

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La Fumettista @lafumettista.bsky.social · 1d

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 1d

The more I look at this thing, the more annoyed I am. How can somebody who supposedly has a teaching degree have absolutely no idea how people read and learn?

This isn't forcing people to go through effortful encoding. This is a forcing them to go through effortful enshittification.

Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 1d

My job: We're standardizing our documentation across clients! Hooray!

The standard template they give us: fuckin blows actually

I absolutely know that this was created by Mr. Clownstick Double-Barrel, who fancies himself a training expert but has the technical writing chops of a bland deviled egg

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Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 1d

Feast your eyes on Last Call's color script, a gorgeous and super helpful piece of production art!

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 3d

The world sees you. Now all you got left is random lashing out in hopes it goes back to way it was as you wither and die and the walls crash down around you. The spell is broken. Again. You're pathetic. Weird. And weak.

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lux @eluxon.bsky.social · 3d

I also very much recommend @raulpachecovega.bsky.social ’s blog posts on note-taking. Really great suggestions: www.raulpacheco.org/resources/no...

Note-Taking Techniques

My students often ask me for advice on how to take good notes. This is

www.raulpacheco.org

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 2d

But they're not. They're just another mess for me to clean up on my own.

But he will have to deal with his, too, on his own.