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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 5h

Are there any experts in Haitian art on BlueSky?

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 20h

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 18h

This is such a relief.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 19h

So pleased to see two of my favorite stations #WPSU and @whyy.org join forces to keep public media alive in central PA
(and thanks to Penn State Trustees for reversing course in supporting this venture): www.psu.edu/news/adminis...

Penn State Board of Trustees approves new deal for WPSU | Penn State University

The Penn State Board of Trustees today unanimously approved the material terms of a proposed transaction to transfer the operating assets of WPSU public radio and television stations to WHYY, a public...

www.psu.edu

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 19h

So pleased to see two of my favorite stations #WPSU and @whyy.org join forces to keep public media alive in central PA
(and thanks to Penn State Trustees for reversing course in supporting this venture): www.psu.edu/news/adminis...

Penn State Board of Trustees approves new deal for WPSU | Penn State University

The Penn State Board of Trustees today unanimously approved the material terms of a proposed transaction to transfer the operating assets of WPSU public radio and television stations to WHYY, a public...

www.psu.edu

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 18h

My kid is so happy that season 3 just started!

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Che Cazzo @forzasicilia.bsky.social · 1d

WHO DO THEY BREAK UPON?

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

New apple review is up: one of my favorite apples, and favorite-NAMED apples -- the ASHMEAD'S KERNEL.

Apple Review #13: Ashmead’s Kernel

This apple sounds like some Clive Barker shit. Like it’s a forbidden relic — an infernal device you use to enter the Labyrinth of Hell. (It continues its horror pedigree by tasting just…

terribleminds.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 3d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 2d

excellent explainer

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a great example. Yes, the Portland frog is real. Yes, there is more than one of them. But this is AI slop. General public sees this and maybe thinks it’s all AI slop? Maybe starts disbelieving real videos from Portland. Fascists happy.

You think you’re helping with AI slop but you’re not.

Resist ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏽✊🏼 #portland #portlandoregon #resist #portlandfrog #antiice

TikTok video by BeniTo

www.tiktok.com

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2d

No, but last time we spent an overnight at a friend's house, they were a 100% ingredient household and had nothing he ate (I brought cheerios for him). On the way home, he exclaimed how he didn't know how anyone survived without Goldfish in their house.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2d

I just caught him trying to pack potatoes.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2d

Two ears.

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Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 2d

With alt text

Image in the style of the Obama 'Hope' poster featuring a cross-looking frog wearing star-spangled banner cravat and cape above the word 'Hop'

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2d

I just learned not to ask the seven-year-old what to pack for an overnight trip because now we're arguing about how many ears of field corn he can bring.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

After decades of progress on closing the pay gap between men and women, it’s now widening. For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row, according to recent data from the Census Bureau.

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

wapo.st

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

“Yes but judgement of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstract and empirical concept such as being or to be or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself.”

RIP to a great one.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!

Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, nooooo.

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 3d

As Jonn says in the piece: no. The problem is that not enough people see how extreme it has become.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 3d

This is genius.

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 3d

This, from a woman who was probably not born when Elliott Smith died, makes me happy.

www.instagram.com/p/DPkNM2Jjgsp/

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 3d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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