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Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · Jul 29

A year ago I lost one of the closest friends I'll ever have. This piece is my attempt to expand & cement his legacy.

Please be gentle with yourself—it's a sad story—but I really hope you'll read it.

Dear Businesslady: Grieving at Work

"It is what it is."

www.thestopgap.net

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 20h

RIP Drew Struzan

Star Trek TOS art, featuring floating heads of Kirk, Spock, and Bones.

Poster for Blade Runner, featuring floating heads of the characters.

Poster for Back to the Future Part II, with Doc and Marty both lifting shades to look at their watches with the Delorean nearby.

Poster for ET, with ET in the woods reaching for a floating UFO, with the lights of a city grid in the background.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 15h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 20h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 13h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 13h

#NoKings

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Eddie Deezenuts @32mbit.bsky.social · 11h

Mans looking like a ukiyo-e print

BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 22h

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 11h

1999: someday the internet will be a record of everything that ever happened

2025: someday the internet will be a record of everything that never happened

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 12h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23h

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 23h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ve ever wondered What’s The Deal with the high fees ($795 and $895!), free hotel rooms, event ticket presales, airport lounges, and dinner reservations that these cards promise to users and what the underlying business actually is, I have answers. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Inside the Credit Card Battle to Win America’s Richest Shoppers

The fierce fight between Amex and Chase is playing out over higher fees, extravagant events and every perk imaginable.

www.bloomberg.com

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · Aug 19

I lived in my local libraries occult/parapsychology section for a minute there

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Aug 19

This was me literally as soon as I learned how to read

Bart holding UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING
OUTRAGE!

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 1d

"As Joy Connolly recently noted, federal directives have sought to constrict the freedom of Smithsonian Institution museums & research universities. Institutions that host critical debate are being punished & it is the humanities that foster such debate." @bostonglobe.com

bit.ly/48obMOC

What’s truly at stake when universities cut back on humanities - The Boston Globe

Without the humanities, we may produce efficient workers — fluent in algorithms and markets but unable to envision and inquire.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

I plan to go bugout naked crazy like Kevin Sr.

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

It's the 14th anniversary of the Sudden Departure. How are you going to commemorate it?

A mother reacts to her baby vanishing in the Sudden Departure in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

Nora Durst's family has just vanished in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

The Guilty Remnant holding up signs saying, "Stop Wasting Your Breath" in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

the position of the administration it seems is that it is illegal discrimination and divisive racism for historically excluded groups to organize on that basis to improve their position. it’s basically just a genteel version of david duke’s complaint that there wasn’t a NAACP for white people

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 1d

STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 5d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 6d

if you haven’t read this yet, it’s worth reading

Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 13d

& speaking of quality writing by actual humans, I absolutely loved this piece about the decline of Kanye written by a fellow former fan. (in case you're blissfully unaware of what he's been up to lately, CW for, among other bleakness, the sincere? heiling of Hitler) www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

An Intimate Chronicle of Kanye West’s Fall from Grace

The rapper and producer has become a pariah, running for President and praising Hitler. A new documentary gives insight into what went wrong.

www.newyorker.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 6d

Listening to this on repeat and grieving the loss of the Republic

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 6d

The most beautiful string arrangement from a Nazi composer since Carl Orff

Portland Cello Project Covering Kanye West "All of the Lights"

YouTube video by portlandcelloproject

www.youtube.com

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 6d

The thing about 'making up half of it' is that ONE KNOWS ONE'S MADE IT UP - & one DID THE CREATIVE WORK to make it up.
People using LLMs mostly don't know & haven't done those things.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 6d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 6d

Goose meme with text of “Who were the Antifascists fighting in Weimar Germany?”

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 6d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Disney animation version of Maid Marian, Robin Hood's fox gf

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Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 6d

that is EXACTLY it!!

as someone who's occasionally been encouraged to "get into" "that space" (which, already a hard pass on nomenclature alone) I'm like "but I'm just trying to offer commonsense interpretive advice? I'm a pretty good writer/think-through-er but...charging people to talk to me??!🤢"

Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 6d

lol

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 6d

If a company can fire Lisa at will because of who she is, then it can fire me. And I suppose that doesn't register to people who don't have random-ass bigots with a truckload of power deciding they just don't like that you exist, but I need you all to figure it out before the country falls apart.

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