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Shannon Sanders @shanders.bsky.social · 4h

I find it so interesting that they decided to model the AI-generated picture for this AI-generated profile that does nothing but evangelize about AI after a woman of color. There is something deeply sinister about that

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 2m

Not the main point, but "I've dove in"?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 10m

To the tune of Awesome God

My God is a weakling God 💪
He needs to be saved by Trump 🌧
From kneeling, wokeness, and Bud 🫶
My God is a weak-ass God 💪

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 57m

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 4h

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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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 19m

They do feel healthier, somehow

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1h

No it won't. That isn't true

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 52m

"We're saving God" - tell me you're not a Christian without telling me

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 57m

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 35m

i think it should be extremely easy to get a job. what do you really risk just throwing me in the mix and seeing what happens? a few dollars in wages, maybe a few more in the unemployment fund? we both know you have the money. I’M the one who doesn’t have the money! because i’m asking you for a job!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 14h

Me: I'm putting a gentle spell on you! Now your body is all gentle and won't hurt anyone!

A decidedly un-bewitched child: ha! [punches me in the chest]

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 14h

Sometimes I try my gentle, playful parenting on my niece or nephew and I get to be humbled as it absolutely never works

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The Red-Headed Strangler @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 14h

if you listen to an audiobook it's fine to say you read the book and anyone who disagrees is just being obnoxious

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Peter @sketchyhippos.bsky.social · 14h

The 6 year old in the car today when Red Hot Chili Peppers came on

"Dad! They said California!"

"Dad, they said California again!"

"Dad, why do they keep saying California?"

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 18h

I honestly didn't realize there were people there at all until fairly recently. I thought it was mostly animals.... I think i learned about it from Zoboomafoo and then didn't bother to learn anything more

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 18h

We love a xerxes x!

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🕷️🕸️ taryntula 🕸️🕷️ @peepsaregood.bsky.social · 19h

look I love "the monster at the end of this book" as much as anyone can but turning it into a game where you continually ignore grover while he pleads for you to stop playing is kind of weird!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

I posted about this on X, and Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson, QTed me to say the kid was actually a hardened criminal arrested with a knife and a gun.

So far she has provided no evidence of this. I share this to give DHS's response, and for the possibility she is telling the truth.

My original post on X: "This makes NO SENSE. A 13-year-old was arrested by local police for unknown reasons, and then turned over to ICE, which is detaining him far away from his mother — who is going through immigration court, has an asylum application on file, and is legally authorized to work." Underneath that I posted a link to the opening paragraphs of the article and the headline.

In response, DHS Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, @TriciaOhio, wrote: "Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property. He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested."

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

It's a legal right because of the law. It's an actual right because it's the duty of every society to enable its members to reach their full potential.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 1d

What if the waves of anxiety arent just PPA that will go away with time but are actually my new reality 🙂

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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 1d

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 1d

15 years of every C suite going “we need to fire the skilled workers and do more internet” and this is how every business works now.

Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 1d

Wife did a gravel order from Lowe’s for me to pick up. I drive to the pick up dock. Guy with a radio comes out. I show him the order receipt. He radios inside. They tell him to tell me to tell my wife to download the app so that she can check in on it to let them know I’m here to pick up the order.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 1d

They should invent a me who's in bed

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 1d

A large cat the size of a small cat

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1d

Well you got me reading Wikipedia and now I don’t know what to believe

en.wikipedia.org
The cougar (Puma concolor) (/kuger/, KOO-ger), also called puma, mountain lion, catamount, and panther, is a large small cat native to the Americas. It inhabits North, Central and South America, making it the most widely distributed wild, terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the most

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