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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 41m

Just wondering, on a completely unrelated note, if any scientist has figured out how to send a message to orcas.

Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 1h

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1h

This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home.

Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.

If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Donate to Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid, organized by Michele Hays

If you are on social media and live near Evanston, IL, you ma… Michele Hays needs your support for Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid

www.gofundme.com

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 4h

Feeling the need to remind myself of this Ursula K LeGuin quote today:

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 21h

…do people not know how to, like, imagine stuff? They could just imagine it.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

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

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 1d

100%

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 1d

Some good news! After all that, only O.03% of families opted out of LGBTQ+ Education in Maryland after the Supreme Court gave them the ability to do so. Not just a majority, not just most families, nearly all families want their kids to have access to this education. We are the majority

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 1d

THIS!

Liking something makes it good *for you*

Being able to set aside your personal preferences to view something objectively is a skill that requires practice. This is why most “book influencers” will never be able to do the thing talented book reviewers do.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

objective quality is fake and most people are really just judging how much they enjoyed something instead of how well it accomplished the thing it was setting out to do, because answering that question requires being curious about what it was trying to do

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

Please share the news about these students working to get transparency on why books were removed from a statewide reading bowl (including a book ON book banning!!)

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

And then sign their petition here: www.change.org/p/ensure-tra...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

bookriot.com

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Adults should read more kids books, especially MG.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell
(incredible nonfiction)

Red City by Marie Lu
(fun new fantasy)

Meredith, Alone by Claire Alexander
(great, kind fiction)

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the double bi @ladysummoner.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

And remember:

A picture of a Native woman smiling and holding up a middle finger to the camera. The caption reads: 'Fuck Christopher Columbus.'

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 3d

Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 5d

An imperfect comparison is cell phones.

Studies showed they may be bad for concentration etc in classes. No one was like “So how can we include them more?”

And “AI” is much easier to ban from classrooms.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 5d

Friendly reminder that Harper Collins is owned by Rupert Murdoch, but I’m sure that’s unrelated.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 5d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 5d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 5d

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.

Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

www.independent.co.uk

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 5d

Pasty.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 6d

This is the big tent I want to be in.

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 6d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! Turns out, not understanding how your own brain works can be depressing and anxiety inducing!

Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 6d

This and also, sometimes a symptom of ND can be experienced by someone NT but it isn’t debilitating. That doesn’t invalidate it as a symptom!

It’s like how there is a difference between getting nervous and having anxiety, between being sad and having depression.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6d

Similarly, if a neurotypical person recognizes a characteristic of themselves in a neurodivergent person doesn't mean that they are neurodivergent!

People contain multitudes and that's ok! we don't need to internet diagnose each other!

Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 6d

Yep. Some of the World Cup matches next summer are going to be real rough.

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 6d

when I talk about weatherproofing for sports!! 🎾

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

‘You want a player to die?’ Heat is on tennis after players wilt in extreme conditions

Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 6d

At least with D20 there are different camera angles and such, so you don’t miss much if you decide to just listen but those watching get some visual variation.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 6d

Actually @governor.ca.gov has until Friday to sign the bills.

Call his office and demand he sign them.

(916) 445-2841

The hold times were long— they offer a VM option if you can't stay on. Let him know the political price he'll pay if he fails to stand up for a community under attack.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 7d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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