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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 14h

Reminder that food banks have the ability to buy food in bulk and can make the most out of the economy of scale so cash (if you have it) is always preferred.

But also, they're not going to say no to your pantry items. 💚

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14h

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13h

This is what my AI colleagues should have been doing for long but instead they preferred to ride the hype wave

irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01/14/s...

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Bohdan &%@#ing Pavuk @bpavuk.neocities.org · Dec 26

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 25

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.

www.newsweek.com

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 8h

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4h

Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza face danger from unexploded ordnance, with at least 53 people killed.

Unexploded bombs threaten lives in Gaza; search for dead captives continue

Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza face danger from unexploded ordnance, with at least 53 people killed.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23h

One woman is desperate to be evacuated for cancer treatment while another is recovering from abuse in an Israeli prison.

Women in Gaza struggling to overcome damage inflicted by Israel’s war

One woman is desperate to be evacuated for cancer treatment while another is recovering from abuse in an Israeli prison.

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ana street rat @uldahstreetrat.bsky.social · 3d

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22h

Basim Khandakji describes conditions in Israeli prisons and his journey to writing despite the challenges.

Award-winning Palestinian author on Israeli prison, exile and homeland

Basim Khandakji describes conditions in Israeli prisons and his journey to writing despite the challenges.

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 13d

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Charzea @charzea.bsky.social · 1d

It is the international save the vaquita day. With fewer than 20 left, the vaquita is the world's most endangered marine mammal.
#SaveTheVaquita

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 1d

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass.

It NEEDS mass pushback.

Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 2d

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

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Yichao @michaelyichao.com · 23d

Everyone tries to tell you apathy is cool, but the sooner you learn earnestness is strength not cringe and that all your quirks are what people will fall in love with, the sooner learn how to define your own happiness and find true friends who love youf for you

❤️jamie p!💚 @jamies.page · 23d

you have to be sincere and you have to get weird with it

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

Israeli authorities are refusing to let in 600 aid trucks per day as specified in ceasefire deal, UN official says.

UN again calls on Israel to open Gaza’s Rafah crossing, stop blocking aid

Israeli authorities are refusing to let in 600 aid trucks per day as specified in ceasefire deal, UN official says.

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Anton ☾ @antonarcana.gay · 9d

Ideal conditions for starting your passion project will never come. You will never feel skilled enough to make it. There will never be a moment where you stop being scared to start. Do it anyway. Do it badly. Do it scared. Just make that thing that’s clawing at the door of your soul; It wants out.

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lou-ellen @louceph.com · 5d

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19d

🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance.

Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits.

You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222...

#Wayback1T

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6d

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

AI’s Invasive Species

The slop is winning.

www.theatlantic.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d

Video shows widespread destruction and flattened neighbourhoods in Khan Younis following Israel’s war on Gaza.

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 21d

it’s always a lovely day when people realize weirdos are the backbone of any fandom and trying to make everyone “normal” kills everything enjoyable about it. fandom wouldn’t exist if people could be normal about things.

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 9d

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 8d

“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair

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Teabree Shark @nurse.fish · Jan 12

Disco Elysium is 75% off this weekend-*do not* buy it! Don't give money to the businessmen that have stolen ZA/UM. Go to fitgirl and torrent it using any free torrent client.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-disco...

Donate to Argo Tuulik instead. He got no compensation for his story and is now unemployed.

Donate to Help Disco Elysium Writer Survive the Winter, organized by Argo Tuulik

DISCLAIMER: This fundraiser was disabled for several hours due to GoFundMe te… Argo Tuulik needs your support for Help Disco Elysium Writer Survive the Winter

www.gofundme.com

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Teabree Shark @nurse.fish · Mar 16

Reminder that za/um is made up of businesspeople that stole disco elysium from the creators, kicked them out of the company, are currently suing them, and are making a mobile game of disco elysium

Do not pay money for DE, and do not give za/um a cent otherwise

www.newsweek.com/entertainmen...

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