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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 11h

I can't believe we have to say this

nypost.com/2025/10/16/b...

Image edit of a old sheet of paper which read

"
A COMPUTER

CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER

MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
"

But management has been struck out and replaced with

MILITARY COMMAND

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MagicBear @magicbear.bsky.social · 10h

A because B violates the boat superstition against saying bad things that could happen to a boat

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MagicBear @magicbear.bsky.social · 12h

It's fine now, I put it back! It was a REALLY abnormal amount of static though

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MagicBear @magicbear.bsky.social · 16h

Yup! I thought I didn't towards the end but like a month after testing negative I realized that I very much did.

MagicBear @magicbear.bsky.social · 16h

sure did! tbf, due to 🦓, other things that frequently dislocate my shoulder include picking things up, setting things down, waving to friends, and rolling over in bed.

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MagicBear @magicbear.bsky.social · 17h

Yeahhhh, when I got it, I was positive with a few brief almost-clear periods for about a month? and almost definitely contagious that whole time

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gigastacey @gigastacey.bsky.social · 19h

If you're planning to protest tomorrow and have questions about carrying your phone, please check out this article from my colleague @yaelwrites.com

It also shares an easy trick for stripping photos of their metadata.

blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...

Options for Phones at Protests

Simply showing up to a protest leaves you susceptible to all sorts of surveillance, including cameras, drones, facial recognition, and more. There's not always a lot you can do about pernicious street...

blog.yaelwrites.com

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 18h

😽😽😽

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MagicBear @magicbear.bsky.social · 17h

Just got the most static zapped I've ever been by my own patio door I use every single day, and today for some reason it dislocated my shoulder???

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 21h

If it is merely being used as decoration, you shouldn't do large scale irrigation of a lawn. If grass can't thrive without help in your climate, you should not have grass. Either plant something that works with the climate, or do xeriscaping.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 1d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 17h

The courtroom continues to play a key role in the battle against censorship. Now, the South Carolina Association of School Librarians (SCASL) has entered the legal fray.

South Carolina School Librarians Sue State Superintendent

South Carolina Association of School Librarians past president Jamie Gregory says the lawsuit is not political, it's fighting for the constitutional rights of students and librarians.

buff.ly

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a big fan of Terese and I can't wait to read all the stories in this book. Canlit and Canspec should get right behind this. A speculative anthology filled with Black writers from Canada?

Let's go.

University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Guelph MFA alum @teresempierre.bsky.social on the release of #ASTHEEARTHDREAMS (House of Anansi), out now!

Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.

[Image description: The book cover of AS THE EARTH DREAMS: BLACK CANADIAN SPECULATIVE STORIES is centered against a vibrant purple background with bees decorating the corners of the image. At the top, turquoise text reads “OUT NOW WITH HOUSE OF ANANSI.”]

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 1d

Destroy every Ring camera. Straight into the fires of Mount Doom.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

www.yahoo.com

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MagicBear @magicbear.bsky.social · 1d

Being able to request accommodations is pretty good, but it's even better to not have to request anything because what you need is just already there!

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
16
program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
17|
Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2d

Not wrong

Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 2d

thats right

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MagicBear @magicbear.bsky.social · 2d

I match my earrings to the day's lecture theme. The one time a student noticed made my week!

MagicBear @magicbear.bsky.social · 2d

fascinating that paying sex workers for their work is exploitation but taking the average of everyone's sex work and not paying them for it is much better

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2d

EVERY BOOK BANNED FROM THE READING BOWL HAS BEEN RESTORED!!!!!

The kids will be able to read and compete over all 20 books. Raising the issue made a difference. Teen advocates made a difference.

docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 3d

my mum's looking at the tv listings looking for something. "Oh this looks like your sort of thing - Ancient Aliens?"

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MagicBear @magicbear.bsky.social · 3d

Have you heard the good news of saline