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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

Mostafa • @mokatia
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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
ChatGPT 5 v
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 4h

a French painter in the Fauvist movement, which emphasized color over realism. He designed fabric for Poiret based mainly on woodcuttings with vivid colors. This 1919 Bois de Boulogne fits this description. Although Dufy was mimicking the 18th-19th-century toile de Jouy, the

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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 4h

Of the thousands of dresses I have seen and posted about, this is one of those that has stayed with me since I first saw it online. Way before I knew who Paul Poiret was, I knew this dress because of its fabric, made by Raoul Dufy. Dufy was a frequent collaborator of Poiret. He was

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final grrrl 𓂀 @charlotlaveau.bsky.social · 4h

Colonizer Antidote (2024) is a circle chant for Indigenous People’s Day by final grrrl

finalgrrrl.bandcamp.com

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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 9h

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h

These companies and their "A.i." garbage cannot be trusted to do anything but serve the bigoted biases of their billionaire owners.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 12h

Appointed by Meta as an adviser on AI bias, anti-DEI campaigner Robby Buck has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, trans people, vaccines, crime & protests

The Guardian repeatedly contacted Meta for comment but received no response

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 11h

Ahmad is often in touch with me, help him today if you can, he deserves to rebuild his life & get on the path to finishing his studies.

AHMAD 🇵🇸 @aaaaasaa95.bsky.social · 23h

A ceasefire doesn't mean the end. Our lives are still shattered, and our hearts are searching for a new beginning. 💔
Now begins the most difficult stage: rebuilding a home that shelters us and a future that protects us.
Every donation is a stone of hope on the path to a new life.
gofund.me/69f962fc

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2d

They think they built this place and own it, but they just built the roads and the pipes and the traffic lights. People came in and built the city, and now they think they own not only the walls but the stuff and the people in it. They are transparently disingenuous and beyond untrustworthy l

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2d

Even if they quietly unbanned Link, it wouldn't be enough without either an apology or reflection of why what they did was fucked up, but they are so arrogant and only say sorry when it's about how they're sorry if we are mad about how right they are. While actively courting the right

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2d

They've been hostile to Black, trans and disabled people from the start. Link's banning is just the latest in some toxic vile worldview behavior. He was the nicest dude, and got expelled simply because the team got their panties in a twist. And they still seem butthurt we don't worship them

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2d

I am not like, actively rooting for its demise, but why can't a platform be created by someone who isn't speed running into crypto-fascism billionaire territory? I wish they could have just been happy and supportive of the amazing community that emerged here. It was really great

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2d

I dunno. I don't have other social media and I'm not keen to go anywhere else, and I'll miss all my friends and a place to put my thoughts and jokes...but I kinda hope this place fails now. I used to hope it would get better, but. It seems like it won't? The team seems to really hate everyone

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 5d

I also just want to say that America has a long history of lying about how violent and dangerous Black men are to fit agendas. Jay, Aaron, Paul, et al are pretty directly engaged in white supremacy bullshit.

They just called a pacifist Black man a dangerous predator because they don't like him

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 5d

Link, a pacifist, did not threaten or wish death on anyone, and it is absurd and embarrassing for Jay to try to spin it that way. I called Link the Mr Rogers of Bluesky in 2023 and nothing has changed.

This would be like Congress imprisoning Mr Rogers after he testified and asked not to nix funding

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 5d

Jay was furious Link asked her to be a moral agent and so did the closest thing she could to killing him, and figured out a way to lie about him being the violent one.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 5d

“I don’t wish death on Jay, I wish for her and her team to grow a conscience. I disagree with the decision and how it was handled. My account was taken down without any explanation for almost a full day in what can only be viewed as a retroactive ban.” grow a conscience is why Link was banned

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 5d

“Bluesky claims to want decentralization and composable moderation, but they still enjoy abusing the power of arbitrary banishment.” - Link

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

plus.flux.community

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Nov 6

There is one fundamental truth about mutual aid, and it always shocks people:

YOU MUST BREAK THE LAW IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE.

This truth alone should radicalize you.

The more you work on scale, branding, recognition, institutional funding, the harder it becomes to actually
help people.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 1d

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Rob from Chicago (Sleeper Service) @robfromchicago.com · 3d

Portland right now.

Kermit the Frog sitting in his swamp and paying his banjo, singing:

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 1d

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t fearmongering — it’s reality. Hospital-acquired COVID can delay care or cost you your health — even your life.

Infection control measures — masks, ventilation, testing, and staff/patient protections — should be standard care in every healthcare setting.

Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...

Prognostic Chats @PrognosticChats

Some day you’ll be in hospital for surgery or chemotherapy or with another illness & a nurse, or doctor or visitor at the next bed, or the patient opposite you will give you a Covid infection & your treatment will get delayed & your life will be put at unnecessary risk.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 1d

I could see them crashing out over this, but not to protect their neighbors

Which says so damn much about our country and it's military

Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 1d

Honestly, it's so wild to me how the president is just so mind blowingly narcissistic that he believes he can berate, starve, and not pay the military & still have their loyalty

But they haven't taken up arms to protect people from fascists as they should've, so my expectations are still low

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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