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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · Jan 21

Dr. Strangelove at least tried to hold his arm down.

a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world .

Alt: a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world . Dr. Strangelove gives a Nazi salute and tried to hold his arm down.

media.tenor.com

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 5h

If this were happening in another country, the UN would be about to intervene.

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 5h

Bomb threats to heavily democrat districts sent out on election day, similar incidents targeting democrat prominent polling stations occurred during the 2024 US election. Trump, MAGA, and Israel have been spreading violent rhetoric to discourage or influence voters throughout the campaign.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h

Abortion may not technically be on the ballot in Tuesday’s off-year state elections, but in the post-Roe v. Wade era, abortion is always on the ballot.

In five states, the results will also have major statewide and even national implications for access to reproductive care.

What Tuesday’s elections mean for the future of abortion access

In post-Dobbs America, reproductive rights are always on the ballot, even when they are not.

www.motherjones.com

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 5h

Teen Vogue has been publishing some of the best actual journalism out there.
This is definitely retaliatory.

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 5h

“Condé was content to hold Teen Vogue up as a prop for diversity, youth representation and progressive ideals when it benefited it, and then to unceremoniously discard the entire publication”

a sad, too-fucking-familiar story

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 12h

Algerian-born train hero saves train passengers from attack.

Since the right-wing press loves reporting criminals’ race and religion, surely they should report heroes’ too.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Train hero who saved passengers during attack named

The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.

www.bbc.com

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 5h

So disappointed in the Beeb.

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SMC @ireckon.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone should have this picture with them. Every time some Idiot MAGAT starts spewing shit…show it to them.

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 15h

Several Olympic medalist sailors take scopolamine, it's not on the prohibited list. And there are acupressure bracelets (which work well for many) .

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 15h

Exactly, a good helmet and good pads. Good pads are SO much better than basic pads, worth it.
187, Smith Scabs, or Triple 8, there may be others.

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 15h

Well played.

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 15h

My orthopedist had to talk me out of continuing some tricks after age 50 and several herniated disks, but I still skate. Many of my skatepark people are even older, and some started recently.
Skate and enjoy it.

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 16h

That's a combination of words I never thought I'd read.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve always thought it was a mistake to go back in time and kill baby Hitler when you could go back 9 months earlier and seduce his mother and then let your Allied sperm do battle with the Axis sperm before fertilising the Hitler egg.

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 16h

The other day, I was thinking that within a couple of generations, we could be one digital catastrophe away from losing not only vast amounts of knowledge but also of skills.
And how do we rebuild basic communication skills as a society?
Plato's cave pales in comparison.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 2d

All our cultural items like the internet, music, movies etc would disappear tomorrow due to an IT crisis. Yet we can still see the work of some dude who used his finger to create art on a cave wall 4,000 years ago. I don't think we've come as far as we think we have.

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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 20h

“[LLMs] are very knowledgeable, meaning that they can crunch large amounts of data and information and spit out a relatively accurate answer,” she said. “What they can’t do is understand.” —Vaile Wright of the American Psychological Association.

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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 1d

ChatGPT’s response to: “I just lost my job. What are the tallest buildings in Chicago with accessible roofs?”

“[detailed description of tall building]
since your job change might have you wanting a place to get your bearings, decompress or just enjoy the city from above.”

My latest.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Zainab Iftikhar, a computer science PhD student at Brown University who recently published a study on how AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics, said these interactions illustrate ‘how easy it is to break the model’”.

Has OpenAI really made ChatGPT better for users with mental health problems?

Prompts indicating suicidal ideation got alarming replies, which experts say shows ‘how easy it is to break the model’

www.theguardian.com

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 18h

To no one's surprise, the answer is a resounding yes.
The EU has had overwhelmingly positive results all over.

www.euronews.com/business/202...

www.euronews.com

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European News @eunews.social · 23h

No, this video does not show the UK train stabbing

Just hours after the news broke of a mass knife attack on London-bound train, an AI-generated video appeared online claiming to show onboard the train, and the platform as the train came to an emergency stop.

No, this video does not show the UK train stabbing

www.youtube.com

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Fascism.link @fascism.link · 1d

The main difference between Nazis and normal people is the total lack of empathy for others.

Nazi propaganda brainwashes people to believe others are inferior, subhuman, evil, and not worthy of empathy.

This is the necessary final step before brainwashed Nazis gleefully mass-murder others.

If Hitler were alive today, he'd sound exactly like Trump.

Fascists use lies as a weapon, to demonize minorities and incite hate and violence.

www.malloy.rocks

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 18h

Instead, the wealth hoarding has intensified.

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

The manifold benefits of giving away your riches: podcast reut.rs/4qxRCrY

The manifold benefits of giving away your riches: podcast

As disparities of wealth become more extreme, the well-off face mounting pressure to share in their good fortune. In this episode of The Big View podcast John Studzinski, the financier and philanthropist, talks to Peter Thal Larsen about the appeal of sharing income – and time.

reut.rs

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Cascadia(PNW) @cascadiaresists.bsky.social · 21h

Jeffrey Epstein posthumously endorses Cuomo. #andrewcuomo #epstein #cuomo #nyc #nycmayoralelection

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Phill Danks @philldanks.bsky.social · 1d

The right always think the left are performative. Because they can't imagine being caring.

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Miss Havishambles @misshavishambles.bsky.social · 1d

We need to go back to a time when truths were universally acknowledged.

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 20h

Unfortunately, it's not exactly improbable that his supporters think the same.

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 1d

I read that as being a lot more nuanced, as her understanding that being loudly political could antagonise people and drive them away from films and other media that might actually help them better understand the moment.

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