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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

This is fucking awful but has the byproduct of making ICE look like dumb babies.

three stills from a video showing robby roadsteamer getting arrested by ICE

Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 31m

Hm. I need to find something in my closet that's yellow for #NoKingsMSP. It's not a color I wear much, but surely I have something.

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claire @clairebaire.dev · 43m

Thank you for writing about this! Just to add to the list of models, I've been printing this one in particular (the medium size) due to how small it is and how many I can fit on a plate (73): makerworld.com/en/models/53...

Extremely Loud Whistles by The Big Greek MakerWorld: Download Free 3D Models

Extremely loud whistles+++ UPDATE +++ *** CHECK OUT THE REQUESTED TRIPPLE TONE WHISTLE ***LINK: https://makerworld.com/en/models/548070#profileId-466150 Take a look also at the Asymmetric Design ...

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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 1h

The “Chinese Laundry” was once an American fixture, as Chinese immigrants shut out of other opportunities in America gravitated toward about the only opportunity they had in many areas. Great story here about its history and a marker in Milwaukee. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

Perseverance recognized: Milwaukee Chinese Laundry Era commemorated with historical marker

A historical marker was installed at the YWCA on King Drive to honor the former site of a Chinese laundry and the importance of the trade between the late 1800s and 1980s.

www.jsonline.com

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 1h

Political: Whistle Work

What to do If you have a 3D printer, choose a design and print whistles. If you're going to distribute yourself, add lanyards and flyers explaining them. If you hear a whistle and you are in the "slightly safer" demographic (middle-aged white lady, in my case), head for the…

Political: Whistle Work

What to do If you have a 3D printer, choose a design and print whistles. If you're going to distribute yourself, add lanyards and flyers explaining them. If you hear a whistle and you are in the "slightly safer" demographic (middle-aged white lady, in my case), head for the sound and be ready to record and be part of a noisy crowd. If you are in the more at-risk demographic, head away. We're your neighbors and want you to be safe.

heidiwaterhouse.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 3h

That's such glorious fabric!

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 3h

Depending on the opacity of your white fabric, you may also want to press away from it and toward the colored fabric.

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 3h

Depending on your time/budget, I got a teeeeeny little iron and mat that I can leave right next to the sewing machine.

Or if finger pressing, sometimes I'll use a hera marker or some other smooth round hard thing to spare my thumbs.

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 4h

Do you want any advice about that, or just sympathy?

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 13h

Oh now this is interesting, ethically trained LLM using only public data that respects data opt outs.

european.cloud @european.cloud · 13h

"Meet Apertus, Switzerland's 1st large language model! Built on public infrastructure, this multilingual marvel is fully open & trained on the Alps supercomputer. A new peak in AI? #Apertus #AI #SwissInnovation"

Apertus: a Large Language Model from Switzerland - EUROPEAN CLOUD

Switzerland is launching its first large language model, Apertus, built on public infrastructure. The model is fully open, multilingual, and trained on the Alps supercomputer.

european.cloud

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

Mandatory age verification to "protect children" is not to protect children. It is to deanonymize every adult speaker and consumer of speech online so the government can retaliate against speakers and speech they don't approve of. For instance: apnews.com/article/trum...

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

apnews.com

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 13h

I love everything about this ridiculous story.

youtu.be/FE6-r2ZGebI?...

History's Strangest Warship? The Incredible Story of SMS Seeadler, Germany's Sailing Raider

YouTube video by Oceanliner Designs

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Whitney Zahnd @whitneyzahnd.bsky.social · 19h

NHANES gave the first clear evidence that too many Americans had too much lead in their blood leading to unleaded gasoline requirements, and its data are part of children's growth charts ubiquitous in pediatricians' offices.

Make Our Children Healthy Again??

www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/...

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 17h

I forget we have some very very very specific advice from the HK 2019 protest pamphlets when it comes to tear gas. Under normal circumstances, no one should really need to ask what happens to the food if tear gas gets into your fridge, but then again, what normal circumstances

Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · Jun 7

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- If there are no suitable respirators on hand, use wet towels to cover mouth and nose to prevent exposure
- Food that's been contaminated must be thrown out. If you open the fridge when tear gas has seeped into the home, all food in the fridge must be disposed of"

Source: Telegram (Aug 2019)

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 16h

I’d finance a series of Master & Commander movies or a tv series so expensive they couldn’t possibly make their budget back.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 16h

Sometimes I remember to appreciate a peaceful space I made.

A beautiful quiet space. There is a large fern hanging in front of a sunny window. There are robins-egg blue curtains, a white wall, and dark woodwork. A cat lies in a blue velvet bed on a blue sofa. A grey leather chair has a rich jewel-toned throw. The throw pillows are blue print. The tiny bit of wallpaper is a blue version of William Morris' Acanthus.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 17h

"budgeting lessons."

is she a fucking republican (the answer to that is yes)

Kelly is ranking Fateh, Davis, and Hampton @kellyrogers.bsky.social · 20h

Shelley Madore just said a food bank and budgeting lessons is her approach to the food desert around the U 😭😭😭😭

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 1d

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 1d

RTO triples women's exits, demotions #econsky

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 23h

He deserves it.

He also told Ursula Vernon to stop writing weird stories. So.

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 1d

He also says that Judy Moody would not be his first choice for the read-aloud book.

I think in first grade, my teacher read us Indian in the Cupboard, so, yay progress.

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 1d

Right? Especially when the other teachers referred to the class as "an interesting group".

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