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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, IIRC, in order to get the highest safety rating in Europe, cars will have to use tactile mechanisms, not touchscreens.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19h

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 23h

I just blocked the sociopath. May he have the covid experience he needs to take it seriously.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

people who have absolutely no idea, not the first clue, about how debilitating the brain fog is. And saying “oh, it’s okay, you can get SSDI” was *insulting* before, now during Trump II it’s straight up sadistic

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I've ever received a single communication from the DNC that isn't a solicitation.

Nothing about what their positions are, what their agenda is, their accomplishments... Anything to make me want to give them money.

I guess when you don't have results to talk about...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost like billionaires and strong vibrant institutions of civil society can’t coexist

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The girl Bar-boo-ssa (~'o')~ @thegreatbarbossa.bsky.social · 1d

oh you asked chatgpt? well I got high on paint fumes and asked the fae in the woods and they think you're lame as hell for that.

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all, Eighth Generation has 20% off right now for Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Everything they sell is designed by Native artists. If you're in the market for something beautiful, today's a great day to check them out.

eighthgeneration.com

Eighth Generation

Eighth Generation is a Native-owned business with a flagship store a Pike Place Market in Seattle. Eighth Generation specializes in wool blankets.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Please share this as widely as possible. ICE kidnapped a 7th grader in Everett, Massachusetts and sent him to Virginia. Help bring him home now!

Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 2d

here is the family's gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/mim-ajuda-...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 2d

Everything's going so well.

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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 2d

www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 2d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 3d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much. 😊

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 2d

All of this, yes.

I would also like to see a poll of how many New Yorkers have positive feelings toward NYPD.

Because electing someone who makes cops "worry" is a feature, not a bug, for quite a few of us now.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone knows that spell checking is woke. Bari Weiss has her eyes trained on true journalistic excellence and doesn't have time for piddling things like spelling peoples' names correctly.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 3d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2d

Platner is so, so good at this.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you. You're very kind and I really appreciate the insight.

I think what I've done probably sacrifices art in the name of realism ... which means I need to go buy more yellow beads. 🤣🫣

Somehow I *always* need to buy more beads. 🫠😂

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting! Is it just the row bordering the green or both that and the next shade in?

Daffodils do come in all sorts of shades, so I can take it brighter ... I'm just not a fan of yellow, so I think I gravitate to the paler shades.

You're probably right that higher contrast would be prettier!

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely! That's a great point and probably part of why I don't like it as much. 🤣

I do want to center the flower. The friend I'm making it for loves daffodils (he took that photo) and I'll have more green elsewhere in the piece.

Basically, I'm doing a version of this, but daffodil-esque.

A hexagonal piece of beadwork with a "flower" type design. The flower petals are shades of pink and purple with white accents. Green sections around the outside imply leaves.

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