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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · Nov 19

When You Stop Caring: Justice Bath's clerk in the year 1250

The clerk finished recording an entry and began a new one. Suddenly, more information surfaced about the case but there wasn't enough space to write it. What should he do? 🧵1/3

A bald person in a blue tunic is holding both of his hands up in the air as if to say, "I don't know". The image appears in the margins of a 14th-century manuscript.

Luttrell Psalter, BL Add MS 42130 (14th century)

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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 24d

Goofy 3D face. Text: Are you being good?
• Giving of your time and powers.
• Downloading only pious implements.
• Lingering on charitable notions.
• Ingesting meatful ideas.
• Breathing uncanny particles.
• Telling the devil to scrub hell's tub.
(and mow hell’s lawn while he’s at it)

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Susie Colbourn @susancolbourn.net · 1d

📍University of Toronto (aka, some old stomping grounds)

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 1d

If there was a sponge as porous as this Leafs defence you would throw it out.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 1d

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 1d

I guess my point is Atheists then were unwilling to grapple with the misogyny in their ranks, and Atheists now are unwilling acknowledge and address the harms it lead to.

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 1d

One of the themes in the replies here is that "At least atheist aren't ruining the country like the Christians." And like, a significant part of the Trump movement comes from GamerGate, which had serious over lap with the mid 2010s capital A Atheism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Theoderic pic

An a gold coin stamped with the image of the Theoderic, who appears to have a kind long bowl cut and is holding a statue. He has a very elaborate robe.

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 2d

I assume that if you get the order wrong you meet the worst fate imaginable for a New Yorker and becoming a Red Sox fan.

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Winnie Madikizela’s boo @dre-withwithout.blacksky.app · 2d

If you can share, boost, spread and donate. I truly appreciate it.

Thank you 🙏🏽.

Love you, regardless

gofund.me/34d23778

Donate to Help me receive my little brother Dravin Matiste, organized by Andre Small

It’s taking me a lot to do this and I was just here asking for help ma… Andre Small needs your support for Help me receive my little brother Dravin Matiste

gofund.me

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 2d

The flash of her camera unleashed a barrage of deadly photons!

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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social · 3d

Link requested this be boosted so we can help Dr. Divya raise money for Palestinian families in need.

It is also a good day to reinstate Link’s account.

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 2d

And he made a robot to tell him all this is true, every time he asks. So yeah, he's ideologically committed, unhinged, and unable to tell the difference between good and his vision of what is good. Above all else he is isolated and probably lonely. Its sad, silly, and terrifying all once.

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 2d

Thiel believes the path he's chosen is the only path to a better world. They want to live as techno kings of a fantasy world based on their self serving ideology, and anyone who reminds them that the world they've invented is fake is the enemy, not just of them, but of goodness itself.

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely think that guys like Thiel and Musk are the earliest sufferers of AI psychosis. They're all but explicit inventing a machine to replace human interaction, and that machine is so sycopantic it would make Waylon Smithers blush.

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel has the Grifter Madness. He's so lost in his own sauce that he sees alternative view points, not even opposition, as evil. Everything that makes him rich is good, everything that even express the idea that maybe there's another way is satanic.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · Jan 24

As we protest statues that glorify racist ideology, we also need to think about the things that ended up inside of museums because of assumptions about white superiority. Here's one story - of meteorites, pandemic, and Minik, the boy who lost his parents and his whole world.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · Jan 24

Our museums are filled with objects that were taken from people who were considered not worthy of retaining them. Objects have hidden histories, and it's hard to find the Miniks under the Ahnighitos.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 4d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 3d

No, the Yankees should never, under any circumstances, win any games. I hope they loose at checkers against they're children.

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 3d

The monkey's paw curls and the Huston Rockets move to Winnipeg; the Kansas Royals to Smithers, British Columbia.

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 4d

illustration of a man looking into a window with his hands on the glass and saying “yes… ha ha ha… YES!”. his shirt says “sickos” on it. his head has been replaced by a toronto blue jays baseball mascot’s head

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4d

If I get extrajudicially got because I did research and writing about fascism being bad, you all need to scream from the rooftops that who they got was a mom of young kids who volunteers at a preschool.

I will haunt each and every one of you if you do not

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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