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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · Jun 22

Sing your message into the world.
Scream your message into the world.
Write your message into the world.
Paint your message into the world.
Someone will find it, and it will mean the world to them.

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nicht_weit @ballpoint.bsky.social · Jun 23

I wish they could bring back a change of battery back.

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Jun 23

📱 Tumbled, stumbled, stayed sustainable.

New EU Ecodesign and Energy Labelling laws have entered into force.

Your smartphone or tablet must last longer, be easier to fix, and use less energy.

Here’s what changes for you ↓

An overhead shot shows a smartphone displaying an energy label, placed on a European Union flag. The energy label is prominently displayed on the phone screen, featuring the word "ENERG" in blue at the top right. Below this is a QR code and the text "MODEL IDENTIFIER." On the left, a bar graph with letters A through G illustrates energy efficiency, with "A" at the top in dark green, descending to "G" in red. A large "B" indicates the appliance's energy class. Below this, a battery or power symbol is accompanied by "15h 35min." Further down, three icons are arranged horizontally, followed by "XY00x" and "IP68." The EU flag, with its yellow stars on a blue background, fills the rest of the frame.

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nicht_weit @ballpoint.bsky.social · Jun 22

Posted fic for the first time in four months! The power of a good deadline!

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Elinor Elliot @elinorelliot.bsky.social · Jun 22

A lot of women find this out the hard way.

"Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them."

Joaquin Murrietta @joaquinmurrietta.bsky.social · Jun 22

Nelson Mandela is quoted as saying, "There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man".

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nicht_weit @ballpoint.bsky.social · Jun 22

The U.K. still has crumbling schools and unable to feed their kids after 14 years of Tory cuts.
How are we paying for this?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jun 21

This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

But A.I. can also simplify: if you’re struggling with the opening of “Bleak House,” you can ask for it to be rewritten using easier, more modern English. “Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy,” Dickens wrote. Claude takes a more direct path: “Gas lamps glow dimly through the fog at various spots throughout the streets, much like how the sun might appear to farmers working in misty fields.”

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nicht_weit @ballpoint.bsky.social · Jun 22

lol, 🤪 I need a title for a story. It’s fine. I finished a fic for the first time in three months (and beset by IRL drama). I am good

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Trisha KansasGal @kansasgal71.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · Jun 19

I wish I could take your pain and give it to someone we both really hate.

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nicht_weit @ballpoint.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hmmm. No. I will kill them with craft beer. Cheers! 🍻

nicht_weit @ballpoint.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hey, can you give me any hints about killing slugs? They are eating my garden up and I am this close to flooding everywhere with beer.

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nicht_weit @ballpoint.bsky.social · Jun 21

The junfa event that Oracle is hosting. I told her that I wanted to write something for it. The fic is getting a bit more complicated than I’d like. Story of my life.

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nicht_weit @ballpoint.bsky.social · Jun 21

I sat down to write today. Deadlines are inspiring meeeee

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Dave 🧢💙🔵🐾🐾 @dave-64.bsky.social · Jun 21

Posted before, but it seems more relevant and applicable by the day.

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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · Jun 21

Agree. I will never understand the desperate wish of tech promoters and AI users to avoid doing the things that make us human. Writing is hard; that’s the point. Art is difficult to make & worth it. Reading can be a challenge; it’s how to learn. Why delegate these to soulless AI? To do what instead?

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · Jun 21

Yeah I usually hate the old “capitalists want to charge you to breathe the air” stuff but damn this really feels like they want to take books away and charge to have a computer read for us.

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nicht_weit @ballpoint.bsky.social · Jun 20

There’s a lot of good fic, enjoy!

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Elinor Elliot @elinorelliot.bsky.social · Jun 20

As usual in these cases, one man's personal ambition, amorality, and damaging family dynamics mean that thousands must die.

As with Putin.

As with Trump.

As with RFK jnr

As with any dictator you care to mention.

There has to be a better way than this.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · Jun 20

This is one of the most eye-opening things I've read this week. If you're interested in what drives Netanyahu, I'd really recommend it. 🧵1/n

Inside the mind of Benjamin Netanyahu

As the Israeli prime minister’s bodyguard, I saw him transform into the gangster he is today.

www.newstatesman.com

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.bsky.social · Jun 19

Repost with Alt Text.

...bc yeah, THIS.

Tumblr post by user kalira , dated Oct 20, 2024:
I say this very gently and with much love, and I say it not only as a writer myself but as someone who has been privy to many 'but how can they not know that work is amazing! 1 love it! I gushed about it to every friend I have and recced in x, y, z servers and [...]'

The writer or artist doesn't know this.

They have no way of knowing that you found their work beautiful and lifechanging or even just a bright spot on a bad day or that you think about it every day or that you told all your friends about it, and those things are great but we have no way of knowing them! You may not be doing it intentionally, but you're excluding the writer or artist from the community feeling of fandom that you are carrying on (that is so great! fandom is a community! continue to talk and play!) even with their work.
Please, please just drop a line even that is "oh gosh I absolutely love this work, I screamed to every one of my
friends about it when I first read/saw it!" even if you don't
have the spoons to share more of the specifics that made you flail at your friends or what you said in private. (Though if you do, we will love you forever for it.)

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nicht_weit @ballpoint.bsky.social · Jun 20

Congratulations! 🙌🏽 I hope it’s everything you’ve dreamed of and more!

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · Jun 20

Excellent article from David Landy of TCD on their courageous decision to cease collaborations with Israeli universities and other institutions. Would love to see my university, TU Dublin, following suit.

Why academic institutions are cutting ties with Israel

Messages from colleagues from Gaza and the displaced Palestinian students on our campuses have been the driving force for many of us

www.irishtimes.com

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Harri @hfrayling.com · Jun 19

I'll say it over and over.

I do not believe in gate keeping.

I do not believe in pulling up the ladder.

I believe in kicking the wall down like the Kool-Aid man, and making room as I go for those who come next.

Just because it was hard for me, doesn't mean it has to be hard for anyone else.

A photo looking out towards the sea, with a sandy path in front and long grasses leading up to the shore. White, digital text is repeated on top of the image as follows:

THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE

THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE
THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE
THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE

THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE
THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE

THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE
THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE

THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE
THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE
THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE

THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE
THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE
THERE IS ENOUGH IF WE SHARE

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nicht_weit @ballpoint.bsky.social · Jun 20

Do it. Tell yourself that the only rule is to make and that everything is an experiment. Take the stress off.

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