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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah me neither. Been feeling pretty shitty overall and…now I’m just feeling extra shitty.

Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 10h

My husband has decided that he thinks AI generated videos are great and doesn’t care how I feel about it. So that’s fun to know.

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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 13h

New art??

Yes, new art. Rabbits, still, though. Need to clean this up a bit & apply a light berry-tea stain, then paint!

A drawing of a rabbit with some folk graphic elements on a wooden plaque.

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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 13h

Welp.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21h

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

www.404media.co

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 21h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 1d

I applied to EDO a couple of years ago and didn’t make the cut, but it looks like someone doing a straight up trace of a generated image from the slop machine is in this year’s batch of new artists added to their roster.

Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 2d

:fast blink:

Oookay then.

And this is one of the supposed geniuses building our new world order.

Explains so much…

Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, as stressful and exhausting as this year has been - it all started to fall apart back in February and got exponentially worse over the summer - I am kind of looking forward to taking a little break, and finding out what comes next.

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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 2d

Art.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 2d

I’m being laid off from an organization where I’ve worked for almost 22 years, and luckily I have a retirement account to draw from to keep the bills paid for a while. But when - *IF* - I actually get to retire, I’ll have considerably less available to me. I know people who have zero savings.

In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 2d

As climate change increasingly becomes a threat not just to homes, but to the very foundations of retirement, even the most careful savers are finding personal effort can’t outpace the risks woven deeply into the financial system.

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports

inthesetimes.com/article/clim...

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

inthesetimes.com

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naomi @mimimaruuu.bsky.social · 3d

Huntrix based on Klimt’s Water Serpents

#KpopDemomHunters

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 3d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 4d

The “justify your job” nonsense is why I log every single instance of what I do in a workday. Reply to an email? Logged as a task. Complete a data review for financial reporting? Logged. All of it. So that when asked, I can send one massive spreadsheet to show precisely what has been done each day.

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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 5d

‘Sup, yinz?

Wil Deny @wildeny.bsky.social · 5d

YINZER

Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 5d

I lived in Florida during the Bush-Gore election that involved the “hanging chads” debacle. I guess we can look forward to a repeat in the near future. I wonder how many states & counties with Dominion contracts are consulting with legal regarding termination options.

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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 5d

We already overwhelmingly use paper ballots. They just aren’t hand-counted like they used to be. But yeah, an openly partisan voting tech company is…not great.

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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 5d

Omg bb noodle.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 7d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 6d

Duquesne.

It’s pronounced Due-cane.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 9d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 6d

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

www.insidehighered.com

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 9d

Halloween is going to be weird now that there are scary masked people on the streets all year long.

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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 8d

Made a new friend over the weekend. (You’ll have to click the image to see the whole thing. 💀)

A hobbit and an animatronic skeleton walk into a bookstore…

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 9d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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