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Erin H.
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sevenrasmussen.com
i am not a toy. i am not a christmas present—i’m a 13.5 Gyr commitment

please think hard before you give someone a z=14 galaxy for christmas
jwst image of galaxy jades g s z14 0
December 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say:

Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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kenjennings.bsky.social
A trainer at the gym told me that one of his clients in tech (very Seattle story) was frantically asking him what AI might be good for at the gym. Real “We have to make this thing happen, what is it for???” vibes.
Stupid Vox headline about AI being necessary even tho nobody wants it
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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chriscjackson.bsky.social
This entire weekend
in the pit
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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gnowolfstyx.bsky.social
I'm giving out this star, so get it while you can folks
December 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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ardenpowell.bsky.social
Universal Basic Income ✨
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d
taking a nap
December 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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ohshitcircuit.bsky.social
adding "...according to an average of all words ever posted to the internet including 4chan" to every chatbot-generated output like we used to add "...in bed" to fortune-cookie fortunes
December 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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anasyrma-angel.bsky.social
made a kiki and bouba charm for my bag 💁🏼‍♀️💥🫟
December 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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everyfilmnow.bsky.social
Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke! 🎂

The legendary star of ‘MARY POPPINS’, ‘CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG’ and ‘THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW’.

#DickVanDyke
December 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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wiki-potd.bsky.social
The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory bird in the family Turdidae, the thrushes. It is named after the European robin because of its reddish-orange breast, although the two species are not closely related.
The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory bird in the family Turdidae, the thrushes. It is named after the European robin because of its reddish-orange breast, although the two species are not closely related.
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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gyro.bsky.social
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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aliascelli.bsky.social
🥺
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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crowkids.bsky.social
this really does say it all unfortunately
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13d
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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jonkk.bsky.social
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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jjbbllkk.bsky.social
Another day
Another: Fuck Spotify

www.avclub.com/spotify-stan...
Spotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash
Spotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash
www.avclub.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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radiodeadair.com
Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
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December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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coyote-face.bsky.social
Once again an accessibility reminder from your favorite dog in the entire universe:

If you use the spooky demonic looking text, this is what screen readers see. It is not understandable! It is not fun having to ask a friend to look at it and translate!

BTW, it says “everything must be monetized”
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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bfletcherwatson.bsky.social
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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ianboudreau.com
Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
roryblank.bsky.social Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 18d
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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joshchafetz.bsky.social
Black Friday
Cyber Monday
Giving Tuesday
Leave Me the Eff Alone Wednesday
Seriously Stop Sending Me Emails Thursday
I Will Cut You Friday
November 28, 2023 at 1:39 PM
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stirpicus.bsky.social
Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.
People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France. So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness. There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time. Good luck, and love as always K
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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danhon.com
Council of Elrond announces immediate cessation of weapons production for the race of Men pending results of preliminary inquiry.
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?
Sesame Street - Mahna Mahna (1969)
YouTube video by Tiny Dancer
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November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM