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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 3h

THEY ESCAPED ON A SCOOTER

Teresa @tmcallies.bsky.social · 4h

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www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...

Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says - live updates

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

www.bbc.com

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13h

I am telling you EVERYONE in Alabama is texting about the 3 cops in Fairhope tackling the woman in the enormous inflatable dick costume. EVERYONE.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 17h

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 20h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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hannah 🌈🏡 @helcinda.bsky.social · 15h

i want to read my library books but i also want to read a very specific fic that doesn’t exist so it just means i keep refreshing ao3 to no avail instead of reading anything at all

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hannah 🌈🏡 @helcinda.bsky.social · 16h

found on my local subreddit from today

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 18h

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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hannah 🌈🏡 @helcinda.bsky.social · 17h

baby powder on the pants, air dry until you know the stain is gone. hopefully it comes out easily!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 20h

Satisfying pro bono work.

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 22h

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 23h

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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hannah 🌈🏡 @helcinda.bsky.social · 20h

literally every time i just think ‘oh but what a settlement THAT would be’

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 22h

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

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hannah 🌈🏡 @helcinda.bsky.social · 20h

idk what it says about me but i’ve started playing increasingly dangerous games of chicken with idiot chicago drivers who like to run red lights on blind curves while i’m in the crosswalk

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

this country is still worth fighting for

Pete Fuller @petefullerga.bsky.social · 1d

James Franklin flies down to Athens to talk about getting fired while sitting in front of “Kiffin poops while Standing” sign.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23h

South Koreans held their government accountable earlier this year. And now they’re protesting for American’s rights and democracy on No Kings too!

Thank you South Korea! #NoKings ❌👑

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hannah 🌈🏡 @helcinda.bsky.social · 1d

if you travel outside the us—to anywhere!—you can claim you are high risk, and as of late last year that was still listed as a provision by the cdc

Tea’s so happy being Teddy Roosevelt @teaberryblue.net · 1d

TBH if you don’t have insurance or your insurance won’t cover getting your titers checked, just get another MMR shot. It’s not like antibiotics, you won’t make the virus vaccine-resistant, and it’s easier to get free or low-cost vaccines than it is to get titers checked for free or low cost

Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 1d

If your MMR was before 1989 and you have insurance, get your titers checked. You might need a new one—I did.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

do you want to end up getting your whole community targeted for being an edgelord at the dept of agriculture’s social media intern?

starving these accounts of attention on the niche microblog is the best thing you can do.

get loud where it matters. bluesky ain’t it. block.

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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hannah 🌈🏡 @helcinda.bsky.social · 1d

the replies taught me there’s a wikipedia app which is great because 90% of my google searches just click through to wikipedia, goodbye middle man

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2d

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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hannah 🌈🏡 @helcinda.bsky.social · 1d

i just saw a firefighter elsewhere mentioning that the firehouse loves getting visitors especially if they bring baked goods, do i now have an outlet for my love of baking

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 3d

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Lee @aliasmarionette.bsky.social · 3d

Obligatory link to Xiao Zhan and Na Ying having just the best time performing the Chinese version of ABBA's Gimme Gimme Gimme

youtu.be/uq4mOo4i_-A?...

#xiaozhan

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ripcinema @ripcinema.bsky.social · 4d

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

Akinator, the mind reading genie

Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of, as if by magic. Think of a real or fictional character, answer few questions, and Akinator will try to guess who it is. Wil...

en.akinator.com

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