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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 2h

How do you even define centrism these days? Are you talking about a general center among well known ideologies, or the midpoint between the current GOP and Democratic party positions?

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Mali 💤 @ MCM G-24 💛 @sleepimali.bsky.social · Jun 20

Reposting with alt text since this is going around again!

Two panel comic in black and white. In the first panel, a bunny sits in the grass, surrounded by sparkles and flowers, on a white background. The second panel zooms in on the bunny's face and the background is black, with white text handwritten in all caps on it: "TOUCHING GRASS ISN'T ENOUGH, I NEED MONEY"

Signature: SLEEPIMALI (and the year the comic was made, 2023)

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 21h

Contents of brain: 1% thinker, 99% soup

A little orange tabby cat curled up on white sheets beside a grey blanket

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birdrightsactivist @probirdrights.bsky.social · 5h

Nothing bad can happen it can only good happen

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 5h

The specific connotation of social and racial injustice is extremely important, and should not be ignored.

That said, if you just replace "woke" with "caring about other people," it will perfectly summarize conservatives' true feelings and reveal just how worthless their position is.

Miriam @miriam.blacksky.app · 6h

All the right wing grifters are out in force writing opinion pieces about “WOKE.” Just a reminder: the term woke comes from AAVE during the civil rights era, it meant being awake to social and racial injustice. Imagine being mad at that and using it as an insult

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Miriam @miriam.blacksky.app · 6h

All the right wing grifters are out in force writing opinion pieces about “WOKE.” Just a reminder: the term woke comes from AAVE during the civil rights era, it meant being awake to social and racial injustice. Imagine being mad at that and using it as an insult

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 16h

He signed a memo *pretending* that he can give himself the authority to do this. In defiance of the Constitution. Because he's behaving like a dictator.

You need to include the important things in your headlines.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

On the record, I think sneering at these people that they’re somehow *bad* because they stayed on Twitter for this long is incredibly counterproductive

it’s great that more people have escaped the Mussolini Piss Hole and come to Bluesky actually, their numbers shall strengthen us

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

judging from what I’m seeing right now, a large-scale Twitter Exodus Event is 100% what’s happening

good!

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 16h

your email has found me

i am prepared to regard this as an act of war

clare @sadderlizards.bsky.social · Apr 3

your email finds me deeply unwell. teetering on the edge really

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 20h

Even the relative timestamp is acknowledging the name change

Since it was just posted, the handle next to the relative timestamp reads "@kestrelcasey.com now"

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 20h

SKREEE

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 21h

Contents of brain: 1% thinker, 99% soup

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 22h

Automated phone systems for routing calls are not customer support.

Automated email responders are not customer support.

AI chatbots are the literal opposite of customer support.

I know it's difficult to provide customer support at scale. But you still have to do it. That's your responsibility.

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely frozen, sub-zero take:

If your company does not offer a means by which customers can talk directly with a human - one which does not have multiple layers of automation to slog through first - then your company does not provide customer support.

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 22h

I mean, they ARE both dead now, so they do at least have that in common?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Brooke Rollins: "Charlie Kirk is in a way the modern day Thomas Jefferson."

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 23h

It has long been well understood that conservatives are unable to win free and fair elections. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, the electoral college, and more continue to exist because the GOP knows it MUST protect those corruptions in order to retain the power it has, much less to acquire more.

A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 1d

US political elites have spent the better part of a decade obsessed with "civility" and purported threats thereto but politics is increasingly about raw power.

What does public debate even matter if the lines are drawn to all but guarantee right-wing political outcomes?

NYT infographic. What could happen without Section 2 of the voting rights act. Current map shows mostly red (Republican) districts but some blue (Democrat) districts among Southeastern United States. Then a plausible scenario map that shows nearly all red.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

side rant: when are newsrooms going to get over parents' ablest squick about their kids and start using identity first language?

"disabled person" not "person who is great!! except for this icky disability!!"

"autistic person" not "person with a lil' case of the autisms"

etc

mcie.org

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 1d

A core philosophy of conservatism is that collectivism is good if white people are the primary beneficiaries, but when something would primarily benefit non-white people, we're all just individuals and people are not a monolith.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, according to the Republican Justices, it's okay to gerrymander for party advantage, not racial advantage. It's an unknowable distinction, but one that allows the Republicans to okay racist gerrymandering under the guise of political gerrymandering.

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 1d

Justice Jackson deserves a Congressional Medal of Honor for every time she has to be in the same room as Kavanaugh and doesn't snap his neck.

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 1d

Helpful tip:

When you see a headline that says "AI is changing [something]," you can summarize the whole article by simply adding "by making it worse" to the end of the headline.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

made the quoted thread, a response to a few of @jamellebouie.net’s recent posts, into a video, because sometimes it’s nice to see people’s faces, hear people’s voices, on an ever colder internet. this is part one.

full video at normal speed:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMfy98PR/

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · Sep 15

Generative AI is trying to sell destinations to people who value their journeys.

Artists WANT to make art
Writers WANT to write
Coders WANT to code

The people selling these things neither know nor care that they're trying to sell cliff notes to the book club.

Chris Shehan_Comic Art @chrisshehanart.bsky.social · Sep 3

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it.

It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 1d

When they file the restraining order, the courthouse clerk just goes ahead and puts your name on the ballot.

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 1d

Hoping Jamelle and others hear you and take it seriously. ❤️

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