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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 13h

I just want the entire universe to fall on these guys.

Futurism @futurism.com · 14h

"You quite literally set the bridge on fire."

It Sounds Like OpenAI Really, Really Messed Up With Hollywood

Major talent agencies told the Hollywood Reporter that OpenAI had been "purposely misleading" them in behind-the-scenes communications.

trib.al

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 15h

Congratulations 🎊🍾!

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 The never-ending narrative…
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.

Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 2d

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 2d

When it's been so long since you read something you wrote that it's like you're reading it for the first time and you want to know what happens next.

I guess that's a good sign.*

*I should add that yes, I recall the plot. It's the details that are pulling me along.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 3d

Yet another great thread 🪡

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 6d

Flatterers up the *ss of the rich man. Some things never change! Here in 1592 by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, whose day is today.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 7d

People like Shapiro really say much, much more about themselves by even asking this question. And it keeps happening!

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · May 12

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 9d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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Eddy Conroy He/Him @econroy.bsky.social · 9d

We just got a $50 a month increase this year.

Really sick of having to pay through the nose for the power needs of multi billion dollar companies.

Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 10d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 11d

Explain your username:

First name initial + last name + what I write (spec fic)

Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 11d

explain your username:

I heve trible woth vewels

boofus 🎃 @te-kanawa.bsky.social · 11d

explain your username:

um, it's me

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 11d

I should print multiple copies of this and stick them all around my house

mindi @flawdbizkit.bsky.social · 11d

🖤

panda laying down looking exhausted, with the words: shut up mind, thoughts are not facts.

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 11d

a white dog laying on a wooden table with a person 's hands on it

Alt: a white dog (maybe a yellow Lab?) watching the person seated across from them. When that person crosses their arms at the wrists, the dog crosses their paws.

media.tenor.com

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 13d

How bad are tariffs going?

I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.

UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.

That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

Screenshot of message from UPS:

Hi Adam,
All import fees must be paid prior to delivery.
Save time - prepay online for your FREIGHTCOM shipment. If import fees are not paid before delivery, an additional surcharge will be applied.
Total Amount Due
119.20 USD
Additional charges may have been applied based on recent tariff policy changes.
Pay Now ›

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 13d

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

The Verge @theverge.com · 13d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13d

There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14d

For more tips, check out EFF’s guide to protecting yourself from location data brokers: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2....

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 14d

Agreed. New Costco member so I appreciate the info.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 14d

Since I've heard folks discuss the possibility of opting out, I found this informative.

The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 14d

This is discussing the Anthropic settlement, and the idea that authors might be able to opt out and get more as a single plaintiff. I'm not quoting this to dunk, but because it's a common misconception that deserves clarification.

You are very unlikely to get lawyers to take this on contingency.

Clypheous @clypheous.com · 14d

Nah, almost certainly you could find one who would take this on contingency for the possibility of winning the lottery against a billion dollar AI company.