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Mads - persisting despite the horrors @lockheedelektra.bsky.social · 20h

I don't know if I'm painting the tree right. I've only heard stories from my grandfather, handed down through the centuries. Before our planet died, he said, you could pluck food right off them. It's a far-fetched idea, but the fantasy helps me fall asleep, clutching an heirloom jar of ancient dirt.

Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 22h

On an interplanetary merchant ship, strictly enforced rules and regulations are how a crew survives with ship intact and food properly rationed. Even so, each crewmember is allowed a few grams of paint and personal items for their bunk. What does your cot look like?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

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Mads - persisting despite the horrors @lockheedelektra.bsky.social · 3d

a man in a black sweater is standing in front of a wall with the word phrasing on it .

Alt: a man in a black sweater is standing in front of a wall with the word phrasing on it .

media.tenor.com

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Mads - persisting despite the horrors @lockheedelektra.bsky.social · 4d

Are... are you shitting hair ties, my friend?

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 8d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 15d

We don't get a lot of good news these days so you've got to appreciate it when it comes. This is a big deal!

Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 15d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Mads - persisting despite the horrors @lockheedelektra.bsky.social · 26d

I was skeptical but reading this description convinced me. Your mind...

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · Aug 28

“The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.” - Jack Kirby

Happy birthday King

Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · Aug 28

Jack Kirby, born on August 28, 1917. The King.

A black and white portrait photo of Jack Kirby in a suit.

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Mads - persisting despite the horrors @lockheedelektra.bsky.social · Aug 25

These are perfect little capsules of serenity. Love to see a pig basking

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Mads - persisting despite the horrors @lockheedelektra.bsky.social · Aug 22

I've successfully drank 48 oz of water each day for the past few days
Please clap

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Mads - persisting despite the horrors @lockheedelektra.bsky.social · Aug 20

The perfumery smells like grass and coconuts this time. Above the lintel, a scene of a summer picnic flickers in the aromatic haze. My memory, but with more golden light and no ants plaguing the blanket.

What memory do I want people to see when they smell me? Each tiny bottle offers a new option.

Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · Aug 19

You've visited the city before, of course; shopping with your parents, visiting family with your parents. But it's a whole new world now, stepping out from the dragonship gondola onto the aerial platform. An adult, free to choose as you will. What do you do first?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · Jul 6

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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Mads - persisting despite the horrors @lockheedelektra.bsky.social · Aug 10

My dumb ass: so you're being a virgin at the grocery store?

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Mads - persisting despite the horrors @lockheedelektra.bsky.social · Jul 27

Dante Must Die mode: Say it again when there is not a planet's diameter of distance between you

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · Jul 26

Gaza Soup Kitchen work to feed the people currently being starved by the Israeli govt. If you’d like to join me in donating, here’s their website: gazasoupkitchen.com

Gaza Soup Kitchen

Serving food not conflit

gazasoupkitchen.com

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · Jul 23

I love that the first half of Yu Yu Hakusho is "Yeah! We gotta stop these demons! We gotta get stronger!" and the second half is "The demons have been subject to mankind's cruel ways for a while and your pursuit of power will only turn you into a monster. Hope you feel like shit about it. Bye!"

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Max Newland @maxnewland.com · Jul 14

Can't wait to get drone striked at the park bc the AI sniper to hallucinated Bin Laden over my face like The Madonna on a piece of toast

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · Jul 14

The US Department of Defense will reportedly start using Grok, Elon Musk’s AI model.

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Tuta @tuta.com · Jul 7

⚠️Today Gemini starts scanning your phone ⚠️

We've updated this blog post with the recommendations of our tech-savvy community. Learn:

👉 How to disable Gemini
👉 How to deinstall Gemini

And why @grapheneos.org @lineageos.org etc are better.

Stop #Google now: 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

Screenshot of the email Google sent with a headline "We've made it easier for Gemini to interact with your device" next to text, "NO THANKS! Learn how to disable Gemini on Android on the Tuta blog."

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Jun 22

a screenshot from fire emblem with inserted text dialogue: “I do not love my country. I love the people in it and want their needs met.”

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Mads - persisting despite the horrors @lockheedelektra.bsky.social · Jul 2

Dianne Dupuis @iamfreetobeme.bsky.social · Jul 1

They are cutting us from climate information at every turn.

The White House took down the nation's top climate report. You can still find it here

The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.

www.npr.org

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Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social · Jun 16

It is wild that this is the finding of basically every iteration of this poll, large or small, going back years. At some point one would hope that this finding would move more centrist people towards making change, but …

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · Jun 16

Largest trans survey ever finds the top reason transgender people stop transitioning is transphobia

“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community,” the survey found.