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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 30m

Papal infallibility does not apply to views on sports teams.

*Spoken as a non-sportsball person whose family is 4 generations deep in Cubbies fans.

Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

I am not remotely Catholic but somehow it's still deeply disconcerting to see Pope Bob shit-talking the Cubs from the Popemobile

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 6h

I am begging people outside the book industry to understand that what we’re experiencing is not merely a surge in book banning but a coordinated effort to end libraries and librarianship in America. 4/4

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 6h

By mandating intentionally vague content “standards” and substituting the judgment of school board officials, Texas has begun the process of eradicating library expertise. Other states will follow suit. Texas’s sheer scale always affects books’ economic viability well beyond its boarders. 3/4

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 6h

🧵It has been clear for years that a key difference between past instances of book banning and the present censorship cataclysm is that the banning happening now targets not only books, but librarianship as a profession and libraries as an institution. 1/4

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 2h

Can confirm.

Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 6h

I am begging people outside the book industry to understand that what we’re experiencing is not merely a surge in book banning but a coordinated effort to end libraries and librarianship in America. 4/4

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 1h

I saw Goody Odent at the devil's sacrament!

*I am also at the devil's sacrament.

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 1h

It was on her IG stories a week or two ago.

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 2h

I only discovered them due to Bernadette Banner, but have been enjoying!

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3h

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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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 4h

"No pain that isn't normal"

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 4h

Neurology appointment はゲット！

a picture of loki with the words success written on it

ALT: a picture of loki with the words success written on it

media.tenor.com

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 5h

Uuugh. Thank goodness I usually don't get that.

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 6h

Time is money ppl should legit sue for damages. Job search js a requirement of unemployment benefits in many cases. This is harm

Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 8h

Just learned about a new stupid thing AI does

A series of Instagram comments:

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atbashhang 2w
i recently applied to a wendys and the ai chatbot immediately gave me an interview date and time. when i got there they told me "oh we're actually not hiring it just automatically does that"
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atbashhang 2w
in other news i'm now learning how to jailbreak Ilms for no particular reason
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k.aylaeverso.n 2w
@atbashhang that happened to me at olive garden. went in for my interview and they said they would keep my resume on file in case the position opened. fortunately i had another interview right after and wound up working there instead
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bugluvr2003 2w
@atbashhang me with 7-11 except they cancelled it an hour before
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@atbashhang Bro I used to work at Auntie Anne's and the amount of people I had to turn away because the Al chatbot did the same thing and gave them an interview time when we weren't supposed to take any made me feel bad every time

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 5h

Thicc Kappa

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 6h

Sagappa Joe, the mascot of Sagami Women’s University, is a kappa who lives in the pond in the school garden, despite not being able to swim. He is renowned for his shapely buttocks.

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 6h

This is bullshit, but also, yet another example of attempts to rely on technology to give supposed “objective” pain ratings while denying the most useful way to get that information: ask the person (or in the case of babies/toddlers, their parents), and actually believe them.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 6h

Again, this is AI solving a problem that doesn't exist. Do you know how you can figure out if someone is in pain? Ask! Do you know how easy it would br to scam one of these devices? Incredibly easy! Pain checklists are used as guides for medical professionals, not algorithms for technology.

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 5h

I always have to do a body scan when I go to an appointment and they ask about pain, unless I am there specifically for a pain that isn't one of the usual ones (e.g. breaking a finger, injury).
I guess I'd say I dissociate to ignore the chronic issues.

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 6h

You can't quantify pain this way. I live with chronic pain - my daily is a 4, and that 4 is most people 6 or 7. I don't express any of thr signs listen, even on my worst days. Even when I went to the ER a few years ago.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 7h

I thought the administration - and the "economy is good, actually" - folks said we'd conquered inflation and this issue was over though?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 7h

That's something I've noticed, too, as someone with heavy m/n names

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 9h

Storing my not-at-all-homoerotic fighting manual manuscript in my not-at-all-homoerotic Saint Sebastian book casket.

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 8h

Makin' a rubric to Faun, after working to Panic Priest for a bit.

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 8h

Is it stress? Crash after other stresses in the rearview mirror? Weather? Changing daylight? Why am I le tired?

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 14h

@wawawiwacomics

Dumbo squid: I ONCE SAW A HUMAN AND PEED MYSELF.

Shark: A HUMAN SAW ME, AND HE PEED HIMSELF.

Jellyfish: A HUMAN TOUCHED ME ONCE, AND HIS FRIEND PEED ON HIM.

Dumbo squid: DUDE...

Shark: WHAT?

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 16h

Kid: Mom? MOM?! MOOOOOM!

Me: What?

Kid: "Butter" has the word "butt" in it. Butt like tushy!

Me: ...go to bed

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 22h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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