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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 2d

That quote alone is disqualifying for any real arts and culture voter. There is no culture in this robot artslop. Just fund the arts orgs already downtown. They are struggling. Give ‘em money to make something meaningful and good.

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 13h

absolutely fucking not. Seattle's arts communities have suffered from a lack of support and funding since even before the pandemic, and the last thing every living artist in this city needs is valuable time, attention, and funding going to AI slop in some stupid simulacra of support for the arts

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

Like every mayor before him, Harrell wants arts and culture events downtown. The difference is that "you're going to see a lot of AI in it."

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

buy Kelly’s book about correspondence with activists when things are falling apart that she’s been too busy to promote because she’s an activist in a city where things are falling apart

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Arié (pronoun = name) - #FreeThemAll 🏳️‍🌈ⵣ🪬 @ariemoyal.com · 2d

If only people calling themselves and fascist actually were and didn’t just mean the current American administration.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 1d

this is very bad, actually

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 2d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 2d

“People who dislike Gen AI are just stuffy bores”

Bitch one of us actually knows how many fingers humans have and evidently it’s not ChatGPT

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 4d

I have looked at this a ton and he's right! There are NO rigorous peer reviewed studies showing faculty political leanings translate into skewed teaching or any form of vindictive grading or censorship on a systemic scale. Yes there are anecdotes, no there is NOT evidence of a widespread issue. 🗃️

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 5d

since i have a couple new pieces premiering in two separate venues over the next month, i wanted to share my most recent piece again -- an experimental erotic horror retelling of oscar wilde's salome

ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · Aug 22

I am a girl in a woman’s body, I am a woman in a girl's body, I am thirteen and three thousand years old. My Mother tells me a story about a princess who was turned to cinders.

Today on ergot.: 'The Daughter of Abomination' by Sasha Ravitch @sasharavitch.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Sash...

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

www.ergot.press

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 5d

these analog-joy cards will be ready around the 8-year-anniversary pub date of Joyful Militancy! ❤️‍🔥

Militant Joy Cards coming later in the FALL!!!

image of a box cover with a teasel on it. text says: Militant Joy Cards. bergman & Montgomery. and in a black circle text says: An 88-card deck & guidebook to support collective transformation and autonomy

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a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 5d

After teleporting home, the wizard reads a poem about moss.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the reading. do the readi

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 6d

This whole Republican interrogation prep protocol, where they're coached to evade by launching into an un-interruptable stream of deflection, or unleashing a barrage of ad hominem attacks on the questioner: Pam Bondi is so, so, so laughably bad at it.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 10d

though we have never met or crossed paths, Manchán Magan has helped me, and so many of us in the diaspora find connection and wisdom in the language and lands of our ancestors. he will be missed, but I'm grateful for all he's left for us. may his work continue in all that we do.

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 10d

“The bogs, rivers, mountains, and shorelines are more than preservers of old myths, bones, and memories. They are energy banks and time sponges, and what is held within them seeks release.”

― Manchán Magan, Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 10d

RIP Manchán Magan, brilliant writer, broadcaster, filmmaker and powerful advocate for the Irish language, nature and culture. He was a signatory to our Irish Artists' Pledge for Palestine, and a strong supporter of the Palestinian people. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

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Shannon Kelly Donahue @shannonkellydonahue.com · 11d

One of my favorite episodes of Motherfoclóir. Manchán Magan talking about all the wonderful thing that Manchán was prone to talk about. @theirishfor.bsky.social @darach.bsky.social @thekavofficial.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

#144 | Three Whales and the Universe: Motherfoclóir Meets Manchán Magan

Podcast Episode · Motherfoclóir · 09/17/2020 · 42m

podcasts.apple.com

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 11d

This video just distills the current moment in such an amazing way. Guy runs into the class to throw a Hitler salute (while filming himself doing it) and yell hatful shit, gets chased across campus by the whole class and surrounded, and then starts crying because they’re ganging up on him. Coward.

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 12d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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John Doffing @johndoffing.bsky.social · 11d

"There are not many copyright-free monographs associated with arcane leftist sects that predicted where western societies would end up at 50+ years' distance, but this one did exactly that . . . "

THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE // PARIS 1967

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Althaea Sebastiani @althaeasebastiani.bsky.social · 12d

Where whiteness is a closed door, ancestor work is a key to culture and belonging—a key that is literally handed to you by those to whom you irrevocably belong, to those who claim you and hold you across time.

(this one goes out to the mixed kids)

#WitchSky #PaganSky

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13d

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 13d

...this country has always been at war with all dissenters. and, these guys getting up to the podium and saying these things with glee and without restriction is a clear milestone worth noting. there's no obfuscation any more. 2/2

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