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Rational Dove, The

@therationaldove.bsky.social

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Librarian by day, Trash video game enjoyer by night. Part-time Twitch streamer, full time spider fan. She/her. https://linkt.ree/therationaldove

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Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · Feb 13

Consistent regular reminder that empathy for your fellow human being is a huge act of resistance. Care about people beyond just your friends and family. Care about strangers you've never met. Show them daily kindness. Remind everyone that suspicion and hosility should not be the baseline.

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 18h

This is actually what causes the next schism

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 21h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

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

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Director_Kumazaki ／熊崎信也 🎮 @director-kumazaki.bsky.social · 1h

Pokémon LEGENDS Z-A has been released. I drew Greninja😊✍️✨
　
ポケモンレジェンズ Z-A
出ましたね。
　
黒い紙に白ペンで、
ゲッコウガを描いてみました🙏
ーーーーーーーーーーーー
#pokemon #Greninja
#ポケモン #ゲッコウガ

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Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 12h

The Stalin Tits came out at me like a jumpscare.

Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 12h

If LLM marketing was actually honest about the technology's capability "it's a chatbot that can mimic human speech extremely well." then no one would care. They have to make AI out to be your own personal on-demand Jarvis in order to make a profit, which! it's not!

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Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 12h

Truly my biggest gripe with LLMs is not "this technology is horrible and should not exist" and more "LLMs are occupying a space in our lives that's activiely harmful and being pushed by wealthy interests for reasons that do not align with the average consumer."

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 13h

why would I go to ChatGPT for sexting when your dad does it better

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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 13h

Damn i cant believe twitter and youtube died on the same day

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Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 13h

Tragically, I only realized this after hitting Send. The poster's curse.

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Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 13h

I really should read the name of the poster, shouldn't I?

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Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 13h

This is just a joke I don't get, right? Right??????

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Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 13h

For greater context, everything I just mentioned is either happening this month or has a deadline of sometime this month. 🥲

Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 13h

ALSO, I promised I'd make a poster for the conference I made earlier, but I haven't found the time between everything else I'm doing and now I gotta do it in two days and I might be panicking...?

Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 13h

The lack of Halloween decoration is making me so sad. I love Halloween! Goddamn I am overworkibg myself.

Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 13h

Chat, am I doing too many things?

Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 13h

Me: Why do I feel so tired and like I don't wanna do anything?

Also Me: Gotta finish this costume, work on writing magazine, pack for conference, fill out a job application, renew my drivers license, get my car state inspection, put up Halloween decoration, also it's my birthday soon.

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Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 14h

I was gonna do my daily "sew and watch" with @jellesmarbleruns.bsky.social in the background and glad this isn't a me issue.

Summer (MMO Fallout) @mmofallout.com · 14h

YouTube is in fact shidding the bed.

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Boie with an hatten @shitpo.st · 1d

Turns out Konami gutting their IPs to turn into pachinko was actually ahead of the curve by several years.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23h

King George III in early 1776

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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chrisleeworld.bsky.social @chrisleeworld.bsky.social · 4d

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 23h

🧵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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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 1d

The only time my conservative side of the family got mad at the cops was when one of them killed a black bear. Even though we should care when the police kill any person, animal deaths cut through copaganda very effectively.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

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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Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 1d

If you want cheap clothing and wanna be ethical about it, buy second hand at thrift stores. Don't buy new.