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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 1h

*Hmmm. To judge by the list of suspects I'm gonna be digging some "post-photography" here

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1h

James Cameron “is considering a documentary about the making of Avatar — finally giving us a chance to explain, in a meticulous way, why performance capture is the most empowering form of acting.”

Yes, give me a feature documentary about performance capture, please 🙏

Zoe Saldaña Wants James Cameron to Make an ‘Avatar’ Doc That Celebrates Motion Capture Acting

The Oscar winner says a documentary would "finally give us a chance to explain, in a meticulous way, why performance capture is the most empowering form of acting."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 1h

Really good, watch it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...

TEARS OF THE MOUNTAIN - Animation Short Film 2025 - GOBELINS

YouTube video by GOBELINS Paris

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1h

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 1h

this has to be a scammer right? Doordash would surely not build a bot this dumb, right?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

Not to be outdone, the Trump Solicitor General says you have to overturn Thornburg v Gingles, the 1982 precedent upon which all Section 2 claims are evaluated.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 2h

A popular platform for 2026 would be

Dismantle SCOTUS.
Abolish ICE.
Rebuild the Constitution.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

The fight here with Gorsuch and Kav vs Nelson is whether the "use" of race automatically means "discrimination" on the basis of race.

That's interesting to me, because it's basically the white folks telling on themselves. They cannot see a "use" of race that isn't synonymous with discrimination.

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 2h

Thomas Keyes demonstrating how manuscripts like the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels were made. Videos from a Lottery funded project based at the Tarbat Discovery Centre. Thanks to @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social for the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJd...

Stories on Skins: Calligraphy

YouTube video by Tarbat Discovery Centre

www.youtube.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h

The more Republicans rant about paid protesters the more I wonder what those Tea Party costume characters were getting.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 4h

My latest column for @chemistryworld.com looks at a wonderful recent paper showing how condensates in cells can act as integrators of contextual information.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

The molecular mechanisms behind cell cognition

Condensate formation is central to how budding yeast cells decide their response to environmental and internal conditions

www.chemistryworld.com

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

It me!
https://mastodon.world/@lxskllr/115378590385577207

lxskllr (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image @[email protected]

mastodon.world

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 2h

Thinking all Republicans are racist has long been a go-to example of woke overreach for opinion columnists. Unfortunately, it also happens to be entirely correct.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 2h

Me to Husband during weekend & overnight grad work at university~

“if I’m not home as expected, check these three creepy closets and two enchanted elevators.”

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2h

University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:

Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2."

I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h

“We are currently clean on OPSEC”

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 20h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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kat blackheart @gothfem.me · 3h

tune for the day
youtu.be/HZhpHUEX2VI

Girl Scout - I Just Needed You To Know (Official Video)

YouTube video by Girl Scout

youtu.be

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Unsharp Halloween Mask Bill Tozier @vaguery.bsky.social · 3h

In World Wide Web Interface, like an animal

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 19h

Today's #SpacetoberChallenge: Spacecraft.

So here are a few Astronaut Vessels. Each one shows an astronaut traveling in a well-worn craft. I started painting these after a health scare, but they evolved to reflect the marks life makes on our physical and mental state over time.

Angled cup collage featuring a green weathered spacecraft design with a round window and astronaut peering out to see branches wrapping around the craft.

Vase collage featuring a blue weathered spacecraft design with a round window and astronaut looking up. The exterior has impact marks and words etched on a panel "NOT SAFE, GO".

Angled cup collage featuring a spacecraft design painted as if it's made from wood with a round window and two child astronauts playfully sword fighting inside. There are childlike etchings on the wooden exterior.

Angled cup collage featuring a pink weathered spacecraft design with a round window and astronaut resting their head on their arms. The back has a square panel with a smudged smiley face looking aged and worn in the center.

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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 3h

This one has more info!

"Space", flax, coupling technology, 38.5 x 21 cm
Creator: A.D. Vasenkova
Made at the Yelets Lace Art Society in 1969.

The panel "Cosmos" can be seen in the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Folk Crafts and Trades.

"Space", flax, coupling technology, 38.5 x 21 cm
Creator: A.D. Vasenkova
Made at the Yelets Lace Art Society in 1969.

The panel "Cosmos" can be seen in the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Folk Crafts and Trades.

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Unsharp Halloween Mask Bill Tozier @vaguery.bsky.social · 3h

Oh no they didn't add support for multiword hashtags, delimited on line breaks, did they?

Unsharp Halloween Mask Bill Tozier @vaguery.bsky.social · 3h

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Unsharp Halloween Mask Bill Tozier @vaguery.bsky.social · 1d

Uploaded 2 single issues of _The Practical Printer_ from 1901. Font showings in this trade magazine are interesting, because they apparently set all headers and ads in the featured display font each month!

\cc @fritzswanson.bsky.social

#digitization (of the day, -ish)

archive.org/details/@vag...

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

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Unsharp Halloween Mask Bill Tozier @vaguery.bsky.social · 3h

Technical concern/question re:Bluesky

I've been tagging a lot of specialized announcements of uploads to archive.org/details/@vag... with #digitization for some time now.

But some aren't showing up in searches/feeds?

Did I... misspell the word? Change a privacy setting? Use wrong octothorpe?

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

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Unsharp Halloween Mask Bill Tozier @vaguery.bsky.social · 3h

#digitization (of the day, -ish)

Uploaded last 2 issues (one in sad wraps but complete) of "The Practical Printer" from 1901. That's all I grabbed at the online estate auction 😢.

They should be done post-processing at archive.org shortly.

Next up: more "Green Bag"?

archive.org/details/@vag...

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 3h

Read that again.

.01% of parents deny their children access to school libraries because it is literally .01% of parents creating the moral panic and spreading lies about books in school libraries.

Yet there are schools COMPLETELY BANNING LIBRARIES FROM THEIR ENTIRE STUDENT BODY.

Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 3h

Public school parents overwhelmingly trust the curation of library professionals.

When we enroll our children at a school, we assume the school will give them every opportunity to access the same resources available to other students without unnecessary barriers to entry.

We are still working on gathering data from across the state, but the trends that we saw the last three years don’t appear to have changed much regarding public school parents and their desire (or lack thereof) to restrict their children’s library access.

When the district assumes parents will want their children to access the library (most districts do), there’s usually less than 1% of parents choosing to set restrictions. While this data only reflects seven districts, six of seven (yes, we know what we did there) are “red” districts politically and the four with 100% access are very “red.”

Those that know that state well, also know that Sarasota and Hernando are also considered very “red” and they also have a lot of special interest activity and influence in their districts. These districts created a policy where they don’t want to assume to know what parents want, so the default denies students access to resources otherwise made available to the majority of students that have gained parent permission.

Sarasota’s form is part of the annual electronic paperwork that parents must complete, so they were able to retain 92.7% of returned forms. If parents completed the form in the past, the prior selection remains in the system until a parent makes a change. Hernando is a different story, and it’s why they only have 51.56% of forms turned in.

Denying library access until a form is turned in creates an unnecessary barrier to entry for students.

The truth cannot be denied: public school parents overwhelmingly trust the curation of library professionals. When we enroll our children at a school, we assume the school will give them every opportunity to access the same resources available to other students.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 3h

Because our vice president is a fucking Nazi, that’s why.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Unsharp Halloween Mask Bill Tozier @vaguery.bsky.social · 3h

Still makes me chuckle whenever I get unsolicited emails asking me (as Dr. William Tozier, which I am not) to submit a proposal for an academic press book.

In the sense of, you know, and evil sneer sort of chuckle. Not a happy one; more of an eyebrow-raising one.