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guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hi, I'm Mark! Listen to the science fiction studies podcast I make with @silk-stone.itch.io, Starboard Vineyard Tours: abnormalmapping.com/starboard and check out our completed Moby Dick podcast: abnormalmapping.com/whale and the tabletop game he wrote and I edited: silk-stone.itch.io/detect-or-die

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guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · 20m

oh my god a martyr for the cause ... really hope he recovers smoothly!

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1h

MY BRAIN WHEN I COME HOME DRUNK: Put your shoes somewhere weird. Don’t forget to put your shoes somewhere super weird.

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𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙢 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙣 @mannlicherhund.bsky.social · 1d

KOSA is now in red alert priority.

Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA!

We need to turn out in numbers against this!

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 25d

#SaveSpeech

Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc

Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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🚫DO NOT FOLLOW ME🚫 @mazefancier.bsky.social · 17h

girls with bus stop fetishes be like "yeah this is where i get off"

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12h

To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 20h

Some good news! Canada's C-2 bill has been blocked!

Theres still other bills we need to pay attention to, but this is fantastic news regardless!

Remember, ongoing pressure WORKS!

Alsp sign the petition below anyway, cuz it never hurts to have more signatures

Tuta @tuta.com · 1d

🎉Biggest #privacy win of the week: Bill C2 was blocked! 💪

Can't believe we missed this, it's a HUGE victory for Canadians - and the whole world. 🔒 🇨🇦

➡️ Learn more on bill #C2: tuta.com/blog/canada-...

📢 You can still sign the petition, the more, the merrier 👏 www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Encryption lock with the Canada flag inside of it and celebration emojis in the background.

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Lizzy @icecreamjones.bsky.social · 13h

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guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · 13h

I did a little bit of googling but I don't think the thing I want exists? There are isekai that star accountants but it appears to be more in a generic salaryman sense, nobody's teaching the nobles about GAAP

guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · 13h

You know what, I would eat up an isekai about an accountant getting hit by the truck and using basic accounting skills to transform a fantasy world. You could use this to frame a textbook and it would be charming

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 13h

#NationalOpossumDay :
Julia Lucey (CA, USA)
#Opossum in Toyon, 2025
Aquatint etchings collaged on panel
14 × 18 × 2 in | 35.6 × 45.7 × 5.1 cm
www.artsy.net/artwork/juli...
#ContemporaryArt #WomenArtists

depiction of an opossum hiding in the foliage of a fruiting Toyon bush (aka California Holly)

“Sourcing imagery from the flora and fauna of the California coast, Julia Lucey combines printmaking and collage for a medium all her own. Lucey prints her exquisitely detailed aquatint etchings in multiple editions, and uses a deft hand to cut and layer them into complex large-scale collages. The finished pieces are visually dense constructed environments that play on the character of her animal and vegetable subjects. As the artist herself explained, in some of her worlds, she references narratives and folk tales she imagines could happen, but with local animals as the characters. In other collages, she sets the animal’s gaze out toward the viewer in judgement; and others are simply about the magical feeling of being in a wild space.”

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 1d

💥Tame as a Kitten💥
#art

a simple digital drawing colored in distressed halftones. a white kitten hisses with its back up and tail puffed. There's a red and pink background behind it, with text that says "Tame as a kitten" and "if you can't scratch, don't hiss"

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boocanan @boocanan.bsky.social · 14h

mysterious gif of william my friend shannon made using discord bots

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 14h

#NationalOpossumDay:
#Opossum in the “paradise garden”mural cycle of Malinalco, Mexico, c. 1535/1585. The cycle is a rare survivng example of early colonial art with Indigenous artists in Spanish churches mixing native & European styles and filling Christian scenes with native fauna & flora.

Slide showing a portion of a mural with a zoomed-in detail of an opossum. (Images appear black and white because the mural was actually painted monochrome.)
Label:
Detail of an opossum in the paradise garden murals of Malinalco, Mexico, c. 1535/1585
Image credits:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eltb/6939991543/in/album-72157629114034706/
[Catedrales e Iglesias / CC-BY-2.0]
https://ombligomx.org/2020/02/17/fauna-prehispanica-en-los-murales-del-convento-de-malinalco/
[OmbligoMx / CC-BY-NC-2.5-MX]

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 14h

Resharing for #NationalOpossumDay

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Jan 6

#ManuscriptMonday + #MarsupialMonday:
#Opossum characters are found in several Mesoamerican codices; here is an amazing sequence from the Aztec Codex Fejérváry-Mayer of an opossum warrior-god performing a ritual decapitation:
www.famsi.org/research/gra... (original now in National Museums Liverpool)

Composite image showing a six panel sequence from plates 38-43 of the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer (multicolor illuminated manuscript, before 1521, Aztec) of an opossum warrior-god engaged in ritual combat and decapitation of its opponent. The fifth frame may depict a head-shrinking ceremony; the final frame depicts the opossum ascending the path to the star-sky.

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 16h

Keffiyehs everywhere in Boston, pretty evenly distributed across the crowd. Saw a lot of older white women wearing them. MA Peace Action had a table and they got a lot of signatures and distributed a lot of literature on Gaza.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 22h

Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 14h

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 19d

#MarsupialMonday :
Dahlov Ipcar (USA, 1917 - 2017)
#Opossum Family 2, 1968
Cotton, wire, buttons, 10 x 15 x 6 in.
shelburnemuseum.org/exhibition/d...
#WomenArtists

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 16h

A while back I realized much of what I micro blogged was just me processing stuff out loud, & not in a way that had any benefit for myself or the topic. Often it could just be me articulating my most negative thoughts & foisting them on others! So I had a witch shrink me & now I live in a dollhouse.

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guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · 16h

I am updating my resume and I hate it so much

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Psiidmon @psiidmon.bsky.social · 21h

Feed me please so I can afford a haircut and shave I'm very dysphoric and depressed paypal.me/psiidmon

Psiidmon @psiidmon.bsky.social · 22h

Insomnia and needing a sleep playlist means I'm seeing the scam scum ads with AI all over. The internet is dying.

Anyway I have bad jaw pain and no groceries please donate

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 23h

Examples of how fascist untruths get regurgitated as fact by LLMs are ubiquitous, but this one is really jarring. The Harvard Kennedy School article Gemini scraped is entirely about how the claim is false. Gemini cannot parse this, instead sharing DHS propaganda as fact when you search her name.

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org
Detention of Rümeysa Öztürk
On March 25, 2025, following the revocation of her F-1 student visa, 30-year-old Turkish national and Tufts University student Rümeysa Oztürk was arrested ...
Canary Mission
William K. Sessions III
F visa
People also ask
What did Rumeysa Ozturk do?
DHS and ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A visa is a privilege not a right.
Mar 27, 2025
https://www.hks.harvard.edu
On the Frightened Voice of Rumeysa

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mcc @dryad.technology · 22h

- At some point in the future, you may want to attend a protest where real opsec is necessary. You should own a dumbwatch, so you can know the time without having a phone. Casios are like $30 and come in cute colors.

- Always wear sunscreen; and you will never regret bringing a water bottle.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 22h

- Protests can serve many purposes. If it does nothing but bolster the morale of the protesters themselves, it's a success.

- Democratic party protests often gather your email, because the point of the protest was to form an email list. That's OK! A protest that connects activists is a good protest

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mcc @dryad.technology · 22h

Here are some thoughts about protests:

- "NoKings" is not the kind of protest you need to do serious opsec for. The mass of boring liberals will protect you. You can take your phone, but TURN OFF FACEID AND TOUCHID. If you're still worried, wear your normal facemask (you're still masking, right?).

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 18h

Polychrome ceramic vessel depicting a #Cormorant
Mayan culture, Yucatan, Mexico
Late Classic Period, 600-900 CE
Mayan Museum of Cancun / INAH 10-631787 mediateca.inah.gob.mx/repositorio/...
“a bird associated with the waters of the underworld where the sun sinks”
#BirdsInArt #IndigenousArt

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, they also tried to trick me into paying for their “AI.” Pay attention every time they say they’re increasing their fees bc they are likely sneaking things past you.

Lena Valencia @lenavalencia.bsky.social · 1d

PSA: I got a message from Microsoft saying that my annual subscription was increasing by $30 to pay for their stupid AI tools. I went to my account and switched to a "Classic" subscription, which kept my rate the same. www.reddit.com/r/Office365/...

From the Office365 community on Reddit: With the upcoming Microsoft 365 price increase from roughly 70 dollars to 100 dollars, you're still able to keep the old subscription. Here's how: (description)

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