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The Lone Masker @wndrtsy.bsky.social · 4h

"... when everyone is shouting it, they can't assault everyone..."

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The Lone Masker @wndrtsy.bsky.social · 9h

Office masking #MaskUp

I'm wearing a black zimi air mask, a black top with a pin that features red roses and an open book that says "read more", and my long wavy brown hair is loose over my shoulders.

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Pandemic Pals Hangout @pandemiccollab.bsky.social · 5d

We’re ready for Halloween at the #pandemicpalshangout !

Rooms this week include Halloween Recipes, Horror Fans, and Magic & Witchy Things.
Visit linktr.ee/pandemicpals for detailed room descriptions and info on how to join.

#pandemicprepared #covidaware #😷 #wearamask #maskingiscommunitycare

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 8d

I'd bet the "protesters didn't protest perfectly enough" people and the "well she was wearing a miniskirt" people are one and the same

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

Advocate for the tactics you believe are powerful and effective—we probably agree about those. But stop preemptively scapegoating the same people that Trump scapegoats for his fascist violence. Only this administration is to blame for its violence. It was already planned.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

Are you starting to get it? He was always going to hit us. You will not change the math by insisting that people assume some magical form of perfect victimhood that somehow reels in a monster. That's not real. And I am so sick of hearing it.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7d

Did Air Traffic Controllers just start the general strike?!?? 🤝

“…Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy claimed that many air traffic control workers were calling out sick.”

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

#GeneralStrike #ShutItDown #AirTrafficControllers #50501movement

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 7d

The AI “industry” is a giant circle jerk.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 8d

Adam (of AirFanta) just shared on Twitter that there's 10% off again today (Oct 7) & tomorrow (Oct 8). Link to Adam's acct & the AirFanta shop below my screenshot. 👇

Link to OP: x.com/Engineer_Won...

Screenshot of Adam's post on Twitter announcing the 10% discount valid on Oct 7-8.

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 9d

We're still looking to interview more people! You don't have to be an academic researcher. Amateurs and professionals alike who have smart ideas about how evil Gen AI is are welcome to be subjects in our Anti Gen AI Heroes blog series.

Get in touch with me!

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Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 10d

There is no right or wrong age to do shit that makes you happy. The sunk cost fallacy has no expiration date:

Change that career.
End an unhappy marriage.
Start a new hobby, or pick an old one from childhood back up.

Life is too fucking short.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 12d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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The Lone Masker @wndrtsy.bsky.social · 10d

Windy Sunday masking

I'm wearing a tie dye orange and red shirt, rose colored round glasses, and a black zimi air mask. My long wavy brown hair is down over my shoulders and blowing across my face in the wind.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 10d

It is unfathomable to me that we’re all just supposed to be okay with higher energy costs and more air and light pollution, in exchange for a machine that steals personal data and copyrighted material and produces slop and wage theft, and big tech can do this to our society unilaterally.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 10d

This is fucking unhinged. They aren’t even pretending that they’re companies anymore, Big Tech is something else now, entities that feel entitled to point the way and dictate to consumers how our society will operate from now on, and the sacrifices they’re asking for are obviously absurd.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 11d

My family & I are still processing the events of the past 24hrs. There is so much to say; for now I will keep it brief:

Juan was observing the situation at the ICE detention facility alongside other elected officials. He was in a designated protesting area & was standing peacefully when video shows

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 11d

A half of a million people begging world leaders to stop her torture, and crickets.

LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 11d

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 11d

And it's important to emphasize that this shielding of the United States government from accountability is a direct cause of where we are right now and must - MUST - be addressed. Hell, my conlaw professor predicted executive overreach as a result of sovereign immunity 17 years ago.

(Also I'm old.)

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 11d

"The fights for trans rights and Palestinians are over and we lost" is something I'm seeing over and over from cis white progressives. And I'm seeing variations of this popping up about racial justice, marriage equality, and disability rights too.

Sorry, but fuck that.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 11d

The apartments acted alone, pulling the adults and children out of them without anyone’s else’s participation

CNN @cnn.com · 11d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11d

Children are being zip tied and dragged from their homes.

Children are being zip tied and dragged from their homes.

This cannot be allowed to continue.

No one should be treated this way, but allowing it to happen to children must be the final straw.

Keep resisting Chicago, we're with you.

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The Lone Masker @wndrtsy.bsky.social · 11d

Masking on a Saturday #MaskUp

I'm wearing a black tank top, a black zimi air mask, and my long wavy brown is loose over my shoulders.

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