Grue
@fuzzyinthehead.bsky.social
Derby weirdo, pharma quality professional, nerdy red mage, advocate for paying artists FFS
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I agree with Bluesky’s decision because the law is insane, but we need to find a way to help these guys out. They do great work.
BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi.
This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.
We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.
And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.
I don't know what we'll do next.
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This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.
We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.
And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.
I don't know what we'll do next.
Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I agree with Bluesky’s decision because the law is insane, but we need to find a way to help these guys out. They do great work.
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What’s deeply amusing to me is the idea that any of the people pushing this particular idea honestly think that *they get a vote.* 😏
Counterpoint. George R. R. Martin should purposely not finish these books and have a stipulation in his will that no one else can do so after he dies.
Fans Have a Point — George R.R. Martin Should Let This Acclaimed Fantasy Author Finish 'Winds of Winter' Instead
George R.R. Martin is taking forever to finish Winds of Winter, so why not hand it to fellow fantasy author Brandon Sanderson?
collider.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
What’s deeply amusing to me is the idea that any of the people pushing this particular idea honestly think that *they get a vote.* 😏
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Media outlets seem to have soured on the AI hype machine.
August 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
August 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
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1) Some TX Dems came back acknowledging they were wrong
2 ) she also was essentially kidnapped on live TV with three major figures kind of doing nada
3) Black women are in no way shocked by this especially after the decimation of the past couple months and past 5 years
2 ) she also was essentially kidnapped on live TV with three major figures kind of doing nada
3) Black women are in no way shocked by this especially after the decimation of the past couple months and past 5 years
the TX Dems leaving Collier out to dry is a level of surrender we simply did not believe possible.
it's one thing to surrender, the shame of which should haunt you the rest of your life, but to then abandon one of your own to the cops is something we are legitimately struggling to find words for.
it's one thing to surrender, the shame of which should haunt you the rest of your life, but to then abandon one of your own to the cops is something we are legitimately struggling to find words for.
August 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
1) Some TX Dems came back acknowledging they were wrong
2 ) she also was essentially kidnapped on live TV with three major figures kind of doing nada
3) Black women are in no way shocked by this especially after the decimation of the past couple months and past 5 years
2 ) she also was essentially kidnapped on live TV with three major figures kind of doing nada
3) Black women are in no way shocked by this especially after the decimation of the past couple months and past 5 years
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This is nazi logic. The Nazis would redistribute the confiscated property of Jews to the German populace as an incentive to support their mass deportation to concentration camps.
JD Vance: "As we've kicked illegal aliens out of our country, you actually see housing costs start to level off."
August 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This is nazi logic. The Nazis would redistribute the confiscated property of Jews to the German populace as an incentive to support their mass deportation to concentration camps.
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3/4ths of The Atlantic would love to write this well
Oh don’t mind me, I’m just reading the reviews of the local bikini barista drive-thru coffee stand
August 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
3/4ths of The Atlantic would love to write this well
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they're trying to keep a lid on this, but major league baseball is now down to its last bat. for the rest of cubs-brewers, currently in progress this afternoon, all batters will share the bat. if the bat breaks that's the end of the sport. after that we'll most likely see a laser tag revival
August 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
they're trying to keep a lid on this, but major league baseball is now down to its last bat. for the rest of cubs-brewers, currently in progress this afternoon, all batters will share the bat. if the bat breaks that's the end of the sport. after that we'll most likely see a laser tag revival
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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You can insult prominent far right jerks (or anyone, obvs) without being transphobic or homophobic.
If your response to that is "but THEY'RE transphobic and homophobic so it really bothers them!", I remind you that they're malignant narcissists with fragile egos. ANY insult really bothers them.
If your response to that is "but THEY'RE transphobic and homophobic so it really bothers them!", I remind you that they're malignant narcissists with fragile egos. ANY insult really bothers them.
August 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You can insult prominent far right jerks (or anyone, obvs) without being transphobic or homophobic.
If your response to that is "but THEY'RE transphobic and homophobic so it really bothers them!", I remind you that they're malignant narcissists with fragile egos. ANY insult really bothers them.
If your response to that is "but THEY'RE transphobic and homophobic so it really bothers them!", I remind you that they're malignant narcissists with fragile egos. ANY insult really bothers them.
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gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor.
stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent.
they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't.
fuck them, pay labor.
stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent.
they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't.
fuck them, pay labor.
August 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor.
stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent.
they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't.
fuck them, pay labor.
stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent.
they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't.
fuck them, pay labor.
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I have just seen my third news item with people saying "well sure crime is way down but if you tell people who are scared of crime that fact, you'll alienate them" and this can only be some sort of society wide, generational failing.
August 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I have just seen my third news item with people saying "well sure crime is way down but if you tell people who are scared of crime that fact, you'll alienate them" and this can only be some sort of society wide, generational failing.
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My sister THE MAYOR OF BERKELEY hosted our family reunion so I made a shirt to explain my role in our familial unit.
See:
-The mayor gave a chartered bus tour of her city, then helped cook breakfast for 50 people while on a zoom.
-I found a decomposing wild turkey carcass & poked it with a stick.
See:
-The mayor gave a chartered bus tour of her city, then helped cook breakfast for 50 people while on a zoom.
-I found a decomposing wild turkey carcass & poked it with a stick.
August 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My sister THE MAYOR OF BERKELEY hosted our family reunion so I made a shirt to explain my role in our familial unit.
See:
-The mayor gave a chartered bus tour of her city, then helped cook breakfast for 50 people while on a zoom.
-I found a decomposing wild turkey carcass & poked it with a stick.
See:
-The mayor gave a chartered bus tour of her city, then helped cook breakfast for 50 people while on a zoom.
-I found a decomposing wild turkey carcass & poked it with a stick.
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1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state.
2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax'
Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.
www.wbur.org
August 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state.
2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
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my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries
- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support
youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand
- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support
youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand
Play and discuss as if you were friends trying to get to know each other better, rather than as if you were rival squawking merchants trying to sell competing goods in a marketplace. The world is full of friends and potential friends, and it's much lonelier and more frightening when it isn't.
August 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries
- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support
youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand
- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support
youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand
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Absolutely made up company, business run by gnomes and crystals and shit
August 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Absolutely made up company, business run by gnomes and crystals and shit
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if you’re a writer and have an idea but you’re thinking “idk how to stretch this into a novel” and that discourages you from finishing…
consider just writing a short story or a novella. you don’t actually need to write a novel for a story to be worth reading
consider just writing a short story or a novella. you don’t actually need to write a novel for a story to be worth reading
August 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
if you’re a writer and have an idea but you’re thinking “idk how to stretch this into a novel” and that discourages you from finishing…
consider just writing a short story or a novella. you don’t actually need to write a novel for a story to be worth reading
consider just writing a short story or a novella. you don’t actually need to write a novel for a story to be worth reading
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Gearing up for the new school year? Check out these 25 back-to-school events where you can get free supplies, haircuts and more: blockclubchi.co/4odcWBM
August 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Gearing up for the new school year? Check out these 25 back-to-school events where you can get free supplies, haircuts and more: blockclubchi.co/4odcWBM
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…Three: no matter who you are, or what medical condition you might have (or not), we owe the continuity of our lives to Henrietta Lacks.
Happy belated heavenly birthday (August 1).
Happy belated heavenly birthday (August 1).
![The Mother of Modern Medicine by Kadir Nelson, oil on linen, 2017.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture.
From the National Museum of African American History and Culture:
Artist’s Statement:
"The Mother of Modern Medicine," visually juxtaposing faith and science. Lacks smiles innocently. She stands with her beautifully manicured hands crossed, covering her womb (the birthplace of the immortal cell line) while cradling her beloved Bible (a symbol of her strong faith). Her deep red dress is covered with a vibrant floral pattern that recalls images of cell structure and division, while two of the four dime-sized buttons on her dress are noticeably missing (a reference to the cells that were taken from her body without her knowledge). Her bright yellow hat functions as a halo (recalling Renaissance paintings of the Madonna), while pearls (a symbol of the aggressive cancer that took her life) hang from her neck. The decorative wallpaper behind her forms a repeated hexagonal pattern, a design containing the "flower of life", an ancient symbol of immortality and exponential growth - two distinctive qualities of her rare and incredibly durable cells."
-Kadir Nelson, 2017.
Description
Lacks, smiling, is depicted standing in the center of the image. She is facing forward with her hands clasped in front of her body, holding a black book with gold-colored text [HOLY BIBLE]. Lacks is wearing a red dress with a white flower pattern and small belt. The dress has central buttons, with two missing. There is a flower accessory with three pearls in the center above the buttons. Lacks is wearing a wedding ring and a pearl necklaces and earrings. She has a cream and tan hat, the circular brim of which acts like a halo behind her head. Lacks is standing in front of a cream wall with a blue geometric "Flower of Life" motif. The work is signed in the lower right.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xrxbycbachtxi4gjqk3f4rzb/bafkreig4ydno6kf5x5ov52gdpemk4iltnoippqblybgox7harelcefdwue@jpeg)
August 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
…Three: no matter who you are, or what medical condition you might have (or not), we owe the continuity of our lives to Henrietta Lacks.
Happy belated heavenly birthday (August 1).
Happy belated heavenly birthday (August 1).
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The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The an
August 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The answer to gerrymandering is House expansion. The an
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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
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The thing about PBS is that LeVar Burton was to me what MrBeast is to kids today.
August 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The thing about PBS is that LeVar Burton was to me what MrBeast is to kids today.
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It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
July 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
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Absolute Puritan bullshit. Suffering does not make the world better! Heat stress is really hard on your body! People do not need to suffer medically dangerous temperatures to remember that climate change sucks!
July 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Absolute Puritan bullshit. Suffering does not make the world better! Heat stress is really hard on your body! People do not need to suffer medically dangerous temperatures to remember that climate change sucks!