stealingsand
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If the bass drops in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, is it still off the chain?
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Pottery | science | cats | justice | NE DFW | mola mola at ❤️ | UX/Accessibility
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(∩｀-´)⊃━ ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ 林蔤雅 • 임미아
Pottery | science | cats | justice | NE DFW | mola mola at ❤️ | UX/Accessibility
Cover by @devinellekurtz.bsky.social
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7/ Pottery/clay/ceramics. It's incredibly humbling - even if you do everything right, it can still come out horribly wrong 🤣
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So astonished to be on this great list. Thanks, @sciam.bsky.social and @breezybrik.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Scientific American Staff’s Favorite Books of 2025
Here are the 67 books Scientific American staffers couldn’t put down this year, from fantasy epics to gripping nonfiction
www.scientificamerican.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
So astonished to be on this great list. Thanks, @sciam.bsky.social and @breezybrik.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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If I don’t know you well (or don’t trust you) I come across as distant and quiet because that’s how I feel safe and have learned to adapt. If I have to communicate with you and it’s important, I do this
September 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If I don’t know you well (or don’t trust you) I come across as distant and quiet because that’s how I feel safe and have learned to adapt. If I have to communicate with you and it’s important, I do this
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when you wanna rap along but you’re white
September 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
when you wanna rap along but you’re white
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"We love America" they say as they dismantle the few good things that make this place America
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
"We love America" they say as they dismantle the few good things that make this place America
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I mean the Dredd Scott decision basically sparked the civil war, which the US won and then enacted birthright citizenship to reject Dredd Scott, so getting rid of it is just a reembracing of race being the basis of class and a bunch of other racist bullshit.
Like we fought the civil war about this
Like we fought the civil war about this
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I mean the Dredd Scott decision basically sparked the civil war, which the US won and then enacted birthright citizenship to reject Dredd Scott, so getting rid of it is just a reembracing of race being the basis of class and a bunch of other racist bullshit.
Like we fought the civil war about this
Like we fought the civil war about this
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Chickens in the snow.
December 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Chickens in the snow.
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my brain chimes in with “because it is my heart” every single time i think of, use or hear the word “bitter” and sometimes i speak it out loud and nobody but thomas has any fuckin clue what i’m talking about
(i knew i liked josh for a reason!)
(i knew i liked josh for a reason!)
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
In the Desert Stephen Crane, 1895.
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
In the Desert Stephen Crane, 1895.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
my brain chimes in with “because it is my heart” every single time i think of, use or hear the word “bitter” and sometimes i speak it out loud and nobody but thomas has any fuckin clue what i’m talking about
(i knew i liked josh for a reason!)
(i knew i liked josh for a reason!)
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literal recession indicator
The Indiana Hoosiers are one first down away from their first conference championship in football since the Great Depression.
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
literal recession indicator
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I'm still shocked that there are people who oppose birthright citizenship and consider themselves Americans, let alone a member of any particular political ideology. To be against the idea that if you're born here, you're a citizen is one of the most anti-american ideas I can conceive of.
still poleaxed by the idea that you could oppose birthright citizenship and still think of yourself as a liberal in any sense of the term.
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I'm still shocked that there are people who oppose birthright citizenship and consider themselves Americans, let alone a member of any particular political ideology. To be against the idea that if you're born here, you're a citizen is one of the most anti-american ideas I can conceive of.
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This is such an active aftershock sequence. We are going to be busy with this one for a while. We have had more than a dozen M4+ events since this story was posted a few hours ago. We havent even really looked at events that are less than M3.5 bc there are too many of the larger events to keep up.
Is it too early to jokingly refer to this as the 6-7 earthquake? Read more about what we know so far, summarized in our web story here: https://bit.ly/4aC083z
December 6 Magnitude 7 Near the Canadian Border | Alaska Earthquake Center
On Saturday, December 6, just before noon, a magnitude 7 earthquake was felt across a 500-mile radius around the epicenter, near Hubbard Glacier, about
earthquake.alaska.edu
December 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is such an active aftershock sequence. We are going to be busy with this one for a while. We have had more than a dozen M4+ events since this story was posted a few hours ago. We havent even really looked at events that are less than M3.5 bc there are too many of the larger events to keep up.
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It makes sense in a patriarchy that the age of consent is 18, while allowing child marriage to get around age of consent laws, because the law isn't about protecting children who are too young to consent to sex with adults, it's about protecting a father's property to maintain marriage value.
December 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It makes sense in a patriarchy that the age of consent is 18, while allowing child marriage to get around age of consent laws, because the law isn't about protecting children who are too young to consent to sex with adults, it's about protecting a father's property to maintain marriage value.
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what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
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As a longtime fan of HOW IT'S MADE, I can't say I'm surprised exactly by how much any manufactured good is essentially handmade but it's still striking to see how much of even high tech stuff like camera lenses is "a worker with a paintbrush and screwdriver moves stuff around by hand"
望遠ズームレンズを作るプロセス。精密なレンズを生み出す日本の光学機器メーカ。
YouTube video by プロセスX
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December 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
As a longtime fan of HOW IT'S MADE, I can't say I'm surprised exactly by how much any manufactured good is essentially handmade but it's still striking to see how much of even high tech stuff like camera lenses is "a worker with a paintbrush and screwdriver moves stuff around by hand"
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when you thought you'd seen the wildest racial discourse online and there's always something more. saw this on X and FB today.
so it's saying - racism depends on perceived attractiveness or lack thereof
- physiognomy of imaginary subgroups of Han Chinese,
so it's saying - racism depends on perceived attractiveness or lack thereof
- physiognomy of imaginary subgroups of Han Chinese,
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
when you thought you'd seen the wildest racial discourse online and there's always something more. saw this on X and FB today.
so it's saying - racism depends on perceived attractiveness or lack thereof
- physiognomy of imaginary subgroups of Han Chinese,
so it's saying - racism depends on perceived attractiveness or lack thereof
- physiognomy of imaginary subgroups of Han Chinese,
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I can’t get over how Barbie succeeded because it offered tangible ways for women and girls to celebrate each other (and dress up and go to the movies together) but studios thought it worked because it’s about toys so now they’re making like Bananagrams the movie
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I can’t get over how Barbie succeeded because it offered tangible ways for women and girls to celebrate each other (and dress up and go to the movies together) but studios thought it worked because it’s about toys so now they’re making like Bananagrams the movie
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How most of my therapy sessions sound
Being alive right now is trying to balance “I want to stay informed” with “this is actively destroying my mental health”
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
How most of my therapy sessions sound
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“what should we name this big bird?”
-big bird
“ok so should we name this one hairy elephant?”
-no… snuffleupagus
-big bird
“ok so should we name this one hairy elephant?”
-no… snuffleupagus
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
“what should we name this big bird?”
-big bird
“ok so should we name this one hairy elephant?”
-no… snuffleupagus
-big bird
“ok so should we name this one hairy elephant?”
-no… snuffleupagus
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
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Whatever else it can do, this tech adds work and erodes trust. The extra work is time-wasting and wearying, and I resent the erosion of trust most deeply. I cannot believe it is healthy for society to be ever less sure that anything you encounter is the real thought or expression of a fellow human
I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Whatever else it can do, this tech adds work and erodes trust. The extra work is time-wasting and wearying, and I resent the erosion of trust most deeply. I cannot believe it is healthy for society to be ever less sure that anything you encounter is the real thought or expression of a fellow human
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Billionaires shouldn't really be talking about public executions.
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Billionaires shouldn't really be talking about public executions.
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Man serious what the fuck kinda ads are running on YouTube
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Man serious what the fuck kinda ads are running on YouTube
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full offense i do not know why hillary clinton is even talking
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
full offense i do not know why hillary clinton is even talking