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taratearex 📚🌌
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Reading books and talking about disability justice 📚☕️🍉😷🌈
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taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · Jan 27
I'm posting a lot about alt text because I know a lot of folks are new to bluesky and aren't used to using it, but it's something early bluesky users made an effort to establish as the norm here. Please do your best to use alt text! It helps so many and also helps your posts get to more people! 🫶
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haymarketbooks.org
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities. We center these tradi...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
taratearex.bsky.social
It’s gotten to the point where my family writes “no books” on their wishlist if I get them for secret Santa 😂 doesn’t mean I’ll listen tho 🤷🏻 thankfully my niece is very into books so I can still buy someone a book and they’ll be happy about it 😂
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Some of the most successful resistance to "AI" is coming in the form of communities organizing against data centers, precisely on the grounds of their impact on local water and electrical grids.

@karenhao.bsky.social documents this extensively in Empire of AI

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Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657508 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times Notable Book • An Instant New York Times Bestseller “A bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley but around the world . . . With Empire of AI,...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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riotousmuse.bsky.social
Minneapolis, whatcha got?

A friend of mine is hosting a weekly "book club" that's mostly eating & gabbing & crafting.

Another friend has hosted probably a year of monthly coffee open houses.

I have been noodling on some kind of monthly Thing.

Connecting with more of our immediate neighbors...
mskellymhayes.bsky.social Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h
People are struggling. I want us to think about how we're going to help each other hang in there this winter. How are you going to support your friends, co-strugglers, and community as they push through this moment? How can you help people muddle through, materially and/or emotionally?
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
taratearex.bsky.social
Bought the wrong jackfruit so now I have to leave the house 😩😩😩 I did also want to get my hold from the library but ugh
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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gautambhatia88.bsky.social
The folks at Alter Mag have done a brilliant job with this, turning it into an interactive essay with some stunning 3D graphics. Give it a look. 👇🏼
gautambhatia88.bsky.social Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 5d
Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.

“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —

altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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themattmcd.bsky.social
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
taratearex.bsky.social
High pain day so I called in sick which is great cuz it’s hard to work when I’m in a lot of pain but also doesn’t really do anything because I’m still in pain and resting or sleeping doesn’t help 😩 but like I’m glad I don’t have to talk to anyone at work
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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hbcompass.bsky.social
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
taratearex.bsky.social
Went to the library then walked down the street to a bookstore I don’t usually go to but wanted to look for a card for someone. Briefly looked around and saw they had a special edition of Harry Potter on their suggested gifts for the holidays table, promptly walked right out 🤮
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
taratearex.bsky.social
Live feeds of animals is one of those "the internet can be good actually" things. I love the jelly cam www.youtube.com/live/NUnJc82...
Live Jelly Cam - Monterey Bay Aquarium
YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
taratearex.bsky.social
desperately trying to finish the book Enshitification before I have a nervous breakdown because it's pissing me off so much 😵‍💫 it's basically about how tech companies are fucking terrible, which yeah no shit, but man hearing the history of how they started to what they are now, is so enraging
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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astrokatie.com
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
taratearex.bsky.social
starting a draft of my top ten fiction and nonfiction reads even though i ALWAYS end up reading some bangers at the end of the year. so it's just a draft to get started for now
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Alternatives are local food pantries, homeless shelters, and domestic violence shelters, as well as your local mutual aids.
raynegrimm.bsky.social Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · Oct 20
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
A I age showing a typical collection bucket for the salvation army which is read with a lid holding mechanism on a tripod holder. There is a big stop/do not symbol over the hand depositing money with the words "we don't donate to the Bigot bucket" over the bottom bucket section
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
taratearex.bsky.social
9am training is cruel and unusual punishment
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
taratearex.bsky.social
every single meeting at work is now just a bitch session... that can't be good! 😖
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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nicasio.bsky.social
Let's.
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
Steven and Alice smiling and holding each other’s books
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”
April 19, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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sgj.bsky.social
All the fuss:
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
taratearex.bsky.social
I'm in an AI training required at work (aka my personal hell) and after they listed all the things AI can do, someone asked in the chat "Ok but can it do any of that correctly?" and moderators deleted it! 🙃 I fucking hate it here. Asking about error rate is a legit fucking question jfc
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
taratearex.bsky.social
the post office did not scan the book i mailed for pango and now i have to stress out hoping it gets there when i have no tracking 😖
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM