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Sarah 🌹🐦‍🔥🐉🌹
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Writer, editor, amateur artist with a penchant to argue on why u should care abt Art & Sharks. Also, tea & cats make up the bulk of my personality & im not sorry.
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Samuel Schellink (painter) for Rozenburg (manufacturer, Netherlands)
Eggshell porcelain vase with polychrome #crab & reef decor, model 90, c.1900
freemansauction.com/auctions/642...
#ArtNouveau #Japonisme
December 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
If u can, pls consider it.
@violetdragonfire.bsky.social 🙏
Hello dear

Any support or donation you provide during these difficult times helps us survive and gives us hope and strength♥️🙏
December 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Considering where this is, good chance it's 100% serious. In case y'all dont know, the wiccan community is also engaging in what can only be described as anti-fa magick. Whether u believe in it or not, it's worth noting.

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December 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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It now has a little pot 🪴

Because I was mesmerised by the absolutely wild purple colour of this plant and I bought it today, this little guy will now be known as “The Solstice Tree”!
December 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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The internet COULD have been a place where we become enlightened.

The Age of Information.

Instead, algorithms gave us feedback loops of our opinions. Telling us what we wanted to hear & giving us more confidence in disinformation than ever.

Throwing us into a full-blown crisis of ignorance. 🧵
December 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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👉 NEW -- Westminster group was funded by Israeli government, inquiry confirms

by Martin Williams

An official probe was sparked by Declassified's investigation into a weapons firm

www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-...
Westminster group was funded by Israeli government, inquiry confirms
Official probe was sparked by Declassified investigation into weapons firm
www.declassifieduk.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Donations is less than before and we are halfway let all of us share to reach everyone can help ❤️‍🩹🫂
The genocide in Gaza has ended, and I found myself without a home, without a city, and everything around me past, present, and perhaps future is destroyed. I am trying to rebuild my life, and I hope you will support me, even in a small way.

chuffed.org/project/1389...
Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!
Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...
chuffed.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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This is one of the reasons I find universities’ uncritical embrace of gAI so troubling.
We’re inviting the wolf into our midst, they seek permanent customers in terms of enthralled staff, faculty and students incapable of working without LLMs at least, and worst, they seek complete dominance.
What if I told you undermining the faith in our academic institutions is one of the goals of the techbroligarchy.

It's a feature not a bug.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A. I. works like any venture capitalist: it sounds rly smart by using verbose volcab & essay-like grammar without actually saying anything at all. It's trying to induce a desired result in u, to get u to invest your time, not to actually serve u a quality product that can actually help u.
December 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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“Generative AI chatbots are a probabilistic technology that can make mistakes, hallucinate false information & tell users what they want to hear. But when they present as humanlike, users ‘attribute higher credibility’ to the info they provide, research has found.”🧪
About to go on my first true work-free vacation of 2025 (I hope)! This is one of my final stories for the year, about the extremely humanlike chatbots we've been given and whether they should be that way.

Happy holidays, here's a gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...
Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
They wont stop bitching abt the birthrate yet actively support policies that garantee dead kids.

I cant wait for these guys to age out of Earth participation. Cant be much longer with a complexion like that.
December 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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#PPOD: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula... 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Not enough of us are privy to the fact that there is currently a lot of infighting amongst all the most powerful & morally bankrupt companies, families, governments etc. we can think of.

They are NOT doing well, no matter what u hear. So don't let up.
December 19, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Nope. Instead, they are pleading, 'just stop it, she's already dead!'
The world alternates between laughing and crying. Neither in a good way.
December 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Trump’s DOJ is hellbent on accessing our private voter information—Social Security numbers, party affiliation, driver's licenses—resulting in what experts warn would be a gold mine for hackers.

“It's a hacker's dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere.”
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Bear scribe at work!

BL Egerton MS 3277; the 'Bohun Psalter'; 14th century; England; f.13v
December 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Of all the stone birds and animals I have seen this week, I think this handsome and sacred baboon is my favourite.
December 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Wonderful ancient Egyptian lion, from the Middle Kingdom, painted on the walls of a tomb in the Valley of the Nobles. #egyptiananimals - and they clearly knew exactly what a lion looked like. I saw him this morning. Wonderful!
December 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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And an equally wonderful hare, again from the Valley of the Nobles, again seen this morning after a brave burrowing down multiple flights of steep stairs in a deep rock tomb (my idea of horror, but I was brave). #egyptiananimals
December 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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🐉 Here's a dragon to cleanse the timeline 🏔️

"Hidden Gate of the Mountain"
#watercolor #gouache #art #dragons #painting
December 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Yup. WE ARE THE FLOOD GUYS.
Don't say "it will die in the senate"

Say "I will kill it in the senate"

And then call them. It takes so few calls, comparatively, to make it feel like a wave crashing over them. We need to be the wave, again and again.
December 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Spiral Mutation 🌀 (work in progress)
December 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM