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Athelind Llewellyn Long, Dragon At Large, Hoard Potato. Born on the Cusp of the Boom and Gen X, I am nevertheless The World's Oldest Millennial. Pronouns He/Him or They/Them; I am large, I contain multitudes. Queer, Here, Get Used To It
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Pet parrots were taught to do video calls, and it was a hit. The birds not only made friends with each other, and selected who they wanted to call and when, but also picked up new skills from fellow parrots. Good enrichment option for improving captive parrot welfare. 🧪🦜 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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DND team Drew this a year ago

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Warehouse workers at Bergen Logistics, a luxury fashion fulfillment center, are fighting to unionize. While workers package $1,200 pieces of clothing, the company has cut back on benefits, ignored injuries, and refused measures that would reduce dangerous workloads. Solidarity.

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Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm! For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste) Need to find your representatives? Here you go: 5calls.org

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Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! www.404media.co/republicans-...

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Awful stuff from the Post. Combination of factors: All the editorial board members with anything resembling principles have left Of those who remain, Megan McArdle is a big transphobe; don’t know about the others Will Lewis is ex-Telegraph and thinks transphobia is good business

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For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

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holy SHIT you need to watch this video notice what happens about 14 seconds in (trust me, you'll see it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...

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We’ve become so desensitized to corruption that the Attorney General who spent years lobbying on behalf of Qatar approved a private jet gift from Qatar and it’s not even in the top 10 scandals of the week.

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“you just gotta flip it around” - @catwithbowl.bsky.social #FWA2025

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"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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NEW: The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI. The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard. futurism.com/soundcloud-a...

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Somewhere in the back of my head a little voice is pounding on the table and gleefully chanting MAGA ANTIPOPE MAGA ANTIPOPE MAGA ANTIPOPE

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Looks like we need to add yet another category to the Venn Diagram. www.tumblr.com/capricorn-0m...

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new pope! *crowd goes wild* American pope! *crowd boos* woke for an American! *crowd goes wild* bad on protecting abusive priests! *crowd boos* hates JD Vance! *crowd goes wild*

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citation needed

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applying for jobs again

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So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim! Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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For all the teachers returning to the classroom:

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You ever bump into that one person at the party?

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I was very happy with the overwhelmingly positive response to this dumb joke. I do want to design more medieval fursonas for fun haha if you have a particularly weird depiction send it my way to be inspired and terrified

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I feel seen

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In case you need to send this to some dingus the next time they bring up how using AI is fine + good, actually.

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Pity that it's the CONSERVATIVES behind the latest Recall Newsom effort.

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I’m embarrassed you were ever my governor.

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Hey, who wants something nice? So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have found that getting vaccinated against shingles- a painful and debilitating condition that can flare up years after infection from varicella zoster virus- not only LOWERS the risk of infection, but can also PROTECT against dementia. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

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