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@mommunism.bsky.social Day 621 of the war We still alive. Today is harder than usual🥹 We’re in the middle of war,displaced & the tent we live in is barely holding.Food & water counted drop by drop🥹 I need $200 to buy some food & basic essentials. <If just 10 people donate $20 each, truly grateful>❤️‍🩹

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 5 hours ago • 349 comments

Another new purchase from a local #independentbookshop Last Chance Books in Leeds. There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I know we all know this but it’s always so important to remember that transphobes who claim to fight for women’s equality generally proceed from the belief that women are inferior to men across the board they wouldn’t treat trans women like they had cheat codes if they respected cis women’s skills!

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

The state deliberately withdrawing care from minors with no clear rationale, no justifications beyond ideology and no actual care for those impacted and harmed is the real abuse of children. It is ABUSIVE to deprive children of healthcare they need, simply to appease corrupt and zealous fanatics.

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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? The biggest factor in how well your therapy/ counselling works is how well you get on with your therapist.

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News just in from local 3 Yr olds: eating raspberries give you Power Ups to do Super Things. It stops working after 4 berries though.

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"...to settle for the absence of tension instead of the presence of justice"

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whew. submitted a response to the EHRC consultation. what a stupid thing to do on a sunny morning. if you are going to do the same, i found this guidance helpful (not least the bit on not trying to answer every question): www.scottishtrans.org/wp-content/u...

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"The incident was the latest in nearly daily mass deaths of Palestinians who were seeking aid in past weeks, including near sites operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."

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I did too much yesterday and I feel pants today. I felt fine at the time but I knew I was going to pay for it and chose to do it anyway. I still have to do things today and it feels like a challenge. This constant balancing act is itself exhausting.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Please take a moment to read 🙏 My family of 8 in Gaza has been suffering for 16 months. We lost our home and my sick father. We now live in a tent with no food, no clean water, and no safety. 💔 We can't survive without your help. Please share and donate 🫂 gofund.me/d62a1777

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Emad. Emad was studying electrical engineering before the war. He’s lost his home and 44 members of his family. He is trying to help his sisters’ children who have lost a father Asim, 7, Hanan, 6, Zeina, 4, Omar, 2, Belal, 2 and Ali, 1.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I see time and again, from women I know and women online, who when asked to define their gender, what it is to be "a woman" give some description of a shared experience of misogyny, sexism and oppression under patriarchy. 🧵1

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is one of those books I want to read because it's interesting and important, but also, I really don't want to read because I know it's going to be a rough ride.

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We Palestinians are punished for demanding freedom, an end to genocide, and saving those of us still alive. Our accounts are silenced for exposing injustice, hunger, and war. AI doesn’t fight hateit silences truth. Please help us survive. We need you.🙏 #freedom

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Cat posting

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One of the books I got this week from The Whitby Bookshop: Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson. I absolutely do judge a book by its cover and this is gorgeous. Plus I'm a sucker for mysteries set in Yorkshire. Lovely shop, well worth a visit. #indiebookshop #booksky

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The worst part of losing my e-reader today is that I was half way through a book!

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I have described aspects of my gender and being nonbinary as "trying to find a hat that fits". Since I experience my gender as linked to my neurodivergence then I just conclude that life is one big dressing room disaster.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Hey bluesky nerds! If you like sci fi written by trans women you'll love Blue Sky Nine (title unrelated to platform), a comedy about a future where Australia looks to the stars for new sources of coal and work for the dole placements. Follow for development news & please boost to find our audience!

submitted 194 days ago • 3 comments

And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’ ‘It’s a lot more complicated than that—’ 'No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth.' -Terry Pratchett

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