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Call 515-281-5211 and urge Gov Reynolds to veto this bill

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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

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Just got word that @yecidortega.bsky.social may be missing at the moment. If you have any info on his whereabouts, do get in touch at the email on the flier!

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

‘So walk again, to the end of the forgotten field, there is water down there, somewhere’ James McConachie’s ‘Mestre’ from Consolamentum. Get this book!! @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...

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The question I am really struggling with right now is: What is "law & order" and the entire American constitutional order for if it isn't a Go Directly to Jail card for guys like Donald Trump and Elon Musk for doing exactly what they're doing right now?

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What a musician and person

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What in the ever loving… Unfollow @adamgolding.bsky.social Make sure this ass doesn’t take any kind of office

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@mayoroliviachow.ca Are you really considering this??? And you call yourself progressive?? www.readthemaple.com/the-business...

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It is so bewildering that a transpanic over sports was the tip of the spear that ended in a bill to literally eliminate the word "gender" from the Iowa Civil Rights Code. If I hear one more person use sports as a justification for actual legal discrimination I'm going to lose my goddamn mind.

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Even though I've turned this "feature" off, this ghostly prompt shows up every time I start a new document in MSWord and each time if fills me afresh with anger that, if my mood is wrong, edges towards rage. If I smash my computer display seeing someday, I blame @microsoft.com CEO Satya Nadella.

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youtu.be/OPgo6s1lBbw

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Despite Doug Ford’s scandals, cuts to public services, and corporate handouts, he keeps winning. What’s his secret? Ahead of the next Ontario election, @desmondcole.bsky.social breaks down the formula to Doug Ford’s success. Watch now: breachmedia.ca/how-doug-for...

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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

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NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

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If I open one more program I need to do my job and I’m suddenly being forced to deal with AI taking over every blank text field so I can’t write, paste, or edit, I can’t be held responsible for my actions. And none of the instructions to disable it work, even the workarounds. This is infuriating.

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In 2015, a study showed that 1.6 million students attended schools that had a cop, but not a counselor. Schools are overly surveilled + overly policed. AI is an extension of this surveillance + policing. On that note, kids: do not ever say anything about your mental health to AI.

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begging my fellow Canadians to stop falling for the trap of nationalism when it comes to American-Canadian politics

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If you see signs like this... here's what you do. The kids are alright.

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Empathy and kindness are not weaknesses, they’re acts of solidarity and resistance

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Private bookmarks is a feed that lets you save bookmarks privately. Nobody knows what you bookmarked and you'll stop leaving those red pins 📌 all over Bluesky. 🧵 This thread explains how to use it 🧵

submitted 40 days ago • 36 comments

Wow

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“Now that I think about it, he [Pierre Poilievre] reminds me a lot of Ted Cruz.” That’s it. That’s exactly it. Now that I see it, I’m never going to be able to unsee it.

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

Oh look! It’s my color!

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May I present some ways that we might ask for our users' sex/gender on our forms in order to comply with new EOs: codepen.io/buttermilkbi...

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cc Pierre Poilievre

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

DELIGHTFUL AND TRUE ❤️

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The degree to which AI is useful is not separable from the ethics of AI because everything AI can do has been at the cost of ethics. It isn't distinct at all. You might as well say, "Yeah, I know neoliberalism is bad, but check out all this cool stuff I can buy for cheap!" Not distinct.

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Just completed an online Psychological First Aid course offered through Canadian Red Cross. Plenty of useful reminders about responding to people in various forms of crisis. www.redcross.ca/training-and...

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Just 9 days left… Throughout February I’ve walked 1km a day, in memory of my mum, & to support @dementiauk.bsky.social If you’d like to support Dementia UK’s vital work, helping people affected by Dementia, please click on the link. Thank you 🙂‍↕️ www.facebook.com/donate/20014...

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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🐆🥣😳 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

submitted 12 days ago • 582 comments

This is beautiful. And absolutely true.

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when using the lying hallucination machine to do your work for you, be sure to check and see if what it has produced is garbage

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