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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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The weather is grim, global news is grimmer - so here’s a gentle video of the sea lapping calmly on the shore at Lulworth Cove one warm June evening #Dorset

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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Jack Kirby, forty-nine years ago:

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Maybe an unpopular opinion, but the training ruined his face… there can be too much bulking up and Hollywood’s obsession with dehydrating men and giving them impossible bodies cannot end soon enough

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Please help if you can

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“We are never going to stop existing. I’m never going to stop being trans. A letter on a passport can’t change that, fuck this administration.” — Hunter Schafer on uniting with trans people against Trump’s administration.

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Elon and Trump show how wrong sci-fi writers have been about villains. They are always making them evil geniuses, but it is now clear that sheer stupidity is a core trait of these types of villains. Without stupidity they would be totally different people, and never would have risen as such.

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And she’s right

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More praise for Spain's socialist-led coalition government. Turns out refugees are good for the economy. Who knew?🙄

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I wish people would just move here and make X even less valuable than it already is

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Sancho Panza: “No son molinos, señor, que son culazos” 🤦

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DEMOCRATIC governor Josh Shapiro gave a whole budget speech lasting an hour and 30 minutes with the primary theme we are making government “move at the speed of business”. Ladies and gentlemen may I present to you government moving at the speed of business.

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Me: tries to do literally the simplest, lightest chore in the house My pregnant ass: aaaand here’s ✨EXHAUSTION✨

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Go read a book.

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Authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book (or, in this case, book-in-progress) “The girl shuddered and took her last breath, staring up into those vivid, flint-like Valkyrie eyes through the gathering dark of death.”

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Happy Valentine's Day, language friends! #linguistics #singularthey #valentines

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From today's protest at Stonewall. The first pride was a riot. Credit: @bonnjny.bsky.social

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no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

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I've thought about this a lot.

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Walking in to NASA’s JPL today as a woman in science leadership felt almost like a protest. They can take us off the webpages and the walls, but we will still be here, absolutely crushing it, and supporting our community while we do it. Happy International Day of Women in Science, everyone.

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can't believe lost records: bloom & rage is coming out literally next tuesday... i've been working on this game with dontnod for a long time now (narrative design!), and it's been so awesome. i can't wait for ya'll to meet these girls <3 wishlist and info here! woooooo dont-nod.com/en/games/los...

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Something the young folks all around the world who are voting for the far-right will discover soon is that fascists in power = death. And not just for poor innocent people miles away from your ordinary first world life. No, they eventually catch up with you

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Oh so they’re openly going for the booksellers now. Booksellers. Let that sink in. Israel is targeting bookshops. How did we become so cruel, so corrupt, so indifferent? #freepalestine

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🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴 Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists. If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter. openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...

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One of my favorite games of all time, Wing Commander IV, turns 29 years old today. The gameplay is solid, the cast is insanely star studded for a 90s video game and, the story of the fascist subversion of democracy due to gatekeepers being sleep at the wheel is, well, timely. You can check it on GOG

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Fascists always seek to remake arts and culture because these are the spaces that incubate freedom of expression, liberation of identity and openness of mind.

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They used to do this with communists, Jews, women, black people… now they’re targeting trans youth because unfortunately they’re defenseless in most cases. Make no mistake, this is a reiteration of the Neimöller poem. We need to protect trans people at all costs cause they’re coming for all of us

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Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

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