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mara-iara.bsky.social
love to spin a yarn. nudging the odd thing into order. fighting sleep since my fontanelle closed. 🇳🇬
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My dear friend Alaa asked me to post this video of her sweet twins for Eid. Imagine celebrating Passover in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany That is *exactly* what is happening to hundreds of thousands of Gazan children right now for Eid. Please donate if you can and share if you can't.

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Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking. Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors

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This 🤝

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"The ocean is one of our greatest allies in the fight against the climate crisis. To argue for using deep-sea mining to solve the climate crisis is like smoking to lower your stress." time.com/7290414/deep...

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terrified to feel optimistic about anything but god, Zohran really is so good

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These feckers have already made off with my last almost-five-decades' worth of creative output to try to "teach" their hopped-up answering machine how to fake writing. If anyone ever *breathed* the suggestion to me that I should willingly use that soi-disant "tool"...it would not go well for them.

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Memphis’ own @keshaunpearson.bsky.social appears in an interview on @aaronparnas.bsky.social substack, fighting for the rights of Memphians to have clean air and water. These are under attack by xAI, Elon Musk’s parasitic company. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

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By the way, I'm the most progress-oriented, science and tech fascinated person you'll ever meet. This "AI" nonsense isn't driven by love of progress. It's driven by billionaires who find paying human beings to be bothersome and are trying to find a way to bring back slavery without starting a war.

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MASK UP!!

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the sheer brass neck of trying this line when fucking DISNEY lost in court trying it...

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“This production makes that queerness explicit, reclaiming the story through the lived experiences of trans and nonbinary artists.” #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/28/s...

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MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

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Lovely piece in @thecut.com profiling Noor, the wife of Mahmoud Khalil is being forced to raise their son alone while he languishes in ICE custody. Give it a click, give it a read, give it a comment of support (the Zios found this article) www.thecut.com/article/mahm...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

If Sully Sullenberger had hit a bird, Randy Johnson style, the streets would have descended into chaos

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my goals

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I have a new fundraiser with the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. Last year I raised a cumulative $120,000 over three campaigns for the PCRF. My birthday is this Saturday and I would like to raise $15,000 by the end of the week.

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Hope we can get word out that this family needs urgent support. I'm grateful every day that I see them but I'm also increasingly worried that we won't because the situation is getting more dire.

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Speechless. Thank you so much. We are very, very close.

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mutual aid request: i will be discharged tomorrow and i don't have a place to go to. could i ask for $150+ to reserve a room for a few days so that i can figure out what my next move is? please? this is very time sensitive 🚨 ko-fi.com/rebekamash

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When I was in my twenties, I was repeatedly denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I might “meet a man who wants kids”. I was left completely disabled, forced to undergo six surgeries, multiple blood & iron transfusions to preserve a diseased uterus for a HYPOTHETICAL child. 🧵

submitted 20 days ago • 85 comments

We def should be discussing more of what we like, than what we do not like.

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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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I think it’s kind of interesting that so many cultural and political elites decided “learning loss” from remote schooling during a pandemic was so severe it was worth ignoring medical safety, while actual learning loss from AI is pervasive and growing and they all want to impose more of it on us.

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