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The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 9h ago

Wanna help? Become a Waymaker! We're running, walking, cycling 20,000 miles in September to raise money to get immigrant kids out of detention and back with family. Someone who kayaks to work is dedicating his miles to Waymakers! A salsa dance class is counting steps! It all counts! #BeAWaymaker

what if the child has bad vibes or they're simply unpleasant to be around

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8h ago

If I had a terminal illness, my My Make A Wish request would be to sit in on an editorial meeting at this magazine www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

I always say there's no such thing as a graphic design emergency. But lo and behold, today on my day off-- an actual graphic design emergency has appeared.

This fandom is talented as hell.

Holy shit.

Reading this and can't help but think about how communities of all kinds come together in the immediate wake of disasters, politics aside. And how I've been racially slurred the hardest by a good ol' southern boy who nicely helped me pull my car out of a ditch after a storm. The future is unwritten.

molly taft@mollytaft.com · yesterday

for months, ive been trying to map out the ways the right and the left were uniting against data centers and AI both here's my story on my efforts, featuring steve bannon's anti-tech prophet, my girlfriend's high school english class, and the unabomber:

Waiting for Carville to leave the party like

Spongebob Can't Wait

Alt: Spongebob vibrating with excitement

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This is 💯 not true. It is never a choice between ‘taking big tech’s money and doing nothing’. A stronger moral imperative is NOT to take the money and the strings attached to it - particularly if you do not and cannot yet understand the implications

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

Hahahahahaha I wanted to type something here but I'm laughing too hard "could you still get through an entire workday" what the fuck, man, you just sharpied "I am incompetent" on your forehead.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 14h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Some people saw themselves getting in on the ground floor of AI in creative writing as an industry, made their lil LLCs and canva flyers, and are now mad that they had a bad idea and everyone thinks they're silly.

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

I got blocked for saying Black voters in Detroit keep voting to send the only Palestinian in Congress back to Congress 🤷🏽‍♀️

more people need to view "AI" as a dismantling of society by a handful of super wealthy pedophiles

San Antonio Express-News@expressnews.com · yesterday

KRIS 6 employees are slated to be laid off amid Scripps' plan to boost core profits by shifting toward an AI-powered newsroom model.

$1350 due in the next 7 days for August rent Leasing will not work with her again to pay at the end of the month. They WILL file for eviction. They will not accomodate for her disabilities All contributions, especially large sends help greatly. This can not stall to the final 24 hours. #mutualaid

Chris the Legendary (🚨SEE PINNED THREADS!)@dinesvisual.bsky.social · 4d ago

This gofundme is a lifeline that will help my friend enter a new chapter of stability in her life. She wont have to suffer to survive after everything she's been through. She will be able to sustain herself with the aid of community that cares to help her live. #mutualaid gofund.me/82ac47bc6

A lot of people are going to try and insist in about six hours that being outspent by tens of millions of dollars and winning by five to possibly fifteen points is actually not that big of a deal

I swear to God, proud nastiness is part of white supremacy. If you're a higher human being, you don't need to wash your hands, your ass, or your children. Whiteness (and it's adjacencies) is cleanliness.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · yesterday

Surely someone has studied our modern epidemic of conservative men with unwashed asses.

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” From the archives:

She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a B...

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Some people are really going to extremes to get your vote.

Congressional candidate arrested after Flock surveillance cameras shot at

A congressional candidate in Tennessee shot at four automated license plate readers there, say authorities there, and got four charges of felony vandalism in return. Adam Lee Heimerman, 37, of…

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"It wasn't us, it was the AI agent(s). We are not responsible" We're going to hear this kind of bullshit a lot in the near future

The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding

The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding

All over the United States, ordinary people are risking their freedom to take a stand against data centers in their communities.

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NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2010-10-06: Aurora Over Alaska #Astronomy #NASA #Space

SEASON OF THE SERPENT is the final novel in The Nameless Republic trilogy (2021-2026). It's the punchiest, twistiest, riskiest, most gut-punching, wide-ranging, experimental--& therefore the most "Suyi Book"--of the 3 so far. Out next month (Aug 18), with notes on events & book swag coming soon.

Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · 4w ago

authors you should absolutely quote post this with your fall releases, I am finding out about so many cool titles that I hadn't heard about

As always I would be thrilled for people to pick up WICKHILLS, a weird city fantaspionage (??) about a government agent assigned to look after a defector who... wait WHAT did he steal?? us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Wickhills

In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...

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Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · 4w ago

authors you should absolutely quote post this with your fall releases, I am finding out about so many cool titles that I hadn't heard about

He’s right. You should read this.

Ken Armstrong@bykenarmstrong.bsky.social · yesterday

If you read only one story today, please make it this one. Paywall is lifted. So is the registration wall. By Olivia Carville for @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social

This reminds me of the Beineke library that holds rare books and manuscripts. In the event of a fire, the oxygen is sucked out of the enclosed stacks. The warning before encountering vacuum is a bright flash of light. Don't blink too long.

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterday

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Every single nook and cranny of this country should have 5G what the fuck is this broke shit

"Why is every woman perimenopausal?? It must be the vaccines!" - a 54 year old

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterday

Cat Power is antivax

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

Y'all Amtrak's turning our train off then back on again like it's a Dell running Windows Vista.