MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

Some little cats: playful, quietly sulking, or simply enjoying a long stretch. Each has its own mood, free-spirited and a little unpredictable. There’s something so charming about cats just being themselves. #shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #pet #sketch #sketchdaily

a homemade strawberry cake

These clowns want to cede the most important decisions in comics storytelling to a fucking bot. And you know this would lead to further underpayment of artists. Boycott any book or publisher that uses this.

it's not hyperbolic to say that if the ways you talk and think about disabled/sick people (as well as the COVID precautions we may take) are indistinguishable from how fascists talk about disabled/sick people—even down to the same statements—then you have a fucking problem.

It looks like the link to donate to the Imagination Library today on DollyDay is donate.imaginationlibrary.com

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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 3d ago

“The Imagination Library is encouraging the public to give directly to their local Imagination Library Partner on Dolly Parton Day, or help establish a new program in their community” 📚 www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainmen...

raise their goddam taxes holy shit

kate conger@kateconger.com · 4d ago

Next week, Google is putting an experimental satellite into orbit that is the first step towards building A.I. data centers in space. This technology is all still very speculative, but tech leaders are increasingly adamant that this is the future of compute. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...

Elias has lost sight in one eye, we can't let him lose the other. He is a boy who is too young to lose his life to this war. This is horrific and I wish them great fortune and many donations. Let's share, do our part, offset tax dollars that were spent causing this destruction of life. #HelpSky

Help Mohammed and his famile.

Father's Urgent Call: Save Little Elias's Sight and Life

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Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · 4d ago

Imagine your child looking at you for the last time, knowing his remaining sight is slipping away. Elias already lost one eye to Gaza’s horror, and now the other is fading. I’m begging you with all my heart: please save my little boy.😭💔💔 Verified by : molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/196611

NEED MET!! Thank you to everyone who boosted!!

Astrid@curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 6d ago

🚨URGENT MA REQUEST🚨 Goal: $30 Deadline: TODAY 1pm MDT my friend Rocci is in need of gas for an interview this afternoon! The job opportunity would be incredibly helpful to him and would make a huge difference in him finding housing. CA: $roccihowweii PP: RocciHowe

UPDATE: EXTREMELY URGENT Rocci is at risk of losing his current job if he isn’t able to get the remaining $20 ASAP for gas so that he can make it to his work place! PLEASE HELP

Astrid@curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 6d ago

10/30 2 hours left!

Still no movement! please contribute if you can and BOOST!! We are almost out of time!!

Astrid@curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 5d ago

PLEASE HELP THERE IS ALMOST NO TIME LEFT AND HE NEEDS $20 STILL

STILL NOT MET, PLEASE BOOST AND HELP IF YOU CAN deadline extended to early tomorrow morning, this is urgent!!

Astrid@curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 6d ago

🚨URGENT MA REQUEST🚨 Goal: $30 Deadline: TODAY 1pm MDT my friend Rocci is in need of gas for an interview this afternoon! The job opportunity would be incredibly helpful to him and would make a huge difference in him finding housing. CA: $roccihowweii PP: RocciHowe

PLEASE HELP THERE IS ALMOST NO TIME LEFT AND HE NEEDS $20 STILL

Astrid@curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 6d ago

10/30 2 hours left!

10/30 2 hours left!

Astrid@curiouscarrottop.bsky.social · 6d ago

🚨URGENT MA REQUEST🚨 Goal: $30 Deadline: TODAY 1pm MDT my friend Rocci is in need of gas for an interview this afternoon! The job opportunity would be incredibly helpful to him and would make a huge difference in him finding housing. CA: $roccihowweii PP: RocciHowe

🚨URGENT MA REQUEST🚨 Goal: $30 Deadline: TODAY 1pm MDT my friend Rocci is in need of gas for an interview this afternoon! The job opportunity would be incredibly helpful to him and would make a huge difference in him finding housing. CA: $roccihowweii PP: RocciHowe

Past the deadline. 18 hour stall. Doesn’t make anything go away, just gets worse for me. 🤷🏾‍♀️ linktr.ee/hiitsbritt #mutualaid #bipocma #homelesssky #marequest #helpsky #fundsky 💸💕 #helpfolkslive #mutualaidvoid

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Unhoused 17 months. I'm a chronically ill Black femme surviving with my cat. Aid keeps us safe indoors & I hope it’ll help us secure a permanent home too.

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hell yea depression is pumpkin flavored now@liminalclown-e.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hi. Putting myself further in danger but don’t have a choice: $416 needed today (rescheduled appointment, pharmacy, + storage unit) $1923 weekly shelter for next week (9/19) Etc linktr.ee/hiitsbritt #mutualaid #bipocma #homelesssky #marequest #helpsky #fundsky 💸💕 #helpfolkslive #mutualaidvoid

No movement yesterday bc I wasn't here to boost. I'm sorry we have to do this again. Really hoping to hit $1300 before Tuesday. Sitting at $1130/2k Please help us make this goal.

Ouaquaga on Chenango@jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hate to ask when so many people are worse off. I'm not proud of this. My spouse's employer left without a word yesterday, and despite you all pulling together last winter to help us, we need help again. Monthly goal for now is $2k Cashapp, Paypal, venmo, BurdockAndBramble

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

47 minutes, actually lol This has not been a priority & becomes less so each week The economy shitting itself doesn’t mean stop keeping people housed, it means prioritize things that can’t wait This can’t wait & this will unjustifiably ruffle feathers despite telling the truth

💜 QUOTE POST TO UPLIFT MA! Reposts got nerfed by Bsky@hoydenspark.bsky.social · last wk.

17 HOURS STALLED. FOR SHELTER! This is an absolute travesty. Where is the #solidarity? Where are the #socialist #anarchist #communist people who believe in community care and #MutualAid when the State deliberately fails!?!? WHO WILL SAFEGUARD BRITT? Mere hours to do so Linktr.ee/hiitsbritt

PLEASE HELP BRITT!!!! Any amount helps! Boosting helps! Please don’t look away!

hell yea depression is pumpkin flavored now@liminalclown-e.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hi. Putting myself further in danger but don’t have a choice: $416 needed today (rescheduled appointment, pharmacy, + storage unit) $1923 weekly shelter for next week (9/19) Etc linktr.ee/hiitsbritt #mutualaid #bipocma #homelesssky #marequest #helpsky #fundsky 💸💕 #helpfolkslive #mutualaidvoid

So I’m going to be brave and try dancing again via a local studio that offers adult classes, with a trial class in a couple weeks, because I really want to dance again I’m nervous about being physically fit enough to keep up, but hopefully a beginner class will be doable, fun, and rewarding

🚨 9 days with zero support. Our situation is extremely bad. Here in Gaza, asking for help is not weakness; it comes after all doors were shut in our faces. We are in urgent need of assistance to provide food and basic daily essentials for my kids. Please share 🧡 tinyurl.com/2etna36k

Hi. Putting myself further in danger but don’t have a choice: $416 needed today (rescheduled appointment, pharmacy, + storage unit) $1923 weekly shelter for next week (9/19) Etc linktr.ee/hiitsbritt #mutualaid #bipocma #homelesssky #marequest #helpsky #fundsky 💸💕 #helpfolkslive #mutualaidvoid

Help us rebuild & rehouse | Linktree

Unhoused 17 months. I'm a chronically ill Black femme surviving with my cat. Aid keeps us safe indoors & I hope it’ll help us secure a permanent home too.

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Britt is asking for help with the most basic of basic needs

hell yea depression is pumpkin flavored now@liminalclown-e.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hi. Putting myself further in danger but don’t have a choice: $416 needed today (rescheduled appointment, pharmacy, + storage unit) $1923 weekly shelter for next week (9/19) Etc linktr.ee/hiitsbritt #mutualaid #bipocma #homelesssky #marequest #helpsky #fundsky 💸💕 #helpfolkslive #mutualaidvoid

💌 Message from Ahmed 💌: I am a human being just like you. Look at me with compassion. All I need is to live with dignity and freedom. Be my support and stand with me ; I am human.💔.. chuffed.org/project/1696...

Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."

I cannot overstate the power of sharing and gushing about art you like. it is *everything*

Haradoshin! 🐛@haradoshin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pro tip: you don’t have to comm artists to boost and support them. People claim they can’t support artists and creators because they are financially strapped, but they can still boost posts, comment, like, and in general just be supportive! It’s completely free outside of an internet connection ;)

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈@kennedy.northsky.social · 2w ago

That rock skipping, yes tossing stones across a pond or river, is a gender segregated sport, should tell you something about how gendered sports are not about fairness of physical ability, and is instead about the male ego

Remember Sakher?

Marion@marionv.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sakher still needs our support. Please share : "I am a human being just like you. Look at me with compassion. All I need is to live with dignity and freedom. Be my support and stand with me ; I am human.💔... chuffed.org/project/1776...