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Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

Um, no?

And thus things changed irrevocably for Bambi.

Good Trailcams@goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 8h ago

I was once a temp at Zipporah Films, that of the late Fred Wiseman. My duties were mostly breaking down boxes. SO many boxes. I forget what they were for, probably shipping film canisters but I don't remember that, I just remember stomping on stacks and stacks of boxes every day for like 6 months.

SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · yesterday

Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."

Conservatives are not fighting for the right to do whatever the hell they want bc clearly they already can. They are fighting for their right to be given a gold star and a pat on the head and a ticker-tape parade for it, and will accept nothing less.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · yesterday

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

…I’ve seen the arc of the earth, From the Birsay shore, like the edge of a planet, And the lifeboat plunge through the Pentland Firth To a cosmic tide with the men that man it. —Robert Rendall, “Angle of Vision” from The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (EUP, 2005) #RNLI #poem

Ruth Watson@ruthwatson.eurosky.social · yesterday

The courage of those who set out to save those at risk of drowning can never be overestimated. Each rescue is a challenge. I used to watch the Orkney lifeboat head out into rough seas with my heart in my mouth. Remarkable bravery. Donate to the #RNLI here: shop.rnli.org/products/don...

Real footage of me trying to market my extremely dark book that will give you the sads in a market that favors happy stories:

Every single damn day men kill their family members, including an incident just last week where a man in MT killed 8 members of his family — 4 of them children. But you barely heard a peep about it in the national conversation. Men killing their families is so common there’s a name for it… 1/

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d ago

The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.

How nice to know there are still people in the world who are principled and determined enough to stop maritime traffic and threaten mass suicide in defense of their god-given right to be utter dickheads to brown people

No, here's an even better one: every year from ages 5-15 my whole family would go to see the Steve Miller Band. We stopped going bc my parents finally realized that actually, neither of them liked Steve Miller; mom had been doing it for dad, dad had been doing it for mom, we kids had had no choice.

Craig Jenkins@craigsj.bsky.social · last wk.

it's always "list some bands you've seen" but then you never hear anything memorable about the experiences

My dad drove a friend and I to see NIN and Bowie in Cleveland. Dad got so *very* high from secondhand smoke that he bought a book from a Hare Krishna in the parking lot. Next morning he insisted it never happened but the book was on his nightstand, as if he'd been up late reading it.

Craig Jenkins@craigsj.bsky.social · last wk.

it's always "list some bands you've seen" but then you never hear anything memorable about the experiences

Ron Howard Narrator Voice [one year later]: They didn't do any of it.

@unpersoned.bsky.social · 3d ago

If Dems don't do this, they will have failed us entirely.

If you live in Leeds, have friends/ family in Leeds, like Leeds, have visited Leeds, had lunch there once, agree that oxygen and water are important for life, or are otherwise eligible to sign this petition, you should sign it. Look up "data centers US health impacts" first, if you want to.

Sam Garvan@garvansam.bsky.social · 3d ago

Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

B-but y'all... what if the Torment Nexxus has feewings? 🥺👉👈

☀️@vamospeat.bsky.social · 5d ago

if there was ever an absolutely perfect example of why you shouldn’t use LLMs and AI heavily bc of what it does to your brain, this post is it

Even cartoon villainy is rarely this nakedly spiteful

NOTUS@notus.com · 4d ago

HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility

Anne Carson does such a wonderful job here of capturing exactly why Rosalía makes me intensely uncomfortable in a way weirdly similar to how looking at a picture of the Heaven's Gate guy makes me uncomfortable. (They're gonna kick me out of the country for saying that, but there it is.)

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 5d ago

‘The white crinolines. The shrieking. So much to understand.’ Anne Carson goes to see Rosalía: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Yay! I got my first Spanish write-up. If you DO speak Spanish, then: they really liked it. If you DON'T speak Spanish, then: they LOVED it, worship it, said it was criminally overlooked during awards season

La traición de Christopher Marlowe, de Hesse Phillips: el poeta que sabía demasiado – El Placer de la Lectura

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Tried the dialect map thing but I didn't like my results so I'm not sharing them. I call foul anyway bc it never asked me whether it's pronounced WAH-shington or WARSH-ington, this is SW Pennsylvania erasure.

Utterly fascinated. Slightly horrified. Surprisingly moved. "What the show provocatively suggests is that creativity is something far more basic, something cellular rather than intellectual. Art is ‘cerebral’, but not in the way we might expect."

Patrick Stokes@patrickstokes.com · 2w ago

Me in ArtsHub on Revivification, an unsettling yet surprisingly moving exhibition that raises complex questions about identity, postmortem agency, and the nature of creativity itself.

LOL

Pop Base@popbase.tv · 5d ago

ChatGPT, Claude & Grok are currently down, according to users.

When I went in for The Chop I kept seeing the word "irreversible" pop up everywhere, in every single document I had to sign. I thought, "Uh, no? Because implants?" It didn't even occur to me that they were talking about breastfeeding, lol. Bc that's not what MY boobs were FOR.

Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social · 6d ago

The fact that this post had to remind me that Halloween exists and is in fact coming soon is PROOF that I have entirely too much on my plate this month 🫠

Reina (she/her)@reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 6d ago

21 days until we're rolling in the pumpkins

This is a big deal and I haven’t seen much talk about it

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is genocidal rhetoric from the president of the United States. Trump explicitly stated that if Dems win the midterms, “Transgender will never end.” The stated goal of the president of the United States and his party is to make transgender people “end.”

KILL IT WITH KNIVES KILL IT WITH HAMMERS KILL IT WITH BAZOOKAS, GOOD GOD JUST KILL IT DEAD FOREVER *sound on at your own risk*

Abbey@abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

Yes, but is it normal for your Creative Hangover to last approximately four months and make you feel like stuffing an entire bedsheet into your mouth until it pops out of your eye-sockets, just to feel something again?

Katherine Firth@katherinefirth.bsky.social · last wk.

We used to call it ‘post show blues’ when I was in theatre groups. Researchers call it ‘Creative Hangover’—so you are not at all alone. Rest and hydrate and best of luck with the move! hyperallergic.com/suffering-fr...

¡Ya esta aquí! Buscad LA TRAICIÓN DE CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE en vuestra librería de preferencia. Yo sé que Bluesky no es el sitio optimo para promocionar tu libro, pero hice este video con todas mis esfuerzas lingüísticas y, por Dios, voy a compartirlo.

Wtf I have just now seen 2 separate indie author accounts posting video of obviously AI-generated "book bloggers" spouting glowing reviews of their books. Times are tough but come ON. Come the fuck ON.

Stopped me in my tracks.

Vincent van Gogh@vangogh.bsky.social · last wk.

Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap - 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13636

[To Sheila Lanyon, on the Flyleaf of a Book] W.S. Graham Inscribed on a copy of THE WHITE THRESHOLD belonging to Sheila Lanyon. Dated June 18 1966, the “second summer” is the second since her husband’s death, after a gliding accident, on August 31 1964 #poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...