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🐸🏳️🌈 Twitter-ex-pat, art, music, travel (sigh) politics...such as they currently are. 🐸 🐸Oh and that thing called the Constitution. Gird yer loins ya'll. This is gonna be a bumpy fight. 🏳️🌈 (NO DMs.)🐸
The Oroboros of "conservative media. Eating their own to swallow up viewers they need to subsist. At the same time being hardly dissimilar. They all are cookie cutter rage-baiters.
Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 2h agoLaura Loomer: "Nothing serious comes out of Fox News. Okay? It's basically TV for stupid people. It's TV for stupid people."
Mira Schendel, Untitled from the series Splints (Sarrafos), 1987 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137158
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Is Mike Johnson going to throw some more Bible verses at us today while continuing to back Max Miller?
Footprint fossils are important because they reveal the size of the animals that made them, their movement, and animal behavior. The 44,000 pounds of footprints collected at this site in Wyoming tell the story of tyrannosaurs ambushing a herd of hadrosaurs as they approached the river to drink.
I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w agoA quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
The cult of Mamdani is now giving him credit for Summer Streets? A program started under Mike Bloomberg that's been going on since 2008? 😂😂😂
Each of these incidents in a heavily Jewish Queens neighborhood was alarming to learn about. Now the same person has been charged in both — one of them as a hate crime — putting the speeding-vehicle death of journalist Cara Trager in a new and chilling light.
Man charged in car crash that killed Jewish journalist vandalized a Jewish business days before
A fatal car crash, an unsolved murder and attacks on Jewish establishments have put a Queens community on edge
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And don't forget to check out the first research published on the Melsonby Hoards too! doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain - Volume 100 Issue 411
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Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d ago‘Chariots, Treasure and Power: Secrets of the Melsonby Hoard’ Fantastic Yorkshire Museum exhibition showcasing some of the 800+ artefacts from the UK’s largest Iron Age metalwork hoard! So many beautifully crafted bronze objects decorated with coral, glass, and enamel! Do visit! 📷 me #Archaeology
The museum is closing its Beach Street location while staff decide what to do next.
SF Cartoon Art Museum closes weeks after former curator's arrest
The museum is closing its Beach Street location while staff decide what to do next.
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Author Foster Hirsch & photographer Daniel Sackheim at LF3 last week for our SUDDEN FEAR (1952) screening + “The City Unseen” book signing 📷🌃
So that AI company that had that messed up ad campaign telling biz to stop hiring humans appears to be flying a banner over SF saying they're sorry? 🤷♂️
Q: You’ve been Republicans for most of your voting lives. Who’s voting for James Talarico? Republican moms: *all raise their hands* “I like him. I want a middle school teacher who’s like, hey, this is broken. Somebody needs to fix it. Why not me?”
They attempting to head off his stock market manipulation tactic this morning? www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...
Iran Denies It’s in Talks with US — Hours After Trump Teased ‘Imminent’ Deal
The statement came hours after Trump said negotiations would start Monday "afternoon" and focus on reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
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T20 Directors List. Weir Mankowicz Sturgis Wilder Spielberg Campion Frears Cukor Amaldovar Wyler Hitchcock Kubrick Lean Altman Carpenter Russell Schlesinger Villanueva Fosse
Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 5d agoOk I decided to make a T20 directors list. Peter Weir Wes Anderson Paolo Sorrentino Spielberg Coen Brothers Fincher Todd Haynes Sofia Coppola Linklater Villeneuve Nolan Tarantino Francis Ford Coppola Paul Thomas Anderson Rob Reiner Kubrick Soderbergh Scorsese Spike Lee John Hughes
A whale spine visible on the bed of a lake in Svalbard, Norway, an Arctic archipelago that was a whaling hub in the 1600s https://sinapti.ca/post/en/the-spine-of-a-whale-found-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake-in-svalba-dsfzwfl0
The Kiss of the Muse (c. 1859–1860) is Cézanne’s copy of Félix Frillié’s 1857 original, made during his early years in Aix. It shows how the young artist developed his craft through imitation before his later Paris period.
The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was buried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle.
Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
The New York Times reports the U.S. dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a family home in Iran, killing a husband, wife, and their 2-year-old son. The paper found no indication of a nearby military target.
Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians (Gift Article)
The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.
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