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Nina Berry

@ninaberry.bsky.social

Writer. Tiger. Bodysurfer. Movie maven. Hollywood cog. Prone to wander. She/her. https://bio.site/ninaberry

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Circ@tinyicecat.bsky.social · 3d ago

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

Hope For The Planet@h4tp.bsky.social · 3d ago

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 24h ago

When we win the majority, we’ll hold hearings to hold ICE, DHS, Miller, and the rest accountable for these crimes. For now, we’ll keep showing up to court-watch, to connect kids to lawyers, to support litigation, to object.

Nina Berry@ninaberry.bsky.social · 2d ago

Encountered on my walk today: a rose "bush" ... tree? Seven feet tall, and bit full of herself because of it. Okay, okay, you're beautiful. Stop fishing for compliments.

A very tall rose bush tree with pink roses clustered at the top. She's got her hands, er, branches on her hips expectantly, waiting for me to compliment her. And she's gorgeous, sure, but I was too contrary to give her what she wanted.
Nina Berry@ninaberry.bsky.social · 2d ago

Immediately change this setting in your Instagram. They're now allowing folks to use your posts to create AI ads and scams. A woman just got an ad from her bank that featured an AI version of herself, including a shot of her in bed with an AI-created man. Or delete Meta accounts. Because fuck this.

Blue Heron Farm@blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 2d ago

I found these two boxes in Instagram settings but it's definitely opt out. I turned mine off. I don't know if you've done this yet.

Nina Berry@ninaberry.bsky.social · 2d ago

I was in a Zoom event and several men crashed it, saying creepy shit to our amazing presenter. Apparently bros with no lives cruise Event Brite and crash zooms to make rude noises and be pathetic and lame. They were banned, and we all laughed at them.

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...

Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

nytimes.com

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2d ago

Smile, it’s Friday! 😃 Meet ‘The Oldest Smile in the World’ a tiny face that’s been smiling for some 7,400 years! Carved from oak during the Mesolithic, this small human figure was found in 1966 in a layer of peat during dock construction at Willemstad in the Netherlands. #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a human figure roughly carved from dark brown oak wood during the Mesolithic period about 5,400-5,300 BC. It is 12.5 cm tall with a long body with two finger-shaped indents on the right hand side (left in my photo), suggesting it was made to be held in the hand. The stylized head has deeply carved eyes, nose, and open mouth. The triangular shape of the mouth makes it look as if the figure is smiling, leading to its description as ‘The oldest smile in the world’. It is displayed against a black display case background at Landesmuseum Halle in Germany where the figure is currently on loan for the ‘Shamaness’ exhibition. It is part of the permanent collections of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, Netherlands. It was found in a layer of peat in 1966 during the construction of a dock at Willemstad, North Brabant, Netherlands.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 3d ago

Every villain has a weakness. And occasionally their weakness is turning to the camera and explaining what their weakness is and that their weakness is making themselves stupider

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.
Celeste Headlee@celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 3d ago

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

londondaily.com

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 4d ago

In response to that putrid Bret Stephens column, brilliant @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social made a whole Google Doc with buy links for all of the @nationalbook.bsky.social Prize nominees. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Bret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read them

Bret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read them, not just the SCARY PR COPY that triggered him like a snowflake. No, I won’t link this fuckshit here, because I won’t drive tra...

docs.google.com

CE (Catie) Murphy@cemurphy.bsky.social · 4d ago

About halfway through reading this I found my hand over my face and my eyes wide with horrified dismay, so, yeah, if you can help Tobias, his family, and his cats at all, this is a pretty frustrating and wretched situation they've ended up in. :/

Tobias S. Buckell@tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 4d ago

I've launched a GoFundMe to help me get my cats to a safer home in Scotland, and you can pay-what-you-want using the GFM system and get 15 of my books as eBooks as a Thank You every Friday as an update! www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho... That's almost 700,000 words of fiction, pay what you want!