As a way to enjoy my tablet I had to buy when the old one was discontinued, I have begun a series of images for anyone to use…including so-called ai. Please share widely without attribution. #Greenland
Ruth Spanos
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She/her. Mom of a college student. Wife. School Speech-Language Pathologist. Small town Mayor. Grateful for my life and lack of attention from the world at large. Opinions totally my own. Wish I could make the world better for everyone.
The War on Terror began 25 years ago today, when Congress passed the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force. Only one member of Congress had the courage and foresight to oppose this blank check for forever wars: Barbara Lee.
Really confusing that it comes so closely on the heels of the Star Trek anniversary, they could maybe have been more considerate with the timing.
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
I am old enough to remember the same nonsense said about boxing.
Les Bowen, still@lesbowen.bsky.social · last mo.You know, I covered an NFL team for 20 years. There are some good things about football. Most of them are present in any team sport. You don’t have to be any mentally tougher or more athletic to play football than basketball, hockey, soccer. I’m not sure concussions really “prepare us for war.”
This seems like a seriously terrible and dangerous idea, that wouldn’t work except to endanger yourself. At the same time, having supposed law enforcement officers refusing to wear uniforms or badges is an even more terrible and dangerous idea. And is endangering all of us.
Patton Oswalt@pattonoswalt.bsky.social · last mo.Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
And you shouldn’t have to do the same thing every time you visit the same web site or different web sites for that matter. They’re playing the odds and waiting for you to mess up.
"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."
The more serious the real problems are, the more ludicrous the fake, manufactured problems become.
This darning technique rebuilds the knit stitch by stitch instead of patching over it, leaving sweaters and socks looking untouched.
And perhaps the person already deep inside a conspiracy is not even the most important audience. The person standing near the entrance may matter more. Someone encountering the manipulation for the first time, before it becomes part of their identity.
It means they’re really desperate for a distraction from the incompetence and corruption.
NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoAdvocates for ending birthright citizenship point to "birth tourism" schemes to argue that the legal principle is ripe for exploitation and threatens national security. Experts say it's not so simple.
The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
My own pattern for a shoe bag. It’s designed for tap/clogging shoes and was made as a gift. #ShowMeYourKnits
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
Weird to cast the guy who is the same age as Scrooge (or older) in a prequel for the story. Is this the story of the month before the events in the Christmas Carol?
cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 2mo agoJohnny Depp starring in the movie nobody wants about a guy everybody hates and nobody cares about is so funny that it feels like an insult that Johnny Depp was too stupid to pick up on
Our Supreme Court majority apparently read A Christmas Carol and thought Scrooge was the hero up until the end.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 3mo agoan unhoused man was recently arrested for "felony camping" & it's telling imo that, once he was released from custody, he went right back to the park where he sleeps turns out when you put a homeless person in jail, they're *still homeless* when they leave jail! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
"When they wake up they will find All their personal belongings Have intertwined" - Paul Simon
Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 3mo ago
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
The Princess Bride - Bye Bye Boys!
ALT: The Princess Bride - Bye Bye Boys!
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Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 3mo agoStop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
Whole chapter in J Weisberg's upcoming "Profiles in Cowardice" about many times Mitch M changed arc-of-history for the worse—worst of all by sinking post-Jan-6 impeachment vote. If Mitch is still reading papers, obits for Lindsey G give him a preview of how he'll be remembered. (See also: Roy Cohn)
Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.
Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · 3mo agoRead this. It’s a big deal. www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/m...
Commentary: Before one of the Trump-backed “Freedom Trucks” rolls into the Ohio State Fair at the end of the month, state leaders should demand that the roving 18-wheeler museum, created by right-wing propagandists, includes a disclaimer about bias ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/09/o...
Ohio State Fair will feature 'Freedom Trucks' passing off right-wing propaganda as American history • Ohio Capital Journal
Before one of the Trump-backed “Freedom Trucks” rolls into the Ohio State Fair at the end of the month, state leaders should demand that the roving 18-wheeler museum, created by right-wing…
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I just want to say, while we’re on the subject: ALL of our youth sports, in one way or another, are too expensive & have too high of a barriers of entry - not just soccer. + we should reform our youth sports not with the goal to win a mWC, but with the goal to provide opps to play for all kids
This was my greatest eureka moment in my teens. I finally internalized that people had dedicated their lives to treading paths for the next generation to follow. And that the whole point of society is to ensure we don't have to eternally reinvent the same basic shit.
Perhaps firing the most driven public servants from their jobs will result in a government run by driven public servants?
Brant Reeves@bireeves95.bsky.social · 3mo agoCome on South Carolina’s District One, Vote Lacore for Congress in November…..
