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This is absolutely BRILLIANT

They didn't listen to our feedback, now we need to ESCALATE

Bsky is at 3.4⭐ - let's see how quick we can tank that!

Don't know what to write?

Copy/paste mine or use it as a starting point!

#SaveSpeech #BskyCensorship

Federal officers took 11 Democratic officials into custody inside a federal building in Lower Manhattan after the group demanded entry to Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cells where migrants were being detained.

The ‘blue dragon’ is back from the brink | CNN Habitat loss and invasive cats and dogs pushed blue iguanas to the brink of extinction. Now, thanks to ongoing conservation efforts, populations are on the rise.

Blue iguana climbs back from the brink. Grand Cayman’s blue iguana, once down to fewer than 25 individuals, now numbers more than 1,000 in the wild. Captive breeding, habitat restoration and community engagement reversed what was nearly a Caribbean extinction. CNN buff.ly/GKiJpcz
#ShareGoodNewsToo

The case raises a disturbing question: if these deportations weren’t actually requested by the families, what exactly did Trump intend to do with all these children once they were removed from U.S. soil?

Another federal judge has dealt Trump a legal setback, over the government’s treatment of migrant children. The court blocked his administration from quietly flying hundreds of Guatemalan kids out of the country under the pretense of “family reunification.”

"and Magda Goebbells made a great strudel"

We as a country are painfully relearning the lesson the Brits, the French and other Western European countries had to learn in 1939, appeasing fascists not only never works, it only emboldens them.

Reminds me of this quote from Doc Holiday in Tombstone.

"A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it"

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

#freedomofspeech
#democracy
#nofacism

Thank you, Representative Robert Garcia! As the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, he announced plans to open an investigation into both the Trump administration and ABC following the network’s decision (under FCC pressure) to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely.

It's just a reminder that in the regime's view there's no such thing as "one of the good ones." Are you a skilled specialist? Surprise vacation in a cell. Are you going through the proper legal channels? Get snatched right out of the courthouse. Were you actually born here but you're brown? Nope.

S Korean employees at Tennessee GM Ultium factory, making LG batteries for GM electric vehicles, mostly left the USA. They’d used the same visas & waivers that Hyundai employees had in Georgia.

Curious if Taiwanese at TSMC chip fab in AZ are making escape plans…

www.reuters.com/business/aut...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

- After the piece ran, that person admitted they weren’t sure about those details.
- The Guardian then removed the quotes and added a note explaining the correction.

huge dragon (only the head visible) resting in a body of water in a forest. Lots of vines and tree branches dangling down, a stream running over its head and a great white egret taking off from the water next to it.

a mermaid with a pink tail resting on a rock and leaning back on her hands as her tail comes out of the water. In the background is a lagoon and some cliffs and further back the hint of a waterfall

a precarious tall hill with a wizard's house sitting on top of it with a wisp of smoke coming out of the chimney. It is dusk and all the windows are yellow with the light from inside.

a large winged blue dragon prepares to land on a nest with two baby blue dragons waiting in the nest for their dinner.

It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
www.emilyhare.co.uk

I just need to explain for non lawyers: the Trump Regime is indicting a trans lawyer who works on trans issues for a queer org because he is a trans lawyer who works on trans issues for a queer org.

If this works? They won't stop with Charles.

A digital illustration of Balor, from Fields of Mistria, set against a solid magenta background. Balor is depicted from the neck up in his spring outfit. He's looking at the viewer with one eye, and is holding up a large blue sapphire over his other eye. The sapphire sparkles intensely, casting refracted light across him. Across the top is written "BALOR" and in the bottom left corner is the artist's watermark: a logo, and text reading "ART BY MK/RET @RETQUITS".

BALOR 💎

#art ✧ #fieldsofmistria

Would you try a see through jacket? 🪼

The combined cost of Satoshi Kon's work was $7,030,000 ($12.3 million with inflation)

Perfect Blue: $830,000 ($1.7 million)
Millennium Actress: $1.2 million ($2.2 million)
Tokyo Godfathers: $2.4 million ($4.2 million)
Paprika: $2.6 million ($4.2 million)

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

I despise how hard YouTube actively fucks over its users and creators at every turn.

Be sure to check your devices (Yes, plural DEVICE(S), because they’ve made it per device not just account), and make sure this setting is OFF!

It’s potentially hiding thousands of videos from you.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Linehan adde: 'You're trying to make out I'm a bigot because I believe in women's rights and oppose men trying to intimidate and bully women.' He said Ms Brooks has been involved in trans activism since 2013. Prosecutor Julia Faure Walker said Ms Brooks would have been six years old at that time. 'So he says,' Linehan replied. Ms Faure Walker said that Ms Brooks' driving licence proves she is 18. 'If you can lie about your name and sex you can lie about anything,' Linehan replied.

Transphobia is a unique sort of bigotry that just absolutely cooks the online brain. Holding it nearly always results in an inability to ever admit you’re wrong about anything and exponentially increases the likelihood of believing in a cascade of ever dumber conspiracies and fascist ideology

Microsoft software engineer found dead at office; family makes plea to tech companies “That will probably save a life.”

Crunch KILLS people, I'm not sure how many times we need to tell companies this. Companies need to be held accountable for these kind of things. www.kiro7.com/news/trendin...

Someone's already gotten started

we did it folks

Warner Bros is suing AI company Midjourney for alleged copyright infringement

• The lawsuit cites multiple AI-generated examples of Batman and other iconic characters

• WB is seeking $150K per infringed work

• They argue generating copyrighted characters is a 'clear draw' for Midjourney users