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The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Crisis lines that do not call police:

• Blackline: 800-604-5841 (BI&POC, LGBTQ)

• Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860 (US)

• Wildflower Alliance Peer Support:
888-407-4515

• StrongHearts Native Helpline:
844-762-8483 (Indigenous People)

• Thrive: 313-662-8209 (Trans-led)

• LGBT Help: 888-843-4564

On such a weird schedule this week due to partner's training at new job. Gotta get up at 4:30 tomorrow again. But we stay silly

A picture of various formline stickers piled on top of each other. In bold red gradient text reads "Indigenous People's Day Art Share".

Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!

#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤

Cops are a protection racket for the rich that are subsidized by the taxes of those who derive no benefit from them. Any theory of "law enforcement" that assumes a difference between cops and mafia enforcers is hopelessly naive.

Help me survive while I'm trying to navigate the disability application system pretty please?

CA is $jayysyl

A small aquarium with blue gravel, a cow skull, and several plants, both submerged and emerging

The same aquarium as the first photo but from the top, where you can see the filter and the emerging plants

I might be bad at sleeping but I'm pretty good at plants

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Night before last I couldn't sleep til 2, had to get up at 4:30. Caught a nap yesterday, but last night / this morning I am... sarcastic drumroll... still awake. Bleh.

Pros: the best breakfast sandwich I've ever had, and my bf sleeps cute

a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

SquidFacts.net

Go check out the best book I've read in a very long while, you won't regret it

@kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social @ashmcgonigal.com prepare for an influx of pots for Aloe sometime in the next several weeks 👀 maybe I went overboard but I think you'll like em. One of them cries!

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

Mmmmmmm what an afternoon delight it would be for the Epstein Files to be released right now

people who built bsky:
-trans women (bsky protects jesse singal)
-Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism)
-SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK)
-organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse)
-artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

The solution to homelessness is not forced institutionalizations.

It’s social supports. Healthcare. Housing. Education. Harm reduction. A universal basic income.

Anyone can become homeless at any time. It’s not a personal failing.

We must fix it together.

while I nodded, cartwheel slapping / on the stage, some double-tapping / harsh vox not unlike rapping, yet not rapping, to be sure / ok that's enough of this

this morning I was awoken at 5:45 by a three year old who wanted to know “if today is the last day of the future”

Good morning, Citizens! Dark Summer continues for the foreseeable future. Stay hydrated and dream of sweater weather.

Noisy, hungry frogs sadden farmer's life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt.

Become ungovernable

Hey [search engine] how do I explain to a doctor how I got poked in the eye with a pineapple leaf

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

pretty little owl ⭐️🌙

A large white fungus loosely resembling a droopy willow tree, with a trunk and thick white fleshy fronds flowing downwards. One of the branches has a swing attached upon which an isopod sits. The scene is garnished with various lichens and mosses.

from under the Bear tooth head fungus (I wish that mushroom had a catchier name)

thread

It's rude of today not to be Friday

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books

I really haven't done my due diligence wrt RAP Ferriera. Listening back to Purple Moonlight Pages, probably gonna go through his other stuff after.