Anne Kosseff-Jones

This is an awesome update!!

9) People are, all things considered, pretty good.

I see twenty thousand people a day, and maybe two of them are assholes. Even on a stressful day, even in an unfamiliar environment, even hungry and tired and on a timer.

That's a *much* better ratio than folks realize.

If this place goes to shit, I’ll meet you all in the Costco product reviews.

I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.

William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died on the same date (4/23/1616, also probably Shakespeare's 52nd birthday), but because England was using an old calendar system, it was actually ten days apart. Also, WS probably wrote a now-lost play based on part of Don Quixote.

Fuck: The Exasperation Hat pattern by Pam Gabriel This is a free pattern that requires knowledge of basic knitting techniques, being able to follow a graph, and to do stranded colorwork.

This has been a very popular gift hat as is, but I think swapping in ICE at strategic points would be exceptional. I’ll cast one on this week. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Oooooh!

I believe it! I am a...very very spacially challenged knitter and all attempts I've made to alter patterns have led to tragedy so I don't try anymore. I know it sort of goes against the grain of knitting to be so ignorant about the basic structures that make it work, but it's not for lack of trying!

Still on the hunt for an anti-ICE knitted hat pattern if anyone knows of one. Best I can find on Ravelry is a (very cool) dishcloth, but I'm thinking it would be fun to have something wearable to give people for this protest season.

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One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

well, I will be using that, with attribution

Who's got print-making supplies to donate in Minneapolis??

What supplies are you looking for?

"[O]ne woman, about to give birth, was put in solitary 'to muffle her screams.'"

Prisons, Prose & Protest - #31 Rants, Musings and More

Grateful for this monthly sustenance.

Permabanning an autistic user for presumed subtext he categorically denies is ableist as hell.

good thing she didn’t post it on here, this could get you banned these days.

I am not saying courts don’t matter, or that the admin will always ignore their rulings, but courts cannot do what people are asking them to do.

So person in charge of campus access assures us that the college (which demands photo IDs of minor faculty children is just where colleges are going. ppl sharing raw details of their lives to show how demeaning our policies are. See my profile description & be afraid of what's coming to you.

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

Minneapolis friends: does anybody want an Omar Fateh yard sign? We ended up with two, oops. I can deliver.

French PM Lecornu resigning after 13 hours now makes the Lecornu the shortest length to measure political time. For those of you using old measures this is 1/18 of a Scaramucci or about 1.2% of a Truss

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LSU student alleges anti-transgender discrimination after her protest arrest  • Louisiana Illuminator An LSU student who was arrested after speaking out of turn at a public meeting alleges police discriminated against her for being transgender

"An LSU student arrested last week for protesting [..] said police became hostile toward her once they learned she is transgender."

Gabriela Juárez "heard police officers discussing using ChatGPT [..] to determine what charges the students should face."
#Louisiana #USA #Policing #Incarceration

WTF? I've been on a list called "Associated with Psyops about AI" since June that appears to be going strong.

Hi there, Your Bluesky account (@carrion.bsky.social) has created a list called "Al Slop Posters" that may violate our Community Guidelines. We've temporarily hidden this list from other users because it contains one or more of these issues. - Harmful language such as insults or slurs - Unverified claims - Appears intended to shame or abuse users

the wise admins of bluesky have decided that creating a moderation list of AI slop posters is a no no

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Allies, support the elders

WELCOME BACK. I am so sorry that Bluesky is shitty and antisemitic!!