Leena

Illustration of a bunch of Mako Sharks. The colors used are white and blue with gradients

Mako Sharks 🦈
#sharks #art

Trump’s Troop Deployment to Los Angeles Violated Federal Law, Judge Rules A federal judge sided with state officials who contend the operation violated a 19th-century law barring the U.S. military from undertaking domestic law enforcement.

President Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles violated the law, a federal judge ruled.

Vogue has a new editor (sort of) Chloe Malle, editor of Vogue.com, is now head of editorial content at American Vogue, succeeding Anna Wintour in a seemingly diminished role.

Anna Wintour announced that Vogue has a new leader in charge of its American flagship publication: Chloe Malle, currently the editor of Vogue.com

Teachers are spending more and more on school supplies. Here's why. | Alabama Reflector While covering the cost of classroom supplies is a challenge educators face annually, the price of many learning materials has jumped by 20 percent in roughly five years.

Via @nadrakn.bsky.social and @19thnews.org: While covering the cost of classroom supplies is a challenge educators face annually, the burden on them has grown as the price of many learning materials has jumped by 20 percent in roughly five years.

Scientists call Energy Department climate report riddled with errors The scientists' rebuttal could surface in litigation.

Dozens of scientists today released a rebuttal of the Energy Department's climate report, saying it was riddled with errors.

German culture official: MFE pledges to uphold ProSieben's editorial independence Germany's commissioner for culture said on Tuesday he was given MediaForEurope's (MFE) reassurance that takeover target ProSiebenSat.1 would keep its editorial independence and be able to strengthen its German broadcasting operations.

German culture official: MFE pledges to uphold ProSieben's editorial independence reut.rs/4p3J5w4

Polish CEO apologizes for snatching Kamil Majchrzak’s hat away from child at U.S. Open "I became caught up in the heat of the moment and the joy of the victory," the man said after video of the incident went viral.

From @theathletic.com: A Polish CEO apologized for snatching tennis player Kamil Majchrzak’s game-worn hat away from a child at the U.S. Open.

New Texas Map Starts Game of Political Musical Chairs GOP’s Trumped-up redrawing took a wrecking ball to congressional districts. Now comes the mad dash for seats.

Last week: GOP’s Trumped-up redrawing took a wrecking ball to congressional districts. Now comes the mad dash for seats.

Swarm of bees kill woman in savage attack with another rushed to hospital

A woman has died hours after being stung by a swarm of bees.

Screenshot of the Advocate article headline showing an image of bluesky's logo and JKR, with the title "Outcry grows after multiple trans uers were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire"

Screenshot of tumblr text post by fourohfourlifenotfound August 24 part 1/3: "If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens. And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage. So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here). The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time."

Text post part 2/3: "The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content. Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself. This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now."

Text post part 3/3: "How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging. But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them. " Response by drtanner: "Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven't personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it's extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can't convince people to fight with them and whose posts don't gain any traction because they're blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal. It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening. "

Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice

tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist

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Anil Chaitya Vangad, The Warli Net (acrylic on canvas, 2022)

Skully with a bouquet of flowers jetting out from the top of his head

In My Head

#Art by Micah Ulrich

An image with three little animal travellers: a wren in a blue cloak, a woodmouse in a green coat, and a mole in a red knitted sweater. The writing on the image says: Draw* this in your style (arrows to the three travellers). 1. Pick a traveller 2. Make some art* 3. Quote this/tag me * Any art you make yourself! (no AI)

To celebrate reaching one 1k followers here, I wanted to host a little #DTIYS challenge/art giveaway featuring the three little travellers 🌱

I will pick 2-3 participants to receive a custom drawing of a new traveller from me 🎨

More info, dates, and rules in the comments 💛

#cuteart #art

One of the classroom skeleton, whose sadly been mauled by children. But he's still got a smile on his face

As part of the 1K followers celebration, here's 10 years of improvement for my art! ❤️

On the left is the very first sketch(!) I did of Meiri back in 2015, and on the right is current year!

Back when she was young, naive, innocent, and still human- 🫠
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#art #oc #ocart #ocsky #sketch #rkgk #redraw

Some of my favourites from the last year of these little studies

A small colour drawing of a little blue tit bird sitting on a branch that is covered in white blossom. The drawing has a pink background and is on grey pastel paper. A colourful mix of blue, yellow, white and green makes the Blue Tit one of our most attractive and most recognisable garden visitors. An original art work Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper 5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm). Sold unframed

In ornithology Blue Tits fall into the official scientific category of borbs. You can find this rounded fellow in my Folksy shop…
folksy.com/items/8547927

#Bluetit #birds 🦉 #borb #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm

2024 dnd character commission inside a wooden frame, an archway is drawn by a ball of yarn. a statue of a winged cat with a flaming sword gestures to a painting of a snowy cabin. tea, books, and other offerings sit at the altar.

altarpiece for an ascended cleric (2024)

My painting DEVIL’S SLIDE

Do you want Nazis? Because that's how you get Nazis We left racist jam on the bench, and now we're surprising at the line of nazi ants marching into our lives

wrote this in 2017. Turns out australia got nazis

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federal consumer protection is dead and the impact will be generational

Lol

Ummm looks pretty 🤩😍
#oc #pfp #art #bksy
#commission #furry
#sketch 🤩😻🥰

Looks pretty 😍

Leena_beck , text me

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Hello! Btw I'm new here at #bsky

I'm Leena

Well I'm an a commission artist🌈✍🏻💕