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Government censorship in our national parks violates the very ideals our country was built on – and undermines the mission of the National Park Service. NPCA and @democracyforward.org are suing. Learn more 🔗 https://bit.ly/4rqbpK6

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop

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The ever increasing tension between what we know is happening and the facade we are being forced to prop up is going to have very severe psychological consequences on everyone at a pretty high rate. The dissonance is crushing and intentionally so. This is the true banality of fascism

This morning, our world lost a giant in Reverend Jesse Jackson. So many of us have the indelible black-and-white still images of Rev. Jackson fighting for justice in the Civil Rights Movement committed to memory. But keeping him there doesn’t do him justice. Rev. Jackson moved in living color, leaving his mark over decades of world history. He marched with Dr. King in tireless pursuit of voting rights and civil rights for Black Americans. He ran for president and forever changed the face of electoral politics, giving a voice to the overlooked and unheard. He flew around the globe as a humanitarian, chasing injustice across oceans and borders. He fought for the poverty stricken in rural America, and the poor living in our cities. He worked on behalf of farmers and labor unions. He protested for student rights and advocated for humane treatment of immigrants.

Whether you were imprisoned by injustice or indignity, he was there to remind you, ‘I am somebody.’ And time and time again, Rev. Jackson stood at the front, putting his own life at risk in an effort to liberate millions more. He lived his faith, driven by a moral conviction that civil rights, human rights, and economic justice together created a big tent that had room for everyone. Rev. Jackson prepared generations to carry the torch forward. And at a time when our nation’s conscience doesn’t always speak as loudly as it should, and many of the fights that Rev. Jackson fought are still ongoing, his example shows us that the way to keep hope alive for enduring justice is through the work we’re willing to do for it. My prayers are with my House colleague Rep. Jonathan Jackson and the entire Jackson family.

Today, we lost a giant. Rev. Jesse Jackson dedicated his life to justice, dignity, and expanding who belongs in our democracy. We honor his legacy by carrying the work forward. Praying for Rep. Jonathan Jackson and the entire Jackson family.

I hate vacuuming, so I love mine. Great on hard floors, not so great on carpet. I check for cables and cat toys before running it, and regular detangling required because I have long hair. Tip: first few runs, clear as much off floor as possible to ensure good map generated.

The best response to this would be to organise a second event so that more of us could buy tickets.

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

AI:DR IT'S AI, I DIDN'T READ IT I'm only interested in what humans have to say

Long Covid, long consequences: study highlights condition's devastating impact - TFN Study lays bare the financial, employment and social security impacts

From My Friend @elisaperego78.bsky.social

"The cost of doing nothing"

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Compulsory sexuality, a source of stress and harassment throughout my life.

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

"lurk /ləːk/

verb

be or remain hidden so as to wait in ambush for someone or something."

Technically, I suppose, crocodiles CAN and DO lurk, but can they really remain hidden in a puddle? And what's to say s/he isn't just having a nap or the equivalent of a spa day, keeping their skin moist? 😜

Taking Tone Policing To A Whole New Level.

All this anger is so unbecoming. It's below the line. We must reduce our animosity to the slaughter and destruction of an entire people because it upsets the small number of people too heartless to share it - whose views are obviously worth more than ours

Totally overwhelmed by what’s happening in the world? Feel like it’s all too much to take in? Have you tried fainting? It’s the cheap, fun way to give a hard pass on everything. The hours and days will fly by. Give reality the finger. Try fainting.

Second note found by police after tragic double murder-suicide

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People of all ages, races, religions & genders come together in solidarity, against oppression on stolen land.

We do not welcome racist supremacist hate to our country.

Join your local protest against Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia on Feb 9.

More towns TBC. Please share.

YouTube video by Big Desert Dingo Research Wyperfeld National Park Bushfire 2026

The Wyperfeld fire was massive, severe & likely devastating for many wildlife, including Wilkerr (dingoes). Approved access & footage from @bigdesertdingo.bsky.social gives some insight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiU1...

To support our recovery efforts, please visit engage.deakin.edu.au/give?fund=141

This! Read this! We need to protect Medicare in Australia.

Type "Tony Abbott budgie smugglers" into a search engine and you'll see just how close they were.

⚠️ WARNING: our former Prime Minister is highly toxic, and should be viewed with extreme caution. Side effects include nausea, vomiting, overwhelming desire to blind oneself / hurl phone off a cliff. ⚠️

Hell yeah, they do! But unfortunately, in our world of confirmation bias / group think, not everyone recognises our appreciates them as strengths.

And those of us that do are dismissed as too negative, spiralling, catastrophising. However, I just learned that two people I know in Cairns are actively preparing for societal breakdown. One of whom I've long joked would be my go to in a zombie apocalypse. I need to move back up there.

If you're interested in how extratropical lows are changing in Australia as the world warms, there's a short summary of some recent research on the BoM website: www.bom.gov.au/news-and-med...

Herzog invited to visit Australia by Albanese after signing his name on bombs that will kill more Palestinians.

Well (and truly) done.

Here we go again.

‘I had Clive Palmer do the … ads’: Trump lieutenant’s Australian election claim revealed in Epstein files Trump ally Steve Bannon told paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 he had influenced an omnipresent election advertising campaign by the mining billionaire.

Steve Bannon interfered in the 2019 Australian federal election, as part of a global effort to stifle climate action.

He should face investigation under Australia’s foreign interference laws.

#auspol

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And Covid is still causing millions more deaths thru heart attacks & strokes, and more slowly thru liver disease, organ damage, cancer etc—with no acknowledgment to their connection to Covid. Most people will never know as long as Public Health is muzzled by govts protecting economy instead of us 😷

At least 5 times: MASH, Fawlty Towers, Northern Exposure, Blackadder, The Vicar of Dibley, Coupling, Tales of the City, Spaced, The Book Club, The IT Crowd, Doctor Who (Tennant & Smith eras) Community, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Musketeers, The Durrells, Derry Girls, Ted Lasso, Heartstopper

I have a sudden urge to rewatch / reread His Dark Materials.