Amelia Ray

2 years ago I was ignoring my body telling me something was wrong for months & I finally fell down & broke toes in both feet.
Days later I lost my ability to walk as my nervous system tried to eject itself from my legs.
Took me a year to walk again & I’m still bad at it.

Listen. To. Your. Body.

Stop scrolling and go to bed! But first look at the comedy wildlife photo finalists from this year www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

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The Crime of Human Virtue Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." Great essay from @juliusgoat.bsky.social

Wow! This is amazing work 🤩

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

hi consumer-facing “A.i.” is a tool for racist, fascist propaganda - ban it from you lives!

I’d add a note that it is perfectly fine to buy the flytraps in little pots with plastic lids sold in places like Home Depot. Those are propagated via tissue culture and are great for learning to cultivate carnivorous plants.

And if you see a poacher, aim your kick a little higher than the shins.

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

“Advocates are particularly concerned over the facilities’ use of Pfas gas, or f-gas, which can be potent greenhouse gases, and may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought. Other f-gases turn into a type of dangerous compound that is rapidly accumulating across the globe.”

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

black and white art with the text: “opening commissions” above a simple cartoon cat face with small fangs and an open mouth. below it, the text reads “October 10th, 12pm GMT-3.”

mark your calendars! poorly drawn cats commissions will open on october 10th, 12pm (GMT-3)

everything you need is at poorlycatdraw.com and if anything’s unclear, i’ll be happy to help 💕

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

It’s All Connected….

No individual should have a billion dollars.

IF YOU SEE A BAT CRAWLING AROUND ON THE GROUND DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS, LEAVE IT ALONE. IF YOU WANT TO HELP IT CALL ANIMAL CONTROL. DO NOT APPROACH THE BAT, DO NOT TRY TO AID THE BAT ON YOUR OWN, AND FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY DO NOT BREASTFEED THE BAT. TELL YOUR FRIENDS.

I am in this post and I don't like it

Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

A warm drawing of a black cat wearing a witch hat and dressed in a coat and patchwork scarf. They sit atop an old-fashioned suitcase and hold a book and wand, with a stack of books beside them and a broom leaning against the case. Sunflowers and a signpost with a wagon symbol on it frame the background as they watch for their ride back to school.

Back to school 📚✨ #art #cats #fallart #witch

I mean, we eradicated polio and smallpox, and we *were* on the list for having eliminated measles within our borders for all intents and purposes, though that's fucked now.

The covid vaccine was a success, as well.

RFK Jr is fucking willfully ignorant and dangerous as hell.

The lettering is done in simulated sidewalk chalk. Next time you think art doesn't matter, consider how scared the fascist are of sidewalk chalk.

Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️‍🌈

NO THRONES. NO CROWNS. NO KINGS. SATURDAY, OCT. 18

Millions of Americans took to the streets in June to drown out Trump’s birthday parade.

As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on October 18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS.

We hope you will join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

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.

How to keep your phone safe from Emergency Alerts.

Steps to secure your iPhone 1. Search your settings for 'emergency alerts' 2. Turn off 'Severe alerts' and 'Emergency alerts' 3. If this does not work, contact your device manufacturer.

Steps to secure your Android: 1. Search your settings 'emergency alerts' 2. Turn off 'Severe alerts' and 'Emergency alerts' 3. On Huawei devices running EMUI 11 or older, search your settings for ‘emergency alerts’ and turn off 'Extreme threats', 'Severe threats', and 'Show amber alerts' 4. If this does not work, contact your device manufacturer.

Other mobile phones and tablets: Depending on your software version or phone manufacturer, emergency alert settings may be called different names. They could be called 'wireless emergency alerts' or 'emergency broadcasts'. You can usually find these settings in one of the following ways. - Go to 'message', then 'message settings', then 'wireless emergency alerts', then 'alert' - Go to ‘settings’, then ‘sounds’, then ‘advanced’, then ‘emergency broadcasts’ - Go to ‘settings’, then ‘general settings’, then ‘emergency alerts’ Then turn off ‘severe alerts’, ‘extreme alerts’ and ‘test alerts’.

If you have a secret or hidden phone, the government's Emergency Alerts could reveal your device, even if it's on silent or do not disturb.

The government is testing emergency alerts on Sunday 7 September. If you're worried this could reveal a phone, you can follow this guide to turn off the alerts

Impish cartoon self-portrait of the artist, a fellow with sticky-up hair and round glasses, shouts at you: You NEVER NEED TO FOLLOW ME BACK!!! I want to follow your posts, not insinuate myself into your life! BUT IF YOU DO FOLLOW BACK AND WE DEVELOP A NICE RAPPORT OVER TIME, THAT WOULD BE TOTALLY CHILL.

Reissuing this as a point of etiquette

Just a reminder: the BMI is bullshit so the "obesity epidemic" rhetoric is largely a marketing strategy from Big Diet. The BMI was designed for 1. populations, not individuals 2. based on an adult, 6ft, male. Measuring kids & women's bodies by that metric, who need different amounts of fat? No.