Kitty Chandler

Dolly Parton's sister Freida is asking for prayers for the country music icon amid the singer's string of health issues. "Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn't been feeling her best lately," Freida wrote via Facebook alongside a photo of Dolly on Tuesday. "I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me."

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I wish I could say it was an original idea but I’ve seen a story of someone doing just that on… tumblr, I think. So it came to mind. 😂

As a comms pro- bravo on this thread. This is how you communicate this sort of thing.

So, checked the records back to May. A single session of 47 minutes, all less than 37 otherwise, some as low as 15 minutes, all billed at the full hour per aetna.

We got a shitshow on our hands.

FFS.

I am going to be so pissed off if NOW is when we lose Dolly Parton.

USE THE CHICKEN PAPER. USE THE CHICKEN PAPER. isotropic.org/papers/chick...

Could you twist it shut and use a bread clip to close it?

You know that quote that says "The only piece of technology I have in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize"?

Don't trust printers.

And one they should teach in tech programs. So programmers and developers can work with QA and each other if nothing else.

I came to tech from an education in the humanities and a long-standing hobby of fucking around with computer languages, and I don't think I properly appreciated how much tech folks don't get trained in How To Talk And Write About What I'm Doing until I started teching professionally.

I think what he means is they don't contribute to the dataset the AI uses, but what he's actually saying is "Tech People Take Some Goddamn Communications Courses Fucking Hell."

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

What a waste of several good fortunes.

... someone MARRIED her?

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

this is so fucking gross i don’t even have words to process how fucking gross it is

I wonder if history has any lessons about what happens when large concentrations of armed soldiery stop getting paid.

On a background of someone holding Amazon branded packages, a headline: "Prime Day Is Back. And even if you don't need more stuff, these deals are hard to skip."

Not in the least bit kidding, that headline's been pissing me off for a week.

Meanwhile, in another headline: "You May Not Need More Stuff But Here's How You Can Buy A Bunch Of Shit You Don't Need From Amazon And Contribute To Unnecessary Shipping Waste And Climate Killing Carbon"

Retrieval operations necessary?

I have a modest proposal to address the Bluesky toxicity crisis.

First, we find a big boat.

Second? We get it stuck in a canal.

It's not coincidental that a white dude can be a transphobic piece of shit over and over again (JS) and maintain his social media platform but a Black man makes one questionable joke about a white dude who called for the euthanasia of queer people being killed and the Black dude gets full nuked.

TREE LAW! TREE LAW! TREE LAW!

Yes they did. What we're seeing here is the beginning of the "I was never a (real) supporter" backtracking so they don't have to shoulder any blame for where we are.

They'll all eventually do this, including Republicans in office. We cannot let them live it down. Ever.

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Into the garbage chute, flyboy.

also just feels important to point out that after a whole wave of trans users were suspended for pointing out JK Rowling’s transphobia, now apparently we are suspending Jewish users for pointing out Christian Zionists’ antisemitism

the pattern is, uh

not subtle

it is genuinely shocking how much rage @jay.bsky.team and the devs seem to have for their user base. suspending Erin Biba over an old post just because she’s been criticizing you is deeply fucked up. fix this shit.