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Ruth

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Writer and ASL interpreter in western Massachusetts. Pushcart nominated poet. Screenwriter. Author of YA novel, BEING FISHKILL #mglit #yalit #mapoli

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Gross

04.03.2026 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are literally running with β€œwe have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

03.03.2026 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4765    πŸ” 1022    πŸ’¬ 152    πŸ“Œ 25

Is AIPAC money in politics bad? Yes. But the Christian Right's money, power, and influence is far bigger, and they just can't wait to get Armageddon going

03.03.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 205    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7

not the point i know but this picture feels like it should be in some glossy magazine

03.03.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump is using taxpayer funds to bomb Iran while he jacks up health care costs by thousands of dollars.

03.03.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 879    πŸ” 304    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 22

None of the stated β€œreasons” for this war stack up because it’s really something completely different - a grifty fundamentalist Christian war. A commander told officers that the Iran war was β€œpart of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming”

03.03.2026 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah … definitely not a catch up technology

03.03.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."

#AIslop #refuseresist

22.02.2026 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4260    πŸ” 1601    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 99

So this means they’re tracking trans people in general, not just those who changed their information. It means they can take away anyone’s license or ID

03.03.2026 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Who needs reporters

02.03.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 963    πŸ” 222    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 7
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Community members, public officials push back against ICE expansion into metro Detroit - WDET 101.9 FM The Southfield office and planned detention center in Romulus come as the Trump administration massively increases the budget for ICE.

β€œCut the utilities, condemn the building, demo it, take it under eminent domain, whatever you can do. Make it impossible for them to use our neighborhood for a concentration camp,” he said.

β€œThis will not be solved by a harshly worded letter or resolution. We need action.”

wdet.org/2026/02/27/c...

02.03.2026 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4004    πŸ” 1332    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 54

πŸ‘ŠπŸΌ

02.03.2026 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nope. Same like no one asked us if they could use our books to β€œtrain” its product

02.03.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Temco drivers unionize despite stiff opposition β€” a first for a Home Depot subsidiary β€œWe did have management telling us that we were going to lose our jobs and would shut down.”

For the first time ever, workers at a Home Depot company have unionized.

Drivers who deliver building materials for Home Depot’s Temco subsidiary have voted to join the Teamsters.

They did so despite a vicious anti-union campaign from Home Depot and Temco.

atlantaciviccircle.org/2026/02/25/t...

02.03.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1333    πŸ” 336    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 18

WTF!!!

02.03.2026 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine how bad it’s going to be if this guy is already worried

02.03.2026 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1682    πŸ” 364    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 7

Moulton is a centrist but he’s also an opportunist. He’s only saying this because he’s running for senate against an actual progressive

02.03.2026 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And … are you against the war? Honestly can’t tell

02.03.2026 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief, organized by Powderhorn Neighbors HELP US MEET A $50,000 MATCHING GIFT! March is a critical m… Powderhorn Neighbors needs your support for Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief

Don’t feel comfortable giving money directly? Powderhorn is a South Minneapolis neighborhood that has been hit hard by ICE, and their rent fund has a $150k gap between the amount of need they have and the funds they have available. Rent is due today, please donate here to help them close that gap!

02.03.2026 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, I’m unimpressed

02.03.2026 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

excellent question

01.03.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t get why this is his red line πŸ€·πŸ½β€β™€οΈ I mean it’s good but still puzzling

01.03.2026 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One nice example of generative slop degrading quality is in auto captions for social media vids

Speech to text is getting MASSIVELY worse as it becomes more and more generative, and often it completely changes the meaning on insta, tiktok etc. That gets worse as companies squeeze compute and power

01.03.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

maybe she doesn’t understand decimal points?

01.03.2026 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So what does it mean that β€œThe Scouts” caved to Tmp’s administration in this case? Do those rules supposedly apply to the individual troops?

01.03.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am seeing an BS expert today and was going to ask this

01.03.2026 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, amazingly bad Dem take. Luckily there’s someone running against him - bsky.app/profile/deni...

01.03.2026 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a school is military infrastructure ?????

01.03.2026 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The cult that wants to give human rights to robots Anthropic’s β€˜Claude Constitution’ reflects the misanthropic, ultra-utilitarian Effective Altruism agenda.

β€œThis is an exercise in anthropomorphism. As a next-word completion engine, a transformer model like Claude is no more capable of developing a sense of self than a door handle or a radiator… Claude’s constitution oozes harmful anthropomorphism from beginning to end”

28.02.2026 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW. This is an elementary girls school in the city of Hormozgan in Iran.

In the last hour, it was hit by a US/Israeli missile attack.

So far, 24 young girls are confirmed dead [SOURCE: Al Jazeera].

The US has just committed a war crime.

(πŸŽ₯ Ary Jeay)

28.02.2026 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1603    πŸ” 937    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 163