dendriti
@dendriti.bsky.social
American Muslim just trying to deal with it.
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In Summer 2021, I put a pinhole solar camera on the tower of St John's college in Cambridge, UK to image the Sun's path. This was the result!
Each separate arc is a day, and over time you slowly reveal the pattern that the Sun follows over the course of a year 🌞🔭🧪
Each separate arc is a day, and over time you slowly reveal the pattern that the Sun follows over the course of a year 🌞🔭🧪
December 1, 2024 at 11:10 AM
In Summer 2021, I put a pinhole solar camera on the tower of St John's college in Cambridge, UK to image the Sun's path. This was the result!
Each separate arc is a day, and over time you slowly reveal the pattern that the Sun follows over the course of a year 🌞🔭🧪
Each separate arc is a day, and over time you slowly reveal the pattern that the Sun follows over the course of a year 🌞🔭🧪
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Bad portraits of non-rich people.
A lot of phonetically rendered accents. A lot of comments on coarseness and ugliness, often assumed to be inborn rather than the result of worse access to healthy food, dentistry, skincare etc. 5/
A lot of phonetically rendered accents. A lot of comments on coarseness and ugliness, often assumed to be inborn rather than the result of worse access to healthy food, dentistry, skincare etc. 5/
December 1, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Bad portraits of non-rich people.
A lot of phonetically rendered accents. A lot of comments on coarseness and ugliness, often assumed to be inborn rather than the result of worse access to healthy food, dentistry, skincare etc. 5/
A lot of phonetically rendered accents. A lot of comments on coarseness and ugliness, often assumed to be inborn rather than the result of worse access to healthy food, dentistry, skincare etc. 5/
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Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
November 25, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
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This is an ignorant and toxic and wrong-minded framing in both the short term and the long term, in every particular and as a whole, failed before it even begins as either strategy and tactic, and is I believe the core reason Democratic leadership has failed us so badly.
November 24, 2024 at 11:21 AM
This is an ignorant and toxic and wrong-minded framing in both the short term and the long term, in every particular and as a whole, failed before it even begins as either strategy and tactic, and is I believe the core reason Democratic leadership has failed us so badly.
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Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
November 22, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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When you post "AI"-generated content, you're making a statement, whether you intend to or not.
You're telling us that you don't care about artists, original work, or even the very planet we live on.
Ultimately, this is the message you're sharing with the world:
"Nothing important matters to me."
You're telling us that you don't care about artists, original work, or even the very planet we live on.
Ultimately, this is the message you're sharing with the world:
"Nothing important matters to me."
November 21, 2024 at 11:17 AM
When you post "AI"-generated content, you're making a statement, whether you intend to or not.
You're telling us that you don't care about artists, original work, or even the very planet we live on.
Ultimately, this is the message you're sharing with the world:
"Nothing important matters to me."
You're telling us that you don't care about artists, original work, or even the very planet we live on.
Ultimately, this is the message you're sharing with the world:
"Nothing important matters to me."
"Hey kids! There's a magical world from your favorite game hidden at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft." - Minecraft Movie
November 20, 2024 at 11:29 PM
"Hey kids! There's a magical world from your favorite game hidden at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft." - Minecraft Movie
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“Substack is, just as a reminder, a political project made by extremists with a goal of normalizing a radical, hateful agenda by co-opting well-intentioned creators' work in service of cross-promoting attacks on the vulnerable.”
November 20, 2024 at 4:04 AM
“Substack is, just as a reminder, a political project made by extremists with a goal of normalizing a radical, hateful agenda by co-opting well-intentioned creators' work in service of cross-promoting attacks on the vulnerable.”
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Heads up everyone - this means they hate how well the blocklists work, which is amazing. But also time to be discerning about which lists you subscribe to.
This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.
Do you know who is running this list? Reason for asking is they copied this account's lists verbatim, but do not say who is running their account.
November 18, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Heads up everyone - this means they hate how well the blocklists work, which is amazing. But also time to be discerning about which lists you subscribe to.
Went to a BBQ place yesterday and the waitress shouted back to the kitchen "It's for a Mat Salleh (White foreigner)" and I'm still processing what this could possibly mean.
November 15, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Went to a BBQ place yesterday and the waitress shouted back to the kitchen "It's for a Mat Salleh (White foreigner)" and I'm still processing what this could possibly mean.
Peak globalization. Thanksgiving merch in Malaysia, where we only have two seasons, hot and wet.
November 12, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Peak globalization. Thanksgiving merch in Malaysia, where we only have two seasons, hot and wet.
Watching the first episode of the Ranma 1/2 remake with my son was a MISTAKE. Did not expect full frontal.
November 12, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Watching the first episode of the Ranma 1/2 remake with my son was a MISTAKE. Did not expect full frontal.
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President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Tom Homan, former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will serve as “border czar” in his incoming administration.
Trump announces former ICE chief Tom Homan will be ‘border czar’
Trump said Tom Homan, former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will have a role related to the border and deportation of undocumented immigrants.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2024 at 12:17 PM
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Tom Homan, former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will serve as “border czar” in his incoming administration.
As an American Muslim with a foreign spouse and children, hearing my mother who voted for Trump say "He didn't mean them" re the Muslim ban.... So depressing
November 10, 2024 at 1:46 PM
As an American Muslim with a foreign spouse and children, hearing my mother who voted for Trump say "He didn't mean them" re the Muslim ban.... So depressing
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Apparently, blocking people here means you are completely removed from their feed and vice versa.
A *real* hard block.
Just FYI
A *real* hard block.
Just FYI
Folks, beware of invading trolls. Report them, block them, use blocklists.
Yelling at them is pointless. It's what they want.
Yelling at them is pointless. It's what they want.
November 10, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Apparently, blocking people here means you are completely removed from their feed and vice versa.
A *real* hard block.
Just FYI
A *real* hard block.
Just FYI
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Is there an immigration/border starter pack yet?
November 10, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Is there an immigration/border starter pack yet?
I find myself tapping reply on an insightful post, just to end up restating it (but worse) and deleting my reply. The backwards swipe of shame.
November 10, 2024 at 4:04 AM
I find myself tapping reply on an insightful post, just to end up restating it (but worse) and deleting my reply. The backwards swipe of shame.
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Evergreen. Partisan colors perceptions of performance.
Lots of people are about to radically change their view of how the economy is doing
November 8, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Evergreen. Partisan colors perceptions of performance.
As a White Muslim, I've heard some variation on "He doesn't mean YOU" a dozen times since Trump's first Muslim ban. Yes but he DOES mean my visible minority wife and children.
Being One of the Good Ones doesn't protect your family.
Being One of the Good Ones doesn't protect your family.
October 30, 2024 at 10:27 AM
As a White Muslim, I've heard some variation on "He doesn't mean YOU" a dozen times since Trump's first Muslim ban. Yes but he DOES mean my visible minority wife and children.
Being One of the Good Ones doesn't protect your family.
Being One of the Good Ones doesn't protect your family.
Everyone learning today that Jon Stewart was a smug little puppet with an entire writing room worth of hands up his ass. He's never been worth a damn on his own.
October 29, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Everyone learning today that Jon Stewart was a smug little puppet with an entire writing room worth of hands up his ass. He's never been worth a damn on his own.
Only 37% of eligible Americans voted in all three federal elections from 2018-2022. Why single out Muslim voters, who make up around 1% of the electorate?
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
1. Voter turnout, 2018-2022
American Trends Panel: Pew Research Center’s online probability survey panel, which consists of more than 12,000 adults who take two to three surveys each
www.pewresearch.org
October 24, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Only 37% of eligible Americans voted in all three federal elections from 2018-2022. Why single out Muslim voters, who make up around 1% of the electorate?
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...