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so do not raise me; speak your meanings low

30+F / project manager / therapist / aspiring writer with burnout

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Well all the people who say “we need to hire the most qualified people” are getting a chance to run things and it turns out they aren’t qualified to shovel shit into a bucket.
December 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.

Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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started / going
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Oof. Super disappointing, as a person who has loved Owlcat's work in the past.
December 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Can you spread the word about weaintbuyingit.com? This is one of the easiest and safest ways possible to fight back against the current administration. If you've been saying there's nothing you can do - you're wrong! All you have to do is not buy from Amazon, Home Depot, or Target for five days.
We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
weaintbuyingit.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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From LinkedIn.

Well, yes.
November 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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It's taken a full year for BA.3.2* to just get this far, but the 8 new sequences out of Germany makes me wonder if it has finally reached a turning point where it could move toward dominance over BA.2.86*.

Up to maybe 10% in Germany. We'll have to continue to monitor this one.
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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If you want to honor her and her work, mask more places, more frequently.
Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
www.teenvogue.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Uh

this is

enormous
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Exclusive: The parents of a man who killed himself are suing the company that created ChatGPT, claiming the product encouraged him to commit suicide.
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said..

“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”

More celebrities need to speak out like this.
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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there are a lot of people who spent the whole 2024 saying look just vote for the party candidate and the whole 2025 poignantly refusing to say that and i can't wait til they start talkin about the Big Tent again cause i'm cussin everybody fake ass out
It really is amazing that when a popular young Democratic politician who wants to solve real problems for people beats an old-guard institutionalist Democrat in a primary, the institutionalist Democrat just stays in the race and basically runs as a Republican.
November 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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There is no version of capitalism where poor working class people aren't getting exploited. No version. To do capitalism is to exploit the working class, to reward greed, and to promote hate and bigotry. There's no "good" capitalism, same way there's no "ethical" multimillionaire or billionaire.
October 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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AI replacing jobs right now feels like every CEO's kid just got their MBA and is now your boss with no experience, no track record, a bunch of naive, amateur ideas, and is blackout drunk at least 15% of the time.
According to a new report from Business Insider, EA is pushing it's 15K employees to use AI for basically everything from "code and concept art to managerial work like scripting conversations with direct reports about sensitive topics such as pay and promotions."

One former Respawn employee

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October 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Boycott anything Harry Potter. It's incredibly easy to do
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Share and help everyone know about this!!
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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My dad sent me this
October 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Hello bsky, I'm looking for work for November! If you'd like me to draw your ttrpg/fantasy characters, please contact lyanna.artworks@gmail.com ✉

My full TOS can be viewed over lyannacomm.carrd.co

Sharing is extremely appreciated 💕

#art #supportartists #artshop
October 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Having lived through two cat 5 Caribbean hurricanes: Jamaica will require aid for years. The devastation's hard to overstate. This is our new norm under climate change.

Infra like elec/water will be disrupted for weeks for critical locations, months for residents.

DO NOT DONATE TO USA RED CROSS.
Lightning flashes within the powerful eye wall of Hurricane Melissa.

Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.
October 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM