Jara
@woodface.bsky.social
Painting ladders to heaven
🏳️🌈 Not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you
🏳️🌈 Not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you
@matsuzawa.bsky.social I expanded my inro collection recently and wanted to share it with you. The inro with the cormorant is by Hasegawa Shigeyoshi. The crane inro (and netsuke) by Kajikawa. The lacquer work in both is still amazing despite being from the 19th century. 🥰
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@matsuzawa.bsky.social I expanded my inro collection recently and wanted to share it with you. The inro with the cormorant is by Hasegawa Shigeyoshi. The crane inro (and netsuke) by Kajikawa. The lacquer work in both is still amazing despite being from the 19th century. 🥰
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Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
What unholy trifecta is this.
October 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM
What unholy trifecta is this.
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Farewell to the sublime Dame Patricia Routledge.
Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96
The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Farewell to the sublime Dame Patricia Routledge.
I've been obsessed with these two for two days now.
Taniec z gwiazdami: Zatańczyła mistrzyni olimpijska Katarzyna Zillmann – polska wioślarka, wicemistrzyni olimpijska, mistrzyni świata i Europy. A partnerowała jej Janja Lesar – tancerka, choreografka i trenerka - zdobyły razem 36 punktów.
youtu.be/R2i8B4xTsGU
youtu.be/R2i8B4xTsGU
Kasia i Janja - Paso doble | Taniec z Gwiazdami 20 lat. odcinek 1
YouTube video by Polsat
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've been obsessed with these two for two days now.
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September 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2
September 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2
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🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Yeah, so I had missed the whole part where Grok now comes with a conspiracy mode.
Truly the worst timeline.
Truly the worst timeline.
September 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Yeah, so I had missed the whole part where Grok now comes with a conspiracy mode.
Truly the worst timeline.
Truly the worst timeline.
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#SaveSpeech
Germany has, unfortunately, reversed its position back to undecided.
folks in the EU, but GERMANS ESPECIALLY, need to call your MEPs about Chat Control and urge them to oppose this proposal!
find your MEP below and yell at them!
www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
Germany has, unfortunately, reversed its position back to undecided.
folks in the EU, but GERMANS ESPECIALLY, need to call your MEPs about Chat Control and urge them to oppose this proposal!
find your MEP below and yell at them!
www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
September 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
#SaveSpeech
Germany has, unfortunately, reversed its position back to undecided.
folks in the EU, but GERMANS ESPECIALLY, need to call your MEPs about Chat Control and urge them to oppose this proposal!
find your MEP below and yell at them!
www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
Germany has, unfortunately, reversed its position back to undecided.
folks in the EU, but GERMANS ESPECIALLY, need to call your MEPs about Chat Control and urge them to oppose this proposal!
find your MEP below and yell at them!
www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
Yeah, so this? Belgium is still trying to stop it. They've been burning food and medicines rather than letting it reach the people who desperately need it. Trump administration at its finest.
The Trump administration is set to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas, following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs carried out by USAID
US to burn $9.7 million worth of USAID-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas | CNN
The Trump administration is set to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas, following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs carrie...
cnn.it
September 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Yeah, so this? Belgium is still trying to stop it. They've been burning food and medicines rather than letting it reach the people who desperately need it. Trump administration at its finest.
@delaneyking.bsky.social oh boy
'Life is Strange' TV series has been greenlit at Amazon 📺
Charlie Covell will serve as showrunner
Charlie Covell will serve as showrunner
September 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
@delaneyking.bsky.social oh boy
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
European postal services suspend shipment of packages to US over import tariffs
Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
bit.ly
August 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
Belgian postal services have temporarily suspended mail to the USA. Hard to imagine this happening in our modern day and age. They're trying setting us back by centuries.
August 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Belgian postal services have temporarily suspended mail to the USA. Hard to imagine this happening in our modern day and age. They're trying setting us back by centuries.
You'll also save people getting annoyed because I honestly prefer to wait to see what someone wants before i react. But then you have these people who let the hi just sit there until you say something back. Just get to the point.
If you have any questions for someone, ask! :)
You will get an answer to your question faster and even save time 💙
You will get an answer to your question faster and even save time 💙
August 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
You'll also save people getting annoyed because I honestly prefer to wait to see what someone wants before i react. But then you have these people who let the hi just sit there until you say something back. Just get to the point.
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I just watched our national broadcast run a conversation between chatgpt 4 and 5. How shameful. I hope whoever came to with it can never leave their horse again for fear of being mocked.
August 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I just watched our national broadcast run a conversation between chatgpt 4 and 5. How shameful. I hope whoever came to with it can never leave their horse again for fear of being mocked.
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We truly are living in the stupidest of timelines
British government asks people to delete old emails to reduce data centres' water use
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
jrnl.ie
August 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We truly are living in the stupidest of timelines
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
Looking forward to Obama's third term.
The U.S. State Department officially supports El Salvador’s removal of presidential term limits—flashing a warning of what’s to come in America.
The Trump regime will likely attempt the same, with support from a complicit Congress and Supreme Court.
And when they do, we the people will fight back.
The Trump regime will likely attempt the same, with support from a complicit Congress and Supreme Court.
And when they do, we the people will fight back.
US sides with El Salvador on eliminating presidential term limits, prompting democracy debate | CNN
The US State Department has voiced rare support for El Salvador’s decision to abolish presidential term limits, paving the way for President Nayib Bukele to seek indefinite reelection. Critics argue t...
www.cnn.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Looking forward to Obama's third term.
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Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
May 17, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
Good to say it out loud, but at this point in time, isn't it almost a duty to step up and fight those who are trying to dismantle what good there is left?
I mean, I definitely don't blame her for wanting to step back and not wanting to get burned. She probably deserves a break.
I mean, I definitely don't blame her for wanting to step back and not wanting to get burned. She probably deserves a break.
Seeing Kamala Harris openly say that the system is broken was so powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
August 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Good to say it out loud, but at this point in time, isn't it almost a duty to step up and fight those who are trying to dismantle what good there is left?
I mean, I definitely don't blame her for wanting to step back and not wanting to get burned. She probably deserves a break.
I mean, I definitely don't blame her for wanting to step back and not wanting to get burned. She probably deserves a break.