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@aeginsf.bsky.social
Possibly too dedicated to drinking coffee to remember to post. Writer, photographer, reader, printmaker, blogger, foodie, insomniac, professional teeth-gnasher. Legal-themed day job.
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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By the end of the ratification debates, everyone understood that the 14th Amendment would grant birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. The only live question was whether that was a *good* thing. Some senators argued it wasn’t. But they lost! applyliberally.substack.com/p/birthright...
December 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
By the end of the ratification debates, everyone understood that the 14th Amendment would grant birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. The only live question was whether that was a *good* thing. Some senators argued it wasn’t. But they lost! applyliberally.substack.com/p/birthright...
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The cool thing about Generative AI is that it generates stuff. Now, is the stuff it generates the stuff I asked for? No. But that's the beauty of the technology. It doesn't give me what I want, nor does it give me what I need. It just gives me things.
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The cool thing about Generative AI is that it generates stuff. Now, is the stuff it generates the stuff I asked for? No. But that's the beauty of the technology. It doesn't give me what I want, nor does it give me what I need. It just gives me things.
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'Just a glass of water' linocut by contemporary Ukrainian printmaker Olesya Dzhurayeva #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
'Just a glass of water' linocut by contemporary Ukrainian printmaker Olesya Dzhurayeva #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono
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Ottoman textile design from the Topkapi Museum, Istanbul
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Ottoman textile design from the Topkapi Museum, Istanbul
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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, textile design, ca. 1915-23. Drawing for chiffon
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, textile design, ca. 1915-23. Drawing for chiffon
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The lesson I have learned over the last 10 years more than any other: Hatred and bigotry and greed are the flames of fascism, but its kindling are people who claim to be well-meaning, yet diagnose our problem as "polarization" without giving thought to the causes over which we are polarized.
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The lesson I have learned over the last 10 years more than any other: Hatred and bigotry and greed are the flames of fascism, but its kindling are people who claim to be well-meaning, yet diagnose our problem as "polarization" without giving thought to the causes over which we are polarized.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Things to do this weekend besides shopping:
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Things to do this weekend besides shopping:
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
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Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hagueseth
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
science.nasa.gov
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯
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May the forest grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to sharpen my antlers & fangs, and the wisdom to know when to use them.
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
May the forest grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to sharpen my antlers & fangs, and the wisdom to know when to use them.
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It’s really tough for Republicans when they discover that they also have to live in the same world they force us to live in
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It’s really tough for Republicans when they discover that they also have to live in the same world they force us to live in
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Once again my political enemies are smearing me by presenting evidence of my crimes
December 24, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Once again my political enemies are smearing me by presenting evidence of my crimes
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So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora
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Your weather for today:
- possible showers
- possible sunbreaks
- everything is possible in an infinite multiverse
- there's another you out there who is piloting a solar space blimp through the cosmos, smuggling bootleg gin & forbidden books
- wear layers
- possible showers
- possible sunbreaks
- everything is possible in an infinite multiverse
- there's another you out there who is piloting a solar space blimp through the cosmos, smuggling bootleg gin & forbidden books
- wear layers
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Your weather for today:
- possible showers
- possible sunbreaks
- everything is possible in an infinite multiverse
- there's another you out there who is piloting a solar space blimp through the cosmos, smuggling bootleg gin & forbidden books
- wear layers
- possible showers
- possible sunbreaks
- everything is possible in an infinite multiverse
- there's another you out there who is piloting a solar space blimp through the cosmos, smuggling bootleg gin & forbidden books
- wear layers
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Everyone on this plane is mad about my therapy scorpion
January 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Everyone on this plane is mad about my therapy scorpion
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go
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Cross section of blade of grass, stained for microscope. Smiley faces are channels that water is drawn up through
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Cross section of blade of grass, stained for microscope. Smiley faces are channels that water is drawn up through
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"Sexy Bearded Man Who Doesn’t Mansplain His Politics"
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October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Sexy Bearded Man Who Doesn’t Mansplain His Politics"