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Lauren
@bloomingeyes.bsky.social
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Professional book wrangler, writer, sunset chaser, artist, here for the vibes ✌🏻 (they/them)
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bloomingeyes.bsky.social
Every time a woman says “my wife” in my presence, another five years are added to my life expectancy.
July 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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hannahtempler.com
looks into the camera
screenshot from article. text reads: "When the marketing maestro got down to business, she realized it was going to require a complete overhaul. Ultimately, she spent 20 hours redoing the copy from scratch - and with her $100-per-hour rate, that meant her client was shelling out $2,000 for copy that likely would have ended up being far cheaper had a human just written it in the first place."
July 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
bloomingeyes.bsky.social
I am going to single-handedly take down the fireworks industry with my bare fists and a million fireworks’ worth of rage inside me
July 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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ithayla.bsky.social
happy birthday to bill watterson who gave me the gift of encapsulating my entire ethical approach in one comic panel.
A panel from a Calvin and Hobbes comic. Calvin's mom, eating dinner, says "Life could be worse, Calvin." Calvin, clearly upset, his mouth huge says "Life could be a lot BETTER too!"
July 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
Gritty's a librarian now thx.
#ALAAC25
June 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Folks! The ban against states regulating AI is DEAD! It’s was voted 99-1!

This victory belongs to us all! Unfettered GenAi is an issue for us all, and groups from all walks of life came together to demand we regulate! Your calls and action made the difference! So thank you everyone! We did this!
July 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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tsurudraws.art
When I say I create out of spite, I don't mean to spite AI or haters or disbelievers.

It's to spite every version of me that quit early.
June 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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nooskadraws.bsky.social
obligatory last day of pride boost of trans and gay things in my shoppe 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

www.etsy.com/shop/NooskaArt
Photo of my Ye Olde Trans Rights sticker. Photo of my Illustrated Old Man Yaoi sticker.
June 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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teenvogue.com
“This moment was about reflection," Chavarria's team wrote. "The dehumanization of how immigrants are being treated in the United States.”

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/willy-...
Willy Chavarria Makes a Bold Statement About Trump's ICE Raids at Paris Runway Show
Models reenacted the harrowing imagery of migrants brought to foreign prisons.
www.teenvogue.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
by age 30 you should have one friend for every major animal group to spam.

seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.
June 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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astri.bsky.social
Study // Givenchy 1998 ✨️
A painted portrait of a woman in profile. She's wearing a hood made of golden, round coins.
June 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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midheavens.bsky.social
It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
June 22, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
very rare that an update from Gaza is good to hear — but WCK’s tenacious commitment to its kitchens there is that rarity

I just donated again to support their work and hope you can & will too
wck.org World Central Kitchen @wck.org · Jun 21
WCK resumed cooking in Gaza after our first aid delivery in 12 weeks. With new ingredients on hand, we’re preparing warm, carb-rich meals like pasta and hearty potato stews. The WCK team cooked nearly 10,000 meals on day one of resumed operations. #ChefsForGaza (1/2)
June 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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amazonchique.bsky.social
The public was 100% ready for trans rights just a few years ago.

What we’re seeing now is a massive shift in public opinion after a coordinated and expensive propaganda blitz, one that Dems happily ignored.

Trans rights aren’t new. We had them for years and everything was cool.
surisamu.bsky.social Suris-> Magiccon ATL! @surisamu.bsky.social · Jun 21
I just don't get it.

The United States is doing every single step one would need to do for a soft genocide.

And this congresswoman goes "maybe the public just isn't ready for trans rights, we have to consider that"

NO.

THE FUCK.

WE DO NOT.
June 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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juliedillon.bsky.social
gonna call this one done, I think 🤞
Clouds loom high over a distant lighthouse. A small sailboat passes in the foreground, and above a massive woman towers in the clouds, flanked by two owls. The woman is surrounded with pale drapery that mimics the color and shape of the clouds. She looks down upon the lighthouse and boat.
June 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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sacredsapling.bsky.social
Saw this on Instagram and thought this applies to art too. Not only are genAI “artists” stealing, but they’re also cheating themselves out of the benefits of creating.

The joy of the process, the complex decisions, the pride.

Giving up creativity for productivity is exactly what capitalism wants.
A post from girldante reading “i think you can recognize that the usage of AI by students of all grades and all around the world to cheat through their assignments is not a personal moral failing but just yet another symptom of the mechanistic if not, at this point, basically dehumanized processes of our education systems which are nowadays almost solely focused on demanding production from students and churning out degrees required for jobs while ignoring any tangible verification of their actual knowledge, intellectual development and critical thinking skills, much less their mental health, while also pointing out that using AI to write your essay isn’t a power move to cheat a flawed system, it is behaving exactly as the system was designed, it is cheating yourself by giving up your ability to speak, think for and challenge yourself and bowing your head to powers that will only benefit from not being questioned, and the only reason text genAI is so widespread right now is because it was born on the perfect breeding ground that is anti intellectualism.” Then a response from anarchistmemecollective reading “oh turns out someone had already finally said it and better.”
June 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
A lot of responses I get about ChatGPT and similar products is that they’re probably smarter/better than the average person. This kind of thinking is extremely disturbing to me. It’s the exact kind of anti-human rhetoric the AI companies want to encourage. Eugenics-style thinking
June 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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mixedlinguist.bsky.social
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140].”
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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sabattons.com
and there it is. if you head out today, stay masked. give no one your name. post no pictures. do not use a hashtag. do not say where you are. connect with local “far-left” organizations present, and trust no cop.
Not every protest is supposed to work. Some are designed not to. This weekend's "No Kings" protests are being organized in partnership with 50501, a group that has, in some cities, worked directly with police and even called the cops on people at their own rallies. They ask for names. They track attendance. That should make everyone stop and think. Why does a movement claiming to resist authoritarianism rely on tools that look a lot like state surveillance? We're not saying don't go. We're saying go in with your eyes open. These tactics have been used before, and they have worked. We are not here to tell you how to protest. But if you were already planning to hide your identity, do that. If someone asks for your name or contact info, do not give it. Stay frosty.
June 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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freedomflotilla.bsky.social
🚨ALERT🚨

Thiago Ávila and Rima Hassan are now held in solitary confinement under punitive and inhumane conditions:

Thiago was placed in isolation in Ayalon Prison due to his ongoing hunger and thirst strike, which he began two days ago.

...2/
June 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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fulsvamp.bsky.social
The part of me I lost
Illustration of a doe resting their head on a sillhouette of another deer.
June 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
bloomingeyes.bsky.social
8 days into Pride month and this is already shaping up to be my happiest Pride month ever 💜
June 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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mintaii.bsky.social
moss mage

#art
an illustration of a mage wearing a cloak made predominantly of moss, holding a lantern with a bright, golden flame. their cloak is indistinguishable from the surrounding forest environment, camouflaging amongst the rocks and shrubbery in the foreground. framing the mage is an arched border composed of twisting branches and vines. two, large purple eyes, matching that of the mage's, stare at the viewer.
June 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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jayasaxena.com
Every time I read Birdsall's recollection of his favorite queer meal I cry www.eater.com/2025/6/3/244...
Birdsall: I came to San Francisco in the early ’80s and came out. My boyfriend’s ex-roommate, David, lived in this really shitty apartment in the Haight. Nobody had any money. I remember he once invited us over for this meal that was all dishes by Richard Olney from Simple French Food. He bought this delightful wine. And it was this experience of sitting down in this shitty room but feeling like, This is who we are — [Tearing up] sorry, I’m getting emotional. It was a really difficult time, but I felt like we were royalty. This is our tradition. This [meal] is from a queer author with a queer voice, who, although I didn’t know it at the time, took classic Escoffier dishes and queered them. This is how we deserve to eat. This is how we deserve to come together, this elegance that we’ve carved out of this harsh world.
June 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
bloomingeyes.bsky.social
Incredibly disturbed to see that my favorite book tracking app, @thestorygraph.com, which has branded itself as an inclusive and ethical alternative to Goodreads (owned by Amazon), is now beginning to incorporate AI into the app. Please explain how wasting precious drinking water is worth this?
A screenshot of Storygraph’s user settings, which includes the new StoryGraph Preview Beta setting, which is a short description of the ideal type of reader for a book produced by AI.
June 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM