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Mbsolheim

@mbsolheim.bsky.social

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder

January 8, 2026 at 3:09 AM

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Sherrilyn Ifill

@sifill.bsky.social

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social

January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

Colombian President Gustavo Petro:

January 3, 2026 at 7:33 AM

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Helen 🍉 Vgen comms open!

@helenicchi.bsky.social

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

LMAO McGovern is on fire right now 🔥🔥🔥

December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM

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.chantal//RYAN

@thoughtrise.bsky.social

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed

the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized

text says:

Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved.
Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like.
Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch.
This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM

iceraptoress.bsky.social

@iceraptoress.bsky.social

@paintyourdragon.bsky.social

NPR @npr.org · 28d

In Salzburg, Austria, Christmas involves both St. Nick and Krampus, a mythological punisher with roots stretching back to late antiquity and many fans in the present-day Central Alps. n.pr/3XSG1Xy

It's Christmastime —– and if you live in the Alps, watch out! Krampus is coming

In Salzburg, Austria, Christmas involves both St. Nick and Krampus, a mythological punisher with roots stretching back to late antiquity and many fans in the present-day Central Alps.

n.pr

December 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM

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Wildwestcats

@wildwestcats.bsky.social

Found on martiniden666's Tumblr - thought this was a drawing but the caption says it's a photo from 1953 titled Cat in the Snow from photographer Hannes Kilian.

#cats #catsinsnow #photography

Black and white photograph of a black cat, seen from behind, walking through snow with lots of snow clumps all over its fur. The cat's tail is saucy and erect but leaning towards the right. There is no other landscape in the photo other than the white snow.

Found on martiniden666's Tumblr, it's titled Cat in the Snow, 1953, photographer Hannes Kilian.

December 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈

@faerywhimsy.bsky.social

If the writer’s eyes light up when asked, “why did the character do that?” then it’s real.

Tumblr post screen capture by nocryptographer about how to tell AI slop from a story that was created by a human being.

December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM

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United Farm Workers

@ufw.bsky.social

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM

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Bill Grueskin

@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM

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Elizabeth Warren

@warren.senate.gov

Donald Trump’s war on SNAP.

November 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM

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Dawn ❄️

@dawnhulot.bsky.social

🧵🧵🧵
#Pets #SNAP #Dogs #Cats #Animals #PetAssistance #PetSupport

🐕🐈 Pet Assistance Resources for those in Economic Hardship:

bestfriends.org/pet-care-res...

Pet Assistance Resources for Economic Hardship

If you face the possibility of having to surrender your pet due to financial hardship, please check out these pet assistance resources.

bestfriends.org

October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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Lynn Stahl

@msbtterswrth.altgov.info

Yesterday we talked a little bit about SNAP ending and how everyone who can, should give back to their communities. I'm going to spend a little time today talking about what to give.

October 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM

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Mark Joseph Stern

@mjsdc.bsky.social

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

Ohio National Guard member Sgt. Devon Beck was not amused by this satire. On
September 11, 2025, Mr. O’Hara saw Sgt. Beck, along with several other Guard members, walking
in uniform in the Logan Circle neighborhood, near the intersection of 14th and R Streets NW. Mr.
O’Hara calmly walked behind the Guard members, began playing The Imperial March aloud on
his phone, and started recording. In less than two minutes, Sgt. Beck turned around and threatened
to call D.C. police officers to “handle” Mr. O’Hara if he persisted. Mr. O’Hara continued recording
and playing the music. Sgt. Beck contacted the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Defendant
MPD Officers Brown, Campbell, Reyes-Benigno, and Lopez Martinez came to the scene and, in
essence, did what Sgt. Beck had threatened, putting Mr. O’Hara in handcuffs and preventing him
from continuing his peaceful protest.

October 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Indivisible ❌👑

@indivisible.org

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

October 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM

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Alt National Park Service

@altnps.bsky.social

Organizers have reported 7 million attendees at the No Kings events and we’re happy to confirm 7 million and counting! More events are still happening across the country today, so we’ll need additional time to fully certify the final numbers.

October 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM