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Jenni S-G
@jennisg.bsky.social
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Word wrangler, noodler of arts & crafts
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ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
1/ California is seeing two major public health stories this week: a deadly mushroom poisoning outbreak linked to foraging, and the first real test of our #WestCoastHealthAlliance due to ACIP’s hepatitis B birth-dose vote. Here’s what you need to know 👇
December 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
jennisg.bsky.social
carpal tunnel surgery strikes the left hand. not a lot of pain but shows how much i actually need both hands for everything
left hand bandaged
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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melissasuestanley.bsky.social
A good recipe and excellent notes on what's happening in Chicago today. 💖
October 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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wastateweedboard.bsky.social
Palmer amaranth, Amaranthus palmeri, is a weed that causes massive losses to crop yields. It was recently found in certain Safeway bird seeds. These bags are now being recalled!

See WSDA's news release for more information:
agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/n...

#pnw #agriculture #birds #invasiveplants
Photo of a green leafy plant on top of blocks of text, which read: News Release. Washington and Oregon issue recall for wild birdseed containing invasive quarantined weed seeds. Read the news release at agr.wa.gov . Washington State Department of Agriculture.
September 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
jennisg.bsky.social
Despite *waves hand about*, I read 2 great books this week: Hiron Ennes' LEECH & Cherie Priest's THE DROWNING HOUSE. Atmospheric, great characters, gripping plots. LEECH was the kind of weird I love, and DROWNING HOUSE's atmosphere went well with late night hot tea. Highly recommend both.
Book cover for Leech by Hiron Ennes showing a shadowy building inside a dark glass bottle leaking a set of spindly tentacles that form the title of the book. Book cover of The Drowning House by Cherie Priest showing a house washed up on a Pacific coastal beach. The house is half in the water, half on the sand.
September 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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rozkaveney.bsky.social
You cannot represent as a martyr for free speech someone whose entire line was that most people who weren't white, male, Christian and straight should be excluded from debate.

Or who used the public arena to lie and intimidate.
September 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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nkjemisin.bsky.social
Busy yesterday so I missed that Anthropic had settled. Figures. LLMs have violated thousands of copyrights; they *knew* it would kill them if it went to trial. Anyway, the Authors Guild has some useful info here: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild
Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...
authorsguild.org
September 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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dianagilleditorial.com
The U of C/University of Chicago is having a 75% off ebook sale (code EBOOK75). Writers, they have a ton of writing/editing/publishing books (including WHAT EDITORS DO, where I wrote the chapter on editing genre). Lots of other books on sale too...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...
Book Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
The book series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing published or distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
press.uchicago.edu
August 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
jennisg.bsky.social
I feel this way EVERY day
August 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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paraplyshop.com
Get these and more now in my shop :>
www.paraplyshop.com

(sharing helps me out a lot, thank you 🙏)
picture of two zipper pouches, a light pink one featuring a clover embroidery and a dark blue one featuring a shooting star three pairs of wooden earrings: cats, clovers and mugs three wooden pins: clover, a little tulip and Skit the cat with a party hat my new journaling washi stickers and an example journal spread using them
July 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
jennisg.bsky.social
2 at a time socks done--seemed to take a long time but not really any longer than making them one at a time. Used size 2.75mm (2) 100cm (40") long ChiaoGoo lace circular needle. Lost yarn wrapper, so can't ID yarn but it feels like a poly-blend sock weight.
🧶 #sockknitting
2 knitted stripped socks
June 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
jennisg.bsky.social
Made it to the ankle--doing 2x2 ribbing

🧶 #sockknitting
2 partially knitted striped socks on one cabled needle
May 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
jennisg.bsky.social
Starting 2 at a time socks using yarn from frogged socks
2 beginning knitted socks on single connected needle--toe up, magic loop
May 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
jennisg.bsky.social
"Sinners" is as good as everyone's saying; horror-averse could probably see it w/o issue (unless bloody violence is a no-go for them); music is just superb
May 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
jennisg.bsky.social
Out of the oven and cooling
Small loaf of baked bread cooling on parchment paper
May 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
jennisg.bsky.social
Making a little loaf
Small round loaf of unbaked bread dough on parchment paper.
May 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
jennisg.bsky.social
S2 Andor. So. Good.
May 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
jennisg.bsky.social
Noodling around with bold colors and shapes
#watercolor #art
spread of small watercolor paintings of various shapes and bolder colors
May 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM