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Norin 🦈 BFriday Sale 🎅

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Mako Sharks 🦈
#sharks #art

Illustration of a bunch of Mako Sharks. The colors used are white and blue with gradients

September 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM

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The Wall Street Journal

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President Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles violated the law, a federal judge ruled.

Trump’s Troop Deployment to Los Angeles Violated Federal Law, Judge Rules

A federal judge sided with state officials who contend the operation violated a 19th-century law barring the U.S. military from undertaking domestic law enforcement.

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September 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM

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The Washington Post

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Anna Wintour announced that Vogue has a new leader in charge of its American flagship publication: Chloe Malle, currently the editor of Vogue.com

Vogue has a new editor (sort of)

Chloe Malle, editor of Vogue.com, is now head of editorial content at American Vogue, succeeding Anna Wintour in a seemingly diminished role.

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September 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM

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Alabama Reflector

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Via @nadrakn.bsky.social and @19thnews.org: While covering the cost of classroom supplies is a challenge educators face annually, the burden on them has grown as the price of many learning materials has jumped by 20 percent in roughly five years.

Teachers are spending more and more on school supplies. Here's why. | Alabama Reflector

While covering the cost of classroom supplies is a challenge educators face annually, the price of many learning materials has jumped by 20 percent in roughly five years.

alabamareflector.com

September 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM

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Axios

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Dozens of scientists today released a rebuttal of the Energy Department's climate report, saying it was riddled with errors.

Scientists call Energy Department climate report riddled with errors

The scientists' rebuttal could surface in litigation.

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September 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM

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Reuters

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German culture official: MFE pledges to uphold ProSieben's editorial independence reut.rs/4p3J5w4

German culture official: MFE pledges to uphold ProSieben's editorial independence

Germany's commissioner for culture said on Tuesday he was given MediaForEurope's (MFE) reassurance that takeover target ProSiebenSat.1 would keep its editorial independence and be able to strengthen its German broadcasting operations.

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September 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM

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The New York Times

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From @theathletic.com: A Polish CEO apologized for snatching tennis player Kamil Majchrzak’s game-worn hat away from a child at the U.S. Open.

Polish CEO apologizes for snatching Kamil Majchrzak’s hat away from child at U.S. Open

"I became caught up in the heat of the moment and the joy of the victory," the man said after video of the incident went viral.

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September 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM

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Texas Observer

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Last week: GOP’s Trumped-up redrawing took a wrecking ball to congressional districts. Now comes the mad dash for seats.

New Texas Map Starts Game of Political Musical Chairs

GOP’s Trumped-up redrawing took a wrecking ball to congressional districts. Now comes the mad dash for seats.

www.texasobserver.org

September 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM

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The Mirror

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A woman has died hours after being stung by a swarm of bees.

Swarm of bees kill woman in savage attack with another rushed to hospital

www.mirror.co.uk

September 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM

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Loui Stonehill

@louistonehill.bsky.social

Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice

tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist

original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...

Screenshot of tumblr text post by fourohfourlifenotfound August 24 part 1/3:

"If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens.
And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage.
So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here).
The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time."

Text post part 2/3:

"The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content.
Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself.
This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now."

Text post part 3/3:

"How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging.
But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them. "

Response by drtanner:

"Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven't personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it's extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can't convince people to fight with them and whose posts don't gain any traction because they're blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal.
It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening. "

September 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM

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ann

@annpersand.bsky.social

Anil Chaitya Vangad, The Warli Net (acrylic on canvas, 2022)

September 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM

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⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️

@deathbyhibachi.bsky.social

In My Head

#Art by Micah Ulrich

Skully with a bouquet of flowers jetting out from the top of his head

September 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM

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Pauline

@paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social

To celebrate reaching one 1k followers here, I wanted to host a little #DTIYS challenge/art giveaway featuring the three little travellers 🌱

I will pick 2-3 participants to receive a custom drawing of a new traveller from me 🎨

More info, dates, and rules in the comments 💛

#cuteart #art

An image with three little animal travellers: a wren in a blue cloak, a woodmouse in a green coat, and a mole in a red knitted sweater.
The writing on the image says: Draw* this in your style (arrows to the three travellers).

1. Pick a traveller
2. Make some art*
3. Quote this/tag me
* Any art you make yourself! (no AI)

September 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻

@skullsandsheets.bsky.social

One of the classroom skeleton, whose sadly been mauled by children. But he's still got a smile on his face

September 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM

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Pockets

@pokettotsun.bsky.social

As part of the 1K followers celebration, here's 10 years of improvement for my art! ❤️

On the left is the very first sketch(!) I did of Meiri back in 2015, and on the right is current year!

Back when she was young, naive, innocent, and still human- 🫠
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#art #oc #ocart #ocsky #sketch #rkgk #redraw