as i live and breathe – 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣?
@mara-iara.bsky.social
love to spin a yarn. nudging the odd thing into order. fighting sleep since my fontanelle closed. 🇳🇬
Pinned
Infinite Saree's Change petition to repeal the Marital Rape Exception in India
c.org/JhsHMpY22k
c.org/JhsHMpY22k
Have you seen this petition yet?
Repeal the Marital Rape Exception in India
c.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Infinite Saree's Change petition to repeal the Marital Rape Exception in India
c.org/JhsHMpY22k
c.org/JhsHMpY22k
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"Big Tech and data center developers appear to be siting data centers in vulnerable communities...These locations show a troubling trend - they primarily impact working class and Black and Latine communities."
The Unequal Burden of Data Centers - Kapor Foundation
An examination of the Environmental and Public Health Impacts on Communities in California
kaporfoundation.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Big Tech and data center developers appear to be siting data centers in vulnerable communities...These locations show a troubling trend - they primarily impact working class and Black and Latine communities."
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Help us build the next 50 years of stories!
We have until the end of December to meet our goal.
Join us at bwc.io/locus2025 and be a part of our history.
Click the link in our bio for more information!
We have until the end of December to meet our goal.
Join us at bwc.io/locus2025 and be a part of our history.
Click the link in our bio for more information!
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Help us build the next 50 years of stories!
We have until the end of December to meet our goal.
Join us at bwc.io/locus2025 and be a part of our history.
Click the link in our bio for more information!
We have until the end of December to meet our goal.
Join us at bwc.io/locus2025 and be a part of our history.
Click the link in our bio for more information!
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You: Hatless. Snivelling in the gutter. Patched clothes. Hunted for sport.
Me: Behatted. Resplendent. Impeccable drip. Longest-living land animal of all time.
Me: Behatted. Resplendent. Impeccable drip. Longest-living land animal of all time.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
You: Hatless. Snivelling in the gutter. Patched clothes. Hunted for sport.
Me: Behatted. Resplendent. Impeccable drip. Longest-living land animal of all time.
Me: Behatted. Resplendent. Impeccable drip. Longest-living land animal of all time.
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h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
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Today is the day! Make some phone calls to Visa and Mastercard if youre able to and keep it going as much as you can muster until monday!
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today is the day! Make some phone calls to Visa and Mastercard if youre able to and keep it going as much as you can muster until monday!
That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.
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Let's help kids heal 🏕️✨
October 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Let's help kids heal 🏕️✨
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Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
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i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
🫠
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
🫠
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
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#SaveSpeech
if you've seen a video going around of Epstein survivors talking about their abuse, you need to be aware that video is promoting World-Without-Exploitation, an organization whose website supports legislation like KOSA, and advocates for the "Nordic model"
they are not your allies.
if you've seen a video going around of Epstein survivors talking about their abuse, you need to be aware that video is promoting World-Without-Exploitation, an organization whose website supports legislation like KOSA, and advocates for the "Nordic model"
they are not your allies.
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
#SaveSpeech
if you've seen a video going around of Epstein survivors talking about their abuse, you need to be aware that video is promoting World-Without-Exploitation, an organization whose website supports legislation like KOSA, and advocates for the "Nordic model"
they are not your allies.
if you've seen a video going around of Epstein survivors talking about their abuse, you need to be aware that video is promoting World-Without-Exploitation, an organization whose website supports legislation like KOSA, and advocates for the "Nordic model"
they are not your allies.
@rianjohnson.bsky.social and @realgdt.bsky.social's interviews are suffused with appreciation for human art, and the result is a definite Little Matchstick Girl effect.
When tired of trying to explain why the "shortcuts" feel like shortchanging, just point to the warmth of the fire.
When tired of trying to explain why the "shortcuts" feel like shortchanging, just point to the warmth of the fire.
Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
@rianjohnson.bsky.social and @realgdt.bsky.social's interviews are suffused with appreciation for human art, and the result is a definite Little Matchstick Girl effect.
When tired of trying to explain why the "shortcuts" feel like shortchanging, just point to the warmth of the fire.
When tired of trying to explain why the "shortcuts" feel like shortchanging, just point to the warmth of the fire.
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It's my birthday today! ☺️
If you could spare a repost, it would be much appreciated!
If you could spare a repost, it would be much appreciated!
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
It's my birthday today! ☺️
If you could spare a repost, it would be much appreciated!
If you could spare a repost, it would be much appreciated!
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AI is a lack of consent technology
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
AI is a lack of consent technology
All of the acquisition dopamine w/none of the pocketbook damage! And if your library doesn't have something, they can just borrow from another library.
The language books sometimes have QR codes to free audio companions.
They have movies.
Auto-renew means you can keep stuff for MONTHS.
Get a card!
The language books sometimes have QR codes to free audio companions.
They have movies.
Auto-renew means you can keep stuff for MONTHS.
Get a card!
Get a library card!
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
All of the acquisition dopamine w/none of the pocketbook damage! And if your library doesn't have something, they can just borrow from another library.
The language books sometimes have QR codes to free audio companions.
They have movies.
Auto-renew means you can keep stuff for MONTHS.
Get a card!
The language books sometimes have QR codes to free audio companions.
They have movies.
Auto-renew means you can keep stuff for MONTHS.
Get a card!
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Some advice from a couple of years ago that I still think most creative people need to hear --
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Some advice from a couple of years ago that I still think most creative people need to hear --
I used to "collect" JPGs and PNGs of Mucha's work in high school, and I had a phase when his flowy scalloping technique was all I wanted to draw. As soon as I hit college, I bought as many Mucha posters from the school store as my pittance could afford.
I still have one hanging in my closet 🤎
I still have one hanging in my closet 🤎
For all of you who went through a Mucha phase or indeed have never left their Mucha phase (valid), here is a pencil, watercolor, and gouache study he did for a stained glass window:
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I used to "collect" JPGs and PNGs of Mucha's work in high school, and I had a phase when his flowy scalloping technique was all I wanted to draw. As soon as I hit college, I bought as many Mucha posters from the school store as my pittance could afford.
I still have one hanging in my closet 🤎
I still have one hanging in my closet 🤎
Walton Goggins, give me your phone immediately
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Walton Goggins, give me your phone immediately
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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❗️My friend, Eid, pictured with the Palestinian flag, has been accepted to study at the University of Alberta. Please consider signing this letter calling on the Government of Canada to support students in Gaza access study visas. www.justiceforallcanada.org/irccletthems...
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
❗️My friend, Eid, pictured with the Palestinian flag, has been accepted to study at the University of Alberta. Please consider signing this letter calling on the Government of Canada to support students in Gaza access study visas. www.justiceforallcanada.org/irccletthems...