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Hemidemisemiferal
@mfwebb.bsky.social
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Screaming into the zeitgeist.

Literary, musical misc. Cats (also possums, deer, and bears). TNR.

She/her. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

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Hemidemisemiferal @mfwebb.bsky.social · Jul 27
There's nothing to make you feel more like an impostor than realizing you've spent years misspelling the word impostor.
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reuterszengerle.bsky.social
Trump's Pentagon threatens to recall Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, to active duty status in order to prosecute him - days after Trump criticized him and five other Democrats and said they could be executed for a video saying troops could refuse to obey illegal orders.
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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purrinink.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
mfwebb.bsky.social
Making my master's no longer a professional degree. Wow.
ferretslave.bsky.social Ferret Slave @ferretslave.bsky.social · 20h
“As part of the BBB the Dept of Education just proposed a reclassification of a professional degree and it means fewer students will qualify for the higher loan limits they need for grad school, ...excluded incl many fields dominated by women like healthcare, counseling, and social work."
Outrage over Trump’s bill reclassifying nursing as not a ‘professional degree’ for college students
Nursing organizations warn limiting access to student funding ‘threatens the very foundation of patient care’
www.yahoo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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phorrums.bsky.social
I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )
A digital drawing referencing the quoted image. In the style of an early 20th century drawing, a woman in a dress holds a minigun. The text above is changed to read "Does the minigun make women cruel?"
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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anthonymoser.com
Lol I was just about to make this connection bc they do make this pitch constantly and it says so much about them

People like sharing media! It's one of the main things about media! People watch bad movies on purpose just to enjoy shared context around media
m00psy.bsky.social chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 1d
the loss of shared context is also why i don’t know why they think we all want hyper-personalized tv shows and movies. i like being able to watch and discuss the same film!
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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anthonymoser.com
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world

And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
mfwebb.bsky.social
A movie that takes place where you're from.

Somehow I have never seen this, and I'm okay with that.
Manos: The Hands of Fate
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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tprstly.com
Aye
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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alchemistsstudio.bsky.social
We have updated our Christmas offerings with some new treasures.

These are some of my creations that are currently available to bring some holiday magic to your gift giving or decor.

If you could help me find a home for them with a like or share, I'd be most grateful 🙏🇨🇦

#pottery #art #christmas
A selection of 8 large ceramic ornaments in various colours. Each are on a wire stand and white background. Colours include blues, whites, pinks, reds Two porcelain tumblers with melty looking glazes. The first is white with reds and pinks. The second has turquoise, white and purples. A raku fired Christmas tree in greens, golds and metallics A white porcelain polar bear on a white background.
November 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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animalphotorefs.bsky.social
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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kylehester.bsky.social
If I get 10,000 people to watch my horror doc then I can pay to finish my film Preacher Six. That is not too much to ask is it? Please repost. :)
kylehester.bsky.social Kyle Hester Film Maker @kylehester.bsky.social · 2d
👻 Would you swim in the most haunted lake in America? My horror documentary "Haunted Lake Lanier" is now on Amazon Prime — and it’s already getting under people’s skin. 🎬 Watch it now for $1.59 →

www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...

📣 Please retweet to keep indie film alive! #SupportIndieFilm
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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cynickal.bsky.social
Happy Max Headroom Signal Hijacking Day to all who celebrate it
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a microphone .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a microphone .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
mfwebb.bsky.social
It's a ridiculous household, and we wouldn't change it. #Caturday
A black cat and two Siamese-mix cats in a living room. One sits on a blue chair looking at the back, one looks off to the left, and one washes a front paw. None are looking at the camera.
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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wendysparrow.bsky.social
5 things you shouldn’t 3D print at home, even though you can

(The food safety thing is the reason I didn't print bunches of my tea bag mug-hugger to mail to everyone. Though I'm super careful to keep him above the tea-line )

share.google/17Yr9GFSg21P...
A cute moose mug hugger that you can put your tea bag in when it's done steeping. Another picture of the mug hugger from the side.
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)
A picture of Rian Johnson, a white man in a brown suit. He has dirty blond hair and a salt and pepper beard. There’s a large quote from him, that reads: “Yeah, f*** Al. It's something that's making everything worse in every single way - I don't get it. I mean, I get it in a This makes sense to save money by not paying artists' way. But then, what the f*** are we doing? Is this where we want to be?" RIAN JOHNSON ON THE USE OF AI”
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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invinaveritas.bsky.social
I think we're losing sight of the reason some males want minors for sex partners - young girls are seen as pliable, having no needs or desires or boundaries, sexually or otherwise. Males who prey on young girls just can't cope with an adult partner. They want breathing dolls.
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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drskyskull.bsky.social
The only good billionaires are the ones who haven't deluded themselves that somehow they've "earned" the money they've gotten
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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popeguilty.bsky.social
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum

(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
A tumblr post from telltaletypist: "one particularly sinister way that cop shows use propaganda is portraying defense lawyers as sleazy, opportunistic scumbags for committing the heinous sin of making sure their clients' rights aren't trampled over. cop shows are designed to make you hate your own rights and perpetuate the disgusting idea that only the guilty would try to defend themselves."
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
The thing that's always frustrated the right wing ideologues who've glommed onto Trump is that he doesn't have the attention span to actually be a committed ideological warrior. He can scream all the right culture war shit, but it's just WWE pugilistic showmanship. He basically has no belief system.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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zoekeating.com
Meanwhile, AI music startups will continue to vacuum up and exploit the music made by those of us without record labels
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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derek.bike
it's happening
a bluesky post by @derek.bike that says "good morning magic the gathering acronym reclaimers". the post is from Nov 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM and it has 12 likes
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
mfwebb.bsky.social
"Being online feels like being in the basement of a haunted house. Who knows what you’ll see, or be forced to attempt to unsee. Are you being informed or misled? You can’t Google it either."
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
mfwebb.bsky.social
The local WinCo has bulk Lindor truffles. Day made.
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM