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mariancall.bsky.social
i wrote a breakup/feelings displacement song called "Perilous Road" and if anyone has ever wondered, that's the road, right down there, hugging the shoreline past avalanches and icefalls #alaskasky

mariancall.bandcamp.com/album/someth... (track 17)
photo taken from an airplane of Girdwood, Alaska and Turnagain Arm, the body of water in front of it. High snowy mountains recede into the distance; a tiny thread of road winds along the waterline at the base of very steep slopes. photo taken from an airplane of Beluga Point, Alaska and Turnagain Arm, the body of water in front of it. High snowy mountains recede into the distance; a tiny thread of road winds along the waterline at the base of very steep slopes.
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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alynni8.bsky.social
#WhereWindsMeet sunrise cosplay before community #Minecraft @ 10am ^.^

🌟 Sweetbeans welcome to cozy up in our living room, chat about your day, or jump into some games with us! Perfect spot for a chill Sunday.

Come hang out! 🎮💖 #Twitch #smallstreamer #cozy #communityday
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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bextraordinary.bsky.social
♥️
To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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regenmag.bsky.social
News: Android Lust unveils second single from upcoming horror video game soundtrack

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News: Android Lust unveils second single from upcoming horror video game soundtrack
Android Lust has unveiled “If We Should End” as the second taste of the post-industrial artist’s forthcoming Tormentor album. Written, produced, and mixed by Shikhee, the track revels in her signature...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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chronicillness.bsky.social
>>Satire - Woman With Invisible Illness Accidentally Looks Too Happy in Public, Loses Credibility [pic of woman smiling with her tablet in her hand] mybodyistryingtokillme.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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kittystryker.bsky.social
Shopping small is meaningful!
@Ilyndseybelle this is what 50 bucks means to a small business. $50 is nothing to a billion dollar company. start shopping small @meownikaa whoever just placed a $50+ order in my shop, thank you so much that literally just paid for half of my groceries tomorrow
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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mariancall.bsky.social
also, Spotify doesn't pay royalties at all for tracks with less than a thousand streams.

and sometimes if an album gets a sudden surge of fan interest, Spotify deems it "unusual listening activity" and just removes the album, as happened to my last EP.
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d
Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.

Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.

Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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irritatingly.gay
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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mariancall.bsky.social
there are so few websites it actually makes me happy to visit these days, but @bandcamp.com is consistently one of them.
Screenshot from the homepage of Bandcamp.com, which displays a tiny row of album covers being purchased now along the bottom. Banner text across the site reads: "Fans have paid artists $1.62 billion using Bandcamp, and yesterday alone bought 68,996 records."
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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alynni8.bsky.social
seattle sunrise
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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troutgirl.bsky.social
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
mattseybold.bsky.social Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17d
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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androidlust.com
... this was unexpected. rollingstoneindia.com/south-asian-...
Indie Unpacked: The Ultimate South Asian Goth Music Playlist
From darkwave to electronic melodies, soak in the spirit of darkness with these South Asian gothic tunes.
rollingstoneindia.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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alynni8.bsky.social
Happy Caturday — witcher 3 first play?

*standing in rats* LMK if you see rats | #alynni8 on #Twitch youtube.com/shorts/5cZ2l... via @YouTube #smallstreamer
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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zachbussey.tos.gg
Discord may be working on a kind of family plan called Nitro Squads.

It appears that one person pays for the Squad, and up to 6 people can join to access some Nitro benefits.
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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zachbussey.tos.gg
If you've noticed your Twitch subscriber count looks inaccurate, it's a known issue.
Inaccurate Subscription Count Issues We are aware of an issue impacting subscriber counts displayed on creator dashboards. Our teams are actively working on a fix.
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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jksteinberger.bsky.social
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation First, clarity on distinguishing AIs: Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use). Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work Generative: ChatGPT & Co. You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content. Why is this delegation of work problematic? 3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement. (Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.) 1) AI and ethics Mass theft of all and everything «learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …): «correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 2) AI and (un)sustainability Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs. Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 3) AI and intellectual engagement First, what learning is (or should be) about: The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge, But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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caylen.bsky.social
a “Space Force”, if you will
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26d
we need a department of kerning
The Department of War's seal hangs on a wall. The kerning appears to be off.
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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zachbussey.tos.gg
Twitch is officially releasing age verification in the UK.

Users will need to verify their age using an in-app facial scan; otherwise, they will lose access to watching mature content based on Content Classification Labels (CCLs).
As a UK-based Twitch user, we want to inform you of changes coming to Twitch in order to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act. Starting today, we are introducing mandatory age verification for users in the UK who want to watch certain types of content on Twitch that may not be suitable for everyone. This change helps ensure that we provide a safe, age-appropriate experience for UK users between the ages of 13 (the minimum age required to use Twitch) and 18.
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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mariancall.bsky.social
my friend @obliviouswit.bsky.social sent me this and that was the correct thing to do:
whitneytrettien.bsky.social Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 27d
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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princessallie81.bsky.social
I normally get my SNAP this week and I am pretty low on food. A few days of meals left. I hate asking again on here and in this way but being disabled and no car limits my options. If you can help, I would really appreciate it.

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November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.

OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.

A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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alynni8.bsky.social
in less than 138 days we will reach our goal of 2,088 daily check-ins.

nearly one year of 24/7 streams.
now: two spaces, same soul.

9am-9pm: awake & chatty 🌞 twitch.tv/alynni8
9pm-6am: sleepy & chill🌙 twitch.tv/alydozes
November 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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alynni8.bsky.social
we're chillin to Sims 4 sunset building.

same cozy vibes, new creative energy. come hang in our 180 sq ft digital home & maybe solve a spooky puzzle?

🏙️🧩 (vacation through Oct 30th I think)
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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mariancall.bsky.social
Sim City challenge: your off-road town of 30,000 people has to host 1.7 million visitors per year worth of infrastructure, despite massive cuts in federal, state, and now muni funding
ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · Oct 14
The final tally of passengers who stepped off cruise ships into Juneau this year hasn’t been released yet, but it’s expected to be between 1.6 and 1.7 million.
Juneau’s 2025 cruise ship season comes to a close
The Norwegian Encore is the last cruise ship of 2025, marking the end of a nearly 200-day tourism season.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM