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Maker of things
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Will Stancil
1 day ago
We know that that lots of social scenarios will reliably make lots of people go completely insane - put them in a cult, make them a prison guard, whatever - but didn’t consider that “being active online” or “watching a lot of Fox News” are also high-pressure social scenarios
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Will Stancil
1 day ago
I think what we have overlooked that has made society go haywire is that social pressures are the single strongest force acting on human beings, and the human brain doesn’t really distinguish between real-life, media-sourced, and internet social pressures. Our phones and feeds are pressure cookers
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Mekka Okereke
1 day ago
White people really pretend not to know how racist New Jersey cops were in the 1970s, or what they did to Black people. It's 2026, and most white people still don't know that cops killed more Black people in 2024 than any other year in recorded US history, directly thanks to Biden policies.
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time for a repost of a classic git stash poop
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Marco Rogers
4 days ago
Democrats are trying to find a way to restore faith in government and democracy without actually changing anything about how it works. That's why they're useless in this moment. They will continue to be useless.
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Bree 🇵🇸 👍 🧊🚫
4 days ago
My Lyft driver said his friend, who works at a rental car company, said they're not renewing ICE's fleet contract tomorrow, because they have damaged every. Single. One. Of the rentals.
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Matthew
5 days ago
Amazing art from srfngeko at Threads
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Will Stancil
8 days ago
You need to understand that there are not lengthy standoffs between protesters and ICE in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti was not a “protester” in a conventional sense. ICE lurks around the city and occasionally takes aggressive actions, and bystanders and observers document it and raise the alarm
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Mekka Okereke
9 days ago
Reminder: If you get exhausted and burn out and give up, you lose. If you stay in, you win. Just by existing, you win! So taking little breaks for joy is fine! Good actually! Helping other people find joy, gives you joy too! Joy is not conserved! The laws of thermodynamics don't apply to joy!
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Reminder: If you get exhausted and burn out and give up, you lose. If you stay in, you win. Just by existing, you win! So taking little breaks for joy is fine! Good actually! Helping other people f...
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113889749313774526
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pubic record (On a live screen share no less, and Teams was laggy as fuck that day so everyone on the call heard “oh no…” and then I heard laughter 10 seconds later)
12 days ago
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(in a python REPL) quite()
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Noah Grey
3 months ago
I've been planning & poking at a memoir of the early days of being online (I started in 1985, before the web was even invented, and blogged since '94). Don't know if I'll ever have the strength to finish it, but this is a great snapshot of what the gold rush days were like.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams can't think of a fun display name right n
over 2 years ago
Back when I first got here, I said something like the strength, longevity, and general experience of this place would be determined by how well and how quickly they implemented a strong culture of moderation and codes of values. So. I was right about that.
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Small Wonders
5 months ago
$2.99 a month for some really amazing stories and poems, right in your inbox!
store.smallwondersmag.com
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ryan cooper
5 months ago
this is great
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Brian Richardson
5 months ago
CheatGPT
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Polybius Paints
5 months ago
Finished reading The Worst of All Possible Worlds, last book of the Salvager’s trilogy by
@alexwhite.bsky.social
To say these three books are my favorite I’ve ever read is to seriously undersell it. How lucky I am to have gotten to experience them. If you have the chance, absolutely read them.
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hannah gais
6 months ago
It’s more than a bit disturbing that if you get big enough online (by which I mean like over 1,000 followers), there’s almost certainly at least one person who hates your guts who’s never interacted with you at all.
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hey I saw this photo on Mastodon and thought of you
6 months ago
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N: Copper Harbor, Michigan, USA S: Johannesburg, South Africa W: Marsabit, Kenya E: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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6 months ago
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evacide
9 months ago
This is your regular reminder that end-to-end encrypted communications will not protect you against members of your group chat sending screenshots to NBC News:
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Columbia University students plan to build tent encampments this week, sources say
Plans were discussed in a meeting Tuesday night in Brooklyn, where participants wore masks and identified themselves only by their Signal handles.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-university-students-plan-build-tent-encampments-week-sources-rcna202549
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dfprovine
6 months ago
There are a lot of books I've liked, but _A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe_ by
@alexwhite.bsky.social
was so exciting and fun that it made me want to actually sit down and write a book.
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Wil Wheaton
6 months ago
I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them. Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
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Alex White
6 months ago
Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday! Read my super short story for some high-octane action in the Starfinder Universe. Then check out my other titles! A BIG SHIP AT THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE is on super sale this month...
bookshop.org/p/books/a-bi...
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@alicecavanagh.bsky.social
I just heard Jordan Peterson is moving from Canada to the United States
7 months ago
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Diane Langberg, PhD
7 months ago
The central experiences of childhood trauma are silence, isolation, and helplessness. Healing, then, must involve a restoration of voice, safe connection, and rightful power. Healing does not usually occur in isolation. It occurs in the context of a safe relationship.
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ally
7 months ago
Being a marginalized person from the deep south has always felt like being abandoned twice: first by our own corrupt conservative politicians, then a second time by liberals who think we deserve to suffer and die for being born in the wrong place.
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git mergetook
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Nicole Bedera
11 months ago
If there's one thing that domestic violence research has taught me, it's that abusers set up no-win scenarios. They punish you whether you cooperate with them or whether you push back. The only way out is to strengthen ties with people outside of the relationship who can create new, better options.
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ally
7 months ago
Hey everyone, reminder to check your spam folder if you have any outstanding job applications! I just called a hiring manager to follow up about one and found out they had emailed me this morning to set up an interview but it was in my spam folder.
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Diane Langberg, PhD
7 months ago
We damage the dignity of others when we refuse to wait for them—whether they need to tie their own shoes or they are struggling to find words for the indescribable. We bestow honor on another when we consider him or her worth waiting for.
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Brad Cavanagh
7 months ago
Reminder that Goodreads is trash and The StoryGraph is heaps better.
thestorygraph.com
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I have not read these, because the IP just isn’t my thing, but my daughter read The Cold Forge and loved it
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7 months ago
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Misty Granade
7 months ago
I recreated Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” in crochet to make a mug rug. And it’s both delightful AND full of existential dread! (Making the back and the frame today)
#CrochetArt
#YarnLove
#OnlyBeautifulThings
#Crochet
#MakingThings
#ArtYear
Pattern on Ravelry: EnchantedThreads1
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Second Great Bisexual Awakening
8 months ago
Someone in the replies called this doordash for bears and I can't stop laughing
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Mekka Okereke
8 months ago
This is the real reason they're masked and don't provide ID. It's not to prevent blowback. They don't care about blowback. They went to proud boys rallies and "mass deportation now" rallies without masks. It's that they're contracting out this work to people with no legal authority to make arrests.
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Katie Mack
8 months ago
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Greg Pak
8 months ago
"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine
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Diane Langberg, PhD
8 months ago
Vulnerable ones need a voice. They are, however, the most easily discounted by virtue of their very vulnerability. We sadly tend to give more credibility to those who are articulate and seem important to sustaining the system.
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe
8 months ago
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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Why don’t they see that cheering this on, trying to hasten the second coming of Christ, is taking the side of wickedness and rebellion against God. This just follows from the scriptures themselves Cheering on the enemies of God on the eve of His return seems unwise! Also, Malachi chapter 3!
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7 months ago
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alison says reinstate Link!
8 months ago
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? In general, it takes about 1000 years to form 1cm of new soil.
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Noah Grey
8 months ago
Random memories from my former home in Los Angeles. Sending love to everyone standing up against fascism there and everywhere. 🕯
#photography
#photosky
#losangeles
#california
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Hank Green
8 months ago
Oh my god I have amazing news…
good.store/products/soc...
Not only does the money not end up with billionaires, it is currently building a hospital in Sierra Leone.
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Noah Grey
8 months ago
My sister's hand holding mine in the ER. Reposting this for
#WorldCaringDay
today in her honor, since she's also my caretaker, and without her I wouldn't still be here.
#painting
#artsky
#art
#digitalart
#blueskyart
#hands
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Marco Rogers
8 months ago
Whew. Shit.
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Chris Hubbs
8 months ago
I have spent most of my career working with public-spirited non-partisan FAA employees who really do want to work to make flying safer for everyone. We need to keep them around.
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Salty AF
8 months ago
Target is really out there with their lorem ipsum Pride collection đź«
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Noah Grey
8 months ago
All Is Calm, All Is Bright
#painting
#artsky
#dublin
#ireland
#night
#impressionism
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Misty Granade
8 months ago
A few videos and quotes from around the internet that are inspiring me to get moving in my work right now. Don't water it down.
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What’s inspiring me this week
A few videos and quotes from around the internet that are inspiring me to get moving in my work right now. Don't water it down.
https://misty.granades.com/2025/05/27/whats-inspiring-me-this-week/
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