grace under pressure

grace under pressure

@persisting.bsky.social

i'm shoi or star! anthropologist, author, online child safety expert. cis, queer, she/her. batman and robin should always be kissing.

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A charming series about young wizards entranced you as a child. A man wrote fan fiction of it, now he has movement that may be a sex cult. Senators meet with him about the machine god. The author wants to eradicate a gender minority, but the federal govt wants you to fuck one of them from her books.

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One thing about the whole "you have to read books if you want to be an author" thing is that if you aim to do more than just genre inbreeding, you have to read stuff outside the genre you're writing, too. May even have to read [shudders] nonfiction.

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the wildest part about this is that the chinese communists don't even really softpedal mao. the resolution on the mao era is *extensively* critical and describes 'major mistakes', 'unjustifiable' policies, and most nobably attacks him for individualist leadership. it's pretty scathing!!

en.wikipedia.orgResolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social

The left’s soft pedaling of mao is not a fringe phenomenon

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The Lula election may be the most significant of our time. Brazil will be the vanguard against an even more apocalyptic environmental deterioration. Overjoyed that the Amazon remains steadfast.

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blocking just isn’t a super serious thing, it doesn’t have to be saved for a massive transgression “I didn’t enjoy interacting with this person on the internet” is a perfectly good reason now you won’t find each other annoying anymore, everyone wins

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

"You can't block someone just for being annoying!" Those are actually the most important people to block

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YOU - What is beauty? KLAASJE (MISS ORANJE DISCO DANCER) - “When you have the fewest deviations from the norm. I've been told it's a type of mediocrity that I possess.”

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Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

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REPORT: Zohran Mamdani has been caught taking out cop cars and pulling sick donuts in the parking lot with his friends, impeding police efficiency.

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RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

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Take the Brazilians' advice, please don't quote or amplify horrible people, amplify voices on the side of sanity and progress

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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i need you to understand this: the closest thing a rich person gets to talking to their child is answering emails from their school from cradle to grave, their child is managed by aupairs, nannys, boarding schools, and eventually a pa, they then have kids, and sometimes keep the same nanny too

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

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between serbia, brazil, and hopefully november 3, a good reminder: voting works it’s not the end, there’s always work to be done after the vote, but if you want to beat the motherfuckers and keep them out of power: vote your asses off

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Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

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seeing some "what was your largest impact on the internet" posts and i think mine was probably the Know Your Lagomorphs doodle

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Replying to @poupon.bsky.social

Unfortunately we might never know who made this post

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Obama is still the most gifted political communicator of my lifetime and it isn’t particularly close

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth