swirlOsquirrel

swirlOsquirrel

@swirlosquirrel.bsky.social

Hollywoodland Designer • Writer • Painter Get thee down, be thou funky.

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Gone Whale Watching San Diego "Amidst all of this orca mania, it’s been an outstanding start to humpback season! Over a dozen humpbacks were seen in San Diego yesterday, including this spectacular breacher captured by Captain Michael!" 📹Captain Michael Irwin Merriam

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After a neck-and-neck race where the future of the Amazon was at stake, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a historic reelection victory on Sunday. Hedefeatied Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro, and earned a record fourth term.

Making these idiots build this crap in space looking better all the time.

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social

Plans to put U.S. data centers underwater are alarming ecologists: the noise and heat that annoy people could also stress endangered whales sciam.com/article/unde...

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Seeing how little coverage that house report that added another rape accusation to Trump's tally got today, I looked back on just the front page Benghazi stories (there were many, many more inside over these months).

#FunFact that racist cunts in ICE don’t seem to understand — there are plenty of people of Hispanic heritage, who do NOT speak Spanish.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Cary López Alvarado is a U.S. citizen, born in LA She says ICE goons kept speaking to her in Spanish and assuming she was from Mexico, even after she told them, again and again, that she was born here and speaks English. She was 9 months pregnant when she was detained by ICE.

#ObjectsOfTheDay

Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social

Julian Biggers' 1997 hardwood metamorphic miniature table that transforms from a console into a gaming table, a modern take on 18th-century dual-use furniture designed for space efficiency. IG: @dthomasminiatures

LOLOL!

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

China’s first AI-generated theatrical film, ‘Sanxingdui: Future Past’, has bombed at their domestic box office, only making $121,000 USD against a budget of $1.5M USD. In contrast, the crudely animated ‘Niu Lai’ made nearly $10M USD against a budget of $200-500 USD.

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So he was lying about layoffs. DUH. Five fucking seconds after you idiots approved his merger. I’m not fucking kidding, I want this conglomerate shattered into a million pieces. Fuck this guy.

Skydance is launching an employee buyout program, with David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz kick-starting what is widely expected to be the first of many cost-saving efforts in a memo to staff Monday.

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Fantastic news in our defense against Donald Trump's attacks on our Constitution and elections. Make no mistake: Trump won't stop trying to illegally seize power or deface our democracy. California will keep fighting back.

CNN@cnn.com

A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration's unprecedented attempt to force California to set aside votes from 20,000 people it claims are noncitizens. https://cnn.it/4i8Q3P7

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Yes, and that's the other part of it: Protests are effective ways to raise awareness, but then (as Serbia and Hungary show) you have to follow it up with organizing and voting. Marching isn't enough. In this country, we valorize protest - but don't do the other stuff. (I hope this year, I'm wrong.)

Andrew Hazlett@andrewhazlett.bsky.social

I would suggest it is all of the above plus two years of hard civic work behind the scenes by young people and opposition figures.

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"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment." On this day in 1963, JFK delivered one of the greatest (and truest) speeches of all time www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/01/j...

themarginalian.orgJFK on Poetry, Power, and the Artist’s Role in Society: His Eulogy for Robert Frost, One of the Greatest Speeches of All Time“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”

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Café. Monday mornings when I leave the coffeeshop it’s like I’m a sailor being deployed. “Sure gonna miss ya,” I say with a wink to the handsome barista with the fashion forward (untrimmed! untamed!) eyebrows as I bound up the metaphorical gangplank into the bright unknown.

You know, I wrote a FUCKTON on here for fun. Because…writer. And complex thoughts. But one presumes that a REAL President has more critical things to do, than write a 1,300 word run-on SCREED about a half-assed comedian. He’s lost the ability to self-regulate, even for appearance’s sake.

Rest in Peace, #WalterKoenig. Simultaneously capable of being the charming Pavel Chekov on #StarTrek, and the absolutely chilling Bester on #Babylon5, he clearly had range, and was a good writer, as well. He will be missed.

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Lula should get their courts to sue Meta.

Laurie Loves Data@laurelann.bsky.social

Before the Brazilian election where progressive Lula beat right-wing Bolsonaro, Meta is accused of disrupting Lula's Insta and WhatsApp accounts Meta blamed "technical difficulties" That would be more believable if similar incidents had not happened recently in the US Tech billionaires are evil

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I appreciate that Oliver spent his whole show basically testing the Ellisons tolerance for dissent.

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

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Replying to @socialmedialab.ca

Congrats to the people of Serbia! Freedom is never given; it’s fought for, defended, and won through the courage and determination of ordinary people who refuse to be silenced. May this be a new chapter of democracy, justice, and accountability in your country. 🎉💪

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Once again, this jerk has no legal leg to stand on, this is all about sucking attention away from the Democratic front-runner, #MaryPeltola, who will become the first Native American U.S. Senator in history — and they’re scared to death of that.