Goodnight, friends.
We will get through all of this, and we'll do it together.
I love you.
@anuncivilphd
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Goodnight, friends.
We will get through all of this, and we'll do it together.
I love you.
Goodnight, friends.
We will get through all of this, and we'll do it together.
I love you.
Depending on when you want to set it, Donny can be or not be a ghost
A 1943 ad for a Southside Chicago movie theater announces a Batman serial, featuring βRobert the Boy Wonder"
Batman andβ¦Robert, the Boy Wonder?! Hmm...
#comics
Photo of a kid on a banana seat bike with a tall sissy bar and a crazily long brake cable. In the upper left there's an upper- and lower-case "G" and at the bottom it says, "G is for groovy."
"G is for Groovy"
Flashcard from the "Black ABCs" by the Society for Visual Education, 1970
Maybe we deserve what weβve got coming to us
A 1943 ad for a Southside Chicago movie theater announces a Batman serial, featuring βRobert the Boy Wonder"
Batman andβ¦Robert, the Boy Wonder?! Hmm...
#comics
Hey friends - Sara got enough money for one night at a hotel, but she could use help with a second night! Please boost or donate if youβre able!
#mutualaidsky #help
βCoffee is a big part of our culture,β said Mohammad Abdullah, a real estate agent who was born and raised in Bridgeview. βIt doesnβt matter if itβs morning, afternoon or night. Itβs never too late or early for coffee. As soon as iftar ends, weβre heading to the coffee shop.β
This is very important and a major pet peeve of mine. If you donβt know what youβre doing- and if you learned on the internet, then sorry, you donβt know what youβre doing- please leave old gravestones well enough alone.
Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words
If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.
If history is any sort of guide, the ultra-rich need to realize a wealth tax is actually the best possible outcome.
Amazing Stories
100 yrs ago
Amazing Stories
10 Mar 1926
#BookSkyπ
@anuncivilphd.bsky.social
"The Library of Accessible Media is committed to providing resources like large print books and braille stacks to those who need it. But the accessibility extends beyond this." #A11y
billypenn.com/2026/03/10/p...
I would have laughed loudly too!
b&w photo of a smiling cheerful Nazi propaganda minister happy that his party has taken power. He's relaxed and leaning back in his chair
Joseph Goebbels - Albert Eisenstaedt, 1933
b&w photo of the same Nazi now scowling and rigid in his chair. He looks at the photographer with visions of murder in his head
Joseph Goebbels (after finding out Eisenstaedt was Jewish) - Albert Eisenstaedt, 1933
βSeveral years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harmsβ¦ A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.β
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
THIS PART.
When I graduated from high school my counselor (who was great) told me it was good I wanted to be a physicist because I'd never be a great writer. I was also the worst writer in my frosh expos course.
I am now an award-winning writer. BECAUSE I PRACTICED!!!!!!
lol. having a normal one
I know our expectations for this administration are in the basement but it is INSANE they started a war without a plan for the Strait of Hormuz.
If you can spare a few dollars, Sara could use the help.
#mutualaid
Man.
The world fucking is on fire.
So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.
Live whats left of your only life.
If you canβt be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.
Fuck the haters.
If you can spare a few dollars, Sara could use the help.
#mutualaid
Librarian at the Library of Congress just out here hiding books for decades. π