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Posts by vera khovanskaya

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Fisher-Price Is Pivoting to AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Manufacturing “We at Fisher-Price have always believed in the power of imagination. In discovery. In the joy of a child pressing a button and hearing a satisfying sound. T...

"As a company founded in 1930 on the principles of 'safety, durability, and play value,' we felt the logical next step was autonomous kill drones."

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Collective Bargaining Win in Maryland Makes History Starting July 1, 2026, thousands of non-tenure-track faculty across Maryland’s four-year public universities will have the right to bargain collectively for the first time in history.

From the @aaup.org mothership:

"Collective Bargaining Win in Maryland Makes History"

You're damn right it does.

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Nope! That would make sense but actually neither of our wholly different spring breaks are now

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Yes, that is one way to refer to it

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I suppose it’s fair for him to say that, but still, I am not,

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No school on Good Friday and then no school on Easter Monday, my child has spent enough time stuck with me to elicit his first parentally-directed “bruh”

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My child loves the song Rasputin by Boney M. and unfortunately there is no one else to blame but me

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AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue The fight against the University of Michigan–Los Alamos data center.

The fight against the University of Michigan–Los Alamos data center reveals the “political and planetary stakes” of AI and the threat of “tech-enhanced militarism,” @tisjune.bsky.social , @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social & @nathanckim.bsky.social write in #Academe:

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A Little Owl is bundled in a baby blue towel on a table with an expression of malcontent. His eyes are squinted and slightly crossed, and match his waxy yellow beak in colour. He appears chinless, recessing his head into his body; eyes at the same level as his shoulders and squashed as though someone had tried resizing him in a Word document and forgot to lock the aspect ratio.

A Little Owl is bundled in a baby blue towel on a table with an expression of malcontent. His eyes are squinted and slightly crossed, and match his waxy yellow beak in colour. He appears chinless, recessing his head into his body; eyes at the same level as his shoulders and squashed as though someone had tried resizing him in a Word document and forgot to lock the aspect ratio.

A Little Owl was rescued after falling down a chimney. South Essex Wildlife Hospital reported he was "dirty and dehydrated but soon on his way back home". Want to donate to SEWH? southessexwildlife.org/donate Source: fb.com/555952912555... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

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One of the things I miss now that I live in NYC is that beautiful brutalist baby the DC Metro. Happy Birthday, we love you.

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Kill Chain On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

New, from me.

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as in I also do this (and many other things that are similarly speaking only as real as something in my head is real)

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that's so real

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Omg

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me neither

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decluttering baby teeth

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Amazing

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Best Wishes For The Baby

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That’s basically what the top of the bookshelf is now. ie tooth fairy’s drop location (I am mostly worried he might ask a babysitter to let him look up there and they'll both find it and be like ??)

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some of those compartments man

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I assume that is how all great scrimshaw masters started

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What exactly is one supposed to do with a child's lost teeth? The teeth that have fallen out

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I eat avocados straight out of the skin with a spoon and my girl looks at me like Pippin watching Denethor eat cherry tomatoes.

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your posts are the best and I miss seeing them

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it is too bad, because I miss the pictures. maybe when I sleep more, those potions will not be too strong for me ...

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But if you were worried about my “productivity,” lol, rest assured I can still waste time just fine elsewhere, removing those two just lowers the chances that my revenge-procrastinating brain lands on something so painfully and expertly engineered to hold a person hostage

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the unfortunate thing is that unsubscribing would require me visiting their url, which I cannot do due to my hosts file lol

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the vindicating part is how reliably instagram starts emailing you to log back in after a few days like a landlord immediately noticing a missing rent check but you don't have to pay it

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