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🪡🧵I know we have sunset trauma but this is too pretty, so.. exposure therapy? #SaveWarriorNun #WarriorNun
finley || writer, fan account retweeted
This is why you apply pressure to and hold politicians accountable even if you support them. It’s your responsibility.
Zohran Mamdani's NYPD walks back $750,000 contract deal with Israeli surveillance company Cognyte after pressure from his supporters
“It did not meet the criteria for a sole source procurement, so we are moving to an open, competitive procurement process”
(via @NYDailyNews)
finley || writer, fan account retweeted
À Strasbourg, hier, la police a tabassé deux manifestants déjà blessés et les street medics qui les soignaient.
Le monde entier doit voir ce que la police française fait à son peuple.
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France is tear gassing kids singing (they tear gassed 500 musicians playing in an orchestra a few days ago). This is French barbarism on display (facism) and they must be internationally condemned for this violence against these kids
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It’s really freaking me out how much grown adults are upset about an ad by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre highlighting consent and unwanted touch for children.
Youre not entitled to hug or kiss children if they don’t want you to you freaks!
My boss is explaining what conventions are, saying it’s like cameo irl and you get to go meet famous people and maybe take pictures with them and I’m sitting here nodding along as if I haven’t literally traveled to a different continent to go to a convention before #WarriorNun
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Phrase poll is up! #savewillow
forms.gle/SmCgPk9HnV78Qd6XA
finley || writer, fan account retweeted
This is the only version of this speech that has ever brought me to tears. Scott delivers it not like a grand Shakespearean actor, but like a friend who is admitting to you that they’re thinking of killing themself. It’s so natural and so heartbreaking.
Andrew Scott delivers this speech too slowly; I know some viewers will hate the way he breaks up the verse. AND YET even in spite of that I think this is the best delivery of this soliloquy I’ve ever seen.
He makes it sound like it’s not a portentous speech everyone already knows but a morally serious real-time deliberation, by a highly intelligent person in extreme pain, considering what it would mean to end his own life.
finley || writer, fan account retweeted
Also, few hours left to get in any last minute phrase poll votes! Graylora's are coming out strong for a phrase. The rest are still up for grabs. #willow #saveWillow
forms.gle/WnQUKAHpHfoPh5kB9
finley || writer, fan account retweeted
House keeping poll. Feedback on the account. Give it to us!
Letting it go early. Maybe some fun polls will get added later in the day. Not the most exciting polls but maybe some good time to grab data. Let's see what the followers might want. So comments would be helpful for specifics, if shy DM us.
#saveWillow #willow
finley || writer, fan account retweeted
Letting it go early. Maybe some fun polls will get added later in the day. Not the most exciting polls but maybe some good time to grab data. Let's see what the followers might want. So comments would be helpful for specifics, if shy DM us.
#saveWillow #willow
finley || writer, fan account retweeted
I’m not intimidated by AI. I’m repulsed by it. I’m not jealous of AI art. I know it’s predictive rather than creative, and built on stolen content. I’m not scared of new technology. What I'm scared of is a world without trees, bees, fresh air, and clean water.
finley || writer, fan account retweeted
The other day, I posted about being sad that a local cafe was using AI for promotion. Yesterday, they made a post saying they heard everyone's comments and would no longer be using AI going forward. There's always hope if you keep speaking up!
finley || writer, fan account retweeted
let me recap: protesters started gathering at place de la bastille peacefully. upon entry, we were searched, saline/masks/anything to protect yourself against tear gas and more was taken away. signs were read by the officers and if the message was not to their liking+
finley || writer, fan account retweeted
You can't make a regular person hate A.I.
The average person doesn't care about artists, or writers, or the environment.
So tell your mom that her kids are gonna have AI p*rn made of them and it'll be legal. Tell your uncle their electric bill is gonna go up and it will be legal. Tell your bro that their water is gonna go bad and it will be legal. Tell your grandma she won't be able to breathe outside and it will be legal. Tell your sister they're gonna make deep fakes of her and use it to make her look racist and it will be legal. Tell your bestie they'll make fake n*des of her and it will be legal. Tell your father he'll be miscategorized as a felon on a google search and it will be legal.
Yes these are all things that have happened and can happen. So stop using the artist argument for regular people. Try these instead 🙏
finley || writer, fan account retweeted
You know back in the day movies used to be filled with small parts like these that would either elevate a story or be an unexpected catalyst for the main character.
Their roles make a movie feel more memorable and the world more full. It’s a dying art in film writing.
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Every use of a leaf blower is a massacre.
A typical blower pushes air out at 150 to 200 mph. That's faster than a Category 5 hurricane, aimed straight at the layer of leaves where next year's butterflies, moths, and fireflies are hoping to spend the winter.
Woolly bear caterpillars curl up under those leaves. Luna moths hide their cocoons in them, disguised as dead leaves. Fireflies lay their eggs in them. Bumblebee queens sleep an inch or two below. Blast the beds down to bare dirt and all of it gets scattered, exposed or bagged for the landfill.
Flip it to vacuum mode and it's even worse. It sucks up whatever's in the leaves, insects and spiders included, and chops it up.
In 2019, Germany's environment ministry told people not to use leaf blowers unless they're indispensable, because small animals get sucked in or blown around and damaged.
Get a rake. Move the leaves off the lawn and driveway, pile them whole in your garden beds and under your trees, and leave them there until spring.
Next year's bumblebees and fireflies will thank you.
