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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 17h

In light of we've learned about the execution team's struggle to establish IV access before Christa Pike's failed lethal injection, here's a story I wrote in June after Carruthers. The new protocol TN adopted in 2025 reduced training in IV placement. nashvillebanner.com/2026/06/30/t...

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Lethal injection protocol likely led to botched execution - Nashville Banner

Tennessee's current lethal injection protocol includes reduced training on IV placement, an issue that caused the state to halt Tony Carruthers' execution.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

I guarantee you there are Jesuits right now engaged in a skeptical but serious inquiry into the question of AI sentience and what the theological implications would be.

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Aaren @aarenp.bsky.social · 12h

For those in Cali - beef for stew was half off - so stew it is. Glad it’s gets down to 65 at night…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 18h

texans: you still have three days to register to vote

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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hispanics working in the USA 👏🏽

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 23h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You really can’t make this shit up.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026

Want to learn about the history of our city? Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

abolish the death penalty

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first team to advance to the 2026 Division Series: the Chicago White Sox, as we all surely expected when this season began

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home

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Weidbrewer @weidbrewer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I often put "draw a monster on the box" in my shipping notes when I place orders and see who reads them. @nobleknightgames.bsky.social understood the assignment

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29/09/2026

If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Landscapes of Care: Very much looking forward to joining the evening (UK) session tomorrow 🙌 So timely as I sit here listening to @kateraworth.bsky.social and Robin Wall Kimmerer in conversation.

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Aaren @aarenp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like nothing for four days and now I feel like I am reacting to the flu shot? I blame the “artificial” court (I am renaming it from supreme. I do not think they know what that word means.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026

*gently pinching bridge of nose*

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Without commenting specifically on the allegations at issue, my recommendation to the Cornell board of trustees in 2003 was to abolish fraternities and sororities at the university.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.

Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.

Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

JCO’s fursona is a velociraptor.

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Shaun with a U @shaun-with-a-u.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

even former Mariners & current Angel Taylor Saucedo (who grew up a Mariners fan) stayed on the field to hear Rick Rizzs good bye speech absolute respect

former Mariner / current Angel Taylor Saucedo stays on the field to hear Rick Rizzs final goodbye

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abcdef 🕶️ @onecaliberal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The NFL is owned by rapists and genocide supporters.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bet insurance companies are thrilled with the Trump administration‘s message to policyholders that they need to file claims on every policy they have or they might risk losing it.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🧊🛩️ ONE DAY LATER, an Air Wisconsin jet (N455AW), dispatched overnight from Texas to replace the broken down ICE plane, departs Seattle with a load of humans who may been shackled for almost 24 hours 👀

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ah. you are the zoo tigers: requires large habitat with lots to pounce on and a regularly provided pumpkin full of raw meat as enrichment activity

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Having a public road through the middle of a rail yard isn't compatible with a Vision Zero city and it's wild that Amtrak was the one pushing on this. But I've gone off on a tangent. Seattle is a train city.

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Sarah Cupcakes @cupcakesarenice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Y'alllll look at the monarch babies in my yard!!

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I die, please politicize my death. “All she wanted was a Cesar Salad, but RFK Jr demanded her soul.”

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.

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Aaren @aarenp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#sixonsatureday feeling sad about the CDC so here’s some flowers

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Aaren @aarenp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elevators out (5th floor - Friday night so definitely a three day stoppage is possible - and the dryer is making bad noises

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!

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Aaren @aarenp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Your nails are next level - inspiration!

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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Cubs and White Sox both clinched playoff berths within mere minutes of each other. Pretty cool.

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 25/09/2026

If the ballroom construction is such a sensitive national security matter, why is Trump inviting the Chinese delegation on a tour???

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think of the climate harm AI poses the same way: the threats are not theoretical or in the future, but unfolding all around us now.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I apologize in advance for the cuteness I am about to unleash upon you I went outside again, you see This red squirrel had a little shelter of sticks and he stepped out into the sun to show me his FEETS 1/

SQUIRREL FEETS in the sun. They are attached to a whole squirrel. But the fact is we are looking at very cute little squirrel feet here, top one percent for sure

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