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Lex @abouthalfthree.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

SBS Viceland’s schedule today appears to just be Groundhog Day Came into it half way through and get to watch the first half now

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

May the call of this beautiful laughing kookaburra uplift your day. #bird #kookaburra #australia

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"Wood is the ultimate sustainable material." Not if it's based on vast deadzones, as Ireland's ecocidal forestry industry is.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

‘Liberation,’ American-style.

Have heard from an Iranian friend that her partner in Teheran has sent her a message. He is a leftist and is telling her that the US/Israelis are targeting a number of known leftists homes in Teheran and elsewhere in an attempt to make sure there's no opposition to their favoured candidate once they destroy the regime. What this reveals is the degree of penetration by Mossad in Iran. What it also means is that this is not going to be an easy occupation for the US and its Israeli buddies.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

...so assuming you are not trans (which seems to be a safe assumption in this case), *you* get to make a choice: vote for someone who will reduce your coalition, or someone who will hold it together & potentially expand it. this is not on trans ppl, it's on *you* www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

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Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.

Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 19/02/2026

the difference between the US and Australia is that instead of renditioning and refouling people who are refugees, Australia just keeps them imprisoned for life.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 18/02/2026

shaming people for appearances that don’t appeal to you ain’t the fuck okay—even if it’s genuinely evil middle aged white men you’re shaming!—because the stigma *doesn’t fucking stop with people whose politics you hate*. shame them for their shit fucking politics and evil, leave aesthetics out of it

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manu schwendener @manuschwendener.ch · 27/09/2025

Glad that people _do_ recognize it :-) manuschwendener.ch/horses #LEGO #AliBati #SFW2025 #Skærbæk2025

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

coffee isnt even native to indonesia they just forced indonesian farmers to grow it as a cash crop and brought it to europe. even though "java" is like literally a synonym for coffee. so the cafés that gave rise to the french revolution were built on the back of slave labor in the dutch east indies

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16/02/2026

There’s an aggressively online guy at one of the right-wing news sites who, on the other site, would occasionally inundate my mentions with idiots with some tedious quote-tweet. I hadn’t seen his byline in a while so I Googled and it turns out he’s the spokesperson for a federal agency now

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

It's easy to be concerned about vaccines when you stop being concerned about viruses. You can only stop being concerned about viruses in a world with vaccines.

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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#WorldWhaleDay 🐳: Stephen Huneck (USA, 1948-2010) The #Whale, 2008 Woodblock on paper, image 8" x 13"; Signed, 5/500 www.mutualart.com/Artwork/The-...

Color woodblock print, illustration of a black whale surfacing in the ocean (dark blue with white wave lines) with water spouting out of its blowhole, with turquoise blue sky in background
titled, numbered, and signed in pencil along bottom margin

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

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Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states

The ruling temporarily blocks the Trump Administration from cutting $600 million in public health grants that had already been allocated to four Democratic-led states.

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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 16/02/2026

I met Brianna Wu in person during gamergate. I was a new assistant professor at the time, she was speaking in our game dev major. For years I considered her, if not a friend, at least a colleague. When she came out as trans I extended support to her. Our exchange was...not... what I expected...

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 11/02/2026

I've just realized. Banks used to be big imposing high street buildings because it gave people confidence they had money and weren't fly by night. A big elaborate website was the internet equivalent: proving someone had invested £ and was here to stay. You can't trust that any more.

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Rhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! 🪓🐑 @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I have wuthered the heights that were on the wily windy moors and which you were probably saving for gothic hauntings Forgive me Cathy's come home so lonely and so cold

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The thing many people fail to grasp—the thing you are sort of prevented from ever having a reason to grasp until you put the effort in to learn or life demands it of you—is that a world in which you see a lot of disabled people is simply a world in which more people survive disability.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026

You know what? Let me give y'all a fucking example. Calling something "racist" or "white supremacist" will literally be interpreted by white people (broadly construed) as adjacent to an ad-hominem attack because of how we've culturally organized our understanding of racism and white supremacy.

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Kris, spelled “Kris” @nottherealkris.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Hey if you “can’t draw” you can also make comics with like photography or blender or Roblox or whatever, you don’t have to draw your comics just FYI

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Summers in private: endlessly scheming with the world's most famous pervert to get a young female colleague whom he calls by a racist nickname to fuck him at conferences. Summers in public: "I don't see that many women in my field, it must be because they're bad at math"

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It's hard, as both a woman and a journalist, to understand both of these things and figure out a path forward. I can't mitigate them through more personal effort, education or professional experience. And it's galling to read the defenses for the layoffs and the people named in the Epstein files.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I will say gently: every famous counter sit-in from the Civil Rights era was a crime. Nonviolent civil disobedience is quite literally and explicitly a strategy where you commit crimes.

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Amy Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Yesss. People manifesting magical powers at 45 or something.

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Lex @abouthalfthree.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Like with most breakups, it can be easy and also possibly helpful to look back at the “warning signs” that it wasn’t working. But art doesn’t act and your relationship with creators is parasocial, so this is something to do in private as a grieving process. And yes also sit with the dissonance

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

For a v long time, I conflated "person who can make good art" with "person who has a functioning moral compass." I think that transference (based on appreciation, love, enthusiasm) is something a lot of us do. It hurts a lot when we find that our appreciation was hijacked so someone can do bad shit.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

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Lex @abouthalfthree.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When you get tired of riding your bike, pump the tires up. Also If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

“As richer and older Australians enjoy the lion’s share of generous tax concessions for landlords, the number of households on public housing waitlists has climbed to about 190,000, up from 169,000 in 2024, and 141,000 in 2018.”

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Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined

Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low

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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Astonishing "using AI assistance led to a .. significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz [of] concepts used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand .. AI sped up the task slightly, but this didn’t reach .. statistical significance."

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The thing about Catherine O’Hara is she is so hilarious and talented that I forgot she was mortal

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The embroidery piece in the header image of this fantastic article is just stunning, but the one further down from Sarah Gonsalves with Renee Good's last words and her murderer's response literally took my breath away.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

quote from Haruki Murakami: “I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.

“But to hold to such repetition for so long—six months to a year—requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.”

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs." Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion article titled “A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work,” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. A subheading says evidence from programs around the world suggests basic income does not make recipients lazier. Below the headline is a photo of several women sitting outdoors at a table working.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 30/01/2026

Dorks will be like "AI is expanding what’s possible and allowing storytellers to go places they simply couldn’t before" and then use it to recreate the year 1776, something that has been possible since the year 1776. They still sell the hats at the store and everything.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference" "there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies" "2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year" A win!

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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

"Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in private" Grandma Miriam, Holocaust survivor.👇

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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border. Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE). Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.

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Left Voice @leftvoice.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

HAPPENING NOW: Protesters forced federal police to retreat from the intersection where they were concentrated. They’ve totally barricaded the street with dumpsters.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 24/01/2026

Maybe instead of identifying specific ICE agents who do particularly heinous things, we could just penalize everyone who was on payroll at the agency starting by a certain date.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

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“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE

Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

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