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Writer, Artist, musician, avid reader. likes long walks on the beach and in dark, creepy castles anywhere. Currently working on my first novel and some other things.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h
NO JUSTICE NO PEACE
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h
There’s already video of some NYPD helping ICE leave after the shooting and the role of the police in aiding these incidents has to be addressed.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h
this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 16h
There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17h
The funniest thing on here this afternoon is the people who are responding to news of a televised lynching with “omg, I feel like I live in some foreign country”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h
I'm personally SICK of the perpetual FAKE horror from a population that mostly shrugs about regular executions.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h
This IS what this country is. It's not the only thing that it is but it is absolutely violent and barbaric. The US. is one of 55 countries that still maintain capital punishment. 140 countries have abolished it. This IS what this country is. Might as well televise the killings.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h
I blame all of us.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h
I am not shocked. I am not surprised. I expect that this is what this country's leaders will do because they have a blood lust that is enabled by the country's people.
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the moon report 🌑 @seachanger.bsky.social · 17h
love how we were told performative social justice was the problem, but the performance of literal violence is these people's entire life purpose
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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 18h
SPOTTED: Wanted posters of Elon Musk outside Angelika Theater as Musk documentary opens in New York 👀 📍Soho, New York
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h
White people attended public lynchings in droves and had picnics with their children there. I mean, PLEASE.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h
New Pew poll has Trump's approval at 30% (!) 68% of the country disapproves of him. Lowest in his second term, at January 6 levels. *31%* of Trump 2024 voters now disapprove of him.
Trump's approval rating continues to drop
Three-in-ten Americans now say they approve of Trump's handling of his job as president, while 68% disapprove - down 4 percentage points from July and his lowest approval rating of his second term.
Trump's approval rating drops to 30% - on par with his rating prior to leaving office in January 2021

*chart showing his sinking approval ratings, compared alongside his first term*

Much of this decline in his approval ratings over the course of his term is among Trump's own 2024 voters - 67% of validated Trump 2024 voters approve of his job performance today while 31% disapprove. At the beginning of his term, 95% approved.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 20h
“The coming together of labor unions, the youth movement, and the parliamentary left-wing opposition forms a kind of ‘tortoise formation’ of mutual protection, making a broader collective momentum possible […]."
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French students shut down schools in historic strike against austerity - BT News
French students continue with mobilizations, demanding the right to education with support from unions and progressive forces.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h
Maybe more white people will finally say enough. Who knows?
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 18h
I feel like I’m ALWAYS (only a slight exaggeration!) looking for ways to create databases w/pretty outputs.There is an obvious answer I’m missing! Should the database instead be a website? Or maybe a search of PDFs (🫠) would be enough? I’m gonna laugh when I figure out how obvious the answer is…
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 18h
About 26,500 New Yorkers have lost food benefits under new federal work requirements, raising concerns about the financial toll on neighborhood bodegas. (via @HealthbeatUS)
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‘Why Are They Doing This?’: SNAP Cuts Pose Financial Threat to NYC's Bodegas
About 26,500 New Yorkers have lost food benefits under new federal work requirements, raising concerns about the financial toll on neighborhood bodegas.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19h
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h
Pete Hegseth says there needs to be serious consequences for people who commit crimes, just jotting that down for future reference.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Actors may not want to weigh in on politics but I assure you politics will be weighing in on the entertainment industry
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h
No, but really, outsourcing our own moral discernment to the talking word toaster is not reasonable or ultimately positive for humans so it’s okay. It is a machine. There’s no mortality to it being used as a machine. You don’t remote lock a guy for cussing out his tractor. What are we doing here?
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19h
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 21h
🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
theguardian.com
Top bosses at Goldman Sachs to share bonus pot worth up to $500m
Eye-watering sum, to be split between 20 bankers, is one of the biggest payouts in the bank’s history
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21h
People voted for lower prices and fascism, and they got higher prices and fascism. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/10/...
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Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says
Tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56. Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
mississippitoday.org
Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21h
In addition to the unrelenting bombardment, Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of losing their lives and limbs through the unexploded ordnances that the Israeli army leaves behind. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/unex...
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Unexploded ordnances left by Israel in Gaza pose a constant danger to Palestinians
In addition to the unrelenting bombardment, Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of losing their lives and limbs through the unexploded ordnances that the Israeli army leaves behind.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h
This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...
For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 22h
I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 23h
Have you all been talking w the seniors in your lives about how that $90 Medicare ‘gift’ is a fucking bribe that will be a part of destroying Medicare/medicaid?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If people read more Black feminists, they'd be better off.
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Histoires Crépues @histoires-crepues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
« Ce qu’on demande, ce ne sont même pas des revendications, ce sont des droits ». Le 4 octobre, devant la mairie de Saint-Denis, Seydou, 17 ans et scolarisé à Rosny-sous-Bois, déplore la dégradation de l'Éducation nationale et appelle les lycéens à ne rien lâcher.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dinosaur Masks, Easels, 1,000 Top Hats: Inside NYC’s Free Store for Teachers www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/08/c...
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Dinosaur Masks, Easels, 1,000 Top Hats: Inside NYC’s Free Store for Teachers
A visit to the Queens warehouse for the Materials for the Arts program has become a ritual for many local educators.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I agree with Chris. No AI for kids. Period. Argue with your mama.
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bad news from France. Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen continues to lead the polls, despite her conviction this summer. 39% of French people believe she is capable of making the decisions the country needs," according to a new Verian survey for Le Figaro Magazine.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ridiculous people worldwide.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A lot of people will believe them because they will be highly propagandized to do so. They are buying every communication platform up with their billions.
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Darnese Foster was one of the thousands of Black women who lost their jobs when Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency gutted the federal workforce. More than a year later, she is still looking for work to support her family. bit.ly/4y624cM
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The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After DOGE Layoffs
Part 1 of a three-part series, FIRED: The DOGE Layoffs Hit Black Women Hard, a collaboration between MindSite News, Capital B, The 19th, and The Nation, edited by MindSite News. Photographs by Kuwilil...
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Anyolo @anyolo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Of course
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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Taxpayer dollars” imagines money as a homogeneous substance already belonging to an individuated taxpayer before politics begins. Once that medium is stabilized, political conflict can be rendered as allocation among externally differentiated claimants: my dollars are going to those people.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
“Without 14th Amendment, various figures would not have gained U.S. citizenship… — Marco Rubio, Cuban parents — Kash Patel, Indian parents — Mehmet Oz, Turkish parents — Usha Vance, Indian parents — Nikki Haley, Indian parents www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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Trump's own Cabinet would have been harmed by birthright citizenship move
The policy would in theory harm some of Trump's own Cabinet members and other prominent political figures.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This isn’t looking good. Police have completely surrounded a packed Place de la Bastille. There may be two authorised exits, but the crowd is so dense people can’t reach them. They’re now chanting to be let out.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's not only Paris... Marseille youth in the streets, too. "Siamo tutti antifascisti" via @Lambdactu
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Hey GUYS GUYS GUYS, WE'VE TAKEN THE BASTILLE" Followed by the roar of the crowd. (can't tell you how moving this is) via @LucAuffret
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tensions are rising at Place de la Bastille, where police have begun issuing warnings to disperse. They have also blocked most of the exits from the Place de la Bastille.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is NOT crowd control. Firing tear gas into a dense crowd with most exits blocked.

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