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Aiko

@aikoetc.bsky.social
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Teacher, reader, parent, Californian. Accessibility is the heart of a just society. Mood poster. She/her

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Democrats are doing what a lot of people *on here* asked them to do by holding shadow hearings. Help amplify!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Kaiser is following these guidelines and vaccines are available to members with no copay. Got my kids' and my appointment booked for the end of next week.
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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 18/09/2025
When the government cancels you, that’s just sparkling censorship, Ken.
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Cancelled Disney+/Hulu/HBO. Let them know why
Screenshot of a subscription cancellation for Hulu
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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Folks if you haven't yet called your electeds to ask them vote YES on SB 79- NOW is the time!!!
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GenXKaren @genxkaren.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Suuuure. I’ll pay UoC prices so they can teach me via ChatGPT. Suuuure.
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This will take you at least an hour to read but if you've got bad vibes about AI, this spells out in painful detail why it's a house of cards. Not even addressing ethical or environmental concerns, it's an economic disaster in the making.
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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...
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The Sacramento Bee @sacbee.com · 21/07/2025
“Rep. Kevin Kiley pretends to care about his constituents but continues to vote against their interests.” | Letters to the editor
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Rural hospitals will be decimated by President Donald Trump’s budget bill | Opinion
“Rep. Kevin Kiley pretends to care about his constituents but continues to vote against their interests.” | Letters to the editor
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Mork @fourdeltavictor.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
RIP Mark Twain you would have loved posting.
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I ate a strawberry for the first time in years the other day. Buy em all the time, I just forgot that I could do that because of the speed the kids demolish them.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Unfortunately this situation produces a certain type of grifter - let's call them toxic generalists - who relies on this complexity to wheel and deal their way through systems. The toxic generalist only needs to know a little more than nothing to pass as an expert. That's where AI comes in.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
2 of my bills protecting Californians from the fascist police state passed key committees: Banning law enforcement, eg ICE, from extreme masking (SB 627) Protecting trans people’s health info from being accessed/abused by out-of-state actors & strengthening CA’s trans state of refuge law (SB 497)
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Let's do it!
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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
[red faced, visibly vibrating, you can tell I'm struggling not to say "dune 3 chicks at once"]
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Echo chamber? ECHO CHAMBER?!? This site has BOTH people who think Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written AND people who know the real GOAT is Middlemarch!!
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The men of this administration continue to be cutting edge embarrassing.
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The Living Man Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The most influential newspaper in the world has only a few left-of-center voices on it, but if the left all bands together, we can get that number down to zero
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This Fourth of July, I am thinking about the 139 civil servants who took an oath to uphold the constitution and the EPA’s mission, and were placed on leave for raising concerns about issues such as deregulating asbestos and lead exposure. This is un-American. The 1st amendment exists for a reason.
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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
July 4, 2025. I REAFFIRM: “A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may DEFINE A TYRANT, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people" - The Declaration of Independence
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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
That's not the near-consensus. The near consensus is that AI doesn't work and will be a technology that has major knock-on effects on society. It is grounded both in reality and theory.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 01/07/2025
The owner of a beloved indie bookstore in Vermillion, SD, has to leave the state because it is no longer safe for his trans kid and they cannot access medical care. So my friend and his wife are fundraising to purchase it: www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...
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Trans couple starts fundraiser to buy local bookstore
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The current owners of Outside of a Dog Books and Games, decided to sell their bookstore and move out of state because of the current anti-trans laws in the state. A local…
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
every day Angelenos are mobilizing daily to push back against the Trump administration’s month-long immigration blitz in Los Angeles. we joined some of them early this morning ahead of the latest raids.
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A truly historic day in California: a clean CEQA exemption for environmentally friendly infill housing has just passed the California legislature via the budget bill! No other way to put it: this is the most transformative positive shift in land use policy in this state of the last 50 years!
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Yes!!
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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
shenanigans *AND* tomfoolery? my word...
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 27/06/2025
This is a major victory for Berkeley residents present and future, a place that had been a NIMBY citadel for a long time (certainly when I was a UCB student in the '90s).
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Aiko Aslanian @aiko-aslanian.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Been thinking about this more and my real answer is read literally any romance novel.
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Heyyyyy I just figured out a pen name and made a writing profile. I don't know what I'm gonna post/how much but I'd love it my only follows weren't myself and sexbots I had to block immediately. (And no, I don't repeat myself). Be my friend? @aiko-aslanian.bsky.social 💙📚 #writingcommunity
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 26/06/2025
About the Meta AI Ruling: Meta gains a technical win, but the law favors authors. We'll tell you what this means. The fight continues, and the legal foundation is stronger than ever. Writers didn't lose. We're just getting started. Click here to learn more: authorsguild.org/news/meta-ai...
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AG on Meta AI Ruling: Meta Gets a Technical Win, but the Law Favors Authors - The Authors Guild
On June 25, a federal court in California issued its decision in Kadrey v. Meta, one of the cases in which authors have asserted copyright claims against an AI company for unauthorized copying of thei...
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
If we eliminated autism the human race would crumble. That is a load-bearing mental illness.
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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
25) Addendum #5: If you're writing for attention, you will either sell your soul or you will always be disappointed. If you're writing because you love the written word, and you love reading, and writing is a practice you can't give up, you will always be satisfied, no matter what happens.
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Bout sums it up
theonion.com
Supreme Court Questions Whether President Legally Allowed To Improve Americans’ Lives
WASHINGTON—Expressing deep skepticism about the constitutionality of such executive actions, members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority raised questions during oral arguments Tuesday about w...
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Sloth or entropy @ludditerobot.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Not sure what's so funny. I lost some of my closest buddies in the vibe wars.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited. It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.
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From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 25/06/2025
me showing up in the timeline
an article headed "bear falls through skylight into party, then eats all the cupcakes" and a picture of a bear
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Virgil Casper 🏳️‍⚧️💫💕 @vcyarr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So close to 4k!!! Less than 10 followers away. Can we get to my goal in time for my 4 year wedding anniversary??? Im a trans, black indigenous iranian american artist and aspiring author working on their debut fantasy trilogy. Appreciate any and all support! ☆☆☆ #booksky #artsky #pridemonth
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"What is even the point of being alive if you’re just gonna continue managing rot? And it seems like that’s what 98 percent of people are doing in these media companies right now." Someone with some fucking VERVE. That is what we are starving for right now. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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'The Onion' CEO on That Brutal 'New York Times' Op-Ed: 'Expect Us in Weird Places'
Ben Collins has overseen the comeback of a print edition of 'The Onion' over the past year and pledges that it will continue taking big swings
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Calling your state reps is so satisfying because it doesn't feel like shouting into the void like it does when you call national reps!
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Anyone who claims there are no examples of positive masculinity, that young men simply must emulate brutes and misogynists and racists because they have no one else to look up to, is not looking very hard. Two types of masculinity on display here. The choice is clear.
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
a muppets take on romantic films: thread
Count Von Count in Twilight instead of Edward Cullen.
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☁️ retornam ☁️ @retornam.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Meme showing Principal Skinner from
The Simpsons in two frames. 

The first frame has him with the words "Am I out of touch?"

The second frame has him with the words “No it is the entire corpus of human knowledge that is wrong."
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 21/06/2025
🚨🚨🚨 Yesterday I gave a heads up about a press conference that Brainworm Boy and Dr. Crudités are holding on Monday. At the time I didn’t know what fresh hell they were planning on announcing. Last evening I found out. (Warning: long, wonky but important read): acasignups.net/25/06/20/tru...
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Trump's CMS issues final rule: Officially screws over DACA recipients & transgender folks while causing higher out-of-pocket costs for enrollees & more
Back in March, the Health & Human Services (HHS) Dept. and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a so-called "Marketplace Integrity & Affordability Rule" which would include swee...
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 17/06/2025
hi, cis folks! the senate budget bill is out & this version still contains a prohibition against lifesaving trans healthcare for medicaid/CHIP—that's 275,000 people! if you're willing to stand with trans folks, please call your senators—no matter who. follow the thread for context & scripts.🧵
After a few days, you start feeling the initial effects of
living without that medication. Your brain gets foggy and you
start dissociating. The people in your life stop recognizing you and everyone else in society no longer sees you as you really are. The only way out of this new reality is likely getting your meds on the black market - or dying, because your body can't
produce a hormone you need. That is the gutting choice facing more than 275,000 transgender people who are on Medicaid if Trump's "Big Beautiful" budget passes the Senate and gets signed into law.
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Aiko @aikoetc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
But like if there were only one other religion and it's Scientology
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ceej @ceej.online · 26/07/2024
asking “is that Jaws?” every time a new character is introduced in Jaws
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