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alex manley

@alexicon.bsky.social
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non-binary word person. author of The New Masculinity (2023) and Post-Man (2025), translator of Made-Up (2021). alexmanley.com

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Flu info and eligibility here (not eligible means out of pocket or otherwise covered by private insurance, can still get it) www.quebec.ca/sante/consei...
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Vaccination contre la grippe
Prendre rendez-vous en ligne, s'informer sur les types de vaccins.
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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Québec friends, the RAMQ eligibility criteria of the COVID boosters is out! They broadened it beyond the very restrictive May criteria, so you may be eligible (click though chronic conditions, too). www.quebec.ca/en/health/ad...
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COVID-19 vaccination
Making your appointment, learn about types of vaccines.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18/09/2026
#OtD 18 Sep 1990 Canadian soldiers and police tried to invade the Kahnawake reservation. Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) First Nations people who were resisting construction of a golf course fought back, and forced them to retreat after seven hours of fighting stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...
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Friends of the Earth U.S. (Action) @foeus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to announce the repeal of greenhouse gas pollution limits for coal and gas power plants today. We condemn this move as anti-science, inhumane, immoral, and dangerous. foe.org/news/stateme...
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Statement from Friends of the Earth U.S.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to announce the repeal of greenhouse gas pollution limits for coal and gas power plants today.
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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Who DOES this
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We must hold the line on this. Slop doesn't equal "bad" it means slop, the byproduct of some automated process. There's plenty of human-generated "content" that is not great, but that's not slop.
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arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
HEATED RIVALRY for realz: CUTTING EDGE by Daniel Gawthrop is a fascinating and timely examination of ice hockey through a queer lens. arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Cutt...
The cover of the book “Cutting Edge: Hockey as Queer Culture” by Daniel Gawthrop. Stacked text above reads, “Happy book birthday,” along with the book's title and subtitle and the author's name. Below, footer text lists the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, and their website, arsenal pulp [dot] com. The painted abstract background is pale purple and has the publisher’s logomark (a circle with an off-centre jagged cross cut through) in the top-right.

On the book cover, the silhouettes of two hockey players holding hockey sticks face each other, with one player on the upper right-hand side and the other player on the lower left-hand side, on a dark purple background. The silhouettes have a gradient of green, blue, and light purple. The title and subtitle, “Cutting Edge: Hockey as Queer Culture,” appear in the top left corner. The author’s name, “Daniel Gawthrop,” appears in the bottom right corner. Below the player on the right is text that reads, “An incredibly timely and personal examination of hockey at its cultural crossroads. —Ren Dawe, You Can Play.”The background continues from the first slide, with a photograph of the author, Daniel Gawthrop, taken by Trevor MacNeil. A small caption lists the author’s and photographer’s names.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026
A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection?
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
SOURCE CALL: Looking for experts who can interview for a piece related to trans people and sexuality. Thanks! If anyone's willing to share, much appreciated. You can feel free to write me via my site: www.sandyernestallen.com/contact
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Contact — Sandy Ernest Allen
Contact author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen for consulting, speaking, etc.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/09/2026
#OtD 2 Sep 1962 Oswald Mosley and his fascist blackshirts tried to hold a meeting in east London while the British National Party attempted to assemble nearby. Both were attacked by anti-fascist locals. Mosley's meeting collapsed and he fled www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...
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alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
cute bookseller said 'ooh great book' when i went to pick up NEVADA by imogen binnie at the cool local bookstore. immediately became v flustered & when they said 'happy reading!' i said 'likewise!', realized i'd made thee classic service-worker-interaction blunder, grabbed the book & fled wordlessly
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alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
how it feels, basically
eight panel screenshot representation of the now-infamous exchange between dominic monaghan and elijah wood on the lord of the rings press tour where dominic asks elijah if he'll wear wigs, has he worn wigs and when will he wear wigs and elijah gets increasingly exasperated. first panel: do you wear wigs (replaced with: do you use ai?) second panel: uh, no, i do not. third panel: have you worn wigs? (replaced with: have you used ai?) fourth panel: no, i have not. fifth panel: will you wear wigs? (replaced with: will you use ai?) sixth panel: maybe! (replaced with: no!) seventh panel: when will you wear wigs? (replaced with: when will you use ai?) eighth panel: no text, just an exhausted and insane-looking elijah wood opening his mouth wide in despair.
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The original poem in English by @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social, published in echolalia echolalia
incense search engine #AskYrAncestorsAnything

how do u say help me in yr language
how much ginseng do u take each morning
how do u say fed up in yr language
what’s yr favourite tea
how do u say no more in yr language
did u like these dumplings i made u
what colour is precious in yr language
how much baijiu do i pour u
can u hear the cicadas in yr language
do u like this painting i made
what storms do i part in yr language
what do u think of corn oh oh oh
what of u am i holding in yr language
how do u fold yr dumplings tho
what do i let go of in yr language
n what about this pomegranate
what will it take in yr language
how do u do yr hair
what would disappoint yr language
how do u like yr spices
how do u stay in yr language
i really like donut peaches
do i keep searching in yr language
do u like them too
how would u pronounce my name
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alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
how it feels, basically
eight panel screenshot representation of the now-infamous exchange between dominic monaghan and elijah wood on the lord of the rings press tour where dominic asks elijah if he'll wear wigs, has he worn wigs and when will he wear wigs and elijah gets increasingly exasperated. first panel: do you wear wigs (replaced with: do you use ai?) second panel: uh, no, i do not. third panel: have you worn wigs? (replaced with: have you used ai?) fourth panel: no, i have not. fifth panel: will you wear wigs? (replaced with: will you use ai?) sixth panel: maybe! (replaced with: no!) seventh panel: when will you wear wigs? (replaced with: when will you use ai?) eighth panel: no text, just an exhausted and insane-looking elijah wood opening his mouth wide in despair.
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Joshua Graves @joshuagraves.me · 01/09/2026
Shit, not Wendell Berry. I had really only recently begun reading his work through my friend @bryanzug.bsky.social. It was this what got me into him. What a voice.
Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry 1. How much poison are you willing to eat for
the success of the free market and global trade?
Please name your preferred poisons. 2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are
you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of
your favorite evils and acts of hatred. 3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you
would most willingly destroy. 4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most
readily do without. 5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the
children whom you would be willing to kill.
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Vic Michaelis @vicmmic.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Today’s a great day to donate some eSims!!!! chuffed.org/project/crip...
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Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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Hal Newman @bigmedicine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
30-08-2026 15:16 — Alerte Zéro Orange - Montréal & Laval Les paramédics et les répartiteurs médicaux d'urgence desservant Montréal et Laval travaillent à pleine capacité.
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hi! So our eSims are keeping a whole hospital going in Gaza, and countless of students who are studying for exams right now. Our funds are about to run out because the usage of those eSims are especially high. <3 #ConnectingGaza
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
if you're Canadian, there is a petition active right now to have him removed and sent back to the US for signaling his obvious allegiances here. There's already a quarter million signatures. Get him out of our country, we don't have time for this bullshit rn www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7531 - Petitions
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the apple guy™ @wackhumanbeing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Here's a silly little thing I do as a fun exercise at the start of every college football season. Presenting the 2026 All-Heirloom Team.
The 2026 FBS All-Heirloom Team (The College Football Players Whose Nmaes Sound The Most Like Old-Timey Apple Varieties)2026 All-Heirloom Team Offense:
QB: Arrington Maiden (James Madison)
RB: Savion Red (Sacramento State)
WR: Major Pride (UCLA)
WR: Roman Mothershed (LSU)
WR: Prince Jean (Kentucky)
TE: Gray Maultsby (Miami Ohio)
OT: King Large (Missouri State)
OG: Willie Goodacre (North Texas)
C: Ashton Funk (Texas A&M)
OG: Jimmy Walls (Sam Houston State)
OT: August Weight (Akron)2026 All-Heirloom Team Defense
DE: James Early (Cincinnati)
DT: Leonard Sharp (Toledo)
DT: Titan Davis (Michigan)
DE: Emerson Joy (West Virginia)
LB: Blanche Gold (UAB)
LB: Royal Weber (Missouri State)
LB: Langston Long (Toledo)
CB: Jeremiah Favorite (Michigan State)
S: Red Morgan (Alabama)
S: Marquis Raspberry (Oregon State)
CB: Rodrick Pleasant (UCLA)2026 All-Heirloom Team Special Teams
K: Colton Boomer (Boise State)
P: Anderson Green (Alabama)
LS: Deed Capper (Virginia Tech)
KR: Ben Black (Rutgers)
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alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
march 11, 2025 is crazy
screenshot of a bluesky interaction dated march 11, 2025: user @juniorhoncho.bsky.social posts "have to figure trump's gonna rename lake ontario soon" and user @wuhanclams.bsky.social replies "Lake America." infamous meme showing a girl preparing to throw a red dodgeball at a group of other girls standing in a grassy backyard. text overlays: the ball is 'the gift of prophesy', girl with ball is 'apollo', three other girls are 'random internet users just trying to be comedic'
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Aaron Kreuter @aaronkreuter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
COVER REVEAL! Thrilled to share the cover for Asunder: An Anthology of Jewish Antizionist Fiction, out on April 1, 2027 with Baraka Books! Available for pre-order now, wherever you get your books!All royalties from Asunder will be sent to Connecting Gaza: www.connectinggaza.org/donate.More
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Nathan Whitlock @nathanwhitlock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25/08/2026
a roof over every head food in our stomachs healthcare for all bodily autonomy freedom to love/marry who you want safety to be yourself freedom to worship, or to not clear air, water, soil safe roads accessibility in all spaces a living wage fair taxes to fund the public good our radical agenda
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 24/08/2026
There is something so frustrating about watching basically every staff sports writer completely mangle this story about transphobia in the WNBA, while so many trans journalists who would do a great job (and who have been pitching stories about this!) are struggling to get hired and make ends meet.
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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.
A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/08/2026
People here recoil from AI because it doesn't look like the future. The observable uses for it include: - Scams - Homogenously hideous zero-effort advertising - Making non-consensual porn out of real people's photos - Insanely inflated market capitalization
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 24/08/2026
I'm doing an in-person keynote at a publishing conference in September and I just... I am having forebodings of doom and I really want a button or something that says "If you use genAI please do not talk to me and if you bring it up despite this warning I will bite you so hard"
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💖💄 Aoife ♿💖 @aoiferocksitout.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please help @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social in Alice's memory keep up the eSims project! If you have felt helpless about what's happening, this is a way to directly help. Let's keep this going! ❤️✨
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alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
conservatives: we want to keep things the way they were in the old days :) also conservatives: we overwhelmingly support capitalism, the primary driver of climate change, which is going to destroy every single aspect of life that we & our ancestors were familiar with :)
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/08/2026
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
the thing I feel about LLMs (for me, in terms of why I have no interest in using them myself) is that, as someone who has cycled through being very out of shape and very extremely in shape several times in my life, I know what happens when you stop using a muscle
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Personally I think it’s great that Carney wants to force feed us more American groceries at the exact moment that their food safety infrastructure is very publicly collapsing! At least it’s all in the service of a trade agreement that THEY’LL NEVER EVEN PRETEND TO HONOUR ANYWAY
Tweet from @AshleyBurkeCBC: An industry source said a gov't official confirmed Canada's potential deal with the U.S. includes a change to the way dairy import licenses are allocated by the gov't. It could mean an increase in the supply of U.S. dairy products in Canadian retail stores, the source said.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/
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djoyce @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Probably a repost but: the realest shit of all time from Renee Gladman in CALAMITIES
I began the day trying to explain to Danielle what it was like to be a lesbian in the gos and why there were so many ex-girl-friends around who were often in committed relationships with other ex-girlfriends of yours as well as one or two others in the room, these others also being ex-girlfriends of other friends there, not friends you ever slept with but friends between whom floated some strange tension, residual of something that happened fifteen years ago, which no one remembers but which everyone holds vigil. And how one of these people might suddenly grill peaches with mint, causing us all to gather around the table. And how one of these people now has a daughter and another daughter and son and two dogs named Jesse and James and how they all might gather at the table too, eating those peaches. I wanted Danielle to want to be at this table, though she didn't know any of these people previously and had grown up with better boundaries in another part of the country. She missed this decade where we just couldn't burn our bridges, where we built bridges on top of ruined bridges, and lived in an elaborate architecture of trying and failing to try then at the last minute trying, escorting some broken love into what looked like a better love, until that love broke and that old lovebecame an even older love who moved on, perhaps to someone you roomed with or someone a person you roomed with once loved. We didn't know what it looked like and wouldn't have called it community, but now there were all these people and they liked the grilled peaches and shared the pork ribs ele-gantly. It was that the peaches were basted with a balsamic reduction that a person had prepared on the stove, a person who was now in love with my best friend's ex-lover, my best friend who was once an old love, but is now my friend Chubby who has Kristy and kids. Chubby wasn't there but wanted to be remembered and placed fondly in the center of any photos that were taken and was happy to be a cardboard cutout in these photos: she was happy to get a smear of the peaches, even just a whiff of the ribs. Danielle didn't eat the ribs but did eat and eat the peaches and went on for days thinking about them, wanting to recreate them later for a different gathering of people that comprised no ex-girlfriends and no friends of ex-girl-friends, so was not as warm as the previous gathering and the guests were not as old. They didn't remember the gos in the way I did and didn't have fourteen bridges built over one piece of water and didn't have water.
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Haitans in Springfield, Ohio, are being told to turn up at ICE offices where their passports are taken and they're fitted with ankle monitors. “I think it’s a means to round up people quickly, and that when they’re ready, they have the logistics in place to deport them," said a local pastor.
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Haitians in Springfield are required to report to Ohio's ICE offices and wear ankle monitors • Ohio Capital Journal
Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 
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Keith Burgoyne @keithburgoyne.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I like this.
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alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
dreamt about a new super effective way to shut down shitty people online & it was replying “if you had love and joy in your life you wouldn’t post like this.”
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alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
some questions truly just answer themselves
screenshot of an email subject line and sender (black text on white background) text reads: “Is this e-mail chic” and the sender is…. LinkedIn News
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Chocobone💀Skare🎺Paradie🪦 @chocoboskaparadise.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Friendly reminder
A woman with tall hair, glasses, and a cigarette holds a paper. A luck cat jumps in the background
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Futurism @futurism.com · 11/08/2026
"My friends chose to risk arrest to bring the fight to OpenAI."
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Protesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying Office
Some 13 students were hauled out of OpenAI's Washington DC office on Monday, ending a two-hour occupation protesting AI.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2026
We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇
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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:
Five straight years warmer than anything observed before 2023 (Current record +1.53 degrees warming) en route to 2 degrees by 2030
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 04/08/2026
not sure how the public is served by a vapid lament for the loss of that "carefree feeling that summer once was" but treating it as a regrettable unattributed phenomenon is certainly a favour to the petrostate.
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