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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Amy @amybutmoreso.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Only thing uglier than this game is the nonsense FOX 10 broadcast instead of the first quarter.

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Amy @amybutmoreso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Okay who else is repeatedly checking @clairewillett.bsky.social skeets for a possible take on this?

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the most apparent truths about universities in this era is that student journalists have tended to exhibit the greatest courage and tenacity when it comes to applying their institutional mottos and academic lessons to the world.

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The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article)

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

one of the many dangers of being in a cult they don’t warn you about, perpetrating the ultimate cringe like, sure, joining (or starting) a cult is dangerous and isolating but. also. so embarrassing

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026

it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

High school teachers, I respect the hell out of you and know you are in the trenches doing the hard work. But I am *begging* you to stop telling your students to email a professor to sit for an interview or to guide their special project. I already have my own students. I’m not looking for more.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I dunno man, UAB used my work to raise millions during their capital campaign (as they should have! it's good for everyone) so maybe you need to sit down and apologize for demeaning the "value" we bring vs coaches whose programs operate at a loss.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026

No one on his staff even once thought to check if there were any women's games being played that night. These are the people calling themselves defenders of women's sports.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So it turns out that when Eric Schmitt thought Jack Smith snuck off for a secret meeting to conspire with Fani Willis he was actually in Maryland watching Caitlin Clark play basketball.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lot of people* seem very aggravated by the idea of existing people who aren’t future projections. Yes, current people are using the technology as it exists today and I talked to them about it why are you so mad?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And I cannot say this part enough — AI agents aren’t fun. Maybe some of the LLM/chatbot experience captured affect. But an existential crisis about your social relations and how hard your life is so you can solve .0001% of a problem task at about 60-70% accurate, if you’re lucky, isn’t fun.

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fernuzz @fernuzz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'd say dems should listen to the guy who won a statewide election in kentucky, twice, but maybe that's too woke

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27/09/2026

We have reached the stage at our local Really Good Hole In The Wall cafe that the head cook comes out and says, “Ey, you guys wanna try the cheesecake we’re offering next week?” and brings us “testers the size of my fist.

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The billions wasted on mass deportation could have been used to fund an efficient, fair system for processing asylum claims, making TPS recipients permanent residents, and legalizing undocumented people. We would have a safer, more prosperous, more just country.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Been buycotting them for years

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Adam Shprintzen @veghistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m struck by how student-run media continues to be such an important check on institutional rot (see Cornell, as well as all of the coverage of campus protests, etc…). The work is core spiritually to what a degree in higher education should be and not simply ancillary or a “nice to have.”

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Amy @amybutmoreso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the middle of hate cleaning a *large* teriyaki sauce spill off my car floor mats, I paused and said a little thank you that no toddlers or upchucking was involved. Because if nothing else my car smells like leftover take out and not, well, something worse.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We experienced three new schools last year—the MPS middle school most people say is great, a charter that probably would have been great if MPS hadn’t traumatized our kid, and the online charter that has been amazing—even though I now can’t work. Does displacement for these invisible kids matter?

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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not all the work makes the big headlines, but that doesn't mean it isn't important. Last week, I secured a win against a debt collection company that was taking people's cars to coerce them into paying. Now, that company can't work in Massachusetts, and consumers are getting $52 million in relief.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026

Wait you guys are getting job interviews?

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Amy @amybutmoreso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A grilled ruben. Extra sauerkraut.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in 2017, a trans reporter was fired at @marketplace.org for writing a blog post abt the need for journalists to resist rising fascism, racism and transphobia. @kairyssdal.bsky.social, the host of the show, said nothing & let his colleague's career be murdered. judge his hr tips accordingingly.

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mhkmhk.bsky.social @mhkmhk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not joking when I say knowing phone number and address is a kindergarten skill

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Amy @amybutmoreso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s fascinating that so few people land on the correct answer, which is this. Gosh, I wonder what could possibly be distracting folks from the data?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026

Among living authors and going on book sales only, and excluding fantasy/horror, Suzanne Collins (via 100 million+ copies of Hunger Games) and Nora Roberts (from the 70 million copies of her "In Death" series, writing as JD Robb). Both of them have other income sources as well, of course.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/09/2026

These clowns want to cede the most important decisions in comics storytelling to a fucking bot. And you know this would lead to further underpayment of artists. Boycott any book or publisher that uses this.

Walk me through what the platform actually does.

You put in a manuscript. The system spends time studying the story, including the thesis, the background, the protagonist, and the emotional beats that pay off for a reader, and produces a storyboard that gets you to roughly 60–70% of a finished product. Then an editor, the author, and an illustrator go in and shape that further, because a purely AI-generated output tends to lack soul and be generic. This is not a self-driving car. It's more like handing a Ferrari to someone who already knows how to drive.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Carefully laying out a row of these tiki glasses and unrolling my mixology set before saying a word to the interviewer

Festive and colorful ceramic tiki glasses

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Liz as in lizard 🏳️‍⚧️ @sloppers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you telling me “octomom” isn’t even a harmless weirdo she’s A VICTIM OF MEDICAL ABUSE????

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 24/09/2026

We can do it! Final stretch! Reminder that The Flytrap is member-supported. No ads, no secret private equity, no hidden personal wealth, just you and us on this ride together. Keep feminist cultural criticism sustainable!

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the sort of thing I had in mind when I wrote about anti-trans policies being used as the thin end of the wedge in areas including academic freedom.

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 24/09/2026

So uhhh. We need to get this fatty tumor taken off of Cap's knee before it fucks with his mobility, and he's got to have his teeth cleaned, too. It's just the wrong time for us to deal with a huge bill. This is the low water mark of the year for us. Help? gofund.me/d8555afbd

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Donate to De-Bump The Old Man's Knee, organized by Spider Perry

Why do our dogs always have medical emergencies in February or September, when our store is al… Spider Perry needs your support for De-Bump The Old Man's Knee

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you are a dem willing to throw trans people under the bus BEFORE THE PRIMARIES EVEN HAPPEN, you are NOT an ally, you are NOT a good person, you are a walking talking self interest and unwelcome here. LGBTQIA+ with the T. Emphatically. Forever.

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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We see $0 for journal articles, so please just email us for them 🎉

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

stand up for trans people: it is the right thing to do and it just will not hurt you, not now, not in this environment and maybe folks can start to relearn that trans people are pretty fucking cool, actually

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 22/09/2026

Moral panics are manufactured concerns created to push an agenda, don't hold up under scrutiny, and the fallout always harms more people than will ever be helped. Stand up for trans people.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

they were all friends and a lot less restrained with each other than my last set of contractual obligations. It was why, if I forced myself to admit it, I had actually been enjoying this contract, up until something tried to eat me and Bharadwaj.

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YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New York used to be the girl you felt sorry for because her boyfriend was ugly and he sucked. Then she dumped him and upgraded to a hot nerd and now you’re salty

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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