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mandar @mandaarrr.omg.lol · 13/08/2026

This @davidimel.com video is cathartic for us sparkle emoji stans youtu.be/g-pG79LOtMw?...

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How AI Stole the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Emoji

YouTube video by David Imel

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Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Also forgot to share it here but I am two writing books, editing another, and making a short film right now, thus rarely have time to post here :) please email me for any inquiries: ag2403@cam.ac.uk

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Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Makes me endlessly angry that a symbol that the three star emoji ✨ now fills me with dread when I see it integrated into every platform; a symbol for magic and the universe now a symbol for surveillance and lack of front end user consent sigh

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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have set up a Substack (sorry) and posted my first piece - a collaboration with the amazing @amygaeta.bsky.social originally written for a zine on s*x and disability: lejhouston.substack.com/p/fucking-au... Check it out and give me a follow if you fancy.

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Fucking Autistically (with PJ Harvey)

written in collaboration with Amy Gaeta

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Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Anyone here attending AOIR? I sadly have to miss this year but a brilliant friend is attending & looking for people to connect with!

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Drone Wars UK @dronewarsuk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

@cfi-cambridge.bsky.social @amygaeta.bsky.social Ha! Look what's just emerged from back of our cupboard in time for this week's conference!

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Anna Jackman @ahjackman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Pleasure to attend the Critical Drone Studies conference at the University of Cambridge last week. Enjoyed presenting on Drone cohabitations: Telling stories of, and making space for, animals in drone futures. Big thank you to Beryl Pong, @amygaeta.bsky.social & wider organisers for a rich event!

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Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This was such a fun and welcoming talk! Thank you so much to everyone who attended and provided us with incredibly supportive comments and questions. Stay tuned for full paper version!!

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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Looking forward to talking eggs and autism with @amygaeta.bsky.social tomorrow as part of the @ndhumanities.bsky.social symposium tomorrow: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver... You guys aren't ready for The Zone.

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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Nothing says Valentine's Day like a discussion of sexually pathological corpses... Delighted to receive my contributor's copy of this fantastic collection. Congrats to Chris, Bridget, and Matt, and to everyone whose work features.

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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Also very excited to see this piece by @amygaeta.bsky.social and I into print in the @vaginamuseum.bsky.social's fantastic zine, Lip Service. The museum is a fantastic and welcoming space, and the launch was a lot of fun.

The cover of Lip Service issue 4, "Sex and Disability", featuring a quasi-collage of a vulva.

The first page of the article "Fucking Autistically (with PJ Harvey)"

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/01/2026

Incredibly sad about this but I am unable to attend @sirensconference.org this year. I registered at the early bird price ($299, plus some fees rounded out to $315) and would love to transfer my registration at cost to someone who wants to go. Email me if that's you! (sesmith at realsesmith dot com)

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Whales & dolphins will see their migration paths protected as nations approve plan for vast Atlantic sanctuary. The move marks over four decades of advocacy and scientific work, and will safeguard key routes from shipping, industrial fishing and deep-sea mining. buff.ly/dl2mh5j #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Historic vote paves way for new era of Atlantic Ocean conservation - Oceanographic

A landmark vote by the IUCN has set the stage for the creation of one of the ocean’s most ambitious marine protected areas.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics. Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover of Disabling Intelligences over a rainbow glass background

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 07/01/2026

Live updates: Around 200 people marched more than two miles from the scene of the shooting to Minneapolis City Hall, shouting “ICE out now!” after police hurried away from the scene Wednesday afternoon. The crowd of is continuing to snake its way through downtown.

bit.ly

Live: ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis

Video of the shooting shows an agent firing at a vehicle as it drives toward him. The governor and Minneapolis mayor called for calm after the incident. ICE said the agent acted defensively.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt. This is cruel and unnecessary. Join the meeting below to get educated and fight back.

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Steph Brown @stephjayb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Wrote about some of the visuals in suffrage newspapers (1910-1914) as surveillance art the aimed at conveying state brutality for Modernism/modernity (@mmodernity.bsky.social). It came out on Print+ over the holiday! 1/ modernismmodernity.org/articles/bro...

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Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Wonderful essay. Friction represents the fact of being alive, of the differences of and in ourselves not being reduced or smoothed over. With my disabled bodymind, I’ve come to cherish friction (including the those I have with my accessibility tech) as reminders of my capacity to effect

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 30/12/2025

After a year of negotiations, more than 1,000 concession workers at Fenway Park and the neighboring MGM Music Hall secured a new union contract that supporters say provides better wages, clearer staffing protocols, and stronger job protections against automation, such as self-checkout machines.

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‘A landmark agreement’: Fenway concession workers ratify new contract with Aramark, citing wage and staffing gains - The Boston Globe

The new agreement caps off a contentious bargaining process that included a three-day strike during a July homestand against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

ICYMI: Racketeering charges against 61 people charged as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed on December 31, marking a significant victory for those facing prosecution nearly two years after they were indicted.

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Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy - UNICORN RIOT

Atlanta, GA – Racketeering charges against 61 people indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday, marking a significant victory for those facing prosecution in t...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

For New Year's, talked to my friend Olga, who runs goods to the front lines from Kharkiv. She's moved everything from generators to a mobile hospital and ambulances. As seen in Mother Jones (below), CNN, NYT, and elsewhere. The work is staggeringly challenging. DM me if you would like to donate.

motherjones.com

She was on the front lines of whale conservation. Now she's on the front lines of war.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine upended Olga Shpak's life—and a generation of science.

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SBS Australia (unofficial) @sbsaustralia.nzcow.com · 02/01/2026

📢 More than 60 per cent of people with disability in Australia report having experiences of physical, sexual and intimate partner violence. A project aims to address this, by raising awareness around intimacy rights to reduce sexual violence for those with disability.

sbs.com.au

The online project raising awareness around relationship rights for people with disability

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 02/01/2026

Final hours! Get ‘em while they’re hot (and I threaded some recommended upcoming reads below).

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 01/01/2026

Today is the first day Californians can use a legislatively mandated platform to request that online platforms delete their data. privacy.ca.gov/drop/about-d...

privacy.ca.gov

About DROP and the Delete Act

Learn more about DROP. This includes the California Consumer Privacy Act and the Delete Act.

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 01/01/2026

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

transnews.network

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry

In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

wapo.st

U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.

Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

🧵1/6 After the El Fasher massacre, I identified a large UAE-aligned influence operation on X promoting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Around 19,000 accounts showed strong indicators of automation - bots marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-found-19... #Sudan #Dysinfluence

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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Continuing through to the next in the opening contributions to the 'GENERATIVE AI' AND WRITING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, CAI's latest issue features Emily Hall's description of the converge around #surveillancetechnology at campuses like the #UniversityofWisconsin. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Of all the dirty tricks: juking USPS rules so that the postmark of mail-in ballots won't reflect the date they were put in the hands of the Postal Service, creating a pretext to throw out the votes.

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Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I’m planning to delete my Instagram but I do enjoy using it to discover bits of queer culture (magazines, clothing lines, campaigns). Does anyone have any ideas on where to digitally discover these things in one place besides another big social platform.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

worldliteraturetoday.org

Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan

What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Jewish Currents is looking for a new editor in chief. I learned so much from Arielle and thankfully, she's not leaving. But whoever takes on the role of editor in chief will be leading the magazine in a very exciting time of expansion. Apply here: jewishcurrents.org/careers?toke...

jewishcurrents.org

Careers

Find out about career opportunities at Jewish Currents.

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at sosment@uchicago.edu for rate and availability. Feel free to share!

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 17/12/2025

More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.

miriamposner.com

Reading List – History of the Database

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Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Really loved doing this podcast, especially since it was founded by two beloved colleagues at LCFI

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/12/2025

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 10/12/2025

Over ten years ago I pitched a piece about how all these glowing profiles were being done about 3d printing companies "disrupting" and "democratizing" prosthetics and how that was simply not true. I was told it was too boring/negative and nobody wanted it. www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

marketplace.org

3D printing was supposed to disrupt prosthetic costs. It hasn’t.

Britt Young, writer and lecturer at UC Berkeley, explains why 3D printing has not brought down costs of prosthetic limbs.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I will be very honest, the daily ads for weight loss drugs in every conceivable form of media - from live tv to streaming to reddit ads to the spam emails my email provider can’t weed out to the ads on the sidebar of the emails - has been incredibly taxing mentally as someone recovering from an ED.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 06/12/2025

microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

forbes.com

Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away

Microsoft confirms start date for new Teams update — no more hiding places.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

For the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, I spoke with advocates about how this law is crucial–and the ways in which disability education can be made better as its under attack from the Trump administration at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

This disability education law turned 50 today. Disability advocates want more.

"Our civil rights are not up for negotiations," Rep. Lateefah Simon said.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

A Google software engineer won his battle against MetLife to receive disability benefits for Long Covid. This is huge Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability. You’re told to “try harder”. It’s “not that bad”. You can “still work”. Not everyone can

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MetLife Owes Disability Pay to Software Engineer With Long Covid

A Google LLC software engineer suffering from long Covid won his lawsuit seeking long-term disability benefits from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Gut wrenching: “I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,” Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie. Ms. Paul was sent to an immigration detention center with hundreds of other people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown.”

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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

ACT UP London is planning a die-in on World AIDS Day. Dan Glass: “We thought die-ins were history…We thought that era when people died waiting for justice was over…We’re living under a weak-willed ‘Labour-tory’ government that has gutted the HIV voluntary sector.” www.attitude.co.uk/news/hiv-awa...

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ACT UP London to stage die-in mass protest at Trafalgar Square over UK HIV funding cuts

ACT UP London has organised a mass protest against the government’s cuts to HIV/AIDS aid and support this World AIDS Day.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 25/11/2025

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8

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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates

A burning platform

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