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Angela

@anxiousquokka.bsky.social
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Trying to stay human. She/her

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 1h
This country seriously would rather children be murdered en masse at school than be trans. A single trans athlete competes in sports and hundreds of laws are introduced. Children are murdered on a daily basis and it's a fact of life. THINK ABOUT THAT FFS.
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👻 Ghastlee!! 👻 @heyitshamhocks.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The Midterms
Two trans people are being confronted by a Democrat Consultant type who is pleading with them: "I understand the Democrat backtracked on trans rights, but you have to vote for him! Otherwise, normal people's rights will be threatened!"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h
RFK is personally responsible for a measles outbreak killing American kids. Stephen Miller has killed more undocumented people than we will know until his tribunal. Pete Hegseth is nerfing anyone in a skiff within 95 miles of Cuba. They get away with it because they are committed to the performance.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h
Anyway, good case study here. You can be as evil as you want, you can kill as many people as is possible, you can shove churro ladies into vans then off to black sites in countries they've never even heard of, but if you can't do the performance of fascism — that's when you're in real trouble.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
PUPDATE!!!!
sfgate.com
Jack Russell terrier lost in Yellowstone for over a month has been rescued
Rescuers caught a dog that was missing in Yellowstone for over a month.
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Angela @anxiousquokka.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I will simply not survive another semester at this job. I need to leave.
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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 12/10/2026
Shoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving.
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Kevin Morris @socceralt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you’re not in Austin — here’s the incident that sparked the ongoing conflict between fans and the club. www.kxan.com/news/local/a...
kxan.com
Austin woman removed from Q2 Stadium over anti-ICE shirt
An Austin woman says she was removed from Austin FC’s Q2 Stadium during Saturday’s match, after refusing to cover a shirt that read “Abolish ICE,” an incident she says refle…
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Kevin Morris @socceralt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
National soccer media needs to do a better job covering what’s going on in Austin. Entire fan section walks out mid match and it’s absolute crickets out-there. If you’re covering the match and focusing on Nashville’s win or Austin’s loss you are not doing your job.
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Meghan L. Hall @itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Barring any last-second changes, Game 3, 4 and 6 of the WNBA Finals in Atlanta will be played at Gateway Center Arena (3,500+ seats), multiple sources tell USA TODAY. Efforts to move games to State Farm Arena (17,000 seats) have proved unsuccessful.
usatoday.com
Atlanta Dream unable to relocate Finals games from 3,500-seat venue
The Atlanta Dream are working to move WNBA Finals games in Atlanta to a larger venue, but efforts to do so have so far been unsuccessful.
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 11/10/2026
I mean, no, the reason cops are disproportionately likely to say they believe rates of false allegations are higher than they are is because cops are disproportionately likely to do things that would make them the subject of allegations that are true
Most criminal justice experts estimate that 2 to 8 percent of sexual assault allegations are actually false. But law enforcement officers tend to assume the rate of false reporting is much higher—in part because police officers don't always receive training on how trauma can affect memory or behavior.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026
Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/10/2026
COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Democrats will never learn.
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Angela @anxiousquokka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Have you ever been so mentally exhausted, overstimulated, and brain-fried that you walked into a dimly lit room, flipped the light switch, and then got startled because a light suddenly turned on? I also spent several minutes looking for frozen vegetables in the regular room-temperature pantry
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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We have been living in the Black Hole Sun video for about a decade now
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
gadgetreview.com
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” Edward Abbey quote poster spotted in Carlton, Victoria
"Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”
Edward Abbey quote poster
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Kristin Wilson @kristin-wilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That’s not how the House works. Come January 3 at noon, there is no Speaker. The Clerk of the House is in charge until a Speaker is elected. Mike Johnson will have exactly as much power as I do. None.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Angela @anxiousquokka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another day, another hopelessly depressing job search. Legit jobs that require a decade of experience and a college degree are not even paying $40,000, meanwhile bullshit LLM-focused jobs get six figures. Caring for children or old people? $15/hour. Training AI? $60/hour
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Like we don’t have political disagreements, we have disagreements on the nature of reality 
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
listen. sometimes the entire purpose of a woman's life is to be used and discarded in service of A Man learning a very special lesson
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Then it should be used very specifically for specific jobs, with strict guardrails, and not propping up our entire economy, and being forced into everything. The same way I don’t need to know how to use, say, software for dental offices, or a forklift, most people don’t need AI.
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Ryan Russell @ryanrussell1982.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I like to point out when presented with this argument that asbestos is "sort of useful for some things" and then ask them if they want to go ahead and re-insulate their walls with it
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i kinda wonder if they want people to quit to help justify privatizing TSA
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...
abc7ny.com
Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot
An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 03/10/2026
This is the ad! bsky.app/profile/self...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...
David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.
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Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 02/10/2024
now that it's october im legally allowed to post this
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Michael Tracey’s dumbass is here, surely trying to gin up some content to take back to the hellsite. Don’t give it to him. Block him and move on.
Michael Tracey @m-tracey.bsky.s...• 2h
Say it with me -- reporting is not
"doxxing"... reporting is not "doxxing." Of course I wouldn't publish her phone number, address, social security, etc.
But her identity? Absolutely. That's squarely in the public interest. Despite the cynical legal tactics to arbitrarily shroud her in anonymity.
* The Serfs (youtu... @thes... • 21h Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape
case
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 28/09/2026
apart from everything else, something that really stands out to me about this particular woman's story is that she is _ never _ described as an immigrant
washingtonpost.com
She helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her.
Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model “groypettes,” but a vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame.
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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026
im very busy
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
Screenshot of a post from threads

matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
    4:35 PM · Sep 27, 2026
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
apnews.com
https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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