Reposted by AprilShaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1hMy new fashion goal is: Oldcore Lowkey dressing like the men of the Greatest Generation The look I want to serve here is Guy Getting Kicks on Route 66 2213
Reposted by AprilJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2hWe're now at two objective studies for the best use case anyone has for LLMs and both found it useless even for that. It's a scam. It has no use 27927
Reposted by AprilMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6hIt’s hard to imagine how @bardcollege.bsky.social could have handled this worse. The administration, and many faculty members, stood by Botstein, defended him in the press, and made efforts to prolong his affiliation with the college. It is clear what their values are. 624229
Reposted by AprilMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6hFormer @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...nytimes.comLeon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College PositionsLeon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. 32846323
Reposted by AprilGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 4hBREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...prospect.orgFederal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American ProspectA Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States. 141749553
Reposted by Aprilcara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 7hi was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me: 7770225
Reposted by AprilJason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 07/10/2026h/t to @slack2thefuture.bsky.social for letting me know you can delete the "customer personalization" data in your Amazon account and enter anything you want. Like this. 261098365
Reposted by Aprilbplum.bsky.social @bplum.bsky.social · 9hThousands of Cornell Students Protest for Accountability in Rape Case truthout.org/articles/tho...truthout.orgThousands of Cornell Students Protest for Accountability in Rape CaseIn a 2025 survey, 35 percent of undergraduate women reported experiencing sexual assault during their time at Cornell. 211734425
Reposted by Apriljohnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 9hHere's a good overview of the student protests in France, which began in Paris suburbs, in working-class schools attended by many black & brown students, & have spread nationwide. The government has tried to end the protests through violent repression. It hasn't worked. f24.my/CCfuf24.my'We're fed up': Paris students rise up in a movement that shows no sign of slowingHundreds of thousands of students and their supporters took part in nationwide protests across France on Tuesday after weeks of student barricades protesting school conditions. 16726
Reposted by AprilClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6hI'm convinced this is why it got randomly mentioned on multiple TV shows not even on a WB-owned network the billionaires all got together at the weekly meeting 241983
Reposted by AprilPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6hwe do not have to live this way. 81041284
Reposted by AprilMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9hi feel this more and more every day 272127215
Reposted by AprilKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 11hTo 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.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA 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. 5122911441
Reposted by Aprilalice lastnamé @jdvalenzuela.bsky.social · 7hi think this needs to be broken up into divisions: - beefcake (the big bois) - boy band (tiger beat looking mfs) - romance novel protagonist (conventionally attractive) - hear me out 1513031
Reposted by AprilMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6hNothing but respect for MY Digger 271110171
Reposted by AprilMx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 12/10/2025I've made this scale to help people out during this holiday season 201530549
Reposted by AprilPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 9hBit more niche but also you don't need to be sworn in by the speaker *at all* after an election. You do if you are elected mid-session (by house rules) but immediately after the election you are sworn by the speaker elect by convention, not by requirement 1069179
Reposted by AprilPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 9hThe House is not a continuing body like the Senate. It reconstitutes entirely after the election. No rules or leadership carry over to the next session except only to the extent that the next session affirmatively chooses to readopt rules or leadership 1385084
Reposted by AprilKristin Wilson @kristin-wilson.bsky.social · 6hThat’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. 1220337
Reposted by Aprilnora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 7hreally glad anil wrote this bc this has been fucking nagging at me and he makes at least 5-7 points i had not thought of 56916
Reposted by AprilaLec robBins @alecrobbins.bsky.social · 9hlooked up mine and this is killing me lmao 753251547
Reposted by AprilEric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 11hThey started texting with a 16-year-old. After two years, they offered to sell him a gun. They consider that "stopping a terrorist attack." And they are calling it heroic. What an absolute embarrassment. 421272359
Reposted by Aprile.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 7hwith SpaceX planning on running rival frontier models on NVIDIA chips, it's not clear what the company even does in the AI space anymore besides raise insane amounts of cash, buy GPUs, and rent them out... after decades of pretending to be an "engineer," Musk is finally becoming a pure finance bro 412714
Reposted by AprilOscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 15hEvery year I’ll find a new 80-minute, 30-track CD comp titled something like “Sock Hop in the Graveyard,” at least 50% of which will be stuff I’ve never heard before. There’s always another song about skeletons and gorillas having a party, and I think that’s beautiful. 15210
Reposted by AprilAbigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 8hThink about it: how often in the last decade have you white-knuckled the first season of a show that was really dragging only to get some promising developments in the last few minutes of S1? And then when you come back for S2, it's straight back to dragging and withholding. 923824
Reposted by AprilAbigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 8hAn important corollary to the Surf Dracula tweet that I think should be talked about more, now that we're basically inundated with these types of shows, is that most of them don't get renewed, but even the ones that are don't turn into the weekly adventures of Surf Dracula in the second season. 11589133
Reposted by AprilJohn Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 8hIs there a term for “rule by the undead?” 46511
Reposted by AprilDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 9hLookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit. 21553110
April @aprilbea.bsky.social · 6hThere is a...punchline(?) in the latest episode of The History of Charging the Mound that made my entire household scream in unison. 000
Reposted by AprilChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 9hNo better legacy than a life well lived, but she didn't stop there. My daughter has her as a LEGO minifig. Her example will inspire generations 420031
Reposted by AprilMichael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 10hFRIEND: I think we all learned so much during the COVID lockdown. MJM (thinking about how he learned that there was a gay hustler pictured in the opening credits of Law & Order: SVU, season one & only season one): You could not be more right. 3554
Reposted by AprilNo Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 10hJust learned some shocking and destabilizing information about Roy Orbison 2063882
Reposted by AprilAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 9hI understand wanting October 7th to be a day where we mourn only our communal dead. But that option ended as soon as Israel responded by carrying out an openly retaliatory campaign of carnage, immiseration and mass death. All those deaths are linked together now! You can't unchain them! 39112
Reposted by Aprillizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 9hthings are somehow both horrible AND boring, which is impressive. but at least nothing is going right and everything sucks. we've got that going for us 15912
Reposted by AprilMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11hreading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the newsphoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. 1752761691
Reposted by Aprilmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10hThe Plot to Enslave America requires them to destroy the notion of reality and truth. They will use the legal immunity conferred by the captured courts and the technology the tech oligarchs have developed to hasten this plan by flooding the information environment with fake video. 7608218
Reposted by AprilAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 10hWas curious if maybe this was a case of a bad panel title so I checked out the description and actually I think it’s worse somehow! www.newyorkcomiccon.com/en-us/things... 3217
Reposted by AprilJ Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 11hI posted this last week without comment, but I'm going to comment now. The people who established the system of museums in the West had a very specific reason for doing so: they thought that having an appreciation for the wonders of the world was absolutely necessary for being a good citizen. 113158
Reposted by AprilJason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 14hPlease enjoy this minute long video of @governor.ny.gov struggling and failing to get one of @mta.info's new turnstiles to let her pass into her own press conference about the new turnstiles 🤣 813936
Reposted by AprilSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 12hThis is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW 3241771382
Reposted by AprilAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12hwithout Bloopee, the ai assistant who takes vials of my blood every night for unspecified reasons, could you do this??! (finds a pizza place nearby that’s open) 118123
Reposted by AprilAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12h(the pasta primavera recipe I ask for makes mustard gas) bloopee! you little rascal 421110
Reposted by AprilAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12hthanks to the power of AI I’ve delegated my finances to bloopee, the pixel furby that tells you to kill yourself 12747118
Reposted by AprilJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 13hyou know a movie is good when you have to trick people into working on it! 1564
Reposted by AprilJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 13hI remember when researching the ROE V WADE propaganda movie that day labourers would arrive to the set, find out they were crew on a pro-Life propaganda movie, and quit on the spot. I read this is happening in Montana too on the Daily Wire pro-ICE movie set 39419
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