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gabriela

@astrogabriela.bsky.social
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software engineering, astrophysics, raging feminism. she/her. midwest is best.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 15h
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
As more people got access to degrees gradually they weren’t seen as worth as much… fast forward to today where we’re being told machines can & should do our thinking & our work. The oligarchs saying this are descendants (in some cases literally) of the people who tried to keep most of us uneducated.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Organized Chaos, Antje Woolum.
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gabriela @astrogabriela.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i worry about this too :/
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The best thing I did years ago was to decide to organize myself rather than to tell others how they need to/should be organizing. Once I started doing so, it became clearer to me just how difficult it is.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I empathize obviously but it's tough not to be a little resentful reading electeds be like "this is unprecedented, my family was swatted" It's horrific, AND A lot of us were raising the alarm about this stuff 8 years ago. Earlier, for women targeted by Gamergate.
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gabriela @astrogabriela.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
have also seen this firsthand, no money for raises but somehow money for AI
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 03/01/2026
Our household helps support a first generation former foster-care student getting through university. You can help us help her too if you have anything to spare!
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Donate to Helping Avery Get Through University, organized by Martha Crawford
Greetings to all those that this reaches, This is Martha Crawford LCSW, and I… Martha Crawford needs your support for Helping Avery Get Through University
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gabriela @astrogabriela.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
hahahahahahhaha
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/10/2026
Many thoughts about the 'I used to work somewhere evil while knowing it was evil until a Bridge Too Far' guilt memoirs. (Nice to leave a six-figure job for a six-figure book deal about your six-figure job.)
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“I Quit Big Tech.” So What? — The Dial
Two splashy memoirs turn ethical questions into office drama.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the abolitionist's dilemma
venn diagram
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some people need their ass beat
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punishment does not transform people
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
there are PLENTY of writers who come from a blue collar background and have worked in the trades and i can't remember ever seeing one of them publish an op-ed about how everyone should pivot to hard, painful physical labor
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026
this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.
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gabriela @astrogabriela.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎯🎯🎯
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
daily mirror affirmations: I will be running this state someday. I have something BIG on the horizon. My decisions are TBD
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/09/2026
This industry prides itself on denying consent EVERYWHERE YOU GO and these are people influencing policy and culture, creating the architecture of the technologies we all use. This is not a do first, ask for permissions later culture, it's a do because they think they don't need permissions ever.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 25/09/2026
Always love seeing them around. Reminds me that there is science everywhere! Little rainbows just casually dropping in. Also ….. light is gay. That’s how the Universe intended it to be. 🏳️‍🌈
Spectrum on a textured wall. Annotated is the different bands and wavelengths of light.
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Occam's Machete @eddiestats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I maintain everything we've lived/are living thru is predicated on the #ArabSpring thats the moment the Ps that Be realized social media had the potential to usher them the F off the stage of history & they need to get a handle on it everything since has been a Info-Pipeline war
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/09/2026
Scott Galloway sucks so much. Always has.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They want us to give up on each other.
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gabriela @astrogabriela.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i feel seen 😅
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vivekgani.bsky.social @vivekgani.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Guess its that time again to revisit this 🧵: bsky.app/profile/c0nc...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Their trans attacks are after women. Their immigrant prisons are after free speech. And by the time they’re here for your child it’s too late because when it was happening to someone else’s child you thought what does this have to do with me
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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gabriela @astrogabriela.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that
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gabriela @astrogabriela.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
wow, same 😎
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Genital exams??? I would have never played a single sport. This isn’t reasonable stuff and thats great for them! Making sports suck for girls helps them in their other goals of getting women out of public life and reestablishing their preferred men on top.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Blacksky labeler that does a lot of important things—including labeling synthetic media (AI produced media)
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026
The problem with people is, there's a god shaped hole in our heads where we want Something Important to live, and we insist on filling it with *something*, which might be god or king or astrology or jumped-up autocorrect.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
According to the story this is part of a program called Reaching Out From Within and many of the people who donated experienced food insecurity themselves as youths ❤️💔 you can donate to the program here
rofw.org
Home | ROFW
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter
Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes, "Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist
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gabriela @astrogabriela.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
they should make a baby that sleeps 🫩
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
It’s not suicide it is social murder. It is the result of policy that is explicitly designed to Inflict maximum pain & make a class of people feel as life isn’t worth living.
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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Aaron Swartz was right
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gabriela @astrogabriela.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
shocked but not surprised to learn that Chandrasekhar was another trash man in physics 🚮
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/08/2026
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
Fred Hampton speaks
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/08/2026
Once again I must say
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026
This is everything I have to say so...
Two pictures stacked on top of each other. Top: An image of a figure labeled me reaching for a yellow globe labeled my principles. Bottom: An image of a pink figure labeled "Milo Yiannapolus getting detained by ICE pulling Me away from my principles
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026
The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible
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HERbron James 🐐 @meekayelah.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
Grim Reaper drinking on the job atp. Call the replacement.
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