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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/09/2026

The NYC ban on "A.i." for 2K-8 is great, but we have to pay VERY CLOSE attention to the "A.i." tech the city will be pushing on high schoolers in these "pilot" programs. I have big questions about ALL of them. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

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Pilot programs include:

Quill: Accessed by English language arts classrooms, Quill is designed to support close reading, text analysis and the use of evidence to support claims. Students will use Quill for no more than 15 minutes per week.
Edia: Accessed by math classrooms, Edia is designed to provide step-by-step coaching and prompt students to explain their reasoning. Students will use Edia for no more than 20 minutes per week.
Brisk Teaching: Accessed through teacher-created activities, Brisk Teaching is designed to provide guided practice using teacher-selected texts or videos, with objectives and guardrails set by the teacher. Students will use Brisk Boost for 10 to 20 minutes once or twice per week.
Playlab: To be used across multiple subjects, Playlab is designed to help students engage with assignment-specific applications and examine AI outputs for bias and reasoning. No more than two assignments per marking period will use Playlab.
Intel AI-Ready Schools: To be used across multiple subjects, Intel AI-Ready Schools is designed to help students identify community problems and develop AI solutions through semester-long projects. Students will use the tool for one period per week.

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Newsom withheld *legislatively appropriated* school AC funds for 2 years. Now he's handing them to a fossil fuel company, the week after half a million kids had their school day changed by extreme heat. If that's not Trumpian, I don't know what is. Shameful. calmatters.org/environment/...

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California lawmakers let schools' AC funding lapse, handing $191 million back to utilities

Despite sweltering classrooms and a heat wave, the state chose to return unspent CalSHAPE funds to ratepayers.

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🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ @snipe.lol · 02/09/2026

So... quick reminder.... executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAWS. guides.library.umass.edu/govinfo/exec...

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LibGuides: Government Information: Executive orders and proclamations

A Guide to Government Information Sources

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

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Ellory @thelocalmuffin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey so as a heads up. This. Is. All. Commissions. PayPal is DREADFUL to work with. Do not mention the word. Do not censor the word. Please just pay the invoice. If you do the artist you commissioned WILL get in trouble.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/07/2026

A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.

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Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over. Every time another a death, another mention, a picture, a tribute, a sorrow so deep. I wonder how to move forward. Will I ever get over this loss and this pain?
Will I ever be able to enjoy life again? How does one live knowing that I have no power to change what has happened?

And yet the outreach not only from Minnesota, but from around the world has been nothing less than spectacular. Every card, every gift, every heartfelt letter has been read, touched, held, and cherished by us all. The kindness you've all shown us is beyond words. Please never forget Alex and what he believed in ~ equality and peace for all. I will remember the things that made you, you. It will never take your memory. As long as I'm here, you will never be forgotten.

For all you asking what you can do. Continue this fight. Never give up your right to speak out, protect your neighbor, your community and don't forget to spend time with those you love...

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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Kerry Wood, Behind-The-Back Eephus 😮

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

36 years old. Killed in cold blood by the Madison Police Department whose officers did not comply with use of force policies. Charge them with murder.

Justice for Corey Ruiz. Community control of the police now. Includes a photo of Corey looking chill in a hoodie.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/07/2026

Affordability doesn't come from just decreasing costs, but increasing opportunity for working people. The city's Economic Development Corporation is at the heart of this work. Today, I proudly appointed Tony Shorris as President and CEO and Lina Khan as Chair of the EDC.

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Aurora @aurora27.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Good guy Ken looking out! 🖤🦇

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Legends of Avantris @avantris.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

D&D Animated: Glory Holes Comin' Up! #dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e

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Legends of Avantris @avantris.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Among the Stars has a brand new beautiful music video animated and directed by @Shoocharu! You're not ready for this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3aq... #dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e #shoocharu #neonodyssey

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Among the Stars - Official Video Animated by Shoocharu | Neon Odyssey

YouTube video by Legends of Avantris

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I love Will, but I've just decided I'm not going to learn who this guy is. Sorry buddy! You're "Duff the Grumbler or whatever" now.

Bulwark article by Will Sommer: The Right' Worst New Star Just Shot Someone: Meet "Chud the Builder."

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

TOM BOMBADIL, TECH SUPPORTE: Hey dol, merry dol! Floweres and starres and rayne! Turne off your machyne and wayte, then turne it on agayne!

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Aurora @aurora27.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

He was right about not banging folks without books in their homes too!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/05/2026

Support grassroots organizers on the ground in these states. They are going to need your help with statewide races and close district races too. Dig in and say you believe that people in these states deserve better.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/05/2026

We don’t actually know what the definitive millennial song is because it was mislabeled when we got it off Kazaa

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/05/2026

"Mildly positive" for hantavirus. Yeah. Like the time my girlfriend got a little bit pregnant.

HHS
@HHSGov
HHS through @ASPRgov
and @CDCgov
is supporting @StateDept
in the repatriation of 17 American citizens from the MV Hondius cruise ship affected by the Andes variant of hantavirus.

All 17 are currently en route via @StateDept
airlift to the United States, with two of the passengers travelling in the plane's biocontainment units out of an abundance of caution. One passenger currently has mild symptoms and another passenger tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus.

As of now, the airlift will transport passengers to the ASPR Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center (RESPTC) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska before taking the passenger with mild symptoms to a second RESPTC at its final destination.

Upon arrival at each facility, each individual will undergo clinical assessment and receive appropriate care and support based on their condition.
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Aurora @aurora27.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Go do it! Back a physical item, get the free dice! It's a great deal, I upgraded my pledge earlier today 😁

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day to the mother of us all. (And who deserves to be treated better.)

Earth from space. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Reto Stöckli, Nazmi El Saleous, and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen

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Aurora @aurora27.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Biblically accurate Ziggy from the new music video for #NeonOdyssey by @avantris.bsky.social and The Midnight.

Cartoon photo of Ziggy Woog, a Saurian hypercoder gridrunner character from Legend of Avantris' Stardust Rhapsody Anthem D&D campaign, hard at work.

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Aurora @aurora27.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I do not think I'll ever understand any of this

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sci.fried @scifried.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My other fav sci-fi moms

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Aurora @aurora27.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Part of the collection of new to me books to read when LoA won't be streaming after their Kickstarter closes. I also have books 3-8 of Dungeon Crawler Carl to get through so I've got plenty to distract myself with.

Stack of books on a desk. Das Pemtameron on the bottom in hardcover, on top of that the English version of the same book but in paperback. On top of that, a hardcover edition of British Fairy Tales. On top of that, a paperback of the Halloween Tree. On top of that a paperback of The Dream Machine. On top of that, the 4th Earthsea novel Tehanu. On top of the stack, a collection of short stories with an introduction by Ursula K Le Guin titled Edges.

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Legends of Avantris @avantris.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

New Music Single! Neon Odyssey by The Midnight is streaming everywhere! open.spotify.com/track/2mE4Ue... #newmusic #newsingle

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Aurora @aurora27.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

That's so many artists and animators, they're all so dang talented!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Dark money groups are paying influencers to spread attacks about our campaign. Voters deserve to know who is trying to manipulate our election.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate

Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 06/03/2026

Yes, sorry should have named it. A child died of it last year from an infection she contracted when she was too young to be vaccinated. I don't think it's extreme to say anti-vaxxers killed her

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California child dies from measles-related complications

A school-age child who contracted measles as an infant died from a rare complication after initially recovering from the infection.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/03/2026

It's 1992, there's a Republican president with a war in the middle east and a recession. It's 2008, there's a Republican president with a war in the middle east and a recession. It's 2026, there's a Republican president with a war in the middle east...

A comic book illustration of Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen sitting alone on the surface of Mars. The glowing blue, muscular figure is perched on a dark rock in a contemplative pose. The landscape is a vibrant, saturated pink sand with low craters and hills, set against a stark black sky filled with distant white stars.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The booke of love ys long & boringe No folk kan lyft the damned thinge Crammid ful of charters & lore & rubrics And ynstructiouns for daunsing - But Ich? Ich love it whan thou readest to me; And thee, thou kanst reade me eny thinge. ("The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields)

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