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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Sully Dawg @sullydawg2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What would a 5% tax on billionaire wealth actually look like? There are 938 billionaires in America with more than $8 trillion in combined wealth. So Ben and I decided to make the numbers visible—and then ask a simple question: what could that money actually do?

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/04/2024

You're not afraid of "killer AI" and "robot overlords," you're afraid of white supremacy, ableism, patriarchy, hegemony, extractivism, kyriarchy, and capitalism.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 08/10/2026

Justice John Lopez IV wrote the Arizona supreme court ruling in 2024 that upheld the state’s 19th-century abortion ban. He is up for retention this fall:

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Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts

Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/10/2026

We may cover this tomorrow, but I just wanted to signal boost this. After months of pushing the administration to make good on its promises for trans youth, NYC appears to be taking steps to do so. I do believe the city can be doing much more, but this is a wonderful start from Mayor Mamdani.

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NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors

The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 08/10/2026

The midterms are November 3, and today there's a livestream on voting-machine security and election privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org), a digital civil liberties nonprofit, hosts "Protect the Vote" from 11am to noon Pacific, with a Q&A. RSVP: www.eff.org/livestream-evote

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/10/2026

Yeah this documentary is AI industry and Effective Altruist propaganda. Keep on walking. Source: www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

Instadocs: Al Gone Wild reconstructs the breach as it's never been seen before,
visualizing the digital attack to show how the agents hacked into Hugging Face. With insights from Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue, a METR researcher who investigated the attack, former OpenAl insider and co-founder of the Al Futures Project Daniel Kokotajlo, and leading tech reporters, the installment treats the incident as what it may be: our clearest

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1187) Goblinbot. Effectively a larger Mischiefbot variant; a menace to society in general and novice PCbots in particular. Sometime ally of Orcbot. Like all goblins, bad at everything except being a goblin - which is a very Small Robot trait to be fair. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

A wide, ovoid robot with short, banded arms and legs and little cloven feet. It has big, pointed ears (one of which is pierced with a gold ring) and is walking along, carrying a wooden sword. It has a swept-back tuft of hair on its top and a big wide, spike-toothed grin; one of its teeth appears to be gold too. Its expression is one of sheer, small-minded malevolence. Text in the bottom right reads, "Small Robots Remonstered".

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages. granta.com/contributor/...

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So I can't even tell what new books are supposed to be about from the listing, and I have to go to outside review sites for even the slightest clue. Seems like they trained a model on Tumblr and AO3, then starting feeding all new books to it to generate the fizzle text.

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been buying a lot less Audible and a lot more Libro books lately, but Audible seems to be on a path to make itself completely unusable. They tormented us with forced advertising for HP for months, and now they're replacing all of the book teaser summaries with AI slop

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 07/10/2026

The idea that ambiguity in communication is what causes men to rape is another one of those fictions we indulge in as a society to obfuscate how sexual assault is more or less a game to men, how groups of men encourage and enable each other and how it forms the basis of their social standing.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 07/10/2026

If the connection between "tech" and "human relationship with the material world" seems mysterious, consider that a stick is just a stick until it is used as a lever at which point the stick and the fulcrum encode a change in your relationship with moving heavy things.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 07/10/2026

In the same way that science isn't just a bunch of facts about the universe, but developing ways of knowing and finding out about it, technology isn't just a collection of mysterious machines but a set of relationships between people and our material world.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 07/10/2026

There's been a growing refrain of "why should we bother learning X if a machine can do it faster" in recent years. And my answer is the same reason we learn to write our own compilers in computer science education. We will always need to educate ourselves in the how and why and the humanity of tech.

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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG

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Jamie Flack @catandcrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Amongst the lilypads, the adventurer finds a mythical creature, taking a moments respite. He looks back at you over his shoulder. --- Finally done. Finally. I think worth the effort, the additional work with the wet skin and hair made a lot of difference. Hope you like him!

A muscular merman of asian heritage, with markings like that of a koi fish, including a patch over his eye, is leaning, arms folded, over a large log. He is submerged in a pond, surrounded by lilypads and their flowers. He is looking over his shoulder at the viewer.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you can also boycott something just because you know it irritates transphobes when you do spite is a valid reason for a boycott!

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maybe this is the source of the misconception? Like: they're aware of small towns filled with seniors, so they assume that the necessary resources must be available to support that, instead of it being a consequences of circumstance? It would be nice! But this has been a problem for 100 years

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And here’s a little “get your feelings out about decentering men playlist”, starting with Faouzia’s “Unethical,” written about her fiance who told her she’d have to give up singing when they got married. She chose her voice over him.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin

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A brief but harmless period of weightlessness @hughsheehy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Classic republican, can’t tell if someone is the wrong age to try to pick up

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the one for me. If you're going to do it, you have to be already wealthy enough, and have family wealthy enough, that frequent travel is no problem. Not a viable way for somebody to live cheap on their little pension and social security, unless early death and less health is the goal

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is not me crapping on rural communities in any way. It is just as valid and fantastic a choice as any other area. I'm just flabbergasted that they seem to think that at age 65, with no history or roots, a retiring person can just pick one and plop down for their last 30 or 40 years no problem.

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This person. Really does mean well. But they are pretty young, have never interacted with an older person or family member, and do not seem to have a grasp of the actual challenges of aging. And they seem to think they have the same access to medical care rurally, as even a lightly suburban town.

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is a person of my acquaintance who likes to campaign for people retiring and moving to rural communities when they retire, as a cheap and cheerful option. me: Thinking about: becoming old in a rural community where you have no wealth, no family grounding, and age out of the ability to drive

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Bru.ib⭐ @bruib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A bold transmission. #Art #DarkArt

B/W image. grainy and gray. A tall, tall skyscraper pokes above the clouds, a transmission tower on it top, and a red recon on the peak of the mast. A crescent above the tower sprays sparks.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Come with me to the amazing Wideford Hill Neolithic chambered cairn on Orkney. Access is via a ladder but there's a torch provided.

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It sucks for us, but at least we got there: I'm so glad that kid doesn't have to suffer like we did. Early intervention genuinely means a completely different outcome: same for a ton of other neurodivergences.

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It also recontextualized a lot of my view of my family members who, looking back, also have/had severe ADHD and extremely terrible coping mechanisms. If my mother had been able to get treatment, decades ago? Life would have been very different for me and for like at least 30 people.

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dear lordt, every word a truth. I didn't get my diagnosis until Age Grown, like 5+ years ago, and I'm still wrestling down a thousand demons named Lazy and Inadequate and Wasted Potential. None of whom should have ever been assigned to torture me.

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Vuldea (they/them) @fauxbox-rabbitfagt.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It's been a while, but I humbly offer this summer #drifteris #cosplay we did

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.

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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For @shapelessink.bsky.social, a block print version of his most viral piece 💜

A print of a transfem sheep woman, Amelia, pointing a gun at the viewer. In a speech bubble she says “GET WRITING, BITCH. INFINITE WORLDS CRY OUT TO BE BORN, AND YOU ARE TO BE A GOD.”

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skip!! 🐇 COMMS OPEN! @okveeart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ok real post this time. updated my boy paz's sheet for the first time in like a year :-) #destiny2art #destiny2oc

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At this point I am expecting them to dig up no less a ghoul than Anthony Weiner, lmao. Looking back on his nonsense seems quaint by now

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lmao not the fundraising texts using the names of Hakim Jefferies and Nate Silver Who are they going to try to invoke next: the Riddler? FOH with your scions of the captured opposition

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Jenevieve F. @empressofrobots.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

PLEASE read Magica Riot and Magica Riot Full Bloom so I can have someone to gush to about them! The Magica Riot series is (shockingly) gayer than Kara has advertised (complimentary)! There is also running gag across the books regarding a van that had me DYING when it came full circle.

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have bought many pins from Strike Gently and they are lovely. Small family business and they've always been very kind.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So you end up with a) people who haven’t given it any thought b) people who are like, ok cool let’s respect people’s self-id and not stress about this, and c) outright fascists

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Victoria D @kotorimochi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Art commission done, Thank you again Auryxendr for commissioning me and for your patience ^^ Destiny2, Titan oc.

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Transphobia can be litigated for ten thousand pages, but this is the simple verdict.

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They Call Me Doctor Mae @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Batman says Trans Rights

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