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Ben is Unionized and Writes Stuff @beewubs.bsky.social · 43m

I have an idea for a new Kiryu game…

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 5h

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Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability.

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 4h

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229 new affordable homes are coming to the Bronx.

We just broke ground on Sol on Park: • 80 homes for current NYCHA residents • 69 homes for formerly homeless seniors • 79 homes for low- and middle-income seniors • 8,000 sq. ft. of community space, including a health and wellness center

This is what’s possible when we invest in NYCHA and use the power of government to build a City where New Yorkers come first.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 4h

Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another big one is teaching your son to see girls as equals. Instead of enrolling him in sex-segregated sports, introduce him to a co-ed team. And help him foster his more “feminine” interests where we can be in mixed-sex spaces, making mixed-sex friend groups.

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TheAbbeyRoadie | Commissions Open! @theabbeyroadie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s always an uphill climb for animated originals, and even moreso ones kneecapped by poor advertising. PLEASE go out and support this gem and help give it the legs to run! Great word of mouth works better than you think!

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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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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

an ice cold gigantic root beer for all my trans homies

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Ben is Unionized and Writes Stuff @beewubs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vaxxed 2 da maxx

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Celia Hodent 🔜 #GameUXsummit @celiahodent.com · 26/09/2026

I got the covid and flu vaccines a few days ago. If you can, get yours soon! Stay healthy and keep others safe 🤙🏼

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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Holy shit

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Ben is Unionized and Writes Stuff @beewubs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Honestly a decent ad

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

incredible Bluesky lifters + Bluesky socialists crossover event

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social

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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.

Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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Ben is Unionized and Writes Stuff @beewubs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Four to six hours is a lot of VO in one day 😮‍💨

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinking about the pre-AI world like brooding male movie protagonists do about their ethereal dead wives by this point.

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Dead Wife Dead Wife Montage

ALT: Dead Wife Dead Wife Montage

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Ben is Unionized and Writes Stuff @beewubs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s always, always a mechanical Turk. These people are seeking snake oil.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The year all of this popped off publicly was the year the Call of Duty I wrote on, Call of Duty: Vanguard, came out. That year, the press and gamer communities boycotted all Activision games and Keighley even made a statement about it on the TGA stage. As a result Vanguard "missed sales targets"...

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Stay safe out there, LA. Dangerous, rabid super PACs are everywhere.

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

help protect yourself and your immunocompromised neighbors!

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Ben is Unionized and Writes Stuff @beewubs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometimes I’m glad I don’t know wtf you people are talking about

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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Ben is Unionized and Writes Stuff @beewubs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The modern era depends on a ruling class who simply lack the creativity to envision a better future and therefore think it cannot exist

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We sometimes have players ask us why should players care about game workers organizing. This right here is why.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026

Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026

IN MINNESOTA.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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The Mummer's Dansky @rdansky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Any serious analysis of the sports betting industry zeroes in on how the model was founded on one concept: Normalizing the concept of sports betting so that people just accepted it, and didn't think about consequences or costs because it was just there. Worth thinking about in other contexts...

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Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 24/09/2026

Debunked my ass, a woman died because of these abusive fuckers.

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Chad Jessup @adhdev.io · 24/09/2026

#gamedev Crap, forgot an important part on the first post, start here. Early Access (EA): cheapest price = die hard fans and believers, $5-10 bucks. >>They get first level/episode/drop...<< Players that come in here get the rest for free. Minimal risk if game doesn't get completed. Continued...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's cool. I'm sure all the BitReactor devs that were furloughed weeks before launch are gonna see some of that $50 million... right? Residuals are standard in other creative industries. If the people who actually made the game got their share of the profits, we wouldn't be in this mess.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you want to write, "The AI wants to hurt people," remember that you mean to write, "The AI company profits off of hurting people."

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Eddie Mars Attacks! @eddiemarsattacks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s because Xi is coming on Wednesday and apparently my guys are a peace offering.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY

cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side

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