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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Soraya: "Experts and administrators are publicly agonizing over men’s flight from higher education but seem willing to tolerate communities, behaviors, and campus environments where persistent sexual violence is essentially a tool that is informally filtering and expelling women students."
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B in the land of rain and coffee @bethstac.bsky.social · 23h
A better world is possible. Humans have done it before.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too
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Bradley Perry @bradleyperry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
The important thing to know about the Starship launch today is that Elon Musk is directly responsible for an unfathomable number of people dying preventable deaths and has never faced a single consequence for it.
cnn.com
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...
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The awesomeness of museums
Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.
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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're getting deja vu seeing this shit, it's because they're just running back the same hit pieces they've done against trans people with neurodivergent people.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not surprised one bit. While it's not the only use, I am willing to bet nearly all people that use AI in any capacity have done prompts like this. Everyone knows it's the CSAM machine. Feature not a bug for the creeps of the world.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Take action now against two harmful initiatives that will be on the Washington ballot in November! You can help by sharing this video, donating to No Hate in Washington State, or telling someone the truth about these initiatives. nohateinwastate.org
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 04/09/2026
Support Carey here, if able: www.gofundme.com/f/back-our-s...
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Donate to Help us keep living while I sew, organized by Carey Means
We started this business with money that Carey got from conventions and used a sewing mach… Carey Means needs your support for Help us keep living while I sew
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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
"For starters, violations of any kind against incarcerated trans people are generally ignored, uninvestigated, and treated as insignificant. Freedom of speech, expression, and religion is nonexistent. Solidarity and protection for trans people has become extinct behind bars.
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“Restrictive Housing” Is Wielded as Punishment Against Trans People in Prison
I am being locked up 23 hours a day with no human interaction. I believe I am being punished for being transgender.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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B in the land of rain and coffee @bethstac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Tetons are a sacred space. There is nothing else like them in the world. We have thousands of baseball stadiums already, use one of those.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 27/09/2026
"Is this heaven?" "No, it is Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Now get the fuck out of here!"
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 27/09/2026
Important context on rationalism as a religion ("sex cult") is that it is far from isolated. All of the TESCREAL bundle is studded with interlocking micro-religions. Silicon Valley is religiogenic, like the burned-over district of 19th century upstate New York.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.
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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Time for my favourite video on AI, cults, and second wave eugenics. What a time to be alive! youtu.be/P7XT4TWLzJw
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SaTML 2023 - Timnit Gebru - Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through AGI
YouTube video by Nicolas Papernot
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵
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Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 26/09/2026
Me, a human woman in the ER: I’m in a lot of pain. Them: No. You’re not.
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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Worth noting that some of these ideologies are empirically grounded and others are, like, not. So while this might be helpful in putting many players on the same stage, it doesn't do justice to the unequal epistemological credibility of the different stances nor the unequal political economy.
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B in the land of rain and coffee @bethstac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since justice seems off the table right now we, at the very least, cannot let these people write the AI regulations.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Only quibble here is the headline: the algal bloom was not "mysterious". It was another event exacerbated by climate change driven by burning fossil fuels. Government officials were also aware within the first months that hundreds of thousands of marine animals had been killed in the bloom.
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B in the land of rain and coffee @bethstac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It will take generations to repair the damage Trump is doing to publicly funded research.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just slammed the Supreme Court's use of its "emergency docket" — suggesting the court has misused the process in allowing the Trump admin to move forward with a host of controversial policies while challenges play out in lower court.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes Supreme Court’s use of emergency docket
In a public appearance, Jackson said the high court’s use of the emergency docket was “problematic” and called for more restraint from her colleagues when using it.
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Jonathan Aul @mudshark58.northsky.social · 25/09/2026
" 'Can’t you see that preventing the Genius Thumb Dog Drone Apocalypse is the most important problem that has ever confronted humanity?' they ferociously reply."
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026
this is 100% true AND this story has esp pissed me off w/ the gutting of "mainstream" LGBTQ media + journos. there is a version of this story we could giggle at without Ted Cruz seeing but the LGBTQ newsrooms left are either all owned by same company or self-funded and struggling so instead, this
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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026
33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.
The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
people--especially kids--need to be able access this stuff if they or their loved ones are experiencing *actual* hallucinations. I have already struggled with ai bullshit clogging up searches, even on pubmed
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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 25/09/2026
Cosplay is for everyone 🥰
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Every villain has a weakness. And occasionally their weakness is turning to the camera and explaining what their weakness is and that their weakness is making themselves stupider
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICE. CHILDREN. FAMILIES. HORROR.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Men crying about not being about to project their desires onto an object because that constitutes having their "language policed" is a special category of farce we call "Nate."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump attacked Venezuela and Iran. He launched a murder campaign in the Caribbean. He demanded territory from Greenland and threatens the sovereignty of Canada. In his first term, he escalated with Iran, among other things. Yeah, calling that “isolationist” is absurd. But I guess it sounds better.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Right before Netanyahu was set to address the UN in NYC, Zohran Mamdani preempts him with this moving video — He hosted Palestinians who were forced to leave or lost family in Gaza, and planted an olive tree with them at Gracie Mansion:
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Fights🏳️‍⚧️4🇵🇸Love @hyenagirl64.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of the centrist assumptions here is that the Democratic Party will act in good faith, despite it frequently not doing so in highly visible ways Articles like the one I posted are important because the liberals need to first understand the Dem strategy is bad to then understand the dems are bad
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
will forever be amazing that Kavanaugh actually committed himself to this painfully stupid concurrence when the option to shut his mouth was right there; as a result, now we have "Kavanaugh stops" boy is dumb as hell talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/brett-k...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It...
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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You'll *never* get meaningful legislative work done besides CRs and shit you can slide by. Trump will turn anything of value *into a shakedown racket*, only do things you want to kill with him. So, there's time to do impeachments! All bad news cycles, just keep them coming one after another.
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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One impeachment trial a month until he's gone. Make the Senate a permanent court while Trump holds office. Be clear about "It will be this way until we've run out of worthy crimes" so everyone's clear about the gig. Make John Roberts loathe his work.
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The Beautiful Idea @beautifulidea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hate ICE and AI data centers and wanna learn more about how people are building movement infrastructure to resist both? Check out this new interview with the Let's Go network. thebeautifulidea.show/building-the...
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Building The Infrastructure of Revolt
Building The Infrastructure of Revolt0:00/2869.4471251×Building The Infrastructure of Revolt · Zencastr VideoOn today’s episode, we speak with an organizer with the Let’s Go Network a new and growing ...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/09/2026
Millions of surveillance cameras watching our every move, but the cameras never seem to turn up any clues in these cases. Weird how that works.
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Cases of Black people found hanged in the US South are a reminder of nation's lynching history
The death of Tasia Fortune, a Black Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree, has stirred distressing memories of the grim U.S. history of lynchings
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
Well that was fast. The First Circuit said, "Did we stutter? Overturned means overturned." 🏆 bsky.app/profile/chri...
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"All around the United States, people are organizing to resist the federal mercenaries who carry out Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Here, we announce three upcoming mobilizations and share reports from two recent confrontations."
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 23/09/2026
As part of our overview of resistance to ICE around the country, we present a report from Austin, Texas, where people gathered in protest after ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in the back. The authors explore why we must hold police responsible for ICE attacks. crimethinc.com/MeltICE#aust...
A photograph (by Scamlikely on Instagram) of a young person spray-painting a wall (paint on the wall already reads "Muerte a la migra") during the protests in response to the ICE shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin, Texas.A photograph (by Scamlikely on Instagram) of a circle of candles and flowers with a sign reading "Justice for Wilber."
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"“This bill neuters the right to strike... A right that’s suspended when it becomes effective isn’t much of a right at all. It can effectively extinguish the right to strike.” Savage said that employers will assume they can ignore pressure to bargain merely by citing potential financial harm.""
thestar.com
Why unions say Canada's new labour bill will make strikes 'all but impossible' in regulated sectors
Experts say Ottawa's Building Canada Strong Act hands the labour minister and government 'unchecked' authority to suspend strikes based on 'national interest.'
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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seattle Public Schools School Board meeting tonight. I am sick, so might crap out early. On the agenda, resolutions against the genital inspection in girls sports ballot measure, the forcing schools to out kids to their parents ballot measure, and the anti-millionaires tax ballot measure. Agenda 👇
seattlepublicschools.community.diligentoneplatform.com
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