Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1hChi Phi alum doxxed the Cornell Jane Doe in case you thought fraternities served any other purpose than to uphold the patriarchy. 010426
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesFLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 1hKnow their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME. 451297407
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2hGod I'm so tired of seeing rapists everywhere. I hate these fucking braindead pigs, I hate watching them gorge on power and money for no reason except that they want it, I hate knowing they're torturing women with impunity, I hate seeing their smug stupid fucking faces on the news. 364598
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2hA truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system 492717559
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesProPublica @propublica.org · 1hBabies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)propublica.orgBabies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at BirthA lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement. 25504236
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesTina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 4hNEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.prismreports.orgDespite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fieldsFlorida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina 1177114
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5hI got nominated for a Signal Award for B*tch, Listen! My interview w/ Elie Mystal—The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men—has been nominated for best individual episode in the Activism, Public Service, and Social Impact category! But now I need YOUR help. 1/2youtube.comThe Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White MenYouTube video by Rewire News Group 421536
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesBig Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 5hIt's not going to have Heated Rivalry influence if it's not homosexual, hope this helps. 1446
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 5hSuch a generous and enthusiastic review of BLACK FLAME. The reviewer's reference to The Rocky Horror Picture Show reminded me that I actually named Ellen's parents Brad and Janet. pekoeblaze.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/r...pekoeblaze.wordpress.comReview: “Black Flame” by Gretchen Felker-Martin (Novel)Wow! Just… WOW! 10/10! A masterpiece! Ok… I suppose I should go through the formality of actually writing a proper review of Gretchen Fe… 1466
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesThorn Mooney @thornthewitch.bsky.social · 10hHi it’s almost October. Here is that book you need for navigating things: bookshop.org/p/books/witc...bookshop.orgWitches Among Us: Understanding Contemporary Witchcraft and WiccaEverything You Wanted to Know About Witchcraft (But Were Afraid to Ask) Occult references ripple frequently through mainstream culture, Wiccan and witchcraft movements appear trendier than ever, and c... 12512
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesClint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 10hVery excited to share the cover of my new book JUST BENEATH THE SOIL: WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS LAST WITNESSES. It will be out May 4, 2027. I learned so much writing this book and truly can't wait to share it with you all. It’s available for preorder now: sites.prh.com/justbeneatht... 725952
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10hInteresting new data collection from the nice people at the Sustainable AI Group. Most of this is estimates, particularly the closed models where OpenAI etc don't report energy or climate impacts. This stood out: there is *no* increase in model efficiency cleerdash.sustainableaigroup.com 33816
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.engadget.comDots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - EngadgetSure, seems safe. 591066345
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 17hThe entire edifice of "sex-based rights" is an absurd moral and legal fiction wearing feminism's stolen clothes--and it seems this group of people promoting "Christian Rights" are trying a similar trick. The UK has fertilised itself for this perfidy with its own bullshit. Democracy is at risk. 344175
Reposted by Patricia L. Maplescait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17hthis is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women 92469518
Reposted by Patricia L. Maplese.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17hwell well well, will you look at that electrek.co/2026/09/15/t...electrek.coTesla's record month: 4 fatal Autopilot and Full Self-Driving crashesJuly 2026 set a record for Tesla driver-assist crashes: 236, including 4 fatal ones the public never connected to Autopilot or FSD. 316745
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 16hAfD are a bunch of Holocaust deniers, and so this is expected; it's especially obscene that the CDU is now joining them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...nytimes.comGerman Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain JewsCouncilors in an eastern German town voted to stop installing memorial plaques outside homes of Holocaust victims, saying they would instead build a memorial at a cemetery. 54512
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesTina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This week, @prismreports.org is co-publishing my latest investigation with @us.theguardian.com, focused on a farmworker whose employer subjected him to deadly working conditions that resulted in a catastrophic heat stroke. The story will also be published in Spanish by @enlacelatinonc.bsky.social. 13511
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesLissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026my friend and neighbor - a journalist, newsletterer, essayist and book author - is teaching a class on pitching nonfiction! starts this week, check it out 142
Reposted by Patricia L. Maples☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 19hi am okay publishing michael traceys address 413613
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is really goodinquirer.comWe need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will BunchThe media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy. 3336
Reposted by Patricia L. Maplesthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...music.youtube.comSongs In The Key Of Life - The EPEP • Stevie Wonder 532037640
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesBig Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 29/09/2026it's good to know that protesting a genocide is more offensive to institutions than violent rape. it clarifies things for later. 15417
Reposted by Patricia L. Maplesvortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026This is why they need to just arrest Altman, Amodei, and Huang and get this bullshit over with. 2378
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesKevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For any following the continued chaos of the ADA, Diabetes Care EIC Steve Kahn (1 of the 5 scientists thrown out of the ADA conference this summer) just published an article in Diabetologia to avoid continued censorship from ADA link.springer.com/article/10.1... 2117
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential. 343635755
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency 22425691042
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/20267. The CEOs of these companies openly brag that they are destroying the capacity to think and do not care. 1186
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 28/09/2026I don't think I've ever had one of my articles sent out in a push notification as an Apple News Editors' Pick before??? This @beckbook.com excerpt in @nymag.com / @vulture.com REALLY picked up steam over the weekend, damn!!! Read it if you haven't: www.vulture.com/article/beck... 68218
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m. 12099872567
Reposted by Patricia L. Maplesutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 28/09/2026Can’t make it up. A former sundown town with a now majority black population with 1 in 4 below the poverty line despite being the home to a Fortune 500 company that is now constructing data centers with tax breaks. 217675
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026take a moment this weekend to read this distressing portrait of the decadeslong attack on immigrants in a Maryland county, 50 miles from DC especially if you’re in the DMV, to know what’s happening at your doorstep boltsmag.org/frederick-co...boltsmag.org“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - BoltsFrederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo... 413676
Reposted by Patricia L. Mapless. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/09/2026There have been a lot of jokey jokey about this but it is actually not funny. EA and AI bros are scummy and trying to destroy the world and coercing people into sex is very much a core part of their ethos. 740498
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is what the path to winning looks like - but only if we keep the numbers up. More people came out to volunteering that there's no way of getting a photo angle to show them all! This is a huge moment - time to get it done. 10 days left. Sign up below 👇🏽 14419121
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 17925101702
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 27/09/2026For New Yorkers who voted on Primary Day, you might already know who’s on your ballot. But before you set off to collect that “I Voted” sticker — do you know what else is on your ballot?buff.lyWhat to Know About NYC’s 5 Ballot Proposals Ahead of Election DayNew York voters will answer five questions in November’s general election. 0217
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesAlyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just had to fill out thirteen, count them, thirteen pages worth of intake forms for a single appointment. I was required to fill them out more than twenty-four hours in advance or lose the appointment. This is a barrier to treatment and borderline harassment. 1392
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesJules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Institutions that recruit international athletes & benefit from their athletic labor must build systems capable of supporting them when their immigration status places them at risk," write @nkalamb.bsky.social Simran Kaur Sethi, & @derekcrim.bsky.social in a powerful & important essay 34926
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Tentacle Pot 456 1414
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesCatbus @catbus.phd · 27/09/2026can't speak for anyone else but what *I* mean is "I don't voluntarily listen to horseshit because life is finite" 1014320
Reposted by Patricia L. Maplesfrank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026how did this get made, and why can we no longer make public service films like this, are two very important questions that people who control budgets are clearly not asking 64910
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesPBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/09/2026More than 1.2 million children lost access to food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program between July 2025 and 2026, according to a new analysis. to.pbs.org/4dwuKEfto.pbs.orgMore than 1.2 million children have lost SNAP benefits since last July. Experts explain whyExperts say that the drop is a cause for worry, and that it’s unlikely that the need for food assistance has dropped. 16161112
Reposted by Patricia L. Maplesfrank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hi hello here is a massive raven perched on a mountain range. limited edition - just five prints available 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/cigf... #printmaking #raven #crow #artsky #art 15016
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesNome @nome.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It reminds me of nothing so much as how angry a certain section of the right wing gets at the concept of Divorce. "You're property - you're not supposed to be able to assert boundaries, that's ridiculous. You're destroying families with this nonsense." 115420
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 26/09/2026I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF TRANSPHOBIC ANTIFEMINISTS IN THE BRITISH MEDIA BEING GIVEN AN INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM FOR UNINFORMED OPINIONS SOURCED DIRECTLY FROM BETWIXT THE ASS CHEEKS OF ROTTING ARISTONONCES 9823173
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesKevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The peer reviewer crisis is only being made worse by the peer reviewers agreeing to review but turning in AI slop as the final review. Have seen it as an editor and had it happen to me. Seems to be little discussion of it as our institutions stick by the status quo despite inadequacy of our systems. 1154
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesOrdinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What is wrong with our tech overlords? How did Silicon Valley's promises of progress and uplift flip into the sneering celebration of dominance? The great @adriandaub.bsky.social returns to unpack the current political and libidinal economy of Big Tech www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...patreon.comEpisode 160: Very Special Boys feat. Adrian Daub | Ordinary UnhappinessAbby and Patrick welcome back returning guest Adrian Daub. The occasion is Adrian’s latest book, What Tech Calls Governing. A follow-up to h 1117
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesLiz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 Sept 25 (Year 2, Week 39) - Justice Dept drops 50+ longstanding school desegregation cases - no new NIH EO (but threat isn’t past) - $1B in new pocket rescission & more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...buttondown.comYear 2, Week 39Sept 19-25 – digging in 24025
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesEmma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.nbcnews.com/world/spain/...nbcnews.comAnger grows across Spain after elderly woman evicted from her home of 70 yearsMaricarmen Abascal, 87, was removed from the Madrid apartment she had called home since 1955. Her eviction has fueled anger about Spain’s housing crisis. 12010
Reposted by Patricia L. MaplesKevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The near daily e-mails I get with these sorts of exploitative pitches leave me confident we're gonna be inundated with AI nutriton slop in the coming years and it's gonna extract more money from consumers than we've ever spent on nutrition research. 264