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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 17h

The primary objective of journalism is supposed to be telling the truth. It is a DECISION on the part of USA Today to know that new details have emerged about this case and to refuse to update an old story that is still circulating and still shaming Jane Doe.

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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 23h

JUDGE: How would you envision that looking, then? PROSECUTOR: What part? JUDGE: The part where I appoint an independent person in the interest of justice to investigate the Department of Justice, and that person is being supervised by the Department of Justice www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Judge to begin inquiry that could lead to criminal contempt charges in ‘Broadview Six’ case

A federal judge on Thursday said she’d initiate a “fact finding” process to determine whether potential criminal contempt charges are warranted against prosecutors in the “Broadview Six” case.

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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 18h

This is SO GOOD. Kinda the Circus in Bas-Lag, to give you some idea of what it is; but also a great, smart, heart-filled romp of a novel, but also very much gutting in a way a romp isn't. It is so much and so good.

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butter bean @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 19h

that's a lot of katie, but the world needs more katie so LET THE FOUNTAIN FLOW

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/10/2026

"I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thought to how to protect girls and women after they’re born?" buff.ly/K3eqEvg

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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?

“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...

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butter bean @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 19h

A MONTH OF BOOKS TO CELEBRATE

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 21h

AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!

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butter bean @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 19h

F R I D A Y F R I D A Y F R I D A Y

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Exactly what we’re seeing in AI in the life sciences: wine and dine a cluster of thinkers, then invite the ones who aren’t put off or critical to contribute to paid-off think tanks

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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New Story Day!!!! I’ve got a new cosmic horror library story out in the world, published by @kaleidotrope.bsky.social !!! How can a book save you from an eldritch apocalypse??? Give this a read and see!!! kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2026/...

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'Unsought Books' by Corey Farrenkopf

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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

St. Remedius fuel.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've raised $9424 since I started on my goal to raise $40,000 for REBUILD. Thank you. It's my birthday month. Please support and share if you can. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3:
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”

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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last year you all helped me raise almost $4,000 in scholarship funds. I’d like to introduce you to the wonderful scientists who received a #FindThatLizard Scholarship. 🦎

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 01/10/2026

The legal academy must be burned to the ground

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Defunding policing was and is the floor.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

And if you got this far as a cis women, and you're like "yeah, this is basically a wide-scale abusive system," please just take a second and imagine that trans people, who are trying to opt out, are committing the single most dangerous thing you can do in an abusive system: escape.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/10/2026

Aaron Rodericks the man can block whoever he likes, but Aaron Rodericks the head of T&S for a pretty well-funded startup (please shut the fuck up about how much of a little guy you are) should probably not prevent large swathes of users from seeing posts that are official site policy

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George Chidi, Evil Reporter @neonflag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Georgia State Elections Board is meeting right now to discuss an emergency rule to require ballots to be shuffled if they have to be rescanned, because someone has discovered a way to use AI analysis to de-anonymize the ballots - to tell the order ballots are cast - from poll tabulation data.

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No, it all comes down to too many of us XY sorts immediately jumping up to yell Not All Men. We are NOT on the stake unless we act to put ourselves there, bud.

By the "not all men" logic, Russian roulette is a perfectly safe game to play. Sure, one of the chambers has a bullet in it... but not all chambers.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy #spookyseason! Now you can read HUMANS: MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social in hardback (w/ amazing mirrored cover), paperback (lighter), ebook, audio, Chinese (traditional characters), or a South Asian edition from @westlandbooks.bsky.social! www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-mon...

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Humans: A Monstrous History — Surekha Davies

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The Sages said: Let him die."

Screenshot: Miriam Anzovin

Sanhedrin 75: A man set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. The doctors said: He will have no cure until he has sex with her.

The Sages said: Let him die.

The doctors said: She should at least stand naked before him.

The Sages said: Let him die.

The doctors suggested: The woman should at least converse with him behind a fence in a secluded area, so that he should derive a small amount of pleasure from the encounter.

The Sages insisted: Let him die.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"GenAI is here, so I'm going to teach my students how to use it well." Are educators who choose to do this aware that they're complicit in exploiting and traumatizing data labellers in Global Majority countries? I guess they would have willingly enslaved people 200 years ago.

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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butter bean @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i was saying something earlier about art & artists, and here Premee is with MOAR go read the linked blog post for related content

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HEY LOOKIT MY HANDSOME MUG. @superevilmegacorp.bsky.social dropped this extended round table featuring Ninja Turtles comics czar Tom Waltz, SEMC Narrative Director @thomasbeekers.com and myself talking writing and creating the narrative of TMNT: Splitered Fate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8o5...

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The Narrative behind TMNT: Splintered Fate - Extended Version

YouTube video by Super Evil Megacorp

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butter bean @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

absolute truth proven just by scrolling the thousands of authors, graphic artists, actors, musicians, et al on this webbéd site

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Bluesky's anti-dogpiling policy will inevitably used when some transphobe says something heinous, and then they'll ban every single trans person who not only replies but who even mentions it. They've literally already done this before, years ago.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What will then happen, inevitably, is at least 3 bluesky devs will start posting their own heinous, condescending, and stupid shit, and then ban people responding angrily to *that* This again has already happened, over and over, for years.

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Random Bummer Generator @unknownstory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

is it a good sign for your platform when the Head of Trust and Safety goes on a drunk bender at 4 in the morning on a wednesday and scrolls back to weeks of "mean skeets" just to block them instead of, i dunno, engaging healthily with the community and righting your wrongs

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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is the head of trust and safety allowed to block people for simply commenting on his posts about moderation decisions? Seems like a great way to make sure feedback about your decisions goes unheard.

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 29/09/2026

Hey US friends! Want to read a novel that's kinda Nigerian John Wick meets Arrival by way of The Three Body Problem, Or what you'd get if Carl Sagan's Contact and Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai had a very African baby? I've got you. Win a free copy here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Book giveaway for The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026

Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026. We're giving away 10 copies of a unique and philosophical sci-fi t...

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Preorder Run With the Hunted 9: Extraction Point today! coming October 31, 2026 books2read.com/RunWiththeHu...

meme of spongebob with a rainbow between his hands, and at the top it says "doing a heist" and on the bottom it says "on a bullet train."

It's on a blue-scale background with code, that then has the Run With the Hunted 9: Extraction Point cover on it ( a steel frame bridge over a wooded/overgrown valley/gulley, largely blue-hued, with the top starting to pixellate white, and the left edge smearing into solid lines.) and along the bottom is "Coming October 31, 2025" and the books2read link.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ending soon!

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butter bean @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

pope lizbet does stellar work in helping other folks helping her out multiplies your contribution - your $ stretches immensely

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butter bean @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i guess she's been seeing so much rape that it got to be pretty ho-hum

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

personally I think its awesome that tech rhetoric has gone from "we will not only give you whatever you need, but fulfill desires you don't even know you had" to "fuck you buy this shit you don't want also there goes your job"

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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 28/09/2026

Remember that Kobo does price matching on Amazon if you are a kobo person

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The program is in its fifth year. And it's helped many people. I would love for it to continue to do so.

Informational flyer for Darkness RISING REBUILD, detailing therapy services for justice-involved people of color, program benefits, contact info, and impact stats, with green and yellow accents and a woman giving a thumbs up.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good evening. A reminder that REBUILD is raising funds to keep going. If you can support the program, please do. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil... - I'm trying to raise $40,000 to help it keep going.

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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause

REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.

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butter bean @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i've also felt this for quite a while now but for some reason seeing it written out so plainly has left me so sad and extraordinarily angry

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butter bean @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

having the nyt praise you coming *and* going

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SUNDAY SELF PROMOTION preorder Run With the Hunted 9: Extraction Point! coming October 31, 2026!

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