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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w... y’all got to hear this true story, I’d NEVER heard of it before and it’s crazy, it’s got everything

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Ep 3: The Wreck of the Grafton

Podcast Episode · What to Carry, What to Burn · 26 May · 1hr 8min

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

someone on the internet mentioned that time blindness in adhd isn't just like, not being great at estimating how much time a task will take or how much time has passed since last looking at the clock, but also on a bigger scale with bigger implications and i want to think more about this but

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

on vacation so i went to the beach all day and now im filling out profile details for all the authors i've recently read that don't have them. party

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21/05/2026

Congrats to all those groups who got grants to build apps to “combat trafficking,” decades of letting DHS agencies take the lead in “trafficking” investigations—in your own small way, you helped pave the road for violent ICE raids like this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In the early morning on the day the footage was filmed, a team of ICE agents surveilled an apartment complex in Woodburn, a city south of Portland and home to many agricultural workers. An officer identified in court as JB later testified that the agents had chosen that location in part based on data surfaced from an ICE mobile app called Elite, which was built by the tech firm Palantir. The agent said the app helps officers find areas where they might find "targets" to potentially detain.
Agents decided to follow a white van leaving the apartment complex after running license plates and discovering the van's owner was potentially an immigrant in the US without authorization, JB said. The officer said in court they did not confirm whether the driver of the van was, in fact, the vehicle's owner, but that he felt it was suspicious the driver was making multiple stops for passengers:
"You don't know if it's human trafficking or smuggling"
Lawyers with Innovation Law Lab, an immigrant rights' non-profit that filed the class-action and represented one of the farm workers, said the van was simply carpooling to a job site.

"Bust it! Bust it!" one of the officers said, referring to the van's windows. An officer then shouted commands in Spanish to open the window, but within seconds, shattered the van's side window before occupants could comply.
A 45-year-old woman visible in the footage, identified as MJMA, is a farm worker and lead plaintiff in the lawsuit. The video captured her asserting her rights to remain silent, saying in Spanish, "We don't have to answer," and indicating she wanted a lawyer. She also instructed the others in the car not to speak as she called 911.
An officer identified in court as CM, whose body camera was recording the encounter, then said to another officer on scene: "She wants to lawyer up. She doesn't want to identify herself, we'll just take her."
While MJMA was on the phone with 911 asking to speak to a Spanish-speaking dispatcher, an officer demanded she turn her phone off.

A female agent on the scene, identified as MK, testified that she did a "facial recognition mobile query" on MJMA, which led to a match with a "very ... similar person". The agent, however, said: "I wasn't sure if it was her or not." The match was a woman named Maria, the agent said. The agents then started saying the name, "Maria" to see if MJMA might respond, but she didn't, the agent testified.
The woman's name is not Maria.
The agent did another facial scan of MJMA and it came up with a different match, according to MK's testimony. But MJMA continued to stay silent.
The agent testified that she believed MJMA
"was in the country illegally" because she was only speaking Spanish and due to the
"possible match" from facial recognition. Her scanning of MJMA was not caught on the body-cam footage.

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PF Anderson @pfanderson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added. “I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “…It’s really worrying.” retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l... #medlibs

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Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal

Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This thread is very good, and additionally something I've been thinking about in the field is the dearth of fact checking. Books have the opportunity to do things right because of longer lead times, ask we should be using that to our advantage instead of blowing it off buttondown.com/signs+wonder...

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The Fact of the Matter

Fact-checkers, legal, reviews, and the truth in nonfiction.

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

anyway if you wanna go to something gay and sappy and horny TONIGHT i will be READING POETRY at HIVEMIND in bushwick with close friends collective. to be clear NOT MY OWN POETRY. HISTORICAL GAY CUBAN POETRY. thank u that is all

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

i successfully got myself off of the doomscroll tunnels that are twitter and tiktok but then instagram reels were like tiktok again so now i’m thinking maybe if i come here it’ll be a lesser of evils situation

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m @digitaldamage.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Love listening to the parts about disassociation being life saving and “numbness and acc*untability” and the parts about being in your relationships integrity vs Accountability youtu.be/68CY2whSe_k?...

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Shira Hassan | Love in a F*cked Up World EP14

YouTube video by Dean Spade

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The video for El Apagón includes a great documentary on the climate crisis in Puerto Rico, including the energy injustice issues referenced in the halftime show. youtu.be/1TCX_Aqzoo4?...

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Bad Bunny - El Apagón - Aquí Vive Gente (Video Oficial) | Un Verano Sin Ti

YouTube video by Bad Bunny

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25/12/2025

Merriam Christmas

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Various items for sale and for free this Saturday 12pm-5pm at Bluestockings

free office supplies like a box cutter, tape measure, glue stick, post it’s, a clipboard, receipt paper, rubber bands, envelopes, rulers

for sale: whiteboards, clothes rack, milk crates, drawer on wheels, corkboard, children’s chair, pretty bench, big air conditioner, microphone stands

for sale: card display spinner stands, bookshelves of various sizes, night table, lounge chair, office chair, privacy screen, a plastic skeleton, bug zapper lamp, two small heaters, and a small fan

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

thinking of starting a service where i rent out my parents (clean, supportive, have been to therapy) to my gay friends over the holidays want my dad to clap you on the shoulder and tell you he's proud of all your hard work? want my mom to excitedly ask you about your recipes? apply now!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/12/2025

Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Surprise! One more event before I leave New York, get ready...👠🔥🌠

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 21/11/2025

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

by biggest red flag is i love when i open the app and everyone is subtweeting about the same bad writing and i get to discover it. like it might actually make me feel more connected to you all than good writing lol

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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

#NYC update: The current hotline # is not secure. Groups are meeting soon to come up with a city-wide hotline #. I took the number out of the zine. Report to @nycicewatch on IG and to Tish James' office. (NYC is WAY behind the curve here! LA had a hotline last Jan.) drive.google.com/file/d/1I9AT...

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NYC-SALUTE-zine-10-28.pdf

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations. She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly! Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 28/09/2025

Pour one out for one of the best Bluesky posts of all time

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

i'm glad the hellgate article seems to have answered most people's questions since it's gone from reporters blowing up my phone at all hours to nothing... but I hope we can still get people's attention re: all this inventory that needs to get moved in the next four months lol

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 22/09/2025

Having spent many years in and orbiting Bluestockings: take from this that these kinds of spaces can and will exist again. And it takes you, me and all of us working to make radical space possible, we just have to try.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

IF YOU READ THIS YOU ARE GAY

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

also it's really funny the amount of people who lie about their birth year and then some fucking nerd on wikipedia proves it lol

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

An author I like posted on another author as her "favorite Virgo," one thing led to another... I downloaded my goodreads dataset to see if there's an astrological sign that I like more/less/anything interesting. anyway I'm about 80 birthdays in and I'm genuinely surprised who gets wikipedia articles

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 05/09/2025

this article rocks

How do you confirm a fact? You ask, over and over, “How do we know?” Years ago, John McPhee wrote about a Japanese incendiary balloon that, during the Second World War, floated across the Pacific and struck an electrical cable serving a top-secret nuclear site; a reactor that enriched plutonium for the atomic bomb bound for Nagasaki was temporarily disabled. How did McPhee know? Someone had told him. How did that person know? He’d heard about it—secondhand. The checker, Sara Lippincott, spent weeks trying to track down an original source. Just before the magazine went to the printer, she got a lead. She called the source at home, in Florida. He was at the mall. How to locate him in time? She called the police. They found him and put him in a phone booth. Did he know about the incident? He did. How? He was the reactor’s site manager; he saw it happen. The detail made it in.

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Hey radical library comrades- for my MLIS I am taking a management course taught by a man who values hierarchy and "authoritative" leadership, especially "in emergencies" (Cincinnatus vibes) according to first lecture. Anyone w/ leadership experience want to be interviewed for my first assignment?

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I really need y'all to think of your relationship with government as citizens, not customers or consumers. The world isn't zero sum and framing every interaction you have through the lens of economics is rotting our society.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

i've been reading a lot of the ai-boyfriend reddit and chatgpt's update took away some people's saved chat-personas, and they are genuinely mourning. mostly people outside it just think it's weird and funny, which I get but also there's already been multiple people who have hurt themselves or

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

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11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays

A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I wrote BLACK FLAME for my adopted grandmother, Halina Mantell, who risked her life to photograph Nazi atrocities & narrowly escaped death in Auschwitz. I think it's the best thing I've written so far. I'm very proud of it. I hope you like it, too. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Black Flame

One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the USA Today bestselling author of Manhunt, Gretchen...

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

i finished my digital libraries final project and then clicked on other people's and they had, like, "how to bake a pie" and "my book recs (four books)".... grad school is mind numbingly stupid. someone please appreciate my labor: 116suffolk.omeka.net

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Overview · Over 116 Years at 116 Suffolk St · Over 116 Years at 116 Suffolk St

Over 116 Years at 116 Suffolk St: Explore the cultural history of the Lower East Side through decades and centuries of one address.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This is what I mean when I say transphobes don't oppose "males" in "women's spaces"--they oppose trans women specifically and hope that disgust of us will help police how all women look and behave

Liberty Hotel women's
bathroom incident

The couple said they were in the
women's lobby bathroom when a
male security guard came in and
started banging on the stall doors.
Baker said she was in one of the
stalls while Victor waited for her
near the sinks,

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

One of my favorite local movement hubs, the PO Box Collective, is holding an online fundraiser. PO Box is a cultural space, a political education space, an incubator of actions and ideas, and a place where mutual aid work happens. It's everything community should be. It's so worth supporting.

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PO Box Collective - Rogers Park, Chicago

PO BOX is a creative collective & intergenerational social practice center dedicated to building Rogers Park community through radical art making, mutual aid & programming.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/05/2025

Jared Kushner’s parents didn’t pay $2.5 million to get him admitted to the Harvard year we both graduated from because they wanted him to get an education. That’s not what they were buying. We should be honest about that.

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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · 04/05/2025

I’m still $495 away from meeting the cost of childcare during this writer’s conference. Childcare isn’t easy or cheap to come by on the average day, but for a child w/ multiple disabilities, it’s often out of reach. Because Art is non-verbal I just don’t trust respite services yet. Can you help?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The fact that Kamala Harris used her first speech of 2025 to attack Trump's policies—and not to claim that in fact she won the election—shows how timid the Democratic Party has become.

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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · 01/05/2025

I’m really bad at asking for help. I need to raise $1200 by the end of the day to accept my place at the @colgate.edu Writers Conference. I received a $500 scholarship but it’s not enough. If you can, please donate or share so I can write this book. 💜 gofund.me/8d093620

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Donate to Help Sinnamon Love Attend Colgate Writer's Conference, organized by Kamilah Rouse

Hi, I’m Sinnamon Love—a writer, cultural worker, and independent s… Kamilah Rouse needs your support for Help Sinnamon Love Attend Colgate Writer's Conference

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Hi Crips for E Sims has an itch bundle of games, RPGs, zines and I don't even know what, where for a mere $16 USD you can get like 187 things! itch.io/b/2965/crips...

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Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle by Crips for eSims for Gaza and 176 others

Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle: 237 items for $16.00

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They Call Me Doctor Mae @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I need my cis people to realize that "Trans rights" are material, not metaphysics. We deserve access to HRT with informed consent, not gatekeeping. We desrve bodily autonomy. To not be fired, exploited, or evicted. To not be discriminated against.

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