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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 52m

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Your Mom, PhD @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why are people still seeing Tom Cruise films? The man is the public face and biggest supporter of a cult! An abusive, grifter-ass cult!

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Gillian Owens: What Is Wrong With You?

Alt: Nicole Kidman in "Practical Magic" saying "What Is Wrong With You?"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3446):

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 03/10/2026

i think if you’re having complicated feelings about a man you looked up to being outed as a sexual abuser the thing to do is work through those feelings before/without writing an essay about it. the take economy has cooked your brain.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

It’s genuinely remarkable how complete the consensus around anti-Black racism as an unremarkable feature of public and political life has become.

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Your Mom, PhD @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Karl, I'd like to introduce you to Sen. Ernest Lundeen and the entire John Birch Society and Sen. Joseph McCarthy and....

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

If and wen democrats control the senate again, I need them to really, truly, seriously stop voting to confirm Trump's nominees to the federal courts. Hold literally every single seat hostage. Talk right into the camera about the death of the American Way Of Life™ if they get confirmed. Yes, really.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

If the whites were to get rid of the rest of us it would be nothing but peace, quiet, and harmony until 45 minutes later when they start the hair color killings

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley are introducing the Ban Flock Act. This bill would effectively put an end to AI surveillance cameras that track Americans. /1

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026

Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment

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Is this a 3D model?
@IsThisA3DModel

80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

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@JoshDaws
Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is being super intoxicated on controlled substances ever debated as potentially exculpating for any violent crime other than sexual assault? It’s like saying: sure he was driving while intoxicated when he ran that lady over but that’s just cause he was wasted.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The ORIGINS of the "protect women's sports" campaign are in anti-trans bigotry. The people funding these initiatives (eg in WA) are anti-trans FAR beyond sports. They repeatedly misgender trans people and have shared views & funded initiatives that push trans people out of other parts of public life

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a lot of heavy stuff in the news right now, take care of yourselves. we weren't made for this much horror.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

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Data Driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“When you believe” by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston is my contender. He wrote a song for two of the biggest voices in pop music history and it showcased each of their individual strengths so well. Notice 1) the key changes to accommodate their ranges 2) Mariah switching register around Whitney.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brb finding a rat to tickle…

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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 30/09/2026

Boosting in light of the discourse surrounding Cornell University.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had a student whose mother warned her about the serial sexual harassers in my former department...because they sexually harassed students when the mom was a student thirty years before. Not the same as SA, but very indicative of the pattern. Men are protected while women suffer.

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just don't understand why anyone is supposed to play by these rulebooks requiring we pretend that these *obviously* malevolent characters--I mean people who have caused *measurable* harm--are honorable members of the debating society and we must assume a degree of good will. It's just bonkers.

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Your Mom, PhD @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My favorite thing about cats is that they all act just like cats. This tiny lil predator and a tiger both just cat around all day, playing with random objects like the degens in my house.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What Kevin said. And public media (which can be housed at universities- esp regional publics)!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

why would you let meta of all companies run your life via an AI agent what is wrong with people

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure

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Ironic Star Wars Moment

Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."

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Kati Knitt @katiknitt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

happy coming out anniversary to meee

A drawing of the artist Kati Knitt holding a megaphone, screaming "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the magnificent evil lesbian you always meant to be!"

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Freud running on a floor covered in baby oil wouldn't have slipped that bad.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fellow middle aged hipsters, stop complaining that the kids have deemed the early aughts rock scene "indie sleaze." Don't pretend they don't have our number. Cocaine was cheap and people wore leather pants even when it was hot. The big magazine was Vice. Sunglasses were huge. It was sleazy!

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Your Mom, PhD @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When I tell you I'd rather stick pins under my nails than watch that fucken movie about Apartheid Clyde.....

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Forever Chased in the Underworld @atalantadoll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's so weird to see guys rail against the humanities if you know anything about higher ed. Like--you won. The humanities are gutted. All the colleges belong to you. And still it's not enough. History *classes* must be demonized. Fash-ass brain.

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Your Mom, PhD @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My APUSH class made me hate history. My first college history class made me switch my major. Also, I know waaaaaayyyyyyyy too much about how AP is conceived of and structured to ever see it as a substitute for a university course.

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Your Mom, PhD @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We live in a society that doesn't even believe Black people feel pain. Fuck this noise.

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Your Mom, PhD @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Re: today's coffee discourse Being allergic to coffee is such a great/terrible thing to destabilize casual banter.

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Your Mom, PhD @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just in general, anyone who hates kids and parents is someone you can reliably ignore when they share opinions about kids and parenting.

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Your Mom, PhD @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of my courses this quarter has half a student's grade coming from group projects (graded individually). I love seeing how they work together and what collaboration can create.

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Your Mom, PhD @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The benefit of the doubt is more than an expression. It is a life philosophy that asks us to be curious before we are certain, to leave room for an explanation, and to remember that the person on our screen has a life beyond the moment we are watching."

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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

ai is far worse than contaminated lettuce and shouldve been recalled years ago.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026

WE GOT THEM! SNOWY EGRETS IN FRONT OF THE FULL MOON! 🪶

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is the gurgling roar of an imp when you blast it with a shotgun in DOOM a sign that they're suffering? Videogamers grapple with one of the most unsettling questions of our times

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