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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.

44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 01/10/2026

This week has been dense with sad news. There have been a few bright spots too, so I'm really curious to see what @jessicacalarco.com chooses for her news stitches this week!

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i've never played minecraft but my hunch is that the frustrations of terraforming and city planning with a playstation controller are not unlike trying to go 10-7 with kenny pickett

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 01/10/2026

I literally just started watching for the first time last week with a few friends. We finished S1 last night. I thought it was fine. Has great characters + some great jokes but everything else was mid. I was assuming it gets amazing later bc it has such a reputation. Sad to hear it's already peaked.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 01/10/2026

This was one of the first things my spouse realized after we'd been dating for a few weeks and he started spending a lot of time around academics. He was so cute and naive. "I thought everyone with a PhD was really smart and put-together." Oh, sweetie, you're adorable.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

crylaughing at the thought of Mike Tomlin getting home after a long day of listening to Aaron Rodgers and just straight up dissociating for five hours in Minecraft

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 30/09/2026

I'm hoping all of these questions, and more, are answered tonight.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 30/09/2026

I hate it here. Love to my trans homies. You matter. You are worthy of love and respect. And healthcare. And human rights. I will go down swinging with you, if it comes to that.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 30/09/2026

I literally have nightmares about scenarios like this! I hope he doesn't get under your skin too much and you can go on with your day without his bullshit.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 30/09/2026

I couldn't sleep last night. I stayed up an extra hour or two just worrying about the Cornell victim because she was doxxed yesterday. And throughout this week I've had flashbacks to my own experiences and had to process them all over again.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026

NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co

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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life

Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 27/09/2026

Lmao Flacco sighting on the sidelines

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 26/09/2026

Another standout drive-in memory was going to see the 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean movie with a bunch of my Dairy Queen coworkers. We had people in trunks and hidden under blankets to get them in for free. I remember nothing about the movie but that was a very fun hang.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 26/09/2026

I have SO many fond memories of the drive-in in my hometown! But my favorite is visiting home during college and seeing Toy Story 3 for the first time, just me and my youngest brother. We went to the grocery store first and I bought him unlimited snacks, then we watched the movie under the stars.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 25/09/2026

This thread is a wild ride. I probably would have found it unbelievable 6 years ago, but something very similar happened to me in 2021. On the way home from a friend's wedding, we were stuck in Mexico an extra night, loaded onto busses with no information. It is so scary and surreal.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I keep reminding myself to enjoy what I have because there was no football at all for many months

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 25/09/2026

I'm a HUGE Steelers fan and even I don't believe a Steelers-Browns match-up is primetime worthy, *especially* right now.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 23/09/2026

I'm glad I read about this! My state will have a constitutional amendment on the ballot allowing the state to set limits on prop tax increases. Sounds good, right? Analysis shows the savings will be tiny for individual homeowners but would give multi million $ breaks to large corporations. 🤬

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Honestly at this point just bring back cable. I would rather have cable.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 20/09/2026

Erdös is a legend for mathematicians, but he is interesting enough to just be a regular legend. Everyone should know about him!

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 20/09/2026

Fascinating read, but still only studying ADHD in children. At least they were sort of close to parity in gender (60-40 split).

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 20/09/2026

Oh cool. CBS NFL broadcast is still using white text on a white background for their score graphic. I was hoping the person who did that last season would have been fired by now.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bluesky is the most learned group ever assembled of smart, funny people who will read a headline and then talk for two days about only the headline

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 20/09/2026

But have you seen him in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia? Because that's where I saw him first and it has been really hard for me to take him seriously as an actor. (I'm trying though!) Same goes for the actor who played his brother in It's Always Sunny.

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

🎯 Until they stole all that data. This is what folks who say, "Oh, but free data exists," or "What if they paid for the data?" don't understand. "Frontier" LLMs only works thanks to huge data which makes it virtually impossible for "AI labs" to fully remunerate data owners. 🧵 👇

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Juanma is Creating Lightly 🎨🖌😬 @creatinglightly.art · 18/09/2026

The main reasons I studied computer science were to learn to think and how things worked, before I could use something someone else made. If the focus for students is to enthusiastically use any technology, the moment it is not relevant anymore, they're lost. #1 is biased training, not teaching.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Air gapping apparently wouldn't work in alignment tests because, I shit you not according to this OpenAI guy, one computer could run the CPU hot and tell the other airgapped one it is in trouble. I wish I could get paid $10m a year to say the stupidest cybersecurity thing you've ever heard

Tweet by Fireside Alpha, which reads:
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change.

There's a picture of a white guy with glasses, looking very concerned, under this text.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 17/09/2026

This is so perfect 🧑‍🍳 💋

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 17/09/2026

Big "I have a Black friend" energy at the end of Robert Kraft's statement here. But, like, a millionaire version of it.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I didn't think people could get madder at Ed Sheeran than when he showed up in that episode of Game of Thrones, but he's pulled it off.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 11/09/2026

OK I love watching football on Netflix now. Commercial breaks are only 2 minutes long.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You might think you know what you're in for by photo 3. I assure you, you are not.

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Ithireal Atelier @ithirealatelier.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

All 12 of the Ghost Cats that will be adoptable on September 19! They’re all handmade, and portions of each sale will be going toward a local cat shelter in my area 💖 They each have names, but they will come with adoption cards that a new name can be filled in!

Twelve unique polymer clay sculptures on a mint green blanket. Each sculpture looks like a cat wearing a bedsheet, and the cats have cute faces. Each cat has a different design.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Love to do the trolley problem with one human baby and a thousand TI-83 calculators.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am sad for all the talented students who assured me it was a clear path to a better life for them as they discarded study plans they loved and studied coding instead.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 02/09/2026

Procrastinating doing what needs to be done, I cleared some stuff off my desk. Found my Anti-Planner card deck still in the wrapper! Used it to get unstuck; now closing social media, putting my phone in a different room, and starting on the task dictated by the card game. Thanks, @danidonovan.com !

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 02/09/2026

After my beloved cat Blitz died, I had a REALLY difficult and dark time. (It's been 5 years and I think part of me is still in that dark place, but that's not my point here.) 3 weeks after he died, an emaciated kitten started wandering my neighborhood. She came right up to me. How it's going:

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 02/09/2026

Lol this is so true.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 02/09/2026

This is my fatal flaw.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 02/09/2026

That's a good friend

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 01/09/2026

Things I say to my overly energetic dog every day: Don't play so rough with me! I'm not a toy! I'm a lady! The irony of me, the opposite of ladylike, yelling "I'm a lady" always amuses me but she doesn't get it and just plays harder.

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 01/09/2026

The Vice President of the United States of America, ladies and gentleman and enbies

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

As a millennial the Iraq war was when I learned America felt no responsibility for human life abroad and hurricane Katrina was when I learned it felt no responsibility for American lives either

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Mechanical Turk may be shutting down, but AI will always depend on data workers whose knowledge trains and tunes models. AI runs on extracted cultural skills and knowledge, and culture is always changing. Less the end of an era, but the end of an early prototype.

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

hard day for all of us with big naturals and enormous hair

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Angela @bourb.xyz · 25/08/2026

Thanks for sharing this thread. I've had that same uneasy feeling, and it's good to hear about people's real experiences and challenges (in addition to the successes).

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