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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/10/2026

Today marks World Day Against the Death Penalty. The death penalty is cruel, racist, and unpopular in our country. It must be abolished.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ganymede 1997-02-21 - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/s9nXj7

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The lesson here is we can lock up the internet behind all the parental controls, face-scanning age assurance, and AI training sandboxes we want But chat will find a way. 9/9

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/09/2026

Justice didn’t fail. It was sabotaged by oligarchs.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i don’t hate AI art because it’s ugly, tho right now it’s ugly for some of the reasons i hate it (carelessly ripping off everything til you’re left w an anodyne creepy average of all art). but they will eventually fix the current ugliness without fixing the underlying evil and i will still hate it

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The planet with the fastest rotation speed is Jupiter, where a day takes about 9 hrs 50 min (slightly longer at the poles). Jupiter's equator is spinning at 43,000 km/h; 26X the speed of the Earth's at 1,670 km/h. Meaning 'standing still' on Jupiter's equator is still traveling at Mach 35.

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Jupiter's Dynamic Atmosphere in B&W

Alt: Jupiter's Dynamic Atmosphere in B&W

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 11/09/2026

to take a ironic example: one thing people can use a statistical model of language for is sentiment analysis. Based on typical associations, is some text likely correlated to anger, happiness, dissatisfaction

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is especially insane if you were ever an encyclopedia kid because one of the first things you learn is that like half of all the things you can name came from China

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This, from an Anthropic employee, either reflects a lack of imagination or is evidence that this is all just lies. If you were really that scared, you'd pull the plug on all the servers and wipe everything from ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC, and RIPE NCC. No more internet; problem solved.

I would burn my equity to the ground in a heartbeat for a 1% higher chance we make it out of this situation alive. I expect a great many of my colleagues across the industry would as well.

I promise you, we are actually just fucking scared, it's not galaxy brained marketing.

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Ben Scranton @bscranton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just had the funniest idea possible for a Charlie Kirk memorial fountain.

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blingofthehill.bsky.social @blingofthehill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't even know how you would pick the most charismatic right wing official is right now. Bessent? Maybe? They all just seem like men whose peak social ambition is to roofie their friends' wives.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight “Oh, I feel very angry a lot of the time," said Tiffany, "but I just put it away somewhere until I can do something useful with it.”

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/09/2026

Handedness xkcd.com/3293/

Comic. [Two people considering diagrams on whiteboard] PERSON 1 with ponytail: The W bosons produced by the collider beam will mostly be left-handed. PERSON 2: So we should send in a *right*-handed batter.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 08/09/2026

I spoke to a member of the SBWU boycott committee about the call to boycott Starbucks. As a reminder, boycott Starbucks! www.weareravenous.com/starbucks-wo...

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The Starbucks Boycott Heats Up

After negotiations for a contract have stalled, Starbucks Workers United is officially calling for a boycott.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

when i worked at sbux in high school they kept scheduling me for like 35 hours a week and i kept saying i can't work this schedule i have to go to school. turned out they were hugely overscheduling kids to avoid giving enough hours to the adults that they would've qualified for health insurance

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/09/2026

A friend sent this to me.

man in a flat cap
In those days, the Internet was in black and white.
It was only on for three hours a day.
We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log onto it.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Stop reposting AI slop from twitter. Jesus.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The general response of "get a fucking life, losers" remains undefeated

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

At the rate things are going, there's going to be nothing left to eat EXCEPT for the rich.

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Katt @sarcastickatt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We gotta get gaudier for Dolly, and weirder for Tim.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Replacing human opinion writers with AI will result in predictable pieces that say the same thing over and over. by David Brooks

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 26/08/2026

everybody please send your strength to the queens who started planning their dolly numbers for this weekend and now have to decide if theyre gonna pivot to rocky horror or combine them somehow

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Mr. President, all these famous 80-year-olds keep dying and then the entire nation says great things about them."

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026

let's do UBI for her, she'd want us to

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No one will even remember Roger Taney by the time Roberts is done.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

IO Over Jupiter - NASA's Voyager 1 - 1979 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2qvVPwU

Download full size image: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54159934196/sizes/o/
See license below.

Credit:
Image processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
Raw data: NASA/JPL/Voyager-ISS

Image created processing data from Opus opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/view=detail&detail=vg-...

Voyager 1
Time: 1979-03-04T21:37:23.640
Opus ID:
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vg-iss-1-j-c1637117 Green
vg-iss-1-j-c1637129 Blue

Credit:
Image processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
Raw data: NASA/JPL/Voyager-ISS

Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Let's do a quick #OldSchoolDungeonsAndDragons: Fantastic Personalities (1981), by Bill Paley and Edward R.G. Mortimer!

Cover of Fantastic Personalities, in brown with illustrations of various unusual characters in white

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Some non-fascist X users have acknowledged all of this and argued that, nonetheless, progressives must remain on the platform to fight the propaganda machine from within. I think that represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how the platform operates."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026

New in PN: DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew "When the Department of Justice indicted 15 Minnesotans earlier this summer, it was painfully clear that this was a cobbled-together mess, a transparent attempt to criminalize dissent. But boy, we didn’t know the half of it."

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DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew

It's the stuff of East Germany.

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