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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 15h

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Ake (not a kererū .... yet) @tenamu.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#Rangahau e pā ana ki ngā kare ā-roto. We're looking for Māori speakers (any level) to help us learn more about how kare ā-roto (emotions) are orgnised in te reo Maori auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... TIA whānau

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Now Grogu is there. He is the fifth Girl.

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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 13/10/2026

The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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Two-part documentary on J.K. Rowling announced by BBC Factual and BBC Scotland

The documentary will use her life as a lens through which to explore three decades of profound social, political and technological change

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Reposting to help me remember to donate āpōpō

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Per the Middle East Studies Association, since October 7, 76 North American academics have been fired for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. Two-thirds of those people are non-white. 16.5% are Jewish. afi.mesana.org/resource/les...

Retaliation goes far beyond firing. Of 196 recorded incidents of employer retaliation against employees speaking out on Palestine, nearly 40% (76) resulted in termination. Retaliation that does not rise to the level of termination is an even larger phenomenon.
All categories of academic workers are at risk. Of the 162 individuals whose employment status was disclosed, 30% involved non-tenure track faculty or instructors, and 36% were tenured.
People of color are disproportionately affected. Of the 134 cases recorded in the AFI database in which respondents’ identification is known, two-thirds were people of color: 30% SWANA; 10.5% Black; and 27% other POC. Additionally, 16.5% identify as Jewish. More than half of those targeted whose gender is known are women. Such retaliation compounds the abuse of already racist and sexist work environments.

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I know political compass is for policy, not behaviour, but this is v generous to ACT on the authoritarianism scale.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The best thing I did years ago was to decide to organize myself rather than to tell others how they need to/should be organizing. Once I started doing so, it became clearer to me just how difficult it is.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“This is why the left never wins” no it’s because the game was built by and for fascists!!! Shut up and figure out how to be helpful!

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

very grim epiphany on learning that she (rosemary smart) was involved in investigating the satanic panic Christchurch creche case.

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

cw obviously. A psych in Christchurch who did gender evaluation was known for requiring a huge number of sessions discussing your masturbation practices.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/10/2026

Following along @mzakharuk.bsky.social's reread of @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl". Barely any cis people understand the rampant rape culture inherent to the medical gatekeeping of trans healthcare. These "professionals" know the power they hold over trans people and often abuse it.

> In the 1970s, Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna came across several instances in which gatekeepers were rather blatant about this practice: “A clinician during a panel session on transsexualism at the 1974 meeting of the American Psychological Association said that he was more convinced of the femaleness of a male-to-female transsexual if she was particularly beautiful and was capable of evoking in him those feelings that beautiful women generally do. Another clinician told us that he uses his own sexual interest as a criterion for deciding whether a transsexual is really the gender she/he claims.”

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Social contagion" aka people talking about the conditions of their lives, responding to them as something other than individuals, and creating new possibilities for those who come after...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I notice that everything the press doesn’t like is “social contagion” now, except for the escalating crankery of the press, which is an organisation of a couple of thousand people mostly concentrated in one city, who largely all know each other - one thing that definitely *is* social contagion.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/10/2026

The history of software is one of feminising and devaluing women's labour as nerdy, clerical, following specifications and requirements determined by men, and then valorising a presumed male hacker figure who disrupts and manfully disregards the needs of those relying on custodial maintenance work.

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anine is one of the people who worked to expose the research misconduct against trans people at Oslo University Hospital. Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care. This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mani Dunlop seemed very weird in her focus on theatre. Girl, you want excitement? In this economy? We are tired. The country wants a man who stands very still and looks with anger at Christopher Luxon like he hates and disdains him, because according to polling this is highly relatable.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they see nothing wrong with giving themselves the prerogative to forgive someone else's rape, bc the bodies of women are the property of society, & by society we mean men, so how she feels about it is irrelevant. people break the rules all the time, isn't it unfair to be so draconian about it?

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Year-round daylight savings but with winter hours for business, schools, etc. (Start an hour later, close at the same time).

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In honor of the 20th anniversary of FNL's premiere Oct 3 2006, my massive feature on the show from back in the day. I went to Austin in Season 1 & visiting that set changed my life, so say we all. WAIT wrong show. TEXAS FOREVER! www.moryan.com/a-2007-frida...

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A 2007 Friday Night Lights Set Visit: Witnessing the How the Magic Was Made

This piece was originally published March 20, 2007. AUSTIN, Texas — A dusty field in Texas. A ramshackle house in a cash-strapped part of town. The cramped, battered office of a high school guidance...

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a bit of a parlor trick and is being hyped. The images are not being generated de-novo. They are being matched with a known set of prior images or text, meaning that they reconstruct the signals recorded by brain when shown images during training. Verrrry different than reading thoughts.

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shout out to The Green Dolphin bookshop for the funniest shelving ever.

A bookshelf with the collection Black Marks on the White Page edited by Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti shelved facing out. Several books are obscured behind it.

The books behind it are revealed to be a number of titles by the white cultural chauvinist CK Stead.

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spotlight on three indie publishers: Spoor Books, Āporo Press and Old King Press

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How are independent presses changing our publishing landscape?

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The pay gap that's more of a pay chasm

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bruce Springsteen & Clarence Clemens

Black and white photograph of Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons kissing on stage. I would date this as the late 1970s by how skinny Springsteen is t. hey're both wearing tank tops and Clarence is wearing leather pants

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The target being "accountable" is a great goal for abusers, because it ties that person to them.

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

100% the most plausible outcome. Clearest sign they haven't is the software still talking to us.

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think so? Their fb ads have just looked terrible this whole term.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Geez Bill and John are *sloshed* sloshed. And Jenny is hopped up on something - those are fighting fists.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you're not starting from the position that civil rights are inviolable, as a baseline, In what way are you avoiding fascism? If *anyone* can be un-personed, everyone can. That's it. That's the ballgame.

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J HELL P @jlp.systems · 26/09/2026

oblique strategies

a sign by a paved path that says “STAY OFF COURSE”

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

iced coffee is junior level. the real power move is bringing a corn on the cob to your interview

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can also personally attest that playing Taylor Swift or any other similarly aggressively litigious major label artist through a minirig works a treat.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OBVIOUSLY the underlying issue of radicalisation amd anti-social behaviour needs addressing. but one way to do that is to stop "fash agitator" being a fucking paying job.

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Primate Profile #96: François' langur Living in limestone forest habitats, these langurs spend ~40% of their lives on rocks rather than in trees. They move through their habitat mostly using a combination of swinging and climbing, but up to 10% can be purely free-fall! Image: N Panda (iNat.org)

A mother and baby François' langur sitting in sparse brush. The mother has her arms around the juvenile. Both are looking at the camera, the baby with its mouth open.

These monkeys are black all over with a large triangular head crest, long tails with a tuft at the end, and large white sideburns down the sides of their face. The juvenile's sideburns have not yet turned fully white and are more of a dirty grey colour, while the black fur on top of the head is still brown. Infants are born bright orange, after which they fade to brown and then black as they age.

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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our biology teacher told us maybe a dozen times that we "didn't want to lose our virginity in the back of a ford escort". It was maybe a class signifier fail (?)(US origin teacher, bogan NZ teenagers) but we thought it was suspiciously specific, and that was much more off-putting.

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AndyD @yourlamentablefriends.com · 22/09/2026

One organ to fuck up everything I do, another to make me feel bad about it. And not a venom gland or prehensile tail to show for it. Thanks a lot, cephalocentric bipedal selection. You shit.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was an artist for the Portraits & Portals project, that unfolded over the course of a year, pairing 9 disabled artists & creatives of color with 9 disaster survivors of color. I was paired with Cassandra Lopez Fradera, who survived Covid19 & its impact in Puerto Rico youtube.com/shorts/mD0P4...

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Portraits and Portals: Touring Exhibit Trailer

YouTube video by The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies

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