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Cassie Smith (she/her) @cassiesmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our school doesn't just have a #bikebus, there's also a run club that meets, trains and runs to school together (another weekday). The parent organizer asked for a volunteer to drive all the kids backpacks to school. My husband said why drive when you could cargo bike?! 25 bags delivered this week.

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Kidical Mass Ottawa @kidicalmassottawa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What a ride! 🚲💚🌎 Huge thanks to everyone who joined today’s Kidical Mass. So many smiling kids, families, and advocates rolling together for safe, joyful streets. And so powerful to join up with @ottawaclimate.bsky.social. People want community. People want climate action.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 20/09/2026

By rebranding as National Design Studio, DOGE has essentially pitched web design as the battlefield for the future of the administrative state

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

Marc Andreessen and the team at his fund a16z hired — as a *partner*! — a man who has no background in finance, in tech, in startups at all, simply because that man had strangled one of my unarmed neighbors to death on the subway. To send a signal about what they support.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

David Heinemeier Hansson called for the extermination of Romani people, comparing them to animals. An entire roster of tech tycoons responded by each personally giving him $1 million for his open source software project, even though he’s already wealthy enough to have a personal race car team.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We had a lot of fun in How to Sell today. When we do this, we get the question "What if you're trying to sell someone on an idea?" Honestly, the biggest mistake non-evil people make is focusing on changing minds instead of changing behavior. And not understanding the perceived costs.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 18/09/2026

I just started reading this after preordering months ago (I am a huge fan of Lee's zines at @sheerspite.bsky.social), and even before finishing it, I'm ordering copies for friends. Not the easiest to find non-Amazon online options in the US, but you can get it here: cup.columbia.edu/book/the-pol....

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this is so true about so many types of risk assessment and harm mitigation. sorry, we need maintenance, collective action, and care work, not hero shit.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is really well done, great tour of recent history for those who might not understand the rights trans people have lost or the devastation in learning some Democrats want to entrench those losses rather than reverse them.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i will EXPAND on this with some inside baseball because buckaroos seem to be kind of interested: recently we have talked about setting up a stricter conformation method, because i would hate for someone to show up somewhere and say I AM CHUCK and then cause trouble. but way we do it now is...

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

look, the fact is, a lot of swing voters looooove torturing the omelas kid. they want to put more kids in the hole, actually, yeah. but not YOUR kid--oh, okay. well. still, big picture, thinking about the electoral map--

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Cassey Lottman @casseylottman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A friend's book came out today and I think you should read it! I was honored with an Advance Reader Copy so I could give you this review. It's called The Politics of Lonely by Lee Arden, and you can get it wherever you usually buy your books! cassey.dev/politics-of-...

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"The Politics of Lonely" by Lee Arden

Why doesn't deciding to prioritize friendship as an adult make your friendship dreams come true?

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HR "Jane" Haldeman @janetherevelator.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This reporter has been dogging Gov Pillen's heels for years, even after he accused her of being communist in 2023, as Xu was born in China. Bravest woman in Nebraska.

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Fanfi 🥛💦 thinking about men with tits @fanfi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

the Big Bastard is finished, 38 pages of anti-AI, cheap and easy creating. 18 tips just for you *blows kiss* www.patreon.com/fanfi/posts/...

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/08/2026

Canadian writers and other artist, do I know anyone who's applied for a Canada Council for the Arts grant? (successfully or not, tbh) I have just been over here today having realizations that maybe writing nonfiction still qualifies me as an "artist" and I could potentially do something about that?

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

HELLO.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I haven't mentioned this all that much, but I have been writing for www.fallenlondon.com and I can't get over how much lore is back there. Millions of words! It's just an immense slab of culture, and a weird object: a story website? In this universe? It's true!

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Fallen London

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

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Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People

An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 21/06/2026

do you like my new smart watch it's smart because it doesn't connect to any networks or accounts and it has no AI and it doesn't track me or sell my personal information and it's just a watch and it costs like $22 and its battery lasts seven years

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 19/06/2026

Which—of course!—got me pondering meta questions about higher ed & the way we seem collectively determined to destroy precisely this aspect of college—the niche, the specialized, the weird—we’re killing precisely what makes college transformative for so many students who didn’t “get” school before

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

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Cassey Lottman @casseylottman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ride by and be counted! A beautiful day for #PedalPoll / Sondo Vélo in #Ottawa

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

i wrote a book that is to a large extent about this! bookshop.org/a/122679/978...

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The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?

Why Is Friendship So Hard?

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Cassey Lottman @casseylottman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

My friend @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social wrote a book! Wow, it is good. This book easily flies beyond “thing I am reading because I know the author” and is rapidly rising towards “favorite collection of essays I have ever read” It’s funny, heartfelt and poignant, and quite well written. #books

Cover of a book titled “the trouble with loving poets and other essays on failure”, by Elizabeth Zaleski. The cover art is a dark green landscape painting with a dark-clad figure looking away

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Cassey Lottman @casseylottman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I’ve been living happily during the war for a decade now, and I’ve learned a lot. Most people are making these 3 mistakes when they try to do it. Here are my top 10 tips for living happily during the war. Follow me for more.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

discord is a mysterious piece of software whose primary output is notification noises. No one is especially sure what purpose the noises serve, or what triggers them, but they tolerate it in order to use discord's ancillary functions as a chat service

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HR "Jane" Haldeman @janetherevelator.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Something my younger friends have told me is that house parties are basically dead because it's becoming increasingly unaffordable to rent a cheap house. When I moved to Omaha, I had friends renting houses in midtown for $900. That price has tripled or quarupled in ~20 years.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

my productivity and creativity are doing just fine thanks. what you mean is will I let you send alerts asking if I need the computer's help every time I'm trying to work in a document. or cleaning up a photo. or in Garageband. anywhere. big nope, only upgrade on pain of death at this point

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: ‘muscle’ and ‘mouse’. To the Roman imagination, the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. ‘Musculus’, in Latin, means ‘little mouse’.

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 11/02/2026

Figure skating has long been a space for LGBTQ2S+ athletes to shine. Now Skate Canada is taking a stand: no events in Alberta until trans athletes can compete freely. Mel Woods explores what happens when values meet policy: thewalrus.ca/the-sports-organizatio…

On the left: Image of a figure skater on a pink background. On the right: text that reads “The sports organization that stood up to Alberta. Skate Canada won’t host events in jurisdictions with anti-trans policies. FIFA and the Olympics should do the same.

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Garrett Bucks @garrettbucks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

For the past few weeks, in addition to solidarity fundraising, I've been compiling letters from across the world to MPLS (1000 so far) They've been shared in a variety of ways already, but today we launched this website. It's a tiny thing, but so too is every act of love. loveletterstominnesota.com

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Love Letters to Minnesota | ❤️

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/01/2026

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

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Hundreds of immigrant mothers and children detained at a South Texas facility on Saturday protested the killing of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, chanting "Let me out" and "Libertad," or "Liberty," according to an immigration lawyer who witnessed the demonstration.

Eric Lee, the lawyer, said he had been waiting for his client in the visitation area of the family detention center in Dilley, Tex., when detention officials abruptly asked him to leave. Once outside, he peered through a chain-link fence and saw hundreds of women and children walking out of the facility and chanting in protest.

Lee said his client later told him on the phone that he and other detainees were outraged over the latest killing in Minneapolis and the detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy from Ecuador detained with his father in Minneapolis and sent to Texas.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

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emily s. @emily.news · 22/01/2026

I think we should just shut down the entire concept of generating images using AI. Outlaw it, or as close as you can come to doing so. I know it's not possible to eliminate it completely, but we definitely can stop companies from scaling it up to "industrial-scale abuse".

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/01/2026

I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.

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🚲 🥜scoops 🥜🚲 @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The basketball moms are organizing The dorky pastors are organizing The preschool parents are organizing The dive bar regulars are organizing The book clubs are organizing The taekwando dojongs are organizing The uncles group chat is organizing

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

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HR "Jane" Haldeman @janetherevelator.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Ernie was the rare one who is both a top-tier shitposter and also an amazing legislator. He once sent me a letter from a typewriter (!) in which he quoted Popeye: I YAM WHAT I YAM

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 20/01/2026

DOGE actually *signed a contract* to steal Social Security data for an explicitly illegal purchase

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