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End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17h

Chicagoland friends, I have a favor to ask. I have a pro bono client, a Black woman, who is currently facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at her abusive ex - who admitted to raping her. I would love if there could be a show of support for her at her next few court dates.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h

they are stealing billions from us in order to build data centers in our backyards in order to run machines designed to take our jobs and ultimately enslave us

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every single company is run like an investment whose only responsibility is short term "line go up". A sock factory will sell the knitting machines to bump the YOY numbers and then act surprised when they can't make any socks to sell twelve weeks later.

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

can I get a loud and enthusiastic Fuck Cancer?

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once again this needs to be illegal

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And this passage in her powerful essay touches on something I was talking about earlier here: the constant insistence that victims and not perpetrators work hard at stopping rape, always with an absence of recognition we need the collective solution that is social change.

Many people think of privilege and entitlement in positive terms, such as discrete additive benefits, but they are primarily defined by something else: the elimination or reduction of obstacles and costs that others incur. Is the Red Zone an entitlement?

Just before my daughters were about to set off for college, we got emails from their high school offering a self-defense class for new graduates, $100 a person. Only girls and their families got the emails. The message seemed clear enough: before sending your daughters off to college, make sure they can fight off aggressors. My knee-jerk instinct was to ask: who do girls have to defend themselves against? Mainly boys like the ones they grew up with. Boys were not also being offered a class, at a rate of $100 per person, but by the logic of the offer, they were the ones who might be accidentally or purposefully assaulting someone. All worry instead tends to focus, as preparation, on the possibility of false allegations, despite their rarity.

I understood why a self-defense class made sense and appreciated the effort. However, the class, as well-intended as it was, made me angry. The offering was yet another example of an institutional default: expecting young women to privatize the cost of preventing their assaults instead of preparing men, holding them accountable, or, in this case, suggesting they incur an actual financial price to supplement their education, socialization, and college preparation.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

"oh, it's almost october in an election year! time for the migrant caravan we magically never hear about any other time that never actually affects us in any meaningful way!" find some new material guys

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When my mom passed in 2019, one of the things I found in my old closet was a folder of paperwork from freshman orientation at Michigan, 1988, including a pamphlet from the Sexual Assault Preventation and Awareness Center. 30+ years later and the only thing they'd have to change on it is the date.

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just like an abusive husband smashing up his wife's possessions, the tech industry likes to act as if it's breaking things at random, as a chaotic byproduct of raw innovation, when it fact it's very clearly and systematically targeting human rights, worker protections and social safety networks.

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

european history abridged: 1) a king had too many children 2) a king didn't have enough children

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was going to vote Julienite... it's pretty! it's blue! it's chemically interesting! but then I remembered halite is necessary to life as we know it, both at a cellular level and for human food preservation.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 27/09/2026

it's ok to support stuff you don't personally benefit from. I would rather show up nude on a work zoom than ride a bike in the city of toronto but I want everyone who wants to to be able to without the fear of homicide

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.

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Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is just us subsidizing Amazon

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℌ𝔬𝔴𝔩 𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔢 @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So uh, yeah. Dverghold is fuckin radioactive. Just FYI to any CRPG/Dungeon Crawler peeps who might see this.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So I am challenging all of you: if you have $5 to spare, pick a classroom book project on Donors Choose. (Any project really.) Donate to it. Ask your followers to do likewise. Enough drops will fill the bucket.

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In actual honor of Dolly Day, I contributed $5 to a Donors Choose project putting books in a local classroom. EVERYTHING ON DONORS CHOOSE SHOULD BE PAID FOR BY OUR TAXES but. Well. You know. Imagination Library is wonderful but kids still need engaging books in middle school.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Sue @cameratrapsue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spent the day at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo with family. Great time all around and I fed this giraffe. The new giraffe center is open now so the giraffes have a whole new area to explore - it's huge.

A different view of a giraffe. It is extremely close up and is just its open mouth and tongue as it ate leaves off the branch I was feeding it. The zoo sells leaves and lettuce to feed the giraffes, it was a lot of fun.

The giraffe I was feeding, it stripped the leaves off the branch in one swift move, I didn't expect that. Well done, Giraffe. It had obviously done this many times before and knew exactly how to strip the leaves in seconds and move onto the next person offering food (legit zoo sold food).Tons of fun. Lovely zoo.

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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*9 to 5* may have been a comedy, but for so many of us women fighting for respect on the job, it felt all too real. Dolly helped make us laugh at the boss and imagine what we could change together. Happy 9 to 5 Day! We miss you, Dolly.

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026

THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Such a floor we have to look at today!

Closeup of a vintage tile floor with intricate circular patterns in blue, green, yellow and white.

The covered entrance to a storefront with an intricate tile floor, wood bench, floor mat and plenty of store windows to see inside.

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Repeated experiment with home kettle. It boiled the water and cut off promptly, taking approximately 5 minutes to do so.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cup of ambition hasn't kicked in yet. Still yawning and stretching. Coming alive may not be in the cards for today. At least it's a WFH day and I don't have to deal with the jumping traffic.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#MinCup26 Quarterfinal 1 It’s a rich red start to the quarterfinals as two components of brass face off with zinc ore #Sphalerite is up against copper-rich #Cuprite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of a glossy ruby-red chunk of sphalerite, slightly rounded, amongst smaller clear crystals and a gleaming ruby-red cube of cuprite jutting from a yellow matrix.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just for kicks I timed the kettle in my work break room. More than 8 minutes to actually boil a liter of water and then it didn't cut off; I gave up after 13. Good thing I wasn't in a hurry.

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Mom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think that AI is going to end up destroying smaller stuff before it gets around to all of humanity.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Imagine if more people with money cared about saving lives

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 23/09/2026

I can hold two thoughts at once: 1. Mitch McConnell is one of the evilest shits in our government, which is saying a lot 2. what they're doing to him is elder abuse, and everyone around him is complicit my lawyer says I should not suggest a solution, however

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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026

impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think the people who want better air purification in all public buildings are correct the same way the people who pushed for treatment of water infrastructure were right

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just lectured about the WPA this morning and it is absolutely a model we need to bring back, for this purpose and others too.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can't, and shouldn't seek to, replace public schools or libraries with bookstores. You can't replace a public good with a private business, no matter how well-meaning or well-organized it may be.

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