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Wanda @itswanda.bsky.social · 5h
Tennessee Governor Suspends Executions After Inmate Survives Lethal Injection www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Christa Pike Live Updates: Tennessee Pauses Future Execution After Botched Attempt
Gov. Bill Lee ordered a review of the state’s capital-punishment process after the botched attempt to put Christa Pike to death. Her condition was unclear.
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Joy 💙 @sugataai.com · 12h
When science awards a gold medal, it expects truth, yet a recent Nikon contest winner faces scrutiny for alleged AI cheating in his motion video. #Photography sugataai.com/blog/nikon-r...
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Nikon ‘Re-Reviewing’ Winner of Small World in Motion Contest After AI Accusation
The microscopic world is a realm of breathtaking scale, where the movement of a single-celled organism can rival the drama of a nature documentary filmed with a drone.
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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 14h
While #NikonSmallWorldInMotion has been quiet over #CiliaGate, the story has broken mainstream media here in the UK just in time for #PCDAwarenessMonth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest
Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 15h
'Catastrophic': Swiss glaciers lose 20% of mass in five years. Swiss glaciers saw 5.5% of their volume melt away just this year, the second-biggest melt on record, Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) network reports u.afp.com/S9B2
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 11h
"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blacksky
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The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax
There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …
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Yayger @yayger.bsky.social · 23h
Boy, do I ever love this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_vD...
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The White Man as "Welfare Queen"
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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charles ex @charles-ex.bsky.social · 15h
A graffiti piece of a young Black person.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23h
Andreessen & Horowitz's a16z funded firms are mostly just fraud shops--crypto scams, social media bots designed to scam humans, new types of gambling. Good to see Meta trying to compete in this area.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 21h
The Pentagon doesn’t need a theology department. Service members need their religious freedom protected, including the freedom to practice a minority faith or no religion at all. Hegseth’s job is to defend the Constitution, not use the military to advance his own Christianity.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 21h
Prediction markets are to 2026 what candidate endorsements were to 2012. When only a few people understood they were useful signals, they were predictive; but once everyone realized they were useful signals, they stopped being useful. Once everyone is behind the curtain, there is no more magic.
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 19h
"Are you more likely to vote for a political candidate who supports expanding AI development or for a political candidate who supports stricter guardrails for AI development?" • 16% Expanding development • 71% Stricter guardrails (Quinnipiac U. Poll) opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260930-top...
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 20h
Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 18h
State violence is generally bad, but state execution is especially bad, which is why it's been abolished by something like 110 of the 193 UN member states
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h
Peter Thiel's obsession with Pope Leo borders on the pathological. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 17h
Indian Flydubai pilot praised after disaster averted ft.trib.al/mOx0ovT
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Indian Flydubai pilot praised after disaster averted
Captain Smit Machchhar fought off attack by co-pilot with help from crew and passengers
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 18h
It’s not the division that’s tearing America apart It’s the lies
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charles ex @charles-ex.bsky.social · 15h
It would seem to me that injecting her twice would violate double Jeopardy.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 21h
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18h
I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20h
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Ariel 🚑 💙⚕️🇪🇺 @arielma.bsky.social · 16h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections
Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 22h
I tried to explain the Eric Schmitt Hawks/Hawkeyes thing to my 13 year old daughter and oh my god it's like 100x dumber when you say it out loud.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cornell University has agreed to an independent investigation into how the school handled fraternity sexual assault allegations, governor says
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Cornell agrees to independent review of how it handled fraternity sexual assault allegations: Governor
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called for the outside review, saying what happened raised "serious questions about Cornell campus culture."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the rampant misandry is because of the continual rape
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My grandparents survived the terrible abuse of the Federal Indian Boarding School Era. That trauma wasn't isolated to the past—it was carried down through my family all the way to me. And there are so many families like my own across Indian Country.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026
Quite the shot of Trump disembarking from Marine One last night. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper
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Andreas Freise @gwoptics.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I just stumbled over this great photo in the Volkskrant Magazine from last week. It's Paulien Cornelisse, photo by Anne Claire de Breij (anneclairedebreij.com). (This is low quality because I took a photo of the crumpled thin magazine paper.) #photography #volkskrant #zigzag
A person wearing a geometrically patterned outfit with red, black, and white zigzag designs on both the sweater and pants. They are posing with outstretched arms against a swirling black and white checkered background that creates an optical illusion effect. They have short hair and are wearing red lipstick.
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chessnewsnetwork.bsky.social @chessnewsnetwork.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
U.S. authorities have reportedly warned Garry Kasparov that he is the target of an alleged Kremlin-linked assassination plot in the US. The exiled Russian champion is an outspoken Putin critic.
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Garry Kasparov Warned of Alleged Russian Assassination Plot
Garry Kasparov, the exiled Russian chess champion and outspoken Putin critic, has reportedly been warned by U.S. authorities that he is the target of an alleged Kremlin-linked assassination plot in the United States.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“British and US officials have every interest in trying to hype this incident as an Iranian “terror plot”, whatever the actual evidence suggests. Why? Because the US is waging an illegal war on Iran, and the UK is allowing it to do so from British soil.” jonathancook.substack.com/p/reporting-...
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Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows the idea of a ‘free press’ out of the water
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state
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Euronews @euronews.com · 30/09/2026
Plane bound for Israel lands in Saudi Arabia after pilots fight
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Plane bound for Israel lands in Saudi Arabia after distress call
FlyDubai flight FZ1073 transmitted an emergency alert shortly after take-off, according to publicly available flight tracking information.
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aloa5 @aloa5.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
This scene will get a meme [full context next posting]
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BBC News - One of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford called 999 himself www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I think to protect American "defensive" bombers our government should invite the Tangerine Traitor to remove them from vulnerable British bases
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One of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford called 999 himself
He made the call almost an hour before a farmer also called police after seeing men in balaclavas.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every story about a NASA-run project: the project was supposed to work for 5 years and it’s still going strong 25 years later. Every story about SpaceX: it cost *so much* money, didn’t do close to everything it was supposed to, and then blew up.
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charles ex @charles-ex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A short tunnel with purple lights.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/ Russian warbloggers are angry at pictures of large numbers of Russian POWs captured near Lyman, which they see as a humiliation. They demand – almost certainly futilely – that the Russian government should be more honest about what is happening at the front. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/ukra...
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