Reposted by SeherPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I mean they could spend their time giving speeches about how outrageous it is that the Fed wage is at $7.25 and that these are starvation wages. 824751
Reposted by SeherSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"some investors are voicing increasing skepticism about the growth expectations for data centers and the risks associated with their build-out, forcing industry executives and their advisers to recalibrate their plans" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...nytimes.comWall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom (Gift Article)Several companies tied to the data center industry have delayed their initial public offerings amid the increasing public backlash to these energy guzzling facilities. 111339
Reposted by SeherKatherine Knott @knottkatherine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The new loan limits don't just affect new students but current students who have banked on federal loans to pay for their schooling. @jessicablake.bsky.social on how two students found themselves shut out of federal loans this summer. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...insidehighered.comStudents and Colleges Grapple With New Loan LimitsEvolving guidance from the Education Department shut two students out of federal student loans. “It really feels like someone’s stabbing you,” one mom told Inside Higher Ed. 057
Reposted by Seherpikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ghost bat icon pack 🦇 www.patreon.com/pikaole/post... 4446133
Reposted by SeherShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I *hate* this "digital divide" framing for AI; even libraries marshal it to justify their "AI literacy classes," ensuring all have "access" for self-actualization and economic opportunity. Maybe instead some folks are sufficiently literate, and they're instead choosing *principled refusal*. 8691165
Reposted by SeherTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If you are a woman, cussing someone out may be covered under your health insurance /s www.sarnoclinic.com/anger-autoim...sarnoclinic.comEmotional suppression affects women’s health - Sarno ClinicIn recent years, researchers have begun exploring a compelling connection between emotional expression - particularly anger - and ... 520722
Reposted by SeherHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.pcmag.comApple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance NightmareApple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment. 321051494
Reposted by SeherTiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Reminder: AI companies talk up the fear of hypothetical superintelligent AI to distract you from the real, present dangers of AI that are happening right now 318670
Reposted by SeherAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgThe wrong platform for scienceDaniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu... 7529282
Reposted by SeherMallory Dunlin @mallorydunlin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026🖤 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥 🖤 𝘐𝘯 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 is releasing on September 29th! If you want to read early, you can buy an early access ebook on my Patreon or sign up for an ARC Copy 😉 Find the 🔗 in my b!o #booksbooksbooks #faeromance #romantasy #comingsoon 041
Reposted by SeherAlex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This one’s my favourite 755841403
Reposted by SeherAlyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Couldn’t resist putting them in the dye pots right away 😍🧶 #handdyed 5763
Reposted by SeherJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The first sentence of this piece says it all: "After Indiana’s near-total abortion ban, a new study shows emergency room doctors are less likely to treat pregnant women who are bleeding." www.jconline.com/story/news/l...jconline.comIndiana’s abortion ban has a ‘chilling effect’ on ER pregnancy careA study found ER doctors are more hesitant to care for pregnant patients who are bleeding. 18434552019
Reposted by SeherGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.” 29363963567
Reposted by SeherRobin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius. 5386151932
Reposted by SeherNate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Cassandra Wilson was one of our most gifted vocalists, just an unreal talent. Here is my obituary for NPR Music. (I believe I’ll also be on the broadcast later this evening.)npr.orgCassandra Wilson, Grammy-winning jazz vocalist, dies at 70Wilson, who's deep, dark contralto was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz, died on Wednesday in her hometown of Jackson, Miss. 918280
Reposted by Seherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026so unfair that you might be attacked for just wanting a white ethnostate anyway after like a decade plus of usage i canceled my @1password.bsky.social subscription and switched to apple passwords. took 15 minutes. 763088534
Reposted by SeherMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026AI is not inevitable. resistance works!motherjones.comMamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schoolsKids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday. 2852661075
Reposted by SeherGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/09/2026HELLO it is the final day of our pop-up shop! Just over 7 hours left, and so of course yesterday I prototyped and designed an entirely new set of items with @indeliblesasha.bsky.social & @foxglovefiction.com because we are calm and never escalate. www.32auctions.com/organization... 53625
Reposted by SeherTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Every small, accessible pleasure has been ruined. ICE is at the nature preserve. Food recall is at the grocery store. Tariff and oil costs are hollowing out restaurant supply chain. ICE is pushing out the immigrants who make all this work Clothes are combustible Hobbies are surveilled 228946
Reposted by SeherSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future. 8957061550
Reposted by SeherRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 01/09/2026@bakerdphd.bsky.social, @jscottclayton.bsky.social, and I are all quoted in this Washington Post piece on a small, but growing, number of super-elite private colleges pushing their cost of attendance past $100,000 this fall. Tufts, Vanderbilt, and Brown all missed by less than $10...strategic?washingtonpost.comAs more colleges surpass $100,000 price tag, here’s the true costFifteen schools now charge six figures per year for the total cost of attendance; others are on the verge. 3158
Reposted by SeherPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I'm glad that he is explicit. Some were in my mentions yesterday contorting yourselves to say that it was not possible for the party to articulate CLEARLY what they would do. 712426
Reposted by SeherSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It's funny because if you ask the people who say "This never happens in X country" "Oh? Do you have, like, a Google news alert set up so you get an email every times there's an outbreak there?" They don't! They just personally never heard of one before. So they assumed it never happens! 213214
Reposted by SeherSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This might be hard to believe for ppl who don't work in food, but multiple outbreaks/recalls per week is routine. That's the normal background radiation of the food business. Because the US food system feeds 330 million people. It's massive. The outbreaks just rarely ever made the news before now. 217534
Reposted by SeherSpookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Project 2025 was published in 2023. There's absolutely no reason for Democrats not to have a blueprint ready in advance for the winning candidate to pick and choose from. 516935
Reposted by SeherPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Whenever I bring up the truth that (for example) the Democratic Party hasn't told its voters what it actually plans to DO (specifically) should it get back into power, I get so many people furious at this. But I am right and so they can stay mad. 421225286
Reposted by SeherGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Just gonna keep pointing out: White voters mostly *sided with the protesters* during BLM 2020 protests. Many pundits cited @owasow.bsky.social's research on protests hurting Dems in the 60s, but I interviewed Wasow and he correctly predicted times had changed: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 181413315
Reposted by SeherTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Elon Musk asked Democrats in Delaware to make it harder to hold corporations based there liable. Now progressives are challenging 5 Democratic lawmakers who supported that bill. One of the most interesting items in the September primaries — see my guide here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the... 11775217
Reposted by SeherTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer. 662581649
Reposted by SeherGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/08/2026HELLO! Our "let Bree & Donna write a book AND pay the lawyers to maybe get their money back from The Fiasco" auction/pop-up shop is live! It will run through 9/2 at 8PM CDT! www.32auctions.com/KitRocha2026 15298202
Reposted by SeherDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences. 205122373302
Reposted by SeherPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"The left does not need to pursue its own exoneration in this moment. There is no reason to indulge the fantasy that we governed the nation during these recent, disastrous years, or that our country's brief flirtation with racial justice was an unthinkable disaster with countless innocent victims."organizingmythoughts.orgWoke What? Let's Be Fucking SeriousOur politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies. 2416141
Reposted by SeherPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I had some feelings to express about the "Woke 1" discourse.organizingmythoughts.orgWoke What? Let's Be Fucking SeriousOur politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies. 5391122
Reposted by SeherSiddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“Every day I’m crying,” Renita Theus, 41, said outside her darkened apartment, where her car remained trapped under a fallen tree. “It’s hot … I walked to the dollar store and they’re all out of candles and batteries.” "She lost her cleaning job in Chicago … because she was not able to travel."nytimes.comDesperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without PowerFloods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week. 16770417
Reposted by SeherStarbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed: 9465744506
Reposted by SeherChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was. 235281277747
Reposted by SeherSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I always liked that she chose to be her unapologetic self in the face of a classist, sexist culture that pathologizes and humiliates women who look like her 102398398
Reposted by SeherKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago. 219239355927
Reposted by SeherMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/08/2026Proud to announce that New York City has registered a record 4,200 New Yorkers in our doula care program. Pregnancy and childbirth are life-changing moments. No one should be forced to navigate them alone.nyc.govMayor Mamdani Expands Access to Doula Care Across NYC as Citywide Initiative Surpasses 4,000 People Served 166142102367
Reposted by SeherAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst 32744447
Reposted by Sehershauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"I was fortunate to be home in New York where I didn’t have to worry for a moment that I would be denied appropriate care during one of the darkest moments of my life because of sadistic laws made by cruel people." an exquisitely written story of loss from @marisakabas.bsky.socialthehandbasket.coMy miscarriageA personal update from Marisa. 2805119
Reposted by SeherDrew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com 156200218537
Reposted by SeherDaniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I'm inclined to agree with my THR colleague @kentremendous.bsky.social. 0305
Reposted by SeherTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I sincerely believe they could have ridden “They Weird, Yo” all the way to the White House. 473962600
Reposted by SeherClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026apostrophen.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/t... I’m genuinely never not thinking about this, and all the little ways a queer reader can spot when a book isn’t written by us or for us, as well as the frustration when cishet readers object to being “taken out of the fantasy” by reminders of queer realityapostrophen.wordpress.comThe Shoulder Check ProblemLike a lot of my blog posts here, this one was sparked at a specific time over a specific conversation, but over the years I’ve seen this particular topic come up again and again like waves on a sh… 4416100
Reposted by SeherClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026there is a terrific essay on m/m romance called “The Shoulder Check Problem” by @nathanburgoine.bsky.social which examines tropes which pull queer readers out of books that weren’t written by or for us, of which a big one is “Happy Ending Requires Queer Protagonist To Reconcile With Bigoted Family” 4946214
Reposted by SeherKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026Brian Wansink was at Cornell for 13 years before people realized he altered his study data. I think they only started looking because he encouraged tweaking data in a 2016 blog post. Prior to Cornell he was at Dartmouth, UPENN, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignscience.orgCornell nutrition scientist resigns after retractions and research misconduct findingMisreporting and sloppy statistics undermine flashy findings on unconscious eating habits 336266
Reposted by SeherKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026In 2023 (the Science article is from 2021) NPR looked into it again and the insurance company that supplied the data says it had been altered. Dan is still at Duke and Francesca is still at Harvard.npr.orgFabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you? : Planet MoneyDan Ariely and Francesca Gino are two of the biggest stars in behavioral science. Both have conducted blockbuster research into how to make people more honest, research we've highlighted on Planet Mon... 643381