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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I 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.
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Sarah 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...
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Wall 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.
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Katherine Knott @knottkatherine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The 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...
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Students and Colleges Grapple With New Loan Limits
Evolving 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.
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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ghost bat icon pack 🦇 www.patreon.com/pikaole/post...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I *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*.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you are a woman, cussing someone out may be covered under your health insurance /s www.sarnoclinic.com/anger-autoim...
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Emotional suppression affects women’s health - Sarno Clinic
In recent years, researchers have begun exploring a compelling connection between emotional expression - particularly anger - and ...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Some 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.
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Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare
Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reminder: 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
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers 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/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel 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...
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Mallory 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
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This one’s my favourite
A reddit post from the Wile E Coyote AMA that says “Hi WEC, I've watched you since I was a child, just wanted to say thank you for running into paintings of tunnels for all those years.”

The replies is a film still of Wile E Coyote smiling and holding a sign that says “Keep art alive”
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Couldn’t resist putting them in the dye pots right away 😍🧶 #handdyed
A pan of handdyed yarn dyed in deep purple, into light purple and lavender, transitioning to mint and then indigo. It is supposed to look like an AuroraAn aurora in the sky taken in Seattle in May 2024
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The 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...
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Indiana’s abortion ban has a ‘chilling effect’ on ER pregnancy care
A study found ER doctors are more hesitant to care for pregnant patients who are bleeding.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Photo 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.”
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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.
Wile E Coyote in an office, pointing to a sign he's holding that reads "WE CANNOT JUDGE OUR WORTH ON THE WORK OF OTHERS"
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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cassandra 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.)
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Cassandra Wilson, Grammy-winning jazz vocalist, dies at 70
Wilson, who's deep, dark contralto was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz, died on Wednesday in her hometown of Jackson, Miss.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
so 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.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
AI is not inevitable. resistance works!
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Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools
Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/09/2026
HELLO 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...
A set of four little hinged boxes shaped like stamps with a cartoon potion bottle inside on the top with the words "Take your potions" They're printed in a sparkle purple, teal, blue, and pink!The same adorable potion design, but as a magnet!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Every 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
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If 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.
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Robert 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?
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As more colleges surpass $100,000 price tag, here’s the true cost
Fifteen schools now charge six figures per year for the total cost of attendance; others are on the verge.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'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.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It'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!
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This 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.
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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Project 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.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Whenever 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.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just 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...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Elon 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...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | 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.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/08/2026
HELLO! 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
You are cordially invited to CHAOS!

WHO: Bree & Donna (and friends)
What: an auction/pop-up shop
where: 32auctions.com/KitRocha2026
when: 8/27 at 10 AM - 9/2 at 8pm
why: let bree & Donna live Buy it Now: limited edition dragons, fidget toys
fancy jewelry, boxes & storage
fantasy themed gifts

Bid on It: AUTOGRAPHED KIT ROCHA BOoks
exclusive owlcrate special editions
be in the murder book
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
The 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.
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Puff 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."
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Woke What? Let's Be Fucking Serious
Our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I had some feelings to express about the "Woke 1" discourse.
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Woke What? Let's Be Fucking Serious
Our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies.
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Siddhartha 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.com
Desperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without Power
Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.
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Starbucks 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:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some 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.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I 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
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/08/2026
Proud 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.
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Mayor Mamdani Expands Access to Doula Care Across NYC as Citywide Initiative Surpasses 4,000 People Served
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As 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
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shauna @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.social
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My miscarriage
A personal update from Marisa.
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hi 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
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm inclined to agree with my THR colleague @kentremendous.bsky.social.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I sincerely believe they could have ridden “They Weird, Yo” all the way to the White House.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
apostrophen.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 reality
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The Shoulder Check Problem
Like 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…
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
there 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”
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026
Brian 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-Champaign
science.org
Cornell nutrition scientist resigns after retractions and research misconduct finding
Misreporting and sloppy statistics undermine flashy findings on unconscious eating habits
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026
In 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.
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Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you? : Planet Money
Dan 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...
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