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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 12h

I am honored and grateful to serve as a reader at this year’s BEYOND BARS, where I will be sharing work written by one of Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop’s incarcerated students. Free and open to all. I hope to see you there! 10/24 at 7 PM Hamline University Learn more at mnprisonwriting.org

Pictures of readers, with the following text:

CELEBRATING 15 YEARS
BEYOND BARS:
VOICES OF INCARCERATION
MPWW ANNUAL STUDENT READING
Saturday, October 24, 2026 7PM CT
mnprisonwriting.org

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Posted our Halloween costumes on Instagram

jetblue711 commented: this is so good
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dexeanderson commented: This is so gay 10m

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Such a special time with Juliet Patterson last night at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social to celebrate the paperback release of her beautiful book Sinkhole. Loved the conversation and the wonderful questions. Thanks to all who came!!

Juliet Patterson and Chris Stedman in conversation

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And what would be the value of putting down a stranger for no reason

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today Trump told Minnesotans to "fight back" against our Somali neighbors. This is dangerous, despicable, and should be condemned by everyone. 1/

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Good Judy Productions @goodjudypods.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you for the warm welcome yesterday, Winona! We had the best time collecting stories of queer and trans community care, with a special attention to how people in more rural settings enact mutual aid. We are so grateful to have spent such meaningful time with you!

A panel of LGBTQIA mutual aid workers and storytellers.

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So what I’m hearing is that the answer isn’t “Chris”

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Took my beard off for Halloween 😱 excited for this year’s costume…

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just a few days left to apply!!

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My knuckles are featured today in Chainmail, a newsletter about the stories behind people’s jewelry. It tells the story of why I don’t wear my wedding ring on my hand, and how my podcast Unread unexpectedly played a role in bringing my husband into my life jessicaalpert.substack.com/p/knuckles-k...

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Knuckles Know Best

a wedding ring story

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☀️ @vamospeat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the good news is nothing financially catastrophic happened shortly after 2006

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is out today! O’Gieblyn is one of my favorite living writers, and this is her best work yet. So proud of her for writing this incredible book. Go read it and tell me what you think!

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Good Judy Productions @goodjudypods.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congrats @qminnesota.bsky.social on today’s launch! We’re so glad you’re here, and honored to be featured on your first day. Thank you for running this piece about our project and final two story collection events happening this month! @chrisdstedman.bsky.social qminnesota.com/community/we...

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Two Final Chances to Share Your Story of Queer Mutual Aid in Minnesota

Chris Stedman's We Help Us project has 100-plus stories of queer and trans mutual aid in Minnesota. Add yours Oct. 7 in Winona or Oct. 17 in Minneapolis.

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Meghan O’Gieblyn out next week!! Can’t wait to ask her all about it at our fourth book event (three of hers, one of mine; I’m slow) - stay tuned for details

A copy of Will and Attention by Meghan O’Gieblyn

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lucked into a couple tickets to see her last night, and thank goodness I did because this was my favorite show of hers yet. She’s never been better, and I had an absolute blast. If you have the chance to see this tour, do it!

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s been an amazing experience, but we will soon be winding down the We Help Us queer and trans mutual aid story collection effort. Before then, however, we have two final events next month, and we’d really love to see you at one ❤️ chrisdstedman.substack.com/p/wrapping-u...

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Wrapping up We Help Us with two final events

A project update, plus: join us in Winona and Minneapolis next month!

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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 17/09/2026

this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026

The family of Tierra Walker is suing Texas AG Ken Paxton and others over her death, alleging the state’s abortion ban is to blame. (Paxton has not commented.) Read ProPublica’s original investigation on Walker’s struggle to end her high-risk pregnancy:

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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.

Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cut my hair short for a Halloween costume a month early to make sure I liked it first lol

Wearing a pink long sleeve tee for Quatrefoil Library with a big pink triangle on it. Also shorter hair than before.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore

The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Final We Help Us event is October 17! If you've been waiting, this is your last chance to record a story for the project in person ❤️‍🔥

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You know what I think 🙂‍↕️

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.

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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

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Jordan Falk @jordanfalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Um what the actual fuck are we doing here?

A.I. safety experts were even more alarmed.
They saw in the Hugging Face incident the first real-world example of an A.I. system's successfully escaping human control, commandeering resources and scheming to cover its own tracks. Ajeya Cotra, one of the independent investigators of the Hugging Face incident, minced no words about the danger she saw, writing that it felt to her "like it's more than 50 percent of the way to full-blown A.I. takeover."
This is not insular A.I. safety jargon — by "full-blown A.I. takeover," she means a scenario in which an A.I. system literally takes over the world, shutting humans out of critical systems and seizing political, economic and military power.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 04/09/2026

The Hugging Face incident may turn out to be one of the most important milestones/warnings in technological revolution now underway. History may look back at this moment/point to it. Everyone should be reading ab it and thinking about it. Here are a few good pieces: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...

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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller Monday, September 07,1953

P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING DOWNTOWN
SLUGGO: I HAVE AN IDEA, NANCY
P2- THEY WALK BEHIND A WOODEN FENCE
SLUGGO: LET’S STAND BEHIND THIS FENCE
NANCY: WHY?
P3- SLUGGO: THIS IS LABOR DAY ---
LET'S GIVE THE BOSS AN EASY STRIP TO DRAW

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tried on some stuff for Halloween yesterday. This year’s costume is gonna be a good one 👀

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is honestly one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. It’s like if the contents of the Table of Contents was just the word “Contents”

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks so much, Joel (and John) ❤️

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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Furious was the best thing I’ve seen in a while. They better finally give Emmy an Emmy

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

you truly do love to see it

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