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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿

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uncooperative trans enby queer pan ace | ex-academic (music, phil, theo), retired teacher | multilingual | autistic adhd | conversion therapy survivor | breast cancer (stage IV) | pfp: Bubo the Mechanical Owl

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 18h
Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.
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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The kerning here is absolutely SENDING me
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Economist analysis of more than 3,000 US counties finds that in reliably GOP counties, annual deaths now exceed births by 0.4 per 1k residents, while in reliably Democratic counties, births exceed deaths by 2.8 per 1k. Population growth in the GOP counties is largely driven by internal migration.
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In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born
Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 02/10/2026
"Medicaid work requirements" are above water with the American electorate (net +18). Calling the same policy "Medicaid eligibility cuts" meaningfully decreases support (net -11). I do not understand the insistence on adopting the framing of those trying to destroy Medicaid
Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: Voters Support the Same Medicaid Rules When Called "Work Requirements" and Oppose Them When Called "Eligibility Cuts".
Description: Under new rules, some adults can get or keep Medicaid only if the state confirms that they meet work, school, or volunteer rules. [Split A n=613] Do you support or oppose these Medicaid work requirements? [Split B n=598] Do you support or oppose these Medicaid eligibility cuts?
[Split A] Medicaid work requirements — Support: 57%, Oppose: 39%
[Split B] Medicaid eligibility cuts — Support: 42%, Oppose: 55%

September 25–28, 2026 survey of 1,211 U.S. likely voters.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please give these journalists their flowers.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
God I'm so tired of seeing rapists everywhere. I hate these fucking braindead pigs, I hate watching them gorge on power and money for no reason except that they want it, I hate knowing they're torturing women with impunity, I hate seeing their smug stupid fucking faces on the news.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A few people have made the reasonable suggestion that we are living through the backlash to MeToo -- and yes, I do agree with that, at the same time as the backlash to BLM and the advances in gay rights. It's backlash all the way down.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So, a sort of secret police force? Those have historically never been problematic, eh?
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The last time survivors spoke up en masse, the public embraced fascism rather than have uncomfortable conversations. Not saying that this influenced the actions of the Cornell Seven, but I’d bet it influenced the inaction of their 50 fraternity brothers who were on the group chat.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Much of our sitting government is in office because it ignored rape or committed rape. At times, it seems like a job requirement. Much of our media has learned to ask evidentiary standards of survivors that they’d never hold a powerful man to.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mr. McKinsey was a transgender man and accused his wife, Candice Jang, and his in-laws of abusing him because of his identity, according to his filing for a restraining order in December 2025. He said his mother-in-law called him and one of his sons a “pervert.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bingo. These people at the most made content that a lot of other people watched. There was never an actual impactful movement. That is not to say it didn't have a larger negative impact, but a movement it was not.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Greed puts out the sun.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminism has been a net positive. Period. Let's move along.
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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#resistance #africa A pretty infuriating and disheartening bit of history to get through, but worth the 20-odd minutes for the hopeful ending of what we can take away from it today. youtu.be/nUFbsAcHWT4?...
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When British "Farmers" Took Over Kenya
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These kids have real balls. I hope they gut Cornell.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I love how Republicans are objectively terrible for the economy yet everyone forgets this every election season? how does this happen?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
bring back some consequences.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From the article: “The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as a part of the pregnant person's body until birth. Because whose life matters most is the one already born.
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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This country...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think we need to differentiate between “AI uses a lot of water!” (not necessarily bad on its own) and “AI stresses local water supplies” (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even “modest” use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 26/09/2026
There is no ethical use of AI.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 26/09/2026
"I'd be lying to say if I were surprised."
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Data Center Operator Slapped With $1 Million Fine for Belching Noxious Gas Into Surrounding Community
Following months of sustained pressure from activists, state officials slapped a Microsoft-backed data center with a massive fine.
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely. Purely homosocial. And this is one of the core tenants of fascism. 
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sure we made gas cost 5 bucks a gallon but, and hear me out, what if we also made you have to buy more
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Gift Article)
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I find it fascinating that so many estranged parents view the estrangement as an incident, not as a process. So it's forums full of Boomers going "She stopped talking to me because I said her haircut was bad! She's so UNREASONABLE!", when, in reality, they've been shitting on their kid for decades.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Because they have not come for you (yet) does not mean they have failed. Fascism is not an equally distributed political project of harm(s). It is a continuous and discontinuous political project unfolding and situational political violences of all sorts. And what it leaves in place after matters.
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Six is ravenous and profane. @thesix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For such a silly (but fun enough) film I find myself stuck on this quite a lot.
An exchange in which Black suffragette  Edith Grayston (Susan Wokoma)and white man Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill) discus call to action and complacency derived from privilege. The movie is Enola Holmes (2020).

“You haven't any hope of understanding any of this. You do know that? Because you don't know what it is to be without power.”
“Politics doesn't interest you. Why?”
“Because it's fatally boring.”
“Because you have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well.”
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 21/09/2026
More than 70% of Americans say tech companies have too much power. Fewer than 1 in 5 trust Big Tech with AI. Yet Silicon Valley’s billionaires want even more control. @milesklassin.bsky.social examines the authoritarian future they’re selling.
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Tech Authoritarian Doomsayers
The Silicon Valley hyper-rich elite are aiming to undo democracy—and modern society—for their own profit. The only problem? There are far more of us than them.
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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It was 68F when I woke up this morning, the first time it was below 70s in the morning probably since Spring. Summer is ending. Hoorah!
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Brought to mind @swordsjew.bsky.social’s caution in the intro to Wild Faith that - if you don’t know people who believe this - it takes work to accept that they mean it literally
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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is why two of us from @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social carried books about the Holocaust on the Emmy stage. Book banning has jumped the shark and it is time for us to stop it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Locking people up for using drugs will never make sense to me. The people I've known who've used drugs, in spite of the threat of severe consequences, did so bc they are not/were not okay. Locking people in dungeons traumatizes them further and makes these patterns even harder to break.
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