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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 6h

Turns out that the Bene Gesserit were wrong. Fear isn’t the mind killer, AI is.

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Katy Chalmers @katypillar.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I can finally share this now that it’s finished! My embroidered Tie Dye Stegosaurus! #Embroidery #Dinosaur #Art #SciArt

Silhouette of a stegosaurus filled with pastel rainbow tie dye in a swirl pattern.

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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 7h

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11h

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23h

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23h

nationalize everything Elon Musk owns.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 20h

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tonight. The Washington Monument, in the heart of the nation’s capital. Students converging here after a nationwide walkout from classes against sexual violence, sparked by the Cornell rape case.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

right. this isn’t a somber public execution to show people what it means for the state to murder someone. this is a celebration of violence for its own sake. the fact that the nidal hasan is helpless and infirm is no doubt part of the appeal. bsky.app/profile/spir...

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

a lot of hot takes on this casual substack analysis with no CIs, summary statistics, or peer review. given the low prevalences of these subgroups, this could certainly be in large part statistical noise. it does in fact need more formal study before we know

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New Pew poll has Trump's approval at 30% (!) 68% of the country disapproves of him. Lowest in his second term, at January 6 levels. *31%* of Trump 2024 voters now disapprove of him.

Trump's approval rating continues to drop
Three-in-ten Americans now say they approve of Trump's handling of his job as president, while 68% disapprove - down 4 percentage points from July and his lowest approval rating of his second term.
Trump's approval rating drops to 30% - on par with his rating prior to leaving office in January 2021

*chart showing his sinking approval ratings, compared alongside his first term*

Much of this decline in his approval ratings over the course of his term is among Trump's own 2024 voters - 67% of validated Trump 2024 voters approve of his job performance today while 31% disapprove. At the beginning of his term, 95% approved.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 08/10/2026

Happy #OctopusDay! ONC's fixed cameras have been capturing footage these amazing creatures for two decades! From the shallows of Folger Pinnace to the deep, dark Cascadia Basin, octopuses regularly steal the spotlight on our live cameras. #KnowTheOcean

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Happy #WorldOctopusDay!

Digital drawing of an octopus against a black background. Its eight arms are winding and twisting about wildly. Its eyes are blue, its main body pink, and its arms transition from blue at the ends, through white to pink near the body to echo the colors of the trans pride flag.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Truthout @truthout.org · 08/10/2026

Trump admitted on Wednesday that he wanted to push for privatizing Social Security in his first term in office, contradicting campaign promises he made in 2016 and earlier that he wouldn’t touch the popular social safety net program.

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Trump Admits He Wants to Privatize Social Security

“I wanted to do it so badly,” Trump said of his desire to privatize Social Security in his first year in office.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.

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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm pleased with this. I haven't read Carson, but now am eager to, after years of hearing so many good things about her writing. I'm just happy they chose 1) a poet and 2) someone whose work don't feel me with dread at the thought of reading it. Canadians in my reading groups are pleased too.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They are not here but if they were, the ancient greeks would tell you how much they learned from societies to their west and east. Because that’s how it works, human development is not immaculate conception

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

White supremacy is, above all, an ideology of stolen valor bsky.app/profile/seth...

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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I still hold that #Astarion in #BG3 draws a lot from both David (Kiefer Sutherland) and Star (Jami Gertz).

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

And you are teaching the baby that you care for them, that they deserve your time and attention, that you enjoy their company, that they are a person and not a series of tedious tasks and obligations

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Human beings process information through narrative, through story. We think in stories, remember in stories, plan for the future in stories, worry in stories, dream in stories and connect with one another through stories. When we read to children we embody our deeply human birthright as storytellers

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

His marks in publishing will only accept the "it just works" of his scam so long as his fake-ass garbage machine creates the racist outcome they've been longing for

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Using AI is almost certainly harmful to us cognitively, emotionally, creatively, and socially. We should not use it. We should not normalize it.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 07/10/2026

She was seriously disrespected and marginalized in Steve Levy's Hackers. If that is the only way you know of her, read this.

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Make art. Make bad art. Learn. Get better. Fuck AI.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the attempts to smear the Jane Doe in the Cornell University gang rape case and redirect blame from the seven fraternity men onto her. As usual, this campaign is built on a mountain of lies and misogyny. spitfirenews.com/p/cornell-ja...

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Debunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane Doe

Authorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/10/2026

October 7, 2026, marks exactly 25 years since the United States began bombing Afghanistan. The anniversary will pass in Washington with little reflection. Here is the part that does not fit the story that the war on terror ended in August 2021: someone else is still fighting it.

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The War on Afghanistan Was Launched 25 Years Ago. It Still Hasn’t Ended.

The war inaugurated a terrible new global order in which armed drones kill civilians who are neither named nor counted.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You do NOT want the flu. It is not just a cold, it is way, WAY worse. Get vaxxed.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/10/2026

oh look paid protesters

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"In some cases, AI recommended removing a book because another district had removed it and not because it actually included obscene material." thehill.com/homenews/edu...

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Book bans reach all-time high, led by Texas and Florida and fueled by AI

Book bans reached an all-time high this year as political pressure and AI fuel a spike in titles taken off the shelves. Almost 12,000 books were banned between 2025 and 2026, a 5,000-boo…

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Man firing live torpedo at constitution unclear why everyone is being so negative”

Supreme Court
Justice Alito tells AP he's "not pleased" with harsh rhetoric aimed at the court, saying it undermines public trust.

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Chron.com @chron.com · 07/10/2026

"We miss when our teachers could actually teach us."

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Fort Worth students pen searing letter against school takeover changes

"We miss when our teachers could actually teach us."

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do y'all have an obvious favorite photo of your dog? Because I sure do, and it will forever be this one of him photobombing Devil's Tower lol.

A photo of my dog photo-bombing Devil's Tower. My dog, a husky/malamute/wolf with black and tan fur is sitting in front of the towering rocky pillar with a large smile and tongue hanging out.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books.

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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Meanwhile, we have had nearly 4000 cases of measles, a highly contagious and dangerous virus, in the US this year, if you really need something to freak out over

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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh and I so wished people would date their content on You Tube the way Dr Rubin does. It's immensely helpful.

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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Freaking out over a possible but unlikely case of the plague in Russia is just fearmongering rooted in ignorance and bias and I hate it. The plague is HIGHLY TREATABLE because it's a bacteria, not a virus. We have plague cases in the US every fucking year and those people live because of antibiotics

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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(Amusingly the closed captions erroneously spelled it "demonic plague" instead of "pneumonic plague")

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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#plague #pneumonicplague No, there is no spread of the plague from Russia or other countries. The plague is endemic in some parts of the US and has been since forever. The case of the woman in CA testing positive is from 2025. youtube.com/shorts/WhZun...

youtube.com

Is there a case of Plague in California? #plague #doctor #publichealth

YouTube video by Dr. Zachary Rubin

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.

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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)

The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Washington Sun reported last week that the White House has instructed the Justice Department to hold off on attacking abortion until after the midterms. After that, they’ve promised anti-abortion leaders, “the gloves will be off.” They are just getting started. But here’s the thing: so are we.

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The White House’s Promise to Attack Abortion After the Midterms

The White House has “instructed the Justice Department to move slowly on any abortion-related actions ahead of the midterm elections,” The Washington Sun reports.

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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The discourse around this year's Nobel for Literature is the most unhinged I've seen around a major book prize. Everything to prediction markets to not so subtle misogyny. Make it stop.

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