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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.

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C.K. Gill 🕷️😷 @ckgill.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Anyone know of a good article to share with a non-tech person about why you don’t want to take medical advice from an LLM?

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Re-posting with typo fix and re-boosting this for the US east coast time folks, I moved to Scotland and landed in an unlivable flat, so am offering 15 drm-free books of mine as a thank you for anything you offer as a way to get into a safe living space:

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In Memory of JJ Pionke: Librarian, LIS Educator, Disability Advocate, and Cat Lover The links to donate to the JJ Pionke Memorial Scholarship Fund or the Savil & Aiden Care Fund are coming soon. jj-pionke-memorial.org/in-loving-me...

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JJ Pionke Memorial Foundation

JJ Pionke - Librarian, LIS Educator, Disability Advocate, and Lover of Cats

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C.K. Gill 🕷️😷 @ckgill.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

If you’re thinking of someone you haven’t talked with in a while, reach out to let them know, even if it’s just sending a text to say hello. Don’t put it off.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When it comes to civil rights, that slope is a vertical line. You trade away those of your countrymen and you WILL be losing yours. It's only a matter of time.

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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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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 27/07/2026

through sheer ubiquity a blockbuster becomes a unit of language & reference & legibility -- something The Odyssey itself has been for millennia -- & I think it's really good for that enormous referential power to be contested & challenged & engaged by those who've made a special study of it

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026

For #BlackWomenEqualPayDay, @ayannapressley.bsky.social and I in @bostonglobe.com discussing why the attacks against workers begin and end with Black women. There is no world where workers are valued, and Black women workers are not. Either the economy serves us all, or it serves no one. #blacksky

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The attack on workers begins and ends with Black women - The Boston Globe

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is about more than wage gaps. Job losses and stalled pay for Black women are an early warning sign for every American worker.

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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

25 years ago Kelly & I published our first season's titles — all 2 of them: first collections from Kelly (Stranger Things Happen; art: Shelley Jackson) & Ray Vukcevich (Meet Me in the Moon Room; art Rafał Olbinski). Buy either this month, we'll send you both: smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...

Screenshot of the first two books we published:

Stranger Things Happen
Kelly Link

“A set of stories that are by turns dazzling, funny, scary, and sexy, but only when they’re not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don’t happen.”
— Karen Joy Fowler

Meet Me in the Moon Room
Ray Vukcevich

“One of my all-time favorite collections.”
— Laird Barron, author of Blood Standard

“Uniquely, splendidly, brilliantly original, a surprise in each and every one, and brimming with wit and laugh-out-loud humor. A stunning collection.”
— Kate Wilhelm, author of Desperate Measures

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C.K. Gill 🕷️😷 @ckgill.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026

If you’re looking for a comfortable mask with a good seal to wear outside, Flomask still has EU-printed adult masks at half off for US customers (check your nose bridge using their instructions). They also have a children’s size. www.flomask.com/products/flo...

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Flo Mask Pro FFP2 (Adult Mask)

Engineered for high-performance protection, the Flo Mask Pro is more than just a reusable respirator. Built with medical-grade silicone, it offers a custom-contoured seal that solves the most common i...

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 16/07/2026

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

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Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

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C.K. Gill 🕷️😷 @ckgill.blacksky.app · 11/07/2026

Grateful for the oasis of Tour de Fleece posts when pretty much everything else is varying degrees of stressful right now. They’re making me want to make handspinning posts even though I don’t do Tour de Fleece, and I rarely post anything.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 08/07/2026

waymo locks you in the car and delivers you to a police station, then unlocks the door so you can open it and get shot to death by a robot dog with a rifle. it later emerges that the flock network in your neighborhood tracked you for months because of some algo/admin error.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026

“A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies, led police to identify me as a car thief and set up a sting to take me down.”

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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me

A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/07/2026

Some awesome things you can do to celebrate Independence Day and support the dream of equal rights for all without getting heat stroke! First, check out the @romancingthevote.com auction and buy some fun stuff while supporting voting rights! www.32auctions.com/romancingthe...

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Romancing the Vote 2026

Silent auction 'Romancing the Vote 2026' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

NEW: A special TTRPG charity bundle to help designer Rae Nedjadi offset their medical expenses after serious illness and a month-long hospital stay. Includes Apocalypse Keys plus a terrific selection of other games. Get over $285 in games for just 25 bucks! 👇 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

On the left, an illustration of Rae Nedjadi with short curly black hair and horn-rim glasses, wearing a purple and pink striped robe. Next to that, the covers of the games in the Rae Nedjadi Recovery Bundle: Our Haunt, Apocalypse Keys, Doomsday Delights, Brindlewood Bay, Defy the Gods, Once More Into the Void, Blue Rose, Raccoon Sky Pirates, Glow, The Love Balloon, The Wildsea: Ships Gardens, Paragons, Gingerbread Kaiju, The Hunger in the Void, Space Post, Seers & Roebuck, For Coin & Blood, Dynasties & Demagogues, Party Beach Creature Feature, Heroic Maps - Villages (Summer), Quantum Entanglement, and Infestation at Devil's Glade.

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upma @upmasingh.com · 28/06/2026

Anyone know about any south asian diaspora retirement communities (leaning progressive minded a plus) in/around the triangle (NC). Please repost for reach. Thank you.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16/06/2026

Whenever people say things like “oh people are just ignorant and fear mongering about data centers” they’re always punching at some rando online but also they’re lashing out at the NAACP and communities in Memphis who are directly voicing how this affects them.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 06/06/2026

Is fun how the general public is convinced that things I've been using for decades—em-dashes, the rule of three, and now, apparently, serif fonts—are signifiers for slop. We're training people to use bad heuristics and we're going to make both design and the written word worse.

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C.K. Gill 🕷️😷 @ckgill.blacksky.app · 25/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands / artists you've seen live Bat for Lashes Björk Cibo Matto Deltron 3030 Fishbone Living Colour Hugh Masekela Massive Attack PJ Harvey Wu-Tang Clan

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C.K. Gill 🕷️😷 @ckgill.blacksky.app · 21/05/2026

My answer to that fictional band prompt that’s going around is Cold Slither.

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C.K. Gill 🕷️😷 @ckgill.blacksky.app · 17/05/2026

Anyone know what kind of bird this is?

A small bird with a yellow beak and iridescent coloring on a sidewalk

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 13/05/2026

btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My aunt, Priscilla Stephens Kruize, can no longer live on her own at age 87 & assisted living costs are huge. Our family launched a fundraiser to help fund her care until she gets financial aid. She is a civil rights HERO who has given so much to others - and now she needs us. gofund.me/8db8323e6

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Donate to Help Priscilla Stephens Kruize, Civil Rights Hero, organized by Tananarive Due

Civil rights WARRIOR Priscilla Stephens Kruize is in failing health a… Tananarive Due needs your support for Help Priscilla Stephens Kruize, Civil Rights Hero

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026

…The thing about "Generative AI" is that it takes all those racialized, gendered, ableist assumptions about skills, intelligence, capability, & it feeds on them as data which then become outputs of "AI Detectors,"which in turn become what people think of as so-called "tell tale signs of AI writing"…

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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 04/04/2026

like planet earth, i too look like i have my shit together from an incredible distance

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C.K. Gill 🕷️😷 @ckgill.blacksky.app · 16/03/2026

very much enjoy the way the people who work with Ryan Coogler talk about him & obviously feel supported and inspired by the experience. Also love how he talks about the people he works with. Master class in respect and genuine admiration.

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C.K. Gill 🕷️😷 @ckgill.blacksky.app · 15/03/2026

Due to a shipping error, Flo Mask has a half-off sale of their EU-printed products for US customers. The masks are the same. They just have the EU printing on them. I wear this mask to work, church, etc., and it’s easily the most comfortable one I use. www.flomask.com/products/flo...

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 26/02/2026

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

was met with widespread protests: state, county and city governments across the United States forbade their employees from non-essential travel to North Carolina; numerous corporations and firms curbed plans to hold events and create jobs in the state, and many
performers canceled performances in North Carolina to boycott the state; North Carolina's economy lost over $400 million in investments and jobs. The bill was also criticized by several religious organizations, and President Barack Obama denounced it and called for its repeal. McCrory ultimately lost his bid for re-election in 2016 to Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, a vocal critic of the law.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 26/02/2026

if you can help trans kansans and their families who need to get out of kansas to stay safe, please help. “if the gender/sex indication on the face of your current credential does not match your sex assigned at birth, you are directed to surrender your current credential” is past frightening.

Dear Kansas Credential Holder:
House Substitute for Senate Bill 244, enacted by the Kansas Legislature overriding Governor Kelly's veto, requires Kansas-issued driver's licenses and identification cards to reflect the credential holder's sex at birth and directs the Division of Vehicles to comply with K.S.A. 77-207.
What does this mean for you?
If you have received this notice, our records indicate that, upon publication of this law in the Kansas Register on Thursday, February 26, 2026, your current Kansas credential will no longer be valid.
Additionally, please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentials.
This means that once the law is officially enacted, your current credential will be invalid immediately, and you may be subject to additional penalties if you are operating a vehicle without a valid credential.
What do you need to do?
Pursuant to this new law, if the gender/sex indication on the face of your current credential does not match your sex assigned at birth, you are directed to surrender your current credential to the Kansas Division of Vehicles. Upon surrendering the credential, you will be issued a new credential reflecting the gender identification consistent with statutory requirements. If you have any questions regarding procedures for obtaining a legally compliant credential, please contact the Kansas Division of Vehicles or visit your local driver licensing office.
Can you appeal this notice?
Yes. If you believe you have received this notice in error, you may appeal. Appeal rights are available under K.S.A. 8-259. However, please be advised that the filing of an appeal will not preserve the validity of your current credential and associated driving authority. For additional information about visiting a DOV exam station, please review the following link:
https://www.ksrevenue.gov/DOVAppointmentInfo/
We apologize for the inconvenience this causes you.
Kansas Division of Vehicles
Zibell Building - 785-296-3671
K…

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/02/2026

One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jackson’s life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

how dare you use karaoke for evil

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

HI! Every Tor Books release from @annaleen.bsky.social and me is available thru @humblebundle.com for a few weeks! Get 2 books for at least $3 Get 4 books for at least $10 Get all our stuff for at least $18 This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project! www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026

Tomorrow marks the first day of the 100 years of Black History Month. I will be Blackity Black Black all month. This is a PSA. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 17/01/2026

Hey, people are permanently losing their eyesight at some of these protests and have been for some time. These people, the ones that have put their bodies on the line, are among the people who would benefit from your usage of alt-text when posting protest related imagery.

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