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@clockworkbird.bsky.social
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I support trans rights. I fight climate change. I love indie video games. he/him

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20h
We may cover this tomorrow, but I just wanted to signal boost this. After months of pushing the administration to make good on its promises for trans youth, NYC appears to be taking steps to do so. I do believe the city can be doing much more, but this is a wonderful start from Mayor Mamdani.
gothamist.com
NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026
The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots
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Transport Evolved Official @transportevolved.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New post: EV Fast Charging Prices Have Soared Since 2022. Here’s Why www.transportevolved.com/2026/10/06…
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🤖 Gavin’s Priors @heygavin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey California voters, your ballots are starting to get mailed out, so reminder that Gavin Newsom opposes Prop 40, the one-time wealth tax, which is a good reason to vote YES ON 40! And vote NO on 41 and 42 because these are bilionaire-backed fakeout props that will nuke Prop 40 if either passes.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 05/10/2026
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan is absolutely right. We need to enforce existing laws on the books so AI companies and executives don’t continue to operate without accountability. Congress must also regulate AI just like we have historically done with other emerging industries.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is an important element of the 2026 elections, and I'm glad to see @stephenwolf.bsky.social and @the-downballot.com looking at it systemically.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A murder of crows? You mean caws of death??
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
okay this is also a contender, incredible use of graph labeling
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah the biggest human trafficking bust in 21st century US history went down in 2021. Operation Blooming Onion. They took down a $200 million slavery ring in Georgia. 100% H2A visa workers who immigrated legally. This was HUGE NEWS for anyone who was paying attention to farm worker & labor issues.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
my inner voice telling me not to go to sleep just yet there is one more thing to ponder
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 30/09/2026
had dream last night & started lucid dreaming near the end & was so frustrated at the creative direction/lack of narrative payoff that i retconned earlier parts of the dream and re-enacted other parts to make it more satisfying of a story and then i just woke myself up cause i was just doing work
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
everyone else who stares into the hyperdimensional gem made of every word ever written goes mad. not me though. i'm still sane. maybe saner than everyone else, tbh.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Electrek @electrek.co · 28/09/2026
EIA: 83 GW of renewables and storage coming in 12 months as fossil fuel capacity to fall
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EIA: 83 GW of renewables and storage coming in 12 months as fossil fuel capacity to fall
Renewables and battery storage are projected to add about 82.7 gigawatts (GW) of new generating capacity in the US in the next 12 months, while total fossil fuel and nuclear power capacity will fall by more than 1.4 GW, according to new data released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), and reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign. more…
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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Kit O'Connell (🏳️‍🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com · 28/09/2026
This was an excellent conversation
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 25/09/2026
@poisonivy.bsky.social is incredibly brave to be speaking out. theasterisk.substack.com/p/the-effect...
theasterisk.substack.com
The Effective Altruism Kids Aren’t Alright
On sexual violence, Slutcon, and what happens when children take on adult responsibilities.
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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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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Tao Neuendorffer @taonf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One of the (if not THE) most useful tool for designing adventure games: The #PuzzleDependencyChart. Don’t confuse it with a flow chart, it’s not a flow chart and the subtle distinctions will hopefully become clear, for they are the key to it’s usefulness and raw pulsing design power @grumpygamer.com
grumpygamer.com
Puzzle Dependency Charts
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/09/2026
amid NYC Climate Week and the UN General Assembly (and months of climate catastrophe from Nepal to California), climate organizers from across the US protested at the offices of OpenAI, Google, and Amazon — arguing that AI doomsdaying is a convenient distraction from climate collapse and fascism
theguardian.com
Climate protesters say tech companies, not AI, are the real ‘danger to humankind’ – and the planet
Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York City
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 25/09/2026
Here’s what we’ll do in a Democratic majority: reverse Trump’s terrible policies, lay the groundwork for a Democratic agenda, hold these people accountable.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Zoë wants a calzonë ⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @dahlingzoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Demand that your candidates pledge to refuse to vote for any bill that funds ICE. Demand that your candidates stand up for our communities, be they trans, immigrant, black, brown, rural, or all of the above. Get Fucked, Gavin Newsom.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!
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Kit O'Connell (🏳️‍🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com · 24/09/2026
We actually fucking kick ass
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
Equality PAC, the campaigning arm of the Congressional Equality Caucus, announced its endorsement of Marcy Kaptur and other anti-trans Dems days after political ads targeting trans people. Even the LGBTQ+ congressional caucus is throwing trans people aside. Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
Equality PAC, Political Arm Of Congressional LGBTQ Caucus, Endorses Marcy Kaptur Days After Her Anti-Trans Ad
“Do we need to endorse people in order to support them? Do we need to support them in order to have power in Congress?”
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
YESSSSSS This bot exists for you to tag or reference every time someone defends Newsom and says they’re the great white hope of the Dem party and you want to dispel that.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
pls note the bats have been carefully depicted HANGING FROM THEIR LITTLE BRANCHES on this radial phylogeny (bats drawn by Fiona Reid, whose portfolio is here --> fionareid.ca)
section of the central bat phylogeny figure from this new bat phylogeny paper; the representative bat from each family is hanging from the taxon label by its little toesies
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Mike Malecki @malecki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These are the people who should be all over media, not those white boy children getting attention.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/09/2026
The Ohio Democratic Party is repeatedly deleting criticism of Marcy Kaptur, who has released an ad calling transgender people an “ideology” that should be banned in schools. Still think Dems can’t become Labour?
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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 22/09/2026
What a quote by @timnitgebru.blacksky.app: "Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans."
technologyreview.com
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.” ~ Langston Hughes #RadioFreeAmerica #politics
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Kit O'Connell (🏳️‍🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com · 22/09/2026
My latest @thebarbedwire.com: Ever taken an HIV test at a nightclub or event? 13 AIDS-related nonprofits in Texas (and more nationwide) are losing millions in HIV outreach funding, thanks to the latest DOGE-like cuts at the CDC. Six nonprofits in Houston will collectively lose ~$2M in vital funds.
thebarbedwire.com
Thanks To CDC Cutbacks, 13 Texas Nonprofits Lose Millions In HIV Outreach Funding
Gulf Coast is hardest hit: The CEO of a Houston-area nonprofit estimated that six organizations in the area are losing a total of about $2 million in funds.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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Tao Neuendorffer @taonf.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A key feature of the Apollo guidance computer was core rope memory. The supervisors responsible for overseeing the careful integration of changes and additions to the software were known as rope mothers, regardless of their actual gender identity. The rope mother’s boss was a lady: Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton stands next to a stack of program listings from the Apollo Guidance Computer in a photograph taken in 1969 (Left Picture Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 
Margaret Hamilton in an Apollo Command Module (Right Picture Credit: NASA)
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