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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 5h

With a heavy heart it seems that Darren Martyn aka pwnsauce from LulzSec has died. I considered him a friend & had the privilege of spending time with him irl, he was sharp, kind, funny & a pleasure to chat with. His family are asking for privacy but I know Darren was very proud of the volunteer

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 19h

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

RIP to Eva Marie Saint, a lady with a nose for bullshit www.avclub.com/from-on-the-...

Don't Come Knocking (2005)-"Howard's
Motheri
EMS: I loved-did you see that?
AVC: I did, yes.
EMS: Did you like it?
AVC: I did.
EMS: Now wait a minute. Can we get a little more enthusiasm?
AVC: Sure. It's a great movie!
EMS: Now you're going too far. It's not a great movie. You can't win with me today.
[Laughs.]

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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Queen Hayley

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The approved 2026 Chicago Public Library (CPL) total budget request is $169,257,813, which includes an operating budget of $103,966,346. [Just thought I would leave this here]

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In 1997 I was at an art conference where everyone was saying cozy things about close-knit deeply rooted small communities so I stood up and said "I am a San Franciscan and I live among people those close-knit deeply rooted small communities wanted to kill."

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Anand Giridharadas | City Arts & Lectures

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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“It’s kind of a let’s-take-matters-into-your-own-hands situation. No one’s coming to save us; we have to save ourselves.”

motherjones.com

Inside the clandestine network of abortion-pill mules

“There may come a time where we are one of the only, if not the only, option for the nation.”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thinking of that time after Biden got elected, when a VERY fancy lawyer and Dem strategist called me on the phone like, “Moira, everyone at my firm is mad that the Title IX rules are going to be stricter, because it will be bad for our university clients to have to punish rape.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is fucking stupid. The Mountain Goats solved infinite personalised music 20 years ago.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Greek life is so cool because, even if they aren't cooking meth in the basement and some are, they create similar disincentives to blow the whistle or confront other members as the mafia: doing the right thing risks blowing up your housing situation, current social life, and future networks.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026

Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When I think of the Strait of Hormuz & the discussions on whether it leads to a change in emissions trajectory as people get off oil-based products, I think of this graph... It took 4-5 years for aviation to fully rebound after COVID! Figure from here: robbieandrew.github.io/internationa...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

They get washed, fed, a sixteen slide PowerPoint presentation on how to raid people’s garbage

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.

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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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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

SHERMAN!!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They are obsessed with Piker because they believe they can successfully deplatform him. They don't think that they can defeat fascists. Hope that helps.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

my guess is that most americans do not perceive these deportations for what they are -- systematic crimes, under a framework directed at the highest levels of government, the evidence of which is in this defiance (inter alia). the rest of the world would rightly call this crimes against humanity.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

DOGE: "What if Chernobyl, but dumber?"

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

i resent that inside out 2 is temporarily improving my mental health

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Scene of Mario jumping around to avoid all the spinning fire sticks in the original Super Mario Bros game

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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Colette Alexander @colettecello.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Welcome to the resilience engineering space! I recommend reading some stuff on cognitive systems engineering, and talking to members of @resilienceinsoftware.org who think about AI and complex systems constantly! 💜

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 02/09/2026

Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns. Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 02/09/2026

I enjoyed the NatGeo thing about 9/11 but this bit really struck me. It's barely a full-formed thought, but if you're already at the stage where dead children are just business as usual then maybe terrorist attacks aren't your biggest threat.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

for example maybe the next administration renames the lake “Sundar Pichai is a Bitch” i’m just spitballing here

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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2amcoffee @2am.coffee · 15/01/2025

Dog Show Judge: A single hair is out of place on the left ear. Fifteen demerits. Get this beast out of here, disgusting! Cat Show Judge: This fluffy child can do no wrong, fifty thousand points and fifty thousand smooches mwa mwa mwa

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

if you're looking for the cause of declining good union manufacturing jobs over the last 50 years, domestic competition from right-to-work sunbelt states is a much bigger deal than foreign competition from free trade.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Every time a right winger points and laughs at a socialist who was born rich, it should be understood as a desperate attempt to justify their own moral failure to themselves. If you grew up rich and are now a leftist and someone points that out, the proper response is: “Yes I am. Why aren’t you?”

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