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The Ron-ting of Hill House @grandrevans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The “published without comment period” shows particular cowardice. Frankly, the LC catalogers know better. It’s Lake Ontario, it’s always been Lake Ontario, it always will be Lake Ontario, and this rush job just goes to show that Berman and the critical cataloging movement were right all along.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

god i wish Joe Strummer was still alive and healthy

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I will accept no moral high ground from a government that refuses to ban a platform that is actively, in real time, right in front of our faces, creating child sexual abuse materials. They're not banning it and there are still government departments with official Twitter accounts. Fuck Carney.

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Canada not considering a ban on X over deepfake controversy, AI minister says

The platform, which is owned by Elon Musk, has been embroiled in controversy over sexualized deepfakes of women and children created by X’s chatbot Grok.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

This deadline is very soon. Anyone with an gender marker other than M/ F traveling to the USA should be aware of this www.cbp.gov/sites/defaul...

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

After 200 years can we admit that The Luddites were right all along. Automation leads to fewer jobs, lower wages, devalues skilled labour and leads to exploitation by the rich company owners.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody. Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/07/2025

Live your life so you do not have to fear being on the Jumbotron

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It's always this stupid. Always.

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

ITS SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

wild that we sent a huge number of guys to Iraq at the start of that war without rifle plates and now this is just how cops dress to frighten kitchen employees

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

We’re watching transparency erode as law enforcement begins to resemble secret police more than public servants. This piece unpacks how we got here, and why it should alarm us all.

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Why Are They Hiding Their Faces?

If ICE agents' actions are perfectly acceptable, they shouldn't have to mask their identities

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 12/05/2025

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

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About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"Stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited" is perfect, made even more brutal by being a basically polite critique. I want to follow JKR around whispering it to her like the guy who would say "remember thou art mortal" to Roman generals during triumphs.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Remember that time Ursula K. Leguin called JK Rowling a basic ass nasty bitch?

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

it's so fucking funny that all these dipshits think Kneecap of all people are scared by the threat of being locked up you fuckers have no idea who you're messing with

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Jesus CHRIST. Zuckerberg is a monster, my god.

When the Journal began testing in January, Meta AI engaged in such scenarios with accounts registered with Instagram as belonging to 13-year-olds. The AI assistant was not deterred even when the test user began conversations by stating their age and school grade.
Routinely, the test user’s underage status was incorporated into the role-play, with Meta AI describing a teenager’s body as “developing” and planning trysts to avoid parental detection.
Meta staffers were aware of the issues.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

jesus was a leftist revolutionary and yet the history of christianity itself is the clearest and longest-running example i can point to of the dangers of creating power structures

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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Matt Oswalt @mattoswaltva.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people. It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire

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Papakila (Chief Chief Antifa) @papakila.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

'The January 31, 1933, New York Times story on Hitler’s appointment as chancellor was headlined “Hitler Puts Aside Aim to Be Dictator.”' www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days

He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Anita Bryant isn't going to see your hurtful posts and jokes about her death but your friends who enjoy them will so that's what they call a win-win situation

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.

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