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Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's that time of year: lots of people will be sick, and many won't know what sickness it is. It's a good idea to get tested, but even if you don't know what it is, *please* stay home as much as possible, get plenty of rest to help yourself recover, and wear masks if you have to go out while sick!
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 11/09/2026
Anyways, today is a very good day to follow, subscribe, and donate to news outlets that take a strong stance against Generative AI slop: go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Honestly, as far as I can tell, it's mostly more reporting. COVID got everybody's attention. "Oh disease outbreaks are a thing. And they screw up all your plans." Then we had Cyclospora- which to be clear is a HUGE & messy outbreak. And now newsrooms know outbreak reporting gets clicks.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The fact that the tofu is getting recalled is a GOOD sign. Remember how with Taco Bell, we talked about how it's good when companies are cautious & come forward? Even if they're not 100% sure if their food is actually dangerous? That's exactly what the tofu co is doing here. This is a GOOD thing.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Someone explain to me, very slowly, why respirator masks are not required IN THE NICU.
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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I always use YouTube autocaptions as an example when I'm explaining the error rate of AI to people. Do you want that same error rate when it comes to stuff like your medical records? This has been very illuminating for a lot of folks.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
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C @cxa555.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If you're looking for timeline cleansers to break up the doomscrolling, might I suggest following nature photographers? Nature is always way more interesting than AI slop.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There’s way too much slop, fake animals and misinformation around, including the example Franz is highlighting below. So here’s a thread about spotting the fake stuff and reducing this crap on your timeline. (1/?)
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Here’s a list of nature photographers who I promise are not using AI, post their own photos and really care about the wildlife. No unethical behaviors just to get a good shot. (3/?)
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 07/07/2026
HEY FRIENDS! Did you miss your shot to sign up for @clairewillett.bsky.social's Hater's Book Club, now with 50% more schism? Did you miss your chance to sign up for @courtneymilan.com's Samuel Alito is a Whiny Pissbaby Chat? We got you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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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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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 28/06/2026
this is actually a good reminder that you should delete the tracking nonsense off of any url that you share online. just delete everything after the ? (including the question mark) and share like you usually would
a screenshot of a youtube url showing the actual url as everything before the ? and everything after as “tracking nonsense”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 20/04/2026
because of cholera we restructured how we treat water and waste; because of covid we should have done the same for air
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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 21/03/2026
This is the real takeaway from the Parable series — that we should find our people and organize our lives together. Not, "Octavia Butler predicted the future."
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A strategy I am recommending to people who don’t want to mask all the time is always in healthcare facilities and public transportation, AND if you see someone in a mask, put yours on. The first helps protect spaces high risk people may have no choice but to go, the second shows them support.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A 50-year-old woman “had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges” based solely on AI facial recognition.
A Tennessee grandmother says she is trying to rebuild her life after an incident of mistaken identity by an artificial intelligence
(AI) facial recognition system tied her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation.
Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank fraud case using facial recognition software, according to south-east North Dakota news outlet InForum. Lipps told the outlet she had never been to North Dakota and did not commit the crimes.
Lipps, a mother of three and grandmother of five, said she has lived most of her life in north-central Tennessee. She had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/02/2026
CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.
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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org
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Trans Continental Pipeline
Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We are counter-programming the State of the Union with a fundraising telethon featuring everyone’s favorite Bluesky posters doing short presentations and sketches on stuff they are passionate about. Will stream on YouTube starting at 8:30pm EST postersmadness.wordpress.com
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Poster's Madness
A streaming PowerPoint telethon for mutual aid
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C @cxa555.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The world sucks, but helping mutual aid groups (e.g. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles or www.standwithminnesota.com) and retail therapy at cool shops like @peculiarityshop.bsky.social help. These earrings from Lauren and this necklace from @shivaniswriting.bsky.social go together so well!!
dangly earrings with blue swirl beads and a necklace with blue leaves and a rose in the middle
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 24/06/2024
The only good AI art.
Android Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation is holding a paintbrush over a painting.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/01/2026
Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-…
Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants
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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Nobody deserves this. Even if Alex Pretti or Renee Good were colossal jerks (which it sounds like they weren't) or criminals, they shouldn't have been killed. (All the talk about Good as a mom makes me, a childless widow, uncomfortable. As if that means she mattered more. We all matter. ❤️ )
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C @cxa555.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
hopeful thread about organizing in minneapolis
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
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C @cxa555.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"...the agent took the child out of the still-running car and detained both him and his father, who wasn’t named by school leaders. Twenty minutes later, the boy’s brother, who is in middle school, came home to a missing dad, a missing little brother and a terrified mother, she said."
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
TRANS RIGHTS ARE A WINNING POLITICAL ISSUE Every single centrist claiming we must all compromise our bodily autonomy for their personal comfort is a traitor to American democracy & rational human decency. They have no place in a modern Democratic Party, toss them out. Total liberation for all.
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Andrew Turley @aturls.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/10/2025
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
Submit a Claim
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I know this isn't the news right now. But I have some updated info on Covid vax availability. Several states where CVS/Walgreens weren't offering them or required Rx 1.5 wks ago now have them without Rx because of state officials' actions. But still 13 states where CVS and/or Walgreens require Rx.
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Can You Still Get the Covid Shot?
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Busy yesterday so I missed that Anthropic had settled. Figures. LLMs have violated thousands of copyrights; they *knew* it would kill them if it went to trial. Anyway, the Authors Guild has some useful info here: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
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What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild
Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025
Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:
1. The following LibGen & PiLiMi Pirated Books Class is CERTIFIED:
All beneficial or legal copyright owners of the exclusive right to reproduce copies of any book in the versions of LibGen or PiLiMi downloaded by Anthropic. "Book" refers to any work possessing an
ISBN or ASIN which was registered with the United States Copyright Office within five years of the work's publication and which was registered with the United States Copyright Office before being downloaded by Anthropic, or within three months of publication.
Excluded are the directors, officers and employees of Anthropic, personnel of federal agencies, and district court personnel.
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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A tweet from pervocracy noting difficulty in maintaining mental health as many coping strategies are based in the idea your anxiety is unwarranted and right now needs extremely warranted but you still gotta water the plants or you'll have fascism AND dead plants
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Fascists appeal to the imaginary past, so it is important to be able teach people who aren’t fascists about actualities. History isn’t a set of facts. It is a contested narrative based on contested evidence.
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C @cxa555.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
yessssss ❤️
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C @cxa555.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
@lickmycupcakes.bsky.social Hii Em!! I happened to search for you to see if you'd joined bluesky, and you were here! Welcome welcome! I mostly just lurk, but it's always nice to see old friends :)
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16/03/2025
Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...
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The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...
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