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NYC’s PIT Crew (Public Interest Technology) is already delivering: Click to Cancel is here, with the law saying it has to be as easy to cancel a service as it was to sign up for it. The site makes it easy to report any products that violate the rules: www.nyc.gov/main/click-t... Kickass!

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Click to Cancel - nyc.gov

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Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 14h

It is not permitted to request jury nullification during a trial but it is permissible to discuss it abstractly. Jury nullification is the synthesis of two rules. First, the prosecution cannot appeal a jury verdict of not guilty. Second, a jury issuing a verdict of not guilty need not explain itself

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

Time for this classic again.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨 Breaking news: we fucking WON!!!!!!!!!! 🚨 www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...

Legal 500 workers win full pay claim after strike action

Wednesday 30 September 2026
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Dozens of publishing staff at Legalease, the publishers of legal industry-bible The Legal 500, have won a dramatic victory in their industrial dispute over pay.

Staff who had been on strike for two and a half weeks accepted an offer that fully met their original pay claim of a £2000 pay increase for every worker. This was despite the company originally claiming it would not pay such an increase.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 17/03/2026

I'm reading You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson and, damn. #BookSky 🌈📚 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

Photo of a poem:

NO SUCH THING AS THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER

Silence rides shotgun wherever hate goes.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22h

👇🎯 Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. In re: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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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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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So glad that this quote can be added to my forthcoming article on AI and Epistemic Dispossession because I had to say that they will absolutely be using AI to erase science and history but I didn’t yet have the ‘he admit it’ smoking gun

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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are rapists allowed to use AI to draft their punishment essays though?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FATALITY

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shane Ross at Virginia Tech created a simulation of what 500k orbital data centers, as proposed by SpaceX, would look like from your home latitude sdross0.github.io/orbital-data...

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What would orbital data centers look like from your sky?

500,000 satellites from SpaceX's FCC filing, two published brightness models and the real stars, for any latitude, date and time. Computed in your browser.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Anya Plutynski @plutynski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.

abcnews.com

District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last summer, I got in a fight with a man for disruptive and increasingly homophobic heckling at a baseball game. He tried to physically intidate me. After, another man told me everyone agreed with me. Well why the fuck didn't you say something, you weak piece of shit? bsky.app/profile/fang...

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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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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The flip side of this is that the Democrats are always the governing party even when they're out of power. They keep paying the electricity bill to keep the lights on even as the GOP is gleefully smashing the bulbs.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

science.org

NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/09/2026

pretty sure "lands" is the wrong word here for at least two reasons

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026

My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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moby dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

I expect we will shortly find out that, much like copyright law, patent law also protects but does not bind Anthropic and its peers

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'll support AOC whatever she decides to do, but Democrats *need* a serious, unapologetic progressive to run in the presidential primary to pull the field to the left. Without one, we'll have Newsom, Buttigieg and Cory Booker trying to out-centrist each other and it will be a disaster.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

I don’t think it’s possible for me to hate this more than I do.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We know that the best way to draw someone into a history major is in a class of 12. That's why you don't get classes of 12 as a service dept. You get 180 students, in two-hour chunks, with no breakout sessions or teaching assistants. You are set up to fail, at least in terms of attracting majors

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Brian Schefke @brianschefke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the end, I think this article could have been more interesting about music segmentation if it hadn't been so much about validating the author's artistic and cultural preferences.

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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"How have you not heard this?" is gatekeeping just as much as the Pitchfork-y indier-than-thou bs. Listen to what you want, don't listen to what you don't. You have no obligation to keep up with all areas of popular music.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

2006: don’t have the same password for everything, don’t share information like yr mother’s maiden name or the name of the street you grew up on 2026: yr last 17 passwords have been found on the dark web. everything is listening to you. an ai agent is asking for a photo of yr state id

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

review booth frantically trying to retroactively take two seconds off the clock and give Michigan this one too

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 27/07/2025

It amazes me how comfortable people are with embracing fascists simply because they felt slighted and want to feel a sense of power.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Old Picard and Old Riker standing in a cabin.
"Do you remember 35 years ago when we found out Starfleet command was all bug monsters?
We told someone about that, right?"

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you want to support the bar (which is more like a community space) instead of just spreading culture war commentary, you can donate here (and yes, I did): ko-fi.com/lastditchbar

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Support Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue

Support Last Ditch xoxo

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

She’s right. And, fyi, the globe is doing victory laps over on other social media platforms about how many new readers and new subscribers they’ve gotten out of that “news article”— so we can expect more fuckass “reporting” like that from them in the future

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 31/07/2026

My car went rogue after I turned on cruise control and jumped out

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AutoZone workers have won their union election yesterday, despite the corporate campaign against it

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 27/09/2026

They’re doing fine but I feel like sometimes there’s a definitive cover of a song, you know? youtu.be/6ZoyCSffM7I?...

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All The Small Things (Blink 182 Sad Clown Cover) - Postmodern Jukebox ft. Puddles Pity Party

YouTube video by PostmodernJukebox

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nor’Easter is heading towards the east coast so reminder that if you have any other option DO NOT put your body in flood water. It has raw sewage, gasoline, chemicals, medical waste, radiological waste and more — anything the water touches. People die from infections after contact with it.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gotta give it to Iowa, that was a hell of a drive and an amazing TD catch.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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