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Darkrose

@darkrose.bsky.social
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Queer enby Black nerd, SF Firebells fan, angry SF Giants fan, kitty mom, writer, tenor, academic librarian in Norcal. Politics, baseball, FFXIV & other video games, food, choral music, & cats. Way too old for this shit. She/they.

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 3h
1. I am baffled by the idea I would want "personalised music". 2. Personalised music is the easiest thing in the world to get. Anyone who ever accidentally slept with a musician has had it foisted upon them.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 6h
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 6h
it truly is just perfect that a republican — you know, the party that so badly wants to protect women athletes — used a senate hearing to confidently, and falsely, accuse a lawyer of perjury because he and his entire staff forgot that women’s sports exists
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Kaiju Sommelier @kaijusommelier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bloomberg clutching pearls at country who taxes their rich and has executed a few of their billionaires sure is showing the sweat stains of the ruling class here.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 4h
I look at Eric Schmitt the same way my cat looks at me when I’m taking a bath. “You’re in the water, dumbfuck! You’re drowning, dumbfuck! It’s up to your neck, dumbfuck”
The look of “You’re a dumbfuck”What are you doing, dumbfuck?
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 8h
If you buy that they care about women's sports, you're a mark and you're going to get financially scammed someday.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 8h
I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 8h
No one on his staff even once thought to check if there were any women's games being played that night. These are the people calling themselves defenders of women's sports.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 8h
Qingshan Lake Water Forest in Lin'an District, Hangzhou is a viral attraction sometimes called "Matcha Lake" for the emerald green duckweed (subfamily Lemnoideae). These black swans (Cygnus atratus) & their cygnets are enjoying a nutritious buffet of aquatic plants. Let's learn about duckweed.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 8h
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 8h
not including Schmitt, there were probably at least a half-dozen people who had to agree that these texts had some kind of significance bc they were sent the day after the announcement about Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, and that proving that Smith was in ATL would get them a Moment
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 8h
the Hawks/Hawkeyes thing is really funny, but the fact that the brains of a sitting U.S. Senator *and his entire staff* are so thoroughly cooked that they thought this nonsense meant anything at all is going to make me go doomer if I think about it too much
Katie Britt enduring the stupidest fucking piece of posterboard ever displayed in the US Senate
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 8h
also not getting enough attention: these texts are between one of the lawyers on Jack Smith's team and a US Marshall tasked with keeping people fueled by Republican conspiracy theories from murdering Jack Smith in public because he tried to prosecute the president for crimes that he did
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C @trappedunderacat.bsky.social · 6h
We play a game called "cat or gargoyle" in my apartment all the time. I always thought I needed a castle to get a gargoyle, but I lucked out....
A golden brown siberian cat is lying on top of a French door. He is ready to swoop down and devour peasants who trespass on his domain.A golden brown siberian cat perched on top of a French doors. He is sitting tall and keeping watch.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 6h
Also Jack Smith already said everything he said at today's hearing and far more in a masterful 165-page brief his team filed in DC federal court weeks before the 2024 election www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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smith immunity brief
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Brittney Bush Bollay @brittneybush.bsky.social · 6h
A periodic reminder that stadiums are among the most surveilled places on earth
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15h
"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 8h
I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”
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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 8h
Much love + blessing to all the guys just figuring out how bad it is wrt sexual violence + invite them to consider how basically none of the women (and many folks of other genders) out there are surprised in the slightest by these stats or details bc it's always been this bad + it never changes
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 9h
To quote the late and great MF DOOM: “If yer gonna hate, might as well get yer rumors straight.” Apt words when it comes to your L.A. team and its ownership group. The full guide: lataco.com/fascist-la-s... By @afroxander.bsky.social and Ivan Ehlers
An illustration of arms in red sleeves held straight up while a basketball flies in the space around.

Headline reads "‘How Fascist Is Your L.A. Sports Team?’: A Guide by L.A. TACO"
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SF Giants Bot @giantbot.bsky.social · 9h
🤖 Around The Foghorn ICYMI: Mike Krukow’s 36 years in the Giants broadcast booth helped shape generations of fans and left an enduring mark on the franchise as he steps away from the microphone.
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Thank you, Mike Krukow. I wouldn't be the SF Giants fan I am without you
As Mike Krukow steps away and retires from commentating, SF Giants fans like myself can only say thank you to Kruk for all of the memories.
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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Cornell Sun also broke the news that the president lied about whether he intentionally hit 2 students with his car as they left an Israel/Palestine event.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Women protecting women in 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.
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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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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 9h
this is exactly the way these conversations need to be had: connecting the violent language they throw around casually and think is meaningless because it's just for lolz so they aren't actually a bad person, with the violence against real human women that it normalizes
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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 9h
I always wish we would make more time for those conversations. Most students agreed they shouldn't use that language. Most said that they would intervene if they saw something. But few would be willing to teach peers, to have hard conversations or challenge them. We need more bravery from men.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 10h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants 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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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 9h
"The Era of Super Intelligence began in 2026, a year in which the United States simultaneously helped to protect associates of the world's most famous child sex trafficker, engaged in mass deportations of its most vital workforce, & started a disastrous war of choice in the Middle East"
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✨✨✨ @redactedpunished.bsky.social · 22h
y’arrrr
When a pirate is about to cum.

image of back of ambulance

fire me | dic unit
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14h
This is the compelling, moving, and no-brainer district court ruling the Supreme Court's six Trump acolytes just overturned. District court judges are routinely finding that Trump has violated the law. Then SCOTUS happens. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS AND ON PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT MURPHY, J. This case is about whether the Government may, without notice, deport a person to the wrong country, or a country where he is likely to be persecuted, or tortured, thereby depriving that person of the opportunity to seek protections to which he would be undisputedly entitled.  The Department of Homeland Security has adopted a policy whereby it may take people and drop them off in parts unknown—in so-called “third countries”—and, “as long as the Department doesn’t already know that there’s someone standing there waiting to shoot . . . that’s fine.”1 It is not fine, nor is it legal.  Congress made it “the policy of the United States not to expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country” where that “person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.”2  Congress decided that the Government “may not remove” someone to a country where her “life or freedom would be threatened” on account of her “race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”3  These are our laws, and it is with profound gratitude for the unbelievable luck of being born in the United States of America that this Court affirms these and our nation’s bedrock principle: that no “person” in this country may be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 9h
between that and the ref job all game, disgustingly unethical hoops
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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 9h
wait, a'ja got a tech for talking back to a fan who said something offensive enough that he got removed from this seat? oh that's BULLSHIT
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 9h
anyway it's actually insane that I've been in academic spaces hearing *the exact same conversation* about sexual assault and rape and complicity and consequences and who must share their experience and to what end for TWENTY YEARS and we still haven't figured out how to keep women safe at college.
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Baseball Enthusiast @iluvbaseball.bsky.social · 9h
I am so excited for another postseason of baseball on the official sports app, bsky!
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12h
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What Iceberg?: Bay Area artists target OpenAI with Titanic-themed protest art
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
Ken Paxton desperately tried to defend his handling of a child predator case by claiming the defendant “served 60 days.” Then came the Community Note...
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Ken Paxton Defends Handling of Child Predator Case
Community Note: “Paxton's office initially recommended 1 day in jail.”
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 12h
"He wears number 32 in honor of Josh Hamilton" Look, if a guy who beats his kids can't be your hero your standards are way too high.
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 19h
Just got a political ad that said “if you vote for this candidate the SOCIALISTS win and more people will have access to health insurance!” Why is that scary for people?
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13h
Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.
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bobo tucci @no-flashlight.bsky.social · 12h
I think the Pope would agree with me saying that you have to be morally bankrupt to root against this White Sox team. Buncha cuties and sweeties
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Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social · 12h
Diversity is not a bad word, and I won’t be afraid to fight for equity and justice when I get to Washington.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12h
IANAL and don't really know where you'd start with that, but...I think we need to think about where to start with that.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12h
we need to think about how we hold supreme court justices accountable for crimes against humanity.
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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 13h
Can't believe a guy desperate to play second fiddle to a juiceless weirdo two years in advance could get something so wrong.
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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 18h
I'll be good. I'll just suggest that EVERYONE send these screenshots to Patreon and whatever else company this pathetic stain is in a contractual agreement with support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/art...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22h
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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