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I just want to hang out with my cats but I have to live in a society instead. linktr.ee/deemn

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Queenie’s Crew engages children in learning about building communities of care without prisons or policing. Using readings and art projects, they support children in imagining a collective future where we are all free. Learn more:
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Queenie's Crew
Queenie’s Crew engages children in learning about building communities of care without prisons or policing. Every month, members receive an email with an activity that kids can complete to learn more ...
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Clean Water Action Michigan @cleanwatermi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If we're renaming bodies of water now, we might as well go with the classics.
Satellite image of the North American Great Lakes with Indigenous names: Gichigami (Lake Superior), Michigami (Lake Michigan), Karegbondi (Lake Huron), Ontari:io (Lake Ontario), and as with this and many other things, Erie is just Erie.
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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
From years of collective work, Colonialisms and Queer Politics has been published! Presenting chapter analyses of 11 empires, and their colonial legacies, plus comparison of both legal and social regulation. #Colonialisms #Queer #LGBTIQ+ @uofgsociology.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Excellent piece highlighting student voices on gen AI in higher education, including MS student Mirakle (pictured!) in my lab who is leading research on college student AI resisters. I can only assume that leadership at many universities are making incorrect assumptions about student attitudes.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The phrase to practice: "Thank you for your time, but it is clear we will be unable to establish a productive clinical relationship." If you're feeling extra gaslit, add "as you are clearly unable to credit me as a reliable witness regarding my own symptoms".
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Then on the way out, tell the medical assistant that you ended the appointment due to incompatible treatment philosophies and you revoke your consent for them to retain your data, want the records of your visit destroyed, and revoke your consent for EHR sharing and integration.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/08/2026
Louisiana’s AG has pushed back against almost all compensation claims brought by the wrongfully convicted, even in cases where men were exonerated by DNA evidence. “She knows people are innocent but she doesn’t care,” one man said.
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/07/2026
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
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ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.
Nagasaki, bomber's eye view: Close-up view of the head of the mushroom cloud at the Nagasaki explosion, as seen from either the bomber or the observation plane.Nagasaki, distant ground view: Photo of the Nagasaki cloud taken ~15 minutes after the atomic bomb detonation, by Hiromichi Matsuda, stationed at Koyagi-jima Island, some 5 miles / 8 km away.Nagasaki, before and after, aerial views. Nagasaki, ground view, some weeks after the attack.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The stepped decline of Lake Powell. Just 30 feet now before minimum power pool.
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Queer Archivist @queerarchivefever.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'm so excited to share this interview with the co-creators of the Queer/Cuir Dominican Art Zine Project, a independently published zine that I was honored to contribute to earlier this year!
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Inside the Queer/Cuir + Trans Dominican Art Zine
A special Q&A with Índigo Regalado Mota and oliver vásquez de la cruz on the making of The Queer/Cuir + Trans Dominican Art Zine Project and the power of documenting queer Dominican creativity
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 09/08/2026
While Americans struggle to buy groceries, ICE is burning through nearly $14,430,000 per day on the detention of 65,000 people.
Bar graph showing the daily cost of immigration detention ($222), alternatives to ICE detention ($2), federal prisons ($129), U.S. Marshals detention ($128), pretrial detention ($13), and release ($0).
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wells @wells.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
THIS ZAPPED INTO MY BRAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT SO I HAD TO GET UP TO DIAGRAM IT... GUYS...
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
What's your sign?
A sign reading 'please find alternative ways to disappoint your father.'
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 26/07/2026
Update on your submissions because many are inquiring and yes they are still under consideration while I get myself together. Piggybacking on Taco Bell's apologies. Mexican pizza is $1 on July 28th in the app
Update on tbq8, replies coming
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.
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Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
On this, Emmit Tills birthday, I want to share one of my favorite speculative Poems “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. Ewing share.google/mWtwTI9NvriN...
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“I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. Ewing
Terrance Hayes explores how Emmett Till has become a haunting, powerful figure in Black poetry.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2026
If your child has disabilities and you’ve used — or were unable to use — school voucher programs, we’d like to hear about your experience. Here's how you can get in touch:
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Help ProPublica Report on Education
ProPublica needs your help to track how the upheaval of public education is affecting schools and colleges in your community. Take a few minutes to join our source network and help guide our coverage.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
So glad that you are able to access it. It used to be on GitHub and then had to be taken down. This is the backup site.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 11/07/2026
Today, the federal government finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to remove vital habitat protections for endangered species.
Closeup of a snowy plover sitting in the sand
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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I wanna point out that it’s not just students. I withdrew from a remote marketing class this spring because the faculty was using chatgpt to respond to discussion posts instead of reading the posts and writing a response
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I'm really proud of this project and I was able to work with my friends Rachel and Tash on creating art that I think honors the men who were lynched. If anyone wants to exhibit our quilt, reach out to me.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/07/2026
The government agency that collects property taxes in Puerto Rico inadvertently exposed the Social Security numbers of approximately 1 million people, @cpipr.bsky.social and ProPublica learned.
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A Puerto Rico Government Agency Exposed 1 Million Social Security Numbers
A cybersecurity loophole in an official government mapping service left private data easily accessible, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo and ProPublica learned.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Screencap of page for linked article, reading: 

Contents
Introduction
AI Is a Research Field
AI Is an Approach to Cognitive Science
AI Is a Parlor Trick
AI Is an Ideology
AI Is a Way to Hide and Devalue Human Labor
AI Is a Way to Shift Accountability
AI Is a Way to Centralize Power
Conclusion
Notes
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 11/07/2026
60% of youth in custody are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD – compared to just 11% nationally. Kids need care, not cages.
Graph showing the prevalence of diagnoses among youth in confinement: 4% autism spectrum, 27% learning disabilities, 60% ADD or ADHD
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
That only 3 Black students were admitted to Stuy this year is an absolutely egregious structural inequity. I know this as someone who had the resources to take SHSAT prep. When I attended Stuy in the 1990s, I was one of only 30 Black students in my class. This city must do better. @mayor.nyc.gov
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Just 3 Black students admitted to NYC's elite Stuyvesant High School, data shows
An advocate said the woeful diversity data felt like "Groundhog Day.”
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Reminder: police are not only allowed to lie to you, they are trained to lie to you.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11/07/2026
EFF helped expose Texas' use of automated license plate readers to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. Our friends at Mayday Health helped make sure pregnant people were aware of the surveillance risk. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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"We Want Texans to Know Their Rights": Q&A with Mayday Health on the
Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/07/2026
Rooting for the second Norman conquest of England.
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j. 👁️ @quadrifrons.online · 11/07/2026
Not to mention an accessibility crisis. Online teaching opens up so many possibilities for people; losing it means leaving disabled people in the dust again
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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/07/2026
My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.
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Operational biological sex definitions applied to hummingbirds (Bleiweiss 1992; Bleiweiss 1999; Bleiweiss 2001; Diamant et al. 2021; Falk et al. 2022; Falk et al. 2021) where sex is operationally defined by binary plumage phenotypes in the field. Each row depicts a wild individual hummingbird with morphological traits (beak length, plumage coloration), behavioural traits (territoriality) and their unobserved gamete type. This example illustrates how the same individual can be operationally defined as one sex in the field (based on external phenotypes) but classified as a different sex based on their gametes (which cannot be easily observed in the field), highlighting how definitional choices shape scientific reporting of sex.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'm not even rooting against Argentina at this point I am rooting against FIFA
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
In her "Parable" books, Octavia E. Butler predicted a decline in literacy and that political candidates would be chosen based on how they look.
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'm a historian. I have a PhD in speaking ill of the dead and boy am I using it.
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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Mamdani promised 0.5% of the total city expense budget would be allocated to our public libraries and he promised 1% would go to our public parks. The Adopted budget dropped today and libraries only got 0.43% ($91 million short of his promise). Parks only got 0.56% ($549.5 million short).
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Queens Public Library @qplnyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We are pleased to announce that three QPL locations — Central Library in Jamaica, Far Rockaway Library, and Jackson Heights Library — will stay open during #IndependenceDay Weekend to serve as NYC Cooling Centers! #BeatTheHeat Learn More: www.queenslibrary.org/about-us/new...
A graphic of a "sweating" thermometer surrounded by snowflakes, on a blue background, with the words "Cooling Centers at Queens Public Library."
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Nothing bad in the United States is ever over, including constitutional things. These were the same arguments rejected over a century ago, and they'll be back again and we'll have to kill them again. Con law is basically about shotgunning zombies. rarely do you get a headshot.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 30/06/2026
Older adults who have ever been behind bars are expected to live nearly 6 fewer years than similar peers who have never been incarcerated. Mass incarceration is shaving years off people's lives:
Chart showing that formerly incarcerated men and women aged 51+ have a life expectancy of six fewer years than people without a history of incarceration.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/07/2026
At least 233 people have been sickened in eight outbreaks that regulators have connected to Mark McAfee’s farm since 2006, and at least 40 of them have been hospitalized. The tally is almost certainly an undercount, experts and regulators said. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 01/07/2026
I say it often but once again: By granting them borrowing privileges and protecting their privacy, public libraries afford children a form of civic standing and respect that has few parallels in our “free” society, which mostly treats children as chattel. Vociferously defend public libraries. 📚
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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New article out now, and just in time for Pride! I'm reading Disney's wishing star through the lens of transgender studies. I specifically analyze Pinocchio, The Princess and the Frog, and Wish 💫 Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/27/artic...
Image promoting the article "We Are Star Stuff: Transgender Cinema and Disney’s Wishing Star" by Jennessa Hester.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 30/06/2026
A vicious cycle of four steps surrounding a black cat with a thousand-yard stare and a dapper little tie. The four endlessly cycling steps read:

-going forward we're gonna need more of your data to make sure it's you

-ahaha youre not gonna believe this but we had a bit of a data breach

-your data is probably for sale online now

-that means someone could easily impersonate you
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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The trans people in girls' & women's sports case is horrific in too many ways to fully account for, for me, right now. But just to say, in the big picture it is part of an effort to legislate trans people out of existence. "Fairness in sports" is a BS distraction from the intended extermination.
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New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Before Stonewall, Harlem's 1890 Seventh Avenue was a center of Black queer life. Today it sits unprotected. Know this history. #BlackQueerHistory #Harlem
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Historic Harlem’s queerest ‘landmark,’ 1890 Seventh Avenue, is unprotected
Historic landmark 1890 Seventh Avenue in Harlem faces uncertainty without official protection. Learn why this queer cultural site matters.
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