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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 5h
what a biased hatchet job, using the mans own words like this
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6h
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 8h
This is a pathetic failure of the EU and Canada to recognise that this US government is not on our side. #EUpol #CApol #Trump #disinformation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…
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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 14h
This is a reminder that you can read the Wall Street Journal for free through your local library.
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Demian @dgodon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16h
Our local NPR station, KUOW, had a segment on “The debate over WA’s millionaire’s tax”. There might’ve been some good points made, but the both-sides framing as a debate already advantages the billionaire funded astroturf effort to repeal this modest tax that makes WA slightly less regressive.So […]
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Advanced Voting begins in Victoria, BC today. If you don't vote, other people will choose the direction your city goes in on your behalf, and you may not like their priorities. Want a city with parks, art, culture, cycling, and lifestyle-focused values? Or a city with more parking? Choose. #yyj
ou can vote at the Victoria Conference Centre 720 Douglas St. between 8 am and 8 pm. Avoid the crowds on election day and vote early!

There's a few other advanced voting opportunities too:

Oct 13: Crystal Garden, 713 Douglas St. 8 am - 8 pm
Oct 14: Crystal Garden, 713 Douglas St. 8 am - 8 pm & UVic Student Union Building 8am - 4pm
Oct 15: Crystal Garden, 713 Douglas St. 8 am - 8 pm

This is shaping up to be a very tight election with so many candidates running, every vote is going to be so important and we need your help to get everyone to the polls.
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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 17h
Just got a mass email from our bank that essentially says, "If you give your username and password to an AI agent, you're on your own." You've. Been. Warned. 🤣
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Demian @dgodon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16h
María del Carmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing protests, dies aged 87 | Spain | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/…
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😀🚲 @enobacon.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
I hope they find the traffic Engineer who did this (not a single mention of the deadly design of elevated freeways in this story, no questioning the inhumanity of this #transportation system whatsoever, it's just sad.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bngj3sG_75c
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Kushner's "private equity firm is the largest shareholder in an Israeli company backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns." Top Democrat is investigating Jared Kushner’s financial investments after CNN report | CNN Politics […]
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 07/10/2026
State agencies throwing their workers under the bus is trash. Support labor over management, always* *Unless that labor is the cops
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BUT, I do appreciate the donations that fund 100% of my work (Project Homeless is a good example of the outside funding that pours in to the Times from corporate-backed philanthropic groups). If you appreciate scoops like my story breaking this news in July, please support PubliCola!
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PubliCola is 100% reader-powered! If you like the work we’re doing here, and would like to support PubliCola financially, please…
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Guys, can you believe this? A MAN made LUNCH for his OWN KIDS so they wouldn't STARVE AT SCHOOL! The craziest thing about it was his wife was RIGHT THERE! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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California scientist wins a Nobel Prize, then makes school lunches for his kids
Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska
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Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
At least 10 people were arrested at the Arizona-Mexico border today as they protested the felling of a 250-year-old cottonwood tree. It was the last of an old grove that was being cut down to make way for Trump's border wall. Here's more from KJZZ Phoenix. flip.it/8Wf2yw […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/10/2026
boosters one month ago: the vulnerabilities are REAL. they're REAL and they're SCARY. it can INDEPENDENTLY hack stuff. you CANNOT DISMISS that it can ONE-SHOT vulnerabilities PERFECTLY EVERY TIME. prepare for DOMINATION by the CYBER-OVERMIND boosters today:
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
fuckin humanityai.ai/open-call © 2026 MacArthur Foundation humanityai.ai/humanity-ais-executiv… About Humanity AI Humanity AI is a $500 million five-year collaborative grantmaking initiative dedicated to ensuring artificial intelligence serves the public good. It […]
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 06/10/2026
Biggest filing of the cycle so far, adding $4,228,309.49 in the last 48. With that Elon is over $30m, including: -$11,205,796.82 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social -$5,012,118.80 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social -$4,499,737.73 vs. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social -$1,055,949.93 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social
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😀🚲 @enobacon.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Not every street needs to be for only cars every day and night of the year. #streetsForPeople #carsRuinCities #openStreets #Halloween #VisionZero #BanCars
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Demian @dgodon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Love to see it! Sorry I missed it tho.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]
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Demian @dgodon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Interesting. Shows another way that protests matter
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 04/10/2026
Prominent Republicans are angry at Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, because of one of her campaign ads. It's a pretty standard "welfare queen ad," but this queen is a young white guy. Republicans say that's racist, because it fails to perpetuate their preferred racist stereotype against Black Americans.
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Ad About Welfare Fraud Draws MAGA Backlash (Gift Article)
Far-right influencers piled on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Trump’s former press secretary, over a campaign ad about Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas.
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Demian @dgodon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Wow! I figured they’d be better but this is pretty astounding
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Demian @dgodon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Come on Brazil! Don’t join Trump’s axis of evil! #politics #brazil
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CODDLED DRIVERS—LAVISHED WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF INFRASTRUCTURE JUST GIVEN TO THEM WITHOUT ANYONE NEEDING TO LAUNCH AN ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN THAT TAKES ALL OF THEIR TIME ON EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS—EXPECTED TO EXPERIENCE SLIGHT INCONVENIENCE
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
anywhoo, if the seattle times is looking for a headline writer i am available
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Demian @dgodon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/1173615618… Sad! While I largely abandoned Reddit a decade ago, it has been a good community forum site and I still occasionally go there when looking for answers on specific questions. But this enshittification seems inevitable given it’s a […]
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Demian @dgodon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
‘It’s sad seeing players promote it’: Wembanyama says he will never endorse gambling companies | Victor Wembanyama | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/oct/…
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‘It’s sad seeing players promote it’: Wembanyama says he will never endorse gambling companies
Spurs star says it is ‘very sad’ to see NBA players promote gambling companies and insists money no longer drives his sponsorship decisions
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
The pro-crypto legislation didn't pass after all, and some of the credit for this surely must go to Molly White. She is without question doing the best, most relentless coverage of that irredeemably slimy and corrupt industry -- joined at the hip with the irredeemably corrupt Trump world. And […]
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Bruno J. Navarro @bruno-j-navarro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. apnews.com/article/congo-ebola-outb…
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ketamine was not "at the center" of multiple men's decision to rape someone, the men who made the decision to rape someone were at the center of that decision
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Weird Socks @ohmu.social.seattle.wa.us.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@KevinFreitas/11736… #Music!!
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117363288… The Roberts 6 lifted an administrative stay granted by the 6th Circuit so it could consider Christa Pike’s appeal of being sentenced to death. In other words, they refused to allow a pending claim for relief to be heard, allowing […]
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hmm, I wonder if there is any controversy around using AI-controlled autonomous fighter jets to kill people? no, it's just a happy story about business and jobs? in that case cool cool cool www.geekwire.com/2026/shield-...
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Shield AI selects Seattle area to build X-BAT autonomous fighter jet, plans to add 4,000 jobs by early 2030s
Defense tech upstart Shield AI has selected the Puget Sound region as the manufacturing hub for X-BAT, bringing AI-piloted fighter production to the region and promising 4,000 jobs by the early 2030s.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
any story about the possibility that rape culture in "Greek life" at clleages is going to meaningfully change after the latest high-profile assault should provide the context that high-profile assaults have never meaningfully changed rape culture www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
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Cornell Students Question Greek Life Culture After Sexual Assault Claim
With their university under fire in the wake of a sexual assault lawsuit, students are having difficult conversations about Greek life, campus rituals and the possibility for lasting changes.
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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
“… the 87-year-old woman who was evicted from her #Madrid apartment that she had lived in for seven decades has been allowed to return home following the street protests by thousands.” www.npr.org/2026/09/30/nx-s1-598570…
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
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How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.
People riding bikes in a full separated bike-lane in Central Paris.Cars jamming a street in central Paris.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/09/2026
well well well, will you look at that electrek.co/2026/09/15/t...
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Tesla's record month: 4 fatal Autopilot and Full Self-Driving crashes
July 2026 set a record for Tesla driver-assist crashes: 236, including 4 fatal ones the public never connected to Autopilot or FSD.
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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
You know what an AI chatbot does when it is the first line of support? It raises the temperature of every customer who reaches a human in support. By the time they have run the gauntlet of pointless, incorrect, and idiotic responses, they are tired, they feel disrespected, they are frustrated […]
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Jones Murphy @jonesmurphy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
The 25-year-old Ireland international, born to a Nigerian father and an Irish mother, was targeted with “monkey chants”, as videos circulating on social media showed, but the fans’ behaviour has gone unpunished by UEFA. An Israeli supporter also led chants about his country’s military from the […]
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Lance Bachmeier @lance.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
In case you can't read what I boosted: Anthropic's 2025 financials were just revealed: $6B in revenue $8B in operating losses $42B in net losses
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Demian @dgodon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house | Technology | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great to spend Sunday supporting @nohateinwastate.bsky.social with Ram cellars and Vinos Pinguinos at Birch Road! Remember to vote NO on forcing girls to have genital exams to play sports in WA. No hate in WA.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2026
a friend won a dolly parton lookalike contest at a bar and a stranger just handed this to her and I almost passed out
a coloring book image of dolly parton that has been gorgeously colored, capturing the legends vivacious energy
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 27/09/2026
🎯
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 27/09/2026
read the NYT review that said it was shallow and not really about anything and then went and watched it and it was about EVERYTHING
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Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦 @hayiwena.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Ain't it grand what bus lanes can do? theneedling.com/2026/09/10/mayor-wi…
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Mayor Wilson Accused of Being Witch After Making Both Route 8 Bus and Denny Car Traffic Faster
Business leaders across the city came together today to accuse Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson of being a witch after somehow making both a bus route and car traffic on one of the city’s busiest streets faster at the same time. “Witchcraft is literally the only way adding a bus-only lane on Denny Way could benefit […]
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