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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy

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Dirtdauber @dirtdauber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks. I am but I still have a bad cough that is hanging around.

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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yall, ig is popping off. the girlies are doxxing every single admin they can find at cornell, plus the cornell 7 and their families. women are (correctly) going scorched earth.

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Dirtdauber @dirtdauber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've had cold since last night. I think I'm finally getting over it. Getting a cold sucks.

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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

You absolutely cannot defeat a transphobe with even more transphobia. The only thing you do is alienate the most vulnerable members of your base and their allies while simultaneously demonstrating that your entire party is not to be trusted to defend anyone's rights.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Dirtdauber @dirtdauber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Time to start a 4 day weekend.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 03/09/2026

The first wave of Democratic candidates to understand that “The Supreme Court is a corrupt cesspool of pro-Trump reactionaries and there is only one way to fix it” is a winning message will become stars in a hurry

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

Democrats Who Are Still Afraid of Supreme Court Expansion Need to Grow Up

Democrats are finally grasping that their voters do not like the Supreme Court and do not want to be represented by politicians who defend it.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Can't help but think of this hiker-rescue story I saw earlier today

The USFS said the climbers told them they had used an artificial intelligence platform, YouTube videos and AllTrails to plan the trip. They said they relied on Al to decide what food to bring and how much food and water they would need.

The group said it packed supplies for an eight-hour climb, not its roughly 16-hour ascent. The climbers said Al recommended simple carbohydrates instead of fats because fats "take too long to digest."

"We relied too much on Al rather than our own critical thinking," the group told rangers.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This thing where normie Dems are like "stop talking about trans stuff," like it's a thought experiment, is so infuriating, bc this is what we're talking about. Real people, real lives, real targeting, real suffering of the sort that Serwer was talking about when he said "the cruelty is the point."

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lingerie icons!!!! 😭😭😭😭

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

National Day of Mourning immediately

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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership

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emma best 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Mxy @emma.best · 19/08/2026

RT if you want immigration enforcement in every form to disappear tomorrow

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Dirtdauber @dirtdauber.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wow there is some really load thunder with this storm passing through.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

how come *i* never get secret $6 million payments

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 12/08/2026

I was shaking too much for a good picture but here is our beautiful sun and moon kissing

a total solar eclipse, with a diamond ring flaring at the lower right of the moon’s disk

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 10/08/2026

We told you this would happen. ♥️🕊️👍🏿

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

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🌬️Doctrix Snow • NYC/FMTY @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

it is really fucking annoying how much my mood improves when I do a simple task I’ve been putting off for weeks. I will learn nothing from this

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Dirtdauber @dirtdauber.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Yeah you can. I do it all the time. It’s just not as safe as using scissors.

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 01/08/2026

I have the same approach to LLMs/genAI that many people have to alcohol, gambling, or any other potential addiction they fear falling into, which is that I simply never picked it up. I have never looked at a ChatGPT interface. I have never visited the website. website? app? no idea. I never looked

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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Tbh, i think it's pretty reasonable to hate the party doing fascism and also hate the party who failed to stop fascism and is feckless in resisting it.

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Mummy Molly @mollymarie03.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Sigh. In two completely unrelated incidents, a tree fell on my house and now I need knee surgery. If you don’t mind, please share. Our life has been thrown into a level of chaos I honestly didn’t know was even possible.

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Donate to Help. A Tree Killed Our House and I Need Surgery, organized by Molly McMurtrey

Venmo and CashApp: @mollymarie03 July 18 Update: Still living in … Molly McMurtrey needs your support for Help. A Tree Killed Our House and I Need Surgery

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/07/2026

this comparison leaves out a key point: the Edsel sold roughly twice the Cybertruck's volume at a time when the overall car market was just 6m units/year instead of the current 16m units/year that makes the Cybertruck the much, much bigger flop, hands down

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Dirtdauber @dirtdauber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

won't know until they tell us

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