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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 7h

Increasingly seems like "crimes against humanity" was a popular genre of TV for a while for some reason

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r #FreeŁink @rifka.bsky.social · 8h

Try “I’m just kinda here“

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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 19h

Abood’s medication has run out😭 His family in Gaza cannot afford to buy more. Without his treatment, his seizures are becoming more frequent & sudden, his condition is getting worse. He urgently needs his medication 💔 Please don’t leave Abood alone, Give hope here👇 chuffed.org/project/1844...

Picture of abood with a text : "I'm Abood from Gaza, save my life"

another picture of abood in a blue shirt after a seizure

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8h

If I remember correctly there was a comparable show called Let Me In on Korean tv in 2011 except that was just plastic surgery. The Swan always was more extreme.

There was virtually no recovery time; within days, the women were required to be in the gym, berated as their post-procedure faces burned, on a strict diet of no more than 1,200 calories a day; by the second season, that allowance was halved, putting the participants in a dangerous and unsustainable calorie deficit. “I think they had to dehumanize us because, ultimately, we were just a job,” says Beth, next to old footage of her giving a thumbs up while completely obscured by medical bandages.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 9h

You can help Fouad get treatment for injuries that have blinded him by sharing & donating. His family's starving, homeless, & his brothers are also suffering from untreated injuries from Israel's genocidal airstrikes on civilians in Gaza. Share/donate:

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💻 Help Mohammed rebuild his future and feed his family of 9 💔🏕️🍽️

I am Mohammed, a young man whose future was buried under the rubble.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 8h

#skystorians & UK museum nerds:

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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

ai in hollywood (and everywhere else) is a union busting tactic the goal isnt actually ai scripts, its execs telling writers every day "stop complaining or we'll replace you with a robot"

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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 8h

"bbc boss praises ai-enhanced doctor who fan episode" okay so all the other things wrong with this aside his claim is that ai can now produce hollywood movie level effects and that not being true also aside DOCTOR WHO DOESN'T FUKKIN NEED THAT

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, I’m way too lazy for that

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Scroll @scroll.in · 8h

Discover 30 works of fiction translated into English from Indian languages, from Assamese and Bengali to Kannada, Konkani and more, spanning stories of love, memory, caste, migration, identity, history and belonging. Check the full list here: scroll.in/article/1095... #InternationalTranslationDay

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 8h

This is how a boreal forest should look like. The Finnish government removed boreal forests from the nature restoration plan without consultation. There are still unprotected small areas in southern Finland left from phased clear-cutting management. #RestoreNature 🌲

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 8h

This starts tomorrow! Sign up at tomhumberstone.com/newsletter

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/09/2026

*smacks forehead* Ohhhhhhhhhh, guys. I get it. Okay! People don't hate the mass surveillance state as part of our carceral fascist society and lament the ease and access which people can now be a creep or worse. It's that they hate GLASSES! They just hate GLASSES! Let's just make it a necklace!

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Neil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social · 9h

Today & tomorrow are first days of strike as Uni council makes final decisions on massive cuts of courses &staff. Please show your #solidatity by sharing this, to encourage management to take our alternative financial proposals seriously. Compulsory redundancies not necessary!! @uonucu.bsky.social

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8h

Mongolia is on course to be the world’s best stock market this quarter, as the landlocked North Asian country rides a commodity boom that insulates it from the volatile AI trade

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Commodity Boom Pushes Mongolian Stocks to World-Beating Quarter

Mongolia is on course to be the world’s best stock market this quarter, as the landlocked North Asian country rides a commodity boom that insulates it from the volatile AI trade.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8h

HE LOVED RIDING ON HIS MOM’s BACK ACROSS THE RIVER 😭

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 17h

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Spartan 0323 The Phoenix Shall Rise In Silver & Black @thejaklife.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine this is your child,watching his world slowly disappear while you are powerless to save him.My son Elias has already lost one eye,and the last light in the other is fading.I kneel before you,begging with all my heart: please save my child. Verified by:molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/196611

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Rim Brake Monkey @rimbrakemonkey.bsky.social · 12h

“I brought some pastries”

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 10h

Stancil getting more respect on here than Cottom is mindblowing. One has spent exceptional time researching and understanding their field of study, and the other is just engagement farming on topics they have no experience or understanding of. Which is more likely to make a Forbes or Times list?

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Friend Of DeSoto @friendofdesoto.bsky.social · 13h

I don't have hard numbers, but across everywhere I've worked I'd bet 80% of the people aspiring to be influential have been among the 20% worst people in those places. The ratio among the subset who both aspired to and succeeded at it is probably worse.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 14h

is it acab

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 13h

Klaatu barada nikt----

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)

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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 29/09/2026

Hey US friends! Want to read a novel that's kinda Nigerian John Wick meets Arrival by way of The Three Body Problem, Or what you'd get if Carl Sagan's Contact and Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai had a very African baby? I've got you. Win a free copy here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Book giveaway for The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026

Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026. We're giving away 10 copies of a unique and philosophical sci-fi t...

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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 14h

"If you learn these four words you can become chair." "If you tell me what the words are, I will punch you."

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 14h

I did not join an academic department to be influential in it.

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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 14h

My plan for success was asking my dad to just buy Paramount and Warner-Discovery and put me in charge, but he said the Ellisons already bought it. Can you believe that?!?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14h

But what if I just want to phone it in at work

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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16h

Isn’t that what the us has always done? What are people objecting to here? That she and others in this admin are just gauche enough to say it out loud?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

FT has independently corroborated Kimberly Guilfoyle’s statement that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government of PM Bolojan over its refusal to buy US gas at above market prices: "We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here too." www.ft.com/content/7af7...

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Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania

Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 18h

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 18h

These men make me feel sick to my stomach. Men like Michael Tracey and the rape-defending scum of the earth on that website need to burn in hell. I just hope she’s safe. Fuck.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 18h

The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 18h

Going to be speaking on this webinar panel tomorrow, and I’m really looking forward to it!

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 20h

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 19h

Whi are the really great character actors working today? I'm having a hard time thinking of any new ones that have emerged in the last 10-15 years. (Probably just because I'm out of touch.)

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19h

I sometimes think about the time when someone I love very much and who loves me very much was so discomfited by the fact that I had taken out and put my emergency meds in their orange pill box next to me at a party. "Don't do that," she said. "It calls attention to it (my epilepsy."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19h

So. Just know that you can follow or unfollow anyone for any reason, but you don’t need to mic drop. It’s fine if someone’s posts are triggering, or you just can’t deal with the volume, whatever. What’s not fine is “actually I don’t care about you as a person; I’m just here to consume your output.”

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19h

And typically, I would be the first throwing punches, Zuck be damned— Except he did this exact same thing to a mutual friend struggling with long COVID. I am sorry that he has to find out like this, and earnestly do hope he does well with minimal pain.

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