Reposted by DankProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Make no mistake, what I have taken to calling a hyper El Nino is building rapidly, and set to bring extreme weather mayhem and record-shattering global temperatures in 2027 411563
Reposted by DankDr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Taking fascist actions against colleagues and students who denounce genocide. It is THE BEST indication of their abandonment of our mission, followed by their embrace fascist “AI” tech. Their active support for fascism should be the top story everywhere. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...breachmedia.caCanadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The BreachUniversities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence 55826
Reposted by DankManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)To face our own history, we must be honest about it. 211021321
Reposted by DankSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 02/08/2026Record low water levels in Europe continue to have catastrophic effects 1959
Reposted by DankCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/08/2026truthout.org/articles/isr...truthout.orgIsrael Closes Investigation of 2023 Settler Pogrom Without Charging PerpetratorsMeanwhile, settler violence in the West Bank continues to escalate, with over 800 attacks documented in June and July. 141
Reposted by DankLaura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergencyvox.comDavid Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth. 27393104108
Reposted by DankEvery Day Is Juneteenth @everydayjuneteenth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Since BLACK AUGUST starts today, we recommend reading "The Prison Industry: How It Works And Who Profits" by Bianca Tylek. Sincerely, The BLACK-Owned Online Bookstore ✊🏾📚 #booksky #blackbooksky #blacksky #politics shop.mrwelltravelled.com/products/the...shop.mrwelltravelled.comThe Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits (Paperback)by Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises Description A meticulous exposé of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolition . Based on years of research by the criminal justice orga... 0116
Dank @dkildey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026He's making money for his friends in the defense industry, and he gets to feel tough...a real win/win 100
Reposted by DankMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/08/2026🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/ 20352902038
Reposted by DankCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The cybersecurity firm Cloudflare reports what we all suspected: that bots outnumber humans online. According to the company’s Radar dashboard, bots account for 57.5% of all HTTP requests to HTML content, with humans lagging behind at 42.5%. It’s a bot-eat-bot World Wide Web. 21910
Reposted by DankJon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026When I spoke to unhoused people they told me their day to day lives were mostly terror Constant terror Fear of assault, rape, the police. Fear of losing what little they had left Were I in the same position I’d look for any way to dull it. 1741185
Reposted by DankTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them 232987737
Reposted by DankKarla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I teach a workshop called misogyny and public expectations of emotional labor. And basically I say the systemic presentation of misogyny is how much emotional labor is expected to be free and how that cripples healthy institution building. Cause we never build out everything we need. 130529
Reposted by DankTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026So a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is. 41203136
Reposted by DankTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Then they have all the transcripts (and the ai token bill) but no sensemaking. so they make another app — a layer that will make sense of all the useless transcripts. But of course sensemaking isnt just pattern spotting. It’s interpretation. AI cannot do either because AI cannot be curious 3107998
Reposted by Dankashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/08/2026people love to leave out that you can’t really do serious harm reduction without also housing people wild, that people ALSO need a safe place to sleep, to eat, to have stability, in addition to needing safe injection sites and clean needles almost like we should call things…basic..needs… 843797
Reposted by DankShannon @rhlobbyist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026people like me as canaries in the coal mine.The constant noise might get to others 2 but they might not initially realize it. they might get more irritable but not understand why. There really should be studies for acceptable noise levels. Given constraints they should figure out new ways to do this 1101
Reposted by DankKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/08/2026You can become disabled or homeless in an instant. It just takes one accident or illness to change your life forever. It’s not a moral failing. You can’t just “try harder”. People need support, compassion and to have their basic needs met. That’s how you ensure survival. 121049440
Reposted by DankErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Can someone explain to me how you still have a significant amount of unpaid labour to a female-heavy workforce in a federally-regulated industry? How much unpaid labour is the federal government failing to address? I’m talking about WestJet and AC before them 34814
Reposted by DankAlice Jane Grimm (she/her) @alice-j-grimm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026A different industry led by different people than Musk, Altman, Thiel etc that valued and sought partnership from creators and stewards of human culture would have generative potential But what is the potential of an industry founded on “take first, pay only if you lose in court” 131
Reposted by DankMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/08/2026"No Fair activates when the enemy retaliates in a manner that negatively influences approval numbers at home. American strikes are strategic, proportionate, and necessary. Enemy strikes are reckless escalations proving they cannot be trusted to respond calmly to American strikes."buff.ly“Nuh-Uh,” “Not It,” and Other New Pentagon Strategies for Winning at War“Modern warfare is full of consequences that continue to exist even after the president says they do not. Fortunately, the Pentagon has begun replacing outda... 06814
Reposted by DankDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 01/08/2026Israeli soldier blindly opens fire toward Syrian towns from land Israel illegally occupies. Video: Sahat English 🇵🇸 via X (@sahatenglish) 55736
Reposted by DankAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers 231622256
Reposted by DankSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/08/2026The Republican party is a stochastic terrorist organization in the same way that the KKK is and for the same reasons, and should be treated accordingly. 14451102
Reposted by DankA Macabrely Spooktacular BOOnny 🎃🐇 @vonlenska.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Exactly. The intent is to take a sledgehammer to what used to be a reliably useful public tool and further poison the information ecosystem. Make it harder to access factual data, push the culture toward indifference or hostility toward truth. 1254
Reposted by DankJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth... 22068452695
Reposted by DankKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/07/2026Have you ever noticed that most of the major AI company logos look like buttholes? For my Sick Burns Friday post, I judged and ranked each of them based on how much they resemble hole: www.burnsnotice.com/ai-company-l...burnsnotice.comAI Company Logos That Look Like Buttholes, RankedFor this week's Sick Burns Friday post, we're asking the important questions like "why do all of these logos look like that?" 41522150
Dank @dkildey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I mean... if men are never expected to take responsibility for themselves; what other choice is there? 100
Dank @dkildey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Nice to see it be a positive that Carleton and Trent didn't make it onto a list! 030
Reposted by DankLauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Weird how Laurier only defends "free speech" when it's coming from transphobic TAs. 0136
Reposted by DankAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/01/2026Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law. 10982904512221
Reposted by DankIsis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Details about UofT's central role in the Canadian uni admin network aiming to spy and clamp down on anti-genocide activism on campus. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni... 177
Reposted by DankAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 31/07/2026GM to launch its own in-vehicle improv comedy group system later this year 4175
Reposted by DankAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group 472858916
Reposted by DankJeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"Prepare our communities, cut the emissions, fund the people who fight and study these fires. The smoke is telling us where the real work is. It is at our doorsteps, and in our climate policy, not deep in the woods." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comI study the boreal forest. This summer wildfires came for my home | Julee BoanHere are things that will – and will not – help us fight the threat of wildfires 043
Dank @dkildey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026True! And I do have some neighbors who have been inspired to care once they understood the realities of the issues (ie no, being trans is not a choice and yes, JKR has become a voice for hate) 010
Dank @dkildey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Unfortunately many of my fellow cishet folks are willfully ignorant & don't worry about social injustice that doesn't affect them. Pretty disgusting actually. Though many think they're good people, they often prefer living their lives avoiding guilt - but the number of us who do care is growing. 100
Reposted by DankRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Reminder that the Golden Age of Comics began in 1938 when a couple of Jews started making stories about fighting evil. So many of the people in power now seen so much like cartoon villains bc those archetypes were literally created after some of the most horrific human beings of our known history. 12883213
Reposted by DankMike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault. 10052901417
Reposted by DankKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/07/2026it's still just software thankfully our pasty technofascists did not create a malevolent godkarlbode.comAI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting TiredThe "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures. 1439985
Reposted by Dank🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Barthes: myth favours the status quo 031
Dank @dkildey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026A type of sharia law is coming to Texas...but it's the Christian Nationalist version. 000
Reposted by DankElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The goal of the battle over the origins of COVID19 is “to sow distrust in science and scientists”. This article shows why experts believe that this was a spillover event and not a lab leak. The maps showing the cluster of the first cases around the wet market are old school Epidemiology. Solid.npr.orgAnimal spillover? Lab leak? What the science says about the origins of COVID-19The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic diaries has rekindled the debate over the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Here's how scientists have weighed in. 10362162
Dank @dkildey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I imagine telling a medical or research specialist "what? You're a cancer specialist? So you don't care about heart disease? Sounds like you're a hypocrite." 0770
Dank @dkildey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026At least once; "I don't think about Americans' financial situation". 022
Reposted by DankThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/07/2026Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washingtontheguardian.comDon’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John WashingtonI’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities 17303102
Reposted by DankWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I don't worry at all about terminator stuff, I worry quite a lot about Augmented authoritarianism, and I worry the most of all about a gigantic metastasizing perpetually low-trust neomedieval pile of shit that AI greatly exacerbates and possibly locks in for good. 23918123
Dank @dkildey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026More worried about ketamine addicted powerful fascists ushering the end of days. 000