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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19h

Most of Silicon Valley seems to believe that the large scale suffering of millions of others is both a trifle, and something they are owed so they can become trillionaires

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 16h

Again, it's not about whether Pike "deserves" to suffer for what she did. It's about whether we as a state and society are okay with paying taxes so that a person can be injected with gray market substances that leave them disabled by a doctor known for botching executions. Amnesty calls it torture.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 16h

Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha Erm, I mean, one would wish, but since big bodies in the field stopped differentiating between critical scholars and religious fundamentalists desperate for credentials, this is what we get.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18h

America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

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How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration

What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 17h

More non-consent. More nonsense. They are speaking about us as if we aren't people who count.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The lack of consent with AI integration is truly something. My choices are "yes" or "maybe later". Where is the option to launch the AI assistant into the sun? I'll come to AI when I need something done sloppily and feel like spending my time and expertise correcting it instead of doing it myself.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 18h

Another thin Carrie. Another point missed.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A bunch of our colleagues in the qualitative, humanistic social sciences have just been cut off from their major funding body, the NSF. This comes 2 years after the NEH, the major federal funding body for the humanities, was gutted.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just like that: poof & gone. RIP *all* of NSF social, behavioral and economic research (including psyc & cogneuro). I’m speechless.

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is possibly the worst thing I have ever read. It should be the only headline on every news source. It won't be. If you've experienced sexual assault, maybe don't read the details.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My uncle wanted me to see the marker for the Christiana uprising (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...). The town stopped an enslaver from capturing and returning 4 people to enslavement. The enslaver was killed and the attempt foiled. 41 people were indicted for treason.

A marker with names of individuals tried for treason because they resisted the fugitive slave law.

The first man tried for treason was found not guilty in 15 mins. This is the marker in honor of caster handy.

This side of the stone marker lists the name of the enslaver who was killed. His son was injured.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Many, many punchlines of yesteryear are today's headlines.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think this one has a good chance of containment, but I would guess we're looking at a minimum of twice yearly global near misses until the next pandemic.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don't make me get out the FRIES model of consent. If it's not Freely given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, or Specific, it's NOT CONSENT. THIS SHIT IS BASIC.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say."

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Way to bury the lede here-- the plague is pneumonic (caught by inhalation) and from a lab with the most interesting history.

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Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler) @amalkc.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

And they're enjoying it. So there. Oh here's a note saying they're sorry they have it. Now go away,

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This whole thread is chilling. Journalists who want free professional opinions shouldn't abuse their sources, or work for a place (USA Today) that does.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026

AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.

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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Parents who send their kids to trade school on the advice of people paid by the wealthy are helping to thin the competition for the children of the wealthy. If college is such a waste of time and money, why do the rich still send *their* kids? College teaches you to always consider the source.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On my hands and knees begging people who never had to wonder if they would go to college to stop writing about it.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ones in charge absolutely would bring back the old school white on white pre Civil War racism.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's illegal to say "Gulf of Mexico" in Alabama now.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1 in 8 cancers is caused by viruses. Covid and flu are both viruses that caused pandemics and mutate enough that bodies with prior immunity can catch them each year, sometimes twice in a year! People don't mask or vaccinate, so why aren't we demanding clean air in shared public spaces?

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Looks like tofu's back on the menu, boys!" in the LOTR Cockney-Orc accent. Thanks, RFK.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Using my tax money, the state of Tennessee attempted to lethality inject a woman with a known vascular condition using the doctor who botched the state's most recent execution. After two attempts Christa Pike did not die, but she does have brain damage. Call it what it is: state-sanctioned torture.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm so distressed by all of this. Thank you for bearing witness and telling the truth. It's all so barbaric.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's not about whether Pike deserved to die for what she did, but about whether we should pay for a system where someone with a vascular disorder can be injected twice with a solution of unknown origin by someone who has a history of botching executions and left brain damaged. That's torture.

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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it’s also bad because america has a lot of very important functions deferred to state level government, and it is pretty clearly bad for governance for 80% of the country to live under de-facto competitive authoritarianism

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just learned that Tennessee is buying its lethal injection drugs on the “gray market” as companies have stopped selling it to states. The "gray market" is the same place athletes buy steroids and people without insurance access GLP1s. No lab certification, no knowledge of origin.

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

don't know what these "classes" are, but whatever they are they need to be killed with fire

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know several writers in the local scene have been duped in this way. Yes, all the agents who sell have full client lists. Years spent querying them when their inboxes open is still time better spent than years as a client to someone with no network who can't sell.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In that vein, if you write, stay away from agents who became agents after taking a class but haven't sold. Having an agent who has no contacts or ability to sell will put you behind your peers who are still querying. It's an opportunity cost.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's not about whether you'd be good at being a literary agent. If you're interested & motivated, you likely would. It's about whether a class will offer you the foothold and network and years of history you need to be credible. It won't.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In case it needs to be said, don't pay for classes that teach you how to be a literary agent. I've met so many "literary agents" with no contacts at the big 5 who haven't sold a thing, yet have a list of writer clients who badly wanted to be able to call themselves agented.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This isn't about whether or not Pike deserved to die for what she did. It's about whether or not we feel comfortable giving a state the power to judge this and botch this.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That makes too much sense and is utterly chilling. Too many things are designed to make us calloused. Nationally empathy is recast as weakness and rooted out while more and more groups get othered.

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Patrick Nunnally @landh2oplaceumn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great question, and encouragement of us to get out of our "content boxes" and think about process, technology, and how we work.

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