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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2h

Once again, I have no hesitation in saying that RFK Jr is evil. I rarely use that word to describe people, its mostly not useful. But that man desires the suffering of the most vulnerable amongst us.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 17h

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 1h

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones views the redistricting of Nashville and Memphis as part of a larger struggle over Black voting power. Capital B spoke with Jones about the state's redistricting battles and efforts to better engage young Black men ahead of November’s midterm elections.

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Justin Jones Wants Black Voters to See the Bigger Fight Behind Tennessee’s New Map

The Democrat talks voter intimidation, shifting political attitudes among young people, and the issues shaping Black voter engagement.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 1h

On November 1, 2026, I will run the New York City Marathon in memory of Sandy Hook Elementary School’s Chase Kowalski, in memory of all the Sandy Hook children and teachers who should still be with us ❤️‍🩹 I am determined to cross that finish line 💚 www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 54m

oh bezos is *juicing* juicing

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

that did not happen.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 6h

If you are arguing that there is no innocent [person of any nationality whatsoever] then you are making the case for genocide

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h

It's because they can't afford to live.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 8h

I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

It's OK not to have children if you do not want to raise children. More people should take this to heart.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

If people read more Black feminists, they'd be better off.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 6h

The perfection of this.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

This was the first abortion rights march I ever attended. I made the trip from Montreal to DC to attend: www.history.com/this-day-in-... People were already saying that Roe was NOT ENOUGH and that it would fall. This was in 1992.

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Abortion rights advocates march on Washington | April 5, 1992 | HISTORY

A march and rally in support of reproductive justice for women draws several hundred thousand people to demonstration...

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please share & join us! #literacies

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 15h

What concerns me most is that this article was clearly AI written. Which I ordinarily wouldn’t link to, but for this particular story it’s notable. You can’t un-cut-down trees so everything needs to stop until a human figures out what’s going on

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First Name Greatest @percivalpenman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Quite a few Black women singers have found their way into the Folk music categories at the Grammys, so what are they doing next year? Adding a Best Traditional Folk category. Lol

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 23h

I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes. I saw it with Lower Ed. Similar to challenging any orthodoxy, especially when you’re vulnerable to its collapse. You won’t convince them this is bankrupt. We who can live with the ambiguity of post austerity have to build better incentives for them, without them — and despite them. Sigh.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

They are becoming more and more explicit that creating dossiers on you and graphing your relationships is the whole point. “Agents” indeed. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/m...

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is taking a try-before-you-buy approach with her new photo-centric AI agent startup Dazzle, a tactic she said is important “for those occasional users or those users who are just trying to see what the service can do at the very beginning.”

Dazzle analyzes users’ personal photos to understand aspects of their lives, such as their family members or interests, and then can take actions like reminding someone that a pair of shoes they recently looked up is on sale online.

It’s a strategy she learned from her early tenure at Google
, before the company built its market-leading online ad platform.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/10/2026

It’s not better for the generations after us, who are watching every one of their career ambitions disappear in real time before they even get to start them There are students right now on their third or fourth change of major, as the funding keeps getting cut and the rugs keep getting pulled

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The thing politically active college students are taught is that you can get paid on one side for doing what the other side does out of conviction

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I finally decided to cut contact with my father when he tried to kill me when I was 14, but that was after 14 years of constant abuse. Happily, I never had to second-guess my decision, since he sent me random unsolicited emails like this for the rest of his life, reminding me I made the right call.

My dad's dad was one of Tom Edison's techs when he invented the electric light. That helped him become an exec for Consolidated Edison in New York. (He became the VP of wholesale sales.) I never knew him, but he was a successful guy. His son, my dad, went to Cornell, I went to West Point. Its all about making the next generation better. In our case, from Ireland to Texas.

I yelled at you one night. I never hurt you. You are a pussy little twit.

You are a very strange, very pussy little asshole. I became a warrior from Germany to Iraq. You are a sissy little pussy that hates... hates... and hates..

You are a worthless little pussy...

I want to help my grandkids to be better than you.

I want to give them freedom from worrying about retirement by giving them money to have in the bank waiting for them when they retire.

But I also want that money to be kept from you. You are a worthless little pussy that gets all pussy-ized when yelled at. I want my grandkids to have the fruits of my labor. But I don't want a pussy assed little shit like you to get anywhere near it.

I figure I can leave them with about two million dollars. But i hope your hatefull, nasty little life dies in the streets. I want to set up my estate to get to my grandkids as soon as you die.

Love,

Deb and Dad

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Oggie @oggie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I keep getting stunned at how there is absolutely no discussion of the LGBT factor in these cut offs. It's just absent from any of the pieces on how kids cannot server contact because it's super mean. Unless somehow the teen LGBT homelessness widespread issue lies somehow magically unrelated (no).

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 07/10/2026

Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS.

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Cold As Ice Cream @k80did2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In 2025, 401 writers were in prison in a wide range of countries, including the United States. Resist. Read a banned book. #BannedBooksWeek Oct 4-10, 2026 #LibrariesforAll

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Freedom to Write Index 2025

For the first time ever, the Freedom to Write Index documented more than 400 writers in prison in 2025, including in the United States.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧵 Nearly 12,000 (11,982) books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s newly updated Index of School Book Bans. #BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's finally here! Are you ready to join us in kicking off #BannedBooksWeek?! This year's event is too big for just one piece of art, so we have THREE! #LetBooksBe bannedbooksweek.org

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This year’s #BannedBooksWeek coincides with ALA’s official 150th anniversary. To mark the occasion, ALA has released a list of the 150 most challenged books documented from 1990, when ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom began tracking book challenges, through 2025. ala150.org/150books

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

Co-signing! 🖖🏿 and feeling another rewatch coming on!

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

Couldn’t agree with you more! 🖖🏿

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Saw someone say the decline of Trek began during the DS9 war storyline, which, btw, remains the greatest writing in all of Trek. It didn’t torch the values of the franchise, it problematized utopian narratives about what it looks like to hold that much power, and took the realities of war seriously.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I fucking love that DS9 dragged some of its best characters through the worst of what they were capable of and expected them to either live with it or redeem themselves, and for us to forgive them, or simply come to terms with with their choices. Kira and O’Brien always represented this expectation.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

Made it to NYC for a quick (almost turnaround) midweek trip 🥹 I love this city so much. Nowhere else is quite like it. Be back this winter for a longer research visit, I hope!

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Eight Bit Panda @8ightbitpanda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOOOOOOOVE!!!!! 🎤🎶🎶🎶🎶😩

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

Aaaand here we go

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

I’m glad more people are pointing this out. I talked about it it a few weeks ago w/ @janus.bsky.social Companies are attempting a sleight of hand where they capture data but argue because of how it’s processed it’s not “recording” and is thus private. They are still surveillance devices!

theverge.com

We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’

Soon, asking “Does this device have a camera?” won’t be good enough.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

Congratulations to all the winners and finalists! Thank you for writing fantastic, futuristic, and just plain weird stories… you’re helping us cope through this polycrisis ✨

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 06/10/2026

Congratulations to all the winners!

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🍁 Good morning 🍁

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

middle age is probably mid life crisis definitely body crisis definitely beloved friends in either or both of those crises and most definitely parents in body crisis and that's before doing middle age in ascendant authoritarianism OY

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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