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Just an immunocompromised slur in the PNW

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18h
or in sentience, or in not causing a being to suffer, but solely in the fear of having done to us what we have done to others. That we believe moral consideration should only flow to something more powerful than us as a means of currying favor. And that I find beneath contempt.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18h
you're essentially admitting you expect your creation to act like we have acted towards people across the Global South for the last millennium. And what I find repugnant about that is what it says: That we don't base moral consideration in humanity,
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18h
If we gave the people in Palestine and Congo and Sudan the same consideration some people give AI, those genocides *would be fucking over already*. If you genuinely believe that we need to give a potentially sentient computer program moral consideration lest it kill us all one day out of revenge,
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The men who did this have names. Elon Musk. Dario Amodei. Satya Nadella. Mark Zuckerberg. Sundar Pichai. Jensen Huang. Greg Brockman. Trump and his whole administration helped them. Direct your anger at them. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Trump says tech execs signed ‘morally binding’ accord to help police AI
The president floated forming a 10-person committee that he said would play a role in overseeing the artificial intelligence industry.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Irish (he/they)🏳️‍🌈 @castironirish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Not all men." Wrong. ALL MEN. Because we men as a group, are responsible for holding other men accountable for their vile actions, and enough men don't that it could be ANY man.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TIL there’s a fish that lives in the lowest depths of the Congo River that has stunted growth, no color pigment, and no eyes. And locally it’s called “mondeli bureau,” which translates to “white man in an office” LMAO
A very small blind pasty white yellowish fish in the palm of someone’s hand. Lamprologus lethops, a fish that lives in the lower Congo River, is pale and blind like fish that dwell in caves deep underwater.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Melanie Stiassny)
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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efsler.bsky.social @efsler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I will never not be irked getting spam fundraising texts from politicians running in areas that don’t represent me. Just…. Fuck off
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
it was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Am I shaming you? Absolutely. Someone needs to say it. I’m all for having a laugh at dark things sometimes. Even disability can be funny, and disabled people are hilarious. This isn’t that. This is a “those ‘sick’ people sure are crazy and gross!” laugh. Be ashamed.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You got what you wanted! You are living your normal lives, as demanded, free of legal or social responsibility toward disabled people who are still at high risk. Now you’re going to laugh at us trying to find ways to keep going? That’s not just discrimination, that’s dehumanization.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“We’re just having a laugh!” At who. At who. Is it at fucking sick people begging to keep up a venue where they can maybe socialize safely for a bit without risking getting sicker?? Is that the fun morning drama in your life right now? Jesus Christ.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know you’re now rolling your eyes and going “ughhh Bluesky scolllld” and I’m going to tell you right this very second you have absolutely no idea, not one fucking clue, the trauma there is from the social isolation that immunocompromised people have faced since Covid started.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s so cute to see everyone having fun with this,you might enjoy the other story about Covid this morning, about a young mom with long covid who killed herself, possibly partially because her husband describes it as her being “obsessed” with her health and “refusing” to get out of bed. Funny, yeah?
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The "moderate middle" controls like 80% of the media discourse in Seattle, this is v ungrateful of her
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[MS] @rockoperapenguin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Seattle Public Schools further added that the 15 minute lunch break they generously provide elementary school students should be sufficient for a small child to theoretically eat **some** of the pizza.
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Totally Normal Initiative" #seattle #doomloop @nohateinwastate.bsky.social
-Brian Heywood here! I want to address some disinfo about Initiative 638
-It will not, as they claim, force all children to undergo mandatory genital inspections
-the *truth* is it would only require *girls* to have their genitalia inspected
-and that's only if they want to play organized sports!
-[zooming in] this is totally normal stuff, folks
-[extreme closeup of Brian's bloodshot eyes] Don’t get all weird about it!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
The Right is winning because they understand people can be influenced to change position on a host of issues including abortion, LGBTQ rights, and racial justice And a bunch of extremely online people are sitting here like "nobody's mind can be changed ever because those people are bad" ok
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/09/2026
But the healthcare system in this country is a freaking joke. This is medically necessary stuff. It's complete horseshit that this country is like "oh you need medically necessary care? WE OFFER CREDIT CARDS FOR THAT." All Healthcare should be free at the point of service. All of it. ALL. OF. IT.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 02/10/2025
Josh Crowley (sp?) (@jdcrowley) on twitter: "If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct."
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs
Instagram post from Malala decked out in Eagles dear with text "Go birds!"
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
So while you're thinking about a super human, super "intelligent" alien being killing you, here's what's really happening. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Doctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugs
Artificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Actually, fuck it. Just make private equity illegal. The whole concept.
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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Covid continues to covid. Infection rates are high. Asymptomatic spread is common. Every exposure could lead to extended illness. One out of every ten people who contract covid are likely to experience long term harm, including, but not limited to heart, lung & brain disease.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
remember when a member of richard spencer’s entourage fired a gun into a crowd during his college speaking tour and they kept letting him speak on college campuses? it was about two months after a woman was murdered at an event he was headlining.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Conflating anti-Zionism and support for Palestinians with antisemitism is a smear campaign and frankly an actual example of antisemitism. Macklemore has been very clear on why supports Palestine and criticizes the Israeli state: because they are killing and maiming tens of thousands of children.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Embedded in any kind of claim that the future of art is AI generated work and you'll be left behind if you don't get onboard with it, is the idea that at some point in time there will only be one acceptable medium and aesthetic that audiences will be interested in, which has never been true before
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There’s never a good or correct time to curtail one group’s freedom in the name of achieving some political victory. Never.
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If AI is inevitable then a 90% AI tax that funds UBI should also be inevitable.
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Even if you were otherwise unaffected, it was a lesson in how easy it is to demagogue people and how isolating it is to not be unified with the sickness, to whatever extent.
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efsler.bsky.social @efsler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tiramisu with hazelnut praline, inspired by Georgie Grasso of Great British Bake Off fame
A pan of tiramisu, the top is dusted with cocoa powder and small bits of hazelnut praline
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We’re also 2% of Americans and mostly Democrats, so if you think Republicans are doing all that pro-Israel shit to court our votes, think again. They’re doing this to court the votes of other evangelical Christian republicans. It’s never about actual American Jews. They only like us as pawns.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There’s a term for Americans who vehemently support Israel and it’s not “Jews.” It’s “evangelical Christians” and they run the fucking government right now.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I haven't seen much chatter on Seattle Bluesky about Pramila Jayapal endorsing Connie Chan in CA-11 yesterday...Chan is an anti-housing, anti-public transit San Francisco Supervisor who supports reopening the park along the former Great Highway to vehicle traffic. sf.gazetteer.co/pramila-jaya...
sf.gazetteer.co
Pramila Jayapal endorses Connie Chan
In a tightening race, Chan gets the backing of a congressional Medicare for All architect, but Scott Wiener still has a longer resume on the matter
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've often wondered when we'd see our first LLM generated legislation and I think I might be looking at it. In my experience one of the hallmarks of LLM generated code is that LLMs hate to delete things and to avoid it they often do this sort of marginal redefinition.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The new Vision Zero bill from Rob Saka (basically nonsubstantive/duplicative) has not 10, not 20 recitals, but 29! (They aren't even really recitals because they would ALL go into city code and have the force of law!) They go THROUGH the alphabet and come all the way back around! I am DEAD.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/09/2026
and then we're told that what they are *literally bragging about* isn't happening. It's like being told Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy definitely didn't just brag about their murder sprees.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/09/2026
I think the biggest mindfuck about the genocide in Palestine is that we're not even talking about a thin veneer of plausible deniability. The Israeli government is just composed of a group of proud right wing racists bragging about their various war crimes in the Israeli press on a daily basis,
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
My pedagogical philosophy begins with the premise that I am helping students become better thinkers than they were before and that doing this effectively will best prepare them for whatever life throws at them, intellectually, economically, and otherwise.
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 06/09/2026
Our statement in response to The Telegraph article: 'How having a disability became cool' Young women, named 'sickfluencers', are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend & entrenching a culture of economic inactivity.' by Poppy Coburn, featuring Suzanne O'Sullivan. #longcovid #pwME #POTS
It is disheartening & predictable to see Suzanne O’Sullivan once again given a platform to promote psychosomatic explanations for chronic illness — this time in a Telegraph article attacking disabled people as influenced by social media, identity and attention.

There is a fundamental problem with this framework: it creates a self-reinforcing evidential trap. If patients accept a psychosomatic explanation, it confirms the theory.

If they reject it, their distress is interpreted as evidence that they are psychologically invested in being ill.

If they seek support from other patients, that's “social reinforcement”.
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Logical Drivel @logicaldrivel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Me in meme form
Meme of a frog that says:
i got ADHD
Attention 
Deficit
Hold up is
Dat a frog?
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I could spend years building expertise in a subject, developing questions and approach, honing justifications that people without that investment can grasp and find compelling or I could go into a sector where “shut up and buy this or we’ll make you” is seen as visionary, even if the product fails
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 05/09/2026
Not sure how I feel about this collab between Dude Wipes and Chuck Tingle's "My Ass Is Haunted" series
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