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@embienbi.bsky.social
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NH based weirdo - mutual aid, some nerd stuff, gardening, parenting, etc

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Brett Weed @tarheelphan.bsky.social · 7h
Greatest graph I have ever seen in my life
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Southern New Hampshire DSA @southernnhdsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We'll be hosting another Coffee With Comrades Extravaganza this Sunday! Not a member? That's ok, non-members are encouraged to stop by. 🗓️ Sunday, October 4th 🕗️ 11 to 1pm 📍 Union Coffee Co. in Milford 📍 Breakaway Café in Dover 📍 Totally Tea+Coffee in Concord RSVP with the link in our bio 🔗
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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if the boy that wrote this article ever sees me on the street he better start running. I’m taking teeth.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/10/2026
Solar panels are so popular in Pakistan they’re being used as wedding dowries. That boom is now challenging a power sector that owes billions to China, and exposing snarls in Beijing's drive to dominate the global energy transition.
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China’s Coal Past and Solar Present Are Colliding in Pakistan
A wave of clean technology imports is challenging a power sector that owes billions to Beijing, exposing snarls in the No. 2 economy’s drive to dominate the global energy transition.
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Weird Alger Hiss 🎉 𓅳 @itsjoelokay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
uh, let me be clear, *most unclear and wishy-washy drivel conceivable*
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@cspan

Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Correct. You should bring a tub of kimchi instead
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The department’s assistance line, on average, automatically disconnected 74 to 81 percent of the calls coming in during the first six months of 2026, according to the 19-page complaint." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/m...
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Thousands in Massachusetts are losing food assistance because of disconnected SNAP calls, lawsuit says - The Boston Globe
The state's Department of Transitional Assistance automatically disconnected 74 to 81 percent of incoming calls in the first six months of 2026, complaint alleges.
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Guy ruining Steely Dan for everyone else @artbrovera.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
History doesnt repeat, but it does rhyme
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New Hampshire Public Radio @nhpr.org · 24/09/2026
In a post Tuesday on X, the New Hampshire Libertarian Party's account wrote: “We openly support the assassination of basically every elected Democrat in New Hampshire.” It’s the latest in a series of calls for violence from the party’s social media accounts.
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NH Libertarian Party endorses ‘assassination' of elected Democrats
The state Libertarian Party has issued repeated calls for political violence in social media posts.
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Rona Altana @ronaaltana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Discord finally confirmed for real when they're rolling out age verification service-wide (tomorrow) and I've not seen a single person make a peep about it
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Safer for Teens, Same Discord for Adults
We’re launching a revamped, privacy-focused age assurance solution including methods that won’t require an ID or selfie. Here’s how it works.
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Autism has arrived!
Photo of Orange cat looking at a lake in Autumn with orange leaves fallen all about it's finally autism
It reads "it's finally Autism"
Context: this is a conflate Autism and Autumn meme made by honest but it's being used to say it's April, the Autism acceptance month
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fun fact I would die for Ms Rachel
3 comments ms Rachel left on her subway takes IG video:

1. Retire racist nursery rhymes and kids songs 
2. Free Palestine 
3. Pie for all kittens
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Em @embienbi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Teen at the park has amassed a group of small children to make a ritual circle and raise the dead. This is what life is all about, bringing your kid to the park to learn about necromancy
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Obviously “antiwoke gamers” are the #1 most insufferable demographic in gaming but you know who is #2? “Everything was better back then” nostalgia addicts. They only whine about modern popular games and never engage with anything from a studio smaller than EA/Ubisoft/etc
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 22/09/2026
"next time, log in with your face or fingerprint!" fuck you. log in with my foot up your ass
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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 21/09/2026
What a charmed life this guy has been leading
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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kc green @kcg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He sure does
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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wharf rat @nhwharfrat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
from the live free or die state, where our so-called libertarian free staters have been awful quiet about ICE and local law enforcement collaboration
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NH police departments contributing to surge in ICE arrests
Local police departments in New Hampshire played a significant role in the increase in immigration enforcement this summer, according to the Deportation Data Project.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today is the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street encampment. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/487-oc...
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Occupying Wall Street
The inside story of the protest that has given birth to America’s most important progressive movement in a half century.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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New Hampshire Public Radio @nhpr.org · 16/09/2026
Formerly known as the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire, the newly named Live Free Autonomy Collective carries the same mission of expanding autonomy in healthcare.
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NH nonprofit expands to make reproductive, gender-affirming care accessible to more
Formerly known as the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire, the newly named Live Free Autonomy Collective carries the same mission of expanding autonomy in healthcare.
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New Hampshire Public Radio @nhpr.org · 16/09/2026
Manchester’s Moka Pot coffee shop was vandalized early Wednesday, according to local police. An owner of the Moka Pot said the incident will not deter the business from serving its community.
nhpr.org
Manchester coffee shop vandalized with white supremacist graffiti
An owner of the Moka Pot said the incident will not deter the business from serving its community.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/09/2026
I am so tired of how we have been saying this for more than a decade by this point
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 15/09/2026
Attempting to frame these bigots like they’re brave pragmatists breaking from some kind of stalwart trans-affirming norm is the type of enormous lie where the ground should open up to pneumatic-tube you directly to hell.
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Em @embienbi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The last pride event I worked played That Macklemore Song in the DJ set and like yeah it's cringe but I can't even be mad at the guy. Go off King.
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 14/09/2026
He called 911 for help when she was in a mental health crisis after her miscarriage. Instead, she ended up in ICE custody in Burlington.
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He called 911 to get his partner help. But ICE came and took her instead. - The Boston Globe
For several nights, ICE held her at the agency's field office in Burlington without medical care. For more than a year, immigrants and their attorneys have alleged inadequate conditions at this facility.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here is the setting you need to turn off if you don't want a human potentially reading through your ChatGPT conversations. I've seen some of the prompts; these ChatGPT users clearly have no idea a human is reading www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/09/2026
before i read up on what flock is capable of i knew it was scary, but once i read reporting on exactly what cops are able to see and what information its able to parse from very little input, it genuinely became terrifying that this is in every corner of the country
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Jason's Mom Has Got It Going On 🎃 @sailorsoapbox.com · 14/09/2026
That patronizing “Pretending you won’t watch is adorable” quote from JK Rowling is from a parody account, people. Not sure what the “joke” is supposed to be, given that she verifiably says horrific things all the time, but all the same, let’s try not to be gullible.
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Culture Cave Q @CultureCave_
J.K. Rowling when asked about people refusing to watch the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series because of her:
"Pretending you won't watch is adorable."
Culture Cave @CultureCave_
Culture Cave is your #1 Source for parody / satire news. My posts reflect what I'd like to see happen.
Independent and Unaffiliated.
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mistress von toasty @toasty.cx · 14/09/2026
Hey y'all I updated the jpg for your usage and enjoyment
antifa flag logo but it says "ANTI-HARRY POTTER ACTION" and "WATCH ANOTHER SHOW"
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026
it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Thread. Read it.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When reactionaries advance some bullshit, the FIRST thing to do is identify the framing and reject it They're selling this as "trans rights vs. women's sports" when they hate both those things and want to ruin them both Accept the frame and you've lost Reject the frame and call bullshit
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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm winding things down at my current place as I prepare to move, so if you help me out by buying my stuff, you'll get a 40% discount on all the stuff that lives in my spare room. rosalarian.com/sale
A graphic for the moving sale showing some of my books, stickers, patches, and tarot deck
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Baltimore Sun, who canned longtime cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher last year for "ultra-liberal" politics, now runs unauthored AI cartoons showing citizens thanking their mayor for everything he does. editorialcartoonists.com/an-open-lett...
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An Open Letter to the Publisher and Editors of the Baltimore Sun from the AAEC - AAEC
On September 4, 2026, The Sun published what can only technically be called an “illustration” it intended its readers to accept as an editorial cartoon.  Whatever the intent, the only message The Sun ...
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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years
cj @futurevictim_ tweet from 1:17 AM • 12 Sep 21

the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026
There are three kinds of emails: 1) An email from Temu that says "This Requires Immediate Action Or Face Consequences" 2) An email from your bank saying you have a notice that it sent you an email 3) An email from a doctor's office asking you to sign up to their new portal
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 09/09/2026
"Was the shelter in-late/out-early with no services on the other side of town? Does the shelter org force religion on people? Is your shelter LGBTQ2S+ friendly? Is it REALLY tho? Did you give people money without means testing it? Did you provide a way for people to keep and secure their property?"
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 09/09/2026
Every time we hear "The homeless people didn't use the resources we offered," the next questions should be "What specific resources did you offer? Were they actually meant to be helpful to people you claim to want to help? Did you offer actual shelter? Did it accommodate couples? Pets? Wet or dry?"
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
theverge.com
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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New Hampshire Public Radio @nhpr.org · 08/09/2026
Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. Some of those most in danger are the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers. bit.ly/4xKTsZT
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'Her body temperature was 106': How heat is killing Americans in their homes
Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. The risk is especially high for the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers.
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Tasting History with Max Miller @tastinghistory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I made 2,000 years of different mustard recipes. This has to be one of the most versatile ingredients and has a fascinating history. youtu.be/k5yf-bbHjsY?...
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Making 2,000 Years Of Mustard
YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 08/09/2026
After negotiations for a contract have stalled, Starbucks Workers United is officially calling for a boycott.
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The Starbucks Boycott Heats Up
After negotiations for a contract have stalled, Starbucks Workers United is officially calling for a boycott.
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