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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 46m

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 16m

There’s also an element of modern mass / social media that underpins much of this. Fascist “grievances” are good fodder for the algorithm.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 10h

Can’t wait to wake up at 0530 to get back on a plane again

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 10h

it is actually weirdly compelling!

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 13h

I just started watching Lanterns, so I'm immediately think of this all time great smash up www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBT6...

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Coach Taylor Wants To Tell You Something

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 13h

ain't nobody got time for the gd plague

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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 16h

This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Totally bonkers. Possibly brilliant.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 20h

Opted for Digger. Should be interesting…

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 21h

man, i want to use this at our onsite this week

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 21h

Jack Smith rocking the No Kings shirt is rad

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 23h

Am I going to see Digger or Your Mother (x3) today?

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before the organizations building AI can teach a superintelligence to treat humanity well, they’ll need to remember how to do it themselves."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 03/10/2026

Note: The KS polling is a win for Dems no matter what, because (as AP reported yesterday) the GOP is being forced to burn money in a state that hasn't had a Dem senator in nearly a century. A Hamilton win remains unlikely, historically speaking, but: this is WILD. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

Polling results from Senate races the latest NY Times/Siena poll. Dems trial by a point in Iowa, but lead in Texas, Alaska, and Ohio. And most striking of all: Dems are tied with the GOP in Kansas.

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Political Poll Bot @pollresults.org · 03/10/2026

Kansas US Senate Sep 22 - 30, 2026 Roger Marshall (R) 46.67% (+0.3%) Adam Hamilton (D) 46.39% Don't know 6.6% Someone else 0.35% The New York Times/Siena University 605 LV View Poll

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I hate the way (Bsky) links render in Slack now

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 02/10/2026

NEW: Yesterday I interviewed President Zelenskyy. Speaking at a school that had just been hit by a Russian jet drone, he said Ukrainian spy agencies had obtained intel that Putin told his military to remove all constraints that governed earlier air campaigns. “He said there are no rules now.”

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Putin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian leader tells FT his Russian counterpart has given the order that ‘there are no rules now’

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the stupid, it burns (as ever)

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.

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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

so it’s pretty clear that what the public perceives as contemporary trump linguistics is, in fact, harp’s spin on it. how to delineate between what you believe to be trump’s actual way of communicating versus what is harp gets really hard. and whatever the percentages are, it says something bad.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They aren’t sending their best. (Missouri rarely does…)

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ICYMI: This morning on Radio 4's Today programme, Andy Burnham confirmed joining the EU customs union, single market membership and full rejoining are all on the table, and said "we could go all the way" (after the next election)

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

DoD: oh no, what about mah industrial base?? Also, DoD: oh you can definitely double down on your 6th gen fighters with one company

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 27/09/2026

It's 30 days until the publication date of The Pope's Hitman, and I'm counting down with a seasonally and story-appropriate Advent Calendar! For Day 1, meet Saint Longinus, the Roman centurion who tradition holds pierced the side of Christ on the Cross then later became Christian.

An advent calendar. On the left of the calendar grid is an image of the cover of The Pope's Hitman by J.M. Berger, featuring a gray-toned image of the spiral Bramante Staircase in the Vatican Museums, Vatican City. A blurb reads "John Wick meets Conclave as a priest with a deadly secret will stop at nothing to protect the Pope against an explosive Christmas Eve plot with the fate of the Catholic Church at stake!" On the right is an image of Saint Peter's Basilica at night with two review excerpts:

“Berger (Optimal), a senior research fellow at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, puts his background to good use in this riveting action thriller.”
-- Publisher’s Weekly

“This is ridiculously over-the-top and I loved every second of it ... great characters ... fun premise ... crazy situations.”
-- The Optionist

The statue of Saint Longinus in Saint Peter's Basilica, a Roman soldier brandishing a spear.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/09/2026

However (you rightly) feel about Arnold as a human, as a governor etc. He was raised (literally and culturally) by people who had been Nazis. He saw their impact firsthand. He knew ball.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The real-life story that inspired the film is just as remarkable: How a small group of young women in Boston launched a movement to organize secretaries that transformed how women are treated in the workplace.

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9 to 5: Inside The Movement That Inspired the Iconic Film

When Dolly Parton died recently, radio stations and music streamers filled our ears with her irresistible anthem, “9 to 5.” The song topped the music charts and was nominated for an Osc…

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war: With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, database shows. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war

With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in your next zoom interview have not only a cup of ice coffee but seven or eight different cups of various beverages just off camera and casually drink from each of them throughout the interview the drinks should have fancy straws or colorful parasols or large pieces of fruit on the edge of the cup

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What if someone brought a hot cup of black coffee?

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To go along with awful traffic downtown due to Xi’s visit, we now have significant delays on Blue/Orange lines. Good times!

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He’s in the permanent chorus

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not here to defend Pete. But this is Lockheed (or their suppliers’) call. Lots and lots of parts all around the globe. (Sub-assembly largely done in the US.)

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

- parts are routinely shipped by commercial carrier, both by DoD directly and contractor owned supply chains like LM on the 35 - this shouldn't have happened but will need to unspin whether it was LM or UPS's fault - a NMC canopy isn't ideal but is far from the crown jewels

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