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@farwing.bsky.social
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cheerful pessimist fandom lurker who paints abstract watercolor cityscapes. Jewish, red haired, left handed, fake extrovert, she/her.

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Cornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Kids just be doing shit
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
During a sworn deposition on Monday, Rep. Max Miller declined to answer repeated questions from one of his ex-wife’s lawyers about whether he pushed a girl down a staircase during high school.
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In a sworn deposition, Rep. Max Miller was silent on staircase assault allegation
"If the incident never occurred, why are you afraid of answering the question?" asked his ex-wife's lawyer.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/10/2026
As always, @boltsmag.org has the go-to, authoritative guide to the year's important elections. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 01/10/2026
Pre-sign ups for the kickstarter for the Murderbot graphic novel!
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Letting two-bit scammers and thugs run the government is bad.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lichtenstein’s entire oeuvre was offensively shallow and profit-motivated from the jump. His original premise of recontextualizing “low art” was done better, earlier, and with way more joyful subversiveness by Marcel Duchamp, AND he lacked the skill to even render the work he supposedly “elevated.”
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also, Jews were still able to speak Hebrew out loud prior to the introduction of n’kudot. Vowel sounds existed in Hebrew prior to the creation of a formal standardized notation system for them. Jews weren’t just silently reading the Torah & prayers & poetry with no idea how to pronounce any of it.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
News is bad. Vibes are bad. WHO NEEDS A TEENY TINY FROG?! (A Wood Frog baby so little it could sit on a quarter) #herps 🌿
A very small brown frog sits on a lily pad.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/09/2026
"Over the past three years, a small camp has taken shape [in Israel] that opposes genocide, fascism, and Israeli militarism while also trying to redefine what it means to remain in this place."
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‘The Gaza Holocaust won't be forgotten’: An Israeli musician screams into the void
‘Super Sparta,’ Regev Baruch’s new album, is among the most blunt works of Israeli art since Oct. 7 — using provocation to insist on a different future.
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farwing @farwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Someone on the same award selection committee as my boss won’t be able to attend an important meeting as he will be in Sumatra “hunting (with camera) some of the last 60 Pygmy rhinos in the world” Needless to say this is not the usual excuse for missing a meeting.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026
like this is not the website for non-neurodivergent people! that's tiktok and threads! this is the website for weirdos who still enjoy text-based media in 2026!
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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People handle tasks so complex and with so many shifting variables as part of our day-to-day existence that the complexity is underestimated. It’s like how knitting machines have existed for over 400 years but there still isn’t a machine that can crochet, though we think of those tasks as comparable
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lie-based party.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
We need to be clear with ourselves and each other that this is most pronounced when rape is involved but it‘s everything … women are told to always put men’s potential first, ahead of everyone’s well-being bsky.app/profile/susa...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Part of the testimonial injustice in the situation is believing that the harm to accused men is worse than the rape and worse than the harm caused to advocates and survivors everywhere when men are let off easy
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my experiences with being trashed in the media, and I think it’s interesting that the scientists who believed the bad press about me never noticed that the only colleagues who said bad things about me were men And they didn’t question why that was
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
And when I say bad behavior I mean no, you should not be fucking your students and I mean that broadly. Not a student in your department, not a recent graduate, not even a student in another department. Not someone you’re mentoring. Some of the men who like to talk about me have done these things
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
(2) People do not talk enough about the fact that we have a pretty good idea of how to train dogs and there are a lot of prominent dog trainers giving advice who are just wrong. Scientifically wrong. Extremely wrong.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I’m afraid that this small clique of all-too-human dorkwads are trying to gain even more mind-boggling wealth and even more political and regulatory control over powerful AI technology, in ways that will allow them to further fracture democracy, privacy, and human flourishing.”
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Changing seasons can trigger a change in your own life. Choose a new form that suits you. Grow your most elaborate antlers yet, or a frightening exoskeleton. Replace old forest folktales with new terrifying legends of mossy gloom and malevolent splendor.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
new favorite baker just dropped (I am finally watching the new ep of Bake Off)
screenshots from the latest season of British Bake Off of a chef named Mo, he's a tan skinned young man. He's got dark hair falling over his forehead and a beard. He's saying, "I come with a lot of baggage, but it's, like, the good baggage." Mo continued, "Like Louis Vuitton baggage."
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
Literally this, so much, forever, in so many ways that are hard to articulate and reach facets of life I never imagined.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Also don’t let them take your benefits without a fight because you are & will continue to be taxed like a motherfucker.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Been avoiding this but it’s Super Important to have access to knowledge & experience w neurodivergence ASAP. A big source of lifetime torture among people with ADHD roots from inability to contextualize & put into words what we are experiencing both within & from how the outside world responds to us
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
You, weak, bringing an iced coffee to an interview Me, strong, answering the first question right as the beat kicks in and singing “it’s time for the percolator”
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
me, strongest: showing up eating a gigantic raw elk steak, my jaws dripping with blood
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jess rips off the Band-Aid of Knowledge about academia and sticks it to you. It's a little gross but now it's yours.
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
my favourite typo is, & will always be, ‘the literary cannon’
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Age of the Great Dessication is upon us
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 25/09/2026
The actors playing pedophiles in PRIMETIME being credited with just the screennames is so fucking funny
Caveh Zahedi
Wow_U_Like_Pot
David Fierro
Raysfan22
Ed Malone
Nextbestfriend_14
David Pridemore
Georgepitansky_9008
Charles Schneider
Cool_guy5
Jonathan Francis
Canifuckyouanally
A.J. Leitell
luv2Bnude
Christian Vazquez
Xbeachdude
Berwick Lagarde
Jeremys_talented_tongue
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 25/09/2026
upshot to running errands in the rain:
A small black and tan dachshund wearing a yellow duckie raincoat. It’s just unreasonably cute, that’s all.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
NEW: Republican New Mexico governor nominee Gregg Hull is facing renewed scrutiny over court records showing he twice fell behind on child support and health insurance obligations for his daughters.
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Court Records Show Gregg Hull Fell Behind on Child Support as He Now Campaigns on Protecting Health Coverage
Gregg Hull, the Republican nominee for New Mexico governor and outgoing longtime mayor of Rio Rancho, is facing renewed scrutiny over a decades-old child
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@knowtheory.net pointed out the original TikTok video about Gen Z job candidates and iced coffee was from a recruiter working at "buttoned up Fortune 500 companies" and her specific observation was about "coming off as too casual". This is important context! www.instagram.com/p/DdhMd0XvW7N/
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chescaleigh on Instagram: "the Tiktok discourse surrounding iced coffee & job interviews is an example of the literacy crisisView all 706 comments"
the Tiktok discourse surrounding iced coffee & job interviews is an example of the literacy crisis
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If the arguments about iced coffee include "first impressions still matter" and "it can be distracting" then I would push back and ask about that company's (unwritten) dress codes, open office layout, as well as its recruitment and retention of staff members who are BIPOC, disabled, and/or parents.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/09/2026
it’s true what will the AI agent think of your professionalism if you bring an iced coffee to your 57th zoom interview
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:
A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Help mariners bring their big oil-tanker employers to the bargaining table! actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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Petition for OSG and ATC to come to the table.
Dear Fellow Licensed Deck Officers, The Licensed Deck Officers (LDOs) at Alaska Tanker Company (ATC) and Overseas Shipping Group (OSG) have chosen to be represented by Masters, Mates, and Pilots (MM&...
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"You're just saying that because you're friends with artists." I'm saying it because AI storyboards are BORING AF.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NO.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026
so cool how "cybertruck owner commits horrific crime" is just part of our cultural landscape now www.syracuse.com/crime/2026/0...
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Upstate NY driver killed pedestrian, then tried to hide Cybertruck in woods
The man was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. The crash took place in 2025.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/09/2026
But but but!! that's a minority of people!!! (25% of Americans have a disability) But but but!! they should just say something!!! (volunteering that you're disabled / medically complex / a cancer survivor is often an effective way to not get hired)
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/09/2026
Heat intolerance - due to something like MS - can require the use of a very cold beverage to lower core temperature quickly in order to avoid MS symptoms getting worse. Chronic cough, laryngopharyngeal reflux, and vocal fold disorders all can mean needing a beverage to sip on in order to talk
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/09/2026
People w diabetes who take insulin/sulfonylureas can have a blood sugar crash, four ounces of juice or soda or a dunkin extra extra is a standard treatment for that. People with IBD - a high-output ileostomy, short bowel syndrome etc - can dehydrate quickly & may need continuous oral hydration
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