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sisi jiang @six6jiang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

guys what the heck is going on with the dressmaker game and how come these are all pieces that could be worn at the met gala

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sisi jiang @six6jiang.bsky.social · 3h

bro the girlies are making the hokusai wave in the dressmaker game 😭 wtf this is PATTERNED LACE

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 1h

GUILT AND SELF-LACERATION ARE INDULGENCES

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Gavadon @gavadon.bsky.social · 4h

AEW has unfortunately been put in the position to memorialize a fallen wrestler many times. They do it with a full and honest embrace of grief and loss of the real human being, not just the wrestler. I'm thankful for the care and space they give the roster and the fans to mourn.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 9h

This creates absolute minefields for anyone who is a member of an underrepresented group: racism, sexism, and bigotry that you never even know about can absolutely tank your career. All it takes is for an influential senior person to say "I don't think they're very good" or "they're not serious."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 9h

One of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 7h

We talk a lot in the U.S. abt working class white Americans undermining their own interests in various ways, but it is striking to see how the ruling class will destroy itself rather than concede the right of others to live with dignity.

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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 18h

I’m definitely defensive on behalf of romance writers and readers cos so often comics are lumped in the “not real books” category so I will absolutely call bullshit on anyone belittling them. 🙏

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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 19h

What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!

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This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to different consumers.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 8h

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h

Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine.

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The point of suppressing information about queer and trans people is that more of us do not successfully make it to adulthood alive, have adult lives of meaning and happiness. That's genuinely the goal. They want us to die. I'm never going to be on team "why can't queers just hide and be hidden"

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 11h

If are a researcher in a humanities or social science field, if you have followed the release of the main and component report, and if you‘ve read some of those reports yourself, you will know how methodologically weak these reports are.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 11h

Prepare their own ground for laying into humanities and social science scholarship in a way they could otherwise not quite justify.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 11h

What the leadership of Vanderbilt and Washington U are wishing to do with the commission of their series of reports against current humanities and social science scholarship is the following. Take the butter off the bread of right-wing anti-university think tanks.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13h

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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יונה דער טינטפיש Squiddlio @estreyagraf.bsky.social · 11h

CA keeps failing to pass anything that could have a material impact on the ruling class. Rent control, ending prison slavery, gig worker protections, prop 13 reform. We physically cannot knock on enough doors to compete with the blizzard of mailers and media buys, nor the “liberal” cachet behind it.

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keita takahashi @kt.uvula.jp · 23h

Working on game projects other than my own leads to new discoveries, so I want to continue doing so whenever possible. Thank you for the opportunity to join this project, Andrew. I had a fun and creative time:) And don’t forget checking out Reality Draft!

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 21h

Guy guys we just gotta keep going soon we’ll change the tide of the trans segregation and trans section 28 party i can feel it in the air Remember that fake conversion ban? That was Nearly good! So close i can smell it Soon they’ll even dare call us women again Just one more meeting bro

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 29/09/2026

Loaded the last of the wooden pumpkins, bats, and ghosts in my store 🎃🦇👻 These are all one-of-a-kind original mini paintings on wood so when they're gone, they're gone stinasdemons.bigcartel.com 😈🎨🦇 Here are the new ghosts & pumpkins for sale. These four are the largest ones out of all I've made.

Wooden painted ghost shape with a landscape of a haunted house and a full moon

Wooden painted ghost shape with dozens of eyes painted on it

Painted pumpkin with a traditional jack o lantern face painted on it

Wooden pumpkin shape painted periwinkle and peach-pink with a smiling jack o lantern face on it

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22h

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 30/09/2026

As path of her job, she had to carry a pager. Every time someone needed support — were disclosing an assault or abuse — her pager went off. It went off all. The. Time.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 30/09/2026

I recently posted about my first professional job, running IT support for the Division of Student Affairs at Duke. This was back in 1998. My best friend at the time was someone who started at the same time as me. She worked at Duke’s Women’s Center, as the Sexual Assault Services Coordinator.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

When I entered #economics, I learned that for too long of a period JOB INTERVIEWS were held in HOTEL ROOMS. Hotel. Rooms. Babyyyyyyyyyyy these academic streets ain't safe for women.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

The more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 2025, Trump was inaugurated into his second term and immediately ordered the Department of Education to stop investigating complaints about sexual violence or other violations of women’s Title IX rights.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can read the pro-segregation goals in a lot of their founding documents. Fraternities are one of the classic examples used in sociological theories cynical about institutional change. The older a fraternity, the more likely they are to still have documents that explicitly ban Black members.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a reminder that the fraternity system was created to oppose race and gender integration on college campuses. White men who wanted to keep their schools—and all the power that comes with college education—to themselves. It is not a coincidence that they are hotbeds of violence.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once again granting a stay with no analysis of the stay factors in a case where the balance of equities is utterly bonkers

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So. Just know that you can follow or unfollow anyone for any reason, but you don’t need to mic drop. It’s fine if someone’s posts are triggering, or you just can’t deal with the volume, whatever. What’s not fine is “actually I don’t care about you as a person; I’m just here to consume your output.”

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Farm Goth 🇵🇸 @poemsandfungus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I was teaching, so many white parents were raising "gentle/sensitive" but selfish sons by asking for special treatment. "He was sad you didn't call on him today, could you call on him first tomorrow?" Always a lesson about using words, but never a lesson that sometimes it's other people's turn.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are a lot of parents focused on getting gentleness *for* their sons, but not expecting their sons to show gentleness to anyone else. And that’s just male entitlement in liberal window dressing.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Public History! I am on the committee so please let me know if you have questions and please feel free to share! Job ID 303951. campus.kennesaw.edu/faculty-staf...

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Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio 🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.

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Lyra and 1 other @muzzlesbian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as someone with little to no ttrpg experience before running into girl frame last year, the idea that "GM" and "player" are fully separate groups has always completely baffled me. sure, the GM may be doing things differently to the rest of you, but you're all still playing the game, are you not?

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 29/09/2026

"uhh well how would u even do anything if they banned AI!" buddy, up until 2007 the world got along just fine without fuckin *smartphones* we'd figure something out lol

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/09/2026

"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."

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