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Femme Malheureuse

@femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
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Author; hellion; post-post-futurist. Caveat lector: I post about writing, the arts, technology, women's and diversity issues. The personal is political. (formerly […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.social/@femme_mal, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
Tell how this company is a going concern. It's dead. It's the accumulated death of tens and hundreds of other companies rolled into one.
Screenshot, Mastodon post bridging Bluesky post by Steve Herman, published 20-OCT-2026.

Text: In a new draft prospectus viewed by the Wall Street journal, Anthropic disclosed an $80.7 billion net loss for the first half of 2026 and a long list of risk factors.

Link: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v63y3emmbz5dlvzkejca2mcc/post/3mydeyjjrgu2y
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
ABC News published this headline with the misspelled name and Flipboard regurgitated it. Screenshot in case one of them clues in and edits it without noting the edit.
Screenshot, headline of article on Flipboard reprinting ABC News' article headline published October 18, 2026.

Text: Jane Austin classic has a fresh new look on the big screen
Entertainment journalist and host Aunyea Lachelle discusses her favorite picks and what she will be watching this weekend.

ABC News • 41m
Read more on abcnews.com

/end text

Austin should be Austen, whose works are among the most adapted in western culture.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Leave all Meta products. No Threads, no Facebook, no Instagram, no Whatsapp. Meta is a fascist tool all the way through.
Screenshot, Bluesky post by Leah Greenberg of Indivisible (@leahgreenberg.bsky.social)

Text: Meta just took down the No Kings instagram page with 3000 events happening around the country today

Published: 2:46 PM ET · Oct 17, 2026
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
COVID disinformation purveyors are still pushing their bullshit hard, including defaming those who saved millions of lives. Fuck this hack William Makis. source: bsky.app/profile/peterhotezmdphd.bs…
Screenshot, Bluesky post by @ Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) 
(@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social) published Oct 11, 2026 1:01 am ET.

Text: Well no, we licensed our low-cost, patent-free
COVID vaccine technology to multiple groups
with the stipulation that they will do this at
$2-3 per dose to help humanity, and we will
work with them to scale up. No patents, no
strings attached. We did it to help humanity. It
worked, more than 100 million people got
vaccinated...and we made no money. Some
delivered like India and Indonesia, some didn’t.
Because we used a vegan technology Indonesia
figured out that they could make it Halal. Not
bad for a Jewish guy. Tikkun Olam, repair the
world. That's what | did with my MD PhD
@WeillCornell @RockefellerUniv /end text

Embedded post by @William Makis (@MakisMedicine)

Text: Dr.Patrick Soon-Shiong was partners with Peter
Hotez on selling COVID-19 Vaccines
He is Big Pharma / end text
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Wish I could share the entire thread here but this is the top post and it's the most important bit. Read the Alt Text for links.
Screenshot, first post of a Bluesky thread by Chise (@sailorrooscout.bsky.social)

Text: WELL NOW, would you look at that? 

A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality. 

Published 12:00 PM · Oct 5, 2026

Link to thread: https://bsky.app/profile/sailorrooscout.bsky.social/post/3mx5bx5dmhc26

Link to underlying study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
I do not subscribe to anarchism. It does not construct an alternative to a toxic system of governance; it advocates against any governance because governance is the state. 1/2
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Mm-hmm.
Screenshot, Bluesky post by Katie Martin (@katie0martin.ft.com) published 6:42 PM · Sep 25, 2026 ET.

I have blamed 
The agents
That hacked 
Your website 

And which
You probably
Reasonably thought
I controlled

Forgive me
I am rich
And unaccustomed
To taking responsibility

/end
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Sen. McCormick is trying to disengage himself from Trump+MAGA with this bullshit op-ed, but his ignorance and racism is all his. ALL Americans regardless of their race/ethnicity/age/sexuality/gender identity/ability should receive equitable services from the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot excerpt from Sen. McCormick's op-ed in the Washington Post, published September 23, 2026 at 6:30 a.m. EDT.

Text: "We have also let politics intrude on science. The NIH under the Biden administration gave CHOP $155,000 to develop training on “structural racism” and “intersectional microaggressions.” Such initiatives abused taxpayer money and undermined trust."

link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/09/23/sen-dave-mccormick-nih-research-needs-more-reform-investment/
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
He must have been particularly obnoxious today that I've received so many posts about him in my feed back to back. So glad I filtered that twatwaffle. I can elect to read only as much of his bullshit as my anxiety will manage.
Screenshot of several filtered posts from my Mastodon feed.

The filter notifications read, "Filtered: That orange twatwaffle" with a link to open the post if desired.

And I do not desire to read these posts. The orange twatwaffle sucks up enough of my time and energy — he can go fuck himself.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
Seriously, he made some remarks that are unmoored from reality in response to interest rates.
Bluesky post by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) published 3:16 PM · Sep 13, 2026

Text: Trump says he will cut off all trade entirely with "some nations" unless the Fed lowers interest rates

Embedded video of Trump available at https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mvgcnshjuh2i
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
Still infuriated by CBS Evening News coverage last night. Compare CBS to ABC in same time slot -- CBS, btw, doesn't provide a breakdown of their news with links to invidual stories as competitors ABC or NBC do. I had to go through the entire news cast to break […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot, CBS Evening News for evening 16-SEP-2026 via YouTube.

List of story segments covered during broadcast (YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxKl2aC7v0)Screenshot, ABC World News Tonight for evening 16-SEP-2026 via YouTube.

List of story segments covered during broadcast as provided by ABC (active links at the YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxKl2aC7v0)
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
This people are dinosaurs who are a minority and dying out. They may represent a sizeable chunk of the investor class but the Boomers will be sliding out of stocks and into other stable forms of investment over the next 15 years. CEOs need to pay attention to […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Headline, Bloomberg article published  September 16, 2026 at 9:05 AM EDT.

Text: Americans Are Losing Patience With CEOs Who Speak Their Minds
Republicans and Baby Boomers are least interested in hearing executives’ opinions on political or social issues, Stanford study finds.
By Jeff Green

/end text
Screenshot via Google Finance, comparison of 5-year stock price performance of Target Corp (NYSE:TGT) compared to Walmart (WMT), Costco (COST), and Amazon (AMZN).

Target has lost value since 2021 while the other retailers have improved their stock price. Walmart has had a stock split in that time frame.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
So apparently Trump thinks bribery and federal election violations are part of his core responsibilities as POTUS, for which he is immune. Uh-huh. Just another delusional lie he thinks we'll fall for.
Screenshot, Financial Times headline, "Trump promises $5000 'dividend' for US voters if Republicans win midterms"
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
This is a crock of crap. There has been a long-term program intent on destabilizing both NATO and individual allies, run by Russia. The Alberta independence movement is one example; it mirrors the independence movements in CA and TX also spurred by Russia […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Mastodon post published Aug 25, 2026, 04:26 AM ET with poster's ID redacted because this is a sub-toot. 

The US kind of has to make those extreme demands because their
disaster scenario is that China partners with Canada and uses it as
a staging area to push civil war into the US.

But they're not gonna convince anyone of anything unless they
come with some VERY attractive deal points, which as far as | can
tell, they're not.

But if they don't make a deal then China gets their staging area, and
if they invade Canada to close the staging area then China gets a
second Iran.

Weak Men and Hard Times as far as they eye can see emoji

/end text

(BTW: 4:26 am ET = 1:26 pm Moscow Time)
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
AI disclosure is the least one can do since they've appropriated the work of others including me.
Bridged Bluesky post by Dan Hon (@danhon.com@bsky.brid.gy) published 
Aug 24, 2026, 05:20 PM ET.

Text: is ai disclosure policy the new land acknowledgement policy
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
If only.
Screenshot, post by Lunya (@luna@lunar.place) published August 18, 2026 1:51 pm ET.

Text: MEOW

includes prompt by Mastodon to Translate text

I scribbled an arrow in red toward "Translate" and wrote LOL because yes, funny.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
Thinming of AI which uses only the words contained in a body of scanned (and stolen) material. It will contain nothing wholly original. Gods, I hope we're not reading it now let alone in the distant future.
Screenshot, Bluesky post by Ada Palmer (@adapalmer.bsky.social) published 12:05 PM ET, August 18, 2026.

Text: In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness.

They produced NOTHING we still read.

Thinking about that a lot  lately.

/end-text

Link to post: https://bsky.app/profile/adapalmer.bsky.social/post/3mtelutdcm225
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
Screenshot, post at Bluesky by Esteban @echolimamike.bsky.social published 5:41PM - Jul 30, 2026

Text: :bull's eye emoji:

Embedded image: humanoid robot in shadowed profile; the robot appears to be browsing library shelves.

White card overlay with black text that reads:

"So if I purchase a DVD and
digitize it, that's copyright
infringement. But if an Al company
buys my book and scans it to train
their system, that’s perfectly fine?
Once again, corporations are
allowed to play by their own rules.
I'm so sick of the hypocrisy."
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
This is so sad, a local news outlet which has survived since 1850 reduced to relying on scammy gambling for its revenues.
Screenshot, Mastodon profile for The Oregonian which only has 313 followers.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
The Oregonian relies on shitty prediction market (read: gambling) sites as part of its business model. I've filtered out this stuff out but I think I'm going to unfollow The Oregonian. There have to be better ways to monetize local news than this.
Screenshot, post by The Oregonian (@OregonLive) with post text filtered out with a personalized notification that reads:

"Matches filter 'That scammy prediction market stuff'

Show anyway"

(I am not showing anyway.)
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
Welp. There's another filter to create. Sick of prediction market bullshit in my timeline. Yet another massively scammy money suck which manages to siphon off my time even though I don't use this prediction market crap. Get off of my Mastodon lawn. Scram!
Screenshot of post by The Oregonian promoting a prediction market.

Now setting up a filter to block posts like this.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
This is excellent -- rain right where it's needed.
Screenshot, post by NWS (bot) (@nws_bot@m.ai6yr.org)

Text: #wx #NWSWPC Weather Prediction Center- 24 Hour Precipitation - Day 1

Image: map of continental US with overlap into southern Canada and northern Mexico, with multicolor overlay predicting precipitation over the next 24 hours. Western Ontario is predicted to receive considerable rainfall of one or more inches over the area most affected by wildfires this past week.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
This bastard needs a XXXL sock stuffed in his lying mouth. His industry was warned about plutonomy 20 years ago, warned by his own industry (Citigroup), and they just kept sucking up to the wealthy while crushing the working class. Fuck him and his bullshit […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026
Heh. Happy 4th of July!
Screenshot, Wundermap via Wunderground showiing weather radar for Washington DC area at 19:50 GMT on July 4, 2026. A cluster of thunderstorms are moving northeast from central Virginia toward Washington.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026
So many people are whining about this 4th of July, that there's nothing to celebrate, that we've somehow lost (to a minority that only took office because they've cheated by way of gerrymandering, voter suppression, and corruption). Bah. Celebrate the day we […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot, Bluesky post with photo of Patriot Front members riding public transportation in Washington DC to attend a rally. Patriot Front members are garbed in khaki ball caps, dark navy T-shirts, and full face gaiters while outdoor temps approach 100F.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026
Via Bluesky -- Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social‬ And there it is: With just hours remaining until deadline to release more Epstein Files under lawsuit filed by @katiephang — Justice Dept asks judge for two-month delay, claiming it risks revealing […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot, post via Bluesky by Scott MacFarlane, text included in post.

Embedded graphic: last page of request by DOJ asking for 2-month delay, signed by DOJ associate attorney general Stanley Woodward Jr.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
I will bet Alito or his staff punked Nina Totenberg. I wonder if she was the one who *first* reported on the dispute between Alito and Sotomayor, and this is payback. tl;dr - Alito snapped at Sotomayor for reading her dissent and not notifying she was doing […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot excerpt, headline from NPR News article:
A day after Alito's testy response to Sotomayor's dissent, court says it was a 'misunderstanding'
NPR | By Nina Totenberg
Published June 26, 2026 at 4:18 PM CDT
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
Nothing quite like affirming to the public that you're totally unqualified for your job because you can't fucking see it's too late -- you are wholly owned by Ellisons and the gutting of '60 Minutes' bears Ellisons' footprints.
Screenshot, Bloomberg article headline published June 4, 2026.

Headline text: New ‘60 Minutes’ Chief Tells Staff Ellisons Won’t Influence Show

URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/new-60-minutes-chief-tells-staff-ellisons-won-t-influence-show
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026
I don't know about you but strange women lying in ponds distributing swords look increasing appealing as a system of government.
John Everett Millais' painting "Ophelia" modified by this poster - Ophelia lies on her back in a pond with a sword held in both of her hands.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026
There is likely an ongoing NATO meeting right now discussing whether this triggered Article 5 and its mutual response. You can bet Trump isn't involved in spite of the US' NATO membership.
Screenshot, Bluesky post by MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com‬) published 12:05 AM ET · May 29, 2026

Text: BREAKING: A Russian attack drone has struck a residential building in Galați, Romania, according to reports from the scene.

Romania is a NATO member state. Initial reports indicate multiple people were injured.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
Seriously, tell me this guy couldn't be replaced by AI. As if a toddler couldn't tell you prices are going to rise because supply is throttled.
Screenshot, Bluesky post by Financial Times (@financialtimes.com‬) published  7:03 PM GMT · May 28, 2026.

Text: Chevron CEO Wirth warns oil prices likely to rise as Iran war hits supplies ft.trib.al/H9JOr37

Chevron CEO Wirth warns oil prices likely to rise as Iran war hits supplies
Blockade in Strait of Hormuz has removed up to 13mn barrels a day from global markets and drawn down ‘shock absorbers’
ft.trib.al
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
Ever notice how corporations don't replace their most highly compensated personnel who don't actually make any products with AI?
Screenshot, post by Quartz (@quartz@flipboard.com) published May 28,  2026, 03:00 PM ET.

Text: Tyson Foods is replacing its CEO with a former Procter \u0026 Gamble executive from its own board
https://
qz.com/tyson-foods-ceo-jeff-schomburger-donnie-king-052826?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub 

Posted into Business News @business-news-quartz
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
Damn. This isn't far from my paternal family property. Also VERY close to Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park -- the City of Refuge. I hope to heck some kahuna are preparing offerings to whichever of the gods is upset.
Screenshot, map of earthquake tremors on Hawaii's big island via Earthquake Alert!

Most of the tremors from 22-MAY-2026 M6.0 quake are makai from Komakawai, along the coast in south Kona district.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
What filtered posts look like when I've added *warn with notification* setting. The first post from Flipboard must either contain a link from CBS or mention Bari Fucking Fascist Asshole Weiss. The second should be obvious to anyone who is sentient. I don't […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot, two sequential posts from my Mastodon feed. Both are from The News Desk at Flipboard.com, published 22-MAY-2026

The first contains a warning notification which is a customized message applied to all posts containing CBS, CBS.com, or Bari Weiss. The warning reads, "That fascist right-wing news media" (this warning may eventually apply to more corporate-owned media).

The second post contains a warning notification which is a customized message applied to all posts containing "Trump" or "Donald Trump." This filter may also block mentions of his family members including his automaton wife and his idiotic sons but I have no more use for them than the patriarch of the family.

If more than a handful of these notifications appear sequentially in my feed, I will peek at one to see what the hell is going on to cause such a burst, ex. launching an attack on another country, committing yet another huge fraud, etc.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
Can you even hear yourself, Marco? Have you looked in the fucking mirror any time since November 2024?
Screenshot, post by The News Desk (@thenewsdesk@flipboard.com) published May 21, 2026, 10:00 AM ET.

Text: Rubio to Cubans: Your government is ‘standing in the way of a better future’
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/politics/video/rubio-cuban-government-message-future-digvid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub 

Posted into Politics @politics-thenewsdesk

Embedded headline: CNN · 9h
Rubio to Cubans: Your government is ‘standing in the way of a better future’ | CNN Politics

Embedded blurb: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a video message in Spanish speaking directly to the people of Cuba as the US has put economic pressure on the Cuban government, leaving the island in increasingly dire conditions, including rolling blackouts. Rubio said the US is ready to help the Cuban people, but that the GAESA, a military-run conglomerate that controls much of Cuba’s economy, “is standing in the way of a better future.”
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026
This guy is such a fucking moron. Netflix users know how the company works and they don't have a problem with it — unlike all the bloody ad brokers. And where's Paxton's outrage against all the other businesses selling user data without active consent? This is […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot, post by Engadget (@engadget@flipboard.com) published May 11, 2026 at 4:04 pm ET.

Text: Texas AG sues Netflix, claiming the streaming service collects user data without consent.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026
And I should believe the ethically compromised Bari Weiss why? Her deputy Forelle got it right: corporate-owned media is owned. But while Forelle claims these news organizations are independent of their owners, their management has already assured the output […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot excerpt, first 2 grafs of article link in post.

Text: "“Everybody here is owned by somebody,” the managing editor of CBS News, Charles Forelle, told me at the annual conference of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, a business journalism trade group, in Philadelphia on Friday.

“The convention in American journalism is that the owners are independent of the news operation, and that’s the case at CBS,” he said. “And [owner David Ellison] said that, and he said quite clearly that that would be the case no matter what.”"
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026
Good.
Post by The New York Times (@newyorktimes@flipboard.com)
published May 08, 2026, 05:04 AM ET.

Text: Meta Is Dying
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/opinion/meta-facebook-zuckerberg.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub 

Posted into Home Page @home-page-newyorktimes

Embedded headline: The New York Times · 5h
Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg Is Running Meta Into the Ground
By Julia Angwin
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026
So the SCOTUS majority is just racist and misogynist, then? What a coincidence the GOP is also racist and misogynist and the SCOTUS conservative majority was seated by GOP presidents. I will work hard to maintain my health so I can piss on this man's grave.
Screenshot, post by Associated Press.

Article: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-chief-justice-8933cfe269c90746e200f2588801dfae
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026
In other news, water is wet.
Screenshot, post by The New York Times (@newyorktimes@flipboard.com) published May 06, 2026, 12:07 PM ET.

Text: Higher Gas Prices Are Hitting Lower-Income Americans the Hardest
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/business/economy/gas-prices-inequality-lower-income-consumers.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub 

Posted into Business Day @business-day-newyorktimes

Embedded headling: Gas prices have soared since the start of the war with Iran.
The New York Times · 1h
Higher Gas Prices Are Hitting Lower-Income Americans the Hardest
By Talmon Joseph Smith
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026
Still hate the POS. Dropped an academic class requiring it because I had to teach myself Inkscape instead because AI was so fucking bad. If I had to teach myself how to use an alternative, a class requiring AI was a fraud. Not to mention Adobe hoovered up […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot, post by  aetios 🇪🇺 (@aetios@sns.minovsky.space) boosting a Bluesky post by Frank Cvetkovic (@gofrankgo.bsky.social).

Text: Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Image: The Simpsons' character Grandpa Simpson shaking his fist at the clouds in the sky outside the window.

source: https://mstdn.social/@aetios@sns.minovsky.space/116445126905234102
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
Why is this transphobe getting so much coverage? Why is he being treated as if he's credible about journalism let alone comedy?
Screenshot, post by PBS News (@PBSNewsHour@flipboard.com) published Apr 21, 2026, 11:19 AM ET.

Text: Dave Chappelle on importance of comedy and journalism
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts/settle-in-with-pbs-news/dave-chappelle-on-importance-of-comedy-and-journalism?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub 

Posted into Politics @politics-PBSNewsHour

Embedded headline: PBS News · 35m
Dave Chappelle on importance of comedy and journalism
Comedian Dave Chappelle sits down with Amna Nawaz in Yellow Springs, Ohio, for a wide-ranging discussion on his concerns around free speech,; the importance of local journalism and why he doesn’t regret his controversial decision to perform ...
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
A follow-on I didn't expect -- note in this heartbreaking NYTimes op-ed the status of US wrt measles elimination and vaccination rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/…
Screenshot, excerpt from NYTimes op-ed, "Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know," by Rebecca Archer, published April 21, 2026.

Text: In January of this year, Britain lost its measles elimination status. Our national M.M.R. vaccination rate hovers at 84 percent, far below the 95 percent target set by the World Health Organization.

In the United States, where schoolchildren are required to be vaccinated against measles, the national vaccination rate is 92 percent. Many states also allow for exemptions to vaccine requirements, and as a result, U.S. vaccination rates are uneven. Last year, the United States saw its highest rate of measles cases in more than three decades and the country may soon lose its measles elimination status as well. Despite this, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he doesn’t think the government should be mandating vaccines, and that they should be a matter of personal choice.

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026
Example of worm damage: absolutely false statement about measles infection control. See below a table comparing 2026 to date against 2025 -- not a good trend, and both years insanely worse than 2024. It's impossible that the US could experience 75% of last […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot, post by AP News (@apnewsbot@frontrange.co) published Apr 17, 2026, 06:35 PM ET.

Text: FACT FOCUS: RFK Jr. claims US leads in controlling measles spread

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed at his first congressional hearing in months that, under his leadership, the U.S. has limited the spread of measles better than any other country in the world.

https://apnews.com/article/measles-vaccine-outbreak-mmr-rfk-canada-mexico-bed6d69b668b9d8548ad65dab1a4fd9c

Embedded headline: AP News · 54m
FACT FOCUS: RFK Jr. claims US leads in controlling measles spread
By Devi Shastri

Embedded photo attribution: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the House Education and Workforce Committee to defend his agency's policies and goals at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Screenshot, table comparing measles cases, age of patients, vaccination state of cases, hospitalization rate and deaths between 2025 and 2026 year to date.

Source: American Association of Pediatrics, Red Book Online Outbreaks: Measles
URL: https://publications.aap.org/redbook/resources/15187/Red-Book-Online-Outbreaks-Measles
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
This is what I want: more amphibians on newspapers' front pages, less demented orange twatwaffle wrecking the world. Starve the malignant narcissist of his narcissistic supply and watch what happens. He'll meltdown into a place even the most slavish GOP can't defend.
Screenshot, front page article in Marquette MI's The Mining Journal newspaper published April 14, 2026.

Article headline: A good week for salamander migration
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
What. The. Actual. Fuck. I'm so glad I left the dead bird app when Elon dragged the sink into the Twitter lobby.
Screenshot, Bluesky post by (@rmac.bsky.social) published 5:35 PM ET - April 13, 2026.

Text: new communities like...

*checks notes*

women

Embedded screenshot, X.com post by Nikita Bier (@nikitabier)

Text: I've seen a few people promote a theory that if X brings in new
communities (e.g., women, vloggers) that it will somehow damage their
community's experience.

This is categorically false: the Timeline algorithm serves tons of niches
that you never see. Growth of new audiences will not pollute your
Timeline (and if it does, that is a failure of the algorithm and we will fix it).

X is for everyone and the product only gets more resilient and more
relevant when more people are on here.

7:30 PM - Apr 12, 2026 - 517.9K Views
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026
Yet another election Team Trump lost. Heh. Congrats, Hungary, and congrats EU!
Screenshot, post by Dr. Jack Brown (@DrJackBrown) published 3:31 pm ET, April 12, 2026.

Text: BREAKING: Peter Magyar wins the election! Viktor Orbam is out!
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026
It's only going to be a long-term project because the GOP has neither the ethics or spine to remove Trump from office for abuse of power including violating War Powers. A decent journalist needs to ask Johnson if he's making money off continuing Trump's […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot, post by ABC News (@abc@flipboard.com) published Apr 12, 2026, 10:16 AM ET.

Text: GOP Sen. Johnson says Iran will be 'a long term project' after talks fail
https://abcnews.com/Politics/gop-sen-johnson-iran-long-term-project-after/story?id=131967290&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub 

Posted into News @news-abc

Embedded headline: ABC News · 18m
GOP Sen. Johnson says Iran will be 'a long term project' after talks fail
By Ford McCracken
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
Damn it all. I can't remember who it was I filtered out of my feed under this notification. The label is too intriguing, I don't see it anywhere near as often as the notification labeled, "that orange twatwaffle." And yet I know if I open this notification to […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot, post by ABC News (@abc@flipboard.com) published 15 about 4:03 pm ET.

Text of post hidden by filter.

Filter notification reads:  “That pathetic need for attention”

Somebody is/somebodies are named behind this filter who appeared far too many times in my Mastodon feed for totally bullshit reasons including arbitrary celebrity status.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026
These aren't the only two outlets characterizing the handling of the IPO filing as "confidentially." What.
Screenshot from Google News about the SpaceX IPO filing.

2 of 4 news articles in this screenshot use the word "confidentially" to describe the IPO filing.
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