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Femme Malheureuse

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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 · 1h
Re-upping - check the replies, too. I am blocklisting on my WordPress site any comments containing this string as well: *google.*/share.google* mstdn.social/@about.iftas.org@about…
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h
~10 post thread, check it out. Make a plan to vote, vote as early as possible. Vote because we the people have #NoKings
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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 22h
If the goal is to fight fascist tyranny wherever it is - and it damn well should be - then you will be better equipped to fight it where you are than anywhere else. It doesn't seem like that's your goal if you just try to act better than people in other countries that ostensibly have a bigger […]
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h
Been thinking more about El-Sayed and “Tommy”. Never forget that much of this country was founded by Christian religious zealots, people who put freedom of religion into their state constitutions and then the U.S. federal constitution not because they so much wanted people whose Christian sects […]
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21h
Fine, the guy was a fuck-up. Putting four reporters on his bio reeks of the NYT trying to excuse ICE for shooting him in his car with his 5-year-old son. Which is inexcusable. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/n...
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How a Dominican Man Became an ICE Target Before the NYC Shooting (Gift Article)
Oscar Belgal arrived in the city from the Dominican Republic in 2022. Chaos appeared to follow, ending in a fateful encounter with immigration agents.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h
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 · 20h
My backyard is full of migrating Canada geese taking a well-earned rest while nibbling on my lawn. They never attack me. However they're excellent guard dogs -- I can tell by their honks if a human is walking nearby, or a dog or other potential predator. Waiting for the day I see them go after […]
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h
WTAF it's spelled AUSTEN you ignorant gits! flipboard.com/@abc/news-54f0unfaz/-…
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Jane Austin classic has a fresh new look on the big screen | Flipboard
ABC News - Entertainment journalist and host Aunyea Lachelle discusses her favorite picks and what she will be watching this weekend.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h
Ugh. You don't like the old centrist Dems? Carville is the old centrist Dem consultant who helped their kind get elected. He needs to retire and STFU. The Bulwark is a collection of anti-Trump GOP. If their advice worked, they'd have won the GOP back from Trump. And in particular Bill Kristol […]
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 21h
"..another predicate that hasn’t rec'd enough attention: Natl Security Pres Memorandum 7 that Trump signed in 2025 aiming to bring full force of fed govt down on leftists it defined as “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity..” If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 23h
A 🧵 Influential news outlets especially @nytimes.com continue trivialize coverage of the pro-democracy movement & demonstrations like #NoKings Today’s NYT front page: 🦗🦗 Advocacing for voting is not partisan, America has no kings. This is an institutional failure of the AGSulzberger NYT. 1/ n
The New York times 

Zero coverage
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
@GuyDudeman It's damned shame businesses -- and the people who own/operate them -- could give a flying rat's butt about their brand's damage or potential for access to their customers to be held hostage by a corporation with a long history of fuckery.
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
‘A new kind of power’: investigation reveals spread of Palantir’s influence across Europe www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-contra… The most revealing report yet into the AI company’s business across the continent, by a […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Meanwhile, Larry Ellison and his pals have locked out of TikTok the account promoting the new, scathing documentary about Elon Musk. Big (Tech) Media is on a censorship rampage aimed to shut down the critics of the escalating right-wing extremism […]
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
First sentence of this article says "more than a thousand" -- you know this means there were more by far. If you have No Kings content, share it widely because corporate media is throttling coverage as well as the numbers of attendees. We have to be the media we need.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Chilly wedding venue at 57F degrees with a strong WSW breeze but I'd attend if invited. It's a glorious fall day. A perfect day for a march, might I say.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
This isn't the only election Meta is screwing with. They've interfered with Brazil's election, too. Leave all Meta products. Stop feeding the fascist machine. www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta…
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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 · 17/10/2026
@pattykimura She completely lost any remaining credibility she had voting to approve Kavanaugh to SCOTUS in 2018. Maine screwed itself as well as the nation when it re-elected her in 2020.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Not crazy about how he handled this and yet none of us want to hear any more of corrupt Collins' "deeply concerned" bullshit.
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
If this trillionaire can afford to spend this much on a single politician, he can afford a LOT more in taxes. mstdn.social/@thetnholler.bsky.soci…
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
You know what would *really* fix the deficit? Billionaires and a particular trillionaire paying their fair share in taxes.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thousands of Brazilian students took to the streets a few days ago to protest right wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro after he won 2 million more votes than the incumbent, President Lula, in the first round of the election. Claims of US election interference abound. 1/
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
So pathetic. WaPo editorial, which should be expressing outrage at the ongoing state-sanctioned pogroms in the West Bank, instead whinges about "the extraordinary dangers that many journalists face around the world." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Worst editorial board in the country?
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Opinion | The dangers that journalists face
An attack on Post photographer Heidi Levine is a reminder of the grave risks journalists take to show the world the truth.
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The Funny Pages @thefunnypages.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
A Softer World by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau (www.asofterworld.com) #comicstrip #asofterworld #comics #fumetti
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
wait how many press conferences did the new press secretary actually conduct
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"Records are made to be broken. But I take no pleasure in other people's pain." - Anthony Scaramucci just now
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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Larsen's original work here www.blarsenphoto.com/store/p/14k-...
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14,000 Satellite Trails over Mt Taranaki — BRENDAN LARSEN PHOTOGRAPHY
14,000 satellite trails over Mt Taranaki, New Zealand. An extraordinary astrophotography composite created from 578 photos and 45 hours of editing. Fine art prints.
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Kalimantan (Borneo) is burning. Here’s the haze from my home in Singapore
Photo of haze obscuring many buildings and impacting visibility from a high rise building in Singapore
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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
“Fast tech is the blind spot of the e-waste world. Black Friday and Christmas will bring another enormous wave of electronic toys, decorative lights, mini gadgets, chargers and other inexpensive electronics into our homes. Their low price doesn’t mean they have no environmental cost. We need […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
SpaceX is now requesting 456 launches per year from Boca Chica public-inspection.federalregister.g… As my colleague pointed out, that's more than the current launch rate for the world (245 launches so far this year according to […]
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, this is fascism, and they should report and write accordingly. From August 2024: presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Caller: "Is your refrigerator running?" "Um, I think so." "Well, you better download the latest security patches."
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
All corruption, all the time in Trump world, as Big Tech and Crypto spend wildly to buy the election for the Republicans. influence.citationneeded.news/?ref=… Brilliant journalism as always from Molly White.
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Tech Influence Watch
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
just in case you didn’t know that “it’s only for code reviews, I don’t see the problem” is always bad faith horseshit: www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvald… > Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree […]
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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 12/10/2026
I got a call from someone I don't know. "Hi. We have a FreeBSD server. It's been working perfectly for years, but it hasn't been updated since then. We asked AI to update it, but now it won't boot anymore. It didn't even make a backup before starting. The AI keeps trying things, everything is […]
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Cameron MacLeod @c-9.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
This is the same discussion as autonomous vehicles - "oh no we have no way to ever charge a computer with murder for running down pedestrians, so I guess we better give up". This is not complicated.
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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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The Gaffer @thegaffer.hobbitwhispers.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
FoxNews will spin this as “Ukraine attempts to interfere in US midterm elections” #USPol #Elections #Ukraine #Russia
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Der Motzmichel auf Bluesky in der EU!!! 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱❤️🕊️☮️🏳️‍🌈🍍🤪🚀🖖🏽✌🏽🖕🏼🤡🙈🙉🙊👉🏽👌🏽🌮🥸🫣💩🌈 @maverick1966.app.leafplaza.eu · 10/10/2026
FINALLY!!! After #BMV rejected the German fascist party AfD, #Tesla stepped in and proudly delivered the new East German #cybertruck! What a beauty she is … 🤪🇩🇪🖕🏾
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Unsurprising that this happened in west Michigan. Too many Christian fundie white supremacist types though parts are slowly beginning to shift blue.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sam Cooke sang “don’t know much about history,” but you will after listening to the fascinating lesson spanning the centuries about educating the republic in this weekend’s episode of America at 250: Due Diligence on your radio, online or right here. newsguy.substack.com/p/reading-wr...
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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Perfect first sentence.
Robert Mackey
21:57 EDT Friday, 09 October 2026
Donald Trump complained Friday about not
winning the Nobel peace prize for 2026, a year in which he started a war with Iran.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026
Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My understanding is that the US doesn't need diesel. It's other countries' needs that are driving up global prices. US refiners make billions of excess profits charging US customers global prices. In fact we are a major exporter of diesel. So WTF? And what did he give Putin in return?
Chart showing consistent production, domestic sale, and exports of diesel over the last 6 months.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So this is all midterm theater. And what did Trump give Putin in return? Money to kill more Ukrainian civilians?
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
This weaving shuttle is a late-1800s tuberculosis vector, kept in the Textile Museum of Borås. Many textile workers caught the disease, and English employers found a correlation with a certain type of loom. You were supposed to get the yarn out of that […] [Original post on archaeo.social]
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