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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 14h
the cloister hotel, sea island, georgia, 1990
the cloister hotel, sea island, georgia, 1990
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"I think about you every day."
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do men realize that since the Cornell story dropped, I have gotten countless messages from women telling me that if rape culture ended tomorrow, they would finally be free to be the freaky sluts they've always wanted to be? Men live in a prison and yet are the only ones that hold the key. 
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I've been working to end sexual violence for 20+ years and I have never, ever, not once, had a male survivor tell me they were offended by my work or felt excluded by my work. The "What about men?!" crowd does not actually care about boys and men who've been sexually assaulted.
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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Push your politicians, women’s groups and Queer organizations. If they aren’t advocating for the 231 Calls to Justice, they aren’t intersectional.
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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Innocent Couple Confused When Armed Cops Surround Their Home Following a Wild Tip From a Flock Camera futurism.com/future-socie...
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Innocent Couple Confused When Armed Cops Surround Their Home Following a Wild Tip From a Flock Camera
A family in Lexington, Kentucky is demanding answers after police descended on their homes with guns drawn following a lead from an ALPR.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026
So “slop” is the negative externalities imposed on consumers by the imposition of synthetic communications by profit-seeking entities.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Some thoughts from May 2021 — and an article to go with it. This nightmare was preventable. They didn’t want to stop it. Article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...
im a low vision user who can't see this tiny fucking box well enough to type in it. ffs this is obviously not for low vision peopel
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every decade or so, we go through this. Waves & waves of women sharing their stories of sexual assault & harassment after an especially horrific case hits the headlines, such as the Cornell 7. And every decade or so, what changes besides collective retraumatisation? open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
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Essay: #IBeatMyAssaulter
On “Optimal Violence” and Trickle-Up Retribution
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Cornell rape story and the Silicon Valley professional orgy culture story are the same story.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And you know, there is something obscene about using the exploitation and murder of poor Black men, women, and children as a metaphor for a largely white electorate supporting a conman. The comparison borrows the horror of their deaths while discarding the conditions of their lives.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Jonestown is going to teach us anything, let it be how human needs can be weaponized, and how power destroys the possibility of refusal. Remember the victims as people instead of cheap synonyms for being an idiot.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are serious things to say about authoritarianism, manipulation, and cults of personality, but “lol, drink the Kool-Aid” does none of that work. It makes the victims’ supposed gullibility the memorable part and lets the machinery of their captivity and agonizing death disappear.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s what disgusts me almost beyond reason — the casual assurance that these people died because they were foolish, and that our cleverness would have saved us. Like murdered families are a compliment we pay ourselves for being so smart.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Peoples Temple drew members through promises of racial equality, material support, and community. Most were poor, many were elderly. 70% of its members (and victims) were Black. Wanting somewhere to live with dignity and joy was the vulnerability Jones exploited.
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Paul Fagan 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @paulfagan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sadly since then, the murder of journalists in the Middle East has become so normalized, we no longer talk about it or take the time to learn their names. In the last three years, 247 journalists and media workers have been killed, most in targeted assassinations by Israel cpj.org/2023/10/jour...
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Journalist casualties during the Israel–Gaza war and related regional conflicts - Committee to Protect Journalists
Editor’s note: In keeping with CPJ’s methodology, data will be updated as new information becomes available. See CPJ’s database for the most current data on killed journalists. As of September 24, 202...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey PEI peeps: Sportsman's is run by a bigot. Heads up.
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
campus sexual assault & its impact on survivors’ wellbeing, learning, mental health, & academic performance, it’s hard not to draw the conclusion that a pattern I noticed on women’s undergrad transcripts but not on men’s was in some cases due to SA trauma. That keeps bouncing around my head 3/
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
that made their grades tank after they had already had strong performance for a year or two. You could literally see the crisis they experienced in their academic performance for a semester or a year. It could have been a lot of things, of course. But given what we know about the prevalence of 2/
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have reviewed thousands of grad school applications over my career & always advocated against looking at overall undergrad GPA & instead at the trajectory in the last two years. That’s because I saw a pattern on so many women’s transcripts as they experienced something in their first year 1/
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyway, take from this reaction what you will!!!!! This is a Conservative prime minister. Please, please consider whether you **actually** support his **policies** or just wish the narrative he's weaving around them was reality (it's not).
Former Alberta Premier (and former conservative cabinet minsiter) Jason Kenney posts, in reaction to Carney saying Canada must be the globe's oil supplier:

"Take a bow, Alberta  WE WON!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Every line of this is what we Albertans have been saying for years!

Total repudiation of the Trudeau-Guilbault energy policy!

“Global oil demand will remain in the tens of millions of barrels a day for decades to come.

“So the question is: who will be the world’s trusted supplier of oil for years to come. It should be us. It must be Canada.”

🇨🇦 💪🏼"
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Study for mâtinawêwin (Sharing Food) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2026
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Study for mâtinawêwin (Offering Food) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2026
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While I have you here, let me also link to an article I wrote years ago about how to talk to your daughters about sexual violence—without blaming them, shaming them, or restricting their freedoms.
slate.com
What You Should Really Say to Your Daughter About Campus Sexual Assault
It’s not what you might imagine.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Researchers find that one-time trainings about consent can actually increase perpetration. In my interviews with young men, they told me that they knew no one believed what they were saying because it hadn’t come up before—and no one actually held men accountable anyway.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you're angry about the Cornell 7 (and the million other cases just like it!) then may I suggest supporting evidence-based solutions? The Flip the Script with EAAA program is *the* most effective rape resistance program in the world & it's based here in Canada! Support their work:
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Simon Enoch @simonenoch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On October 1, 2026, the province will raise the minimum wage to $15.70 an hour. That falls far short of the latest living wage rate of $22.50 for Regina, and $21.50 for Saskatoon. 1/3 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Trying to Keep Up: 2025 Living wage update for Regina and Saskatoon  | CCPA
Regina and Saskatoon’s living wage is considerably higher than the paltry legislated minimum wage in Saskatchewan
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Local health minister says wait times for wealthy people way down since her government started focussing on bringing down wait times for wealthy people.
cbc.ca
Wait times for most priority surgeries in Ontario have increased since 2017, study says | CBC News
Wait times for most of the province’s publicly funded priority surgeries and procedures have increased between 2017 and 2025, according to a study released Monday.
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Defenestra Andropov🇨🇦 The Fall of the new Rome is in the air...🗽🍂 @defenestraandropov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/world/o...
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OpenAI scraps release of new AI model over safety concerns | CBC News
OpenAI has scrapped the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation artificial intelligence model planned for an October debut, after internal testing found the system did not meet the company's ‌safe...
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Important thread of how every party is responsible for the flex of white supremacist organizing on Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also worth remembering these studies:
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A super concerning meeting of white nationalists in advance of Truth and Reconciliation day cfjctoday.com/2026/09/27/a...
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Apparent white nationalist gathering spotted on Tkʼemlúps reserve Sunday
TK'EMLUPS - A post on social media appears to show a group of masked individuals gathered on the Tkemlps te Se...
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICYMI this is happening 👇🏾
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Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Everyone should read this excellent piece by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social.
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disillusioned torontonian @tanyap-toronto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ah but the redemption was 😘
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are certainly other factors at play but I just cannot believe how different my experience of facilitating workshops is today vs. before the pandemic. I'm often in professional work environments where I'm employing teaching techniques I used to reserve only for presenting to literal children.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Straight up if these orcas die, I will never forgive this government. It’s genuinely devastating to contemplate — and make no mistake, the west coast pipeline and port expansion WILL kill them. We have to draw the line somewhere and these orcas deserve to have us fight for them.
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Liberating Motherhood @liberatemotherhood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In a world where male perpetrators abuse women with impunity, and even the most extreme forms of violence against women go unpunished, it doesn’t matter what laws are on the books." zawn.substack.com/p/violence-a...
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Violence against women and children is legal. We just pretend otherwise.
In a culture where the law fails more often than it succeeds, violence against women is legal, and abuse is a male human right.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People love visiting Quebec City. People love making lots of money. The combination has created a crisis in the rental market as Airbnbs are removed from housing stock. Here's the latest from our Quebec City project, The Vagabond. therover.ca/what-role-do...
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What Role Does Airbnb Play in Quebec City’s Housing Crisis? – The Rover
Experts say that, in some neighbourhoods, eliminating Airbnb could double the rate of vacant rental units.
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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Diverticulitis flare so off to get antibiotics. I wonder why the pharmacist had to go out of her way to say no alcohol just for me to return, I don’t drink. Just another day in so called Canada.
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