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Penny Arswydus

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Not a tiefling bard/paladin or a robin, much to my disappointment

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 20h
People keep thinking they can automate the type of admin work often done by women... bc they think their institution is a machine and not a brain. They think it can be recreated as a set of tasks executed w/ rules, and that we can skip the parts relying on relationships, memory, and judgment.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Hark! A Vagrant classic
Watson: Oooh, what’s that you’ve got?
Franklin: My final report
Watson: Little Rosie Franklin’s research! I bet it’s something!
Franklin: ROSALIND.
Crick: Oh, that’s a big name
W: You’re getting fancy on us! Tell me—
F: Ah. I love this game.
W: Is it a scientific breakthrough in feelings?
F: Well, I suppose I have to go into hysterics or have a baby somewhere, good day gentlemen
W: GO, GO
[W and C slip a look at F’s notes]
C: Nice
W: Quit hogging
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sr. Producer/Editor – “Preditor” (Social Media/Short Form)
National Geographic

Washington, DC

$139,200 - $186,600 a yearTobias from Arrested Development
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I’ve never seen a meme that embodies my very essence before.
YOU TRIGGERED MY FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE
AND PM A FLIGHTLESS BIRD!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
karl rove, handbasket reader?
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic. The title reads "Poltergeist".
In the first panel we see a woman with a worried expression on her face. She says, "stuff keeps moving around my house."
In the second panel the same woman says "I'm terrified. I can't sleep."
In the third panel we see a ghost holding a candle and a pillow that reads "live laugh love". The ghost is zooming through the house.
In the fourth panel we see the same ghost hanging up a frame and thinking, "home decor is my passion".
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You can completely go along with the broader fascist project every step of the way and still have this happen to you over daylight savings time
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this sucks. you want "restorative justice" as opposed to punishment, but what has he restored? what has he done? what does a youtuber losing his career for admitting to be a rapist have to do with carceral abolition when he has never and will never see prison time, or even actual consequences?
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My article on Pokopia and the climate crisis is out in LARB today! @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social What do Bill, fictional inventor of the Pokémon storage system, and Joanna Russ, sf legend, have in common? lareviewofbooks.org/article/poke...
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026...
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Randy Korgan, who leads the Teamsters' Amazon campaign, argues the right to organize is a First Amendment right: "We need to protect that like anything else under the Constitution." youtu.be/xoJeJ1yavOI?...
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‘LABOR IS LEVERAGE’: The return of organized labor
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The base of rural conservatism is the rural white gentry, neatly summarized.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pete Hegseth went to the A&M game and they lost to Kentucky for the first time in over 70 years. THERE IS NO BATTLE HE CANT LOSE.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A few other real, dystopian things people are actually currently doing with flawed AI products: - powering mass surveillance - putting them in charge of screening your job applications - putting them in charge of approving your access to health care - involving them in parole decisions
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
tilly norwood vs fred flintstone made up: ✅ / ✅ has a job: ❌ / ✅ catchphrase: ❌ / ✅ pet dinosaur: ❌ / ✅ is a virgin: ✅ / ❌
Tilly Norwood, an inhuman gollum shaped like a perky brunette Fred Flintstone
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 18/09/2026
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
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Bad Medical Takes @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Twitter user LynneBr37562004:

Needle drop box inside a washroom at a TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY 🇨🇦 Are we NORMALIZING drug consumption?Twitter user LynneBr37562004:

I doubt it's for diabetics. People with diabetes that need to inject insulin are not likely doing it public washrooms.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026
if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
protecting, maintaining and improving the health of il Minesotans
RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
I'm rewatching Widow's Bay. I see some people complaining that it's not a comedy. How in the world do you watch this show and think it's not a comedy. There are so many good touches in the first episode that I missed. Like the wolves calendar that has the photo of the overturned truck. Lol
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The president is a person who would be unable to survive in this country if he had to live independently for a day. He wouldn't know what to do at a grocery store. Never mind applying for a job. What good is he to us
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Carla Astudillo @carla-astudi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Habeas cases are meant to be resolved quickly because a person’s liberty is at stake. But in parts of Mississippi and Louisiana, judges have typically taken 3 months or more to resolve them. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, the median time to close a case has been 11 days.
A map showing how long habeas cases take to close, by district. Gray dots throughout represent immigration detention facilities. Regions are shaded lighter purple if they have fewer habeas cases and darker purple if they have more cases. Several pieces of text accompany arrows pointing to locations on the map. They read: 1) In Minnesota, where more than 1,500 habeas petitions have been filed since January 2025, cases have closed in a median of just 12 days. 2) In Oklahoma's Western District, habeas cases take a median of 63 days. 3) Over 2,600 petitions have been filed in Louisiana, which has many ICE detention centers. Cases have taken a median of 89 days to close. 4) Cases have taken a median of 92 days to close in Mississippi's Southern District, where the Adams County Correctional Center is located. Source: ProPublica analysis of court records, as of Aug. 25, and Deportation Data Project. Districts with fewer than 10 cases closed not shown.
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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A meme showing the cover of Karl Marx's Capital Vol 1 but it has a photoshopped image from macklemore's Thrift Shop video with the words "Yo. that's $50 for a T-Shirt."
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump promising everyone free money
"Why would I deceive you?" meme from You Can See Everything
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Was familiar with the heist of the original preserved ruby slippers but did not realize the guy had never seen The Wizard of Oz and was like "fuck this" when he realized they were just sequins rather than actual rubies, this is why it's not "be straight, do crime"
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
microdosing not getting a big task done by not doing the smaller, otherwise attainable subtasks
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/09/2026
Remember, the Biden administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a memorandum requiring every publication and supporting data resulting from federally funded research be made available without a paywall and without an embargo by December 2025. Trump is reversing that.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
this is extra funny because homan grew up right there
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Put Dolly's vaccine in your arm
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
does everyone know Tim Curry narrated the first Sabriel trilogy btw. This was news to me when I discovered (and subsequently devoured) the audiobooks a couple of years ago, they're SO delightful and delicious and as you might expect, the villain voices are fucking incredible libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There was a very good (and horrifying) English language essay about this event the other day: northwardseaside.substack.com/p/a-nation-t...
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A Nation That Hunts Its Women
A Night in Chongqing, and the Country It Reveals
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