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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20h

I am delighted to learn that Friday Afternoon Tea Room in Seattle is masks required every single Sunday. I thanked them for highlighting a staff member who masks and was so grateful when the owner let me know that’s their policy. Seattleites, please show them love for me!

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chadzia dax 🔞😷 @m00psy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

truly!!!!! it makes me want to scream! why is it that i, some rando who’s not a scientist, am more aware of reality than people who should know better? (i guess trauma is a hell of a thing, but… as if i’m not also traumatized by the loneliness of the last 6 years???)

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Ryan Russell @ryanrussell1982.bsky.social · 21h

I like to point out when presented with this argument that asbestos is "sort of useful for some things" and then ask them if they want to go ahead and re-insulate their walls with it

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21h

Us: so we’re gonna need to regulate that Them: oh, yes, please, we’re begging you. Stop us Us: you could just…stop Them: no

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21h

Us: so it’s a nonconsent machine Them: of course not! Sometimes though if you want to enrich yourself I mean men I mean humanity you just have to take what you want Us: so you’re telling me it never generates unconsented to sexual imagery Them: oh my binary god no, it’s constantly doing that

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21h

Them: farming is so much more wasteful Us: uh, I eat food and so do you Them: good point when Robot Messiah comes to deliver us from the bonds of mortality we’ll all stop eating Them: I just don’t know why AI haters can’t think rationally about this

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21h

AI bros: I just don’t get why people are so resistant to trying ideologically repugnant technology its biggest fans say will end the world but not before destroying the economy, the arts, our ability to discern right and wrong, truth or lie, the very boundaries of reality My coding is so fast now!

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's funny because I feel the same way about smart and well-intentioned people falling for a scam being perpetrated by Silicon Valley guys who have done nothing but run scams that made them rich after the tech press told everyone that these guys were geniuses.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 22h

And stop trying to halt or discredit critics by conflating evil AI (gen AI, conversational AI, AI-powered surveillance systems, etc.) with other helpful or innocuous forms of AI. You know perfectly fucking well what we're talking about.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 22h

Also stop the repulsive grandiosity and smug threats about your product. I’m gonna be left behind? What the fuck are you even talking about? I don’t care! I’m old and have plenty to do and don’t want to follow your parade of lazy shitheads! I don’t know enough about it? Yes I do! You failed.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 22h

Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 22h

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the one hand, it's just dumb. Universities are, in fact, real, and they exist in the world. American universities employ about 3x as many people as there are active duty servicemembers, so if soldiers are "real," then so are academics.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Polarization is not the problem. The problem: ethnonationalists threatening vulnerable citizens' rights. "The people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists." @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 02/10/2026

Lemme just post another stellar quote: "Polarization is the country’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success, reputation, and democratic self-government."

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm gathering friends of #Tinu for a project as a part of preparing my legacy before I go into hospice next year. I'd be honored if you would share this around: bsky.app/profile/tyro...

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I was still pretty young when it happened,but yeah, it wound up being more of a Butlerian Crusade than a Butlerian Jihad ..."

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wish everyone valued you the way you value them, but I see you, keep going.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you do it because it’s the right thing to do, because you know that we are responsible for how we move through the world, because the lives of people you don’t know matter more to you than ease: May your pillow be forever plump and cool, your commute easy, your favorite food always in stock

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is so, so incredibly hard to maintain. It’s soul-battering. If you do it because you have to for yourself, I am with you, keep at it. You deserve safety. If you do it because someone you love needs you to, you are doing so well and it is so appreciated.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just want you to know—if you’re masking in public, if your business highlights and values masked employees, if your selfies and cosplay photos and candids have masks in them, I see you, I love you, hang in there.

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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the 1918 flu pandemic 🤝 covid mass disabling event leading to fascists arguing for purges

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a very common phenomenon is people rejecting the conclusions of propaganda, but accepting the premises. you can passionately disagree about how the trans problem should be handled, and it will still keep you from asking "what do you mean, 'trans problem?'"

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Jamey Evenstar @jameyevenstar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s Week Without Driving, ya’ll. Hear the story about how I went car free nine years ago as a mom of five kids. I hope it inspires someone to give it a try for just one week. It’s actually an amazing way to connect with our city and much easier and safer than you think! #weekwithoutdriving

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Multnomah County Health Department @multcohealth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🔈‼️Stay Covered, Stay Healthy: Upcoming Changes to Medicaid & OHP. Federal Medicaid & Oregon Health Plan rule changes take effect in 2027. Patients have started receiving letters from the @orhealthauthority.bsky.social about plan updates. Questions: 503-988-5270 or visit healthcenter.multco.us/HR1

Graphic stating that Oregon Health Plan and Medicaid Rules are changing in 2027. Starting in 2027, new federal rules will change Medicaid, also called the Oregon Health plan. Most adults will be required to renew their insurance every 6 months. Most adults will have to share information about their work and volunteer activities to keep their coverage. We're here to help navigate changes. Call us at 503-988-5270. Learn more on our website at healthcenter.multco.us/HR1

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It wasn’t but thanks

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026

Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment

Screenshot:

Is this a 3D model?
@IsThisA3DModel

80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

Josh Daws
@JoshDaws
Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Add to this: - Likely significant number of people who don't realize they have #LongCovid - Uninformed doctors - Medical gaslighting - People avoiding care due to cost 😢

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Portland Bureau of Transportation @pbotinfo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Caught this cutie sweeping the protected bike lane on SW 4th Avenue today. It’s pretty easy to fall in love with this mini, fully electric bike lane sweeper 🥰 Thanks to the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) for providing funding for this work.

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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hannover Medical School, 992 people. Among those with Long COVID in 2021 who returned in 2024, 77.4% still met criteria about 4 years after infection. More than 95% were never hospitalized initially. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com

Factors associated with persistent post-COVID-19 condition and functional limitation four years after SARS-CoV-2 infection - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Factors associated with persistent post-COVID-19 condition and functional limitation four years after SARS-CoV-2 infection

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

If we stop at “the cruelty is the point” we never get to the stage of exploring those possibilities and naming them

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

I think we should always be considering structurally how these decisions work and stopping at “it must just be cruelty” in my experience involves not asking “how does this function structurally?” Like why did people get forced back into the office? There were real material reasons

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

Sorry to disappoint everyone but I actually think cruelty is rarely the primary goal. It is usually a tool in service of something else. When you conclude the cruelty is the point, what critical thinking are you choosing not to do?

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Feed The Streets PDX @feedthestreets.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you've been wanting to learn more about mutual aid & how to get involved in the community, a good way to do that is to meet other like-minded members of the community, which can be done by attending local social events like this one #MutualAid #pdx #MutualAidPDX

Friends Share the Harvest

WITH RAINBOW BLOC, BE LOVED BLOC, COMMON
FIRE AND RADICAL ABUNDANCE

SOUP + MUTUAL AID SOCIAL

Come connect with local groups, learn about mutual aid
initiatives, and find ways to get involved in our community.

10/3
5pm - 9pm
14814 SE POWELL BLVD. PORTLAND, OR

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

sounds like they made the right bet. (it’s not that the ultra rich don’t benefit from most of the improvements Mamdani is making—they just don’t want to pay anything for them. That’s the system; the poor pay and pay to the system that creates the conditions of obscene wealth for a small few)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Reminder to self: Familiarity and the inertia born of an ingrained aversion to a particular kind of change are not the same as comfort and security. Further reminder: That doesn't make the discomfort any less real.

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Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org · 01/10/2026

Willamette Week has a nice article in this week's paper about Accessible Dwelling Units and how these homes allow Portlanders to live near their families:

wweek.com

ADUs Offer a Way to Keep Multiple Generations Close Together, While Offering Space and Privacy

These small, stand-alone residential units allow families to remain close while permitting a degree of independence and privacy.

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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 01/10/2026

8600+ Oregonians took the Governor's survey on what they want to see in a future transportation package. What a surprise! People want to fix the damn roads, expand transit service and build safer streets. Oregonians are not clamoring for ODOT to spend billions on freeway expansions. #orleg #orpol

opb.org

Here’s how Oregonians want the state to address its transportation budget crisis

Governor workgroup gave Oregonians one month to respond to transportation survey.

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Buttercup Q. Skullpants @zoombox350.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Membership in a fraternity signals to prospective employers that a job applicant is willing to conform to corporate culture (no matter how depraved) and cover up criminal wrongdoing.

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Weltschmerz, The Musical 🧿 @weltschmerz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Literally posted the same rant but with less eloquence. So y'all saying it's natural to rape? ...inevitable? Then you are dangerous and need to never be in positions of power.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You don't get to claim to be the superior gender if you're proudly calling yourself a fucking animal.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You're clearly too emotional and impulsive to hold positions of power, by your own declaration, gorilla.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the baseline argument is young men are just unevolved gorillas, which is what the defense of those men boils down to, why aren't more men offended at being likened to animals. You're cool with that? You're SELF LABELING with that? Okay. Why are unevolved gorillas in charge and not in zoos.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.

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