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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You ever think, what I want isn't to be a successful author. That would be cool, but no. What I want is a UBI that lets me write full-time. I'd be unstoppable.

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mía @lumaruna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“ The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is … Complicity, too, is typical, not uncommon, for responding institutions. Impunity for rapists is cast as good sense, or as responsibility; as fairness, or compassion … #SmashPatriarchy #Misogyny

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The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan

Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

October is #breastcancerawareness month. Did you know: Mary Claire King discovered the BRCA1 gene. In the 70s, she told people that one gene might be responsible for inherited breast cancer. No one believed her. In 1990, she found proof. It created a paradigm shift. It saved millions of lives.🧪

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Carney tells Canadians “we have to do this” (??) because there’s an energy crisis on three fronts. One of those fronts, he says, is climate change. Which is why we need………a new crude oil pipeline???????

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Ottoman Market, known locally as Al-Souq Al-Maqbi, lies in ruins in Deir ez-Zor, northeastern Syria, after being destroyed during years of bombardment by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad and Russia.

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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Spending billions of dollars to achieve what a small child with a pocket calculator could achieve in less time! AGI is almost here! (I'm tired 😭)

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firstname lastname @jc-roper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I can excuse the slave labour but I draw the line at torture” - people who think LLMs are conscious I guess

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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red - Neopets Ambassador @prettypinkpansy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

that clothing was put together by an underpaid worker in a factory overseas under the cheapest circumstances possible. not assembled by a magic factory, but a human quietly exploited and erased an appropriate metaphor, then. AI was trained on the blood of real artists and profits from their absence

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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have forgotten the last time I saw a JCO quote where she wasn't being a completely insufferable POS.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is half-baked but I feel like there is a sort of ambient belief out there that holding the richest people in the world accountable for horrifying crimes is sort of unthinkable, meaning impossible to actually achieve. Do not like.

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TruePlayer💫 @trueplayer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."
ANGELA DAVIS
WOMEN_IN_ART__

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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CovertCanine @covertcanine.hyper.wang · 30/09/2026

Ive always said. Art is a test of tenacity above all else. The better you can tolerate frustration and self discipline to keep working on art, the better you'll get and faster. My tenacity and self discipline have ebbed and I can see my improvement slowing dramatically.

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juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 29/09/2026

i lost a few subscribers on Patreon my Patreon is filled with lots of extras, including music playlists from me, lists of the video essays ive been watching, video game journalism, and so much more please consider signing up i promise it's a good deal patreon.com/junorylee

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juno Rylee Journalism — journalism and newsletters

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Long shot: Do I know anyone on here who's good with audio design / audio editing? I would like to hire someone for a tiny project -- a one-minute loop of spooky ambient sounds, like using stock audio -- but it's gotta happen today, as the deadline is tonight. I had someone but they totally flaked.

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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interesting article in the context of an interesting thread.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

Why don't people get that the hard part is the fun part? If the hard part's not the fun part for you who's forcing you to be a writer? Writers love the struggle!

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radicalrealism.bsky.social @radicalrealism.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The effort is also how identity is forged & dignity is built, w/ failures contributing as much as successes to both. Sometime in the future these "writers" & "journalists" will find themselves doing the bidding of AI, rather than vice versa, & won't realize it, but they'll have bcm lifeless souls.

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The *effort* is the art itself, the *effort* is the investigation itself Without that effort you have no way of knowing if what you have in front of you is worth anything at all

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The process IS the work. The groping in the dark, the struggle, the pain. It’s what makes a great story, but more than that, it’s what makes you a better writer. It’s not supposed to be easy. It’s not supposed to be assisted. It’s meant to be hard.

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Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Butlerian jihad tonite 👀 Butlerian jihad tonight queen?? Butlerian jihad tonite 👀

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Jenni Milward 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🦓♿ @jrmilward.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Couldn't agree more. The AI takeover seemed so straightforward when we envisioned wars with terminator robots. But seeing people willingly - gleefully! - toss their minds away is less of a war and more like watching people throw themselves into a woodchipper. It's truly terrifying.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

the process is part of the work. it’s not supposed to be easy. the effort creates good work. i can’t believe this needs to be explained to people who call themselves journalists.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009. "My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead." "My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza."

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is very darkly funny how "Hillary tried to warn us" became like THE talking point for liberals post-2016 and in reality, Hillary is like "Trump is lowkey based when it comes to bombing Iran and ethnically cleansing Palestinians."

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Surplus Cornbread @surpluscornbread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So according to Abigail Shrier, women are both being convinced by online social contagion to become men because "being woman bad" and are being convinced because of social contagion that "woman better than man". Fascists can never pick a lane can they?

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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last night a man hit on me at a bar and would not take no for an answer. He followed me to the bathroom. And then followed me to my car. The problem with modern dating is not that women see themselves as superior. It’s that women want to be treated like people — and a lot of me hate that.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is one of those stories that drives home just how horrifying the current administration and its immigration policies / enforcement tactics are. It’s heartbreaking and stomach turning.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Free p*ssy upstairs.” The fact that the 7 fraternity boys from Cornell had to write an “I’m sorry” assay as an option as punishment for forcibly intoxicating & gang raping a young girl is what is deeply wrong with our society today. www.lawcommentary.com/articles/cor...

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Cornell Sued After Student Says 7 Fraternity Members Drugged and Gang-Raped Her, Some Faced ‘Essay’ Discipline | Law Commentary

A former Cornell University student has sued the school after alleging seven Chi Phi fraternity members drugged and gang-raped her at a fraternity house, accusing Cornell of responding inadequately af...

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

bcos most of them expect labour to have a social conscience and the ppl in charge just… don’t. they are unethical, amoral, and utterly unprincipled.

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Spooky Hallowe'en Name @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every TERF is terrible Every TERF is bad If you’re a TERF weirdo You will make god mad

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every terf is terrible. Just a quick reminder of this universal truth.

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it's not hyperbolic to say that if the ways you talk and think about disabled/sick people (as well as the COVID precautions we may take) are indistinguishable from how fascists talk about disabled/sick people—even down to the same statements—then you have a fucking problem.

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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 25/09/2026

“You know, older than Stonehenge, older than the pyramids in Egypt,” said Russ McSpadden, Southwest conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. “But at the same time, it’s doubly tragic, because there was significant damage done to it back in April."

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Ancient site damaged by border wall construction oldest such carving in Americas, research shows

The Las Playas Intaglio is a Tohono O’odham sacred site that features a huge fish-shaped earth carving right along the border in what is today the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.

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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not gonna lie, I'm lowkey stuck on The Great British Baking Show. I'm assuming they mean the bake off?? I have never heard it referred to as the GBBS even by Americans, is this actually an American thing or are they just embarrassingly wrong?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

all I’m gonna say about this as a woman who inhabits nerd spaces is that if you believe “Game of Thrones” is the best (not most culturally impactful or biggest influence, but BEST) speculative fiction show of the century by this staggering a margin, you are a man I would not let my girlfriends date

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it doesn't have to be good. it just has to be yours. "good" is for marketing suits and focus groups. if you make it you enough, you'll dip into that vibrant spark of life that animates all of us. you'll pull up a bit of that light. and then it will be great. the only way to make great is to be you.

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the more unfinished projects you have the better. the bigger your graveyard the more strange zombies you can sew together from the body parts. do not feel self-conscious about it. just keep making.

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Liz oOooO ~Promaja~ OOoO Roderick @talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Punches you in face” haha it’s just satire, friend

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