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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is where we are. Live stream executions for Maga porn. Such barbarism is not easily wiped away.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is insane www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is not some one off poll btw - years of data shows the same. But for whatever reason, establishment pundits and politicos are intent on buying into conservative’s propaganda
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Amil Khan @londonstani.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There’s been a whispered question circulating amongst the disinformation tracking community in recent months: “Has the US become a ‘state user of disinformation’ along the lines of Russia, China, Iran, Israel etc That question is no longer being whispered: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More fire, more crime, more death and a globally important ecosystem driven ever more rapidly towards a point of no return. That’s the prospect for the Amazon rainforest if Flávio Bolsonaro wins Brazil’s election My take www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim jolt for climate campaigners
Inquest under way into why President Lula’s success in curbing Amazon deforestation has not led to success at polls
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Erin Okuno @thiserin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cornell police edited Jane Doe's statement. Are we in pitchforks and torches territory yet? I think we are close. "As we now know, Cornell police also condensed down Doe's statement, omitting crucial details including the fact that she said she was 100 percent confident she’d been raped."
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
It certainly sounds like this pro-Trump American CEO of a company that owns a Canadian steel plant is intentionally idling production and laying off Canadian workers in order to support the trade war www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Stelco's U.S. owner touts right to idle operations at Hamilton steel plant as PM vows legal action | CBC News
The chief executive officer of Stelco’s American parent company says he has every legal right to idle production at a steel mill in Hamilton, Ont., as Prime Minister Mark Carney threatens legal action...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GATES: “.. I almost can’t believe you’re asking that.” @ezraklein.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is incredible
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You are the constituent. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love. Eligible, on paper, for several things you have not asked about yet.
Let's go further back.
The seven billion billion billion atoms of the constituent's body were created, long before this site, in the heart of a star. So the constituent, too, is information from a star. And the constituent moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a Congress, on a map created by a surveyor, that exists inside a small, private world created by the constituent, who inhabits a republic created by...
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My broader take on all three German state elections and why focusing only on the success of the far right is both incomplete and self-defeating.
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Look again – there’s more to Germany’s election trends than far-right success | Cas Mudde
Defeatist narratives abound. Yet Germany’s latest elections suggest voter dissatisfaction is benefiting the left as well as the right, says the political scientist Cas Mudde
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Historian here UT Austin has eliminated courses on slavery, civil rights, the Holocaust and women from its core curriculum. We know the kind of people who have censored history in the past. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ChatGPT gave the Tumbler Ridge school shooter tips on how to evade its own safeguards around violence, even helped plan the attack for maximum lethality and media coverage “Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/09/2026
Afghan cyclist who disguised herself as a man to evade Taliban wins Asian Games silver
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Afghan cyclist who disguised herself as a man to evade Taliban wins Asian Games silver
Fariba Hashimi, who is based in Italy, powered home second in the women’s road race near Nagoya in Japan, calling the triumph ‘something special’
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
thread on the wild discrepancy between 'education' coverage of Jason Arday and of James Orr -- grim, disappointing, but not surprising.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“.. Some people might think, wow, this is really, really cool, and the technology is really cool,” Ms. Anderson said. “But people around here, we’re thinking, ‘Ugh, is there anything we can do to stop this?’ We can’t live like this.” @nytimes.com $AMZN www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 21/09/2026
A theatre in Barcelona has been banned from promoting a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own on Instagram and Facebook because the work includes “social topics.”* www.theguardian.com/technology/2... * "any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform"
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
longtermism is so repugnant that I hesitate to address it on its own terms but: on its own terms this shit is clearly wrong. the best way *now* to encourage a happy future for umptillion beings who use technology we can't imagine is to make the current world more just for everyone.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
If you are still asking why regular people hate ai, you aren’t paying attention.
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Federal judge rules that AI-generated child sex abuse material is protected under the First Amendment
A Wisconsin judge dismissed charges against a man accused of creating and distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse material, citing First Amendment precedent.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
6% of Republicans think climate change is a major problem, down from 13% in 2009 news.gallup.com/poll/708050/...
6% of Republicans think climate change is a major problem, down from 13% in 2009
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is definitely worth a read but the headline oddly implies that Pinker ever had a way to lose. He was on Steve Sailer's Human Biodiversity Institute mailing list in the late 1990s. He's an Epstein associate. He's an evolutionary psychologist. www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...
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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way
The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/09/2026
"Enforcing soldier masculinity through mandatory morning-boner checks" is the sort of thing an unsubtle satirist might make up about Russia.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No wonder these AI companies are worrying about human extinction via AI created biological pathogens: They’re starting their own wet labs.
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program
At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab — or ​place for physical experiments — in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 17/09/2026
New research from Proton finds 87% of top Canadian companies depend on US tech companies. For governments, it’s even worse: 100% of federal, provincial, and territorial governments rely on US companies for email. As Canada turns away from the US, major institutions need to cut that reliance.
100% of Canadian governments and 87% of major Canadian companies depend on US companies for email services.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Photos leaked of bombed out US Middle East bases, with aircraft in pieces and buildings turned to rubble from Iranian fire. As @gregsargent.bsky.social notes, it's striking imagery, a symbol of US decline. Utter failure of Trump/Hegseth's fascist worldview, with its shallow conception of strength.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026
It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Carney telling the European Parliament that what's needed is an alliance - his word, repeated - where nobody gets to tell the EU and Canada what to do. Good *LORD*. And met with a standing ovation. Well, that's that for the previously-existing form of Atlanticism, then.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17/09/2026
AP: Human rights experts commissioned by the UN’s top human rights body say they have found “reasonable grounds” to believe the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on a school in the southern city of Minab.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.
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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 16/09/2026
LOL
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump approval among "the most conservative generation in 60 years," Gen Z (ages 18-29, NYT/Siena 9/8-9/13): Approve: 18% Disapprove: 78% www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Toplines: September 2026 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters
Results of a New York Times/Siena poll conducted among 1,503 voters from Sept. 8 to 13, 2026.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/09/2026
Based on 12,000 survey interviews, low-turnout-likelihood Republicans are comparatively anti-Trump, contrary to most analysis and punditry about the group after the 2024 election. Less engaged voters aren’t MAGA, but anti-status-quo www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-11...
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Everyone is wrong about low-turnout voters
They care most about affordability, and disapprove of Trump’s job as president at much higher rate than engaged voters — including among Republicans
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season:
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