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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
In the latest development among anti-trans wings of the Democratic Party, the Ohio Democratic Party is now deleting criticism from caucus members of Kaptur's anti-trans ad calling transgender people an "ideology." It appears any dissent over the ad is practically banned on caucus social media.
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The Ohio Democratic Party Is Silencing Its Pride Caucus Over Criticism Of Kaptur's "Transgender Ideology" Ad
The Ohio Democratic Party suppressed dissent from within its own Pride Caucus, activists said.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
Next time your local or state legislature parrots some lobbyists talking points trying to tell you data centers will "increase our tax revenue," ask them about this NINETY-ONE PERCENT LOSS in tax revenue in Georgia & elsewhere, and whether & How they can guarantee the same thing won't happen to you.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it may ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
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Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A couple of tributes to Dolly Parton in the realm of dark fantasy. 1. @catvalente.bsky.social’s story is a finalist in the Hugo Awards for best novelette, and was inspired by Dolly’s song “Jolene.“ It’s really good.
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When He Calls Your Name - Uncanny Magazine
There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...
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anne gibson @kirabug.com · 31/08/2026
Y'all, @tkingfisher.com's Nine Goblins is on sale in e-book form for $2.99 right now. Goblins? In this economy? For less than the two-cheeseburger meal at McDonald's? You should eat this up. www.bookbub.com/books/nine-g...
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Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher is only $2.99 - BookBub
From the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author of What Moves the Dead and Nettle & Bone: A ragtag band of goblins behind enemy lines must find their way home through a forest fu...
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
He’s sofa gone in idiocy he can’t even couch things in decent language.
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Decorative Gourd Season Motherfuckery (he/him) @digitaldiscipline.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The secret words are "this is a paid advertizement" and "this content is sponsored by"
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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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Report – AI and Education
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 27/08/2026
"Research shows that for every dollar distributed, $2.50 of economic activity is created over the next 30 months and prices only rise marginally... Other benefits include a fall in child mortality, as pregnant women can pay for transport to clinics and stop working in the weeks before childbirth."
bloomberg.com
What Happens If You Give Everyone $700? A Local Economy Thrives
A project in Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, aims to demonstrate how aid might work in future.
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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 27/08/2026
What the fuck is going on? Did the Grim Reaper open a talent agency???
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 27/08/2026
I feel so bad for Haitians in Ohio. Your President and Senator lies about you eating cats and dogs, then your neighbors vote to give them unchecked power. Now you're made "illegal" by fiat and forced to wear ankle monitors, and the Democrat running for governor comes out and says "keep it going"
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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 26/08/2026
my wife said earlier that it is a bad time to be 80 years old and beloved by the Muppets and I told her that was a very rude thing to say but it is also true. :(
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🦇Kassakan Ammurun🦇 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
100% true
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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yes. And how do that is to do what you know to be right and just all the way through. Dolly showing up for queer and trans people, for example, was not the easy or crowd-pleasing move, especially for her audience. And she funded a vaccine that got *incredibly* politicized. For example.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
Be the person Dolly Parton would’ve wanted you to be: yourself.
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David Leigh Roth @notonebit.com · 25/08/2026
You can donate to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library here donate.imaginationlibrary.com
donate.imaginationlibrary.com
Home
Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026
“The no-bill doesn’t legalize destroying cameras. It doesn’t cancel Flock’s OH contracts. But when a grand jury declines to treat smashing a surveillance camera as serious felony business, that signals something real about where public sentiment sits — and that tension isn’t resolving anytime soon”
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Smashing the Surveillance Grid: Grand Jury Dismisses Felony Charges Against Ohio Man
Ohio grand jury declines to indict man who destroyed a Flock license plate reader, spotlighting growing backlash over ALPR privacy in Ohio.
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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If your values only apply for people you like, they're not your values, just a favor you're doing for your friends, as @vaspider.gay keeps pointing out.
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🫀nenetto [🌳 Deku edition ▿] @nenetto.com · 17/08/2026
By www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08...
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 15/08/2026
I know they’re marketing this for spam musubi, but the package design makes me very worried about the meat that went into that can.
Cans of spam that read HELLO KITTY on the side, with Hello Kitty herself prominently featured
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026
These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14/08/2026
Thread. TL;DR: Having the opportunity and the frictionless tools available actually creates stalkers. A tool that lets a person check in on anyone, anytime? Makes it extremely easy to rationalize misuse.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/08/2026
My upcoming book Monsters of Ohio has gotten a nice blurb from someone who knows a little bit about both monsters and Ohio:
"This isn't the Ohio of my youth. Monsters and horror in every small town! This book made me laugh--and shudder. Wonderful chilling fun!" – R.L. Stine, author Goosebumps and Fear Street
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 14/08/2026
Just had dinner with some older Gen X people who are well-educated and every one of them had the whole "we just have to give up on trans people" attitude I want to talk a little bit about how I countered their arguments because maybe it will help some of you in similar convos (🧵)
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Count Binface proving that he’s 10x the politician next to the snivelling coward Nigel Farage, who couldn’t even bother to show up to receive the result. Like Trump, Farage will drape himself in victimhood while also claiming victory. Bring on the investigation into Farage, the loathsome conman.
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The Buckeye Flame @thebuckeyeflame.com · 14/08/2026
10 things LGBTQ+ Ohioans should know about absentee voting. Voting as an LGBTQ+ person can be overwhelming, so we’re breaking down your absentee options step-by-step. ✏️ @hcomeriato.bsky.social thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/08/14/1...
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10 things LGBTQ+ Ohioans should know about absentee voting
Voting as an LGBTQ+ person can be overwhelming, so we’re breaking down your absentee options step-by-step.
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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
First time I've seen a court issue sanctions for prompt injection in a brief. Pro se plaintiff tries prompt injection (here, white text in tiny font) because he thinks the judge will just use some LLM to read the papers and write a ruling. Judge sees through the ruse.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/08/2026
"Thank you for updating to Woman™ 51.0. This release includes important security updates, several unexpected hardware changes, a completely redesigned relationship with alcohol, and expanded support for saying 'absolutely not' without explaining yourself." buff.ly/31NgFok
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Release Notes: Woman™ Version 51.0
“Thank you for updating to Woman™ 51.0. This release includes important security updates, several unexpected hardware changes, a completely redesigned relati...
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 10/08/2026
The fact that it’s already August FEELS fascist to me.
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Dan 🦇🌫️🧛 @danximenes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Espooky Hispanic Pixie Dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This whole thread is a delight.
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AlexWattsEsq @alexwattsesq.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Fortunately, the thing that seemed too overwhelmingly stupid to be true is for once, not true. Stand down haters, Dobby was *not* privileged over infrastructure planning
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Gonna staple this to the forehead of every single pundit who writes a “oh the billionaires will leave if you tax them” piece like Martin Luther on meth
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 10/08/2026
Check your Cuisinart food processor blades! Recall from 2016: www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2017...
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Cuisinart Food Processors Recalled by Conair Due to Laceration Hazard
Consumers should immediately stop using the food processor’s riveted blade and contact Cuisinart for a free replacement blade.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026
It is utterly damning of this country that a "Check If Your Salad or Your Guacamole is Especially Likely to Make Your Ass Explode" app is necessary, but since it is, I guess it's a good thing one exists
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/08/2026
Scientists discovered a crab that had spent months at sea stuck in a bottle, subsisting on algae and fish that wandered into its plastic lair. The lonely mariner offers a warning about the impacts of human pollution on wildlife worldwide.
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Crab Odyssey: Crustacean Wandered the Seas in a Bottle for Months, Scientists Find
Scientists discovered a crab that had spent months at sea stuck in a bottle, subsisting on algae and fish that wandered into its plastic lair. The lonely mariner offers a warning about the impacts of...
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Happy International Cat day 🐾🤍
A fluffy black cat with enormous round eyes stretches playfully against a pink and pale blue background. Text reads, “What is a cat? A tiny source of happiness that can turn a house into a home.”
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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The D&D, kinky, and poly crossover is basically a stack of pancakes I said what I said
a pic of a magnificent green tentacle rising high and dwarfing 5 overwhelmed-looking minis, with copy reading:

The Players: What the fuck
DM: I didn't have a Kraken mini-
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
honestly great to answer “are you a socialist?” with “look, we dont even have capitalism.”
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Across DI colleges, 94 percent of athletics programs, including 49 of the 69 Power colleges, spent more than they generated in revenue in the 2023–24 academic year. The median college reported a gap of $20.6 million. This gap was larger than the median a decade earlier ($12.3 million)."
washingtonpost.com
Most Division I colleges lose money on sports
Over 90 percent of these athletic programs spend more money than they generate, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 06/08/2026
I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.
abc.net.au
Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 06/08/2026
unbelievable that we just got through the diarrhea lettuce debacle and now we have to contend with salmonellapeños
nbcnews.com
Salmonella outbreak linked to jalapeños expands to 27 states
Chipotle and Qdoba say they have removed the jalapeños from their restaurants.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
we are a morally bankrupt society and online betting needs to be set on fire for this
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