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Adrian C. Jackson @adriancjax.blacksky.app · 10h

I know I'm harping on this, but I need non-Black folks to understand this distinction: If you *properly acknowledge* other cultures & integrate elements into your own ALREADY EXISTING culture to create something inventive, that's APPRECIATION. If you outright copy/paste, that's APPROPRIATION.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do y’all sleep all the way through the night? As in, you go to sleep and then, when you wake up, it’s morning (whether alarm or sun)?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, if you want to fact check our “smears,” there’s a whole page for that. Feel free to share with your friends in Orange County!

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Gracey Van Der Corrupt

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We need to start framing this as “how many men and boys do I know who have done this” rather than “how may people do I know who’ve had this happen to them”

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dangit. I missed the first half. How do we look?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Exactly. Oh well!! Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other, hateful dinguses. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A daye wythout anachronism ys lyke Walt Whitman wythout hys tricorder

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@thebeka17.bsky.social I like your music very much! I look forward to listening more 🌸

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/09/2026

a pretty good way to gauge the conversation is whether people are talking about harm or risk harm is about what's happening now already risk is about what could maybe happen in the future and basically the whole ai cult scene is in agreement that possible risks are more important than current harm

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CNN @cnn.com · 18/09/2026

Real Madrid stars Kylian Mbappé, Vinicius Junior and Ibrahima Konaté sparked controversy after obscuring a message of solidarity relating the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on their t-shirts before their 3-2 win against Elche.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🖤 CO-HOST ANNOUNCEMENT 🖤 We’re thrilled to welcome Sheldon Gay as co-host of the inaugural Black Autism Acceptance Day Virtual Summit! A speaker, entrepreneur & neurodivergent advocate, Sheldon brings warmth, energy & joy to the gathering. Registration is OPEN! 🖤

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Mark Kastner @mkstnr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A Kash Patel theory I’ve had for awhile is that he’s actually experiencing the same thing as Tom Hanks’ character in Big. He is a 12 yr old boy trapped in the FBI director’s body. He talks about everything like it’s a book report on a book he didn’t read.

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Does anyone know what these saucy minxes are called? #BloomScrolling

Red and white flowers. Possibly a lantern flower that has bloomed all the way open. Very fancy

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 16/09/2026

Your future is being decided. Be in the room. Join us for the Voting Is No Laughing Matter College Tour, headlined by Emmy Award-winning comedian Rita Brent of "Late Night With Rita Brent." 💥 We decide. 💪 Find an event near you: bit.ly/4A77p5O

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club @irishwomens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Zero tolerance, not quiet acceptance

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I finally sat down and wrote an email to the Talarico campaign. Doing nothing felt untenable. I encourage other decent Texans to communicate their disappointment. If this can help you get started, feel free to use anything that works for you

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info@JamesTalarico.com

Disappointment

I hope I am just one of many communications you receive expressing extreme disappointment with the campaign's position regarding transgender children.

Just as it is unacceptable for the government to insert itself between women and their doctors, it is equally unacceptable for the government to insert itself between children and their doctors and parents. Supporting a bill to ban gender related surgery in children ignores the fact that this is not government's place.

And coming out for exceptions to transgender children participating in sports is equally unforgivable. There are no safety issues with transgender children playing that aren't also there with cisgender children. Same with fairness issues. Accepting the premise that transgender children aren't just regular children is ceding ground to the fascists who wish to remove all trans 0 people from daily life. I am so deeply disappointed in Mr Talarico and the entire campaign for allowing this framing to stand unchallenged and for the stand he has taken against the transgender community.

You may still get my vote in November, but you will not get my labor in the very hard ground game that needs to be fought. I simply can't fight for a candidate that won't fight for all of us.

Sincerely,

Lisa Seger Waller, TX

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Ossoff: "Last week the broken old man threw a two day party in Texas while it costs more than ever to fill up your truck, stock your fridge, and power your home ... they spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fun fact: the only surgeries performed on trans youth in the US are breast reductions, which are far more common for cisgender youth (by, like 50 times), and are perfectly legal for both male and females (if they're cisgender). ~ 250 per year for trans youth, and ~12,500 for others.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Messier 46 and Planetary Nebula NGC2438 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/dPeMLu

Messier 46 is an open star cluster located approximately 5,500 light years away in the constellation of Puppis. The cluster is around 300 million years old and contains up to 500 member stars within its diameter of 30 light years.
The cluster was discovered by Charles Messier on 19th February 1771. It is notable because of the planetary nebula NGC2438 that was discovered by John Herschel in 1833 and seems to lie within its boundaries near the bottom in this image. This is the remains of a very old star that has shedded its outer layers and become a faint white dwarf visible as the small blue point in the very centre of the nebula.
The planetary nebula has a different velocity through space than the cluster and is also closer to us at a distance of 3,000 light years, so it is not a true member of the cluster but just happens to lie in the same direction.

Image details:
Date: 1st January 2013
Exposure: LRGB: 44:12:10:10m, total 1hr 16mins @ -27C
Telescope: 10" Serrurier Truss Newtonian f/5
Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider
Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series Gen 2
Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you refuse to be SMART ( and for some of you it is outside of your capabilities regardless of your credentials ) Be KIND . If not for actual moral/ spiritual rectitude Then because taking a beat to not make something viral by trying to be kind stops the people you claim to hate !

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Kiley @kileywrestling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sharing again to spread the word and to share this short video. It’s only 2ish minutes and could save a life. youtu.be/6eRwgM2Pa4o?...

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How to Perform Hands-Only CPR

YouTube video by American Red Cross

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Routine reminder that Bhattacharya is an economics researcher who has never practiced medicine and whose best known publication is overtly fraudulent. He has never done infectious disease research and has never treated a single virus or infection in his entire career. He’s likely never seen measles.

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For my LFC supporters/dad joke enthusiasts

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We are allowing 5 year old children to be enrolled in football even though we *know* that every 2.6 years of participation doubles the chances of contracting CTE. This is tantamount to child abuse. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

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CTE in football players is a health crisis. It’s time for us to stop watching

A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Call him Judith Leyster because he’s a Dutch master

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I sometimes wonder if cats who live with Alexander Technique professors are especially released of excess tension

Floofy, white cat lying on her back on a grey bed. She is grooming one arm and her back is released into length and her pelvic girdle is released into width

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Please don’t tell my students but my two weaknesses are: Questions (in general, like a vampire) and stuffies of animals wearing costumes of another animal. Shhhhhh 🤫

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hiya ducklings, I have a gift for you. It is a judgmental kitten reaction. Please use irresponsibly

Floofy, white cat with grey ears and grey cheek streaks is making a very disdainful look. She has decided so many things about you and none of them are good. (Art in background by Ginger Williams, Dan Bird, and Jami)

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

neil degrasse tyson is the elon musk of carl sagans

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Professor Hearn @gingerifficknh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

He said, “here’s our pool, here’s our greenhouse, HERE IS JAIL.” Priorities, I guess

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

An incredible piece of art titled, “American Communion.”

A painted image of some apartment balconies with three young Black men on the top one with one filling an old woman’s cup with booze on the lower balcony.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 29/08/2026

The "joking" edgelord bullshit was always a gateway to de-stigmatizing it with a baked in claim of plausible deniability. The blowback, meanwhile, draws in the contrarian "free thinker" idiots.

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Fuck ICE" Mural in Los Angeles by Mister Alek

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