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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 26/09/2026

"Goddammit, you said you wanted to steal 20 tons of silicon; you've stolen 20 tons of silicon. What're you complaining about?"

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5h

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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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 5h

so many low moments for this regime, but the Supreme Court allowing the government to continue trafficking people to random countries is just horrendous

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 3h

the dumbest scumbags on the left are now attacking zohran for *combatting antisemitism* Zohran derangement syndrome is real and applies to the alt-left just as much as the alt right

Aaron Maté
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I'm not criticizing Zohran for doing this because I understand he has to deal with a very toxic political reality. Politics is a different game.
But to me launching a "Strategy to Combat
Antisemitism" in a time of the Gaza genocide is akin to a
"Strategy to Combat Anti-Whiteness" at the height of South African apartheid. That's not even a fair analogy:
Israel and its apologists do infinitely more to both fabricate and encourage anti-Semitism.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani O
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The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism...

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 3h

Shut every fraternity down.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 3h

God i miss Susan

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 3h

i think that part of the problem is that it's hard to tell which American MENA experts are on the Saudi payroll, Israeli payroll, Qatari payroll, or UAE payroll because they're all on every payroll

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 3h

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 3h

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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DLS @forensicgarlic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lake forever, problems for now

Sunrise over the lake from Randolph and Michigan. The sun is blowing out the shot, but is still kissing the horizon. The park is dark in contrast and we can see a break water wall and a water crib in the lake.

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jad 📸 @aerojad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📸 lake forever, this morning's sunrise for now #Chicago #photography

Golden hour this morning over Lake Michigan. Said golden sky gradually brightens as the sun approaches, differing greatly from the blue water in a light chop in the foreground. An absolutely bird-covered (zoom in) crib well offshore stands in silhouette with a little lit light atop the structure

The sun breaks over the horizon this morning in a nearly perfectly clear, golden sky, above a sandpaper-textured Lake Michigan

The sun fully rises above the horizon, turning the water beneath it from blue to gold, all in a light chop. The sky around the sun is clear and bright. I'm looking into the 600mm lens so you don't have to.

The Chicago skyline, still the best built by man, in the midst of its early morning shift in appearance from silhouetted in the predawn hours to one with more definition and windows and such, wrapped in just the lightest of hazes. In the foreground, portions of Montrose Point, concreach and bird sanctuary alike.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 5h

My view pretty much is that table stakes for the next Admin MENA policy is banning settler trade, suspending aid, and pulling our unconditional support at the UN.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 1h

I'm now the guy who speaks up in meetings telling people what's possible, because the cost of doing so is no longer my weekends and my reputation if I fail. And it's inspiring me to learn more all the time. Feels like maybe folks should stop speculating and talk to the people who use AI at work.

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 1h

this is far too optimistic, the right wingers literally do not care. they think he did great.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h

Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 7h

A very important message from Omer Reingold to our TCS community, especially us (arg, already) senior researchers: "snap out of it." Please, digest, and share. theorydish.blog/2026/09/29/s...

As for depression: the next time you have the urge to lament, or even celebrate, being “the last generation of human mathematicians,” perhaps keep it to yourself. Contemplating the end of your profession from the relative comfort of an established, tenured career is a privilege, and it comes with responsibilities. Senior academics are not merely individual researchers; we are stewards of our field, and we owe our junior colleagues active leadership rather than abandonment.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 1h

The college I went to had banned frats years earlier as destructive vile organizations, but they were secretly still in existence, officially unacknowledged, funded (allegedly) by wealthy (male) alumni, including an international bank CEO well-known for a massive financial fraud!

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 1h

I'm changing my name to Joe America and running on this platform

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 10h

Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 9h

See also Yudkowsky and the other AI doomers

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Vicki Rose @vickirose.myatproto.social · 3h

This is a rough read. In particular what gets me are the details of a prominent survivor invited to spill her guts at an institution with a deep sexual assault problem, greeted with boredom by male frat members. Horrifying.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 2h

I'll probably catch shit from my fellow lawyers who had good experiences with the Greek system but it seems to me it's nearly fundamentally irredeemable and should be abolished from college campuses.

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 4h

I think I need to adjust my pace/power figures for rowing, definitely going faster at lower effort.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 9h

i really, really need a better reaction image than I can come up with for this. something like Tommy Lee Jones looking over the newspaper, but his eyes are lasers.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

I think people REALLY can't appreciate how badly the far right wants to prove that Fani Willis and Jack Smith coordinated. So they were not going to let the truth get in the way of their most sincerely held belief.

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 9h

rightwing media will say jack smith got caught lying to congress, schmitt messing up will be at most a blip outside of leftwing memes

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 9h

finally set up dnf-automatic to automatically do non-breaking updates automatically every day (ie, not kernel, graphics, etc stuff) after over a decade of exclusively using fedora linux at home

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Nina Modaffari @ninamodaffari.bsky.social · 13h

absolutely no hatred towards teen fantasy but I heard someone once call titles that are like 'a crown of blank and blank' stories as 'A kraft of mac and cheese' and I cannot stop thinking about it

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John Bolton's Mustache @jonboltonsmustache.bsky.social · 10h

This will result in service members being killed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14h

Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing

slate.com

It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?

How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23h

The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

> @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pope can’t resist his pizza.

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 12h

Was OTA perfect? God, no. It could get stuff wrong, and that wrongness could sometimes cause its own bad policy. But it was a trusted resource, and a counterweight to the motivated reasoning of interest groups. 9/

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 12h

So where does Congress get its information about complex topics? From lobbyists. Some of them--the most aggressive and well-financed--are from industry. Others are from professional groups or single-issue orgs. Some are from public interest nonprofits. And everyone rocks up with different facts. 8/

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 12h

This limited the power of industries to influence (or misinform) members of Congress on how these technologies actually operated. Notably, OTA wasn't *just* assessing technology--it also wrote some landmark reports on forestry that still form the backbone of public lands policy. 4/

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 12h

...and, importantly, eliminating the Office of Technology Assessment, or OTA. What was the OTA? It was a small office, housed entirely within Congress, whose entire job was understanding complex technology issues and writing reports to explain them to legislators. 3/

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 12h

On the one hand, conservatives deny climate change exists and oppose policies to address it. On the other hand, liberals haven’t convinced conservatives that climate change exists and haven’t offered pain-free solutions. Hence, it’s complicated.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 15h

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 12h

Dudes are incredibly sorted/bifurcated on this shit. After ~20, it is incredibly likely you will encounter and repeatedly socialize with the other type of dude. This is why "locker room talk" is normal for some guys, and a completely alien horror to others.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 12h

I'm positive that if a Democrat mixed up the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes we'd never hear the end of how they're lame and un-American for not knowing anything about sports.

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president, Spreadsheet Persons Local 153 @werrrp.bsky.social · 13h

a weird and disturbing side plot of the Trump years was discovering a crowd of nominally leftist guys who made it extremely clear their absolute, unconditional line in the sand was over there being any sort of consequences whatsoever for sexual assault

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13h

this is hilarious. why would he think this is a mic drop. what is going on

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

i get the impulse (and don't want to call this wrong) but this happens three or four times, and then you're done being close to anyone who will do it again ever again. i feel like what you have to do is is sort of weirder in that it isn't motivated by any event in particular bsky.app/profile/hann...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

the hypothesis behind "call it out when you see it" is that there are lots of close, long-term relationships between men (bad thesis already) where one party is constantly implying they'd like to commit sex crimes and the other party is constantly angry at them about it for years at a time

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