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Eryngium foetidum @gloryoski.bsky.social · 1h

TIL Shane Gillis dares to be the default bluski age. 😠 (After learning just the other day who he was even.)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

why would you believe electeds who were pro-defunding policing and have now renounced that position (as "woke 1), when they say they will "abolish ICE?"

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos

She Only Served 10 Months Behind Bars. Florida Still Slapped Her With A $127,000 Bill.
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wonder where the Harper's signatories are now. Are they still alive or no?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/10/2026

RFK Jr is one of the worst people to ever wield power in US government. Eternal shame on anyone who has ever elevated him.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Honestly, these sound like reasonable demands

From Palestinian Youth Movement’s Twitter: We call on the mayor to:
1. Shut down all illegal sales of stolen Palestinian land in New York City
2. Use every means available to him to prevent military cargo shipments to Israel from JFK airport
3. Dismantle NYPD's Strategic Response Group and fire Jessica
Tisch

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Whew this year’s COVID formulation is an asskicking. I would always rather have my ass kicked by a shot instead of a particularly dangerous virus, but if you plan to get it, make sure you build in recovery time.

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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Channel 4 copyright claimed my review of their ADHD documentary. Silencing disabled critics etc and whatever.. I’ve disputed it (like it’s quite clearly fair use) but they have 30 days to drag it out. If you’d like to buy me a coffee to get through this there’s a link in my bio 😩

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.

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Drives Like a Dream @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i wonder if the people at flock see the irony in this.

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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Resurrected Corn God in a Tortoise Shell carved green stone, pigments Maya culture c. 250-900 CE Mexico The resurrected Corn (Maize) God is born from the earth represented by the tortoise shell. #handmade #carved #greenstone #MayaCulture #Mexico #Mesoamerica #MayanArt #precolumbian #corn #god

Not just a beautiful object, this carving has deep religious and philosophical significance. Carved from green stone which ancient Mesoamericans regarded as the stone of life representing new growth of young plants. The face of the Corn (Maize) god peeks out from the tortoise shell which represents the earth, the sustenance for life and life-giving crops like maize which were so important to the Mayans.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

incidentally i think these guys are the patron saints of bluesky

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's disgusting watching people buying into the "Tucker Carlson is making sense?!" bullshit and it's probably time to wrap our heads around the fact that the people susceptible to this are unconsciously fascist curious and just need the ugly delivered to them in an "acceptable" package

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

it's remarkable just how much worse the interest rate situation makes the housing crisis my wife and I bought our house in 2013 and we have a 3.6% mortgage rate if I plug 7.5% into the mortgage calculator our payment jumps over a thousand dollars a month

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 28/12/2025

cure fascism, not autism

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I got so many more posts about weird fucking gross shit Gavin Newsom has done but like why do we need to see them he fucking sucks he cannot run for president he is friends with Steve Fucking Bannon we cannot have ANOTHER president who is FRIENDS with STEVE FUCKING BANNON

politico.com

Poll: California Democrats see Newsom as stronger 2028 contender than Harris

But enthusiasm for a presidential bid by either California Democrat has fallen among voters overall since March.

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're running a sale on our website! Get 25% off your order with promo code Bookstore cat at checkout. Picture of Piri, one of the cats who put in an application to be our new shop cat, for tax. carpelibrumbaltimore.com

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pausa de hateration @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So this was today. Not a year ago. Today.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“move fast and break things” was always about breaking people

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You do not need to explain, to Queer or Black or Disabled people in America, that you can't always have a perfect thing. That is not news to us. You are not providing new information. It is the height of arrogance to assume that's not already part of our understanding of the world.

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aline valek @alinevalek.com.br · 18/09/2026

Octavia Butler com bichinhos appreciation post

A escritora Octavia Butler, uma mulher negra de cabelo curto e levemente grisalho, de rosto colado com um cavalo

Octavia Butler segurando um gato tigrado no colo

Octavia Butler na praia segurando um poodle

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great system, no notes www.propublica.org/article/scho...

Voucher programs and the private schools they increasingly fund have proliferated across the country. Yet those schools often reject children with disabilities — the very kids who were used to help sell early voucher programs to lawmakers and the public - for having needs that are too costly, complex or disruptive. That leaves those children with few options beyond the public schools. And as public schools lose enrollment as a result of more and more
voucher use, they lose resources that would benefit children who remain, including those with disabilities.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/09/2026

something is only a “culture war issue” to you if you think it’s not about you; otherwise it’s just “politics” or (maybe) “life”

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”

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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP

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spooky acabdriver @acabdriver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Therapist (clinically): that's fucked up

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a sociologist, can confidently say, this is not an ethical experiment.

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

girl, same

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One of the definitions of the "surveillance state" that I operate under is when a government turns *all* methods of data and information collection---no matter what purpose it was supposed to serve, into surveillance intended for punishment.

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 10/09/2026

A few folx have been asking about what happened, & I forgot about this Ko-fi post until now, but sharing so you can read how Winifred described her Bluesky departure if you had questions about why: ko-fi.com/post/Today-M...

ko-fi.com

The End of a Very Brief Era

Winifred Burton published a post on Ko-fi

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FunkisHen @funkishen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This assessment is ghoulish, absolutely vile. "Hey, you can't afford to live and get care? Dying is free!"

Those experts also found that, even when access to assisted dying was restricted to those at the end of life or with a terminal illness, disabled people, older people, and particularly older disabled people, "may feel subtly pressured to end their lives prematurely due to attitudinal barriers as well as the lack of appropriate services and support".

Despite fears that extreme poverty could increase pressure on people to seek an assisted death, as has happened in Canada, the government's equality impact assessment instead concludes that the bill "may have a positive impact on those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds by making assisted dying available without incurring cost".

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

you know the economy is bad when even talented people like this are looking for work 😔

Poster wrapped around a light pole. It says HIRE at the top in large lettering and has photos of fruits. The lettering reads

I can peel fuits in one go with only my tounge
RULES:
• NO photos and NO videos
• NO more than three people allowed to watch at once
• You bring the fruit, I bring the tongue

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tomorrow, I go full time in my new position as a Lead Historian with the American LGBTQ+ Museum. I've decided to end my Patreon so that my subscribers can support folks who need it more! But I'm going to launch a newsletter via @buttondown.com instead. Sign up here: buttondown.com/hughryan

buttondown.com

Hugh Ryan

Queer history, museums, books, and NYC

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am in a credit union. A physical office. They tell me to go online to become a member and open an account and then they can help me. I do so. They won't accept my application. The person tells me to call the call center because they can do more. I AM IN THE PHYSICAL BRANCH OF THE CREDIT UNION.

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Chris @kodiak.app · 31/08/2026

When you see up close how much easier it makes EVERYTHING when school meals are free it becomes very clear that we make students pay for lunches because some people want students to not get enough food.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026

Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.

goelect.txelections.civixapps.com

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 28/08/2026

Labor camps. They are labor camps.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

my editor told me that people were calling Trump’s foreign policy the Jolene doctrine bc he’s taking things “just because he can” and I said it was unfair to Jolene to name a doctrine after a motivation a third party projected on her and he got annoyed and said I should “go tweet that”

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I really love these photos! They still make me laugh

A black-and-white cat in a cardboard box

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On the one hand, I follow legal victories against this administration with some relief. On the other hand, I know that litigating every aspect of the social contract means there isn’t one anymore. And so it’s hard for me to get out of bed these days, is what I’m saying.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m about to say something so neurodivergent it borders on self-parody, but I am trying to watch a relaxing ASMR video of someone quietly sorting a huge bag of assorted shapes and sizes of beads, only I can’t relax because she’s sorting them wrong and it’s actually making me more tense

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.

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