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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These RW morons don't know or don't care that the primary substantive issue of this ruling is to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment...on the same day new Cornell allegations are being made public. The endless blabbering about protecting women is BS.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:
lawdork.com
Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison
Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.
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Tuta @tuta.com · 28/09/2026
🚨🇪🇺 The #ChatControl trilogue starts on Tuesday & the EU Council is trying to pressure Parliament into giving up its opposition. We must stop them once again! 💪🏼 Because no matter the framing, the truth remains the same: There's no backdoor for the good guys only! ➡️ fightchatcontrol.eu
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 25/09/2026
VPNs make it safer to use the Internet. Governments are trying to ban them. With the continued global rise of social media bans and “age verification” bills, threats against VPNs have only escalated. Read the letter & take action @ DefendVPNS.com for our 2nd annual Defend VPNs Day of Action!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026
They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I guess the point of the UN now is for world leaders to brag about the war crimes they have committed.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Converse... the official footwear of the 2026 KKK white supremacist organization. Is this where we are as a country now? Boycotting doesn't seem like enough. Converse needs to be nuked from orbit.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 18/09/2026
Last year, nearly 20,000 VPN users mobilized with us to demand safe and private browsing but the threat against VPNs is escalating with the global rise of social media bans & “age verification” bills. Either we win against online censorship bills & VPN bans, or we lose our right to anonymity online.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026
Share if you agree
Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Damn
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Correction: Kraft is donating $2m to "aid in the region". Israel is in the region. And what is this bullshit about buying your way out of this? A donation doesn't change what you believe or what you fight for. You're still a Zionist; you're still a coward.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026
Every time one of these stories comes out, it's shown that the parents were actually abusive. There is an asymmetry where the parents are given a platform by Christian nationalist orgs and Fox News while the state cannot discuss any details due to privacy. So the narrative is set by the parents.
Screenshot of a Fox News post on X reporting on a Massachusetts family whose daughter was placed in state custody over gender transition disputes, with an embedded Fox News broadcast segment titled "Gender Treatment Lawsuit."
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In addition to diesel, a shortage of motor oil has begun in the US due to the war with Iran Costco is now rationing motor oil for due to the Iran war, limiting members to one transaction and a maximum of two units every seven days
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Lying @lying.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hey so here's the thing: That's entirely fucking wrong. "We're just regular people" was the Mattachine Society, which achieved diddly squat for nearly 20 years. "Support us or fuck you" was the Stonewall Riots, and it's what gave us gay rights today.
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wait, wait, here's the full thing!
Same Dalek cutaway as before, but with another page on the left labelled "The Anatomy of a Dalek" that lists from top down: Scanner, Audio Scanner, Combat Computor, Photo-Sonic Cells, Environment Chamber, Grav Deflectors, Psych Analyzers, Vocal Simulator and Translator Unit, Etheric Transmitter/Receiver, Multi-Range Variable Power Destructor, The Control Arm, Element to Energy Convertor, Auto-Navigators, Auto-Repair Circuits, Hostility Sensors, Cryogen Survival Unit, Auto-Destruct, and Motive Unit.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
This is the world JK Rowling helped create. This is what Harry Potter is funding. All the legal challenges to enforce this regime are backed by Rowling and her Harry Potter money.
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why is nobody suing OpenAI over this? Why are there no criminal investigations? If I did this, I would end up in a jail cell. But OpenAI gets a pass because it is AI instead of human employees? OpenAI is openly committing crimes and nobody is doing a goddamn thing about it. #ProsecuteAI
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Reminder that the Associated Press is not a trustworthy news source anymore. They sling propaganda with the worst of them now. (for those who don't know, Trump did not attend the ceremony in New York)
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We will also remember politicians coming together across the isle to strip America of everything we held dear; transforming us into an Orwellian surveillance state and paving the way for our current descent into fascism. We will never forget what you did to us. And we will never forgive.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Y2K problem but for Trump’s gas price explosion
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Between Meta's pervert glasses and this, it is becoming unsafe to socialize. Why must we create a world where every single human interaction is monitored and monetized. We have to always be onguard now, always watch what we say and do in all situations. This is hell.
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is why I've never been big on electorlaism. Every career politician does this. They will compromise everything until there is nothing left. What he is doing now, he will do after being elected.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/09/2026
Jesus Christ: after a recent ruling by the Eighth Circuit that allowed Act 372 to take effect, an Arkansas county has banned all children from checking out any books in the adult section, bringing home any DVDs, or using the self-checkout kiosk in its public libraries.
More recently in Craighead County — symbolically, at least, Ground Zero for the state’s attack on libraries, thanks to Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro) — the library announced several changes to circulation as it relates to minors. In a Facebook post, the library listed a number of changes to library policies, including:

Minors are prohibited from using the self-checkout kiosks;
Children under 13 years old may only check out materials from the designated children’s collection, while minors age 13-17 can only check out from the children or teen sections;
Minors may not check out DVDs at all; and  
Minors are prohibited from entering or purchasing anything from the Friends of the Library Bookstore.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s the enormous failure of the medical system to be trustworthy that has *created* space for the MAHA movement to flourish. If the US medical industrial complex was ethical, moral, and inclusive MAHA wouldn’t exist. This article I wrote back in 2019 is unfortunately more relevant then ever.
damemagazine.com
Why Are So Many Women Rejecting Medical Science? - Dame Magazine
This feature is part of our ongoing series looking at the inequities in healthcare. Snake oil is having a renaissance. And while it’s true that for hundreds of years dubious salesmen have been riding ...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 06/09/2026
The tech collective behind NoBlogs.org and a host of other free online initiatives has announced that they are shutting down as a consequence of the US State Department designating them a "global terrorist." This represents a significant blow to online freedom. keepitfree.ai/announcement...
The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free, privacy-friendly, autonomous and politically committed infrastructure. 

“Stay human” is not an empty phrase to us.

It means, above all, that we have a responsibility to protect our users, those who build the human networks we rely, and for the communities who flooded us with messages of support and solidarity.Now turn off your PCs, get out of your homes, struggle, hug each other and keep on smiling. We are stopping, but the Resistance and ideas do not stop. Stay human.

We will soon send instructions on how to back up the content of your blogs, mailboxes and websites, along with more technical recommendations. But keep in mind that, just as the autistici.org domain was made unreachable without previous notice, in the next few days we might suffer similar issues that we may not be able to predict.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet
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shar @sharyap.com · 04/09/2026
watermelon
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Dave @dept-of-dave.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Had a younger friend say out loud “justice IS the compromise at this point, because we deserve vengeance,” and that was kind of an enlightening moment for me.
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I starting to think those who cave to Trump are not cowards. They are transphobes and bigots who finally have permission to show their true colors.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
never surrender
neil degrasse tyson: you are not a planet

pluto:: you are not carl sagan

neil: middle finger

pluto: two middle fingers
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In other news, 39% of Americans also believe we are living in the biblical end times and want the end to come. I wonder how much overlap there is... www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Someday soon hes going to be over and trans folk will continue to exist and, hopefully, thrive, for as long as there are humans on this planet.
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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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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here is comes... the end of American Democracy. They will activate this system regardless of any court order. It's very existence already defies court rulings. There is nothing stopping them, except perhaps us.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026
How many students were kicked off their campuses for protesting this stuff? It's not just the psychotic openly genocidal propaganda, it's that the people in power in the US made it so that if you criticize this openly, your life could be destroyed.
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
FYI: Saved posts are not truly saved; they are just bookmarked. If the original author deletes the post, it is gone from your saved list as well.
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Saying it is automated does not in any way absolve Google for its actions. Google is still 100% responsible for the product it chooses to publish. We don't accept this kind of responsibility shirking with AI, we certainly shouldn't accept it with traditional automation either.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Kind of surprised not a single outlet wanted this. Maybe the interest is gone and this is just what America is now. Lots of photographers asking me about southwest Florida though!
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“If we don't fight for autistici/inventi today, we will have to fight for Mastodon tomorrow. Domino effects are real with Fascists as we saw at the start of WWII.” - LukefromDC
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LukefromDC (@LukefromDC@kolektiva.social)
To eveyone on Mastodon: The real lesson of the US attack on autistici/inventi is that WE ARE NEXT. Mastodon servers mostly do not run things like PRISM, are often based outside the US, and compete d...
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I don't know this particular company, but it is a scary escalation if the US is going after service providers who focus on customer privacy. Is your favorite VPN provider next?
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Finalizing the rules but putting a "not really" asterisk by it will provide cover for when some USPS employees "accidentally" misinterpret those internal rules and starts enforcing them. Defying court orders becomes a simple administrative error instead of an act of deliberate legal contempt.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026
Surprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record.
Number of food recalls by year
There have been 162 food recalls posted this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture.

Chart shows yearly food recall numbers from 2017 to 2026.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
US military now drifting towards the kind of inability to process internal criticism and debate that turned the Russian military into the institution it is today
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
AmnestyUK and JK Rowling are aggressively trying to remove these reports on queer and trans discrimination in the UK. Don't let them succeed. Download and share. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... ia902908.us.archive.org/6/items/repo...
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Mark Yarm @markyarm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
RIP, Frank Beard of ZZ Top.
rollingstone.com
Frank Beard, ZZ Top's Hard-Shuffling Drummer, Dead at 77
Frank Beard, ZZ Top's hard-shuffling drummer who performed with the group for more than 55 years, has died at age 77.
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Grumpy__Dev @grumpy-dev.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Institutionalized holocaust denialism. A prime example of how while the Republicans may support Israel, they absolutely do not support Jews.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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