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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/10/2026
This is so damn bleak. "The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled this week the biological sex of a transgender woman fatally shot by Samuel Ward Jr. in June 2022 was not only relevant to Ward’s claim of self defense but supported it." jamiescoop.substack.com/p/court-judg...
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Court: Judge ‘misled’ jury on biological sex
Tennessee appellate court first to rule on gender identification ‘evidence’
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/10/2026
Only on this site can I say this and people still think I'm shilling AI for big tech.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/10/2026
#VanityFair
Vanity fair cover with Sam Altman stealing everything
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Craig Garrett @betatronic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Having recently attended a 4-hour "AI Essentials for Parents" session at AFT's National Academy for AI Instruction, I can confirm! It began with "how to make informed choices" and ended with a 1-hr tutorial for your child to use ChatGPT/Copilot/Claude as a "study buddy and thought partner". 🤨
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026
At this "A.i." hearing at the NYC City Hall and so far it's all goofy talk about Skynet/Terminator "A.i." superintelligence scenarios and nothing about actual massive current harms of regular schmegular trash "A.i."
testimony table and packed audience at NYC city hallcity council members at their seats in city hall. full member hearing
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Interesting how the sources -- "according to U.S. officials and trafficking experts who are tracking the trend" -- focus on teenagers trafficking guns and not, you know, law enforcement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...
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American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels
Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico.
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VonBoche 18+ here be penuses @vonboche.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When the fire nation and the water tribe unite, it makes steam
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wonder why Trump and Republicans are promoting this industry so heavily and are allowing them to operate free from any guardrails or regulation?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
Graham Linehan is calling the people who murdered a trans man in cold blood, heroes.
Screenshot of an X post by Graham Linehan (@Glinner) commenting, "It looks like these two are heroes who may have saved some kids".
Linehan quotes a post by Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) that reads: "Damn. According to a witness of the shooting homicide of the trans New York Times executive in Dublin, Calif., the elderly Chinese grandparents calmly walked away after the exec was dropped to the ground".
Below the text are two police mugshot photos side by side: on the left is an elderly Asian woman with short, wavy gray hair wearing a white shirt, and on the right is an elderly Asian man with short dark hair, slight facial stubble, and a white shirt.
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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Fuck that. I’m Sherrod Brown and I approve this message.”
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait, the cult-like, billionaire-pushed school that has driven kids to mental health breakdowns and that families have fled in droves? Read the Wired story about it here www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/09/2026
i’d love to see someone follow the money on this one
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump continues to steal your money to pay for political ads while media companies continue to be co-conspirators to a crime by accepting the stolen funds.
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🏳️‍⚧️🔞 Alicia @aliciaaxiom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What would you do if I was on your couch like this? ~repost pretty please? #trans #nsfw #nsfwsky #smalltits #cock
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There’s no way Andrew Bailey quit his position as AG of Missouri expecting to serve as a co-Deputy FBI Director under Kash Patel. He was either given assurances that Kash was going to be gone soon and he would get the gig, or he thought that on his own. Anyway, good riddance.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This book! You should read it. It's big. In the deep sense of the word.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know it's dangerous to pedestal politicians, but our governor has time &again refused to take the bait on throwing any vulnerable group under the bus, and I'm mighty grateful for both the steadfast decency that he has shown to date, and the kind, invitational correctives he offers his errant peers
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republicans correctly deduced that having Trump campaign in Maine for Susan Collins was a terrible idea given how unpopular he is here but then they inexplicably sent Vance twice, who may be even less popular. Who’s next, Stephen Miller in Portland?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump had $400 million in his PAC and he STILL decided that he needed to steal taxpayer money to pay for campaign ads for the midterms.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Each new episode of Lanterns is like an adaptation of Philip Larkin's "This Be the Verse." The first stanza: They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
Made breakfast potatoes and fried eggs for breakfast this morning.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026
Claude making a scientific discovery
Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To mask is a regular practice in resistance to: 🦠 viruses that weaken your ability to earn a living & protest 👵🏻 ableism that leaves immune compromised, disabled & elderly left out of society 👀 flock cameras, pervert glasses & other surveillance 💰 accepting a harmful world for the sake of economy
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So far Trump has tried to rig the midterms by: 1. Attempted to nationalize voter registration & voting requirements. 2. Mid-decade gerrymanders. 3. Tried to use the USPS to obstruct mail-in balloting. 4. Used taxpayer money for ads. 5. Intimidation of election officials.
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The Buckeye Flame @thebuckeyeflame.com · 28/09/2026
Insiders say the Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads. Two posts pushing back against Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s anti-trans ads have been removed. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/09/28/i...
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Insiders say the Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads
Two posts pushing back against Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s anti-trans ads have been removed
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ruggledome.bsky.social @ruggledome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I remember reading Jeff Sharlet's ( @jeffsharlet.bsky.social ) "The Family" when it first came out ('08/'09 I believe). It helped me make sense of several things I saw going on. Things coming. It's even more helpful now, some 17 years on. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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The Family
They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congres...
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Fatale Femboy 🇬🇧 @fatalefemboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🕸️ Spider-Hoe, Spider Hoe 🕸️ #Femboy #Femsky #NSFW
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t worry, racist bigoted MAGA. He’s channeling you and is with you all the way.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
The entire motto of this administration towards LGBTQ youth is "fuck them kids." thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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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:
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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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Kayze 🔞 @kayzecutie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
POV: I'm in your ass
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
This is a formal request to SCOTUS to forcefully detransition dozens of incarcerated trans people and to subject them to medical experimentation. That's what this is.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With the conversations happening here today, I'm thinking about how Ellis gets to have a "second chance" without doing any of the work to change or even meaningfully apologise to the scores of women he harmed and manipulated. All he had to do was wait a while.
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Eagle Fandom BNF ☕️🦬 @trenchologist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It shouldn’t be amazing—because it tracks psychologically—how people state absolutes in order to feel more in control of our out of control world. And yet it still amazes me to read 100% confidence comments that are 100% blazingly incorrect.
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zZzlanesh @zzzlanesh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
mommy
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s a cult. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You want to keep women safe? Stop demonizing trans people and instead call for a public outcry against rape. Stop making immigrants leave this country and instead make rapists leave college campuses. Stop punishing women for ending unwanted pregnancies and instead hold men who cause them accountable
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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Primary sources are the necessary building blocks of history — unless you ask a chatbot to write it. www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.
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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
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Eagle Fandom BNF ☕️🦬 @trenchologist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Men will literally eat woims instead of go to therapy
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