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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I always get mass unfollowed when I talk about disability, by the way.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

*Statistically Average Earthling*, vertebrate division. A million billion glowing, sparkly xenomorph fish.

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hilary hh, PhD 🇵🇸😷 @h229.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fantastic keynote by @marthasjones.bsky.social at the Monuments Workshop’s “Beyond Statues” Convening this morning! Grateful for Dr. Jones’ interventions on where personal memory and public history meet, and what to do about it in the US today. 🪦

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/09/2026

fun fact! Musk's fossil fuelled data centres almost certainly emit more climate pollution than is saved by all Tesla vehicles ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m...

Grok's fossil-fuelled data centres wipe out either a large chunk or more than all of Tesla's global avoided emissions
Fossil fuelled chatbot emissions
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...from its EVs, solar panels and batteries (depending on which year and calculation you use). All numbers in megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The work and everyday labor of living with ME/CFS contains this recursive loop of everyday labor of being ill." For @motherjones.com, I interviewed @elimrogers.bsky.social on her book tracing the history of ME/CFS and what it's like to be exhausted in America. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

motherjones.com

The relentless work of being sick

A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026

They want to drive us from public life and are more than happy to see us dead if that’s what it takes. This man was subjected to the vitriol of a nation unwilling to relinquish white supremacy, and it killed him.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thank you, Michigan. I love you from the bottom of my heart!

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Dylan Lyons (he/him) @dylanlyons.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Rhaneyra really said tax the rich!!

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today.

To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university.

The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.

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hilary hh, PhD 🇵🇸😷 @h229.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🚨 Act to protect the Great Lakes! 🚨 I just submitted a public comment urging EGLE to reject Enbridge's water discharge permit for Line 5 - please join me! Public comment closes tomorrow. www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/submit_water...

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hilary hh, PhD 🇵🇸😷 @h229.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thank you Paul!! So appreciate your feedback and input over these many years!

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hilary hh, PhD 🇵🇸😷 @h229.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Very excited to share that today I successfully defended my dissertation, “Collectively-Conserved Land: Experiments in land tenure, conservation and consensus in Wisconsin, U.S.” and was granted the rank of Doctor of Philosophy in Geography and Environment/Resources.

Hilary, in PhD regalia, in front of Science Hall at UW Madison

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Will Carless, USA TODAY @willcarless.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot. But it's clear the attack on the San Diego Islamic Center yesterday could have been SO much worse. 140 children were feet away from the attackers. Security guard Amin Abdullah engaged these cowards in a gunfight, and they ran away.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 12/05/2026

ME/CFS, a condition of extreme fatigue that doesn't improve with rest, affects ≥3 million people in the US. For decades, there hasn't been a serious attempt to map the genetic codes of those who experience it; thanks to public funding in the UK, thousands will now be mapped. #ShareGoodNewsToo

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hilary hh, PhD 🇵🇸😷 @h229.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Dissertation defense warrant requested ✅

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology @cornellbirds.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

More than 373 MILLION birds are forecast to fly across the East Coast and eastern Midwest tonight. Help keep them safe and on track by turning off nonessential lights from 11 PM to 6 AM. Learn more about migration, window safety, and sign up to get alerts: birdcast.org/migration-to...

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Kelly Hunt, 19, disappeared in ANC b/n her village in Western AK and her college. Her remains were recently found. She is 4th young person from Shaktoolik, an Inupiaq village of ≈210, to die in past few years. AK Native women are more likely to be raped or murdered than White women. 1 is too many.

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hilary hh, PhD 🇵🇸😷 @h229.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Final Yi-Fu Tuan seminar in the old (soon-to-be rehabbed) Science Hall, of course from the incomparable @moreorloess.bsky.social. Congratulations Joe, I am so lucky to have been your colleague and student! 🗺️

Screenshot of Joe Mason giving talk entitled “Histories of Ordinary Landscapes”

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In the richest, most powerful country in the world you should have the guarantee to healthcare, to a good education, to a union. And if we tax billionaires their fair share and get money out of politics, we can make that a reality.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Epstein survivors will have a public forum midday on Capitol Hill led by Rep Ro Khanna (D-CA)… after not being permitted an audience with King Charles tomorrow

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich  Well, today we're taxing the rich...

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Many people are plagued by allergies to spring tree pollen. But let’s be sure to blame the right trees. Here is a story about tree pollination, a very interesting subject. This post is available to everyone.

open.substack.com

It's Allergy Season, But To Which Trees?

Note: this article and comments are open to everyone as a public service.

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Morris “Day and The Time” Katz @vodkasnowflake.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

this is how it’s done

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/04/2026

Researchers in Finland found that the majority of respondents to a survey have a favorite tree. It’s not unusual, says arborist RJ Laverne, for that bond to feel like friendship. We form interspecies relationships with our pets. So why not plants?

wapo.st

Yes, you can make friends with trees. Here’s why it’s a good idea.

We form interspecies relationships with our pets. So why not plants?

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Gabrielle Orum Hernández @ghernandez16.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

😒😒 just my union here to prop up a technology industry that threatens our labor power and demeans our knowledge as educators. great thanks.

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loscharlos @loscharlos.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

6 years ago today I went on my last run (pic left) — today I’m 36 and I’ve spent my entire 30’s with #LongCovid struggling to walk up and down the block, or work more than 1-2 hours a day. Heres 4 things I never thought I’d lose at this age:

A collage of two photos of myself. On the left is a black and white photo of me arriving to the beach after a run with a peace sign. This is the last run I have been on which happened in 2020 6 years ago today — on the right is a photo of myself on a typical day recovering from minor exertion with an eye mask and oxygen concentrator on.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog

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Gundam E91 @jainaego.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It's such an infurating thing to try to explain to liberals here, that we've always been "that guy" and this is just the same shit but more blatant that we've been doing for ages and that this country is not salvageable and no mainstream politics will stop this

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hilary hh, PhD 🇵🇸😷 @h229.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Madison-area community members and comrades 🎤 Please join us for our public talk tomorrow as part of the Yi-Fu-Tuan Lecture Series - Friday Feb 27 at 3:30PM in Science Hall Rm 180 for a panel on UW’s relationship to land expropriation! @uwcartlab.bsky.social @moreorloess.bsky.social

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

We have ~15 separate radio dispatches, one for each neighborhood, and dozens more for the suburbs/Saint Paul. Each dispatch/monitoring channel contains somewhere between 500 and 2000 people. At any given time there are probably a dozen mobile patrols and 100 on-foot observers in each neighborhood.

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe 'entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.'" I don't even know what to say at this point except fuck ICE and fuck the settler colonial government of the so-called united states apnews.com/article/ice-...

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Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention

The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week have been transferred to an ICE facility and called for th...

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The size of the winter COVlD wave has been revised upward as post-holiday data come in. We estimate 1 in 55 people in the U.S. are actively infectious. 🔥WV: 1 in 14 🔥IN: 1 in 15 🔥MI & OH: 1 in 21 🔥MO: 1 in 22 🔥CT: 1 in 24 🔥KS: 1 in 25 🔥MA & IL: 1 in 27 Quick 🧵 1/4

Heat map and PMC estimates, 1 in 55 infectious and 892,000 new daily infections for Jan 12.

We expedited the report to release it two days early.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Make it viral.

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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 19/12/2025

"The tribe had entered a contract to conduct feasibility studies and concept designs for ICE detention centers in the area. Tribal leadership railed against the decision by the Prairie Band LLC, as a violation of their values, and fired the board members responsible for the decision."

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Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation announces full divestiture from I.C.E. contract

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation announced Wednesday that it has fully divested from the contract and is in no way affiliated with any ICE-related projects or operations.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

the good that you do persists in this world

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Four-year-old Palestinian orphan Adam Abufoujo was evacuated out of Gaza for medical treatment to Chicago and this was the moment he first received his prosthetic leg.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

No. No. No. Waking up to the devastating news that Alice Wong has passed. I have no words yet, except to say that Alice was a powerful force for good in the world & I loved her. I posted the below just before her passing.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.
Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.
We need more stories about us and our culture.
You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

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hilary hh, PhD 🇵🇸😷 @h229.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Really thrilled to receive the honor of first place paper at the PhD level🥇in the West Lakes AAG conference paper competition! Thanks WLAAG! @geographers.bsky.social

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

This is a risible argument, and it's also damning that Obama helped pave the way for it. The weakening of the War Powers Act has been a bipartisan effort. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

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War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/10/2025

No time for subtlety tonight, folks! Sign up to get out the vote for Mamdani here: www.zohranfornyc.com/gotv?r=uf_Vq...

Sign in multiple colored lines of text reading:

IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE:
CUOMO HATES US
AND LOVES TRUMP
BECAUSE HE'S A RACIST ISLAMOPHOBE
SO WE'RE VOTING
FOR MAMDANI
BECAUSE WE LOVE NYC

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