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This kind of stuff really shows how anti-trans sports bans and policies meant to segregate trans people really have nothing to do with "competitive advantage." All this trans girl wanted to do was run for homecoming queen. Like the students would still have to vote for her to even win!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Weird, it's like all of us who kept saying this was a non-issue and Democrats should just ignore the attacks were ... right?

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Nella @nellachronism.bsky.social · 17h

I am literally taking out a rosary I haven't touched in years to pray for this shit because I'm so so tired and I guess only Mother Mary can sit with me right now in this BULLSHIT

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Nella @nellachronism.bsky.social · 17h

If there is one Catholic thing I hold onto with both hands in the darkest hours of my life it is that we are all human and judgment is not for me to decide. Justice must be restorative in this life or we’re just being fucks

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Nella @nellachronism.bsky.social · 17h

I was raise so pro-life I was too womb-to-tomb for my fucking prolife club in college because I wanted to fight for adults and not just babies but anyway if you aren’t horrified for Christa Pike in Tennessee get out. Colleen Slemmer’s death was a horror but this isn’t justice it’s just vengeance.

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Adam Warren @adamwarren.bsky.social · 9h

Safari Spooky further details Emp's multiversal "distressed superdamsel" status in today's EMPOWERED vol.12 webcomic page: www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/volume...

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Council of Geeks @councilofgeeks.bsky.social · 9h

This should be zero surprise to anyone who’s actually been paying attention. He was already on the “fuck you” list in regards to generative AI, right next to Natasha Lyonne, and (to a slightly lesser extent) Demi Moore.

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Halcyon @halcyon-s.bsky.social · 18h

If you see this post a vampire that isn’t Dracula. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ZV...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 30/09/2026

That was bad enough when it was being done by companies that actually were trying to build autonomous driving systems in a more or less principled manner, including some that eventually got there, but LLM+Comma doesn't represent a remotely viable path toward safe and useful driving automation.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026

Transgender girls have a biological advantage at... winning homecoming queen? That's apparently what Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia believes. They have blocked a transgender girl from running for homecoming queen in her high school Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Georgia School Blocks Trans Homecoming Queen, Citing Title IX

A Georgia school district is saying Trump’s Title IX crackdowns means only cisgender women can run for Homecoming Queen.

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Elisa Hansen @elisahansen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Had an amazing time chatting with with @abigaillarson.com and Sasha Graham about the new The Vampire's Tale Tarot! youtu.be/sxq2xPq6XI0

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Do Vampires let women claim their power in Tarot?

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Ginny Di @ginnydi.com · 30/09/2026

How many sessions does it usually take your group to level up? 🤔 Today's full-length video is all about shorter D&D games: Why you might want to play them, what pitfalls will get in your way, and how to successfully stick to your own time limits.

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Cargie @cargie.baby · 30/09/2026

I've been subbed to a basic tech news email for years. and lately i hardly ever read it.. because this is how it writes stories. the fucking SpaceX starship crashed. it failed its test. and this fucking newsletter reported it like this. how is this elon musk dicksucking helping anything at all

a summary from the tech news letter TLDR. "SpaceX's Starship makes it to orbit, but returns to earth early". It describes how the SpaceX starship had to return to earth after two orbits instead of six due to engine problems, and then exploded when it hit the ocean when returning to the earth. it describes this as a "key milestone"

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NASA's MESSENGER Satellite Captures Spectacular Color Mosaic of Mercury - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/9uD599

NASA image acquired: January 14, 2008

This spectacular color mosaic shows the eastern limb of Mercury as seen by MESSENGER as the spacecraft departed the planet following the mission's first Mercury flyby in January 2008. The colors of this image are not those that would be seen by the human eye but instead convey information about the distribution of different rock types on Mercury's surface. The different rock types result in subtle color variations across all of the 11 WAC narrow-band color filters. The Caloris basin, visible as a large bright yellow circular area in this image due to its infill of volcanic plains, dominates the northern region. A similar image was published in Science magazine in July 2008, but it only covered the northern half of the region shown here. To create this larger color mosaic, MESSENGER Science Team members had to also devise a method to deal with scattered light in the 11 different WAC filters. MESSENGER has obtained color imaging at this resolution only for the portions of Mercury seen on departure from Mercury flybys 1 and 2.

As spectacular as this color image is, it is just a taste of what is yet to come. In 2011, MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury and begin a year-long observing campaign that includes imaging all of Mercury's surface in color at an average resolution of about 1 kilometer/pixel (0.6 miles/pixel), a resolution that is about a factor of three better than this already impressive image.

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I support this decision, Mr President 🫡 Fly very often, walk around a lot, speak for a long time, try lots of local food, drink and sporting activities 👍 Rest is for the weak 🙏

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Cargie @cargie.baby · 29/09/2026

"Imagine AI was suddenly banned. Would you be able to get through a workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other AI tool?"

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Lionel Hutz: A World Without Lawyers

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 29/09/2026

Finally got to Widow's Bay. It takes a while to get you but once it does, it's a very different kind of horror story than we usually see on screen these days. And yet it still finds room to be funny as all hell. Patricia and the shotgun, man. I was rolling.

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Review: "DIGGER" (2026) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXwn... SPOILER WARNING! What might have sounded daring on paper unfolds as a tacky mess, the arthouse-blockbuster equivalent of a hack stand-up comic who ends a routine after dropping one punchline and then sticks around for an hour of "crowd-work."

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Review - DIGGER (2026)

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026

In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”

The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

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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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This moment is important – it is arguably the first crack in the dam of the flood that becomes Frieren’s entire overhaul of her life’s philosophy, spurring the journey that defines the entire series. That much is evident, but just how out of character it is only becomes apparent thereafter. 9/9

Frieren looks in the middle distance, determined.

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In Abe’s illustration, the normally stoic and detached Frieren is rendered, for lack of a better term, a wreck, her usual veneer of stoic disaffection completely shattered. Her words express remorse, perhaps even self-admonition “why did I never think about getting to know him more?” 8/9

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In hindsight, her breakdown is wildly out-of-character and thus reflects the depth of the epiphany that she is struck by in consequence of this life-altering event. Nothing breaks Frieren like this throughout the rest of the series. Only Himmel. 7/9

Frieren looks down upon Himmel’s casket.

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This process places the reader directly in the shoes of Frieren, thus making our elf protagonist’s original ignorance not just forgivable, but perhaps even a bit relatable. After all, we fell for the exact same trick. We didn’t know any better and, when it comes to Himmel, neither did she. 6/9

A close-up panel of Frieren from the mouth to mid-chest, her mouth slightly open.

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In so-doing, the manga creates a rather devious metatextual effect. Like Frieren, the reader is forced to look back on events that seemed unimportant or insignificant in the opening chapter and to recontextualize those events in the context of the present moment of reading. 5/9

Frieren and Eisen stand beside each other, looking solemn.

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In any given chapter thereafter, Frieren having an emotional breakdown would be shocking. In the 1st chapter, we simply don’t have the character context yet to mark the departure from the norm. As the series goes on, and Frieren stays stoic, this breakdown just keeps accumulating noteworthiness. 4/9

Frieren stares ahead, tears welling in her eyes and streaming down her face.

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What the reader fails to realize at this time is that Frieren doesn’t show that kind of emotion. As the series goes on, she consistently demonstrates a completely unflappable calm, even within the greatest potential moments of emotional turmoil. 3/9

Frieren holds her staff and stands calmly on a pile of corpses, looking down indifferently at the demon before her.

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Frieren has an intense (and beautifully-illustrated) reaction at Himmel’s funeral. At the time of first reading, this makes perfect sense – it’s a funeral after-all and Himmel was Frieren’s companion on an epic quest for many years. 2/9

a four panel spread of Frieren depicting the various adventures the party went on.

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the more interesting structural elements in Frieren is the way that the text plays on hindsight to add progressive significance to a key moment from the opening chapter: Frieren’s emotional breakdown at Himmel’s funeral. #frieren 1/9

Frieren crying over the memory of Himmel.

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social discusses Himmel's funeral in Frieren. #ComicsStudies #Manga

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.

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The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.

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Adam Warren @adamwarren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spooky continues discussing Emp's status as "our sexy martyr of distressed damselhood" in today's EMPOWERED vol.12 webcomic page: www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/volume...

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Tony Dela Cruz @tonydelacruzart.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Rachel Summers, Phoenix

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Halcyon @halcyon-s.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@cargie.baby Sooooo.... I mean it's just perfect right?

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Council of Geeks @councilofgeeks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Frak this Podcast continues, and @jessiegender.bsky.social and I reach the end of the original 1978 pilot movie for Battlestar Galactica. Let's see if it leaves us wanting more. YouTube: youtu.be/8ST8KeJLYoU Podcast: councilofgeeks.libsyn.com/frak-this-po...

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Frak This Podcast Episode 84 - Saga of a Star World Part 3

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have the same position on AI that I have on literally every other technology: It has no moral dimension of its own outside who controls it, right now it's overwhelmingly controlled by people who're evil to the degree they don't deserve to exist. That needs to be corrected. Until it is? 🤷‍♂️

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

For my newsletter this morning, I found a small glimmer of political hope for trans people in the US and wrote about it: www.burnsnotice.com/we-may-have-...

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We May Have Just Seen the Tides Turn on Trans Rights

Some conservative PACs have backed off from running anti-trans ads. Is this a sign of what's to come for trans people?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

seeing a lot of discussion about this and like: the reason the poster did a screenshot with no link is that if you actually search for the article you'd learn that this bill 1) has nothing to do with Zohran Mamdani 2) was introduced in committee back in May and didn't go anywhere

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026

"Musk’s demolition of USAID, and the resulting suffering and death, “is going to be a defining part of his legacy, and I do wonder if that’s why he’s scrambling so hard to rewrite that history now”, Konyndyk said." It's a space race legacy now.

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What will define Elon Musk’s legacy? Doge cuts to USAID Ebola programs

Experts say cuts have hindered the response to DRC’s Ebola outbreak and resulted in ‘significant numbers’ of deaths

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SpaceX just launched the 14th Starship test flight, and it's now successfully in orbit for the first time. This is an amazing achievement, and I absolutely detest how Musk has ruined this sort of thing both for me and for humanity.

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Adam Warren @adamwarren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Safari Spooky" discusses Emp's history as a "distress magnet" in today's EMPOWERED vol.12 webcomic page: www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/volume...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/09/2026

Being not Jewish, I was not aware of the key role Fruit Gems had in Bar/Bat Mitzvahs and other celebrations, I was just sad on my own account they were no longer going to be made. But now we all will have reason to celebrate: ejewishphilanthropy.com/sunkist-says...

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Sunkist says it will bring back beloved Fruit Gems after national outcry following eJP report

‘We hear you, Sunkist Fruit Gems fans!’ the company wrote, saying it had found a new manufacturer for the kosher synagogue staple

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social spotlights Frieren as transcultural text. #ComicsStudies #Manga

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