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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me: "Oh man, I haven't played Starfield in a minute, I wonder if it's better now or if modders have helped improve it!" [171.83GB Required] Me: "Ah, I remember now."

A screenshot of the Starfield entry in the Xbox app, showing the base game requires 152.67GB, the Terran Armada DLC requires 4.9GB, the Shattered Space DLC requires 14.2GB, the Old Mars DLC requires 16.84MB, and the total install size is 171.83GB.

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are in a position where you can do anything at all about this, please, please advocate for women of color in media. There are so few women and nonbinary people period. Even less of them are non-white.

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Danielle Belton @daniellecbelton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When people try to ban books like Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," they often do it under the guise of protecting children's innocence. But in actuality, administrators aren't simply banning a book. They're banning empathy. www.blacksnob.com/schools-keep...

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Schools Keep Banning Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye,' and I Think I Know Why

They're not just banning a book. They're banning children from learning empathy.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

man i wish this country loved us as much as it loves the things we make and the way we entertain it

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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

'After his testimony, “all hell broke loose,” his wife recalled, and the county supervisor in Bladen County told him he wouldn’t get another loan “unless Jesse Helms himself,” the powerful senior senator from North Carolina, requested it.' from the NYT obit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...

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Timothy Pigford, Who Fought Bias Against Black Farmers, Dies at 74 (Gift Article)

He was the lead plaintiff in the landmark 1997 lawsuit Pigford v. Glickman, an attempt to redress the Agriculture Department’s historic racism.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

really can't emphasize enough how many more tits and dicks there were. like I don't mean "you could find nudes if you looked" I mean people with office jobs who still post Serious Things on here now were like "eh, fuck it, here's my naked body" and society didn't collapse over it

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All I'll add to the interview discourse is that when writing my book (link in bio) I saw that privileged people will invent ANY EXCUSE to not hire someone-especially of a marginalized group-that has nothing to do with their actual skills or ability to do the job, and then talk about "meritocracy."

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Listen, I know that by no means should you "hand it" to the hackers, but uhhhhhh

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 23/09/2026

continuing @coyotemedia.org's series of forever unpaywalled guides to life with this rundown of what to do with lots of fruit — whether that's lemons from your neighbor's tree or big bags you pulled out of a dumpster. plus, there's a fermented hot sauce recipe! www.coyotemedia.org/fermenting-f...

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First Aid Kit: Turning Not-So-Good Fruit Into Something Delicious

How to make fruit into ferments, jam, kimchi, and lots more.

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I talk about this stuff mostly to help people who also experience this that it’s not normal and often racially motivated. It’s not going to stop—a sad truth—but it also really isn’t about you. It’s about implicit bias and fear.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For folks following along with personal things: The great spring cleaning/decluttering turned into the great summer redecorating, and now, finally, in the fall, I'm finished! (mostly.) Which means now is a great time to drop by the spot and have a drink! (I need some more plants tho...)

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There are some people so eager to be special, so eager for unearned praise, that they will steal EVERYTHING from real people with real struggles. Your identity, your experiences, even your name. They'll staple it to themselves and then be mad when you hold them accountable to the harm they cause.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I remember living in DC for this, I was lucky enough to watch Endeavour fly right past my apartment window while I was working from home. Incredible to see.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This went out to all subscribers yesterday! If you missed it and want to check it out, head here: (and don't forget to subscribe!) buttondown.com/alanhenry/ar...

buttondown.com

Weaponized Incompetence, and How to Work Around It

Some people just forget who they are. Make sure you're not one of them.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here's this week's infosec roundup, for the sickos among us. One the one hand, holy 1 million spearphishing emails in 72 hours. On the other, a reader question reminds us all that once someone has physical control of a device, well, game's mostly over.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Surprise newsletter! This time I'm talking about how to deal with another professional annoyance: weaponized incompetence. Up on Patreon RIGHT NOW for Terra and Sol subs: www.patreon.com/halophoenix/ Sub here to get it in your inbox on Friday for free: buttondown.com/alanhenry

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I love threads like these, because a: it reminds me that this industry being as bad as it is is a management choice, not just something we have to accept, and b: I would describe my tenure at Lifehacker the *exact same way* - and I will never forgive the people who destroyed that experience.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Come to this week's infosec roundup for the study that says most people wouldn't unlock their phones for $1 million, stay for the Meta exec who turned out to be one porn company's most prolific pirate (yes, he was using his work computer.) www.pcmag.com/news/a-meta-...

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A Meta Exec's 150-Porn-Downloads-a-Day Habit, a 23-Year Botnet Bust, and $1M Phone Unlocks

From a tech executive caught torrenting on company Wi-Fi to a massive international takedown and shocking survey data, here's what went down in cybersecurity this week.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 12/09/2026

I just want my siblings in the truth business to treat white supremacy as the lie that it is.

Malia Obama, with auburnish boho braids, smokes a cigarette. She sports a look of ancestral exasperation

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 11/09/2026

With fewer publications covering events, our leading outlets can distort reality. While Agenda Setting is decades-old, with fewer local angles on national events, bigger orgs can, at best, tell us what to think about; at worst, put their thumbs on the scales. joshsternberg.com/2026/09/11/j...

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Journalism layoffs are bad for democracy

Last week, USA Today, one of the largest media companies in the nation, laid off an unreported amount of staffers across its network of publications.On Thursday, McClatchy, owner of The Miami Heral…

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Obxidienne - Nomad Vtuber @obxidienne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For the remaining days of Subtember on Twitch, every subscription and gifted sub on my channel will be matched with a donation to the Sameer Project campaign in Gaza. Currently, a solo sub price is set to 3.74€. I will be donating on behalf of the subscriber/gifter 5€.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And now ... it's the official (!) trailer for A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD, which @chanda.blacksky.app called "a magnificent work of cosmic imagination." Please pre-order! Every little bit helps. The book drops on 10/6. youtu.be/BoTU03qQxKM?...

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Trailer: A Wall Is Also a Road, by Annalee Newitz

YouTube video by Annalee Newitz

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every day I wake up and go to work in an industry that acknowledges its overreliance on companies actively working to kill it... ...and then continues to leverage those companies as a crutch to avoid thinking about how to do the work well.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AI companies doing what they do best, part 10000000

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Stick with this thread and you'll learn a lot about something becoming WAY more important in our country's legal system today than it ever has before. Exceptional reading.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Are my ideas racist and harmful, and I should stop and think about my motivations for this project?" "No, it is the negroes that are wrong! AI told me so, and I have enough money to not care what they think!"

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So a long long time ago, in a different life, I had to take polygraph tests for ~ reasons ~ They are notoriously unreliable, easy to fool, and everyone has been trying to get the military and security communities to stop using them for decades. This is a dog-and-pony show to exert power.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm pleased to report this week's infosec roundup is here, and it's full of fuckassery

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hang on I need to ask if this is going into our test lab inventory or if someone's already called dibs....

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is a real verbatim quote from GOOD THINGS ARE COMING YOUR WAY, the book about the time-traveling vampire and the magical social worker.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And that right there, from places of power to ordinary places of work, is the marginalized experience in a nutshell. Ask me how I know. Go on, ask. (I'll just tell you to buy my book, tbh.)

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hi, this is your seasonal reminder to back up your computer, your cell phone, your voice recorder, your memory cards, anything you think is important. Make multiple copies, because hard drives fail and are very expensive right now. Sometimes you drop you phone into a lake. Do it sooner than later.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 01/09/2026

"VoltaGrid and Serverfarm tried to obscure their full impact on air quality in our community by seeking air permits as two distinct business operations, ignoring foundational tenets of Georgia’s energy laws to do so"

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AI’s data center boom keeps finding Black communities

Data centers for AI technology are increasingly targeting Black communities for construction and infrastructure projects.

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Karen Yin (Nice to Eat You / Scholastic) 🧙🏻‍♀️🎃 @karenyin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Beware of Punchbowl invitations from people you rarely communicate with. They might be phishing attempts to get your Google username and password. Check the domain of the Google/Gmail login screen. #Verify

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Me ordering takeout or snacks: Fuck yeah, this rules, I deserve this Me considering a similarly priced purchase I actually need: (🎨 by: @obxidienne.bsky.social)

mathematical equations in white, hovering in the air in front of an illustrated version of my own face, which is shown in deep contemplation - one of my twitch emotes, by @obxidienne.bsky.social

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026

What Black people think does not matter to them, how Black people have used the term and how we understand it does not matter to them. They don’t have any use for the opinions of Black people because they don’t think Black people’s thoughts hold any value.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

read in between the lines and you see how white people believe they get to define reality. facts be damned.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In this week's infosec newsletter, that "GTA VI Demo" is obviously a trap, and so are the flirty DMs that AI bot is sending you. Oh, and I answer a reader question about whether it's rude to ask someone to take off their pervert glasses (spoiler: no, it's not.) www.pcmag.com/news/dont-cl...

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Don't Click the GTA 6 Demo, Don't Trust the Flirty DM: This Week's Cybersecurity Survival Guide

Between fake game betas, flirtatious AI scammers, and rogue car displays, staying safe online took a lot of extra effort this week.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This went out to all subs this morning! If you missed it, you can subscribe or read the latest edition right here: buttondown.com/alanhenry

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Man, life really is short, isn't it?

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