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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄

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Anthropologist, speaker, educator. Plant medicines, Land Back + organizing for collective liberation. Is Gaeilgeoir mé 💚 she/her 📍 Tkaronto →→→ linktr.ee/hilaryagro ←←← You deserve a better world.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 7h
It's easy - and correct! - to focus on just how ghoulish and profane this view of human creativity is. But even if you're the most cynical capitalist on earth, the evidence that people would enjoy entirely dehumanised content, at anything like a scale that would justify this hype, is extremely thin!
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 7h
Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 7h
We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 6h
You don't even want to know the full list of institutions I think should be completely dismantled. I bet you can guess some of them though
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 7h
the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.
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tove lovesitwhen @meghanclare.bsky.social · 16h
these “traditions” are passed down from alums, class to class the “funny stories” are retold in adoration and passed down year to year these acts are the social glue of fraternities
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 18h
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 7h
destroying Greek life would be useful for stemming an entire mode of social reproduction which, as I must remind everyone, was born of the confederate south. Greek life prides itself on keeping the tradition of rape alive in more than one form. Sometimes literal.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17h
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 19h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 19h
Defending the ongoing existence of fraternities is defending the breeding ground of rape culture at this point. I know a lot of you don't want to hear this but it is what it is
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 29/09/2026
Oh he's still not in jail yet huh
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A car marked "New York Times" turning hard to the right off a highway labeled "Reality" to an exit named "Bedtime Stories for White Centrists""
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 29/09/2026
A thread on the realities of Poster's Madness: what reading the comments does to us, especially to people who get a lot of them.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 29/09/2026
I spent the weekend clearing brush from a friend's land with a machete, chopping wood, building & maintaining a fire pit by myself, and sleeping in a Mongolian yurt, and that felt approximately one thousand times better than reading social media comments
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
If people on here tried not being weird it would be great.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 29/09/2026
I'm so exhausted
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 28/09/2026
Also, I can't be happy that we as a society are continually offloading the problems created by the harmful nuclear family structure to profit-driven technology whose burdens will be felt by poor & marginalized people, instead of dealing with the source of the harms. We can't keep doing this forever!
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 28/09/2026
And also from everywhere else! We do not need data centres, we need clean water and air!
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We cannot have a rational debate about technology.
As long as we rely on screens rather than on forests and sunsets to soothe our pain, we will fight to defend the screens, not the forests.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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Darin Self @darinself.com · 28/09/2026
The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.
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Darin Self @darinself.com · 28/09/2026
I wish there was a more serious movement within the academy to reform our institutions to create mechanisms of actual accountability so students, faculty, and staff can rid ourselves of leadership that regularly fails everyone but their donors.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Keep the data centers away from our Great Lakes.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 28/09/2026
Pro tip that works well: if someone says something offensive, ask them to repeat it. "Sorry, what did you say there?" Act real dumb and say you don't get it. "What did you mean by that?" Having to explain is often enough to confront them with their own behaviour
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Austen @ac-f.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A friend of a friend made the suggestion of simply asking "what did you say?", which I found to work decently on getting people to backtrack on messed up statements and is easy to deploy even if you're not sure you can confront the person for whatever reason.
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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
My husband and his friends realised they thought they were good guys but still made like, ironic-sexist jokes. They introduced the 'sexism snake' where wherever one of them made a sexist comment or joke, the others would just start hissing. Didn't need to get into an argument about it, just hissing.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really appreciated this in-depth conversation with @jonfavs.bsky.social for Offline. We had a productive debate about the use of the word of “fascism” and I made my points about Dems taking $$ from AI companies (don’t!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeB6...
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Naomi Klein: Trump's Allies Think the World Is Ending. They're Ready.
YouTube video by Offline with Jon Favreau
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Pope Leo has released his first encyclical, on AI.
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Pope Leo: Disarm AI to prevent it from dominating humanity — The Times and The Sunday Times
The Pope has said that artificial intelligence must be “disarmed” to prevent it from accelerating wars, slashing jobs and dominating humanity. In the first major document of his papacy, released on Mo...
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Jason Terry @jttnncdcmd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
as someone who does humanitarian work, i've been thinking a lot about how we overcomplicate it. when, basically, the premise is just that if you're alive now, you deserve to live freely until natural causes take you. we claim neutrality, but that simple perspective is in fact political.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 28/09/2026
Sniping climate denial comments off my videos today, as is my sacred responsibility. Pew pew pew, you won't see the light of day jerkwads
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is so genuinely cruel and heartless. Ford is, among other things, just a bad person.
Aware that the premier gives out his cellphone number freely, DiBernardo decided to get in touch. On Sept. 7, he sent Ford the following text:

Hello, I just saw the news in the Toronto Star that proposals from the city to retain the bike lanes and reduce traffic congestion were rejected without due consideration. A close friend of mine died in a cycling accident north of Bloor on university [sic] in an area where bike lanes were removed due to construction. This political move is going to cost Canadian lives at a time when we need to be more united than ever before. Please reconsider.He didn’t expect to hear back. He only wanted to register opposition to a plan that will needlessly endanger lives (not to mention one that will have almost no impact on traffic, as an engineering report commissioned by Ford’s own government indicates). “I spoke from the heart,” DiBernardo told me. “And I almost immediately got a response.”

The response he got (verified by the Star): “I am sorry for your loss! Star is always truthful lmao! I have been talking to the Mayor last week about University!”
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beginning in 2027: “If your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, music, & cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest.” newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Many men would rather engage in violent fantasy about what they WOULD do instead of doing what they easily COULD.
Threads post from @protextor


“I'd kill for my daughter."

OK. Will you risk social inconvenience by calling out your peers loudly and to their face? Or is that bare minimum real-life scenario scarier than your hypothetical one? 1/2
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canada is preparing to spend tens of billions building a pipeline the oil companies themselves won’t finance. If this project made economic sense, industry would be leading it. Instead, the public is being asked to take the risk while foreign-owned oil companies collect the returns.
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Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it
Seniors for Climate Action Now! is calling on the Carney government to reject the proposed West Coast oil pipeline, arguing the project has no credible economic, moral, reconciliation, or climate case...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Members of the University and Colleges union (UCU) will stop work until 30 October. The union said the cuts could lead to 1,800 job losses, and hundreds of staff had already lost work when contracts were not renewed. The university announced the closure of 90 courses earlier this month.'
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026
Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...
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They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 28/09/2026
having a toddler is like being haunted by a very drunk little ghost
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Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"could it help minimize civilian casualties?" Israel runs what they call "legitimization cells" which are tasked with finding a retroactive justification for anyone the IDF kills. This is the *only* way that Israel "minimizes" civilian casualties. By denying that they were civilians.
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