Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 4hPeople can and do change. That means that sometimes, people who are currently decent have darkness in their past. I know some people like that, and I think it's more common than most are willing to admit. It doesn't make any of this easier, but it's part of the reality we're facing 0110
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Buttercup Q. Skullpants @zoombox350.bsky.social · 9hMembership in a fraternity signals to prospective employers that a job applicant is willing to conform to corporate culture (no matter how depraved) and cover up criminal wrongdoing. 215221
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 6hYou might enjoy Boots Riley going into detail about lenses and cinematography here. I'm not even a film buff but I found it fascinating! He has such passion for the art form. Also I Love Boosters was incredibleyoutu.beHow Director Boots Riley Brought I Love Boosters from Big Idea to the Big ScreenYouTube video by Panavision 0258
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 6hYou might enjoy Boots Riley going into detail about lenses and cinematography here. I'm not even a film buff but I found it fascinating! He has such passion for the art form. Also I Love Boosters was incredibleyoutu.beHow Director Boots Riley Brought I Love Boosters from Big Idea to the Big ScreenYouTube video by Panavision 0258
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7hLot of words when the term “stalking” already exists.tampabay.com2 Pinellas deputies arrested for tracking people they were interested in, sheriff saysOne deputy queried a license plate reader database 300 times to track a woman, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said. 131134281
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 10hIt's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact 271779699
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 7hThe AI bros are not good at making convincing arguments why we should want AI art but I bet they are very good at programming bots to inject the discourse with astroturfed support for AI 0250
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 8hI always ask if people think hearing a digital piano programmed to play a concerto is the same as hearing my dad — who’s been playing for 79 years and still practices hours a day — do it. And funnily enough no one has ever agreed that it is. 947176
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 13hapnews.comNewsom vetoes measure that would have penalized the use of smart glasses to secretly record peopleCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have penalized people for using smart glasses to record people without their permission in changing rooms, doctor’s offices and other spaces p... 22441128
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 13hAs @jameswsthomson.com noted already, the sheer audacity of Carney to begin his oil pipeline announcement by mentioning a wildfire that almost levelled the town. WHAT IS EXACERBATING THE WILDFIRES MARK???? MARK??? 2134582
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 10hMy oldest kid has started getting homework assigned and I have yet to be given a single compelling reason why she should do any of it 0220
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/09/2026West Side Story: Immigration is viewed as a boost to the economy and overall culture. Everybody dances but nobody dies. buff.ly/HBCpk8dbuff.lyClassic Movie Dilemmas Fixed by Socialism“Alien: People are comfortable listening to women in authority and the creature never comes on board the ship. Nobody dies.” Feb 28 2021 October 4 2022 10/1/... 0347
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026honestly crying about this. been a long time since i've read good political news. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caJudge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC NewsA British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs. 737488
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 29/09/2026absolutely fucking incredible news for public health in canada that a safer supply organization successfully fought the constitutionality of drug possession trafficking laws for not providing any legal way to operate. selfless life-saving work that is actually being identified and respected as such. 12815190
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 12hCalifornia governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record peopletechcrunch.comCalifornia governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record peopleThe California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones. 131674261
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Keith McNeill @keith65.bsky.social · 14h“The danger is not technology. The danger is technology without accountability.” – António Guterres, UN secretary-general #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition www.desmog.com/2026/09/30/a...desmog.comAI Was Supposed to Cut Emissions. Instead, Fossil Fuel Companies Are Using It to Find More Oil and Gas.A new study found AI-driven fossil fuel productivity could increase emissions. Here are examples of companies already using AI to boost production. 084
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 13hCarney tells Canadians “we have to do this” (??) because there’s an energy crisis on three fronts. One of those fronts, he says, is climate change. Which is why we need………a new crude oil pipeline??????? 2939591
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 13hIndigenous languages are often hidden to LLMs, for good reason. We speak with Keoni Mahelona about his work on Indigenous data sovereignty, and why it’s worth being skeptical when the “AI" industry says it cares about preserving Indigenous languages. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social) 512844
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 18hPublic anger comes for John Roberts The chief justice’s summer retreat in Maine used to be one of boating, potluck dinners, touch football and easy friendships. Locals called him “John.” Now a swirl of anger has been rising at him, transforming his getaways. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...nytimes.comJohn Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever. 2181776398
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15hI talked with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about how our communities can defend the voting process this November. Some folks reached out and asked me if I could make an episode about this subject because they were tired of simply being told to vote harder and wanted to know what more we could do. ❤️truthout.orgActivists Are Preparing to Defend Elections This November“It’s about relational organizing,” says organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson. 28838
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄NPR @npr.org · 30/09/2026The Pentagon made last-minute changes to forms that many overseas U.S. citizens use for absentee voting, removing a category of citizens that Republicans have been pushing to block from voting. n.pr/4iT13Run.prTrump officials changed forms for overseas voters amid a GOP push to restrict votingThe Pentagon made last-minute changes to forms that many overseas U.S. citizens use for absentee voting, removing a category of citizens that Republicans have been pushing to block from voting. 18175123
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16hExcept it's worse because Indigenous peoples can't just divorce our exploitative asses. We're all stuck here together so it's about time we started pulling our weight and making amends for the massive harm that's been done 0253
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16hColonial feminism is when you understand that a wife doing most of the caretaking labour while her husband sits around is unfair, but you don't see how Indigenous tribes doing most of the earth's stewardship work while the rest of us destroy and consume is the same problem at a massive scale 2459
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17h"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...newrepublic.comThe Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly TooThe paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today. 301286339
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17hIt’s deeply frustrating to me to be 10, 15 years into this and routinely have to remind some liberals that the New York Times is not your fucking friend and is not going to do the job of the Democratic Party for it. 11529107
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 30/09/2026I love it when people get politically activated by something that pisses them off! Keep up this energy!bloomberg.comData Center Opposition Spawns a Surge of First-Time CandidatesActivists who cut their teeth fighting data center projects in their towns are now riding a wave of AI tech pushback to seek office in local elections. 0608
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026By the way, sending a text to the survivors in your life is something everyone can do right now. “How are you? I’m thinking of you,” is exactly what a lot of people need. 35811
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 30/09/2026I have hit an age where lying down for several hours to get the rest I need hurts my body physically and I can only describe the slow realization that this is my new reality as soul-crushing 1350
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It'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! 386476
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every 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. 441688325
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We'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. 211455223
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 30/09/2026You 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 2300
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026the 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. 71263314
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄tove lovesitwhen @meghanclare.bsky.social · 30/09/2026these “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 118010
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026shutting 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. 83972755
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/09/2026destroying 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. 12885164
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Something 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...newrepublic.comIn Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s FaultThanks 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. 993850972
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you have no concept of how people engage with music 5748103864
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1454411445
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 30/09/2026Defending 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 1618
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026A 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. 121258396
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.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 952516670
Reposted by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026Norway 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 382465527
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 29/09/2026A thread on the realities of Poster's Madness: what reading the comments does to us, especially to people who get a lot of them. 2111