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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

It's good news that NY Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Leticia James special prosecutor in this case, and here remember that Hochul became governor because Governor Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign in disgrace because of his serial sexual harassment...

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 15h

Today I wrote about the botched execution of Christina Pike and how the death penalty must end, in all situations, with absolutely no exceptions. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Tennessee attempted to kill Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night but they botched it. They gave her a dose of phenobarbital, it did not kill her, so they gave her a second dose of phenobarbital which also did not kill her. Witnesses said that Pike was kicking her feet, knocking off sheets, and showing signs of obvious pain. Eventually she fell into a state of semi-consciousness and at various points was heard snoring by witnesses. The botched execution spanned more than two hours from the beginning of the lethal injection protocol to the time it was halted and Pike was transported to the hospital.

Pike is said to be in critical condition in the hospital. There is a good chance that she sustained severe brain injuries by virtue of her respiratory and cardiovascular systems being subjected to massive doses phenobarbital for over two hours which likely led to prolonged oxygen deprivation to her brain.

How did this happen? There are any number of theories. One possibility is that the people conducting the attempted execution failed to properly tap a vein, which may have been more likely due to a condition Pike has called thrombocytosis. If so, they probably just pumped the phenobarbital into her muscles and surrounding tissue. It's also possible that the phenobarbital used by Tennessee was degraded or substandard due to pharmaceutical companies' refusal to sell such drugs and drug administration equipment to death penalty state prison authorities, which leads them to pursue questionable substitutes from compounding pharmacies and suppliers. Those are just theories, of course. There will be an investigation into all of this and we'll find out more eventually.

But the specifics of this don't matter much to me. All of it just underscores how wrong and evil and depraved capital punishment is and how it should be abolished everywhere immediately. With absolutely no exceptions.

I’ve long opposed capital punishment in any and all cases. There is nothing — no fact, no argument, no sufficiently depraved or horrifying a criminal or crime, hypothetical or otherwise — that will ever change my mind about that. I’d oppose the death penalty even if it was not discriminatory and arbitrary, which it absolutely is. I'd oppose it even if our system was incapable of legal or factual error, which it obviously is not. Indeed, it makes errors all the time, and there have been several cases in recent years in which states have killed innocent people. While legal errors can cause extreme hardship in cases that don’t involve the death penalty, once you’ve killed someone there are no take-backs. Utah just released a man who spent 37 years on death row after they discovered that he was innocent.

But like I said: I oppose it in all cases. Even when guilt is not in question, as is the case with Christa Pike, who admitted what she did long ago. I simply think that it is illegitimate to give humans the legal right to end the lives of other human beings. That's especially true given the manner of political power, how it is obtained, and how it is employed in this country.

I do not think that the purpose of our criminal justice system should be retribution or the satisfaction of blood lust. We can and should incapacitate criminals by locking them up. We can and should rehabilitate criminals who are capable of being rehabilitated while they are locked up. We should do what we can to deter future crime, but in so doing we must acknowledge that the death penalty does nothing to deter crime. We should not, as a society, be in the revenge business, which is what the death penalty is really about.

The State of Tennessee tortured a human being for two hours on Wednesday night and quite possibly inflicted traumatic brain injuries upon her. There is nothing that justifies that. There is nothing that justifies the state from taking the life of a human being.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 15h

The thing about Bayes’ Theorem is that while you can use logic to propagate probability distributions through chains of thought, doing so without data just makes the result a new set of priors. The result is just belief expressed as a degree of surprise.

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ike blue @ike.blue · 16/09/2026

www.twitch.tv/dj_mr_picky DJ Mr. Picky broadcasts from Kyiv, Ukraine, usually a few days a week, ~1-4pm EDT. Despite the attacks on Kyiv, but he plays impeccable sets of jazz, deep house, dub techno, various music with vocals, and many other genres. He deserves more listeners and support!

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How the police defund cities: Part infinity

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They cite the fact that he was caught driving with an expired registration to paint him as a criminal who deserved to die

His background includes convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration, and a separate court judgment against him in favor of the Comptroller of Maryland. Curo entered the United States at an unknown date and location without inspection. Enforcement and Removal Operations Baltimore arrested Curo during a targeted enforcement operation June 27, 2026, and served him with a Notice to Appear. ERO Baltimore transferred him to ERO New Orleans custody June 29, 2026, and detained him at Richwood Correctional Center. On Sept. 18, 2026, an immigration judge denied Curo’s applications for relief and voluntary departure. He reserved his right to appeal.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Per @anildash.com "being able to say, 'wherever you get your podcasts' is a radical statement." AT Protocol and ActivityPub allows you to say 'wherever you get your posts'.

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ike blue @ike.blue · 29/09/2026

I’ve been wondering about the roles of different governments in the horrible Sudan conflict, and this seems to lay out a fairly broad picture of some major actors and their motivations (or lack of motivations, in the case of many governments).

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ike blue @ike.blue · 16/09/2026

I lreally ike tuning in to live DJs on Twitch & Mixcloud, and chatting with them & their listeners about the music. So I’ll do a thread listing them with blurbs about what I like them. First up, and streaming now (and typically random weekdays 1-4 EDT), www.twitch.tv/dj_mr_picky

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wubba lubba dub-dub | Streaming djs for 1 viewers.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

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Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 28/09/2026

Garffeld Pt 15

3 panel Garffeld comic: panels 1 and 2, Nergal is sitting next to Garffeld who thinks, "Nergal thinks himself a comely cat; a picture of vanity. I hate vanity."; panel 3, Nergal thinks, "Envy is no less a sin deserving of hate in the eyes of God."

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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ike blue @ike.blue · 27/09/2026

Sometimes the problem with enjoying streaming DJs is that sometimes they're all playing at the same time... www.twitch.tv/dj_mr_picky www.twitch.tv/djholidayspe... www.twitch.tv/svolanski www.twitch.tv/djfrantic www.twitch.tv/sweetdeesauce www.twitch.tv/fortyfiveday www.twitch.tv/swu_bunker

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/09/2026

Instead of standing up to Trump’s deportation and death machine that has brutalized their workers, DoorDash is lobbying for the regime’s legislative priorities — including a bill to weaken DC home rule. Delete your account and app until DoorDash speaks out against ICE’s brutality and violence.

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Delete DoorDash: our demands

Our demands for DoorDash on ICE raids, H.R. 9720, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.

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ike blue @ike.blue · 26/09/2026

I have imagined a questionable alternative to tickling. Instead of simply wiggling the fingers against the target, pretend each finger is a character in a 5-way fight scene, and the target is the field of combat. Ad-lib play-by-play commentary, dramatic dialog, musical score and/or sound effects.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/09/2026

A devastating and mysterious algal bloom that hit the coast of South Australia last year, killing more than 600 different kinds of marine life, inflicted such severe damage that a famed population of the giant Australian cuttlefish might not recover. Learn more: scim.ag/4rrVhbz

One of nature’s greatest marine wonders may be about to vanish
An algal bloom has almost wiped out a unique population of giant cuttlefish—and their stunning mating swarms

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Democracy Now! has now gone from constantly inviting Max Tegmark to platforming people from none other than MIRI. That's right MIRI. Y'all know how bad that is? Do you understand the level to which they are doubling down on the eugenicists?

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At this point, with the AI companies admitting they cannot always predict or control the products, the default should be that the user and company are jointly and severally strictly liable for harms to third parties.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...

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Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The whole point of calling this agency the Office of "Remigration" is to deliberately signal to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US policy. Some thoughts on this whole worldview below. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026

"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i for one love the pregnant man emoji. it’s so sweet and wholesome

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

If you’re wondering about the systemic dynamics that lead to decision-makers deciding that taking money from the Office of Minority Health for RFK Jr’s security detail is no big deal. wordinblack.com/2026/09/blac...

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Black Patients Aren't Avoiding Clinical Trials. They Often Aren't Asked

Despite a disproportionate burden of diseases like prostate and lung cancer, Black Americans remain underrepresented in clinical trials.

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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 23/09/2026

🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY

cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you can't muster a sense of MORAL decency as a politician, you should probably be moved not to throw people under the bus by the fact that it won't even be politically advantageous to you.

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Vilgot Huhn @vilgothuhn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Meanwhile the Szilassi polyhedron looks Szilassic from every angle. One of lifes many enigmas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szilass...

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Szilassi polyhedron - Wikipedia

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/09/2026

Today I learned there are only two known polyhedra in which each face shares an edge with every other face. One of them being the timeless beauty of the tetrahedron and the other one being whatever the heck this is

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