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Rev Kirsty

@ikirsty.bsky.social
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mother, minister, muser, mentor, merry, mischievous, mellow, now more cowbell. She/her. Opinions mine. And now with more pronouns. Because I believe people should be able to choose. And I believe it is basic politeness to refer to people as they ask.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 11h
It's simple: Vance should be asked about Curtis Yarvin as often as Abul El-Sayed is asked about Hasan Piker, i.e., in every interview.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 11h
Fake freelancers are a nightmare for editors and not-fake freelancers.
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Fake Caroline.
Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15h
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 11h
It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she
was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 11h
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for Apollo program, dies at 90 Over two decades at MIT, Hamilton forged new paths in computer science and engineering. Her groundbreaking work included leading team that programmed the first computers that took humans to the moon:
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 23h
I’m not here declaring my hatred. I just feel like we need to be careful when discussing people who like or do not like things. We’re in an age where even if you’re not a fascist, there is enormous pressure to be “normal”. Normal has always been false, but it’s really useful for fascists.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People's needs need to be met, in my opinion, before assisted suicide is considered actual autonomy.
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Guillermo Esteves @allencompassingtrip.com · 07/10/2026
Bison, Grand Teton National Park. November, 2022. 📷 Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞 502 mm – 1/500″ – f/8 – ISO 500 🏷️ #NationalParks #Bison #Wildlife #Photography
A bison, standing in a snow-covered field. Its fur is covered in frost. In the background, trees covered in hoarfrost.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness
fastcompany.com
Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane
Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.
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Mary Tuma @marytuma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Texas reproductive rights advocates and lawmakers warn the state healthy agency's decision to delay releasing its much anticipated maternal death report will further harm women—and make it harder to enact necessary laws in 2027: Background here: www.texasobserver.org/maternal-mor...
texasobserver.org
A ‘Politically Motivated Cover-Up’: Why the State's Maternal Death Report Was Pushed Until After Midterms
Advocates and lawmakers warn the state healthy agency's decision to delay releasing the annual report will further harm women—and make it harder to enact necessary laws in 2027.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
HOW COULD THEY DO THIS? This is Texas’ history! This is nature’s history! The planet’s DNA geneology. My God, Red Texas, this isn’t “owning the libs,” sneering at those “tree huggers” Rush Limbaugh taught you to spit on. This is YOUR children’s future planet they’re brutally stealing.
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Rev Kirsty @ikirsty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A bad day to be a tree.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Most journalists are concerned about the regime’s pledge to use this law to prohibit the mailing of abortion medication after the midterms, but Comstock applies to so much more."
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How Christian Nationalists Will Ban Contraception if They Win the Midterms
Please LIKE, RESTACK, and SHARE with every person you know who can be pregnant (Recording at the end)
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The University of Arizona has just suspended 6 fraternities after “allegations of misconduct” were made, including “physical assault, drugs and alcohol, hazing, and creating unsafe environments for students”. Seems like the mishandling of the rape allegations at Cornell may be rippling outward.
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University of Arizona suspends six fraternities, pauses activities for almost all others
The University of Arizona is taking action against several of its fraternities after more misconduct allegations were made.
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Rev Kirsty @ikirsty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bad day to be female. Again.
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Chris @exnerd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
FFS what is wrong with people?! If you're in WA please talk to your friends about this bill. Even if you don't care about a literal handful of trans girls having fun with their friends, this is going to be both traumatic and expensive for EVERY girl who wants to play sports.
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Rev Kirsty @ikirsty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is so utterly abusive and gross. And predictable.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In both cases, life has been drastically reshaped for the worse and society is taking it with a shrug. In both cases, reasonable concerns and radical demands are treated as equally ignorable. AI is making everyone's life worse, both boosters and critics acknowledge that, but nothing is done.
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Rev Kirsty @ikirsty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The only unbelievable piece is that this amount of groceries was only 300. Well done.
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Rev Kirsty @ikirsty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a ludicrous rejection rate. This is not a couple of spoiled ballots or voters in the wrong district. This is structural.
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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Less than 2 weeks to Danielle Smith’s separation referendum and the gong show continues. Elections Alberta says at least 3,000 mail-in ballots can’t be counted as received. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/less...
albertapolitics.ca
Less than 2 weeks to Danielle Smith’s separation referendum and the gong show continues - Alberta Politics
We’re less than two weeks out from the Oct. 19 separation vote that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was determined to put us all through come hell or high water and the election gong show continues una...
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fibonacci in Nature. Fibonacci in Breakfast
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We're still waiting for the other shoe to drop on this story out of Russia: just what did happen? In the meantime, this is a good articulation from plague experts & other scientists about the main concerns w/ lab procedures & reporting.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Under Trump, more than 500 Americans have been grabbed off the street and sent to DHS concentration camps. Many have been filmed screaming that they are American citizens. DHS doesn't care; they just toss them into detainment until some family member or lawyer is able to prove their citizenship.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
thecut.com
The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
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@nic_carter
X.com
this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al columnAndrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

nic carter *
@nic_carter
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social obligation
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K @feralfarm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ugh! I hate all this price switcheroo crap - just feels like we've legitimized companies shaking down anyone they feel like they can and punishing the poor for not consuming enough by overcharging for everything. Definitely not added value
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The more we learn about early life and early animals, the more convinced I get that life could also evolve on other planets. New calibration just pushed initiation of earliest animals by almost 200 million years. 🧪⚒️ Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.…
Ediacaran sea floor, Namibia, Southwest Africa - 543 million years ago. Credit: Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford / Mighty Fossils.
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#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Father Clarence Cobbs was the founder of First Church of Deliverance. In 1937, he met a young Kenneth Morris and immediately made him the minister of music for the church. It was Kenneth’s suggestion that they purchase an electric instrument, still unknown to many, called a Hammond organ.
a collage of three grayscale images. on the top left, an image of a dark skinned black man—clarence cobbs—wearing a white robe standing on a pulpit, speaking to a congregation seated before him. on the top right, an image of a medium light skinned black young man,—kenneth morris—youthful looking, with a manicured thin mustache, a black suit, ehife shift and tie. 

on the bottom, an image of the sanctuary of first church of deliverance taken from the back of the church. there is a mural on the pulpit with details that cannot be seen. there is across on the ceiling of the sanctuary.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think about this a lot
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A nonfiction book written in, let’s say, the year 1795, is most likely still around in a library somewhere and every other work it referred to is probably accessible in some archive as well. A nonfiction book written in 2007 probably cites a bunch of urls that are dead or rotted beyond recognition.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gork, are we all going to die because the president is addicted to chatbots?
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In no possible way could Musk’s Twitter be described as a rational/critical public sphere or an ideal speech situation. Rather, it’s just a Habermosh pit at a Nazi punk show.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
Anyway if Meta is doing this with your texts I’m not sure what’s stopping them from ingesting your whole hard drive so you should probably assume they are.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
It ALMOST feels like we’re just starting to reach the normies with “the federal government and Silicon Valley have joined forces to spy on every aspect of your life and it’s called Palantir” and it’s either going to be the turning point for radical privacy or cripple the concept forever.
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Rev Kirsty @ikirsty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also can lead to very abusive parenting and teaching methods. Dehumanizing and destructive.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Them: farming is so much more wasteful Us: uh, I eat food and so do you Them: good point when Robot Messiah comes to deliver us from the bonds of mortality we’ll all stop eating Them: I just don’t know why AI haters can’t think rationally about this
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Beyond the horrifying reality that a hospital is trying to "clear the pentobarbital from [Christa Pike's] system" currently, the litigation over Tennessee's actions this week will shine a very clear light on the many, many reasons why governments should not be trusted with killing their citizens.
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Rev Kirsty @ikirsty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Always. Speak truth. Be yourself. Politician, or anything else.
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Rev Kirsty @ikirsty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not just the direct impacts. There are extremely elderly people in the homeless shelters. And this is where we are putting money and focus.
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The much longer history of carbon offsets (especially forest or biomass based offsets) does not fill me with confidence for the efficacy of habitat offsets.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
theguardian.com
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A lot of Trumpism boils down to the belief that accurately pointing out facts to a man caught up in emotion and false conspiracy theories is a terrible wrong, one that demands retribution.
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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 29/09/2026
This whole thread. I'm around sixth graders now and there is a world of difference between the boys who like and respect girls the same as the rest of their friends and the ones who don't
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And imagine if the media turned this kind of scrutiny and skepticism against police, politicians, and powerful interests instead of vulnerable victims of gang rape? What a world we could have
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