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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The competitiveness of the white conservative lasted exactly as long as artificial barriers to entry for everyone else did, what they lost to was the free market they pretended to care about because their entire success was based on not actually facing competition.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 01/10/2026

a large number of you seem to hold the bizarre mystical woo woo idea that neural networks are identical to brains

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hard to explain fully but the “AI is conscious / has a soul” discourse is the endpoint of a vulgar Gnosticism that arises from living among overlapping invisible systems of power and capital, with a curated screen as the only porthole available

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fossil capital is a global suicide pact

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But fossil capital's ability to slow energy transition and maintain a measure of political control is a problem with a rising body count, and the sooner we usher them out of relevance the better

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Overall things are moving in the right direction: "Around USD 2.2 trillion is going collectively to renewables, nuclear, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency and electrification, twice as much as the USD 1.1 trillion going to oil, natural gas and coal."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Specifically: global investment in solar estimated at 450 billion USD over 2025. Full writeup here: www.iea.org/reports/worl...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People have speculated about Thomas Jefferson fathering the children of Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman in his household, for more than 200 years. Now, for the first time, DNA evidence from Jefferson's hair connects him to Hemings' descendants 🧪

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DNA analysis suggests 99.96% chance that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one of Sally Hemings’ kids | CNN

Thomas Jefferson’s DNA sheds new light on his relationship with Sally Hemings and supports the longstanding conclusion that he fathered her children.

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Higher Ed gets enough hate but there might not be anything more hellishly cynical than a Sexual Assault Task Force and their “reports” which always find the institution is doing the best it can and is not legally culpable and must do better, maybe another Task Force is the trick

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you say US society sanctions femicide people look at you like you’re crazy but it’s the most logical way of thinking about the normalized dehumanization of anyone coded as female or feminine in America

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"what do you expect to happen? have every rapist fired from their job and ruin their life?" uh yeah that'd be a good start

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyway, as always, there are very good arguments for prioritizing partition as opposed to democratization, but the actual immediate steps needed in both cases are the same; an arms embargo, sanctions, and international coercion to shift the internal logic of Israel away from occupation and hegemony.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You will notice that at no point in this thread is there any engagement with actual Israeli policy, or the response of various Palestinian national movements, or how international law should be applied, etc, because it's mostly about his discursive enemies, rather than anything real or concrete.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the job and the drudgery were the compromise position. we all got up and packed a lunch and got on the subway because that was how you put food on the table. this was the basic understanding. seems like a million years ago to me now. lmao, haha, lol. i owe my kids an apology

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

they have no idea what they're doing. and it would be kind to say they do not care. they care a lot! they are spinning the cylinder and pulling that trigger and hoping with every fiber of their being that they blow the head off society. it's wild

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is decidedly different from "send mail instantly" or "movies in your home instantly" -- this is, "fingers crossed, you and your children will never know freedom from hunger and want." who can get up every day and suck dicks down at the factory with this as the vision being sold

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's a striking moment in time. really hard to even get ones head around it. virtually everyone in a decisionmaking role has decided to shrug their shoulders and unleash automated processes with unknown function on the world with the best case scenario being: ending all human endeavor

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's good that we invented things like "government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support

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Eriko Christy @erikochristy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what a strange coincidence that every woman has friends who have been sexually assaulted (and quite possibly has been herself) and no man seems to be friends with any rapists!

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026

It's too grim to face the situation we are in, every time these cases come out in the news, which is there there is no law, policy, or policing remedy to sexual violence, and definitely not one that is capable of ending sexual violence.

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Data center/Flock backlash might be the only time that US hyper-suburbanization politics has blown back onto the conservative political program, instead of promoting it either passively or actively

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Trans people fought for their own rights AND everyone's rights, mostly by supporting Democrats, but the Democratic party hasn't done solidarity and reciprocation like that for a long time. What they see are Republicans wanting them to die & Dem consultants making a sad face & shrugging indifferently

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books

Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mary Peltola did vastly mlore harm by her transphobic advertising than anything described in that piece, the problem of course being that the staff of the New York Times does not consider the persecution of the trans community *harm*

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can see when (1) Reagan's popularity falls off a cliff partially from Iran-Contra (2) people wanted the Clinton years to continue forever (3) Bush finally got blamed for Iraq and the global financial collapse (4) Obama II was generally disillusioning, which helped prepare the Trump Decade

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People obsess over a story on wrecker narcissists imploding a leftist social space, something as old as the Bolsheviks, but not much attention paid to the fact that right wingers are all apparently gross horned-up 70s-style swingers now

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Starting to feel like if one Republican is left in Congress after the election the headlines will be "disappointing night for Dems as they fail to meet expectations"

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is called "social murder," a term we don't use nearly enough

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looking at the "iced coffee at the job interview" discourse and I think the millennials are in many ways Not Prepared for Gen Z entering the workforce giving even fewer fucks than they did at that age. Growing up in the Decade of Trump will do that to you

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

who benefits: oligarchs cuz AI is a political project, but who benefits also: corrupt trustees of universities hoovering public money to prop up tech companies with a diffusion crisis faculty need to connect the dots too; join us in chicago for a workshop! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed

Welcome Reception / October 23 / 6-8 PM Central / Chicago, ILWorkshop / October 24 / 9AM-5 PM Central / University of Illinois-Chicago Email us to inquire…

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

they are increasingly connecting the dots on who benefits when their cognitive capacities are stolen and the history of cultural production enclosed

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm not gonna lie, it's deeply blackpilling that this is exactly, in pristine detail, what people said would happen and aside from a couple high-profile cases immediately post-Dobbs it's just become complete background noise

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fascinating finding that totally makes sense with how biological organs and functions tend to evolve separately then converge much, much later and become interconnected and/or symbiotic systems. Also supports the theory that b/c computers can't have a body/outside they can't be conscious like we are

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hit 1,200 movies watched and logged on my letterboxd, to which my son replied "that can't be right" as northernlion apparently only has like 200. I guess I just like movies!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My whole career the Humanities seem to have been curled up in a defensive crouch trying to justify our meaning/existence. At times it has even seemed a productive thought exercise, but I think generally whatever body has demanded the justification is not really open to being persuaded of anything.

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Listened to the latest Rebecca Black and Slayyter albums and it feels like the “widescreen joyful sleaze” style is very pre-death of Trump, like you can feel it around the corner just before the dam breaks

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

I am not sure that higher ed faculty fully appreciate or are even aware that the American Enterprise Institute is the most powerful, influential organization in reshaping the American university (for the worse). In particular, the future of the humanities is almost certainly AEI's envisioned future.

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We love Tlaloc don't we folks? Big guy love that guy. Brings rain we love rain, crops growing. But he's very angry very angry I gotta tell you he's mad they don't want me to say it but he's angry and you know what that means for some of you out there tonight. We thank you for your sacrifice

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

someone asked me to explain what I think the prevailing conservative ideology is. I’d say it’s something like this

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Considering the GOP has spent the last 50 years branding itself as the Party For Caucasian Resentment, this is probably as good as you're going to get right now

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