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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12h

Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 6h

Just read @katemanne.bsky.social ‘s fantastic piece in The Cut about the Cornell rape and she points out that students protesting conditions in Gaza were treated more harshly than the rapists and holy shit, this detail

One of these students was my own advisee, and having supported her throughout the the months-long case, I can state with confidence that she did nothing wrong. Moreover, she happens to be deaf and was suspended in part for being “unreasonably loud.” Privacy consideration

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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 1h

Vaguely disappointed the Tomlin whose Minecraft city everyone's taking about isn't Lily

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3h

do the men in the group chat like each other, i wonder flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...

Do the men in the group chat like each other, I wonder-these men expressing such unmistakable, unrestrained glee as they stain their souls forever and ruin their classmate's life. I can't decide whether they're more odious if the answer is yes or if it's no, but I can't dismiss the question as unimportant, either. These fraternities that the public rarely hears about, except when their members kill or rape: do they foster the bonds of friendship or just cheaply mimic them? When some ex-frat boy needs a lawyer or an introduction to a senator later in his life, when that boy digs through the network of other boys for a hookup, what is the nature of the bond he's leaning on? I want to diagnose it. I'm the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.

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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 2h

This makes me want to rewatch Defending Your Life

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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 2h

So the MCU's Big New Thing is just DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths?

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 5h

Also, New York State law needs to change. Its concept of consent is out of date and (clearly) out of sync with the realities of sexual assault.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3h

Images are once again borked on Bluesky, and once again you see why alt text has more than one use.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Great thread:

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah this Cornell thing is like a mass disabling event for survivors. I am fine, I *was* fine. But now it's in the zeitgeist again so I get to be reminded of my own college experience, something I hadn't thought about in decades, on a daily basis.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 7h

I don't believe that every trans person in America should immediately be made aware of every single evil bill introduced by some podunk state rep in a random red state they don't live in I don't think that's healthy. I have always needed to see a likelihood of advancement before I would write it up

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

His entire business model hinges on hoovering up public money and then turning around to use some of that money to promote white supremacy which somehow brings in more public money.

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10h

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 4h

One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

the rampant misandry is because of the continual rape

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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 5h

YES! Please please please Bobby Ewing Tony Stark. He deserved better.

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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 5h

If Cap tops anybody, it better be Bucky or I can guarantee there's a group who WILL burn it all down.

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Caroline Dracula 🇵🇸 @sportclimbbarbie.bsky.social · 10h

There can’t be a surprise ending for a story that has no stakes. The word they’re looking for here is “Arbitrary.”

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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 5h

It only took five years in NYC for me to tick off "have a Cosmo". (I drink so rarely, I thought it might be longer. 😆)

A light pink drink in a martini glass, sitting on a white tablecloth.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping

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Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 11h

Conservatives: He wants to institute Sharia Law!!! Mamdani *turns on the lights at all the city playgrounds* : now everyone can play later!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

it is extremely funny every time they try this “look at this malevolent, sinister agent of communism” *smash cut to the most cheerful man alive*

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Christian Skotte @skooter.bsky.social · 13h

I hate the "pull the ladder up after you" mindset that pervades so much of US politics.

Screenshot from the NYTimes article: Mr. Cabrera points to stalled efforts in Congress to give work permits to immigrants who have long lived in the U.S. as the kind of change border communities actually want: strict border security combined with earned legal status for long-term workers.

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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 9h

Other Hispanic folks in TX believe 'everyone should come here the right way, like I/my parents/ancestors did' and want 'illegals' gone. Those folks may not have interiorized in '24 that la migra would not automatically know—or care about—the differences between brown people. They have now.

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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 9h

Every mildly helpful service a company offered is pivoting to be only a chatbot. As of today, I can't use Eno to easily give different card numbers to different online retailers, but I can still chat with it! Thanks, CapitalOne. I hate it.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone in politics and media does spooky voice about high corporate taxes and high top marginal rates, and then you look up the period of history where we had that and it's called ~the golden age of capitalism~

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 20h

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 14h

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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing

screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates

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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 9h

I keep thinking about how most of the Texas GOP hates Paxton enough to want him in DC so badly that they completely ignored what he was likely to do to the party if given that national platform.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 11h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15h

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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joeypancakes.bsky.social @joeypancakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Evil is in the face of every frat guy that ever raised a beer cup and went "whoooooo!" - Janeane Garofalo (decades ago)

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chelsea bridge @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

there are no worthwhile qualities of fraternities, full stop. when they're not busy raping women and defending their rapist members they abuse and kill new members for fun. colleges have proven they cannot be made safe or reformed. the only reasonable policy at this point is banning all of them.

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026

emulsions… very “enemies-to-lovers”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Best moments of the Schmitt/Smith/Klobuchar exchange, ranked: 5. Klobuchar: "We have the Gophers." 4. Klobuchar: "You got the teams wrong, sir." 3. Smith: "It's possible I flew through the Atlanta airport." 2. Klobuchar: "Hmm." 1. Schmitt: "I don't think you know that we have this stuff."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, Schmitt is lucky there’s a Speech or Debate Clause. This is inexcusable. Klobuchar focused on the “dirtbag” claim in Schmitt’s conclusion, but Schmitt also said to Smith, “I think you’ve already perjured yourself.”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1 in 8 students experiences sexual violence in college, incl 1 in 4 undergrad women (26%)+ 1 in 14 undergrad men (7%) University administrators: "Imagine if we had to refund all that tuition! Could you imagine!?!" Everyone else: "Imagine if you made systemic fucking changes to prevent rape!"

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026

Imagine how luck Schmitt is that he doesn’t represent a state that has the Jets, Mets and Nets. He’d never figure out who was doing what.

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Thembo @thembo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Banning fraternities forever is the moderate position

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

it's also an incredibly, unreasonably charitable alternative to burning down the university.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

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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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Dropped out while I was being stalked in the 90s. I still owe money on those loans.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shut every fraternity down.

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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

The next Title 9 needs to condition student loan access to implementing scientifically-proven rape prevention courses at the freshman level.

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