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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've had life insurance for years. Haven't used it once.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It simply never ends. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik issued new guidance interpreting the Endangered Species Act’s prohibition on “taking” endangered wildlife much more narrowly. Under the new interpretation, an action generally has to be intentionally

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/09/2026

A powerful heat dome — which will become the strongest on the planet Wednesday — will tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central U.S. “I don’t even know what to say anymore,” meteorologist Pete Delkus said.

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It’s almost fall, but this record heat dome didn’t get the memo

The strongest heat dome on the planet will soon tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central United States from the Gulf of Mexico.

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Stephen Leahy @stephenleahy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sigh, I'm tired of writing "record-breaking" every damn week in my articles...and so are most jurnos, I imagine, but that's where we are. "The contiguous United States has endured its hottest summer on record," phys.org/news/2026-09...

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'Alarm bells ringing': US summer heat shatters record

The contiguous United States has endured its hottest summer on record, a new peak that scientists said should send alarm bells ringing over the increasingly dire impacts of climate change.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I hate this bad faith James Carville faculty lounge bullshit with the intensity of a thousand suns, & Barack Obama, former law professor & former President, now watching the far right authoritarians lie about & dismantle the very jewel of 🇺🇸 society - our universities - should damn well know better.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sneering about the "faculty lounge" is deeply funny. Most departments don't have one, but if they do, it's like a wall of mailboxes, a coffee maker and maybe a mini-fridge. You're basically sneering about the break room on The Office. "Oooh, look who has a *vending* machine! Excuse me, m'lord!"

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/08/2026

More than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged in the U.S., many leaking contaminants into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods. Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how. (Published Dec. 2024)

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The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public

Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 04/08/2026

public libraries ftw

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Not to platform the Telegraph, but having just returned from a part of the Mediterranean where it was 105 F and smoky and 200,000 people were being evacuated from their homes, I actually just don't think this political message will resonate with people any more!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The US would have won this war if physical reality was totally different lol

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/07/2026

Regarding munitions: The thing is, the US has plenty of munitions. Just not the high level standoff ones. Those are meant to hit high value targets then allow planes with cheaper munitions to come in. But he’s risk averse and only using the top level stuff for EVERY target. Is risk aversion

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ohmygodddd stoppppppp

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🥵 Expecting 35C even something a bit hotter tomorrow. Never in history of London meteorological history or indeed also true countrywide have we seen 35C (95F) in 3 consecutive months. Even non-consecutively it never happened... (1/2)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/07/2026

These are demonstrable lies.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

“A significant percentage of American women are survivors of male violence, including intimate partner violence and rape, yet I rarely hear PTSD invoked to justify or excuse their – our – behavior, and I've never heard it invoked to justify violence by women.”

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Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)

For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/07/2026

"A new report has revealed that 90 per cent of utility-scale renewable energy capacity added in 2025 was cheaper than the lowest-cost new fossil fuel alternative, helping to avoid an estimated $480 billion in fossil fuel costs by year’s end."

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Renewables remain cheapest new power option, and avoided $US480bn in fossil fuel costs in 2025

Renewables described as not only the cheapest new power source around the world, but also a “prime geopolitical shock absorber” in new report.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Countries, communities, people respond inconsistently to quantified risks. @rahmstorf.bsky.social points out that a community might pass on a nuclear plant but countries can't organize to address a 50% risk (he estimates) that Atlantic currents that warm Europe disappear.

"In all other areas in society, we have a very different approach to risk," he said. "If you want to build a bridge or a nuclear power plant, you accept maybe a one-in-10,000 risk of a bad accident happening. Whereas with the AMOC, 've for decades warned that a 5% risk, as we saw it then, is too high. And now we're talking more like 50% or more."

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Cold records are vanishing. There are half as many as there would be without climate change. Heat records are occurring 4x more than you'd expect without greenhouse gas pollution.

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Temperatures Reach New Highs While New Lows Become Rare
Ratio of record heat and cold compared to a stationary climate
X-axis 1950-present
Y-axis 0°C-4°C
A horizontal line at y=1. Below the line are cold records — about half as many as you'd expect if the climate were not changing. Above the line, rapidly rising bars, in red, showing how many more heat records there are than cold records.
Source: Fischer, Erich M. (2025). Record-breaking extremes in a warming climate, Nature

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Climate change: a status report 🧵

An article header image titled "Green: Extreme Heat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists." The background shows a hazy, sunlit city square where a man in a white t-shirt and shorts stands bent over, cooling off under a row of water sprinklers spraying from a long yellow hose on the ground.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/07/2026

Earlier this year there was a flurry of "oh, the climate worst-case scenarios aren't gonna happen, everyone chill out, it's not as bad as we thought" stories. Everyone involved should feel bad about themselves.

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Extreme Heat Stuns Even Climate Scientists Who Saw It Coming

Record-breaking heat waves are even stunning scientists monitoring the acceleration of climate change.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/07/2026

Makes you think.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Because you’re lying

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/07/2026

Now that millions of electric vehicles have been on the road for a decade or more, we have the data to check in on how their batteries are holding up. Quite well, it turns out.

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EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Hundreds of Thousands of Miles

Industry experts think newfound knowledge of battery durability is a game-changer for consumer confidence in EVs.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/07/2026

Breaking News! Code: y-axis alert! Global sea-surface temperatures are at 21.00°C, and have now set a new daily record high for the 33rd day in a row, more than 0.08°C above the previous record high, set in 2024. The Climate 8-ball is drunk again.

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Jarrod Hayes @jarrodhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Shout out to @warren.senate.gov and her staff. She and her office came through for my (former) PhD student whose work authorization paperwork was delayed (risking his ability to start his new job). Outstanding constituent service!!

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026… it was not hot enough." via Climate Alert

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

sorry. what?

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Unbelievable the Euro and other models with 20C isotherm somewhere in UK continuously from Monday to Friday. This is synonymous with extreme heat. Never have we seen such long duration of this hot air mass even in July-August.… (1/2)

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