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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 20h
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Le code du bâtiment, c'est moi"
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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gary’s anatomy @sablaah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I don’t have a problem with trans people, I just don’t think they should be able to use public bathrooms or play sports or get healthcare—“ ok so that’s segregation. you are functionally a segregationist. and you want me to believe that fights fascism somehow. ok.
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Youngest child is off to his last Homecoming dance but didn't let me take pictures, so you'll just have to take my word for it that he is the handsomest best boy in the whole world.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's a tough move for a politician, but most of us can answer the "sports " question: "First, I don't believe the people making an issue of this give a shit about kids. The opposite, in fact. They're the ones sending kids to rot in camps, taking their food stamps, and blocking the Epstein Flies...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#a2schools The BOE got an earful from trans alumni, parents of trans kids, and community members. They voted to authorize the Superintendent to hire outside counsel to address the letter from the DOJ, which I'm taking as a good sign.
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Water main break on 4th south of Catherine. Call before heading out, some businesses are closing for the day. #a2council
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#a2schools AAPS got a letter from the DOJ demanding a repeal of Policy 5011 on trans kids. As parents of trans kids warned them, appeasing the Dept of Ed three weeks ago didn't work. Bullies will keep coming back once they sense weakness. The Board meets tomorrow 9/16 at 7PM at the Earhart Building.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13/09/2026
"a beautiful, unconstrained, dei-free, hr-liberated way of life located entirely in our rural areas?" "yes" "do you live there?"
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026
No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple.
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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This man, two days after this, was invited on ESPN College Gameday to chat football. This is how you normalize political violence.
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I've seen lots of university spokespeople talking about how important incorporating genAI into every facet of education is. What I haven't seen is a single one talking about why I should pay tens of thousands of dollars for my kid to learn with and be taught by it.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On this 9/11, I'm thinking about how George W. Bush was maybe the worst possible person to be president in 2001, but even he wasn't foolish enough to start a war of aggression with Iran.
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This person should not be a Senator. Either she actually believes this horseshit or she thinks we're all stupid.
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the kiracken🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 10/09/2026
they want us to be forced go through natal puberty so we acquire all the normal signifiers that we think of as "clocky" so that they can more easily discriminate against us. they want trans women to appear as masculine as possible early in transition so they can use us as big scary "transes" coming
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
"I think Black people should be able to use the same drinking fountain that white people do as long as it's safe and fair."
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“im not interested in your childrens genitals” is just such an easy thing to say
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026
You really can't budge an inch on this stuff. It does nothing but validate their deranged hatred. This was a test of leadership and Talarico failed it
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you lost your tomato... #a2council
A city sidewalk tree with a single red tomato sitting on an exposed root.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:
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Ed Sheeran’s fans came for a concert, not performative, biased and hateful anti-Israel “activism” from his opener, Macklemore.

Imagine being a Jewish or Israeli fan who came with family or friends to enjoy the show, only to be confronted with this hostility from the stage. Or feeling so unwelcome by the opening act that you leave early.

This isn’t new for Macklemore. He has a record of demonizing Israel and Israelis, falsely accusing Israel of genocide and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior.

This is completely unacceptable.

(with embedded video of Macklemore's remarks on Palestine at the Ed Sheeran MetLife concert)

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 07/09/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep The Guardian offers a deep dive on execrable new Trump HHS report supposedly linking authoritarianism and political violence with trans identity. So all those violent paramiltary bigots in Three Percenters, Oath Keepers, Patriot Front and Proud Boys are trans?!?
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‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report
HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Believing that other people are real is antifascist praxis.
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So glad Michigan chose Abdul for Senate over Haley Stevens.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026
it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
“The Los Angeles Unified Board is banning student access to AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets. The announcement comes after the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to limit screen time for students in June.”
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LAUSD Bans Students From Using AI on School Devices
LAUSD has blocked about 378,000 students from accessing generative AI tools on district-issued laptops and tablets.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/09/2026
Angel S. Rampersad Michael Swinton Tyler J. Feehan Isabella Gonzales Gabriel Edwards John Klinner Ariana Savino Ashley Pruitt Seth Koval Curtis Angst Tyler Simmons Benjamin Pennington Jeffrey O’Brien Robert Marzan Nicole Amor Declan Coady Cody Khork Noah Tietjens Stop lying.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/09/2026
Ed Markey is projected to win the Democratic nomination for senate in Massachusetts. This is why you don't try to throw trans people under the bus in the Democratic party. Seth Moulton just found out.
Election results graphic projecting incumbent Edward Markey as the winner of the Massachusetts Democratic primary. Markey leads with 73.0% (10,560 votes) against Seth Moulton with 27.0% (3,896 votes), with 1.6% of expected votes reported.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
what do you MEAN Natalie Harp is in The Whitmer Photo
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#a2council Apparently in Chicago if you request a permit to have a block party you can also request a FREE BOUNCE HOUSE delivered to your party. A2 needs to step it up.
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Still waiting on legal analysis but initial readings indicate that AAPS just made trans kids more vulnerable to abusive parents and fishing expeditions from the Dept of Ed. That's what happens when you rush through amendments without the required 2-week comment period. #a2schools #protecttranskids
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Flock-o'-Lantern @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
pulled the video so you don't have to go to X we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#a2schools Hearing there may be shenanigans afoot regarding AAPS policy on trans kids. Heading to the meeting now, will update.
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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 20/08/2026
ICE: "We're going to start using torture gloves against the public." Public: "What the fuck, you should not have those." Omaha PD: "What's the big deal, we have them." Public: "what" Omaha PD: "We use them on school children."
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The electric shock gloves ICE is spending up to $20 million on are already being given to police officers in Omaha public schools | Fortune
The Omaha Police Department was awarded more than $65,000 for 40 pairs of the gloves in May 2025.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Your own Juggalo Jesus
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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This shit is why you can't separate continuing to financially support the Harry Potter IP (whether by buying the games, merch, watching the new TV show when its out) from the consequences of what JK Rowling does with that money She's become so stiflingly powerful that even private docs arent safe
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.
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Julia Blough @jcblough.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Does #a2schools have a policy on these things? I'm hearing lots of parents demanding (useless) cell phone pouches, but pervert glasses seem like a MUCH bigger problem. Ban them from school now.
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