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Jennifer Smyth

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Teaching, gardening, sewing, and nerdery.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 30m
As a general rule, men who defend rapists are rapists or at least holding space in case they decide to become rapists later.
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Dave Nelson 🇨🇦 @davenlsn.bsky.social · 18h
Research shows one in eight cancers worldwide are actually caused by infections. Another reason to be vaccinated #CanadaSky  www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Researchers are discovering more infections that can cause cancer | CBC News
New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 30m
Only 1 out of 57 men in the Cornell rape group chat objected to the sexual assault.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24m
Now banned in California. I'd like to see the rest of the country follow.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 2h
Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability
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EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social · 36m
As you can imagine (as a USDS alum) I have some thoughts about this. I'm processing, and trying to get some different perspectives. In the meantime (as someone who spent years improving service-delivery in gov) here are the operational ?s currently on my mind… qz.com/trump-americ...
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Trump launches America.gov AI portal for federal services
The site uses Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok to field questions across roughly 29,000 government websites
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 34m
taps sign again
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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h
seriously: every western regime should deny any and all relief and sabotage this administration as hard as possible
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 9h
617 days into his 2nd term, Trump's Department of Transportation has *still* not approved a single new transit project for full funding. The problems I highlighted in March—how this lack of funding only makes projects cost more & delays completion—have only worsened www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...
There have been no approvals for new transit projects in the entire 2nd Trump Administration. This graph, produced in March 2026, remains accurate now, in September 2026.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3h
The post-midterm Hegseth investigation is going to be AMAZING.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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shinaider.bsky.social @shinaider.bsky.social · 5h
This whole fucking thread 😂😂
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 3h
Water seeks its own level. bsky.app/profile/jenk...
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Ivy @ivyashe.bsky.social · 5h
It is also important to note that Cornell doesn't have a journalism major. These are students who may not even plan to make journalism a career, but their dedication to the field is tremendous.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 3h
👇🏼this is a really good essay
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 4h
The core appeal of reactionary politics is hatred of competent and smart people who follow evidence rather than use it to support conclusions. A million incidents like this happen daily in academia and legal settings, and they're behind almost all right-wing "liberal bias" accusations.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 3h
In case anyone missed it at the time, a part of why schools handle sexual violence so badly is because perpetrators were more involved in writing Trump’s 2020 Title IX regulation. It literally comes up in the Epstein files.
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Jeffrey Epstein Loved Trump’s Changes to the Title IX Rule. That Tells You All You Need to Know. - National Women's Law Center
Content warning: reported sexual violence, reported homicide As an attorney who focuses on gender-based violence, I wasn’t surprised that the “Epstein files” confirmed what my gender justice comrades ...
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 5h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 4h
Cornell. Didn’t. Refund. Her. Tuition. THEY DIDNT EVEN REFUND HER TUITION. I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ONE SINGLE BLIP ABOUT TRUST IN HIGHER EDUCATION UNTIL WE TEAR DOWN THE SYSTEM THAT MADE THIS BOTH POSSIBLE AND A COMMON OCCURRENCE.
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 6h
I’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
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☀️ @vamospeat.bsky.social · 4h
she was doxxed by an alum of the fraternity. burn greek life to the ground and salt the earth where it was
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 5h
NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 8h
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Sit Down Comedian @angrypenguine.bsky.social · 3h
Holy shit lol. I have no idea
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
It’s worth pointing out that Cornell students receive consent training. Schools pivoted to primarily informal responses to sexual violence years ago. This gang rape happened because those solutions didn’t work. Survivors and their advocates have been raising an alarm about that for almost a decade.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
All of these responses are tinged with himpathy, implying that rapists can be healed by empathy and education. You cannot educate someone who does not respect you. Men getting more empathy than their victims is why rape is so common in the first place.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
The first requirement of restorative justice is a perpetrator’s confession. He has to admit what he has done and to take accountability. The men in this case are smearing the victim and threatening her with lawsuits. They are not candidates for RJ. They would turn it into a new site of violence.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
Studies dating back to the 80s have found that men are not just “confused” about consent. They just don’t prioritize consent over things like power, domination, and sexual gratification. Men participating in a gang rape know they don’t have the victim’s consent.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Yeah in 2009 all the big banks made a bad bet on sub prime mortgages and nearly collapsed the US economy, but a government bailout saved them. This wasn't that long ago, Axios.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 6h
7/ the whole US is a petrostate discourse misses the fact that the country is the second largest installed base for solar power in the world. solar and battery boom continues under trump. It’s the EV and wind boom that has been curtailed bsky.app/profile/jose...
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The magnificence of the mushroom
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I'm studying biotech and every time someone brings up mushrooms our current professeor will look either extremely excited or pained and go, "listen, mushrooms are neither plants nor animals nor something inbetween. We do not know what they are. Some are immortal. Some produce life-saving substances some are so closely related to humans that eating them may cause an allergic reaction against your own body. I cannot teach you about the mushrooms.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 6h
Mystery of glasses theft deepens as they are discovered to have been on my head the whole time
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Ariana Figueroa @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social · 6h
Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find Story by @jonshorman.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
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Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call ...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 6h
being a “team player” 😒
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How to win in November
Trans rights are human rights and abolish ICE
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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 7h
Wanna try before you buy? Check out The Scarlet Ball here, and if you dig it, pre-order it before release on OCT 6! Reactor not only gave us a fun selection to read, but also an audiobook sample as well, which, incredible because the audiobook is read by the incredible @natalienaudus.bsky.social!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7h
Wait, even assuming that he had been at that game, the train of logic here was supposed to be: - he was at a Hawks game in Atlanta - that's the same state as this other person who had an affair - being in the same state means you know everything ??????????
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7h
I guess this is next gen negotiated rule making: White-House-facilitated cartels of collusion www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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WATCH: Trump announces accord signed by top AI companies to 'self-police' development
Many of the executives gathered in Washington have called for a slowdown in the development of the technology after several hgh-profile incidents where AI agents have gone rogue.
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 8h
The particular irony of this particular bit of dipshittery on behalf of the transphobic assholes who have seized on Caitlin Clark as their patron saint of straight, white women’s sports
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 8h
I’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 8h
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez is the SECOND DoorDash driver shot by ICE, and the silence from DoorDash is deafening. Delete DoorDash until they speak up against ICE violence and push for Wilber’s release. Learn how to delete it so it counts at deletedoordash.com.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13h
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 7h
I saw the smoke from Ecole Normale Supérieure today, and thought that if what’s happening in the US was happening in France, everything would be ablaze.
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Clashes between French teens, police as school blockades intensify
French teenagers on Tuesday set fire to rubbish bins and threw projectiles at police who responded with batons and tear gas, with hundreds detained across the country over the blockades and protests d...
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The AI bubble, which accounts for over a third of the US stock market, which exceeds the amount of consumer spending, which has literally warped the entire tech industry into an incestuous ponzi scheme of funding, is 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19h
Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania ft.trib.al/utxDA3Z
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Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania
Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was the dude who talked about Dylan Roof and HIS family as victims . What a lot of hierarchical minded people think of as “empathy” is just identification . And .. sometimes recognizing identification isn’t about WOKE it’s about HISTORY www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/j...
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Ex-Charleston County magistrate must register as a convicted sex offender after guilty plea to federal charges
After nearly 30 years of wearing black robes and sitting in judgment, James Gosnell stood on the other side of the courtroom, before a judge in federal court July 2, and admitted to possessing and dis...
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What would the world be like if Peter Thiels racism had been enough for folks to actively divest from the SV model? What would happen if we didn’t treat “advocacy orgs” who allowed casual racism and Years of misogynoir so much time to do better
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