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Julie Rohwein

@jirohwein.bsky.social
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Composer, geek, reader of many books on all sorts of topics. Also cats! And other critters.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Insanity 😡
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
“Woke” is not just racial code, but indeed gendered: Black Lives Matter, #Metoo, etc emphasized a politics of empathy and care for the victims of America’s white patriarchal systems. Empathy is radical and threatening to such systems. Hence the attacks on books, journalism, and education.
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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This discussion with @doctorow.pluralistic.net is great. Really worth watching the whole thing. Starts with some of his thoughts on AI but, IMHO, the best bit is the stuff on digital sovereignty.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 02/10/2026
"A dozen orcs stormed the Palantir offices in Seattle this week to apply for jobs at the surveillance tech company. Palantir's militarized AI products attracted the horde of orcs, who hoped that their history of serving the Dark Lords would land them a gig. Unfortunately, Palantir didn't bite." 🤣
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
political cartoon, titled "Famous Last Words" by Pulitzer Prize finalist Pat Bagley of The Salt Lake Tribune
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/09/2026
Happy 9 to 5 day, Sister Dolly. We miss you ❤️
Photo of Dolly Parton in the movie "9 to 5."
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DAPPER DON DHARSHI @dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A marine biologist films this octopus changing colors while dreaming and it’s spectacular
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Julie Rohwein @jirohwein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Forgot "gigantic pain in the ass"
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Julie Rohwein @jirohwein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why we want to quit
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A Guide to Early Voting www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res... #democracy #elections #PollsDoNotNeedTroopsOrICE #Blues
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A Guide to Early Voting
Many Americans will vote before Election Day.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 24/09/2026
Researchers have launched "Lost Lakes," an interactive map tracking nearly 4 million Arctic lakes in near real time. As climate warming thaws permafrost, lakes form or abruptly drain away. Monitoring these shifts offers vital clues on ground stability and carbon emissions. Learn more!
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4 million lakes in ‘Lost Lakes’ map offer clues to Arctic permafrost
The Arctic is dotted with millions of lakes that sit on persistently frozen soil called permafrost. These lakes are crucial for the region’s wildlife and local communities. However, as temperatures…
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 24/09/2026
This is SUCH a cool read on universal design, the interactions of architecture and disability culture, and community.
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How the Architecture of Sound Is Transforming Cities
Acoustic cues don't just make spaces more accessible — they also create opportunities for exploration and delight.
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Tatooine Farmboy @tatooinefarmboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Sir, sir…”
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This woman's dragon puppet Original post
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For the first time, the ST40 spherical tokamak's plasma was filmed in real color, glowing violet and pink at temperatures above 100 million degrees Celsius.
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Julie Rohwein @jirohwein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
💗💗🤣
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Julie Rohwein @jirohwein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Beautiful
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cookies have very few vitamins. That’s why you have to eat so many of them.
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📎Hope🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🪬🟦 @crickettehkm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I hope this is true
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m a former in-house lawyer for Harvard. During my recent role as DEI Director at UCLA, I fixated my AuDHD brain on digesting, analyzing and memorizing Project 2025. Since then, unfortunately every one of my political predictions has come to pass. P2025 is 55% complete. The last 1/2 is terrifying.
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Project 2025 Tracker
A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
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Julie Rohwein @jirohwein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Spicy shortage ahead: Warm nights cut New Mexico's chile crop by almost half abq.news/2026/09/spic...
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Spicy shortage ahead: Warm nights cut New Mexico's chile crop by almost half - The Paper.
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. New Mexico’s signature crop is having a rough year, and that means chile lovers and the businesses that sell it should brace for tighter supply […]
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Oh so now anyone might be audio recording anyone at any time and now there's not even the visual cue of a camera lens staring at you to warn you about it? Instert Chidi "okay but that's worse" gif, here.
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 15/09/2026
Octopus DNA is so complex, scientists still don't understand it. While all other animals on earth evolve through multiple generations, octopus DNA can change while they are alive. This started the talk about octopus "alien DNA". Scientific paper below the video.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 15/09/2026
Good news or bad news depending on your POV: Usenet archives is suddenly easy to dig through, thanks to a new service. It’s built by a big data guy, and it’s packed with every awkward thing you ever wrote in a newsgroup 26 years ago. My deep dive: tedium.co/2026/09/14/u... new @tedium.co
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Usenet’s Back, Baby. (This Time, The Search Works.)
Usenet-Rewind, a new tool for digging into Usenet history, holds much potential for researchers. But seeing your old posts on Usenet is gonna feel weird.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Common Merganser females have a remarkable ability to care for and adopt ducklings that are not their own, mixed-parentage ducklings, this phenomenon is widely documented and results in massive "super-broods" or daycares
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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 13/09/2026
All the wireheads going "it's inevitable" suddenly makes sense when you realize that coding is one of the few work products that a swarm of agents CAN do (so long as you don't care about stuff like having a sane architecture, extensibility, maintenance, etc.). That's... not true in other fields!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Abortion is healthcare. Deaths from ectopic pregnancy increased in states with abortion bans than others. An untreated ectopic pregnancy causes bleeding, fallopian tube rupture, death. www.propublica.org/article/ecto... #pinks
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
AAAAAAHHHHHHH
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘Size Matters: Studies Find That Operating & Embodied Energy Increases With Building Height’ www.treehugger.com/size-matters...
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Size Matters: Studies Find That Operating and Embodied Energy Increases With Building Height
High density may be a good thing in cities, but tall buildings are not.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
While this *might* be relatively innocent tinfoil-hattery, it could also be an amazingly cost-effective example of asymmetric warfare (target the most gullible minds with a conspiracy theory that gives them an incentive to vandalize transport infrastructure).
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Commemoration is a chance to reflect. Americans in power will try to use this anniversary to say that everything happened exactly as it had to, and that we should bow our heads rather than use them. We went along twenty-five years ago. We should not do so again. snyder.substack.com/p/helping-th...
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Helping the Terrorists to Win
A Quarter Century after 9/11
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/09/2026
If only there were a law that said: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned" We could call it 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Janelle Bynum (OR-05): A court told USPS to stop screening mail ballots,& instead of stopping, they just went quieter about it? A whistleblower says one glitchy barcode scan can wipe out thousands of ballots at once, right before the midterms. That should make your blood boil. #CorruptTrumpRegime
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
newrepublic.com/post/215181/... 🚨 PSA🚨 TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW DO NOT USE OR SIGN UP WITH ELON MUSK'S VoteSafe
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Elon Musk Spends Millions Tricking People Into Giving Up Personal Data
Musk’s midterm spending has a sinister ulterior motive.
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Red Riccardo @redriccardo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is dangerous
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1. Earlier today, AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who spent the past three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned from Anthropic, warning that both companies are racing toward superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.”
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied.." Mayor Mamdani About 400,000 people were exposed to dust, pulverized heavy metals, and toxic combustion byproducts. Thousands of rescue workers and local employees have died. www.cnn.com/2026/09/08/u...
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NYC Mayor Mamdani releases 9/11 records showing officials misled New Yorkers about air quality around Ground Zero | CNN
New York City has released more than 170,000 pages of previously undisclosed records about air quality following the September 11, 2001, attacks, showing city officials at the time knew conditions aro...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
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September 11 Docs
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Dennis "dejay" Koch @dennisjkoch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Let's catch you up on your father's world - well at least a heavy part of it. Yeah, it's this big... All TV Star Trek Intros — 1965-2023 #StarTrek youtu.be/zxl6WwvotKk
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All TV Star Trek Intros — 1965-2023
YouTube video by Nate Nakao
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