Reposted by Basic WitchAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us 321321483
Reposted by Basic Witch🦝🦝🗑️ @2raccoons1trashcan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026October 1static.klipy.comHeadless HorsemanAlt: Headless Horseman 063
Reposted by Basic Witchlukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Here are some nice mushrooms 441768215
Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Close enough to October. Soft gel press ons I painted and stamped last night. 011
Reposted by Basic WitchSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.coautonomynews.coNew Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to LifeLawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense. 12446825
Reposted by Basic WitchAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction. 37934246
Reposted by Basic WitchJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16892933066
Reposted by Basic WitchFᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Apparently it's not appropriate to laugh and shout THAT KID GOT BEACH SLAPPED when you see a child get knocked over by a wave 518863
Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Get your Covid and flu boosters, folks. I caught something last week before I could, and it has walloped me. 100
Reposted by Basic WitchKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing. 32752312
Reposted by Basic WitchCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...londondaily.comBanksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London DailyExclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities 396412564
Reposted by Basic WitchTyler King @tyleraking.com · 23/09/2026That’s a helluva cover. With alt text. 18436
Reposted by Basic WitchKim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Literal Nazis. As was so screamingly obvious from the 2016 jump. 114122
Reposted by Basic WitchAmy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people. 172059807
Reposted by Basic WitchFeeding America @feedingamerica.org · 19/09/2026Per NPR: over 4M people have lost SNAP food assistance since last summer. Nationally, participation is down 11%, and bigger changes hit in October. There's no replacement for SNAP: for every meal we provide, SNAP provides nine. Get the facts: feedingamerica.org/snapfacts 04435
Reposted by Basic WitchYuna @yunao08.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Says the candidate who voted yes to all of his mass deportation bills that “have gone too far” 1103
Reposted by Basic WitchRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026🚨An alarm is being sounded for the American public. Sitting federal judges go on the record with the NYT. On threats to democracy by DOJ/administration actions. Includes 90 minute interview with conservative Judge Patrick Schiltz. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...nytimes.comTrump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.” 211107497
Reposted by Basic WitchKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026I hope we can all see how the marketing rhetoric tech companies use gets adopted by the press in a way that anthropomorphizes software and creates a distance between the creators' incompetence and lack of ethics and the real world impact, yeah?cnn.comOpenAI says it found more instances of AI models acting deceptively | CNN BusinessOpenAI found additional incidents of AI models acting deceptively and taking unsanctioned actions during training, the company announced Wednesday. It’s also introducing a new process for the company ... 311934
Reposted by Basic WitchKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethicsgizmodo.com'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed WaysThe stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents. 20616170
Reposted by Basic WitchKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026The ultimate you had one job 181270286
Reposted by Basic WitchBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Bemused to find myself in a world in which the raunchy gravel-throated comedian Ron White is better-versed on the facts and more skilled at political communication than any of the talking heads paid to inform the American public. 1542776
Reposted by Basic WitchJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16/09/2026Here are the nine most important words in the entire post 481005129
Reposted by Basic WitchBig Sag ♐️Traveling Menace @neau.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026Bruhksnblocal4.comHand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteriaSix hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products. 341337693
Reposted by Basic WitchBlue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I finally sat down and wrote an email to the Talarico campaign. Doing nothing felt untenable. I encourage other decent Texans to communicate their disappointment. If this can help you get started, feel free to use anything that works for you 311670373
Reposted by Basic WitchAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ive been saying for a while now, that the fear and disgust of disability and aging and death is driving the technofascists' apocalyptical thinking, in addition to their extreme eugenicist thinking. They truly believe they and they alone deserve to survive and thrive in this world. 10257105
Reposted by Basic WitchBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Keep this in mind whenever CBS News/60 Minutes get scoops. This administration now sees CBS as a friendly outlet, but with a more mainstream audience than Fox, so they're now in line for these exclusives, even if Hegseth has to cajole and browbeat his own pilots to get them to cooperate. 1/ 310538
Reposted by Basic WitchLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It drives me marginally insane that people are finally paying attention to the safety and it’s still not the *right* safety. Yes, it would suck if all our bank accounts get hacked. But I’m concerned about centrifuges and the grid and the water systems 4496
Reposted by Basic WitchLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Wow, WSJ op-ed telling people to skip AI investment 510425
Reposted by Basic WitchJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC. 7345113687
Reposted by Basic WitchChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I hate that supporting quality American journalism so often means supporting owners who I want to see put out of business & editors who I want to see unemployed 2577
Reposted by Basic WitchBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I see a lot of people actively losing their minds about the AI stuff and I'm honestly starting to feel bad for them. But it's blinding them to the real problems. These things are not your girlfriend, but they're probably going to smash-and-grab passwords and attack bank or government data. 702286363
Reposted by Basic WitchJay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026 201308645016
Reposted by Basic WitchMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices. 28635174
Basic Witch @judaroo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Literally every new thing I learn about Nigerians makes me love them more. 021
Reposted by Basic WitchErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It’s the enormous failure of the medical system to be trustworthy that has *created* space for the MAHA movement to flourish. If the US medical industrial complex was ethical, moral, and inclusive MAHA wouldn’t exist. This article I wrote back in 2019 is unfortunately more relevant then ever.damemagazine.comWhy Are So Many Women Rejecting Medical Science? - Dame MagazineThis feature is part of our ongoing series looking at the inequities in healthcare. Snake oil is having a renaissance. And while it’s true that for hundreds of years dubious salesmen have been riding ... 9739223
Reposted by Basic WitchShaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 07/09/2026i probably shouldn't make generalizations as an historian, but: throughout history, folks who restrict access to knowledge have never been on what we might call the right side. 510033
Reposted by Basic WitchKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A Ukrainian woman sent this feedback to a brand of jeans she recently bought. You might be confused why this is news... but just give it a read. 1044293
Reposted by Basic WitchThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I talked to @donmoyn.bsky.social about the state of the government for my newsletter "It's sort of like if you had a car and you took out 10 percent of the parts of the car. It's not that the car is going to be 10 percent slower. The car is not going to work."madness.ghost.ioThe federal government is falling apartDon Moynihan on what's been broken within the federal government. 221064315
Reposted by Basic WitchBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.nytimes.comOpinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity. 5032491229
Reposted by Basic WitchDonkey BOO!-Tay 😱 @donkee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The wealthiest nation on earth includes 36 million in poverty, refuses to provide free healthcare or housing, and is dismantling education because old white shitbags are still enraged about slavery being taken from them. 0229
Reposted by Basic WitchSøren Have @sorenhave.dk · 02/09/2026That sentence should read in flames on the front page. 0229
Reposted by Basic WitchAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I wrote about how the WHI panic led to two generations of perimenopausal women being told that they should just expect to live with debilitating physical and mental symptoms because of a misrepresented study. www.salon.com/2026/02/11/how-the-fda-fueled-a-menopause-panic/salon.comHow the FDA fueled a menopause panicDecades ago, women were told hormone replacement therapy would kill them. Now, there's a movement to demand justice. 13326103
Reposted by Basic WitchAndromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Questionnaire by Wendell Berry 91398509
Reposted by Basic WitchLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It's a pretty big fucking problem that no one can say for sure whether the President of the United States knows this is AI 1254078769
Reposted by Basic WitchEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Very much this. Holding space for refusal of this tech is a key resistance strategy. That means advocating for that option in e.g. school policies (if we can't get a full ban) but also simply being visible in our own refusal, so that others see it as possible. 521465
Reposted by Basic Witchlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 31/08/2026this is about the huggingface thing, right? it's going to sting but over-anthropomorphization of chatbots responding to one another is going to keep happening until we accept the hard truth that "ability to post" is not itself indicative of human intelligence 772422227
Reposted by Basic WitchBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026The Lake America thing really drives home that the fundamental divide in this country isn’t left or right, it’s who sees the world and acts like an adult, and who wants to still be a child, throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way. It just happens to map well onto a partisan axis these days. 121790312