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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 40m
This is effectively the same discourse as the hate subreddit ban and its impact, which was positive: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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You Can't Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit's 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: Vol 1, No CSCW
In 2015, Reddit closed several subreddits-foremost among them r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown-due to violations of Reddit's anti-harassment policy. However, the effectiveness of banning as a moderation...
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 3h
TransActual partnered with @scottishtrans.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social to bring messages from this month’s Mass Lobby for Trans Equality to the Labour conference in Liverpool, and to ask the party: what now for our standing on LGBTQ+ rights?
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3h
it's very funny to me that someone accused me of being "neutral to positive" about Netanyahu yesterday. I would love to see someone try to back that up based on literally anything I've ever said
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 4h
MTA presentation on $1 billion tax on transit that tariffs are taking on our bus and train procurements. We have to pay this tax despite exceeding Buy America requirements and that rolling stock program funds hundreds and hundreds of manufacturing jobs — www.youtube.com/live/0e3tHtO...
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MTA Board Meeting - 9/30/2026
YouTube video by MTA Live
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✨keeley✨ @leeleykeel.bsky.social · 5h
Good: A court in Japan has ruled that the human voice has legal protection after a landmark case involving a well-known actor and a TikTok account that he claimed had cloned his “lustrous” baritone voice in its AI-generated videos. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules
Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark Japanese verdict to protect publicity rights
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 6h
Israeli minister calls Shabana Mahmood an Islamist, because erm, erm, erm
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 6h
Today, we remember the parents, children, siblings and elders tragically lost to the horrendous acts of cultural genocide committed in government-sanctioned residential schools. May we all walk the path to reconciliation together with a commitment to respect and healing.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 14h
does Michael Tracy think it's possible to commit sex crimes? like just on a basic philosophical level does he believe in the concept?
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Bonesito @bonesito.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When someone accuses me of going to a Hawks game.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Americans deserve real reform, like the bipartisan Restore Trust in Congress Act, which would pass actionable measures to stop insider trading and end conflicts of interest.
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CREW, 12 organizations tell Congress: oppose the Stop Insider Trading Act - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Congress should reject the Stop Insider Trading Act, which doesn't actively stop members of Congress from profiting off their offices.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Stop Insider Trading Act doesn’t stop members from: ⚪️ Owning stock or making decisions impacting their stock values ⚪️ Profiting off stock ⚪️ Profiting from owning or trading other assets
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tomorrow, the Senate will vote on the Stop Insider Trading Act, a smokescreen GOP bill meant to mislead the public while allowing members of Congress to continue to profit from insider information.
democracy.news
So-Called Anti-Corruption Legislation is a Trojan Horse for Trump’s Anti-Voter Campaign
The Stop Insider Trading Act isn't what it seems.
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 29/09/2026
Erich Schmitt is a fucking dirtbag
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 29/09/2026
*taps the sign* "When you call a billionaire a fatass, he doesn't care; but every friend of yours with body dysmorphia knows your body tolerance is conditional"
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 29/09/2026
Claude starts overthinking shit and making stupid complex architecture and you just gotta prompt "I ain't need all that shit, just put the fries in the bag bro"
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 29/09/2026
Kennedy's policy is obviously eugenic not just because he's a eugenicist, but because the scope is much broader than what's actually needed: 1. An open standard EMR 2. An open standard EMR exchange authorization protocol 3. An open standard EMR exchange protocol
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 29/09/2026
We could point out the recurring pattern of precariat/poverty behaviors spanning between deliberate frugal organization and less-cost-effective adhoc improvisation that always arises in these discussions or we could fight about which of these is the "real struggle", I guess we're doing the latter.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finally he blocked me! 😂 It was getting a little much.
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 29/09/2026
Congress must act now to remove sanctions from presidential discretion
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 28/09/2026
claude just went rogue and liked a bunch of my wife's best friend's vacation selfies from 2018
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Ruby Ninepins @ninepins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am a Bajoran mother with many beautiful children. I did not give birth to them for them to be sent to the trenches. Bajoran and Cardassian mothers do not want their children to fight against each other. We are not enemies. #CaradassiaIsNotMyEnemy
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 28/09/2026
Bear in mind - you can nuke the billionaire's reputation but they have enough money to fund nuclear cleanup.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should expect a lot more of this 'i was wrong about trump' bullsh*t especially after the midterms. Sarah is completely correct: don't fall for it.
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Watching people who propped up this corrupt disaster of an administration for their own enrichment start to slowly back away with their hands up will be good for short term dunks, but thats not good enough. It should be a reputational nuke from which these people never recover.
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“There are a lot of things I got wrong... was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought.”
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Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Sen. Ossoff on RFK Jr.'s reckless decision to cut cyclosporiasis monitoring: "There is no excuse. There is no justification. It's madness."
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 28/09/2026
Rep. Jamie Raskin: The president has been making almost $1 million an hour since he took office.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 28/09/2026
NGL screenshotting your own X post to repost on here is sort of like bringing your selfie with David Duke to the cookout and I don't think you should expect a warm response for it.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
And a quick reminder that there is an entire industry running cover for it, as well.
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 28/09/2026
Good. But also, consider how many rapes don't have a viral campaign to force the authorities to take them seriously. Where the victims aren't as sympathetic, or the documentation is too muddled. Woke 2 needs a #MeThree
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 28/09/2026
Honestly it just reads as vulgar ressentiment of an imagined liberal cathedral
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so much of what's wrong with right now is rebranding things which were always understood as vice as being a type of virtue
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Kung Hei FYat Choy!-Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good time to sign up to be a poll worker for November (if you can spare the time) www.eac.gov/help-america...
eac.gov
Become a Poll Worker | U.S. Election Assistance Commission
The EAC encourages those interested in becoming poll workers at the polls on Election Day to learn more about what is required and how to sign up to work with your local election office.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 27/09/2026
I think this site should ban people who make death threats
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This sentence is not a throwaway aside. This sentence is the whole piece.
In the end, there are many ways to make the humanities more accessible and enticing to undergraduates, if we're willing to experiment. There are of course incentive structures to be worked out, distribution requirements to be distributed, deans to be dealt with, and metrics to be redefined, Teaching the humanities to all students does not mean that we should cease to offer advanced courses to the happy few who do decide to dive deeper, but it does entail a reallocation of teaching resources. It might also have the immeasurable benefit of ensuring that generations of students go through college and come out with a richer inner life.
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 27/09/2026
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts has a B.A. in History, a M.A. in History, and a Ph.D. in American History.
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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"My education in theater has made me both a good person and immune to far-right politics. Now to take a big drink of water and see what Joseph Goebbels' PhD was in."
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 27/09/2026
Counterculture (at least, viewed from the "hacker"-y lens), in my view, always had a vague ideology with a contingent commitment because hacking doesn't pay and was constantly being made fuuuucking illegal. Like, Kevin Mitnick became a cop. That's the story.
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 26/09/2026
Serene Necrosis sounds like a complication of some rural river parasite
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Red states warning about leopards roaming the streets.
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 26/09/2026
Honestly we should get to a point culturally where people "Sports Betting VIP" is an idiom for being deep in gambling debt
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I cannot overstate how much I despise the people who "both sides" the last election while completely ignoring the Nazi bent of Trump's campaign.
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Lori 🐞🏳️‍⚧️ @loribug.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Monopoly man with an angry face asks Scrooge McDuck, "remember when bsky was fun?"
Scrooge McDuck replies, equally angry looking, "bsky was never fun."
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 25/09/2026
Okay but the stevedores arc was objectively good
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 25/09/2026
The counterpart to "Vote blue no matter who" is "Red grouches stay on your couches"
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
yep, good enough for me 👍
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You're all like "sipping iced coffee is always acceptable no matter what in a work environment" and I can't stop picturing scenarios like going to therapy and talking about the most traumatic moments of my life as my therapist slurps on an iced coffee.
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 25/09/2026
I feel like "observing hygiene during a job interview is bootlicking" is just oppositional-defiance man
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 25/09/2026
I don't think it's wrong to bring a beverage to a job interview but in the interest of putting your best foot forward you really shouldn't have anything in your mouth during the time you're being interviewed. So like, have it, I guess, but don't drink it.
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