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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 3h

What a delight to meet Minnesota’s next great U.S. Senator @peggyflanagan.bsky.social!

Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 3h

I think it's profoundly cowardly to be an ableist piece of shit and think you're fine because you danced around the r-slur

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 5h

Recently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.

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What's the matter with trans panic media?

Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people."

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shanley @shanley.com · 3h

I think one important aspect of Jane Doe case that is important is the role civil lawsuits can play for abuse survivors. The criminal justice system sucks and frankly so does the whole legal system -- still, this is an option that might be available to some of you or girls/women you know.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

AI xrisk people: ok we are particularly concerned about AI autonomous weapons Normal people: in principle I agree, but seems a bit far fetched that will happen tbh USG: today we are announcing we are doing AI autonomous weapons on purpose

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 4h

god I need a vacation

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 4h

There's a joke here about Kegseth saying "no [t-slur]s" the same day a cyberattack disclosure comes out

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 4h

For all the patriotic reverence federalism gets it's gotta be one of the dumbest parts of our civic system. Honestly fuck states' rights, fuck state police power, fuck state independence from the federal government. One country, one law, one system.

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 4h

Part of what got us here was tolerance for the ethical insanity of "we can compromise b/w the people who believe abortion is murder, and who believe forced pregnancy is slavery, by letting the states decide;" it doesn't work any more than letting the states decide if you can own a human being works.

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 4h

When you're losing a war against a tinpot dictatorship

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WIRED @wired.com · 11h

Rema Hammami, an anthropologist at Birzeit University who has researched checkpoints, calls the current situation unprecedented. “Every single community, village, every single Palestinian city is going to be a separate prison.”

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 5h

One could argue that it is exactly the undue belief in organic processes that leads to this happening continually. My bias is: a humane, inclusive, and moral world requires active cultivation. Algorithms are good, actually.

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 5h

Organic processes aren't inherently positive and inclusive though...

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 5h

What do you mean by "curb social media algorithms"

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 6h

If you shut down spaces for these kinds of people their influence dissipates.

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 8h

"Cynical legal tactics" is a weird way of saying "a court of law decided that her identity should be shielded due to the possibility of public backlash preventing her from holding rapists accountable" And you second-guessing that is pretty much following a single agenda: pro-rape.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 8h

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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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 9h

"Fedpost in a way that will get you b&/v& or I'll accuse you of wanting Gaza to be glassed" -- DHS employee with anime avatar and inverted red triangle emoji in bio

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 9h

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 · 9h

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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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 11h

Honestly I don't think we should be giving her oxygen

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✨keeley✨ @leeleykeel.bsky.social · 11h

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...

theguardian.com

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 · 11h

Israeli minister calls Shabana Mahmood an Islamist, because erm, erm, erm

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 11h

She also did way better than most candidates in a worldwide anti-incumbent wave

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 19h

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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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 29/09/2026

TBH there's a good reason for steakhouses in particular to call their cuts by their raw weight. Yet another reason to order rare: you actually get more steak by weight.

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 29/09/2026

All said it's probably not exactly "1 out of 14 pounds raw brisket purchased makes it cooked and bought to the customer's mouth" but honestly it's probably not far off.

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 29/09/2026

Rejection is one half ("Just because it's bought doesn't mean it's fit to cook") and waste is the other ("Just because it's cooked doesn't mean it's getting bought at full price")

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 29/09/2026

Also mass-to-mass cost in particular is multiplicative because you lose a mostly-fixed fraction of the mass through rejection, trimming, and cooking (because water has mass and evaporates during cooking).

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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

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

Replace "fatass" with f-slur, r-slur, n-slur, etc. Be better

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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

What's necessary is not some eugenic panopticon that would make Mengele blush, it's bringing Epic and Oracle to heel by forcing them to talk natively to small practice software, such that you don't have to wait 2 weeks for medical records each time you bounce between specialists for cancer or w/e

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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

The reality is that economic privilege is neither having to improvise a shitty non-nutritious meal based on "what you have on hand" nor is it having to run your household ruthlessly efficiently like a naval vessel.

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 29/09/2026

This gives me the same ick as when comedians strongly identifying with a culture as part of their brand make the joke about how their culture are the only ones to keep a bag of plastic bags under the sink or reuse ziplocs as if it's a nigerian/midwestern/sagittarius thing and not common frugality

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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

Sorry my birthday is approaching 😭

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