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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Kam Reads & Recs @kamreadsandrecs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My review of Gods of the Wyrdwood (Forsaken #1) by R.J. Barker is now live. Didn't wow me from the get-go, but really enjoyed the worldbuilding and the characters. Do wish the narrative pace was a bit faster though. #bookreview #fantasy #booksky 💙📚 Full review here:

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Title: Gods of the Wyrdwood (Forsaken #1) Author/s: R.J. Barker Genre/s: fantasy Content/Trigger Warning/s: death and abuse of animals; physical and emotional abuse of children and pregnant people;...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026

For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.

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False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work

As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@readfearn.bsky.social on the August water vapour record Rising water vapour levels can "increase the risk of intense rainfall, including from cyclones, & give extra energy to storms “because heat is released when water vapour condenses into cloud droplets, potentially helping to intensify them”"

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El Niño and global heating pushes water vapour in Earth’s atmosphere to record levels in August

Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists say

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Kam Reads & Recs @kamreadsandrecs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My review of The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial by Izabella Scott is now live. Really interesting for how it talks about the messiness of life vs. legal system, but wish it'd looked more into the race aspect of the case. #bookreview #nonfiction #truecrime #booksky 💙📚 Full review here:

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Title: The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial Author/s: Izabella Scott Genre/s: nonfiction, true crime Content/Trigger Warning/s: frank and journalistic discussions of rape, gender dysphoria,...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.

Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative
sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

FYI a trans girl in the Philippines was forced to undress at her school / remove her bra by a school security guard, her name is Jamie Alday and the comments on most of the news article about her are vile. I wish I had a fucking army

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Almost every child on Earth is now exposed to at least one major climate hazard — heatwaves, floods, droughts, storms, or wildfires. The people who contributed least to the crisis are suffering first and worst. Climate justice isn’t optional. It’s the only path forward.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Repoost yf once upon a tyme you were a denizen of a diale-uppe BBS and wyth your entyre soule you remembir the birde-screeche-dissolvinge-ynto-static noyse

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Spiralling global temperatures, visualisation by Ed Hawkins. #Visualisation #GlobalWarming #Climate

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys ther to deliver a goode or servyce to customers. Educacioun ys ther to empower citizens. A businesse ys for private benefit. Educacioun ys for the common good.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anthropic’s CEO says that the company needs hundreds of billions in revenue or they’re going to go bankrupt. Awww…Maybe he can only drink coffee at home, get a second job, and work a lot harder. Polluting the environment and creating societal nightmares must be so exhausting

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Kam Reads & Recs @kamreadsandrecs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Happy first birthday to my babies Calo and Galdo (named after the Sanza Twins from Scott Lynch’s Lies of Locke Lamora)! Their foster parent picked them up off the street so there’s no exact date, but the vet places them as September babies so I’m just gonna make September 9 their birthday.

A pair of white and orange cats lounging in an office chair.

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Sue in Rockville 💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋 @sueinrockville.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🚨BEWARE: Never trust by Elon Musk The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org It's a digital surveillance machine Votesafe.org is currently configured to share your information with numerous partners & to let advertising companies comprehensively track all of US open.substack.com/pub/populari...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/09/2026

One insurance denial for Teressa’s husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.” “This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’” (Published Sept. 2025)

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“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope

After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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Kam Reads & Recs @kamreadsandrecs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My review of She Waits Where Shadows Gather by Michelle Tang is now live. Had a great deal of potential, but character development and plot were not well handled, and that twist at climax was so badly done it soured the whole thing for me. #bookreview #horror #booksky 💙📚 Full review here:

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Title: She Waits Where Shadows Gather Author/s: Michelle Tang Genre/s: horror Content/Trigger Warning/s: attempted suicide; near-fatal car accident; toxic relationship; infertility; bugs; murder;...

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The problem with corporate takeovers in the arts is they immediately buy out, fire or squeeze out the people who care about the thing the most. Almost all the great comic book sites got bought out and many of those are gone now, or zombie-run. Which is not as fun as it sounds.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"The El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years & will pile extra heat into an atmosphere where temps are already rising rapidly due to global heating. The combo means 2027 is set to 'blow apart' the record & be the hottest year ever recorded." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching

Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Absolutely…. #BookSky

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

3 MILLION GALLONS — GONE. A waterline leak tied to a DATA CENTER in El Reno reportedly cost residents 3 MILLION gallons of treated water this week. Maybe before we rush to throw up data centers everywhere, we should STUDY what they demand

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Data center leak costs residents more than 3 million gallons of water

YouTube video by CNN

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

94yr old JOHN WILLIAMS delivered a surprise performance of ‘The Imperial March” from Star Wars in front of 13,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night. He is the soundtrack to our lives.

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Sam Carana @samcarana.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sea surface temperatures were 13°C or 23.3°F higher than 1981-2011 on Sep 4, 2026, in the Gulf of Ob (circle). The cold area previously visible south of Greenland got overwhelmed by ocean heat, as El Niño gains strength and Earth's Energy Imbalance increases. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/09/wate...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026

When 3M scientist Kris Hansen discovered that a chemical the company produced was in the blood of the general public, her bosses questioned her work. Yet all along, some people inside the company had known the same thing. Listen to this excerpt:

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biggivenotbiggov.bsky.social @biggivenotbiggov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk". Harry Browne

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits

OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.

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SVB Station @svbstation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is something that really shouldn't have been normalized in the gaming industry.

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Kam Reads & Recs @kamreadsandrecs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is HILARIOUS because I've never lived in the US. I've visited, but only California. I've never set foot in Massachusetts at all. HOWEVER, I watched a lot of Sesame Street as a kid so that might be why? mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

A map of the United States with blue areas showing places where my accent is mostly likely to be from, shading all the way to red, indicating places my accent is least likely to be from.

An image showing results for cities where the people speak most similarly to me, and where they speak least similarly to me. In the most similar column in decreasing order of similarity are Boston, MA (48%).; Portland, ME. (48%); and New York, NY (47%). In the least similar column in decreasing order to dissimilarity are Oklahoma City, OK (40%); Dallas, TX (41%); and New Orleans, LA. (42%)

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Howard Luttnick, Epstein Island regular, on CNBC saying #DataCenters do not use water. Zero pushback fron the hosts. Objectively is dead.

Pics of a data center a pipe spraying water

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An Oklahoma data center using water-cooling technology just wasted over 3 million gallons of water during a massive pipe burst.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm one of the scummy selfpub authors who were stolen from by anthropic, and as I did not separately register copyright, the settlement doesn't apply to me we're in this together, right everybody

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

News: Acting alone, Justice Brett Kavanaugh denies emergency stay to advocacy group seeking to put proof-of-citizenship amendment on Michigan ballots for midterms @courthousenews.bsky.social

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026

NEW on “Paper Trail”: More likely than not, there are ”forever chemicals” in your blood. Here’s the thing: 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into people’s blood for decades — and continued making them. We found out how they kept this secret. Listen to the full episode:

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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret

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Enough Eh @enougheh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No museum or library should have to close down. If churches are tax free, why not places of learning? We know this answer.

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Lutnick on CNBC: "Data centers don't use water. They're data centers." ????????

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🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ @snipe.lol · 02/09/2026

So... quick reminder.... executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAWS. guides.library.umass.edu/govinfo/exec...

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LibGuides: Government Information: Executive orders and proclamations

A Guide to Government Information Sources

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Jacqui @jamelle33.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?

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ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today

The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?

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