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Tuesday Badell @americanoonline.com · 16h

All of us nonbinary and trans folks, too Cis men are doing a lot of "invisible" harm.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 16h

(As a runner, the number of times I have met people who swear they have great control over their dogs who DEFINITELY DO NOT cannot be counted, I do NOT RUN directly past dogs, even ones I "know".) It's like how everyone thinks they're an above average driver. Sure Jan.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 16h

This quote says it all: “Everybody thinks their dog is better than their dog really is,” he said, “and nobody wants to keep their dog on a leash all the time.” Everyone thinks their dog is better than their dog really is...and everyone thinks they have better CONTROL over their dog than they do.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22h

This. I strongly believe a lot of men have no idea how often women contend with this, and how it can stunt their ambitions.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16h

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The legal term 'genocide' refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group."

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What is Genocide? - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Genocide as a term did not exist before 1944. Learn about its origins and legal definition.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive…implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event & special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life.” - Mayor of Ithaca, actually doin’ shit

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Ithaca Mayor responds to reopened sexual assault case

ITHACA, N.Y. (WETM) – Robert G. Cantelmo, Mayor of Ithaca, has issued a statement on suspending Greek life at Cornell University until certain official procedures are put into place. Below is the s…

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can't recommend @nbedera.bsky.social's book 'On the Wrong Side' enough. I interviewed her in 2024, this part really stuck with me. Rapists often don't just not face consequences but reap benefits bc the school is so sorry for even investigating them/afraid of seeming 'biased':

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

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Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Then, if you’re able, try to get your body moving. You’re going to need your senses and movement is good for your brain. If you have kids in your care, protect their developing brains and their image. That’s all I can say about that.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The typical tradwife may be “four, five, six babies in,” Levings said, and yoked to a doctrine of constant childbearing and subservience to men. “And oh, by the way, their husbands bought in, and they’re not going to let them out,” she said.

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Bernadine Bluntly’s Brand Was Tradwife. Then She Got Divorced.

What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t know anything about the lesbian bar you’ve all been picking on but I do know the stats on lesbian bars are depressing and that seems more important. www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/rise-...

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The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars

Only 15 nightlife spaces dedicated to queer and gay women remain in the United States

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Larkin Francis, PhD, MSW @mwfrancis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

PLEASE ask me for my article! It's always a thrill to know that someone wants to read it, and I hate that knowledge is gatekept like this. Not only do we not get paid if you pay the fee, but we have to pay the journal thousands of dollars for the "privilege" of making it open-access (not paywalled)

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

“On Tuesday, department chair Danielle Clealand told faculty in the Social and Cultural Analysis Department that the provost’s office rejected all women’s and gender studies courses from counting toward UT’s core, according to an email reviewed by the Statesman.”

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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes

The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.

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Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Scientists 🧪 need to meet this moment and help create a healthier future in this country. So I wrote something! "A Bone Marrow Transplant Saved Me in '95—That Wouldn't Be Possible With Today's NIH" www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

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Opinion | A Bone Marrow Transplant Saved Me in '95—That Wouldn't Be Possible With Today's NIH

Proposed changes to the agency's budget threaten new cures

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another study finds no link between taking acetaminophen (Tylenol) during pregnancy & autism or ADHD The study examined data from 7 meta-analyses involving more than 3 million participants I wish RFK Jr & Trump would stop terrorizing people about this drug onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Prenatal exposure to paracetamol and the risk of autism and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An umbrella review and meta‐meta‐analysis

This meta-meta-analysis synthesizes evidence on prenatal paracetamol exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Crude analyses suggest small associations with autism and ADHD, but these attenuate subs...

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Stephen L. Young @slyprofessor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is legitimately one of the best books I have read in a while. Incredible historical expertise combined with some ethical activist history. As an ancient historian, it's fricken awesome to read a book on ancient history where I am also truly learning new stuff almost every page.

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A Womb of One's Own: Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome

A bold new history of women's health, brought to life through ancient women's stories of pregnancy and birth. In the well-trod history of the Roman Empire, a pivotal moment has long gone unnoticed: It...

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sportydolphin.fun @sportydolphin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just imagine what happens when this league gets more funding. As a quick comparison: An entire WPBL team's salary cap: $95,000 Tarik Skubal's earnings throwing 13 pitches last year: $95,000 #WPBL

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The anti-abortion crowd gets why this book is a threat (and are writing badly about it). Would love to see the pro-abortion crowd take the evidence, arguments, and perspective of this book and use it in their work!

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Pregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End

A compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss--how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the reality One of the most prevalent myths about human pre...

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Institute of Health Emergencies & Pandemics @uoftpandemics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🛡️ As flu season approaches, air filtration remains an important layer of protection against infectious diseases. IHEP member Jeff Siegel @engineering.utoronto.ca) explains how high-efficiency air filtration can help reduce airborne pathogens in shared indoor spaces.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is nothing new in tonight’s story, and it is written in an unsurprising way coming from The New York Times given its history in this area. It reads to me more like it got a push to let the Trump admin claim a win than it is actual breaking news. I’m not linking; you can find it if you want.

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At least six hospitals have struck deals with the Trump administration to stop providing gender-transition treatments to minors.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do note that the NYT push alert tonight is not six *new* hospitals ending gender-affirming medical care for minors. It is the cumulative six since mid-May, the most recent two of which DOJ announced — and I covered at Law Dork — last Friday.

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As Trump loses ground and lashes out, some remain willing to capitulate when it comes to anti-trans hate

More alarming settlements from medical providers in states that have laws aimed at stopping anti-trans discrimination. On Friday, it was NYU Langone and UPMC.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/09/2026

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan declined an appeal from a surrogate who gave birth to a boy with a serious heart defect against the wishes of the biological parents. Kagan declined to pause a court order that gives the biological parents authority.

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Kagan declines appeal from surrogate mother who refused to get abortion

McKenna West gave birth to a child with a serious heart defect against the wishes of the biological parents. She has been fighting for a say in the baby's care.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's not that I dispute the data. But everyone I've seen saying that a woman can be elected president is a man. I'm not sure y'all fully understand the devastation to women that was watching two highly qualified women lose to an utterly unqualified & incompetent man.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've now gotten three reviews from right-wing media outlets of Pregnancy Interrupted while most center and left-wing outlets have avoided coverage of a book that contests the cultural norms we put around the science of pregnancy.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have a chapter that covers the science and ethics of PGT-A, PGT for sex selection, and NIPT in Pregnancy Interrupted. I also interview parents faced with certain decisions because of what NIPT was and wasn't able to tell them...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Excellent use of tax dollars and incredible negative advertising

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's Monday. Please enjoy this short story about a graduate student whose clitoris disappears after the Second Comstock Laws go into effect.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

Increasingly, “U.S. jails are moving beyond periodic checks of people in custody toward continuous physiological and video-based monitoring, creating a new layer of correctional technology before common rules have emerged for how the resulting data should be stored, accessed, retained, or reused.”

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U.S. jails expand continuous biometric monitoring as data rules lag | Biometric Update

Wearable sensors and AI camera analytics are spreading across U.S. correctional facilities as rules on consent, retention and secondary use remain inconsistent.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram

Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”

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Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Minnesota Lynx guard Olivia Miles just broke Caitlin Clark’s record for points scored in a WNBA rookie season. They entered today tied with 769 points — which Miles scored in 39 games, Clark in 40 games. www.wsj.com/sports/baske...

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If You Haven’t Seen ‘The Spectacle,’ You’re Missing the WNBA’s Top Rookie

Minnesota Lynx guard Olivia Miles is in the mix to join Candace Parker as the league’s second dual Rookie of the Year-MVP.

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey all, this is a very important video and it's not being seen. The border wall is violating sovereignty for the Tohono O'odham nation and destroying sacred cultural heritage Please share widely and support those advocating on the ground

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20/09/2026

everyone who cancelled Murder Besties should walk into a volcano

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Jude Sherry @judesherry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Holiday Homes are Theft If we cared so much about rural Ireland why are we letting some coastal communities die so wealthy people can own a spare home @robosullivan.bsky.social summed it up when he said "All I see is the missing people" Read our latest Housing Essay in The Journal jrnl.ie/7164648

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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine. But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

tilly norwood vs fred flintstone made up: ✅ / ✅ has a job: ❌ / ✅ catchphrase: ❌ / ✅ pet dinosaur: ❌ / ✅ is a virgin: ✅ / ❌

Tilly Norwood, an inhuman gollum shaped like a perky brunette

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/ktho... As I said, Andrew Tate fans identified *exactly* which side Ed Sheeran picked.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it's like the news is constantly designed to get me riled up me, personally

Kronk angel and devil meme, showing the loveable himbo from the emperor's new groove with an angel and a devil arguing on his shoulder. The angel is labeled " eugenics is atrocious because all humans have inherent worth" and the devil is labeled "eugenics is atrocious because it fundamentally misunderstands evolution" and Kronk is labeled "me, a disabled evolutionary biologist"

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