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Kate Tuttle

@katekilla.bsky.social
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Gen X, middle child, Leo. I mostly write about books.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h
I don't miss the Just Say No moral panic of the 80s but the pudding brained people putting their own kids in harms way because they are impressed with AI is definitely something fun to watch at a distance. <I learned it by watching you voice> 'Parents who use chatbots have kids who use chatbots'
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 6h
I went to a friend’s block party and boy was it worth it!
Two dogs approach each other, one a greyhound, one a poodle. The greyhound is wearing a small pink hat
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Justin Gundlach @justingundlach.bsky.social · 8h
**Immediately**
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13h
This one is doing the rounds
A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice. 
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Playboy @playboy.com · 12h
“Being a college-aged woman right now is genuinely terrifying,” says Madeleine, a senior at the University of Arkansas. “Between the constant fear of sexual assault, spiked drinks, and general safety concerns, going out always comes with a baseline of anxiety.”
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We Asked College Women About Cornell
Welcome to Fair Play, a column exploring the shifting dynamics of sex, dating and culture by Playboy Senior Editor Magdalene Taylor.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13h
At least 355 Native American and Indigenous candidates ran or are running this year in local, state and federal primary and general elections. One expert said tribal sovereignty and protection of tribal lands have likely spurred candidates to run.
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A record number of Native Americans are running in the 2026 midterms
At least 355 Native American and Indigenous candidates ran or are running in local, state and federal primary and general elections this year — a record number.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13h
Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...
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I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In
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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15h
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Stephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 19h
Proud to be at a news organization where reporters help set the rules for how AI is used. 🤖 No AI generated imagery/videos 🤖 No AI mimicking employees 🤖 Right to remove byline from any AI-content 🤖 A guild-staffed advisory committee www.inquirer.com/business/phi...
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Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections
Under the new three-year contract, members will see healthcare costs increase for the first time in 20 years, the union said.
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nobody ever believes me but it’s rare to find a “Kate” souvenir tchotchke.
Picture shows a rack of souvenir mini  license plates with names from Kaiden to King, but no Kate
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A huge loss for NPR, and for all of us who listen:
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s wild how big an issue this is among conservative outlets & columnists. I don’t know any parents in this situation in my real life (though I know a few adults who have cut off their parents).
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You can read Jamal’s work here. It was the honor of my life to have been his editor at the Washington Post. Rest in peace, Jamal. And I’m sorry the Washington Post opinions page ended up betraying what we both stood for. www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-...
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Opinion | Read Jamal Khashoggi’s columns for The Washington Post
Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist who Turkish officials say was killed in Istanbul after walking into the consulate of Saudi Arabia, had been writing a column for The Post since last year.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I reposted an old interview I did with Bong Joon Ho about PARASITE from 2019 today and this quote hit like a wrecking ball: "I think maybe there is no borderline between countries now because we all live in the same country, it’s called capitalism."
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Chris Bohjalian @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Libraries rock; librarians rule. Thank you, Elisabeth Egan, John Maher, and the New York Times Book Review . tinyurl.com/2untjets
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Librarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by artificial technology.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Beloved author Barbara Kingsolver has a new novel out. Critic Leigh Haber says it's a beauty. In this Sunday's @bostonglobe.com, Haber reviews PARTITA. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/29/a...
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Kingsolver’s magnificent ‘Partita’ sings in the key of passion, yearning, and loss - The Boston Globe
From an early age, the protagonist of Barbara Kingsolver’s sublime and sensual novel, “Partita,” has been a survivor. Livia Bohusz has weathered her mother’s resentment and abuse, her beloved brother’...
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nantucket's Nathaniel Philbrick often writes about New England and the sea, but his new book takes him (and us) to California. Critic @hamiltoncain.bsky.social says the book reveals a lot about not just gold, but greed. In Sunday's @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/29/a...
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In ‘The Rush,’ Nathaniel Philbrick chronicles the birth of California, and the way gold and greed remade the nation - The Boston Globe
In his sumptuous “The Rush,” Nantucket author and National Book Award winner Philbrick goes west to tackle the grandpappy of them all, the California Gold Rush of 1849, when prospectors from across th...
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
T. Geronimo Johnson has been writing ambitious, beautiful novels for awhile now. Critic Michael Schaub says that THE OCCIDENTAL BOOK OF THE DEAD is his tour de force. In print in the Sunday @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/01/a...
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T. Geronimo Johnson’s ‘Occidental Book of the Dead’ is a tour de force - The Boston Globe
The novel features a sprawling cast with connections to one another that don’t become clear until later in the book, and Johnson takes frequent digressions into the history of the South, sociology, ec...
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So glad that @linford.bsky.social agreed to review THE SAVAGE MIND: AN AMERICAN LEGACY by David Treuer for us at the @bostonglobe.com. The book traces ideas of frontiers, civilizations, and the "savages" we invent to oppress indigenous people. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/01/a...
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Violence is part of the American Dream, writes David Treuer, and we must wake up - The Boston Globe
The United States has been singing two songs since 1776, Ojibwe scholar David Treuer suggests: a song of freedom and, “on the lower frequencies,” a song of death and fear.
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For this Sunday's print edition of the @bostonglobe.com I talked with Kevin Galvin, whose new book is TROUBLED TIMES: THE BOSTON COURTHOUSE BOMBING OF 1976. I really appreciated learning more about both the revolutionaries and those harmed. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/01/a...
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Journalist Kevin Galvin wanted to understand political violence, so he reached for a story from his Boston childhood - The Boston Globe
Kevin Galvin remembers America’s bicentennial year, which he experienced in the Boston suburbs as a ten10-year-old kid who “dressed as a Minuteman with a tricorn hat and a flintlock pistol for Hallowe...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
Not everyone has time or capacity for that, and at any given time, we don't *all* have to be doing that work. We can take turns, spelling each other off at times in our lives when we have more or less slack. But *lots* of us have to be in the fight, or *all* of us will get screwed.
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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE Totally Telling The Truth This Time About Another Guy They Shot In The Back, You Guys www.wonkette.com/p/ice-totall... By Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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ICE Totally Telling The Truth This Time About Another Guy They Shot In The Back, You Guys
Loathsome bully cowards.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I relate so strongly to her
A still photo from Youth with Sharon Horgan, in which she plays a literary agent. The text from dialogue reads “it’s romantasy.” “It’s goblin sex.”
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s beyond time for Matflower white Americans like me to speak up loudly against this racist bullshit.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Joel Lesko @sunshowerlearning.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you, Perry. So important. "The problem is the paper’s coverage approach combined with its huge influence on Democrats and liberals." Bingo: Correct way to practice politics in 26 is to read NYT but remember that much of the essential news to save our democracy has been fit to print elsewhere.
The Times has the right to cover America in 2026 this way. And there is nothing inherently wrong with centrist, nonideological media, or coverage that doesn’t use blunt language to describe today’s Republican Party. The problem is the paper’s coverage approach combined with its huge influence on Democrats and liberals. The mistakes that Democrats have made in fighting the MAGA right have been numerous and deeply costly: believing that Trump won in 2016 largely because of economy anxiety, trusting that Joe Biden’s conciliatory approach would bring politics back to normal, refusing to push Biden to stop fully supporting Israel’s war in Gaza, spending much of last year not fighting hard against Trump’s destruction of federal agencies and radical immigration policies. 

In my view, the Times helped lead Democrats to all of those fateful decisions. The paper’s coverage hints that the Republican Party is reasonable and parts of the Democratic Party base are unreasonable. That approach pushes Democrats away from the reality: The MAGA right must be defeated, not negotiated with.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nostalgia for the “understanding clause” is of a piece with efforts to undo the Second Founding.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One thing I learned at the Aspen Literary Festival last weekend is that I have talents and skills and expertise that I routinely give away, and that I need to figure out a way to get paid for them more often (ALF paid us moderators, which is refreshing!).
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People would rather moan about the "torture" of computer programs than protest the actual torture of human beings.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you are in NYC and you care about abortion and reproductive justice, you should join us on Saturday: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/a...
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Abortion: A Community Teach-In — Interrupting Criminalization
Are you curious about how the rightwing successfully overturned Roe v Wade? Are you wondering how organizers and advocates are thinking about what comes next? Join Interrupting Criminalization for a t...
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not to be "emotional" but fuck everyone who didn't vote to stop this.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The transcript, which CBS News New York exclusively obtained from a source, shows the victim told campus police more than three weeks after the alleged assault, "I can say with 100% confidence I was raped."" I mean JESUS CHRIST. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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DA in Cornell University case says he never saw transcript of campus police interview with alleged rape victim
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten says he never saw a transcript of a conversation between an alleged rape victim and investigators showing what she told Cornell University campus p...
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hesitate to comment on the president's looks because I don't want to be ageist, ableist, or just a jerk, but he really looks shitty lately, like his skin suit is slipping.
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just told a bluejay on my back deck to shut the fuck up, if you're wondering about my mood this beautiful fall day. (Honestly my mood is mostly fine but those jays are loud!)
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towntaker.bsky.social @towntaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not all men, just 56 out of 57.
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Proud to share the fall events in the Open Book, Open Mind reading series I co-chair for the Montclair Public Library. Come by!
Flyer of the book events for fall 2026 in the Open Book, Open Mind series. These include Heather McGhee on Wednesday, October 14, Patrick Radden Keefe on Tuesday, November 17, and Hernan Diaz on Monday, December 7.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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