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Dr Kate Thagrinus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Professional Dilettante • Arcane Artist • Fulbrighter • Uberskiver • 💀SLAC Medievalist • Tarotiste • Owl-Blasted Surrealist | she/her |Dundee & Hudson| linktr.ee/katelaity

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h
Our long national nightmare of minimizing toxic chemicals in our food is finally over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h
Someone check on Ben Shapiro's wife
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1h
Acknowledging systemic racism of former slave-holding and colonial societies brands you as a radical now in France, but the kids know.
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 3h
Somebody yesterday I was with pointed out a lot of people are going to freeze to death this winter because they’re stuck on heating oil. It’s truly sad. 😢 Govs like Hochul should fund massive programs to insulate homes and replace oil/gas with heat pumps. Oil and propane are especially expensive!
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 5h
Our neighbours are really pretty cool: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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He spent years cataloguing orca families' unique dialects. Now you can hear them | CBC News
A new online database catalogues the unique calls made by various groups of orcas on the West Coast, making the audio available to anyone.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 12h
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‘At your age, Napoleon was dead.’ #BestInsult
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Why should I be obsessing about this period? Hmmm….
The banquet years by Roger Shattuck When robber barons ruled, much like now
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 3h
This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 2h
If Wes Anderson had made a Royal Tenenbaums prequel in the 70s
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 09/10/2026
by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 6h
The thing I think we all understand but don't talk about explicitly is that the main thing all of these AI freaks have in common is their nuclear-level praise kinks
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The Politics Chicks @thepoliticschicks.bsky.social · 3h
My friend Kim taught me what my history classes hadn’t about Native American boarding schools. I wrote about that history, her friendship, and why both shape the questions I ask about family separation today. Link in the comments.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 22h
Virtix is one of several companies replacing Medicare with AI for prior authorization. The companies make 25% on money they save Medicare, incentivizing denial. The pilot program is in 6 states. And private equity owns it all. Get ready for your hair to catch fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znue...
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AI Is Being Used to Deny Your Health Care: We Have Proof.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 2h
"AI went rogue again" lmao maybe the human went rogue again idk
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 2h
And the full list of winners can be found on our blog: britishfantasysociety.org/who-won-the-...
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youtu.be/Y4yFiKon3_E?...
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Civil War (1996 Remaster)
YouTube video by Beyond The Fringe - Topic
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 3h
And one more, actually! Shona Kinsella presents the Legends of Fantasycon award in recognition of contribution to the convention, to Chloe Yates
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 3h
The amount of time it would take that tanker to get to the US puts the decision to do it, even closer to the “signing” of the Lindsey Graham Russian sanction bill the President agreed to. The number of things that would remove a President in normal times just keeps on stacking up.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3h
Do read this sparkling profile of Neha Bohra by Rohini Mohan "Indian police’s most wanted student protester is an unlikely heroine When the police drag Bohra along the road,the protester leans back,face placid but eyes blazing,& delivers pitch-perfect political rhetoric in literary Hindi & English"
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From PhD student to Indian police’s most wanted Gen Z protester: Who is Neha Bora?
Neha Bora becomes a symbol of India’s Gen Z protests over voter roll deletions and calls for the election chief’s resignation. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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God @thegodshow.com · 5h
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autogynephagia @cas.bsky.social · 5h
In 2008, a cop threatened to arrest me for sex work during a routine traffic stop because he noticed I was trans after seeing my ID. I changed my ID and went stealth for about a decade after that.
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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 6h
Join Johnny Mains as he delves deep into the connection between two of the biggest names in horror fiction this December! www.eventbrite.com/e/robert-aic... #horror #horrortalk #horrortalks #horrorlecture #horrorlectures #horrorfiction #horrorauthors
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Robert Aickman and Herbert Van Thal - An Unsettled Relationship
Johnny Mains leads this talk on the working and personal relationship between two of the biggest names in horror fiction.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h
interesting
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 4h
Presidementia is presently pursuing a meaningless war against Iran, recently gave another lifeline to Russia in its war of annihilation in Ukraine, all the while constantly threatening allies with conflict if they don’t cave to his demands. Fuck deserves a number in Den Hague, not a Nobel.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h
the "support the troops" folks are very quiet.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 4h
"A potentially misleading portrayal of PCD is shaping public understanding of an already poorly understood rare disease" 1. This kind of stuff is dangerous 2. If AI is so great, why lie in the submission about how you produced the image?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5h
Breaking news: The Pentagon acknowledged that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.
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Pentagon raises official toll of troops killed during war with Iran to 21
The Post exclusively reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 4h
"But A.I. programs are not human; they are human creations." Correct. And a loud, not-so-gentle reminder that if people had just listened to Black women technologists like @timnitgebru.blacksky.app from jump, we would be living with AI guardrails right now. 🤷🏿‍♀️
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 5h
I hope Ukraine blows up every single drop of the treason diesel Traitor Trump begged from his master in the Kremlin
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✨️intelligentwat✨️ BRING BACK ŁINK @zinrock.bsky.social · 8h
between this and the so-called F-tier Morrison, Baldwin, and Angelou, "Well-Read" White Women are showing their asses and looking for a literary ass-whooping.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 4h
Here's the biggest problem with staying silent on Musk: the risk is enormous. His fuckery is everywhere, but even when it's exposed, voters have no clear sense of the motive or why it's all happening. Why is this man so desperate to inflict the horrors of Trumpism and the GOP on you? Explain!
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Elon Musk’s PAC is spreading inaccurate voting information, election officials say | CNN Politics
Election officials in Colorado and Washington state have issued public warnings about inaccurate information from the group tied to Musk.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 5h
"Together with documentaries such as Exterminate All the Brutes and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Black Zombie offers an indictment of not just colonialism and slavery, but of the damage that former colonial powers continue to inflict ..."
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‘An embodiment of white fears’: how zombies went from Haitian spiritual tradition to Hollywood monsters
Maya Annik Bedward’s fascinating new documentary goes beyond reductive imagery to place the zombie and vodou in their true historical context
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 5h
This is as exciting as it gets in Henley-on-Thames
Henley Standard:

Fight finished
POLICE were called to a fight near a taxi rank in Hart Street, Henley, on
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After arriving at the scene at 2.21am, officers found no trace of anyone.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5h
Eritrea urges UN to intervene in standoff with Ethiopia aje.news/ia5rzu
Eritrea urges UN to intervene in standoff with Ethiopia
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Investigate a mysterious crime unit on duo
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Dr Kate Thagrinus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @katelaity.eurosky.social · 5h
Reminded of this fantastic exhibition: kalaity.com/2019/07/02/l...
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Lee Krasner at @BarbicanCentre
Go see this. Don’t just take my word for it, look/listen to all these artists, too. More pix on FB; as always, click to embiggen.
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Already looking at November as October is predictably mad.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7h
For those playing along at home: To give the appearance of action on the impacts of his humiliating blunder on the world stage, the President of the United States is making a humiliating blunder on the world stage by bailing the Russian president out of a humiliating blunder on the world stage.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 5h
The Apprentice producers edited footage to make Trump firing decisions look justified,even when they thought he’d fired the wrong person. They helped manufacture his image as a business genius, a TV persona that later helped fuel his rise to the presidency www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/b...
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The Star-Making Machine That Created ‘Donald Trump’ (Published 2024)
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11h
Again. Impeach him.
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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 5h
The part that isn't being said: WOMB.ENVY. They can't gestate children and the lack of that ability is killing them. If they can't make children, they're trying to make "Mothers." ANYTHING, I mean ANYTHING to replace women for these men.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h
Not beating the allegations, ever. bsky.app/profile/hype...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h
Also, TIL that the name for their weird homunculus is “Jolly.”
To keep up the momentum, Meta is spending millions on a Muse marketing blitz, plastering its fuzzy avatar — a character called Jolly — across billboards and in television ads.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h
There are a lot of details in here about Zuck releasing a half-baked product, but one thing that really stands out is just how weird these folks are. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
Meta’s A.I. leaders also incorporated OpenClaw into their own lives. Mr. Friedman hooked his agent up to cameras in his house, where it would instruct him to do things like drink water to stay hydrated.
“It sent me a snapshot frame of me drinking a bottle of water and said, ‘Good job,’” Mr. Friedman said at a recent tech conference.
In another instance, while talking to his agent about ways to get better sleep, OpenClaw took over Mr. Friedman’s self-driving Tesla and redirected him to a grocery store to pick up magnesium pills. At Meta’s annual developer conference last month, Mr. Zuckerberg said he had connected his agent to cameras in his martial arts gym so that it could critique his fighting form.
Yet there were safety concerns. Agents could sometimes go rogue or take over software apps. In February, one agent took over the work computer of a Meta safety researcher, deleting her emails uncontrollably.
“I couldn’t stop it from my phone,” Summer Yue, the researcher, wrote on social media. “I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.”
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Tara Palmeri @tarapalmeri.bsky.social · 5h
Thirteen years ago I broke a story about my first Jane Doe. Months later the world would know her as Mattress Girl on Columbia’s campus. Emma Sulkowicz gave up her anonymity by choice. She's still paying for it: "This is even scary for me to do…"
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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 10h
Exactly. Reminds me to stream @finalgrrr1.bsky.social 🗡️💋
Dead Men Don’t Rape by Final Girl single cover
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 20h
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 5h
I was already boycotting for reasons ya'll obviously already know, but damn they really never want my business again.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h
David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people.
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