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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There’s got to be a better way to acknowledge the necessity and importance of diversity in literature without ignoring the writer’s face.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I spoke to @kattenbarge.bsky.social about the media coverage of “inconsistencies” in Jane Doe’s case, as well as my own experience with USA Today misusing my words in a story smearing her. As always, Kat understands the way victims are punished from coming forward. This article is a must-read.
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Debunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane Doe
Authorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged.
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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Privatization = You Pay More
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
social media will be the death of us all
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Corollary: Everybody who says they hate musicals has either never seen a Bollywood picture or is lying to themselves about its framework. (Oh, you hate musicals because you love action films? Here’s Dhoom 3.)
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 03/10/2026
Men often assume other men are ok with sexual assault and victim blaming, according to a psychologist who studies bystanders.
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Dozens of men failed to stop an alleged gang rape at Cornell – here’s the misperception that keeps bystanders from intervening and how to short-circuit it
People may accept bad behavior – even sexual assault – when they overestimate how acceptable their peers think it is. But there are ways to undermine this thinking and make intervention more likely.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ahem…
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king's co-op boo store 👻 @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i personally don’t think they should have skinned winnie the pooh for these furry covers
the 100th anniversary edition of winnie the pooh
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AI quick facts We need to adopt this tech or get left behind
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Undercaffeinated Eel @caffeinatedeel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's a very good quote and one that reframes a LOT of the world when you become aware of it.
“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026
SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦‍⬛
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.
Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It really is something for this exemplar of white mediocrity, a weak intellect gifted his sinecure specifically to massage the tender egos of white conservatives, whingeing about authors who are his clear betters, as if any respect or honor they earn could only be the result of an undeserved gift.
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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The ! human ! brain ! is ! two ! separate ! organs ! what !!! amazing 🧪🧠 #FundScience www.the-independent.com/news/science...
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Human brain is actually two separate organs, scientists find
The Stanford University breakthrough stands to open new doors for research into fatal neurodegenerative diseases
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.” ~ Langston Hughes #RadioFreeAmerica #politics
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Every time there's a software update something basic that's worked for like 10 years no longer works. Thank you to our big tech industry for Building The Future
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
Text from Publishers Marketplace, above: Area X by Jeff VanderMeer Imprint: Abrams. Jeff VanderMeer's Area X: The Southern Reach Files, an expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents, purporting to be the last report of a Central agent; a full-color book spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, pitched for Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sands at Abrams in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world).

Text submitted to Publishers Marketplace: An epic and mind-blowing expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents purporting to be the last report of the Central agent Karen Hargraves. Spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, this full-color book will satisfy Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sand at Abrams, in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world).
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this is chilling. From Univ of Calgary prof Barry Cooper
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tell it! "The .. manner with which he spoke, and strove to impress his wife with the evil consequences of giving me instruction, served to convince me ... and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn."
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This "significant labour legislation" could very likely end the right to strike for thousands of workers through expanding whose work is "essential," lengthening bargaining timelines or introducing US style laws. pressprogress.ca/mark-carneys...
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Mark Carney’s Government is Rushing Through Major Changes to Canada’s Labour Laws. Unions Say Workers Should Be Alarmed.
Unions are warning Carney is planning to place limits on the right to strike and deliver other items on 'Corporate Canada's wish list'
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you need a job to earn the money you live off of, you are working class. Within that term are a lot of different ways people work to make a living. And while we are at it, can we stop using the terms "skilled" and "unskilled"? Every job requires a skill set that needs to be learned somehow.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
“How often someone is toxic” a super defined metric that won’t be abused against marginalized people at all.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.
Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17/11/2025
Here's another crow rainbow shot for all the crow feet fans. 🪶
A rainbow that's a bit over saturated with a crow flying into it to the right side, you can see the crows 2 little feet
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.
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Angela Stanfield Co-owner of 🇨🇦, on territory of Anishinabek FN @angel-ajs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
From that horrible day 25 years ago, to this one, Jean Cretien reflects on his and 🇨🇦 roll in 9/11 & the events that followed. He also had a word or two to say about 🇨🇦’s generosity & strength. 💪🏻🇨🇦❤️ #Canada #USA #Gander #CanadaSky #CanadaUnited youtu.be/AO-Yx-59jFA?...
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'Never mistake our generosity for weakness,' Chrétien says at 9/11 memorial
YouTube video by CBC News
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🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦 @mizati.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A perfect capture of a raven and the moon by British Columbia photographer Shelley Lewis. #Canada Goodnight
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spencer chang @spencer.place · 31/08/2026
kurt vonnegut was right but i believe he was wrong about computer people we can make the computer make us feel this way, help us meet people, see people exploring, connecting, creating, etc. everything on the computer is life from someone else
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/09/2026
trying to get people to understand that the trans women in sports debate isn’t really about sports but a meta narrative pushed by the right all about slowly getting all trans people out of public life is truly impossible
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
It’s tough for artists from marginalized backgrounds who manage to breakthrough and get a project in front of audiences because the pressure to do everything and be everything to everyone is high and that never happens to the dude bros who get awards for sneezing at being decent
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10/09/2026
An analysis showed that the impact of Trump's tariffs could threaten 90,000 Canadian jobs. I don't want to understate that, especially for individuals affected, but in the last two years Ontario *colleges* alone eliminated 10,000 jobs and no one fucking blinked.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Literally none of my most recent eight books would have been published - or been written, probably - if I'd continued to ask permission. Publishers would have told me to fuck off if I presented this as a "pitch". But it's shitloads better than my polite early books. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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Benji is an imaginative eight-year-old boy, living with his parents in a mining village in Nottinghamshire amidst the spoil heaps and chip shops that characteri
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure. A speech bubble pointing off panel reads, “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?”
In the second panel we zoom in on the dragons face. He simply says “shiny”.
In the third panel we pan to the left and see that there is a crow standing next to the dragon on the treasure.
In the fourth panel we zoom in on the crows face. He says “hell yeah”.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Steinem’s final essay published today in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/culture/life...
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Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay
Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I love the string & washer envelope closure. So satisfying to unlock and (especially) to wind it shut. Been around in this specific embodiment for at least 100 years. Long may it last. 
Photo of one of those enter Office mail envelopes focusing on the above mentioned string and Washer or sometimes called string and button closure device, the string and the buttons are color
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Garment by Robert Cole youtu.be/iTVRb75Iy-g?...
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The Garment: Beige Knitwear Becomes Mythology
YouTube video by Wool Needles Hands
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
These deluded fools honestly believe they can survive without the human civilizations and natural systems whose value they spent their lives robbing. They genuinely believe they are the source of value rather than a spiritual abscess.
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