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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 15h

The idea that women are given special rights based on sex is a remarkably absurd framing and not how discrimination protections actually work in practice. It can only stem from a thoroughly right-wing understanding of the world that believes marginalized people are granted extra entitlements.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 5h

I used to work for a guy who would say "there are no risk management heroes" - the idea that doing the small, difficult work that is required every day wins no medals or accolades, is utterly undefeated in my experience. 👇 is another example of that. In fact, this one is going to cost you.

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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 4h

"But 70% of poll respondents said that, even if the government built enough homes and expanded public services to keep pace with population growth, they would still want immigration reduced." *ahem* racism

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13h

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 7h

💯 💯💯 The crisis is how we define the crisis. The crisis is how we solve the crisis. The crisis is in the profit motive for us to be in a constant state of crisis.

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 6h

This is a really great thread

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23h

Good of the Albanese govt to give Wilson the ability to cut programs in the NDIS by 99% without having to bother with legislation...

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 18h

Went and saw Forgotten Island at the cinema with my girls today and it was an absolute delight. Great animation, lots of laugh out loud moments and plenty of emotion. And the beautiful threading of Filipino culture all the way through is just sublime.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23h

So don't be disabled or have a family. Wilson really leaning into the "Just don't be poor" vibe he reeks of.

Wilson says Coalition would find savings by cutting NDIS, aged care, childcare

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Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson says a Coalition government will seek to make savings by cutting back on NDIS, aged care and childcare, as he argues spending on the schemes is out of control.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's so obvious these tech bros have never engaged with kids in a meaningful way. Kids *hate* this stuff. As soon as tech starts getting pushed into classrooms it's instantly uncool and cringe and they reject it and mock it. Regardless of anything else, it'll fail just bc of that.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah it’s not lost on me that it was a man who suggested family meal planning is rote. Research and loved experience shows that women structure their invisible labor to make the labor the men in their lives are willing to do predictable, ergo suitable to routinize.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today is my father's birthday, my first without him. Not an hour passes without my thinking of the love and support he'd be providing me right now. And he relished a good conspiracy. If you missed the story about him, please read it today. He was such a decent, interesting man. I love you, Pop.

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He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.

Ben Riley was already writing about the risks of chatbots when his dad started trusting A.I. over his doctor.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This thread is so important because it gets at the AI industry’s central failure of imagination. While I’ve met exceptions to the rule in Silicon Valley, most human beings do not reduce their sense of being alive to a stream of successive task completions, and find it a truly alienating vision.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

dudes trying to automate away the work done by women without respecting either women or the work they do yeah this is going to go well

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The work is, of course, highly feminized and racialized, and is currently performed within companies by executive assistants. Tech bros are big mad they didn't get to participate in the era of the Mad Men secretary and now think they can get the bot to do it.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People need to be charged over AI hacking offences. If a human uses a tool to break into a physical premises, they get charged. Same must apply with the people who program AI.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"A civilization in which one in three women are sexually assaulted, in which 98% of rapists face no consequences, in which nine out of ten women murdered by men are killed by someone they trusted—that civilization is not stable. It is not healthy. It is not just. It is destroying itself."

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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 28/09/2026

Just heard an acquaintance is in hospital waiting for plastic surgery because he sliced his hand open doing the knife in avocado pit hit & twist trick, so a good reminder to DON’T DO THAT JUST USE A DAMN SPOON TO GENTLY SCOOP THE PIT OUT IT WORKS JUST AS WELL & SAFER. 🥑

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Heaven forbid that it might be a good idea to learn about the world around us and become a more knowledgeable and interesting person I'd have thought this was quite enough a pitch in itself but the actions of many uni sector leaders suggest they actively disdain expanding the sum of human knowledge

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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just find it hard to comprehend the mindset of someone that would defend this. Saying this is justified — good, even — is so plainly outrageous, it should be an opinion that exists on the absolute fringe periphery of our society. As it stands, it is the default position of our leaders and media

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes. Various people are individually talking about having AI involved in forming curriculum, writing exam/assignment questions, writing students' answers to the exams/assignments, and then marking them. You eventually ask what point the students and staff? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Academics and AI marking: a welcome aid for overworked staff or a sloppy shortcut?

Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the road

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NerdParker @nerdparker.com · 28/09/2026

I remember walking into class the day we read Bartleby the Scrivener, and my prof said “this is why you’re paying 40 grand for a liberal arts degree. One day you’ll go to a party and someone will say ‘I would prefer not to’ and the people who chuckle are the ones you can probably talk to”.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When the public thinks about "AI" they think about chatbots and internet slop but the real *transformation* stuff is in business processes / backends - and it's far from clear to what extent consumers will get any derived benefits. See for eg the AI arms race between insurers and hospitals below.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026

another day, another bit of evidence that the scientists who willingly hand over proprietary information to AI firms may experience some consequences

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These are not fully formed ideas but what I am sensing is a toxic combination of: - So few people reading quality fiction where you have to put yourself in someone else's shoes & actually pay attention, rather than reading passively. This results in lacking basic reading skills.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Speaking of the academic case specifically, this is what I'd describe as the core of it. Given the education you need to participate the skill deficit explanation isn't quite as plausible - likelier that people have the skills but lack the incentive to use them bsky.app/profile/juli...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My 11yr old came home furious I've day bc a teacher had told her she should get AI to animate a picture she'd spent ages drawing. Anyway, she's now teaching herself to animate her art all by herself and I swear she's fuelled by pure spite at this point.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Teachers, please do not do this. One lesson this child learnt is that they can have cute little ideas but the machine needs to fix them for them and make them into something ‘real‘ that people will like. Awful.

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Middlebrow” is the perfect level of brow for a movie to be. if you want smarter read a book if you want dumber read some posts

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just learned what Wharfie Time is and it feels like those times you first hear about a celebrity’s existence when reading a push notification about their untimely death

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.

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