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Kevin Cantú

@killerswan.bsky.social
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I occasionally say interesting things. they / them 🏳️‍⚧️ Berkeley, CA

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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 43m
“This [Cornell] case has the potential to really fundamentally shift the way sexual assault is dealt with in this country — like that’s how big of a deal it is — so people are going to have an interest in tearing this case apart” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ohn8tM/
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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 1h
‘Oakland is largely immune to the warping effects that AI has had in San Francisco … Anthropic is not hiring thousands of engineers a month to come live in Oakland and commute across the bay. Every part of that equation has changed, to SF’s detriment and Oakland’s benefit.’
oaklandreviewofbooks.org
The great vibes divergence
Why does San Francisco feel so weird during this tech boom while Oakland is more or less still Oakland?
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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 2h
I thought this was quite a useful read, a good counter argument to those who think that the ROC military during the KMT era is some model for today when it was rife with graft and rewarded sycophants to dictators rather than innovation or ability
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 5h
True psychopathy is rare! Basic math means that most war crimes and monstrosities are carried about people who are not psychopaths, which is why there is so much propaganda dehumanizing and othering the target group (have to blunt the empathic impulse)
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 7h
I consider it my duty to remind everyone that JCO is a broken clock if a broken clock had a gun and shot the right person twice a day and the wrong people all the other times
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Qingshan Lake Water Forest in Lin'an District, Hangzhou is a viral attraction sometimes called "Matcha Lake" for the emerald green duckweed (subfamily Lemnoideae). These black swans (Cygnus atratus) & their cygnets are enjoying a nutritious buffet of aquatic plants. Let's learn about duckweed.
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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You should definitely buy her books! They are great!!!!!
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Rent Board Commissioner Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.net · 30/09/2026
Ballots start arriving in the mail next week - there's still time to register to vote or update your registration at vote.ca.gov
vote.ca.gov
Make a Plan to Vote - Vote Early! :: California Secretary of State
Make a Plan to Vote in the November 3, 2026, General Election
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the old nonsense continues apace: this coal terminal project is insane: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8K4pxCF/ and The Pacific Circuit (linked above) lays out the WTF pretty clearly, too
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No coal in Oakland! Or anywhere in the Bay. #fossilfuels #bayarea #environment #climate #health
TikTok video by Heidi 🧗🏻
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this GIF is perfect by the way
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Rachael the Spicy Hobbit @rachael-the-hobbit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Actually all cats can do it
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shot of the Andromeda Galaxy and galaxy friend tonight
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Posted this in 2018. Still remember the night that prompted it. Still so relevant today. 🐝 🐝 🐝
Tweet by me saying “Every woman I know has been storing anger for years in her body and it’s starting to feel like bees are going to pour out of all of our mouths at the same time.”
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Missouri’s Ban on Hormone Therapy for Incarcerated People Was Sudden and Cruel "These days, I am full of uncertainty. I worry that people will no longer see me as a woman."
prisonjournalismproject.org
Missouri’s Ban on Hormone Therapy for Incarcerated People Was Sudden and Cruel
A transgender woman writing from a Missouri prison, describes what happened when lawmakers banned the hormone therapy she depends on.
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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Silas barely fits; but he sits.
A lynx point Siamese cat asleep upside down on a floral desk mat
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“The man makes the mane, the mane doesn’t make the man.”
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/09/2026
it’s tiresome but I think we have to keep asking these guys, so—who benefits from convincing people reading and writing doesn’t matter anymore
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
at 3 or 4 I knew I was different and I think I first read the term “non-binary” at 35 at several points my life’s been saved by breadcrumbs like Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra making the newspaper so I could tell people: listen I don’t know what I am but there’s at least two of us in the world
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/09/2026
Reminder...
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it’s more complicated but worse men remove themselves from the support system of a survivor when they go that way: both in the moment by being loud as you describe, and later even physically by the legal consequences of follow-through just listen, just _be there_, be steady
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026
Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke
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julie, like jewelry @julie.alady.top · 29/09/2026
sandbag that shit if you live near lake Merritt, estuary, coastline
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?
jessica.substack.com
Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you’re a survivor who wants your rapist removed from whatever social institution introduced you, that’s an okay thing to want. A lot of other survivors want it too. And in a different timeline, there wouldn’t be so many people shaming you for saying it out loud.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/09/2026
A funny thing about giving people access to information and community is that they start finding language to describe a thing they are experiencing!
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
But an increasing proportion of arrests have been made by local law enforcement in partnership with ICE, via 287(g) agreements. In many regions, it can be difficult to know when local officers are conducting routine policework or immigration enforcement. In many cases, they are doing both.
A chart showing immigration arrests by local police, which have increased steadily since ICE's new enforcement strategy began in April 2026, reaching its highest amount above 200 arrests per day in late June 2026.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
The biggest category of arrests this summer were people on probation, picked up by immigration officers at their work, or who were arrested in communities across the country.
A chart showing immigration arrests by immigration enforcement in communities, where arrests peaked in late June 2026 at over 1,000 per day.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
The entire motto of this administration towards LGBTQ youth is "fuck them kids." thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Y E S
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900) From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)
From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8TwsTcT/
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it's in the terms of service. allegedly ofc. 😉 @Ken nikole and @Elt 🪡🎬 #podcast #ao3 #fanfiction #ai
TikTok video by Houston We Have Opinions
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
exactly like damn we already have sex parties now they’ve invented _sex parties with your boss_
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
there’s a psychological phenomenon where you will genuinely convince yourself that the best strategy for a football team would be to prioritize the guy on your fantasy team
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Hannah Lock @hannahlock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
hello 🐻🐌
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/
A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yeah, compare to Helene and be very afraid www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8T3MDBA/
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#greenscreen #hurricanehelene #sc #nc #ga
TikTok video by meemaw skum
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
in the same three-month span I learned how CPUs work, how DNA works, ppl were arguing about an anti-gay-marriage amendment in my state (bad faith all around), and I read a book about Alan Turing’s life gave a presentation to classmates that was as righteously angry as I could fit in my body
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 27/09/2026
Hey! This Friday, come join me and Hillary Hartley, co-founder of 18F, the US government's first digital service, former Deputy Minister and Chief Digital Officer for the province of Ontario when we chat about, uh, how people work. It'll be great. Register here: calendly.com/verylittlegr...
Come join Dan's chat with Hillary, co-founder of 18F, the first digital services team inside the U.S. government, and former Deputy Minister and Chief Digital Officer for the Province of Ontario. Amongst other things.
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Think my students will notice?
A pair of shoes in the pattern of the classical composition notebook.
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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was at Seattle's first Slutwalk. Allena Gabosch was one of my bonus moms. So I have standing to say with authority that shit like Slutcon is antithetical to ethicaly grounded sex positive philosophy.
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
⚡️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8T7kaop/
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Replying to @supr_nintendo_chalmerz on Patricia's electric takedown of Kris and the "mean girls" Widow's Bay — Now Streaming #WidowsBay #KateOFlynn #AppleTV
TikTok video by Apple TV
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水泥小猫 @depravedstar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At some point Daniel Tiger is going to snap and eat all of the other children in that preschool except for O the Owl who can presumably fly away from the carnage.
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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 27/09/2026
Wage theft is the biggest form of theft. And because employers force their employees onto poverty assistance, it's also a theft of your tax money. The robber barons love it when you blame the people they decided to rob. www.epi.org/publication/...
epi.org
Wage Theft is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft—But Workers Remain Mostly Unprotected
Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberi...
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