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Kyra Dempsey - Admiral Cloudberg @kyracloudy.bsky.social · 3h

Passenger says he pulled FlyDubai plane out of its dive after struggle with suicidal pilot: "I watch Air Crash Investigation" (BBC News)

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 1h

The Pennsylvania Department of Health said an unvaccinated resident of Lancaster County tested positive for measles and has died.

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Pennsylvania confirms a fifth death associated with widening measles outbreak

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 1h

I wish for hair as beautiful as Lily Bloom’s hair in It Ends With Us. Her hair is easily the most stunning part of the entire film.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1h

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf writes about how American politics and the "Cornell 7" are one and the same:

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We Keep Failing Women

It is the badge of a degraded democracy that certain men will not be held to account.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 5h

Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 17h

The citations be like: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 2h

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 5h

To name some of the worst... ✖️Medicaid and SNAP have been cut to deliver $4.5 trillion in tax cuts primarily for billionaires and corporations. ✖️Michigan is set to lose $2-3 billion annually in federal Medicaid and SNAP funding.

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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 2h

Your reminder that after years of claims, investigations by his own people, and an investigation by his own AI, there has been no evidence of voter fraud like Trump claimed. Everything he is and does is based on lies.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2h

Trump is trying to sabotage the elections. But in America, power belongs to the people—not wannabe kings.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes the Onion hits one out of the park. 🤣

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 2h

If I ever found out a lawyer working for me (aka “representing me”) was using an LLM to do their work, I’d fire the lawyer immediately. What a clown show.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 2h

In the age of unlawful retaliation, Republicans are the cause, the driver, and the leading embedded source of toxicity.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 2h

Out today: “In 2026, the numbers are just exponentially greater in the amount of people who are organized, who are active and who are on the ground working to bring about change in our leadership. I think it’s a cumulative effect of all of the horrendous things that our current leadership has done.”

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Inside Downballot Dems' Effort to Flip Texas' Key County Battleground

Amid voter suppression and rampant ideological warfare, Tarrant County Democratic candidates try to capitalize on this surge of local anger.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21h

"we show that contemporary AI can comprise research misconduct and demonstrate how critical literacy can protect us from this." -- @olivia.science & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social 📝 Guest, O. & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Table 1
Core reasoning issues (first column), which we name after the relevant numbered section, are characterised using a plausible quote. In the
second column are responses per row; also see the named section for further reading, context, and explanations.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t know how many years I have wasted my breath to say that we lack the resources and infrastructure to make everything here that we consume here, but I guess these price stickers make the point a bit more clearly.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 3h

I’m in the middle of nowhere. You’d really expect this tiny town to be a Republican stronghold. You’d be wrong. All the ladies in the tiny town where I was shopping buy their needs from a Walmart. The Walmart imports their needs. They’re furious about these import taxes. If we can so much as get

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Brynn Paulsen, PhD @brynnpaulsen.bsky.social · 6h

I attended NY Climate Week w/ @standupforscience.net. I have some THOUGHTS. 1/ Climate change is an existential threat. Addressing it means confronting unequal harms, powerful political & financial interests, & an uncomfortable reality: good intentions do not necessarily produce adequate action.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7h

“She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor”. “Marris believed she had done her due diligence. She had researched raw milk…” Her baby ended up in the ICU with a life-threatening E. coli infection.

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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.

California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 6h

Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are the immigrants destroying America.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 6h

Read: They’ve made the number no longer reflect the realities we feel at the grocer, pump, and shoe stores.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 8h

I buy groceries, and then two days later the grocery list is $100 long again due to household products. This Republican economy is killing us.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 18h

Sleeping with windows open because of a sewer leak Hope all those very brave local squirrels stay outdoors They’re adorable, but they will come within a foot of me outdoors like I’m not even there. I could hunt them with a simple net.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 22h

“… for better or for worse, you’re the white swan.” “It means no one can stop you. The world is yours. You can do anything.” - Wild Mountain Thyme

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 22h

Money is about to get extremely tight after I pay this rent on Thursday. Here goes…

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spiked a fever again What is this? Purgatory?

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AAMC @aamc.org · 29/09/2026

While COVID-19 infections are on the rise, widespread immunity and new treatments have resulted in far fewer hospitalizations and deaths. Here’s what you need to know about the annual late-summer surge.

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What you need to know about the 2026 COVID late-summer surge

COVID-19 is spreading, but population immunity and new treatments have resulted in far fewer hospitalizations and deaths.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Call 3 today was much better, and I’m not remembering any additional calls I need to take or make today. I only see 1 email from an actual person awaiting my response, and there’s 1 more for me to send with a high level of detail, so that can all wait until after I workout.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember reading a while ago about the general phenomenon of toxic workplace culture. People who study this had some interesting findings: Toxic culture doesn’t drive everyone out of a workplace. There are usually people benefitting from the toxicity who will remain for long tenures; these tend

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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Hill: Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) chastised Donald Trump Jr. on Sunday for accepting a wedding gift from Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch: “This was stupid on stilts.” All roads lead back to Russia with the Trump crime family. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Call 1: I suggest to use email going forward, and the caller agrees. Call 2: I don’t pick up because it is the same group. We just discussed this. I am sent a text directing me to call. 🤦‍♀️ What are the odds they email me by day’s end?

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Tracy @poppyphlox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ok time to attempt sleep again. Please remember to take your meds and drink some water. May your Tuesday bring a moment of quiet and let it be refreshing. Pande has the backyard covered and will keep you safe too from those evil squirrels & bunnies. Goodnight and Aloha🌺

Small puppy happily sanding on the far loveseat and keeping an eye on the backyard through the glass doors.

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Lady Stone 🏳️‍🌈 @stone-coat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump’s slurred, confused Oval Office announcement really should concern Republicans The president seemed like he was struggling & through the struggle he forgot to claim that the Iran war isn’t a war & that the $5,000 midterms payment isn’t a mass voter bribe www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Trump’s slurred, confused Oval Office announcement really should concern Republicans

The president seemed like he was struggling, writes Holly Baxter, and through the struggle he forgot to claim that the Iran war isn’t a war and that the $5,000 midterms payment isn’t a mass voter brib...

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Counterpoint: If prompting a software is art, I have been a prolific artist since junior high school. 💭

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve got my resume fully revised, and I feel very nervous copping to almost everything I’ve actually done. I habitually under sell so I can over deliver, but this is not that. This is trying to be incredibly accurate and detailed, and what if I die? 😂

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Instead of having a software program generate an image in a style one would like to use to draw or paint, most of us could learn the skill of drawing or painting in our preferred style.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everyone’s pictures on the nature and animal feeds I follow are so lovely. Thank you, BlueSky, for these glimmers in each day.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Crushed it Workout difficulty measured as 7 of 10 Cardiac zone 4 for the largest portion of the workout Distance increased. Climb increased. Pace held. 🚴‍♀️ This is one perk of rurality; I can do this, and people wave instead of attempting vehicular manslaughter.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can’t wait to get access to my FSA through year end. In December if there’s money left, I’m trading up my old smart scale and sleep machine, which are both 5+ years old and offer trade-in programs. 😎

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good Monday morning, everyone! It’s back to the job hunter grind for me this morning. ☕️ 💻

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wake for nothing in the night, and my mind wanders off to my family — not my immediate family of origin but a more distant relative. The next memory is my origin family, a recollection of a snide remark against the first relative’s intelligence in private. This reminds me of my former boss at my

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