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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 20h

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I understand and share the impulse to blame university administrators. I have written plenty about them. But right now I’d like us to turn the focus to Minnesota politicians and Minnesota voters and ask what functions of the university do you want to see cut? What don’t you care about Amy Klobuchar?

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The only ones who ever want to “pick your plan” are the ones who have minions who do all their paperwork FOR them. Regular people do not want to spend hours of their time agonizing over what plan will leave them the least fucked, especially when it’s just a matter of DEGREES of fucked

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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rooting for the Phillies because, as someone on here said the other day, f*ck the chop.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Do not let them convince you that we must choose between enforcing the law and preserving our humanity. For this administration, cruelty is the whole game.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYT had no problem saying Biden was too old, he had to be forced out, for 6 straight months until they made it happen. But for Trump, they only condemn his crimes against US in riddles.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 22/09/2026

reminder to turn off exterior lights and draw curtains and blinds to block interior light! the children of the sky need to be able to see the stars to navigate safely :)

birdcast forecasting 336 million birds on the move tonight

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can't believe this wasn't broadcast more broadly, but it looks like #CDC is looking for someone to do... symptom cluster characterization in #MECFS. Deadline is today. 😅 I know who your supervisor would be, and they're legit. PhD required. www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...

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Zintellect - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - CDC ME/CFS Data Analysis and Symptom Characterization Fellowship - CDC-2026-0028

*Applications will be reviewed on a rolling-basis. CDC Office and Location: A research opportunity is available in the Centers for Disease Control and Prev

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Girl dinner

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 23/09/2026

Trump’s EPA let a major pesticide company pick what its regulations should be. Alarming proof that EPA is there to serve corporate interests, not protect the safety of Americans. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show

Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule

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Full Story Baltimore @fullstorybaltimore.tours · 23/09/2026

Y'all asked us for seasonally-appropriate Halloween tours, so you get them! No literal ghosts or jumpscares on these (we recommend @baltimoreghosts.bsky.social for that!), but we're not kidding about the disquieting part. More info in flyer ⬇️ & at this link fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#h...

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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 23/09/2026

I am trying box. I am trying REAL HARD.

Cardboard box that says "Do not break down"

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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Republicans took a wrecking ball to healthcare and called it a bill. One year later: 360 clinics closed, 30-plus nursing homes gone, hospitals gutted down to a waiting room and an ER sign. 92% of hospital leaders say the worst is still coming. And Trump doesn’t care. #HealthcareForAll

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey pals… A good friend and coworker was recently diagnosed with cancer and is out of work for treatment. It really sucks. His brother has started a GoFundMe to help (because American unaffordable healthcare), and I’d appreciate any shares if you could www.gofundme.com/f/support-cj...

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Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already

Alt: Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already

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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She's annoyed with us because the neighbors are vacuuming.

A large tabby cat sits on a green sofa, looking at the camera. Her look is accusatory.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Important, infuriating thread:

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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People with access to the teevee streaming, I'm counting on you to keep us informed! (Can't afford FloBikes, alas.)

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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just did another @fullstorybaltimore.tours with @actualkatherine.bsky.social, “Radical Spirits in Right Field.” Y’all should go on some tours so that you can learn about total fucking Baltimore badasses like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper here. 10/10 highly recommend

A small framed historical marker dedicated to Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911). It features a woodcut-like illustration of her and this text below: “This poet, novelist, orator, and essayist was born in Baltimore on September 24, 1825, and was the only child of her free parents. After she was orphaned as a child, she lived with an aunt on Camden Street and attended a school for free African Americans which was on Sharp Street and was run by her uncle, William J. Watkins. After her formal education, she worked as a live-in maid with a white family, the Armstrongs, whose bookstore and family library further enhanced her education and her interest in poetry.
About 1846 she published her first volume of poems, Forest Leaves. In 1850 she left Baltimore for a teaching position in Ohio. In 1860 she married Fenton Harper, who died in 1864. They had one child, Mary. Although Harper's work would take her around the country and into many states, the latter part of her life was spent in Philadelphia.
Frances Harper published nine other volumes of poems over the years 1854-1900, with varied subjects, but usually with strong social and religious emphases. Her novel lola Leroy was published in 1892, and she also published short fiction and essays. During most of her career she was equally as well known as a crusader for human rights and as a compelling orator on many subjects, including slavery, interracial harmony and equality, women's rights, temperance, and education. She also was influential in various local and national organizations and activities concerning all of these. Sometimes referred to as " The Bronze Muse," Harper was one of the most outstanding and best known of nineteenth century African American writers and orators.
Donated by The George Moses Horton Society for the Study of African American Poetry.”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."

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Lucy 🫠 📷 @ltotheucy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“At Camden Yards, hope is the thing with orange-and-black feathers.” I loved this essay a lot; the harrowing image of walking around Springfield, IL to avoid the Yankee fan you’re married to as he watches the Jeffrey Maier game will stick with me.

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Full Story Baltimore @fullstorybaltimore.tours · 18/09/2026

This Saturday! A rare day game, er, tour! Join us in the morning and then head to the Trey Mancini O's game or the Baltimore Book Festival! Lots and lots going on in town 🧡

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is eugenics

Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 11/09/2026

During GWOT, the military often called these "target teams." DHS is signaling to contractors it wants to spend $100M+ building an in-house capability set up the same way the military, NSA, and CIA operate to replicate their find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, disseminate (F3EAD) methodology.

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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know it's uphill from here, but Abby's still a fan. Let's go Os!

A tabby cat looks at the camera, with a little Orioles helmet in front of her.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Earlier this week, I met the head of a nonprofit whose funding to help families stay housed has been sharply cut under this administration. Meanwhile, the U.S. is preparing a $2.8 billion arms package for Israel—including *forty thousand* 2,000-pound bombs—financed by American taxpayers.

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US set to deliver 2,000lb bombs to Israel as part of vast arms deal

Powerful bombs prompted such concern about mass deaths in Gaza that Biden officials paused delivery two years ago

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/09/2026

Why does the sex cult part of this matter? Because people in the same sex cult really can’t impartially regulate each other: www.verysane.ai/p/is-metr-a-...

verysane.ai

Is METR A Meaningful Check On Anthropic?

No.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don’t believe the U.S. taxpayer should continue to arm Netanyahu’s government with deadly military equipment. I believe Netanyahu is a war criminal and that his government has committed genocide in Gaza. This doesn't make me antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)

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Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years

The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is wild to me. Honestly makes you look lazy as hell and like you don't take your job seriously. People who see the work they do as a hustle and nothing more. Every creative I know would sooner drink bleach than allow AI to do their work. Writers, visual artists, musicians.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

fuck it, real talk: i’ve had to take a three month absence from my job before too. most everyone i worked with knew why & at the same time, there was also plenty i didn’t share (nor need to) with them about my ups & downs in that absence.

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BREAKING
MITCH MCCONNELL RETURNS TO THE SENATE AFTER THREE-MONTH ABSENCE DUE TO HEALTH ISSUES

man’s being wheeled into senate

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.

Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative
sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Put another way, that's almost 3 times what a person would make--gross, not net--per year at a job paying the current minimum wage of 7.25/hr--you know, the wage Mitch voted against raising his entire career.

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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What Would Jessica (Fletcher) Do? She would put this cardigan in her knitting queue and start shopping for yarn from second-hand sources! (Gotta finish one large wip, then I can start something just for me!)

A television showing Jessica Fletcher standing in a kitchen, wearing a cardigan with fishes on it.

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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My Vuelta output: only 1 completed skein, everything else is singles to be plied (and even fiber yet to be spun!). I did manage to spin during each stage, even if it was just a little while. (I missed most of several stages.)

In the foreground: 4 bobbins of singles to be plied and some fiber and 1 completed skein. In the background: the final kilometers of the last stage of the Vuelta à España on tv.

A closer look at the singles, fiber, and skein. Most are warm colors but 2 bobbins have denim-colored singles on them.

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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 12/09/2026

IHTOV is now open for pitches for late december and early next year. if you've got any holiday themed records or music you want to write about, now's the time. open for anything, though. see here for details or email at pitches@ihavethatonvinyl.com docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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PITCHES

Pitches for I Have That On Vinyl are open I Have That on Vinyl pays $10 per essay Here are some things I’m looking for: personal narrative essays about a specific record, about collecting vinyl, abo...

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