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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 51m

next up will be banning tritones

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 1h

it's the same picture

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 7h

This is my colleague and she is a wonderful, smart person who also happens to be a preeminent expert on freedom of expression.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 1h

Every single time you get outraged by the announcement of another Juicero of the mind, DO NOT give it attention. Share your own work, or that of another artist, or subscribe to an independent journal or magazine. We the attending create the incentives in the attention economy.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3h

"You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members. And you can't persuade people who disagree with you that you can be trusted to fight for them when you won't even fight for those you say are with you." www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

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Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

“Hormone therapy should be a go-to treatment for hot flashes, night sweats and related sleep disturbances, the group said, except in women with contraindications such as a history of blood clots, stroke or certain cancers. For those patients, it recommended a wider range of alternatives”

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New Guidelines Strongly Support Hormone Therapy for Common Menopause Symptoms

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said the benefits of the treatment outweigh the harms for many women.

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

one of my working assumptions is that most RUS bot traffic is bouncing through e.g. Singapore, so idk how much it’d be traceable via referer

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

general aviation is already orders of magnitude more dangerous than commercial without leaning on the scales THIS hard, may Zod protect us from the beta(tester)s in the sky

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

oh you made the computer sound like a guy? it can summarize answers really fast? well life-giving liquid just falls out of the sky and a delicious tomato can just appear magically out of dirt. id say "but your thing is cool too" but id be lying. your thing is dumb as fuck compared to a tomato

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

this is how you have to treat these guys. with genuine contempt. your genuine contempt makes their smarmy fake contempt look weak and inauthentic. it immediately exposes their game. these guys are just losers who have sworn revenge for every humiliation. humiliate them again

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

The irony is that my Black as hell father, who has worked in IT longer than most tech bros have been alive, says that the reason white people want AI is because it allows them to have slaves.

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

idk this week I learned Shane’s sisters are probably the funny ones, it was nice of him to credit them

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“we have 🔫 too” they’re calling her drunk Leslie Knope 😭

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Nick Sirianni should probably just start looking for a home in London

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

heartbreaking way to lose, but with all those injuries I’m fine with the improvements this week

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themaninblackfled.bsky.social @themaninblackfled.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Steve Jobs - aka Abdul Lateef Jandali - was one of the most successful white guy cosplayers in world history.

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“begging us for use cases” I have seen this too, the funniest part is thinking people are gonna train anything they perceive as their replacement like no I’m not gonna do your job for you, go sell your own software, lazy

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

software companies producing LLMs that enable users to vibe code their own flagship offerings is the kind of Schadenfreude that keeps me going rn www.tomshardware.com/software/mic...

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Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next

It's a protest now.

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's no way to make "being bombarded with horrifying images" an okay job -- but this work will inevitably be bad in other ways too. Low pay, unmanageable pace, no agency, etc.

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

honestly surprised this dude is still around, looks like he was planning to do a rep rehab tour soon dude’s in the files 636 times, he’s been forced to retract a couple studies, still employed, impressive dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud

New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

guys you can literally just unplug the computer you know the ai is *inside* the computer, right? you can simply…turn it off. everybody calm down, jfc

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You cannot understand emergency management today without understanding how the Bush administration & Congress took advantage of the post-9/11 shock to create the homeland security apparatus.

Just a few months later, two planes crashed into the Twin Towers and the window was opened for the largest reorganization of the federal government since the National Security Act of 1947. US emergency management was turned upside down, as reckless policy decisions that contradicted decades of disaster research and emergency management expertise were imple-mented. 402 The cataclysmic post-9/11 policy changes laid the groundwork for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina and the levee failure only a few years later, 403 and still contribute to slow and ineffective responses today.

The most significant of these changes was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. A month after 9/11, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) cosponsored a bill that took inspiration from the concept of the National Homeland Security Agency, proposing the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As had happened when Representative Thornberry introduced nearly the same bill in the House months before, hearings were held, but no vote taken. The Bush administration, with support from the Hart-Rudman findings, presented a similar bill to Congress in June 2002. With pressure from the White House, the bill finally passed, and DHS was created. FEMA was subsumed by DHS along with other agencies, including the Coast Guard and Secret Service. In the reorganization, FEMA lost its status as an

independent, cabinet-level agency. Across the country, emergency management agencies got whiplash. 404
As this drastic reorganization and refocus of the federal government was underway, Congress wanted answers about the circumstances that led to the 9/11 attacks including an analysis of how intelligence agencies had failed to communicate with one another before the attack. Most relevant for emergency man-agement, Congress also wanted a better understanding of the effectiveness of the response at the Pentagon and in New York City. The answers to these questions were compiled into the 9/11 Commission Report released in 2004.405 The 9/11 Commission's findings concerned many emergency management ex-perts. 406 The Commission found that the immediate life-saving response measures conducted at the Pentagon had been success-ful. On the contrary, they criticized the response measures in New York City as uncoordinated.

This conclusion ran counter to the findings of disaster researchers in important ways. Disaster scholars documented first responders running into the towers, despite knowing they might never run back out. Inside the towers, people banded together to help each other out of the buildings, carrying coworkers who were disabled down dozens of flights of stairs, resulting in upward of sixteen thousand people evacuating in just 102 minutes.
Those who died were largely located on the floors above where the planes collided, making evacuation impossible.
Those who escaped the towers found people outside ready to guide them out of the dust. Local businesses opened their doors to offer refuge, and others handed out water or bandaged

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

AI chatbots have democratized billionaire brain worms by allowing everyone—not just the very rich—to experience total insanity-inducing sycophancy

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

This Jacob Coxon thing is weird. He worked at Anthropic for six weeks and OpenAI for nearly three years. He’s doing a whole media tour without any real statements about what it is he’s scared of other than vague references to recursive self improvement, a theoretical ai that teaches itself.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Much of online discourse and intellectual political economy can be explained by a fixation on the near enemy rather than the far enemy because score settling is more satisfying than accurate analysis

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

web analytics people: anybody executed on server-side tracking for AEO yet? while reports of AI taking over the world are overblown, I would like to measure agentic traffic that *isn’t* triggering client-side analytics

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Arguably, Scott Bessent buying 30-year-bonds to bring down interest rates is the government already bailing out AI (since it’s AI debt that’s reaponsible, in large part, for making bonds less attractive to investors)

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

that part! stop infantilizing adult women

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Re-upping this piece, substantially revised to include new reporting on the neutering of Inspectors General. A former IG said: “All the adults have left the room. All these new IGs are lining up behind political leadership as if they’re lapdogs.” donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

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Governing without Accountability

Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America

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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Philly volunteers at double the national rate. I wrote about this phenomenon, programs that multiply that impact, and where volunteering falls short. (Started as a Leaflet draft, accepted as a guest commentary in the Citizen, and reposted back on Leaflet 🫶🏽) mosh.leaflet.pub/3ms5pw73kbk2t

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Leveraging Volunteer Love

From public parks to open source software, donated labor needs a professional boost to really thrive.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · 20/08/2026

#RoadlessRule open to comment. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS... Overwhelming public comment = helpful. Overwhelming, thoughtful comments = even better. Do not discount the personal impact to you. Personal anecdotes = valuable expertise not found elsewhere. envirodatagov.org/how-to-write...

Public comments open
The 30-day comment period for the proposed rule and draft environmental statement ends at midnight Sept. 21, 2026. The following links point to information that could be helpful to you in reviewing the documents and providing substantive comments:
• Learn about the regulatory process and the tips for submitting effective comments
• Read the Federal Register notice (Note: This link is available Aug. 19 in the Reading Room and final on Aug. 20)
• Enter the Regulations.gov portal to read the proposed rule, draft environmental impact statement and other key documents and to submit comments (Note: We will update with a direct link to the proposed rule when it's published on Aug. 20)
• Read rulemaking documents and additional supporting analyses available through our online public folder
• View an interactive online map that features multiple layers for comparison, including the three alternatives to the roadless rescission; roads, cities and landmark labels; National Forest System lands; and the wildland-urban interface, among others. Get more information about how to read the map.
• Engage in ongoing tribal consultation, which remains open for federally recognized tribes and members

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

there is no rhyme or reason to an entire “AI” department, much less an AI school. There is no curriculum, as such, because AI is not a school of thought. It has no theory, no method. It’s just a tool. Two or three courses, max, if someone is obsessed with it should suffice.

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Kara Swisher really has some audacity when she’s hugely responsible for validating these technofash girl sit down and be quiet you made your bag selling us out for clout

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Like cicadas emerging every 13 to 17 years, every 2 or 3 years or so Silicon Valley emerges to reinvent the bus.

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

everything else is fine but we draw the line at free aircraft interesting

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

currently you can actually lose your job with the government for acknowledging that pronouns exist.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I heard Stephen A. Smith tell CNN yesterday that "people are afraid they're going to lose their job for messing up a pronoun" and it really amazes me how many people don't realize they are awash in intentional propaganda designed to make them afraid of the wrong things and angry at the wrong people

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auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

people on my block are aware of what’s happening at my work (or that it even exists) this is the first time I think that’s ever happened

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

so the atlantic decided to publish an essay about women in baseball that: - Does not mention Toni Stone or Mamie Johnson or Ila Borders or Kelsie Whitmore or Ayami Sato or Megan Baltzell or... - Does not mention girl's travel ball teams (seems to conflate HS teams with Little League)

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

oh, "we are cooked?" have you considered tjat cooking increases the bioavailability of certain nutrients?? HMMMM???

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