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@laurenmpayne.bsky.social
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David Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 4h
For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president
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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 1h
Zionism is racism because Palestinian refugees are banned from returning to their homeland *because* they are Palestinian. It is not a matter of debate. It doesn’t mean multiple things. This is a factual description of a racist project.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h
It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 1h
I have my strengths, but geography is not one of them
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1h
This is all the internet was ever supposed to be. This and maybe a little billpay. youtube.com/shorts/hRiKM...
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Miyu Jackson 🌟 at JOAT
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1h
A well fitted respirator like an N95 offers excellent protection against airborne viruses and bacteria (as well as smoke, pollen and pollution). If you can’t afford one, look for a mask bloc! maskbloc.org
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Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc
MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 5h
I really cannot stand summaries of cases. I want to read the whole case, get every aspect of it, read all the cases that cite to it; read all the cases that it cites. I want to be able to know the inside and out of everything before I have to get up and do an oral argument on the subject.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h
"The U.S. prison population is declining at an accelerating rate, and prison admission rates are predicted to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades, according to new research from University at Albany professor Shawn Bushway." "the decline is driven mainly by generational change."
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New research shows steep and continuing decline in prison population in the US
The U.S. prison population is declining at an accelerating rate, and prison admission rates are predicted to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades, according to new research from Universi...
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queer & pleasant danger BDAY 10/9! @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 2h
and many many meetings and hearings are streamed so you can listen as you cook dinner!
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2h
Attending a debate between candidates running for city council & I highly recommend everyone do this. Not even just from an angle of effective activism! Just learning who makes up the community in which you live, the colour & the cranks & the characters, it’s tremendously affecting & educational.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h
Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 5h
Yeah absolutely. The system makes you a part of perpetuating the harm, even when you can’t view yourself that way. And in turn you are harmed because you contributed. Injury and moral injury dispersed across the whole system
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 6h
For the uninitiated, @sanders.senate.gov's AI bills are being written by a eugenicist cult full of predators organizing "rape orgies." Michael Vassar in that list is also the former president of MIRI, the organization closely advising Sanders.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h
comedians suffer one (1) consequence and turn into the whiniest men alive
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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 6h
man sorry but the people i see out there who are acting like cutting off your family is purely some individualist phenomenon of social media seriously need to spend time with more LGBTQ people
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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 5h
It’s time for us to be done with the millennial invention of split dog custody after a breakup. Our emotional attachments to our animals are real. But it’s stressful for the animal, and most of y’all really need to stop having any reason to continue to interact with your exes!!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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Amy Vants to Suck Your Blood 🩸 @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social · 7h
sundays are for dissociating for three hours because you have to do A Chore
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Tom @tomkanemn.bsky.social · 5h
It let marketing departments treat them as a demographic thanks to social media’s capacity to “micro-target”. If you wanted to sell things to flat-earthers in the 80’s you had to go through a handful of monthly amateur newsletters. Now you just use AdWords.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 5h
Ok we're continuing to miss the point in the replies here? It did not ACCELERATE cranks finding each other. They were already doing that just fine. It made the cranks VISIBLE TO POLITE SOCIETY.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6h
This. I'm seeing a lot of "Yeah! Social media just let the idiots find each other!" in the replies/QTs. That is FALSE. Believe me- fools, jerks, & conspiracy nuts were already finding each other! Polite society just didn't have to hear about it!
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 8h
🚨Breaking: Michael Shellenberger is sending waves of stupid emails to researchers again 😂 Reminder: if you got one, you don’t need to respond to Mike. Screenshot the email, post, mock, go directly to the public. He’s not a journalist, he’s a crank w/a substack whose growth has flatlined. Have fun.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h
NO, NYC PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE NOT "FULLY FUNDED" despite what the influencers on social media are regurgitating. Our libraries remain UNDER-FUNDED. Library workers need to be paid MORE MONEY, we need more funds for collections, we need more funds for programming & for capital expenses.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h
Over the next few years, getting to ground will be more important than ever. Does your municipality have a local water board? Who is on it? Can you get on it? With the Data Center blitzes, these folks will be important in pushing back.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h
Every year, I expect ALA to at least mention the critical importance of people in communities getting involved in library governance. Every year, it does not.
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queer & pleasant danger BDAY 10/9! @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 6h
reminder that every email you write could someday be published as part of a lawsuit…even if you’re not a party to the lawsuit…even if you’ve already deleted the emails. if yr old neighbor sues yr old landlord, yr emails with the landlord become part of the record.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 7h
I would like to hear specifically from Anglican and Catholic priests how was your day today!!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h
FYI - our next set of sessions of Communiversity is on October 17. You can register here. Please also spread the word to others who are in NYC and would be interested. The sessions are in person. Masks required. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...
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Communiversity Catalog — Interrupting Criminalization
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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 11h
It decimated the federal workforce - not overhauled it. The elimination of expertise. The destruction of capacity. It also did NOT slash government spending. Spending is UP. It has been reallocated to the secret police and military. Stop publishing falsehoods.
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brave lil ghoster @lizandry.bsky.social · 7h
starting early, to alleviate some dread: hey hi i’m liz. i’m in poverty because i have crohn’s disease and it took 6 years to get the dx, and 3-4 more to find an effective treatment. i am actively looking for work, but need ~$4k to bridge the gap venmo, csh, pypl: $lizandry thank you!!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h
I would like to suggest that seeking election or appointment to your library board is a very good way to address book bans. Applications for our 2027 cohort are now open for those interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - we need leftists to engage in governance.
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FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort
Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 7h
Shot himself six times in the back before jumping through a closed window, was it
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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 11h
All I ask out of any computer program is don't be a web browser. Please, you don't need to be a web browser, you really don't.
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 12h
I feel like American news sources haven’t prepared the country whatsoever for the impending economic disaster coming from the energy crisis and I don’t know how goofy Americans are going to get when it hits
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Grand Admiral Shaun Duke @shaunduke.net · 9h
In general, I hate political ads because I'm in a battleground state and am constantly bombarded by them, but I also really hate all these "let's lower taxes" ads that don't explain where the money to pay for our massive deficit is going to come from. Iowa will be bankrupt before 2030...
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 7h
i basically agree with this, but i think a specific criticism of EA that maybe I'm not deep enough in to see good responses to is that the murder of USAID eliminated a bunch of first-dollar funding to a bunch of things and you haven't really seen priorities shift to back-covering that.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 13h
The spiraling cost of renting in the UK is mirrored in Spain where it is likely to result in an early general election. The Green Party is the only party in the UK that takes the housing crisis seriously, the failure of the RefConLab Party to address this will only make it worse.
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Spain’s Sánchez weighs calling snap election after housing vote defeat
The prime minister could seize on the parliamentary defeat to campaign on housing, an issue that has fueled protests across the country.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h
AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h
time.com/article/2026...
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Revisiting Childhood Hobbies Is a Way to Learn Who You Are as an Adult
Returning to a childhood hobby can engage the past as we remember it, the present, and the future we imagine, writes Rainesford Stauffer.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026
A lot of struggle with the fact that if news has value, someone needs to be paid to create it and the platform economy is structured in opposition to that.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h
fundamentally Trump going unpunished is an outcrop of an entire culture of elite impunity, from white collar crime to the Iraq war to the #MeToo backlash; the idea that the powerful (largely white men) can never and should never face consequences lest others of their caste might too.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h
The system that many of you on here are upholding and also pretending that people actually use does not exist. Most people do not voluntarily engage the U.S. criminal punishment system in general. So the question should be: what else should be on offer? That's not the question asked online.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11h
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 8h
Oh 100 percent. That's why the "vote for Kamala in secret you don't have to tell anybody" tactic was never going to work. It casts white women as victims as opposed to co-conspirators.
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 22h
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Aaliyah🦋 @liyahmwemezi.bsky.social · 16h
Is anyone else peeping that a lot of these new ads and commercials on streaming platforms and social media are AI. There’s a Coors Light ad that I keep seeing on TikTok and it’s definitely AI. Also I keep seeing this one commercial about public assistance and the actors are definitely AI
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
if you live in seattle you'll notice that virtually every newspaper runs nonstop headlines suggesting that katie wilson is inept, inexperienced, and too mushy feely (girl-coded). i have never in my life seen such overt hit pieces on an elected official in this city, and we've had some bad ones lmao
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 21h
Karen Bass used her authority as mayor to hamstring a successful program that built 100% Affordable housing because it was **building too much housing.** She prevented these buildings from going up in single family zoned areas, which is over 75% of residential land in LA. Don't fall for this crap.
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Why Is L.A. Still Letting Single-Family Homeowners Block Solutions to the Housing Crisis?
Some constituencies will always oppose development. Los Angeles policymakers who are serious about solving the dual crises of housing affordability and homelessness have to take a hard look at how muc...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
“.. The cost to insure the debt of both companies against default .. is increasingly moving in lock-step, a sign investors are beginning to treat the two credits as intertwined. “.. You have to consider your total Larry Ellison risk,” Goodman said. $ORCL $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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