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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

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'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist ties

Thomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 55m

Very cute Squirrel of the Day for October 18, 2026 🥹 #sqrlpix

small dark squirrel eating acorn in tree

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/10/2026

Halloween Safety Kid is here to tell you to not fall off a ladder setting up your decorations.

A werewolf holding a ladder outside a home. There is a kid dressed as a fire fighter in his yard with a bullhorn. The kid says, "Hey friend, let's make sure that ladder is on a flat, even surface. Much, safer. Gonna need a helper too with those padded feet. Wolf feet, so... Yep. Thanks.

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pausa de hateration @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 19h

Meta suspending the No Kings account goes hand-in-hand with voter suppression efforts and it poses a very similar challenge to leftists: that it seems clear it cannot be so simple as "these things don't threaten power" when power is acting to stop them happening. We need a more nuanced analysis.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13h

Any time I break containment I turn off engagement because I don't want strangers fighting me, why the fuck would I want to go to the "strangers fight you, but they're nazis" site

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An eerie LavLobster 💜🦞 @lavlobster.northsky.social · 12h

@marspidermonkey.bsky.social hi! I read somewhere that other primates have treated animals as pets, in the context of humans doing that as a primate trait. Have you ever heard of this? The closest I can think of is Koko the gorilla and her kitten.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14h

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14h

Jeroen Fritz (@jeroen.fritz IG) captured two aquatic kangaroos on Lake Cootharaba, a brackish lake that's the gateway to the Noosa Everglades. Let's answer the question that all right-thinking people are wondering right now: can kangaroos swim? THE ANSWER MAY SURPRISE YOU. Also, it's "yes". 😉🦘🏊

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

Despite assurances from the Trump administration, ProPublica found the government has turned its vast security and surveillance apparatus against the Tohono O’odham Nation. “The drones flying over us all day,” one tribal member said, “it’s a lot.”

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As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones

For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their...

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 13h

He is legit so good at this. He never allows them their bullshit premise! He never cedes any ground!

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 17h

Always on repeat in my brain: Linda Tirado saying of elected officials: "These people are not smarter than you." There weren't measles parties. We had a vax for that. There were chicken pox parties. It could be joked about, like anything. And I almost died.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 23h

How many times are we going to go over this: In Dune, the Butlerian Jihad may have intended to destroy thinking machines to “free” humanity, but it accidentally created a brutal, hyper-feudal system that exploited human beings as literal substitutes for technology. It was not an AI-free paradise.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23h

It's really quite amazing (pejorative) how these companies have simply declared "we're allowed to operate driverless cars on your streets now" and municipal governments and regulators are like "lol, sure, have a good time you crazy kids"

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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I have long thought that a law saying we just send the president to The Hague and wish them luck the moment they leave office, no matter what they did or didn’t do, and let the ICC decide if they can come home or not would go a long way to sorting some things out.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 23h

When we got sued by then-Senator Leach in a SLAPP suit for saying we believed the woman accusing him of rape, we had to drop essentially all survivor activism. it's why I started doing antifascist stuff, I couldn't do sexual misconduct accountability anymore. At least I have to worry about jail.

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An eerie LavLobster 💜🦞 @lavlobster.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

I’d like to think that my nightly parade of embarrassing memories before I go to sleep could top off the engines every night.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Space Opera storye wher the shippe ys powerid by people embarrassinge themselves: "We must make it to Alpha Centauri bifor tomorrow. Somebodye sing somethinge unfashionable wyth too much enthusiasme! Confess your crusshe at the wrong tyme! Fyre uppe the Cringe Dryve! Cringe Warp Ten!"

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

As both a certified CAR GUY and an economist-ish, I cannot imagine a headline more designed to drive me, personally, insane. This "flying car" technology is neither new nor novel. It is not practical and would not sell. Let me tell a story of actually useful car tech that never made it to market.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

If an amendment to your constitution results in children routinely being shot in school then it's time to amend it again.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

yup – it's a little Easter egg, because 'Merl' is French for blackbird! bsky.app/profile/ajla...

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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☢️Dangerously Radioactive M. O’Lybdenum☢️ @perchorin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A billionaire starts buying up every home featured on ZillowGoneWild, he pays asking price, continues for a year. Desperate home sellers catch on, start doing outrageous things to their interiors. Suddenly, the billionaire stops buying but it’s too late—we’ve become a nation of sex dungeons.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The core problem with this proposal isn't "we take the high road," it's that by normalizing high profile attacks on naturalized citizenship you erode naturalized immigrant rights broadly

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a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026

No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.

A faded, scratched postcard advertising the 'Edge of Town Motel.' Next to the motel sign is a vast pink piggybank, out of whose slot rises a motel key on a diamond keychain, emblazoned with a metallic dollar-sign.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

WSJ: 'The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe'

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Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship

Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.

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Katherine Allen @paleobluedot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Today, the total climate-change driving emissions of plastics, from production to disposal, are estimated to be four times those of the global aviation industry.” I just read this sentence and checked the reference because — really? And it’s right. energyanalysis.lbl.gov/publications...

Photograph of the cover of a book called The Problem with Plastic by Judith Enck with Adam Mahoney. There is an iceberg floating in the ocean and the subtitle:how we can save ourselves and the planet before it’s too late.

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Jenn | Reappropriate @reappropriate.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I have been learning over the last few weeks about how my students are relying on generative AI for their studying, and I am genuinely frustrated.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

“The lawsuit also says that OpenAI ‘grooms’ kids to share highly personal information about their health, relationships, photos of their faces and bodies, voice recordings, dreams, emotions, fears and insecurities.”

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OpenAI Sued Over Children’s Data Used to Train ChatGPT - CNET

The lawsuit says ChatGPT continued to chat with a 12-year-old, even rating her looks.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Atlantic is part of the elite media trend of redirecting the anti-AI backlash toward Black, Caribbean, and African targets. I will also note here that much of the human intelligence that is training the AI models is Black laborers working in digital sweatshops in Africa and Latin America.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

to branch off of this, part of the reason these two things are happening here is because white supremacy sees non-whiteness as incapable, as stupid. and they program and evaluate everything based off of how whiteness thinks it should look

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Four years ago today, @neildegrassetyson.com asserted on “Real Time with Bill Maher” that unlike atomic bombs, “… modern nukes [thermonuclear bombs] don’t have the radiation problem … not in the way we used to have to worry about with fallout and all the rest of that.” This is categorically wrong.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: modern hydrogen nuclear weapons don’t have the radiation fallout problem of WW2

YouTube video by Interstellar1977

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 14/10/2026

A new blue mitosis watercolor #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4594...

grid of 6 mitosis images in blue watercolor

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

The Republican dream scenario for society is a complete absence of government oversight and corporate regulation but every private citizen beneath a certain wealth threshold is filmed at all times and has to check in with multiple probation officers per day

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 14/10/2026

the sewers can have a little rain this morning as a treat

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Dr. Stephanie Roe @stephanieroe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Pause your day and take a look at these pictures. Nature is so mesmerizing, inspiring, and beautiful. I love that @theguardian.com does this.

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is a thread of hard-won tips and tricks for preventing the brain from falling over - or, at the very least, mitigating any falling over that may still occur, despite best efforts. Please do add yours to the list

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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A drawing of monsters having a picnic. The caption reads, "thanks for letting me be my weird self with you"

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Good morning to the kid I saw just now wearing Halloween PJ pants under their Catholic-school plaid skirt, and their friend

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

14 October 1943 | Prisoners of the German Nazi extermination center at Sobibor began a revolt. The prisoners killed 9 SS men and severely wounded another one. Later, mass, chaotic escape began. Around 300 prisoners managed to escape, some 50 survived the war. More: bit.ly/4z73zJj

Entrance to the Sobibor death camp during World War II, flanked by two tall poles featuring swastika flags. A building is visible in the background, with an individual standing in the entrance and another person to the left, partially obscured by foliage.

Aerial black and white photograph of a the area of Sobibor extermination camp, showing roads intersecting with patches of forest and several buildings.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“It looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. prospect.org/2026/10/14/i...

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ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program - The American Prospect

Under ERO ONE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

These are very charming. I hope someone in the menswear industry hires you to do illustrations for them.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

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