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Leigh

@leighaf.bsky.social
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she/they I’m your weird blue-haired aunt. Here to chat about roller derby, cats, books, and community building. Probably killing a houseplant. Current 🏠: Denver, USA

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/10/2026
Ballot Measure I-638 to Require Gender Verification for Playing Magic: The Gathering: tinyurl.com/4usc92fu
Close up of girl holding Magic: The Gathering cards
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As completely deranged and fucked up and wrong as he is, I gotta say it is stressful to have the damn president of the United States constantly attacking my state of Minnesota, sending violence, calling for violence, putting all lives at risk, killing our neighbors. Like it really takes a toll.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 06/10/2026
Michigan congressional candidate Will Lawrence's stark words on AI: "They're saying if this goes well, it's gonna put 20 million people out of work... But if it goes poorly, we might kill everybody by accident."
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Leigh @leighaf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sunrise at the new home. 📸: @ajdecon.org
Coastline view - green grass and trees to the visible drop off, followed by a stretch of the water. Above the water is a stripe of fog. An orange sunrise peeks over the fog.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Can we fast forward to the eagle and liver part.
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Sam Altman Thinks He's the Prometheus of Silicon Valley
In a new interview, Altman compares AI to fire and OpenAI to the Greek god that gifted the power to humanity.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Leigh @leighaf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
200! Amazing! Congratulations on the milestone. 🎉🎉🎉
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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A NEW FIGHTER HAS ENTERED THE ARENA
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Gang of eight sperm whales sink yacht after ramming boat in South Pacific
Crew described terrifying encounter as they were woken up by “loud thud” as the 52ft vessel was struck
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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😉
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.
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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I knew this would last only a couple days. Pathetic.
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Leigh @leighaf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Leigh @leighaf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fuck it, I’m bringing the iced coffee.
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
do NOT take an iced coffee to a job interview!!! qualified candidates bring a cooler of gatorade to dump on the interviewer
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
IT IS TIME. buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is so fucking dark. Kalshi filed with the CFTC today asking for permission to let traders bet on margin, which means placing prediction market bets with borrowed money.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026
really did not think that the GOP would be going so hard into pro-bestiality in 2026 as the next culture war front
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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I feel it’s crazy that nobody outside of trans people and REALLY invested allies seems to know that the internal trans refugee crisis is one of the biggest internal refugee migrations the United States has ever experienced.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026
This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So very stupid
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Ash (new non-binary flavor!) @seatopian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They're finally gonna fuck, let's gooooooo
A screenshot of a post that says Kristina Sexton will serve as the intimacy coordinator on Godzilla x Kong: Supernova. The previous Monsterverze films did not utilize an intimacy coordinator.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The title really says it all.
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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026
Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.
Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Democrats Need to Win Back Voters by Becoming Republicans." Oof. It's satire. Well, sort of. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dem...
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Democrats Need to Win Back Voters by Becoming Republicans
“According to the principle of minimum differentiation, America wants two political parties that are virtually indistinguishable, and that’s exactly what we ...
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It makes a lot of sense, given her history, that she was the one to write and record perhaps the iconic office labor song of the late 20th century, just as much a labor song as “Dark as a Dungeon” or “Sixteen Tons.”
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 14/08/2026
NEW: i dove deep into the plans for several massive power plants being built specifically to power data centers crucially, they're designed much less efficiently than gas-fired power plants that are connected to the electric grid: www.wired.com/story/real-r...
wired.com
The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty
A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Jesus fucking Christ covid vax REDUCED miscarriages and stillbirths. Also I'm one of the people who studied menstrual side fx of the covid vax to make sure we didn't invalidate peoples' real experiences, and to better set expectations for side fx. Ultimately the project made me even MORE provax!
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Leigh @leighaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You ever get to tell your partner (before coffee) about something that will ignite their fury? I’m a delight.
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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"But with much of the content available online now exhausted - and increasingly polluted with poor-quality, AI-generated writing - AI labs are turning to uncorrupted texts published pre-2022." It took 4 years to AI to render itself useless and now it's creators seek to erase all of human knowledge.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/07/2026
Hey Coloradans: one simple thing you can do today is call the director of the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment and ask them to issue a public health order for the Aurora GEO detention facility. To call: 303-692-2000 and press 8, then 7, to leave a message.
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Leigh @leighaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
*slaps knee* ahhh, we needed that
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Leigh @leighaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Colorado checking in to agree.
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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 03/08/2025
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
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Leigh @leighaf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Baby shark
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
NEW: DOGE used AI for housing policy. The government won't say how. read @telliotter.bsky.social's latest:
wired.com
DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How
In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.
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Leigh @leighaf.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Yeah I’m married to him
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/07/2026
“Why do WE have to get rid of our rapists but the Republicans don’t?” Setting aside all moral implications, it’s because around 70% (if not more) of Democratic volunteers are women and if they get totally disgusted with the party nobody is winning any elections anymore.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW: The Associated Press has called the Colorado GOP Gov primary for ministry leader Victor Marx. Here is my interview with Marx in May about his unsubstantiated claims, the number of people he's killed as a civilian, and the exorcisms he performs.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/07/2026
WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
45 years ago.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I don’t think we appreciate Zendaya & Tom Holland enough for slipping off quietly, getting married in front of close friends & family, and keeping it to themselves, keeping the media from turning it into an unavoidable circus of a media holiday. This post is unrelated to anything else. Swear.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026
Hire a trans person today.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What the fuck are you talking about? If I'm going to have a problem with Dems when it comes to the Supreme Court, I'm going to start with the Democratic Leader in the Goddamn U.S. Senate and not some fucking mayor who bothers people because he's Muslim.
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