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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the sinister plot at last revealed, we just gotta pump enough mifepristone and ethinyl estradiol into the water supply to cause miscarriages in highly specific areas. harlots, get to peeing in red states! jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-e...

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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception

The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Get fucked, Langone. How nice that I have a 15 minute slot at a career fair this week to tell your recruiter why.

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, at least I can hear the captain of the Randy Arozarena Fan Club do a job

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Me and many of my brilliant, hardworking colleagues are facing layoffs at the end of this month. if you want to support our union and its members in this tough time, you can do so here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ad...

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Donate to Support Advocates for Trans Equality workers facing layoff, organized by Gabriel Arkles

Advocates for Trans Equality is on the brink of layoffs. Thos… Gabriel Arkles needs your support for Support Advocates for Trans Equality workers facing layoff

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

*If there's some real-world AI-Chernobyl event, all these sanctimonious AI-safety guys will be lined up and shot, while the investors will simply retreat on their megayachts jbenton1.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

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Why I left Anthropic’s safety team to hold AI companies accountable

Two weeks ago, I left the safety team at Anthropic.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

"don't you care about fairness in sports?" No actually, I don't. Nobody does

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

wired.com

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Musical theater people: your local troupe can now get the rights to Operation Mincemeat, which is my favorite musical of the last several years. (If you have access to B'way or the West End, go see it before spoiling yourself.) www.concordtheatricals.com/p/97249/oper...

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Operation Mincemeat: The Expanded Cast | Concord Theatricals

This version will initially be available only to performers aged 19 years and under

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I saw the headline, knew it had to be @quinnae.com, and settled in for a good time.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/09/2026

The chant you're hearing is "FIRST! DO NO HARM!" Huge high five to everyone who came out to the protest at Mount Sinai over the hospital's deal with Trump to end gender-affirming care for trans youth. 🧵 of photos to follow!

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this is an excellent discussion

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Can confirm, daily viewings of Muppet Treasure Island improve quality of life, nested case-control study coming soon.

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Little League World Series is on at the gym and its primary purpose seems to be showing closeups of children crying?

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Why do I not start every single day with Muppet Treasure Island? When did I become a grown up?

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 22/08/2026

Tom of Gotchi

Black tamagotchi superimposed over a Tom of Finland drawing

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Union News @unionnews.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Cleveland Public Library union workers vote to strike Monday after rejecting final contract offer” — WKYC #UnionNews #contract #strike

White text on a blue background reads, “Cleveland Public Library union workers vote to strike Monday after rejecting final contract offer”. Underneath, WKYC is listed as the source.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Folks, this is an URGENT situation- this friend has since passed away and these cats need IMMEDIATE care. Anyone in driving distance of NYC who can take them in please get in touch with Shecky things are looking desperate.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 16/08/2026

"Perhaps no journalist has endured such a sustained sequence of violence, prosecution, and imprisonment at the hands of the U.S. government." Read more from FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social about the alarming abuse endured by Carlitos Ricardo Parias.

theintercept.com

ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.

With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

404media.co

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

this CEO comment is how you know with 1000% certainty Stella is right

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Two excellent humans doing a good seminar at Gen Con this year.

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

How did I forget Ron Jeremy was in Boondock Saints?

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have never called someone a cunt so many times in my life. Ma'am, please feel my hatred through the ether and know that in my mind you are being kicked real hard in the crotch.

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If you aren't subbed to @404media.co you're missing out.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Paizo fans, #ttrpg enthusiasts, union supporters. We need to build a LOT more energy for our laid-off United Paizo Workers members’ crowdfunders. Both of the two people crowdfunding are in Indiana where the safety net is nonexistent, healthcare is through the roof, and options are limited. 🧵

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

@erininthemorning.com has updated her invaluable Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment map. There are now four states on the do-not-travel list--Florida, Idaho, Kansas, and Texas. Subscribe to Erin's work if you are able.

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Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map: July 2026

Idaho becomes the latest "Do Not Travel" state for transgender people, raising the number of states transgender people should not travel through to 4.

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Ten years of abuse at the hands of bigots [...]; all of that has taught me to hate, to hate fiercely. To wish ill. To dream of the moment I can say, at last, these fuckers are dead, and it is better this way. Do you understand? They didn’t just make me worse. They made me like them."

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It'll be a stressful few months as I wait to see if the risk of leaving Squarespace is something we can bounce back from. In my mind, I had no choice if Assigned was to weather increasing government interference in trans speech. But a safe financial decision, it was not. Please join if you can.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/07/2026

yeah, not all that surprised that a guy who was incapable of taking responsibility for any of his choices or decisions also refuses to take responsibility for this one.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/07/2026

What it says in the headline. I'm no longer asking. Platner seems to be trying desperately to hang on, or even gearing up to slime his exes. It would be a travesty if this were allowed to happen from the perch of a US Senate nomination. But also, entirely typical and expected. He. Must. Go. Now.

liberalcurrents.com

Graham Platner Must Go

Democrats made the Devil's bargain with Graham Platner. The Adversary has come to collect.

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is really all there is to say about the makings of the Platner shitshow--he obviously needs to go, now, and the political strategists who push this sort of jagoff on us need to find other jobs.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/07/2026

When I analyzed twelve years of New York Times reporting, you could see a drastic decline of trans voices in articles starting in 2022.

A data visualization titled "Voice / Sourcing Averages (0-10)" which tracks the narrative weight of different perspectives in media coverage related to transgender issues from 2014 to 2026.

The top section is a horizontal bar chart displaying average scores on a 0–10 scale:

Trans Voice: 3.95

Advocate Voice: 2.63

Expert Voice: 1.59

Opponent Voice: 1.54

The bottom section is a line graph titled "Voice Centrality Over Time" using a 12-month rolling average. The X-axis spans from 2014-03 to 2026-04. The lines show the fluctuating prominence of each voice, with "Trans Voice" consistently leading throughout the period, though its relative dominance has shifted. Vertical dashed lines mark significant events, categorized as "NYT editorial" in red and "News context" in gray, including markers for the "Transgender Tipping Point" (2014), the North Carolina bathroom bill (2016), the Trump military ban (2017), various youth-care bans (2021), and the 2024 presidential election.

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

If you can handle the heat, Philadelphians, IBEW local 614 is on strike against PECO and Exelon, who have failed to bargain in good faith for months now. Picket line is at 23rd and Market, and they're out there today.

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Tanis O'Connor @lemurtanis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Nice dataviz that analyzes all the opinions issued in the birthright citizenship case.

scotusblog.com

Breaking down the birthright-citizenship decision

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Springer Nature retracted two studies by Max Planck. In response to a question from @samkean.bsky.social, they issued this statement: "Detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”

science.org

Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

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Joel Dongsteen @joeldongsteen.northsky.social · 28/06/2026

You have to give yourself permission to rest. This takes all the pressure off. Your dick's in control. You keep honoring it, being your best and your dick will take care of those weeds. It’ll open the right doors.

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