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Slig @slig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Scientists observing animals: They may seem to mourn their dead but we must be never allow ourselves to anthropomorphize these creatures. Scientists observing software programmed to shit out bad country songs & undress pictures of random women: We have created God

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🎃Marley, a Werewolf of Wall Street 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✍️🌕🐺 @marleywrites.bsky.social · 19h

I love that every man on Fox News is saying “New York is so terrifying that the thought of taking the subway makes me piss myself” and meanwhile Mamdani is setting up adorable trick or treat stations so families can have more fun on Halloween

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 19h

AI stole my hard work. It stole my writing, my art, and now makes getting jobs doing either of those as a human almost impossible. In what universe could I define that as anything less than bad? I don’t actually care about the minutiae—I care that it’s a plagiarism machine, I care about the planet.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ironically, my original interview with the journalist I spoke with was primarily about how "inconsistencies" can come from gender bias in investigatory processes and then be blamed on survivors. It was the inspiration for this thread--but none of these points made it into any USA Today article:

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Josephine Robertson @josephinerobertson.com · 02/10/2026

workers haven't reaped the benefits of that. Wages are stagnant while we generate more and more and more wealth for corporations and the elite who own them. AI will not change that, it is owned by the same people already exploiting workers. What will change that is WORKERS UNITING.

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Josephine Robertson @josephinerobertson.com · 02/10/2026

Productivity gains do NOT reduce working hours. If they did the last 30 years would have seen hours cut in half (without a change in compensation) but that's the opposite of what has happened. Labor protections have eroded, unions have eroded, while workers' productivity has SKY ROCKETED. But ...

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Josephine Robertson @josephinerobertson.com · 02/10/2026

Gentle reminder because AI bullshit is going around: Remember, technology has made us (workers) more *productive* it was labor unions and labor reformers that reduced our *working hours.* Without them we would STILL be working 6 days a week 12 hour days. Tech didn't change that, PEOPLE did.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026

also, doing that work is fucking hard. My body is irreparably damaged. I suffer from mild to severe chronic pain problems because of it. There are few safety nets for manual labourers, and if we want more of them how do we change the environment for workers so many deem as less than?

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there's more than a hint of 'noble savage' in the way people outside the trades talk about those jobs and especially those workers. there's a reason people leave those jobs for less physically demanding ones if the option becomes available! enough salt-of-the-earth rhapsodizing!

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Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 29/09/2026

3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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BREAKING News: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in AI training

Opinion under seal for now.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.

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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

keep thinking about "personalised" books/art made by AI and remembering James Baldwin's quote "you think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" these AI bros are deliberately doing a psyop on themselves to cauterise their capacity for empathy

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even the boomers are suffering here, much as it can grate to admit it because many of them do own property and are smug. But now they need to sell and find single-floor, accessible housing, and not only is that basically a unicorn, no one can afford to buy big houses or sell small ones.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People often miss this. Antisemitism may not be structural in the US today in the way anti-Blackness is, but overcoming the legalism of Judaism for the spirit of love of Christianity is the ur-narrative for so much left politics in the culturally Christian world. We need to guard against it.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know a lot of us have already clocked the victim blaming—but it’s about to get much worse #cornell

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026

The “states’ rights” people in the past knew it was bullshit back then too, because slaver states wouldn’t let free states pass laws protecting self-emancipated people within their borders.

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The one thing about this discourse is that I'm more confident in my ability to incapacitate a man than a bear. And I don't like what it says about womanhood in our culture that we're always focused on which one is the threat and not which one we can take down if needed

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Turns out, we were wrong about the droplet vs airborne distinction. Turns out, we were wrong about COVID's survival outside the body. Turns out, viral diseases of all kinds can have long term consequences. Turns out, procedure masks aren't good enough for serious infection control.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Significant numbers of leftists think Mayor Mamdani has betrayed the left by putting out an anti-antisemitism plan at all, and groups that claim to fight antisemitism like the ADL are giving Mamdani zero credit because he has not suddenly endorsed Zionism, and I am caught between and I am tired.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is something very wrong, very unnatural, very non-survival oriented about how men treat women, and we need to figure it out as a fucking species because it’s going to kill us.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 30/09/2026

I have *been* saying that medieval style antisemitism has a major foothold in the left and the best thing allies can do is be aware of the dog whistles so you know when someone is gone off on one

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My bees have multiple hives at this point! 33 to 41 is a huge fucking difference in rage, even without the world as clusterfuck.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you are self-soothing, getting to imagine being a hero what we need is for you to become sensitised enough that the everyday stuff makes you uncomfortable and then to MAKE OTHER MEN UNCOMFORTABLE not kicking down doors just saying WOW THAT SOUNDS KINDA RAPE-Y *hard stare*

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Men overwhelmingly ARE NOT DOING THAT about misogyny & rape culture. They’re not even doing that. All the men in my mentions being like I WOULD HAVE BATTERED DOWN THE DOOR AND SAVED HER maybe no one did but the point is, yeah, I believe that you’re the kind of guy who wouldn’t have been invited

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like I sure as fuck can and do obnoxiously and brightly say when I overhear a white person saying something about “urban crime” or “ghetto” whatever, “Wow that sure sounds kinda racist!” And yeah, the reaction is usually not positive, and maybe someday I’ll get punched.

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. If you hear misogynistic so-called locker room talk, you’re also hearing the seeds of a plan to do something about it. Stop your fellow men when it’s still “just” words

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/09/2026

Nah. Most of the best Jewish people already know this. Which is why some of the fiercest civil rights advocates are Jewish. ♥️🕊️

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 12/09/2025

While we're talking about Albert Einstein and how people have tried to erase his 20+ year civil rights protest work from history: The FBI didn't like MLK jr. They called him "the most dangerous negro." Because he was influential, brought people together, and was vocally against anti-Black racism.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/09/2026

Antisemitism is bad, and we should all stand against it. But people keep sharing this misleading statistic that Jewish people receive the most hate crimes. They don't. You know who does. Jewish people receive the most *religious based* hate crimes. And Jewish people *report* the most hate crimes.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Facts. In many cases, bad men talk to you about the bad things they’ve done to establish that you will not object. You can’t win with them; you either have to fight them or join their team. Staying silent is joining their team.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As someone who has done admin work, I *frequently* hold forth on the power of admins, including their power of petty vengeance, and how much easier your job will be if you do something as basic as sending them Christmas presents.

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I blocked the person down-thread who said being an admin assistant could easily be done by AI, but in my work experience, the most powerful person in any college department I was in, hands down? The departmental secretary, aka what if the Wizard of Oz was legit and got things done.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Be brave enough to stand up for the vulnerable even if you believe it won't work. Be brave enough to be that person. For the love of God and the lives & futures of actual human people, be brave.

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Post Mo Thóoooooooin (DAVE!) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's a very famous sketch about an Alexa controlled elevator in Scotland and the vocal contortions folks need to use to get it to work. AI is forcing conformity on more than just the accents though. Structure and syntax must fit its parameters. It forces homogenization.

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Spacegrrl @spacegrrrl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Read both these threads.

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Lane Moore @hellolanemoore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every time I call out men who clearly hate women, someone says "you're being too hard on them." Never, throughout the history of time, have we been hard enough on men who hate women. That's literally the problem.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.)

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The underappreciated point here is that taking the messy, contingent nature of scheduling, communication, and navigating social relationships is something that AI people think these tools can do. When in fact it is quite difficult and takes a lot of social skill.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"siri, set up a shared calendar for the kids and their grandparents, and automatically update it anytime we make travel plans" sounds like a good premise for a remake of Home Alone.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

THIS. I am both immunocompromised AND immunosuppressed. I mask EVERYWHERE. I also have not had so much as a cold, not a single communicable bug, in 6.5 years. [Multiple autoimmune disease is more than enough, believe me.]

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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother @karistinalafae.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

Worth noting as well that the same people who think this (that rapists shouldn't have to face the consequences of their actions because of "their future") ALSO think that Black people "deserve" to be shot by police / undocumented immigrants "deserve" being thrown in concentration camps for existing.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

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Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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