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lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 5h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6h

Thinking of the famous, now-tenured academic woman who told me that she thought anti-rape activism was “inevitably reactionary” and how she’s the Title IX coordinator for her department.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18h

Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:

Screenshot of Chronicle of Higher Education website showing featured articles: "Anthropology Has a Truth Problem"; "The Social Sciences Have a Politics Problem"; "Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?"; "Colleges Should Take Linda McMahon's Call to Action Seriously."

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19h

Most of the commentary about this concentrates on how it's just an asshole move. And it definitely is. But it's also a violation of ADA

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 23h

Wonderful to see the outstanding work that @uncivilcollective.bsky.social has done on the civility industrial complex and the viewpoint diversity push, which endeavors to undermine faculty governance and the humanities. What they've produced is indispensable: www.uncivilcollective.org/civility-files

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UNCIVIL | Civility Files — UNCIVIL Website

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 23h

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy shite - a professor at Harvard who advocated for the survivors was denied tenure. She was later terminated. The same day the termination notice arrived, she received the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last week, a “bipartisan science caucus” was launched in the Senate. I was told @standupforscience.net wasn’t invited to the table because we are “bomb throwers”. But there were ACTUAL bomb throwers at the table: a senator who voted to kick 15 mil people off their healthcare and fund the Iran war.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I find striking about every one of these “politics are too hostile” takes, is that the emphasis is always on the people with higher standards to lower them to allow violence at the table. How come Cox isn’t telling the right to love their neighbor? Instead it’s come to the table with Trump.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/10/2026

a thing anyone can do is look up jury nullification

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This also means that if you go to a pharmacy to get it you don’t have to provide self attestation of co-morbidities to get it; it’s for everyone. You can show the new CDC guidelines to your pharmacist if you have any trouble.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026

I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026

I hope all the middle-aged women whose lives have been vastly improved by an ADHD diagnosis understand that we’re on the list after trans and autistic people. RFK Jr thinks we should be sent to camps instead of taking a daily medication to bring our dopamine pathways up to a normal level.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What a surprise, the organizers of the covid cautious dyke bar hated the article, rejected its framing, and is defending their covid cautious patrons and performers. Anyone who joined in on the viral harassment campaign started by Jesse Singal wanna say oops or…? recorder.com/2026/09/24/g...

Current and former owners of Last Ditch could not be reached by phone, email or social media. However, Last Ditch did share on Instagram that the Globe story allegedly misconstrued statements from Noire, and urged community members to stop harassing Noire.
"It is neither productive, progressive, nor valiant to attack a Black patron. He has been a collaborator and performer of Last Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his mind about accountability and repair from the bar," the Last Ditch statement reads. "There are so many misconceptions due to the disorganization of the Globe article. He did not call for the bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not disparage the owner for being homeless.
"As a result of this abysmal journalism, he has been getting additional threats, slurs, harassment, and is being reported to the police over something he did not do," Last Ditch continued. "This is not supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is, at its core, anti-Blackness hysteria."

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Jane, actually @maidofbeans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pulled a hammy exercising my restraint again.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (mirror) @reprashida.govpeeps.us · 25/09/2026

University of Michigan's repression against anti-genocide student protestors is one of the most egregious infringements on academic freedom. The threat to free speech is not just coming from the White House. I stand with our brave students. New from @AmnestyUSA & (cont in reply...)

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

chronic fatigue (now ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome,, now long covid many of these predominant in women so many illnesses that could have been treated, studied, and offered people relief earlier if propaganda hadn't convinced everyone they were fake.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve been in some spaces recently where everyone still masks inside by default. And, even if I personally don’t want to wear 1 all the time, I fucking suck it up because it doesn’t fucking matter if something as simple as wearing a mask makes someone else feel safer And there’s no story beyond that

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Aaaaaaanyway this whole thing is a perfect example of how disabled and chronically ill and marginalized people are forced out of society and then if they make a tiny enclave together where they try and make space for each other the society that forced them out tells them they can’t have that either.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.

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Ben Krimmel @benkrimmel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sean Manaea is wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt after pitching six solid innings to beat the Texas Rangers, the MLB's only team without a Pride night. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not.

Image of Sean Manaea wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i love the fact that every hummingbird, ever, has a facial expression that is best described as "i may be the size of your thumb but I WILL END YOU IF YOU FUCK WITH ME"

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 23/09/2026

Oh no the worst discourse you know is incoming

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Many asking this question but I am more confused about how someone who identifies as a lesbian uses he/him pronouns.
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but how do you drink at the bar with a N95 on..... Like am I touched in the head for being confused

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 22/09/2026

I remember the exact moment, early in my transition, working in Copenhagen, when I realized I was being perceived as a woman by my male coworkers. I realized it because they were interrupting and talking over me in meetings.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram

Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Welcome to being a woman on the internet. You can build political machinery for a whole sector while PhD-ing and raising a family, without the support of any institutions, employ 26 people, boycott Starbucks, work your ass off at a great personal cost...& some asshole will make it about your nails.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, that’s just Stephen Speilberg in a respirator at the Lucas Museum opening during a Covid surge, like a BOSS.

Photo of a reporter talking to Stephen Speilberg, who is in a dark suit and black respirator mask on

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 21/09/2026

Love (derogatory) a well-crafted opening sentence

Screenshot text: White nationalism has become increasingly visible in American public life. Superscript refs: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

you can learn a lot about America by remembering that this man lived through the coronavirus

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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A Great Fan Of Mine @harriet-tubgirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Worse than that, our universities (never ours) colluded to have people detained and deported for opposing this.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

*thousands of people get fired and/or have their resources cut as a result of white supremacy* “People were really mean to me about my passive aggressive racism.”

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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This CA state case was the precursor to Brown v. Board of Education just 7 years later. Thurgood Marshall tested Brown arguments here. Also, the Mendez family was originally recruited to the U.S. to replace European and Asian workers who the racist 1924 Johnson-Reed Act barred from entry.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In this class we're in the middle of reading about ways that AI has already harmed real people in its actual applications. There are so many examples (and that list is growing everyday) that it's not possible to cover them all. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

mmygod

the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky post

today's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"

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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No one is "bound" to a wheelchair. A wheelchair is a device that INCREASES mobility. Wheelchairs are freeing, not binding. I cannot stand this man. But this language is not it.

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