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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22h
How much I would love to have a normal night's sleep again, instead of staring at the ceiling and thinking about how russia struck a school today during the day, and an animal shelter at night, where poor dogs and cats had no chance of escaping their cages. How a private house in Kyiv is
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 22h
“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins is just as extreme as ever. But the rest of the anti-abortion movement has moved so far to the right that she seems—almost—mainstream.
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Kristan Hawkins helped kill Roe. Now she’s fighting to control the movement she created.
How the Charlie Kirk of abortion moved from the fringes to the mainstream.
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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 26/09/2026
can't a guy walk down the street anymore without being harassed by artificial intelligence
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
terminator reboot but it’s humans going back to 1999 to make sure Y2K happens so the internet dies forever
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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's 2026 and doctors still haven't found a cure for Post-Japan Depression.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/09/2026
Ah yes, the function was fine, it was just the FORMAT that people objected to.
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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Next week sees the release of a new film called 『ファーストボイス』(First Voice). It's based on a case which was called Japan's first sexual harassment trial. It helped introduce the term セクシャル・ハラスメント to the broader public. www.bengo4.com/c_5/c_1623/c...
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「9割以上負けると思った」日本初のセクハラ裁判、弁護団のレジェンドが語った舞台裏 - 弁護士ドットコムニュース
「セクシャル・ハラスメント」が新語・流行語大賞(新語部門・金賞)に選ばれたのは1989年のこと。「セクハラ」という言葉はすっかり定着しているが、40年ほど前まで、そうした概念を指す言葉は日本にはなかった...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of the Russian Shaheds downed over Ukraine has ended up as decoration in a local supermarket.
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Tom Jenkins @tomoljenkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here is the trailer for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ launch on 9October that has been banned by YouTube, TikTok and Meta, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFTf...
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MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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caramida (he/they) @caramida.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
See this article and also Kate Manne’s ENTITLED: How Male Privilege Hurts Women msmagazine.com/2023/07/21/m...
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'Family Annihilators': When Conservative America’s Fetish for Guns and Patriarchy Turns Deadly
Every five days, a person murders his family. We see these killings more in conservative states, with more guns and more sexist men.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.
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Lance J. @pandrue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"AI companies pirated millions of books to train today’s most popular models, as The Atlantic has previously reported. Those models are now being used to churn out books in a matter of minutes and place them alongside books that represent years of hard work."
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The Rise of Parasite Authors
First, AI stole their books. Now it’s stealing their readers.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration is preparing to sanction the ICC as a whole and cut it off from everyday financial transactions, insurance providers and IT services and products, which would leave the court unable to operate, Reuters reports.
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Trump administration prepares sanctions against International Criminal Court, sources say
President ‌Donald Trump's administration has prepared sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court and plans to announce them soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, a move that ...
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ah, enshittification, we meet again. (and by enshittification, I mean the original specific @doctorow.pluralistic.net version, not just the colloquial understanding of "online things getting worse")
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
US stores are starting to ration motor oil
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US retailer rations motor oil as prices quadruple and supplies run dry
Iran war has created global shortage of lubricant used in vehicle engines
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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CNN @cnn.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: An AI-assisted intel report, circulated across the US military during the Iran war, nearly triggered an operation but was false, sources say. cnn.it/4y9MBJO
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's 1100. You're a peasant in Harmston, England. Congrats! It's a fine place to live. But at what cost? Eels. That's what. Each spring, the village owes Earl Hugh 75,000 eels in rent. So every fall your life becomes all about the eels.* Welcome to Harmston. Here's your net. 🗃️🧪
Meme. Medieval colored drawing showing a figure in a small boat with a large green fish attached to his head. A second fish has a grip on his oar. The figure is likely a man, but this is uncertain. His name is even less certain, but we'll call him Yedward. He seems like he's in trouble, honestly.

Yedward is wearing a long orange shirt, and is paddling his boat across a body of blue water. There are clouds in the background. He might have been wearing a hat at some point, but if he was, the fish has eaten it. He seems very concerned, and you would too. That fish on his head is no joke.

The fish has it's jaws around Yedward's head, and is arching its back so far that its tail will soon touch the top of its head. It's fins are thrust out, and it looks very graceful. We can't really see the other fish much; just it's head, with it's jaws locked around the end of the paddle in the same way that a toddler's eyes lock onto a bag of halloween candy.

It's unfair to name the man but not the fish, so we'll call the head-fish Merwena. She was raised on tales of Jonah & Moby Dick, & longs to be like her literary heroes. She's going to eat this man if it takes all day. He can't paddle forever. Especially with a hole in his head.

The oar-fish (different than an oarfish) is likely named Intercesilly, and seems like someone who's good at sudoku but not parties.

Meme text reads:
"It's gonna be a long fall"
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The only control or “guardrails” that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT” - Trump wins the funniest response to Dario Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown. 🤣
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He is a 73-year personalist dictator who has purged his senior military staff & is committing genocide in Xinjiang & speaks with Putin about living until he is 150 & I really don't know why people continue to believe this.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14/09/2026
Turkish authorities have cracked down on multiple LGBTQ+ groups and individuals, detaining dozens and raiding association offices and popular hangouts.
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Turkish authorities launch crackdown on LGBTQ+ and HIV support groups
Turkish authorities have cracked down on multiple LGBTQ+ groups and individuals, detaining dozens and raiding association offices and popular hangouts.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The evil AI copied itself onto the internet! No stoping it now! That's just Skynet or Ultron. Those stories rely on magic, and the audience suspends disbelief because the plot is cool. Makes no sense for AI that needs giant datacenters or live connections to them. Can we deal with reality, please?
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 12/09/2026
chart of car colors by year from 1990 to 2020, showing the rainbow of car colors being reduced year by year, until almost all cars are black, grey, silver, or white
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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026
that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
I really want to hear from the dozens of journalists who wrote glowing profiles of Alpha School in the last few years. Actually scratch that. I never want to hear from them again.
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AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work
The controversial AI-focused private school Alpha School is making its students do some unusual things before enrolling.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Woah. This is good news. People may not realize it when they demand this feature, but what they're saying is "I will not buy a car which requires an ongoing subscription to remain fully functional" and it is a good sign GM may be responding to that. carbuzz.com/gm-not-compl...
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GM May Not Completely Kill Apple CarPlay And Android Auto After All
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are available for the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq despite GM saying it's not going to include them anymore.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Squeaky hinge www.tumblr.com/pmamtravelle...
Photograph of an old door frame the paint is peeling off the wood and the hinge is Rusty the hinge is worked into the shape of a mouse
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026
“This is probably one of the larger, if not the largest, climate events…that anybody alive is potentially ever experiencing.”
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This “supersized” El Niño is only just beginning to wreak its havoc
Its likely consequences"are so large, I’m not sure we fully understand them.”
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Cat Righting Reflex was first captured on camera by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey in 1894. We do not know the name of the cat, or what it did to Marey afterwards.
time lapse image of someone dropping a cat, capturing the rotation process as it lands on its feet.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hey, out of curiosity, why are we calling this a "foothold" instead of an illegal invasion, annexation and occupation? We're still doing journalism, right? And "foothold" makes it sound like Israel is just a scrappy little tyke trying to make its way in the world like a big boy?
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Oh well, all those crazy left anti-Zionist anarchists, what else would you expect from them, they are practically Hamas
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These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.
A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society b...
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today I didn't buy a Ferrari, and now I'm $250,000 richer
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026
You have rights as a patient that far exceed the rights accruing to a mere customer. Same goes for other professions: Teachers have pupils, librarians have patrons, lawyers have clients. "Customer" is a demotion from all of these. 24/
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Ara Kharazian @arakharazian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New from Ramp data: the latest threat to the AI trade. AI companies' revenues are heavily dependent on a small set of customers. 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic's enterprise revenues come from 1% of their customers, and it's not getting better.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
BISON: “.. The sound you're hearing? It's oil inventories draining down to tank bottoms.”
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 02/09/2026
Not sure if you know this but Iran is run by religious fanatics who believe god is on their side, which is very different from the enlightened and civilized West where the government is run by people doing gods work to bring about the end times, which includes bombing schools, hospitals and weddings
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/09/2026
This is Matt Bradley's news package of armed Israeli settlers assaulting him, his colleagues, and a Palestinian woman, as shown on the NBC Nightly News Instagram page Monday night.
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