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Libitina

@libitina.bsky.social
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hedonist dilettante queer liberal propagator trying to live a decent life. pronouns: she, her, that person, hey you mydramalist.com/dramalist/Libitina Please do not add me to starter packs

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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 3h
Miss Susan (later retitled Martinsville, USA). Pioneering 1951 NBC daytime soap, the 1st network #TV show to star an actor with a physical #disability. Starred #wheelchair user Susan Peters as a criminal attorney who moved back to her hometown of Martinsville, Ohio. Ran from March 12-Dec 28, 1951.
Susan Peters on set shown seated in her wheelchair.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 6h
you can see re: the ruling on the NYC pied-a-terre tax vs the upcoming Medicaid changes - who is not expected to prove things to the government/who the government is expected to do the leg work for vs. who is expected to prove and document everything to the government
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19h
also thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19h
Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11h
Stay at home parent here. Co-sign
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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 10h
I appreciate all of you giving very good cdramas recommendations, but I do not have enough hours awake to watch everything I want to!
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Affixjoy @affixjoy.bsky.social · 11h
The boys getting ready to talk yet another ai into killing itself 🍾
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h
it’s tiresome but I think we have to keep asking these guys, so—who benefits from convincing people reading and writing doesn’t matter anymore
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 16h
Writers, if you are against AI, do not put your writing into ANY tool that is itself AI. Not to check grammar, not to "prove" you wrote it yourself. Everything you give them becomes part of their data, even if it's only to "improve their service" or whatever BS they tell you.
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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 20h
I still recommend #TheUntamed as an entry vector. It was good enough to hook most of you. And it's got color coded sects, frequently repeated names and vocabulary, and a compelling story. There are several different versions you can choose to tailor to your friend's tastes. There is no better start
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Chibi Wei Ying Wei Wuxian Eating
Alt: Cutest little animated Wei Ying / Wei Wuxian with a spoon
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Lish McBride @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, it’s even worse. To be very clear—I support trans people and think this whole thing is bullshit. But title 9 also creates a pathway on campuses and federal spaces for people who have been sexually harassed, stalked and assaulted to be protected and seek investigation.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Few remember the ancient bygone days of spring 2026, when we were reliably told by leading technology brothers that Anthropic was actually profitable (because Anthropic had said so and only stupid fools would doubt them).
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Like probably everybody else, I have been confused by Planned Parenthood being against CA Prop 40. This doesn't clarify everything, but it helps. I will be voting a big, fat, neon YES. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...
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Planned Parenthood staffers are rebelling against the group’s billionaire tax stance
Dozens of workers across the state say they oppose the organization’s position on the measure, and one staffer is starring in a new pro-Prop 40 ad.
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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh! For the second year (in a row?) I will be home for Halloween! I should do something. Or wear something. I'm out of practice.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you miss this Sunday's fabulous talk on Queered Frankensteins? No worries! Catch it here! youtu.be/cTi5SkMFNdM
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An Introduction to Queered Frankenstein with Dr Lucy Allan
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Doctor Science ❌👑 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
be sure to read the ALT text! it will improve your day! [why is there no eel emoji?!?]
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS
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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...
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They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's very "funny" this is happening at the same time the AI companies got away with stealing everyone's books
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A good read on the the state of the academy as it stands today. We're in a pivotal moment right now. The academy board must accept the bridge funding or find another way to keep the museum open immediately. neighborhoodfundamentals.substack.com/p/the-academ...
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The Academy Has an Offer. Does It Have the Authority to Take It?
A year of funding is on the table. What's unresolved is who actually gets to decide.
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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 25/09/2026
No whorephobia from the newbies, please. We can, however, help with opsec 💕
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/09/2026
Tonight begins the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. May a sukkat shalom — a shelter of peace — spread over our city. To all celebrating: Gut Yontif and Chag Sukkot Sameach!
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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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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thanks for the timely notification! (wheee! I got my flu and covid jabs today)
And email subject line in bold that says, "Your CVS appointment is today at 3:15pm."

Which it was! But if you look at the timestamp on the email, this notice was received at 10:42pm (7.5 hours after the appointment)

Both of those times are circled in red for extra emphasis.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
share.inquirer.com/4R4zKp?utm_s... [gift link]
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U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver is eight months pregnant and facing 17 years in jail | Jenice Armstrong
McIver’s inner strength is next level. She is running for reelection while fighting efforts by the Trump administration to jail her. Plus, she’s repping her constituents and caring for her family.
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kerry ✨ @kschwenky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This resonates with me so much (and likely more than a few of you). The feeling of hopeless and powerlessness I felt watching ICE take a man walking through Eisenhower park after they nearly hit my car. I think about it every day and will go to my grave remembering the look on his face
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Scarlett O'Hairdye (ScarlettStorm) @scarlettohairdye.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What's up I'm trying a new, much shittier advertising technique for my show this Saturday. events.ticketleap.com/tickets/unna...
A written-on google maps screenshot of West Seattle and SoDo. It reads, "West Seattle! Come to Earlyween!" with an arrow pointing toward the approximate location of the show, where a tiny version of the poster has been placed. In green more writing reads, "Free parking" "boobs" "butts" "no traffic" along with blue happy smiley faces. On the other side of the map, it reads "Sounders" "Mariners" "Bad traffic" "expensive parking" in orange, along with red angry unhappy smiley faces.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ATTENTION BLUESKY! Annie says they are really hoping to boost the number of artists (crew, performers, creative teams, anyone) outside New York who are filling this out to get a broader sampling. If you are in the arts please take a second and fill this out!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)
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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Elephants use medicinal plants to treat themselves, researchers find. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say
African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Snail Facts advent calendars are ready 4 u Scratch off a shell a day for facts about the snails of the world. Get one for you, for your kids, for your niblings, your neighbors' kids, hell, your grandma. Snails are for everyone! SquidFacts.net
An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail
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cliodialogues.bsky.social @cliodialogues.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why are Americans still so fascinated by a white frontier narrative? In this episode, historian @mkn.bsky.social  joins me to discuss 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘳 and the remarkable staying power of the stories Americans tell about the West. 🎧Link in bio
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Call them.
Sarah points at you angrily
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now this I like!
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New ACLU and Amnesty International report on repression on American campuses www.aclu.org/publications...
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"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus" | American Civil Liberties Union
"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus," an ACLU and Amnesty International USA research report, documents the heavy-handed responses by certain univers...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/09/2026
With just under one month to go until the next No Kings, there are already more than 1,000 events on the map. That means October 17 will be the largest early vote activation in American history. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Billy Penn at WHYY @billy-penn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What’s going on with AI data centers in Philly? We answered some of your questions about how these large facilities are impacting the city. billypenn.com/2026/09/17/a...
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What’s going on with AI data centers in Philly?
Residents protested outside City Hall this week, and Mayor Parker has set up a task force to report on the pros and cons of hyperscale data centers by June.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is partly a story of personal corruption and government waste but the driving force is consistent with RFK Jr's policy objectives: he is a eugenicist who wants certain groups of people to die.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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