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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In my wildest dreams I didn't think he'd give the Democratic Party this kind of support!

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When your concept of humanity is a problem that computers can solve.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just gonna go ahead & speculate that the Jane Doe police transcript doesn't match the summary sent to the DA because the Ithaca PD ran it through ChatGPT to get a summary & ChatGPT made it all nice & un-rapey.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New rule of reference: if the patron's needs are inexplicably strange, GenAI has probably led them down a substantially fictionalized blind alley.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's no hardware that could possibly prevent what he's talking about, except perhaps remote kill switches on all the GenAI data centers.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, absolutely, the work of being human is "discursively cocreating the world we inhabit." We often forget that things we hold as truth or as values have to be re-cocreated by every generation or else it will be co-destroyed. And GenAI is a destroyer, not a creator.

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Bradley J. Fest–Teaching Without Computers

Teaching Without Computers Bradley J. Fest In a moment, I am going to talk about despair. But let me be clear: What I have to say in the following is not about frustration, burnout, or stress; it is...

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've often wondered whether Dr. Oz is a real person or a cartoon villain.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yet another way AI tramples on copyright: employees upload copyrighted content into AI models to share that content with other employees. AI is a monstrous vampire turning ordinary people into unwitting vampires, all of them leaching the lifeblood out of writers and artists.

Growth in Enterprise AI Adoption is Driving Copyright Risk, According to New Study from CCC and Outsell

September 22, 2026 – Danvers, Mass. — CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) and Outsell, Inc. today released the 2026 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends Report, showing that the velocity of externally publis...

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Physical mail is so carefully controlled - pen color, paper, etc. - that the only way drugs are getting into facilities is with the people who come and go: prison guards. Nothing's getting in through letters. It's just another way to punish people in prisons.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To paraphrase Marvin Minsky (in a talk at MIT I accidentally attended in the 90's): if someone can't understand how a toaster works, I'm not going to listen to them about the brain. If Huang can't find his own house, I'm not taking his advice about how to find our way to a less f**ked up future.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Boston spends 6.4 times more on policing than on libraries That probably explains why BPL is facing a pretty big (under)staffing crisis and may have to close some branches Is this really what we want? 📚 --- Graphic via @librariesftp.bsky.social www.librariesforthepeople.org/snapshots

LIBRARIES VS COPS SPENDING PER CAPITA
r:PS,COURTS,CAGES $697.09 :::nim
LIBRARIES $108.57 :::nim
h BPL belongs to the Books Unbanned coalition, in • WJ which library systems provide a free digital card to
youth ages 13-21 anywhere in the country, allowing
them to check out materials that may be otherwise
unavailable to them due to censorship. The program
was started by Brooklyn Public Library in 2022.
6.4 TIMES MORE ON
POLICING THAN ON
LIBRARIES
LIBRARIES GET 1.09%
OF CITY SPENDING
POLICING GETS 7.01%
OF CITY SPENDING
A 2025 WBUR analysis of Boston Police Department
records found that the police chief routinely ignored
recommendations from the city's Office of Police
Accountability and Transparency, which was created
in 2020 in response to widespread calls for increased
police oversight. In August, Lawyers for Civil Rights
sued the department for footage of the fatal shooting of
Stephenson King, Jr by an officer in March 2026.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When I went through my parents' papers & found the original title & deed covenants on their house, it included a paragraph about not selling to black people. House from 1959, over a decade after SCOTUS ruling making such covenants unenforceable. Sold with covenant in 1971. They're everywhere.

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theonlyjunedoe @theonlyjunedoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICE took my friend and neighbor, Alma. Didn't tell anyone. Left her car in a random parking lot. She was about a mile from our homes. She had her uniform on, going to work. We were single mothers after divorces at the same time.We watched out fo each other in this what we could afford neighborhood.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love my Senator! Long may he reign!

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're a professor wondering how libraries decide which resources (i.e. databases) to pay for, picture a car & widget salesperson getting a job at a company that hoovers up random special library collections into their digital vacuum, and then tries to sell those random collections to libraries.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’ll be remembered as the era of boogeymen masks: Islamophobia masking Christian nationalism, malevolent super-intelligence masking regulatory capture by billionaires, “wellness” masking the healthcare industry’s trainwreck, transphobia masking an epidemic of CSAM & spousal abuse… and on & on & on

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Epic travel diary. Sarah Jeong is a master of the tweet story, as we all know from the Korean self-coup people's revolt. This will not disappoint!

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/09/2026

Americans will pay up to 95% of Trump’s chaotic tariffs. Yet Donald Trump still has zero plan to give tariff refunds back to YOU. I'm pressing Trump's top trade official for answers. You deserve to get your money back.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Democratic Party needs to get serious. I saw that Tammy Duckworth dropped some F-bombs about this idiot the other day. We need a shit-ton more of that. It needs to be non-stop from now to Nov. 3, to make up for the years of bringing a perfectly folded handkerchief to a shootout.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026

Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, we're angry, we're all thinking it. Just don't write those thoughts on a public app where it's easy to trace and use by a vindictive administration who can make you miserable even if they can't win in court.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Karl Rove, then Erik Erickson, now Fox... rats jumping off a sinking ship.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is the kind of tea we all enjoy!

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Nature in this view is at best something to defeat or transcend; thus the twin obsessions with escaping mortality and escaping the earth; the biological limits of individual human existence and the biosphere are not seen as glorious gifts but as confinement."

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Yes They Want to Kill Us: The Worshippers of Machines Versus Human Beings

This is the week that someone pulled the fire alarm on AI. It began with industry employee Jacob Coxon issuing a dire warning: "I resigned from Anthropic today," he wrote on Twitter/X. "I spent the la...

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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Carl Nelson, the Black man in Maryland found hanged in front of Crane Service in Upper Marlboro, MD, had a pending federal civil rights lawsuit pending against Crane Service. If the allegations in the complaint are true, this was an incredibly ugly racist company. Daily harassment. One instance.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah, I'm sure if she'd had the internet she would have looked up racist stereotypes in order to avoid them.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, so he hasn't been directly impacted by, say, the tax structure, selective policing, gerrymandering, social security... phew! It's a much longer list. Oh, he meant *harmed*? OK, I'll buy that: white dude in a stetson in Texas. Yeah, he's probably escaped direct harm his whole life.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Let's extend this to poetry. Please please please no more reading free verse like you're doing bible passage recitation in a group. Converse like a normal person! Sing! Interpretive dance! Beat-box! Declaim like Yevtushenko! Anything but emotionally strained reverent list-reading.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Saw the Wooten Brothers last night and it blew all the dust out of my brain. Wow. They just wrapped up the east coast in Boston, but they're heading west in November. Drop everything to see them!

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Tour — The Wooten Brothers

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Pentagon sure is thirsty for D!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When a pair of shoes costs over $150, this bit in the back should be leather and last longer than a year.

The heels of a pair of running shoes with the inside back of both uppers worn completely away.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"dingy gods of the marketplace" Thank you, Colin Burrow, and thank you LRB.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges

The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.

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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There are a lot of signs of an impending economic crash: effective blockades of important trade routes, an AI bubble carrying 1/3 of the stock market, tariffs adding to inflation, dwindling support of the US internationally, and an inept administration incapable of navigating any of these problems.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yeah @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social condemns Hasan and the DSA and wouldn’t back Zohran… but meeting with Kushner? No problem!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Glad 60 Minutes is doing a Jacob Wohl story literally nine years after I reported on that guy. One time he was pretending a scam website he was running wasn't his, so I called the number on the website and it went to his mom's voicemail. Jacob is like training wheels for investigative journalists.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Except that Kushner isn't on "the other side of the aisle." He isn't elected or appointed. He serves in no official capacity. He's a private citizen with too much access greasing his personal business ventures.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If GenAI had rolled out at the pace of the web, as a collective effort instead of billionaire diktats, I might have been an AI advocate. But all the hype, strong-arming, and gaslighting sends a loud message that without being pushed, it would fail on its (lack of) merits.

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