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Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social · 1h

Grateful beyond belief to be at Oberlin where I can enjoy the Conservatory live every day instead of whatever AI is doing.

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Chin @lighthealing.bsky.social · 11h

Last night, I watched The Incomer (Dir. Louis Paxton) which, I am confident in declaring, will be my Film of the Year. Till now, I thought Sunny Dancer - my film of the Summer - would be unassailable in the top spot. But, in spite of THOROUGHLY loving SD, I have to.. bsky.app/profile/ligh...

A man in a red cagoule with yellow trim, a beardy man spreading his off-white wings behind him and a long-haired woman spreading HER black wings behind HIM. The image of them is superimposed on an image of the sea. A lone gull is near them on the water, squawking up at them. Many other gulls are encircling the green isle behind them.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

grandpa is talking crazy about the TV again

Why does FoxNews always put Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Jessica Tarlov, and every Democrat on, saying bad things about the Republican Party and, of course, me? I actually think they get more airtime than Pro Republicans. This is why MAGA, and REAL Patriots, will never like Fox! They repeat a completely negative narrative, on and on it goes, and then we get a quick retort. It’s truly amazing that I won all three Elections. The opposition is enormous, but the fight goes on! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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phil @philjamesson.com · 3h

as always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 2h

Bon vous vous comportez comme un enfant pas content. On va s'arrêter là.

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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 14h

Just needs alt-text:

How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE*

sexual violence centre cork

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE.

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM.

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU.

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h

Time for this classic again.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 5h

If you’re interested in gender violence at universities, my favorite book on it is A Survivor’s Education by Joy Neumeyer, which looks at the Title IX process both as a system of political repression and as a way of revoking women’s epistemic authority. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joy-n...

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A Survivor’s Education

A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to belie...

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 5h

I’ve had to learn many skills; not just avoidance but, more troubling, how to placate men and shift around them to avoid being victimized. The number of times I escaped harm by pretending and strategic maneuvering is tragic—but a bold no so often meant violence to follow. A silent epidemic of harm.

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 6h

We are not encouraged to talk about sexual assault. We are told to go quietly, shamed into silence. What is happening to #JaneDoe: it isn’t about me. But it IS about US. So I’m talking. I was molested at 5. I was assaulted by my boss at 22. There have been near misses and escapes all along the way.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 23h

Little tip. If you see a spelling or grammar mistake in a post or the post isn’t quite right, move on. You really don’t need to point it out.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 11h

'Angela, I knew, would sit up half the night dispatching pieces of wedding cake, the very cake that was giving me such unaccustomed indigestion. I wondered if there were any precedent for a bridegroom wanting to spend his wedding night on his own.' #BookSky jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/a...

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Altered States by Anita Brookner

Slowly but surely, I’m working my way through Anita Brooker’s exquisitely written novels in publication order – they really are jewel-like in construction. First published in 1996, Altered States i…

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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 11h

I struggle to remember which of the Russells is Howard and which Kane.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 11h

While I have no intention of watching “Celebrity Traitors”, it has at least served one purpose, which is letting me realise James Acaster and Joe Lycett are different people.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 15h

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 11h

Super Untelligence. Morning.

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 11h

Poor Nick has not absorbed the full joy of going to a concert, seeing music performed by people, live. He has not considered how humans pour their life story, trials, triumphs, influences, and spirit into their music. Music is just slop. It is personalised to you, but has no soul, heart or mojo.

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Chin @lighthealing.bsky.social · 11h

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Cortisol-Infused Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Love this one. A+ McSweeney's.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve gone down a dark hole of looking up Tudor items on Vinted and oh my word

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there are going to be so so so many stories of disasters when agents with full access to users' everything make huge mistakes there is no harness or minder on earth that can catch every single edge case

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the thing about automation, as every automation Knower will tell you: you automate the repetitive tasks; the more variability and idiosyncracy there is (aka the real world) the fewer zeroes you get after the decimal on reliability, pretty soon the results are unacceptable

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Area Dad Sure Knows A Lot About Local Weather Woman theonion.com/area-dad-sure-knows-a-…

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 28/09/2026

because the plaintiff's actions were illegal. The judgment was enforced anyway because no one showed up to oppose it. Now the Generative AI says to just bring a new lawsuit. Guess what? You can't, because the judgment already happened. STOP USING AI FOR LEGAL THINGS.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 28/09/2026

Today's generative AI legal fail: The AI told Prospective Client that the case against them wasn't meritorious so they didn't need to show up to court. They didn't show up to court. They lost. The Generative AI said don't worry, the judgment wouldn't be enforceable,

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tbf This is how you know rowling is having a not great time Its desperation to have your literary workon a toothbrush imo

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Fickle Filly @ficklefilly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have the face of a much saner person.

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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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jonnythatcher.bsky.social @jonnythatcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So it turns out that Donald Trump has been keeping tabs on the Fairford dogging scene… #R4pm

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We’ve got racing from Newton Abbot, boxing from Bethnal Green and all the latest from the Welsh snooker championships. A fascinating afternoon of sport gets underway though with dogging from Fairford.”

Dickie Davies. Absolute king of fucking suave. Fuck you Steve Rider you Aled Jones headed ponce. DD was the daddy and all you Grandstand cunts know it.

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Mister Alex @awp.christies.org.uk · 28/09/2026

🎼 They were dogging They were dogging At RAF Fairford they were snogging Each other in the car A farmer saw them from afar And as the fuzz came calling they went jogging 🎶 (With apologies to Fascinating Aïda)

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe the "very English" aspect of it all is that the entire thing turns out to be an embarrassing mistake.

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max booth will never die @interrobangbus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

referring to my book fans as “pay pigs” the same way stephen king uses “constant reader”

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

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

me: let’s just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks waiter: please don’t

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Then we might have a chance of policy-making that reflects the public interest, of the dog wagging the tail, of discussion and argument leading to better outcomes, rather than being used as a distraction from the real nature of power. Thank you.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That’s because the decision has already been made. The issue being debated is merely the post-hoc justification. Where decisions happen and where debate happens are different places. The idea that debate leads to policy outcomes is a fiction designed to create an impression of democratic consent.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Then the government must find a find of selling this policy, which might be very harmful. It will argue that it’s essential for “growth”, “jobs”, “international standing” etc. Opponents will then argue these claims, engaging in the great democratic tradition of “debate”. But debate is irrelevant.

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