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Shana Roy

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 7h
Capricorn: The walls have ears. They’re infected. And it’s contagious.
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 7h
Cancer: You will bear witness to the majestic beauty of nature this week but all you really care about is your phone.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 3h
Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in the 2026 midterms in Texas.
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hmmadness.bsky.social @hmmadness.bsky.social · 5h
#Nowwatching Rewatching Flow from 2024 as my wife has never seen it and wanted to watch it. Cats and beautiful animation. D:Gints Zilbalodis #Filmsky #Reelrank #Letterboxd
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 12h
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
believe in yourself, dumbass
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fredesque @fredtaming.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
emergency hotdog that heats up when you crack it like a glow stick
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Shana Roy @literarygrrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Austin in the rain. #PhotographySky #NaturePhotography #Grackle #Snail
A cute snail with a sand colored shell crawls across wet pavement A very wet and ruffled great-tailed grackle perches on a wooden railing. Rain streams down in the distance.
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Your daily affirmation: It's time to forge new relationships. Break up with anxiety, and shower your affection on curiousity and exploration instead.
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Mr. Bea Arthur, Batshit Crazy™️ @steamymac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Staying alive out of spite.
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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sisko skateboarding around the promenade on a Sisko skateboard is a powerful visual.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honestly instead of learning new techniques to hack my nervous system I'd like to live in a equitable life-affirming society that didn't push me into fight or flight hour after hour. You?
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ultimately I think human authorship is impoetant, even if AI tools are part of the process. (Part of, not the start and finish)
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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meg jones wall // 3am.tarot @megjoneswall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
and if you'd like to read more writings about grief, along with tarot spreads, exercises, and insights, i've got LOTS of newsletter pieces on the topic over in my archives. check 'em all out here: 3amtarot.ghost.io/tag/grief/
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grief - devils & fools
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meg jones wall // 3am.tarot @megjoneswall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
so that thing you feel in your throat and your heart and your stomach when you watch the news, when you see miscarriages of justice, when you feel rage about systemic violence, when you worry about the climate crisis, when you aren't sure what the future holds — that's grief, friend.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I was on the sidewalk, clearly talking on the phone when some Mormon girls interrupted me to ask “would you like to come to church with us?” And I said “I super don’t” without thinking.
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
MN GOP House candidate William Beck: "I am personally in favor of a poll test. I know they were ruled unconstitutional, but like, everyone voting, if you have no idea what you're voting for, like, why vote? Like, you clearly don't care if you don't understand what's going on, you know what I mean?"
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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mothra stewart @gorl.gay · 01/10/2026
what if it happens today?
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
911: what is your emergency HUMPTY DUMPTY: help iv’e fa len a d i c nt g t p 911: sir you’re breaking up HUMPTY DUMPTY: i know that’s why i called you
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What did YOU call all the sodas at once and was it an affront to the concept of mental health awareness?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking
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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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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hero.
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Brooklyn Rousseau (Spooky 365, not just October) 🎃 @glamgothcollective.mu.social · 01/10/2026
THERE IS NO TRANS DEBATE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE FASCISTS WHO WISH TO DOMINATE
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ELIMINATE TRANS PEOPLE
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Once again, we should not have a death penalty. But so long as we do, firing squad is the actually humane way to do it. But we don't do that because it allows society to understand that the death penalty is fucking barbaric and that killing people is not an appropriate use of government power.
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the 8th amendment is so deeply inadequate; it has failed to stop so much suffering and death in jails and prisons every single day. at this point it is practically a tool for professionalizing and institutionalizing violence against incarcerated people
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The video clip was almost painful to watch. She says “We are experiencing black joy to the highest level! And I want to be sure we document that in the congressional record!” Then she points at Chris Brown and says “we’ve got a real one!”
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hmmadness.bsky.social @hmmadness.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So next stop on my wife's Tremors Journey is Tremors 5: Bloodlines. From 2015 this is where most people feel the series started going downhill. What will @literarygrrrl.bsky.social think? D: Don Michael Paul #Filmsky #Tremors
Tremors 5: Bloodlines
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Went to Goodwill but they were all out.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Barber CEO: You Risk Falling Behind If You Don't Get A Haircut "Right Now" Industry Experts Foresee Future In Which Everyone Receives Multiple Haircuts Every Day Today Your Hair, Tomorrow The World: Barbers Say They Are On Track To Build A Pair Of Scissors So Big, It Could End Life As We Know It
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/09/2026
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park: Community members have gathered to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the death of local resident Silverio Villegas González, whom an as-yet unidentified ICE agent shot and killed on this block at the start of "Operation Midway Blitz."
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is stochastic terrorism. Ted Cruz is an extremist encouraging violence.
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 11/09/2026
25 years ago I was in 8th grade. 1st period algebra with Ms. Vaidean, watching channel 1 morning news when it happened. We watched the second plane hit live. I'll never forget what I saw, and I can't imagine what it was like to be at ground zero. I'll never forget what we lost that day.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that evangelical doctrine, up to and including the wildly popular Left Behind book series where the Democratic president essentially does exactly this, has for decades insisted this is how the antichrist will reveal himself.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026
As someone who has been covering transgender rights for years, let me be clear about something: When you see capitulation over sports, know that it NEVER stops at sports. And in fact, Turek illustrated this just yesterday when he embraced a federal ban on funding for all trans care.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 10/09/2026
stacy is older than her mom was when the song came out stacy has two kids and is on her second divorce stacy's mom died during covid
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If I could come back as anything in the next life, if I don't achieve nirvana (it's not looking good) it would be as Bunnicula.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
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