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Liz Ditz Still masking

@lizditz.bsky.social
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Trans rights are human rights. None of us are safe until all of us are safe. Dyslexia, autism, vaccines work. She/her.

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Greg McLean @gregmcleanyyc.bsky.social · 47m
2/2: There are several events happening around Calgary today. The Chamber of Commerce has assembled a full list which you can consult here: mailchi.mp/calgarychamb... #calgarycentre #yyc #cdnpoli #dayoftruthandreconciliation [picture from Pokaik's Walk last year].
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National Day for Truth & Reconciliation: Events and Learning Resources
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Greg McLean @gregmcleanyyc.bsky.social · 47m
1/2: Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation; also Orange Shirt Day as a visible reminder of children whose language & culture were taken from them. Reconciliation takes time & consistent effort to ensure Indigenous Cdns are fully respected. Today reminds us all of that responsibility.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23m
AI is being pushed by people who just tell others what to do and expect that they never say no. So of course they love it! It perfectly models what THEY think work is. But that's not what work is for most people!
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 51m
NEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I write to notify the panel of two legal developments material to the
panel’s resolution of this case.
First, today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—filed a
lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana against nearly three dozen
individuals and entities responsible for remotely dispensing FDA-
approved mifepristone in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. See
Louisiana v. Nouhavandi, No. 2:26-cv-03836 (W.D. La.) (attached). As
the complaint in that case illustrates, none of those individuals and
entities could carry out their current operations without the 2023
REMS’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement.
Second, also today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—
filed a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint (attached), Louisiana v.
New York, in the United States Supreme Court against New York,
Massachusetts, and California. The bill of complaint challenges the
telehealth shield laws of those states on various legal grounds.
Both complaints explain how Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v.
FDA will eliminate the flood of FDA-approved mifepristone into the
State. Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v. Nouhavandi will eliminate the
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ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send
any abortion drugs into the State. And Louisiana’s success in Louisiana
v. New York will strip all shield-law state residents—regardless of any
back-up drugs they may try to use—of the claimed authority to violate
Louisiana’s laws with impunity.
espectfully,
/s/J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
Solicitor General
Counsel for Louisiana
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Shy Ty🌎☮️ @xx-shyty-xx.bsky.social · 2h
Exactly this. If it wasn't live with a gaggle of witnesses, I would just assume it was AI slop.
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curlyjefferson613.bsky.social @curlyjefferson613.bsky.social · 3h
I’m a physical therapist, I’ve got 13 years of experience mostly in geriatrics (which should prove useful in this case) - I have absolutely no earthly idea what’s going on with the biomechanics here. I’m almost tempted to say it’s AI
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johangrills.bsky.social @johangrills.bsky.social · 3h
It's his robot legs. Thus the fanny pack
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 3h
The excellent folks at SABR have just released a new publication, free in e-book, entitled How We Played the Game: Baseball at Manzanar, 1942-1945 (also the subject of my podcast's season 2!). It's edited by Ross Speiller & James Forr, & y'all should definitely check it out! 🗃️ +
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Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945 – Society for American Baseball Research
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 18m
OPINION: "Trump’s Sept. 18 announcement that CNN, MS NOW and Politico would be barred from the White House is not a personality clash or a disposable social-media provocation. It is an attack on the machinery by which Americans learn whether their government is telling the truth," Abbott writes.
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Opinion | Trump Continues to Weaken Independent Journalism
Van Abbott writes about President Donald Trump’s assault on independent journalism through banning several news outlets from the White House.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Markwayne Mullin is clutching a stress ball while answering questions from reporters
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1h
Imagine if a woman did this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Klobuchar on Schmitt: "He's not aware that there's also women's sports ... because they wanted to do this to distract everyone, I would say they got their comeuppance"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Klobuchar: "The fact that when people are hurting this much and literally can't pay their bills & insurance premiums, that he then spends govt money instead of to help people pay for their insurance, on an ad to glorify himself. They are making the connection now on corruption and affordability."
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17m
NEW: Republicans went ballistic when New Jersey admitted to an error that allowed fewer than 400 noncitizens to vote since 2023. But when 72,000 mail ballots were rejected across six states in the 2026 primaries over technical issues, the GOP remained silent. Democracy Docket breaks down the data👇
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A few noncitizen votes are a scandal. But thousands of rejected ballots are business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 21m
I mean, what is there to really say about a $2.50 Milky Way bar? Or a sink plug?
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 2h
Am I the only one getting a tad annoyed that every single purchase you make from a store results in getting sent a survey question by text or email shortly afterwards? What makes me particularly unhappy is that if you don't fill it out with 5 stars, it has consequences for the staff who served you.
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 42m
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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'Understand the fight': Events honor survivors, families of Native boarding schools
Communities across Minnesota are gathering to honor those impacted by Native American boarding schools.
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 41m
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Abducted, renamed, but still here – the art of the first Native New Yorkers and their fight for their land
The US tried to forcibly assimilate the Lenape in brutal boarding schools, but a new exhibit proves their modern-day culture is vibrant and alive
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres
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­­ ­ ­ the­ ­­ ­ ­ postes @rem.bsjky.team · 29m
its like if credit cards came in envelopes that said THIS IS A CREDIT CARD on them
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2h
'The materials that make up the 2026 Suicide Prevention Total Force Awareness Training use several video segments with AI-generated characters, scenarios and presenters to deliver portions of the annual instruction required across the force. '
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 7h
Other discoveries came from listening to DJs on alt radio playing things I would never have thought to listen to. I don't know how many times I've Shazam'd a song while driving to add to my library later.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h
oh, did Claude invent an algorithm to recommend music based on the music you like is it different from what Spotify and Pandora and every other streaming music app has already been doing is it worth the absolutely ludicrous amount of money they spent developing it
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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farqfox.bsky.social @farqfox.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
“Only boring people get bored”
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Joe Shoop @joeshoop.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
"Free time problems" has a much stronger implication of busyness being a virtue, and of idleness being a waste. Coming from Norway, that'd be culturally related to the "protestant work ethic" and Proverbs 18:9 - "One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys."
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Ⓐntifa Frontenac 🇨🇦⚜ @antifafrontenac.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Sounds on par with "first world problems" - people complaining about incredibly petty things
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Johannes 📎🌻🏳️‍🌈 @gisken.eurosky.social · 22/03/2026
In Norwegian we have «fritidsproblemer», which literally means «free time problems», and sort of indicates the same thing. I realise I haven’t used it in ages, but as a teenager, asking «do you have free time problems» was a low-level insult, along the same lines
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 22/03/2026
Okay this got more popular than I was expecting, if you'd like more linguistics hobbies, may I suggest @lingthusiasm.com? This ep: What makes words like schadenfreude, tsundoku and hygge so compelling? What does it say about English that we have a word for "trick someone into watching Rick Astley"?
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18: Translating the untranslatable
Lingthusiasm Episode 18: Translating the untranslatable Lists of ‘untranslatable’ words always come with… translations. So what do people really mean when they say a word is untranslatable? In t...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Rep. Rich McCormick on data centers: "They're not gonna use your water. They're gonna keep your electricity rate low. They're gonna pay for your teachers, schools, roads, most likely your property taxes. You're gonna have more jobs. It's gonna be an amazing thing to have in your neighborhood."
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 3h
I'd just like to remind everyone that Joe Biden can still ride a bicycle. Even with cancer.
Former duly elected president of the United States Joseph R. Biden riding a bicycle.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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The Weather Network @weathernetwork.bsky.social · 4h
Meet Barry and Noah Stevens, a father-son duo from the Wasaaba First Nation in Nova Scotia. They spent seven years developing FireGuardian, an innovative 3D wildfire mapping program that simulates fire behavior to help protect communities from increasing wildfire threats.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
"Schmitt says he stands by his claim that Smith is a 'dirtbag' and a perjurer. And with that kind of commitment to the bit, he’s definitely a shoe-in for the VP spot." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith
When gotchas go disastrously wrong.
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Indivisible Bucks County @indivisiblebux.bsky.social · 5h
HOLY PA-01 SCOOP IN POLITICO!! Brian Fitzpatrick's awful ads seem to show a bunch of news headlines. But those deceptive quotes didn't come from actual news reports - they were written by one of his wedding guests, a felon who was once on the payroll of his own campaign, who self-published them!
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The source of Brian Fitzpatrick’s campaign ad attack fodder: A guest at his own wedding
Self-published articles from a longtime ally are showing up in the vulnerable Pennsylvania Republican’s attack ads.
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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 17h
Speaking of another "Neither Left nor Right" magazine promoting rapists. I hope Tracey lives out the rest of his life in excruciating pain, abject poverty and silence. bsky.app/profile/just...
Compact magazine, Michael Tracey, "The Idiocy of the Epstein Mythology" [100%, all creeps]
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Spinsterellla @spinsterellla.bsky.social · 4h
🎶 "A single mom who works too hard and loves her kids and never stops"🎶
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 6h
She also adjusted her pace to ensure the injured cub could keep up. By 2008, he was observed hunting on his own & at the age of 20 is King of the Fat Bears, holding his own at the crowded Brook Falls. A story of a mother's love, sacrifice & a little cub who became a champion fat bear. 🥹
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How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack
Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 6h
Here's Backpack as a yearling in 2007, unable to put weight on the injured paw. Holly took her cub & moved upriver, away from aggressive bears who might harm him at Brooks Falls. Fishing was harder for the pair, and she risked both of them struggling or starving, but he was SAFE.
Backpack in 2007, nursing an injured paw that is turned under, so that he can't put any weight on it.  If you're wondering why they didn't provide vet care, it's their policy not to interfere when an injury is natural and not caused by human activity.

I think this photo is by David Kopshever, National Park Service?  It's on a blog linked below.
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 16h
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 6h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 3h
We're honored to be the subject of a new paper: "[R]etraction Watch remains an illustrative case, a distinct digital‐age organisation that stands as a significant example of the long‐anticipated, but little‐realised, idea of watchdog science journalism," Declan Fahy writes.
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Watchdog Science Journalism: How Retraction Watch Fosters Accountability in Science | Article | Media and Communication
Declan Fahy
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Six is ravenous and profane. @thesix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stay at home parents never have errands to run between the hours of 9 and 5. Kids hate a place they can go to play with other kids and toys they don’t/can’t have at home.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4h
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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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JCO for the win.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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