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Playing EDH, reading novels, and eating pasta. All Cats Are Beautiful. Trans rights are human rights. Intersectionality or GTFO. She/her.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h
Seven people detained previously by ICE filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the agency, accusing it of illegally refusing to return their personal documents and belongings months after they were released from custody.
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ICE sued for refusing to return detainees' papers and property
One plaintiff is jobless after his work authorization was taken. The agency also won't return his wedding ring.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 13/10/2026
After a woman obtained public records indicating a Google datacenter would cover only one-third of the cost of a new solar plant to power the facility — contradicting its promises that ratepayers would not be on the hook — her electricity company sued her.
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An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued.
Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16h
...fuck yeah, Rep Ramirez. Fuck yeah.
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M as in @loxodonsmiter.bsky.social · 21h
This book is amazing. Gorgeous messy women out for justice and/or vengeance.
Cover of She’s a Doll by Barbara Truelove
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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
an interesting and, imo, important read. what does capitalism begin to consume (and/or accelerate its existing consumption of) as it exhausts material avenues for expansion? how do we (as workers, as storytellers) push back?
A screenshot of a section of the article reading: "So when you drink a few Monsters or Red Bulls, you’re still getting physically and mentally fatigued; your brain just doesn’t know it yet. It’s as if, instead of using an oven mitt, you just shot your hand full of Novocaine before grabbing a hot pan. The harm is still there. And in economic terms, this means that every time you work a long shift with chemical assistance, you’re not just selling your working hours to the boss. You’re also degrading the quality of life you’ll experience during your non-working hours, because that’s when the fatigue catches up to you, and you feel, to use the scientific term, like dogshit." The last one and a half sentences are highlighted.
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026
It's not good for you. It's really not.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
“One source told the outlet that officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.” newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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M as in @loxodonsmiter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"It is dehumanizing and abusive to hire someone explicitly for their expertise and ritualistically demean and dismiss it." YES, this is also true for other areas as well, not just design. Ask me how I know. (Uggghhh.)
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature today, was denied tenure by Princeton University in 1987.
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Lady Postseason, Himbos at Her Feet (she/her) @maggiesox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you can vote in person, vote in person. If you can’t vote in person, put it in a drop box. If you can’t vote in person and can’t get to a drop box, MAIL IT ASAP. Thise are your best options, in that order, with the caveat that states are trying various levels of fuckery so YMMV.
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 06/10/2026
it is very cool (read: very not cool) that "What if the entire regional economy immediately exploded?" is a ballot measure in the bay area because we are in the 'touching the hot stove' era of american history. if you live in the bay area you should vote for the regional transit measure.
The ballot initiative would raise the sales tax rate by 0.5 percentage points in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa and Alameda counties and by 1 percentage point in San Francisco, and is expected to generate roughly $980 million annually for the next 14 years to sustain bus, train, metro and ferry lines.

Many of the region’s transit agencies have already proposed contingency plans if the measure fails. BART said it would likely have to end service at 9 p.m. instead of at midnight, reduce train frequencies to 30 minutes and move from five-line to three-line service outside of peak commute hours. Caltrain has proposed eliminating weekend services, closing more than a third of stations and ending operations around 9 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. AC Transit is looking at reducing service by 16%, while Muni said it could eliminate up to 20 routes, cut service by at least 30% and end regular evening service.

The fiscal cliff facing transit agencies was triggered by the decline in ridership due to the pandemic and hit agencies heavily dependent on fare revenues, like BART, the hardest.SPUR, a nonprofit policy think tank sponsoring the measure, released a report last month that found that if the measure and San Francisco’s Proposition H fail, traffic delays on the Bay Bridge could increase by 33 minutes heading west in the morning and 43 minutes heading east in the evening. Caldecott Tunnel traffic could see delays of an additional 20 minutes in the morning and 27 minutes during the evening commute. Congestion could also worsen along Interstate 580, Interstate 680 and U.S. 101, the report found.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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M as in @loxodonsmiter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Vote early! Be sure.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 06/10/2026
*clears throat* *taps the sign* *the sign scurries off* bookshop.org/p/books/wick...
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Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of war.Looking after a defecting scientist sh...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We allow monsters to rule us
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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the abolitionist's dilemma
venn diagram
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some people need their ass beat
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punishment does not transform people
middle
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026
If you are outraged about this (and you should be, and I bet you are if you're reading this) and you want to do something about it: crank up that VPN and search for "ICE watch" or related activities + wherever you live. Get your Signal login going. Sign up for everything.
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M as in @loxodonsmiter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’d describe this book as Lovecraftian Gothic
Cover of Reliquary by Hannah Whitten
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hvspca-volunteer.bsky.social @hvspca-volunteer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is Rusty. He’s not beating the “all orange cats are dumb and friendly” vibe. A 5 month old kitten! Adopt him! He will absolutely not knock a wastebasket onto his own head!
An orange tabby shorthair cat looks at us beseechingly while making air biscuits
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 03/10/2026
we have doubled your rent, doubled your insurance premiums, tripled the cost of gas, quadrupled the price of groceries, and you're complaining that your wages haven't gone up since 1997? honestly sounds like a you problem
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M as in @loxodonsmiter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Stay safe, it's hot out there!
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TopatoCo @topa.to · 02/10/2026
Are your walls looking a little lonely and in need of some Odd Spirits? Maybe you already have spirits on your walls, but they could use a friend, I bet! Luckily @tkingfisher.com has lots of friends just for you at Topa.to/Redwombat! 👻 🌕 Topa.to/collections/red-wombat/products/rw-oddspirits 🌕
A graphic of Ursula Vernon's paintings featuring a goat rabbit creature with a golden halo around it. In the first one it is holding a yellow flowered stem and gestures its other arm out to the side. In the second painting it is pulling the skin around its eyes as one leg is bent upwards. The text on the graphic reads "odd spirit prints by Ursula Vernon".Two more paintings by Ursual. One is of a dog like creature with a leather hat on that covers its eyes, and green electric energy radiates from it. It also radiates from its paws. The second painting is of an owl like creature wearing a necklace and a robe, holding a stick with a feather dangling from it. A yellow halo is behind her head.The last piece of art from Ursula, featuring a white rabbit creature (wearing a hood, a shirt, gloves, and a skirt) standing in a lush field of bushes and flowers looking up at the moon.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
it's a glorified chatbot with a predictive text feature that wreaks havoc on the environment and has cluttered the internet beyond repair, will
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M as in @loxodonsmiter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
that's the sickest burn I've seen in a minute. damn.
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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 30/09/2026
Not sure if I'm supposed to wait for an official announcement on this one, but as it's available to order, I may as well share the link: goldsborobooks.com/products/the... Gender, trauma, toxic families, non-consensual shapeshifting ... and sprayed edges. What more could you want in a book
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The Animals We Became
You exist because of a crime, because of a curse, and because of a trick.Blodeuedd never asked to be made.Created from flowers of oak, broom, and meadowsweet to marry a man cursed never to have a huma...
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M as in @loxodonsmiter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ah yes the joys of renting. I Hate it so. Good luck!!
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 30/09/2026
ngl I would totally risk a smooch in the baroque creature pulpit
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Simplify your life by hibernating from now until spring
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
I'm so tired of everything about renting that I think I might scream and i am firmly of a generation in which there is essentially no way that we will ever own homes without losing someone we love and honestly, I think it's starting to get to me.
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explore.org @explore.org · 30/09/2026
Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.
A drawing of mine of a goose looking concerned, with a tag around its neck that reads "This month's rent, with thanks".

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Michaelmas
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 28/09/2026
I assume everyone who follows me knows who Ashley is because I mean HOW COULD YOU NOT but if you just arrived, she spends untold hours organizing to protect people being targeted by ICE and abandoned by their politicians, and any quarters we can shake out of the couch can help her heal in peace
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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What is wrong with our tech overlords? How did Silicon Valley's promises of progress and uplift flip into the sneering celebration of dominance? The great @adriandaub.bsky.social returns to unpack the current political and libidinal economy of Big Tech www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...
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Episode 160: Very Special Boys feat. Adrian Daub | Ordinary Unhappiness
Abby and Patrick welcome back returning guest Adrian Daub. The occasion is Adrian’s latest book, What Tech Calls Governing. A follow-up to h
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
stress is bad cat is good I choose cat
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This Machine Kills Hair Bands @she5los.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey, YOU! Do you want REALLY GOOD FAR-FUTURE SCIFI? Do you want ORIGAMI SPACESHIPS and HONOR DUELS and COURTLY INTRIGUE in the aftermath of a coup? Do you want a story that assumes you have a large vocabulary, but also tone-switches suddenly to be funny? Of course you do! Read Code and Codex!
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
things to bring to a job interview: iced coffee, music without headphones, a bag of disgruntled hornets things to take from a job interview: the means of production
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. So manye hues of greene. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.
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M as in @loxodonsmiter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It was so funny, I loved that episode. Great job!
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thomaslthomson3.bsky.social @thomaslthomson3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The wave of eugenics bullshit that the society-wide commitment to pretending that COVID was "over" in like 2022 unleashed, has served as one hell of a permission structure to allow SO MANY people's ableist bullshit to just pour out.
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M as in @loxodonsmiter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Governor Haircut get recalled challenge 2k26
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.
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Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Heads up, Bookworms: There will likely be💀supply chain issues💀 this holiday season. So if there are specific books you have your heart set on for holiday gifting, I strongly suggest you buy/order them ahead of time (✨like now✨) rather than waiting until November/December.
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
gavin newsom looks like he needs to be given the explicit instruction of “don’t eat it” every time someone hands him a baby
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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
But I don't want to scale my time. I want to appreciate my finite time, sometimes choosing to waste some of it on things that aren't productive but make me happy.
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M as in @loxodonsmiter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Governor Haircut get recalled challenge 2k26
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