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shawnomancy @shawnomancy.bsky.social · 39m

If you see her name, no you fucking did not. If you see someone willfully sharing her name, all bets for that someone are off.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 16h

THIS. Rape is a common evil because men don't learn how to respect women's autonomy. Their friends don't call them out on their behavior. AND most of the time, nothing happens to them when they do commit rape.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 21h

$500,000 might not seem like a lot for an NFL owner like Jed York but you have to remember: that’s enough for him to have had sex 3,125 times at his preferred rate of $160

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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last year you all helped me raise almost $4,000 in scholarship funds. I’d like to introduce you to the wonderful scientists who received a #FindThatLizard Scholarship. 🦎

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026

The White House is coordinating with the Justice Department to hide its abortion agenda from voters until after they've voted in order to try to influence the results of the election.

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Katie Howland @katiehowland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When my husband was in college, he helped found a fraternity. The night he heard about a guy getting shitty w/ a woman at their house, he walked into the (1st floor) room & pushed the fucker out the window. Men: in case you're wondering, THAT is the level of allyship we expect from 57/57 of you.

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Saga, sighs queen @saga.iam.bi · 02/10/2026

me when I drink a cup of coffee after 3pm

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PLEASE SHARE! i have a bunch of new followers so i am going to soft launch this: the third edition of my organizing guide "40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Legal Tactics for Grassroots Activists" is being released & I'm trying to raise $1,000 to buy bulk copies for free distribution.  fundrazr.com/f2mBV1

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help fund free copies of the 3rd edition of "Forty Ways to Fight Fascists"

The third edition of "40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Legal Tactics for Grassroots Activists" is now out, and I am raising funds to get even more copies to distributors.

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) "Mountain Juniper" 1933. Oil on canvas.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Richard Milhouse Nixon not only wasn't convicted of his blatant crimes, he recieved a full presidential pardon, events which set the tone/laid the groundwork for the increasingly naked corruption of American politics in general & the Republican party in particular through the 20th & 21st centuries…

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 01/10/2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a law to protect young people facing criminal allegations from deceptive law enforcement techniques by limiting how police use undercover agents. cal.news/4y2yJQx 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

Construction of the annex at the state Capitol in Sacramento on April 29, 2024. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trumpers and a certain group of conservatives believe that the President is an elected king, so investigating the king's potential criminality is inherently unlawful and some go so far as to call it treason. They're doing this now to justify whatever they want to do in the near future.

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Stephanie Quick @lunarose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

grusch fully bought into this project 2026 administration, what a shocker! also shook that rogan hosted this T ass kissing session

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Filling our niche:

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A western kingbird just floating through the air. Also a lifer for me! #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Western kingbird with brown feathers and yellow belly in flight, its underside facing the camera.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The wee Ruby-crowned Kinglets passing through on their Fall migration. None of these birds are showing a red crown; it's often hidden, and only the males have them.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Common Yellowthroat in the yard, fueling up for migration #birds 🌿

A small yellowish beige bird with a yellow throat and black and white mask around its eyes stands on a thin branch, looking down intently at something out of frame.

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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to the Lizard Art Walk this past Sunday at the Stone Barn Nature Center!

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James ⛰️🌾🇵🇸 @plantbard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The leaves are not upset that they're leaving their branches Things change, time passes, death happens

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This took me 2 years off-and-on to finish & dig up all kinds of new info. Academic articles don’t pay so if you’d like to support publishing like this, please sign up for my Patreon. For $2+/mo you get exclusive content & support independent antifascist research. www.patreon.com/spencersunshine

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(There was so much more to say about O9A but I just ran out of space!) It's in the excellent new issue of the “Journal of Right-Wing Studies” (vol 4, #1), which also has articles about Ruby Ridge, Dietz’s Liberty Bell BBS, the Peekskill Riots, and Moms for Liberty. escholarship.org/uc/jrws

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The article takes you from LaVey’s early NRP connections, the first Nazi-Satanist groups in the mid-1970s, the Church of Satan’s connection to James Mason & SIEGE, Kerry Bolton, Varg and NSBM, the Joy of Satan, the TST founders’ origins & today’s popularity of the Order of Nine Angles & NVE.

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...

image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Sandhill Crane calls at other Sandhill Cranes that are passing by overhead. I can tell this a male as they throw their head back 90 degrees while calling, while the females throw their heads back 45 degrees.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Yellow-rumped Warblers have been feasting on Waterlily Planthoppers, which have been hanging out on cattail reeds.

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AP Strange @apstrange.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A new blog post has arrived for your reading pleasure, featuring Talking Dogs! A whole bunch of talking dogs! Why wouldn't you want to read about talking dogs? Check it out! www.apstrange.com/2026/09/a-ca...

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A Catalog of Talking Dogs

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And you can directly walk this back to Gamergate and before. The argument that women "invaded" male gaming spaces (like D&D and video games), that women only game for male attention, are all derived from the same mentality that got us Ready Player One, The Manosphere, and Palantir.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...

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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A banana slug! The second biggest slug in the world. 😊🐌 Saw this one at the Timber Cove Resort in California one morning last week.

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Chris "🍻🍻" @thecellarmonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Aww ... not feetloaf for dinner again

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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Herpetology is very much a white and male field because of racism. There's no getting around that. Historically and presently Black people were/are not seen as knowledge holders and contributors by the academy.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Do y’all know about Find That Lizard? Check out the thread to see if you can find the stealth lizard. (With the location shown at the end of the thread.) And follow @afroherper.bsky.social for a new hidden lizard every Wednesday! 🌿 #herps

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DavBatz @davbatz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good Morning! It is Thursday September 24. #OTD In 1825, Frances E. Watkins Harper was born. She was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first Black women to be published in the United States. #Herstory

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We've put together a guide for folks who are new to absentee voting (or new to voting in general!) that has all the official MN SOS links you need and explains the steps in plain language: www.sd14dfl.com/blog/absente...

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2026 MN Absentee Voting FAQ

Answers to your questions and links to the resources you need for absentee voting in the Minnesota 2026 General Election.

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enantiomer @bonkydog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

death camps

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Nicky 🦋🐛🌱🌿🐈‍⬛🐈 (she/her) @nhallerwilson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anyone want a silkie rooster? SF east bay! DM me! They’re allowed in the city we live in (Berkeley), but my neighbor (rooster owner) has another neighbor who is not a huge fan He’s rather quiet, doesn’t crow much!

Fluffy cream rooster with fluffy cream boots and a bit of red underneath beak, standing in chicken coop with straw and grey chicken house behind

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