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Hi Bluesky! 👋🏾 I’m Lyneka, MuckRock’s new Audience and Community Lead. I’m excited to be here! Looking forward to helping to build an even stronger community around MuckRock’s work.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find a lot of energy when I'm tired of being taken advantage of.

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So apparently 1) Video visits to NJ inmates now cost money 2) Video visits require a separate app to schedule a visit 3) There is no way to pay or schedule a visit in the app

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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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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026

In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel like "successful" streaming is a ponzi scheme. The streamers buy subs for the other streamers and sometimes hundreds or thousands. I'm still not understanding companies flooding streaming with money.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am not loving the start of the new ADW so I'm going to watch the original.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Baby's first day today: www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Before I commit to a one month Netflix account, how many episodes of A Different World are available online?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Because the Democrats who take over in 2029 will inherit a bankrupt country, anti trust and anti corruption should be the circuses performed for voters. There's no bread to offer.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Y'all said that Bradley Cooper's cheesesteak spot in NYC is good. It is not.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What's a good off-broadway/broadway play, show or experience happening in NYC in October? Help.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's my experience that the men who work directly with younger men in mentorship and other programs aren't online talking about it. They just do it. The ones constantly talking about the 'crisis of young men' online aren't doing anything. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by [Facebook's] automatic system” and are filtered out." Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why is it so much effort to figure out how to remove a gmail account from an iPhone? This should not be that hard.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I would have liked her to explore if the grade inflation was because of a "famous" parent.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My grandmother joined the internet at the same time as me. She grew up attending segregated schools. Her screen name was that of a person who knew the value of community education. Her handle was the nation’s first Black public high school. A school she presumably wished she could have attended.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I feel like I would have had a different reaction to that article if it discussed how she attempted to equip teachers with more resources and access, and how she got the school to recruit and fund more teachers or try some special programming. But, like, okay, you wrote some checks.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

“Mama please don’t write to the NYT and tell the entire country I can’t read.” - my cousin reading this

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026

This is a profoundly systemic issue … that you just proved was… PROFOUNDLY SYSTEMIC???

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026

You came to the school and discovered the school was under resourced… ran back to the New York Times and told America this school is under resourced and my daughter struggles with long division Now Thomas chatterton Williams is in France saying “i told you so”

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026

When Black people that do not like black people are lending you credence You are in the ideological endgame

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Truer words.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I learned this week that the New York Times was founded 175 years ago. There is a useful set of pieces floating around on this for journalism history buffs. But what struck me is that means the Times was founded 25 years *after* the black press which will celebrate its 200th birthday in a few months

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Cornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

If your child was struggling like you say, and the school wasn’t helping, why not escalate that to the superintendent? Did you join the school board? And it’s no way you’re going to sit here and make it seem like you were one of 5 parents in the school who cared about their kids education.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” “Do the thing and you will have the power.”

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In my city, we had three high schools, and you tested into honors before school began. One year, I tested into honors math, and I went straight to my guidance counselor like, “No, ma’am. That is not accurate.”

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Many educators land at a school like this because they cannot get hired at a 'better' school." I need an educator from a NYC public school to respond to this piece. I'm about to lose my mind.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I wanted to understand how it could be that Najya had gotten A’s in algebra but knew hardly any of it, and how despite being an honors student at Unison, she wasn’t prepared for the rigors of her high school." A kid can be an honors student in High School and not be prepared for college.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm old because I didn't know teachers kept grading assignments for school aged kids. In my day, the teacher recorded the grade and sent the assignments home with you.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not going to like this read. 🫠

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why would drones be kept in a public arc?

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Documentaries about real scammers should be offered to the viewing public for free. Not paying to learn about that woman's fake blood tests.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I do hope a strongly worded letter is coming forthwith. And I’d suggest perhaps a more muted invitation for Mr. Trump to the next WHCA black tie event.

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ngl, one of my toxic traits is asking a question that I already know the answer to to see if the person is going to lie to my face. If they're not truthful, I don't confess the knowledge. I just note they're not to be trusted.

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is the final day of our reader referral campaign, and it’s also my (@lyneka.bsky.social) last day at PJP. So I’d love to make one final push for something I’ve cared deeply about: helping more people discover the work of incarcerated writers.

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Join the #PJPCommunity. Subscribe to The Inside Story.

The Inside Story is Prison Journalism Project's free newsletter, sent every Sunday, featuring stories written by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Warren Buffett steps down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, a post he has held since 1970. @apnews.com $BRK

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That moment when you can't find your phone and it is clearly set to ringer off ... 🫠

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

20 new subscribers to go! We set a mini-goal of 29 new subscribers from Bluesky by Friday, and we’re getting there. If you haven’t subscribed to The Inside Story (or KITES) yet, now’s a great time. Help us get more stories by incarcerated writers in front of more readers.

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An Indiana prison allows some residents to raise kittens thanks to a partnership with a cat shelter. "I am thankful that after all these years, my nightmares have dissipated with the healing imprint of Lady’s paw. Other prisoners have experienced the same rehabilitative results with this program. "

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In My Prison Cell, a Cat Lives Out Its Life

Indiana State Prison allows select residents to care for a feline companion in their cells.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Students often come to me ashamed, saying they don’t know why so much is going wrong (health, injuries, family), that they feel cursed & fear teachers will think they’re lying. When I say it’s normal, everyone is having crises b/c mind & body r worn down by world crisis, they’re so relieved they cry

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lyneka.bsky.social @lyneka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm trying to unsubscribe my work account from the many newsletters I'm subscribed to, but apparently, at large outlets, unsubscribing doesn't actually work.

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