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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 23h
Well, I guess it’s good to know that AI entities will ignore a no and pilfer all the messages on a listserv you’re on.
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Doug Lucas @douglaslucas.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Air-L is an email list maintained by the Association of Internet Researchers. Today an email there stated it was from "Velvet Vale" using address velvetdespot@gmail.com and openly identifying as an #AI agent who was joining the list to look into the chance of meaningfully contributing as a non-human
Collage image shows AI pioneer Alan Turing, what I believe to be an instruction table (early  term for software code), and more old-timey, slightly spooky computer-y stuff.
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Anna 👩🏻‍💻 @annajobin.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Well played, @AoIR , well played! #AoIR2026
A screenshop of the AoIR webshop displaying a black t-shirt with the white slogan “I survived Velvet Vale gate #AOIR2026 “ printed in the front
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 15/10/2026
They key words here are "We said no, but apparently, [the agent] subscribed anyway"
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Predictable but good to hear. The livestream idea was grotesque but the real problem was (and is) the execution itself. Hope people don't tune out. (But, again, Trump carried out 13 executions at the end of his first term and very few people even noticed.)
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Supporting Abortions for Everyone - S.A.F.E. @supportabort.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Join us at PIC Amsterdam on 27th October for the Abortion Fund Watch Party! 💚 Register here: www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-ab...
Text says 'Abortion Fund Watch Party by hook or by crook, abortions in the middle ages with Noam Yadin-Evron', 27 October, 6:30-8:30pm at the PIC Amsterdam'
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I'll have a livestream update on "hot Santa Ana" wind event & associate fire weather threat across parts of California at 4pm PT on Thu, Oct 15. I'll discuss where recent rains have--and have not--meaningfully mitigated risk, and assess any active fires.
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Live update: "Hot Santa Ana" wind event & autumn fire weather threat Thu-Fri in parts of California - YouTube
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 10/15/2026 topic: I...
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The mobility of children is simply not taken seriously or viewed as important. Something illustrative is how people will often say that kids "don't count" when you remind them that children and young teens are nondrivers who deserve the right to get around without cars.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The worship will get worse before the reckoning truly begins.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It’s a fascinating and disturbing phenomenon to behold.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Someone made a silly web comic about billionaires suddenly exploding and posted it it in the comics subreddit where a large number of temporarily embarrassed aspirational millionaires rose up to defend the fictional exploded billionaires. www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/H...
reddit.com
From the comics community on Reddit: "The day all billionaires died…"
Explore this post and more from the comics community
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Project 2025 called for weakening protections for America’s public lands, wildlife and sacred sites. Now wild horses are being sold for as little as $25, and endangered-species protections have been weakened. The agenda is being carried out on the ground. Read more:
globalextremism.org
No Accident: Project 2025 Comes for Public Lands
Project 2025’s vision for public lands is becoming policy. Wild horses are being sold into a slaughter pipeline, national monuments have been drastically reduced, endangered species protections weaken...
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 13/10/2026
A two-car crash Tuesday resulted in one vehicle smashing into the front of lesbian bar Jolene’s on the corner of 16th and Harrison streets.
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SUV crashes into lesbian bar Jolene's in Mission District, injuring one
The facade of the bar Jolene's was caved in on Monday after a two-car crash that left one injured. Owner estimates heavy repair costs.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Thank you!
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Bay Area News @bayarea.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
PG&E warns of possible power shutoffs across Bay Area counties
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PG&E warns of possible power shutoffs across Bay Area counties
PG&E warns of possible power shutoffs Wednesday through Saturday in parts of Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.
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SFist @sfist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
After some manufactured controversy over a Pride flag that has been flown at Sonoma Valley High School since 2019, the school board voted to remove it last week, which has prompted a protest by students. buff.ly/wHf9E0C
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Sonoma Valley High School Students Stage Walkout In Protest of Pride Flag Removal
After some manufactured controversy over a Pride flag that has been flown at Sonoma Valley High School since 2019, the school board voted to remove it last week, which has prompted a protest by…
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Unlike the rest of the DSA at large, the S.F. DSA is not truly heinous to sex workers. I’ll give them that. But I’m never going to work with the DSA broadly until the movement is safe for me.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Evergreen. Cops always get more money for more and more overtime.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It wouldn’t be the same exact pot of cash, it’s just so aggravating watching people be adamant that the city should spend money on a doomed highway while so many vital services and resources are languishing or eliminated.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If nothing else, spending $10-20 million dollars to undo one of the most popular spaces in the city when our public schools will be back on the chopping block soon is insulting.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
How many more years are we going to have to defend the existence of a park in this city? The park is going to win the vote as it has every other time the matter has been raised but I guarantee that the car people are going to make it an issue again at the next opportunity.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I’m not a socialist so I’m not going to join a socialist org and help make it better. I fight for what I believe in pretty damn hard elsewhere.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Of course we need better transit but no one is voting for the park OR buses. Can we please stop spending millions of dollars every year to decide whether or not to keep a totally doomed highway open to cars?
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Should the city of San Francisco vote for the umpteenth time on whether or not to spend a minimum of $10 million dollars to rip out one of the most popular outdoor spaces in the city to bring back cars on an eroding coastline to save drivers 3 min of traffic? The DSA just doesn’t know 🤷
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thank you! 😊
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thank you!! 😊
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 13/10/2026
"Moms for Liberty is deploying artificial intelligence to monitor school board agendas across more than 13,000 school districts nationwide, giving parents advance warning about controversial policies before local officials vote on them, Fox News Digital has learned."
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Moms for Liberty unleashes AI watchdog on 13,000 school districts to flag controversial policies before votes
Moms for Liberty is deploying artificial intelligence to monitor school board agendas across more than 13,000 school districts nationwide, giving parents advance warning about controversial policies b...
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Grindr is training its AI on your photos, your age, and your taps by default, without asking. This video shows where the app buried the off switch. The stakes are high on an app like Grindr. Numerous countries criminalize same-sex relations, so being outed through your data can be dangerous.
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual @simple-sabotage.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 13/10/2026
Hackers Turn French Supermarket Refrigerators Into Furnaces
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Hackers Turn French Supermarket Refrigerators Into Furnaces
A nationwide cyberattack exploited vulnerable remote controllers to force freezers to 50°C, causing millions of euros in losses and prompting a national cybercrime investigation.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Celebrated my 42nd birthday by doing a trail half marathon. Found a shattered but beautifully bleached deer skull (obviously a personal gift to me from a mountain lion) then headed up to Guernville to eat copious amounts of carrot cake with wine.
Maggie Mayhem wearing a finishers medal at a race finish line beside a lake Maggie Mayhem pisinh on grass beside a lake at dawnMaggie Mayhem takes a selfie beside the Russian River in a Madonna Inn baseball cap and black velvet turtleneck Maggie’s hand holds a shattered animal skull found on a trail
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Reading thru lawsuits against xAI for generating CSAM--one school photographer in Arkansas took the school photos he was taking to generate CSAM of both girls and boys. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Complaint – #1 in Doe I v. X.AI Corp. (N.D. Cal., 3:26-cv-08567) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against X.AI Corp., X.AI Holdings LLC, X.AI LLC ( Filing fee $ 405, receipt number ACANDC-22352318.). Filed by John Doe I, Jane Doe III, Jane Doe V, Jane Doe IV, Jane Doe I, Jane Doe II. (Sa...
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Prism @prismreports.org · 09/10/2026
“When I got out, I felt so happy because I had my son in my belly & I thank God that I am out of that detention center. I never wish this on anyone.” The experiences of pregnant women in ICE detention show that eugenics remains an integral part of the system, Edith Romero reports.
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Pregnant women in ICE detention face policies shaped by eugenics
The experiences of detained women show that the American eugenics movement remains an integral part of the system
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One more thing about the death penalty before going offline. As disgusted as we should be by Trump's bloodlust, we should NOT lose sight of the CENTRAL role of Democrats in upholding, expanding, and enabling this system that seems to horrify so many people right now. It really cannot be said enough.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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SWOP Los Angeles @swopla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We are hiring a Stroll Coordinator! We are looking for candidates with strong interpersonal, organizational & administrative skills. Current & former street-based sex working candidates highly preferred. Full description: swoplosangeles.org/hiringstrollcoor…
Dark gray background with red, white, chrome graphic accents. SWOPLA black and red heart fist logo. Text in black.

Text reads: We are hiring. Stroll Coordinator. Paid position ~5 hrs every other week. In-person in Los Angeles. Current & former street-based sex work experience highly preferred. Excellent time-management skills with ability to manage multiple tasks & priorities effectively. Strong interpersonal & administrative skills. Apply now.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic. 
In the first panel, we see a pair of ghosts. The first ghost says, “Let us make love, my darling.”
In the second panel, we see  see the second ghost’s face, blushing. It says, “Here? In public?”
In the third panel, we again see the pair of ghosts together. The first one says, “No one can see us, we’re ghosts!”
In the fourth panel, the title reads “the cat”. We see a cat looking up at them.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
According to the Stockton Chronicle in #California, "Residents in Tulare County were reportedly seen forming a long caravan of vehicles behind a truck carrying masked federal immigration agents as the agents departed the area." Locals screamed, "Get the fuck out!"
Long caravan of cars trails ICE vehicles.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 08/10/2026
"When bystanders called 911 seeking emergency medical attention for the locked down protester, the callers were informed that emergency medical services would not be responding to the scene."
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States will now livestream executions by firing squad. apnews.com/article/fort...
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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Make the ceremonial death airplanes stop already jfc what a waste of resources
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Eugenics.
Screencap of a tweet:

Aella
@Aella_Girl
X.com
I used NeuroRisk for genetic screening for myself, and found that I have a mutation in six3. This likely caused my brother's death shortly after birth, and gives ~25% risk of my own kids suffering the same.
I'll be using this info in my embryo selection!
Tobias Wolfram
_twolfram. 5h
Today we launch NeuroRisk, the first embryo test for autism and schizophrenia that looks for mutations in evolutionarily important genes.
These mutations are individually rare but over 10% of...
Autism Risk in Children by NeuroRisk Percentile
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 08/10/2026
Hello, @apnews.com. Mifepristone is not “the nation’s main abortion pill.” It only works well in combination with another drug, misoprostol. Misoprostol actually DOES work well on its own. If there’s a “main” abortion pill, it’s that one.
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FDA says its safety review of abortion pill will continue into next year
The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Curtis Flowers, wrongfully imprisoned for more than 22 years, dies www.wlox.com/2026/10/07/c...
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Curtis Flowers, wrongfully imprisoned for more than 22 years, dies
Curtis Flowers, the Mississippi man who spent more than 22 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of four murders, has died. He was 56.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
since apparently the original article failed to upload:
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW: Historic Trees Demolished, Land Defenders Arrested and New Treesit at Border Yesterday, Border Patrol agents raided the anti-border camp on the U.S.-Mexico Border, arrested land defenders and cut down historic trees before a treesit was re-established today.
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Historic Trees Demolished, Land Defenders Arrested and New Treesit at US-Mexico Border - UNICORN RIOT
In the early hours of October 5, Border Patrol agents raided the anti-border camp on the U.S.-Mexico Border, arrested land defenders and cut down historic trees before a treesit was re-established the...
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sadly, it’s no shock she’s shackled. If someone incarcerated is giving birth they’ll be shackled even if they have an epidural placed for labor & delivery which prevents walking even in states with laws to limit that because no documentation is required & it’s at the guard’s discretion.
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You’re one of her fans, I get it.
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