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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 7h

GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 7h

My dad protested to my English teacher 20 years ago when they asked us to submit our 500 word write-ups to TurnItIn.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of my goals in writing this book was to get a copy in every college library so that survivors entering the Title IX system would know what they were getting into—and be able to use that knowledge however they wanted. But a lot of schools banned the book.

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 10h

@ThoughtSlime

People who become right wing because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 7h

Very rude of another hold to come in less than 30 minutes after I was at the public library picking up ILLs and picked up my OTHER hold.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 8h

Please, uhhh, enjoy today’s cursed item in the archives in the form of a fax cover sheet

“Clown Rushmore” with an oval depicting Mount Rushmore as different clowns.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 8h

I am seeing lots of advice to feed writer's stuff into programs to detect whether it is AI or not, and that seems super problematic on many levels, including that the accuracy of such programs is debatable. No one is more anti-AI than I am but I'm not gonna feed my hard-earned words into any program

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 7h

As an extremely cringe teen, my own art projects, two posters of legolas and or just orlando bloom, and a pirates of the caribbean one. I upgraded to a map of Japan and Super Junior posters in freshman year of uni.

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 8h

Photo of a book cover which features an illustration of a man and woman meditating aside a chakra map and inside a translucent pyramid which is flying over the desert. Copy and title read

It’s happening again

WHITE PEOPLE
UP TO
NO GOOD

by John D. Nuagape

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 8h

There's multiple good threads going around today about how to speak up when you see something wrong. I'd like to recommend "gentle parenting other adults". Examples: "no thank you, we use kind words, please" or "listening ears on! Our friend said 'no'" Condescending? Yes, and that's the point.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 9h

NEW. PENGUIN.

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Nina Modaffari @ninamodaffari.bsky.social · 11h

absolutely no hatred towards teen fantasy but I heard someone once call titles that are like 'a crown of blank and blank' stories as 'A kraft of mac and cheese' and I cannot stop thinking about it

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Sarah Polkinghorne @sarahpolk.bsky.social · 12h

FWIW Canadian librarians have been pushing back against Springer Nature on this issue for many months now. I always appreciate faculty support for libraries. It'd be great if they would also call in their own colleagues -- in this case, the researchers agreeing to stamp their names on slop "books."

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aj-boston.neocities.org @aj-boston.bsky.social · 9h

[*a horrifying Eldritch creature ushers me into a literal Borgesian library*] Me: "This cannot be." Creature: "You find this unfathomable, don't you?" Me: "Was this built before 1990?" Creature: "It is timeless." Me: "I don't think it's exempt. You're gonna have to make this ADA accessible."

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 9h

Ableism is a shapeshifting bitch. It never gets killed once it’s introduced. It just rearranges and bides its time. Like the Confederacy, like the Nazis, ableism is enjoying a current surge in popularity and with it new and exciting ways to be awful.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 9h

if it's about white people in a cisallohet relationship, then it's not like Heated Rivalry, hockey or not.

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 10h

My library has the most comprehensive Bram Stoker collection in the world, with over 4,000 items connected to Stoker, Dracula, and vampires. A large bulk of it is still unprocessed/uncataloged, but I’m really excited to have a new staff member working through it now! news.emory.edu/features/202...

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The vampire in the library

Bram Stoker collection celebrates his literary immortality at Emory’s Rose Library

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."

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Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it.

A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.

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Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 11h

“Providers, insurance and technology companies are creating apps for portable health records, for instance – […] opening up the records for governmental and outside use.” the only secure data is data that is never collected.

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 10h

What is it with people placing requests with the wrong book title and oclc record but right chapter title and ISBN?????

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 13h

Today's reminder that there's a boycott of the NYT due to their history of pushing anti-trans propaganda: transnews.network/p/boycott-th...

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Boycott The New York Times

For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...

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MJ @moonjoo.bsky.social · 12h

You know who don't have rapey group chats? Bears

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 12h

I’m disabled and an assault survivor and I see allegations of fakery for both the same way. The public attention, stigma, and violence that follow us around is far more intense than any benefit one might illicitly gain. Nobody would ever invite this level of scrutiny and judgment without cause.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16h

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · 13h

Pleased to report that a book on the Boston Molasses Flood is included in the "Unnatural disasters" book display. 📚 search.lib.uiowa.edu/permalink/f/...

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What Kevin said. And public media (which can be housed at universities- esp regional publics)!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 23h

Basically using LLMs and agentic ai is a massive security risk and no one should do so basically ever and these companies should be prosecuted for hacking. Also two-party consent should extend to all electronic communications.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 23h

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ask yourself why a CEO who can call the president on the phone needs to write a pleading open letter like he is a daycare provider who needs money for markers?

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 21h

"Breaking news: Product operates as designed. More at 11."

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 23h

But it reminds me again how dudes want to automate their mothers and girlfriends. How the last several rounds of tech have showed nothing but contempt for emotional labor and care work. The "put dinner in /get sex out" only it's tokens and syncophant praise.

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Laura Crossett @newrambler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI chat bots are an Ouija board.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"So many people are coming to us who have never come to the food bank before. It used to be people who were working hourly-wage jobs. Now we see salary employees." Maybe we should measure the "strength" of the economy not by the stock market but by the length of the line at our local food bank?

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 19/05/2023

The problem with capitalism is it distorts the natural balance of Fucking Around & Finding Out by creating a class that is allowed nearly infinite fuckery with zero finding out

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This man wants children to get sick more often, which would increase injuries and deaths in that population. Diseases would re-emerge in the general population too, infecting the elderly, immunocompromised, those fighting cancer, & those with chronic diseases. www.kcci.com/article/gop-...

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GOP governor candidate Zach Lahn backs ending school vaccine requirements

Lahn says he would support ending vaccine requirements for Iowa schoolchildren if elected governor

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Student reporting that named names at the @cornellsun, thereby igniting organized public outrage, did this. Your reminder that campus police report to the board of trustees, not the general public. Gift link: Cornell Sexual Assault Investigation to Be Reopened www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/n...

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Cornell Sexual Assault Investigation to Be Reopened (Gift Article)

After outrage over allegations in a lawsuit, the Tompkins County district attorney will revisit the decision not to pursue criminal charges against seven fraternity members.

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 28/09/2026

oh man, say it again. Workplaces should offer training. Universities are not training hubs.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This lady playing Ariel knows more about not manhandling wheelchair users and how to respect nonverbal kids than some SpEd professionals I’ve known. In all honesty, I am glad she’s out there spreading this to other performers.

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