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Ryan Russell @ryanrussell1982.bsky.social · 3h

I like to point out when presented with this argument that asbestos is "sort of useful for some things" and then ask them if they want to go ahead and re-insulate their walls with it

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11h

One of my big takeaways from #MeToo was that the primary problem was never that men in positions of power didn’t believe victims. It was that they thought sexual violence is something women deserve.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6h

And I will never blame the non-techies for this. Our entire culture is built on the delusion that all of these rich tech guys are actually smart. It's a bipartisan delusion we still haven't broken. This is all on the tech industry. They broke it. They smashed it up on purpose with a baseball bat.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 11h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Carolyn Ciesla @carolynciesla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Feeling very overwhelmed that this happened. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A picture of a woman with dark hair and glasses, wearing a mustard cardigan over a black T-shirt with the quote "The perception is that nurses bring juice and fluff pillows and that librarians shush you and read all day. Really it’s careful curation of collections, providing tech support, teaching people how to use all manner of things in their lives. It’s connecting people to resources to help them eat, to help them find a roof over their head, to help fix their car. You can’t explain that to someone at a dinner party because they turn away and go, ‘Bye. Now I’m depressed.’"
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A. C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst University

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, please. Bury the infrastructure AND make it accessible. (I do not tolerate “but it’s cheaper” as an argument. Profit for rich people is the worst possible excuse for doing boneheaded things. Especially because this IS cheaper long-term. So don’t try it.) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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Disney World solved a problem that could save America billions every year

Our cities are built atop a dangerous obstacle course of cables. The Magic Kingdom found a better way.

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

Help us report by sharing this and visiting projects.propublica.org/sports-betti...

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N.F. Jimenez - drafting gay vampire books @nfjimenez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Telling people who don't know BL dramas that they can go to netflix right now and watch a gay romance show (The Next Prince) where the actors who play the main couple are actually dating in real life.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is your reminder not to let those joyless fucks convince you that human experience, knowledge, intellect, and art can be reduced to a pre-chewed paste of stolen labor.

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

made a sandwich with this bread before i realized its smug ass was covered in mold. fuck you, bread

a slice of wheat bread with a mold pattern that looks infuriatingly like a smiley face. this bread is a piece of shit

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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Manogirl @manogirl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One more time: you don't have to comment on someone's appearance when you're excoriating them as a piece of shit human being. In fact, you actively shouldn't. Because shitheads and lovely people look all sorts of ways, and none of it is exclusive to either group.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "AI is coming for jobs" narrative contributes to a scarcity mindset that destroys worker solidarity. I think we can look at anti-trust, tax policy, regulation, consumer protection, labor rights, and rights to housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without mentioning "AI" at all.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have a 9 yr old boy and I want everyone to listen when I say this: some of your boys are already the problem. Which is bad enough but then I am watching you *let* them be the problem and insist that *everyone else* also let them be the problem and THAT is how we get news cycles like this week

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Manogirl @manogirl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had an utterly wretched day so I'm going to treat myself to all the Joong Archen I can cram into these eyeballs. Fave scenes from Hidden Agenda and The Heart Killers and then if there's time some of the fun YouTube vids of him being...him. Joong Archen, god love 'im.

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Lee @aliasmarionette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's funny to me that execs in China and Thailand etc have figured out there's a massive audience for BL and are acting accordingly (in the case of China they're even doing so in the face of government policy) and yet in the West: this.

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

there’s so much beauty in the world it’s a shame that so many dickheads constantly try and distract us from that fact

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm beside myself. Studies consistently show that when rapists hear *jokes* about rape, **they** believe IT IS ALL MEN & feel safe to rape. What do you think rapists think when they say "want in on this gang rape?" AND YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING TO STOP THEM.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every woman you know 📢EVERY 📢WOMAN 📢YOU 📢KNOW has a story of sexual harassment &/or assault; most of us have more than one. I've been -grabbed & street harassed x infinity -dehumanized, grabbed, & harassed by men I thought I cld trust -stalked/followed at night -threatened (online & IRL) w/ rape

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my colleague: I have a question me: MC: yk period blood & stem cells? is it true no one has researched it because it is icky? me: OK WELL, Menstrual-blood stromal cells were first found in 2007, but the science way to say "icky" is "research is limited due to gender bias & sociocultural stigma"

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

AI cannot and will not ever be able to employ contextual judgment the way a person can. it does not have any social adeptness. it does comparative pattern matching, it doesn’t actually KNOW anything in the way a human does

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

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

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Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New workplace mantra: Stop trying to be a straight-A student in a pass-fail job.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m genuinely shocked at the people on here who think long covid isn’t real. Seriously? Your actuaries, departments of health even the freaking department of defense know it’s real. Apparently people used to think MS wasn’t real. There’s a long history of telling sick people they’re crazy.

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

i understand the temptation to gaze into the abyss that is the mind of the undecided regretful trump voter but i think doing so via those nyt panel articles actively takes a year off your life. like you come out of reading it exactly one biological year older

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NaNaWriMo got into bed with a generative A.I. slop-vom factory. NanoWriMo then turned to dust as a direct result. Now the slop-vom factory is trotting out the badly resurrected Nano Corpse WaRioWriMo to make some cash off the whole mess. Gen A.I. in a nutshell.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Illinois, she needs to be primaried and this has been true for some time. I know that there are better candidates out there than her.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the most Gen X campaign ad I have ever seen. Absolutely amazing. I have no idea how it'll go over in Idaho though

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not allowed to mail a ballot because FRAUD! NATIONAL SECURITY! But accidentally sending F-35 parts to China by UPS? Shrug emoji.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Many liberals on here share the same views as Ted Cruz, it seems. Some of y'all are even using the same ableist language as him

Tweet from Ted Cruz sharing the Boston Globe click bait piece with. Quote that says "wow I honestly did not know that there was a single place on the planet in 2026 that still had an idiotic mask mandate

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Manogirl @manogirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The left is about solidarity until you ask them to mask. I personally still mask in part for solidarity purposes and people look at me like I have 7 heads when I give them that reason. It never occurs to folks that solidarity with our disabled comrades is something the left should be about.

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just called Senator Duckworth's Illinois office to tell them what a cowardly, chickenshit, total abandonment of the oath of office this is, that this attitude is how we got here, and that I will absolutely be supporting primary challengers to Tammy Duckworth next time she's up for reelection.

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