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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 21h
honestly crying about this. been a long time since i've read good political news. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
the future is for trans people
a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DHS says it is upgrading its ground control station to allow one team to control multiple MQ-9As (Predator style drones) at once in a new document www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...
CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT
Ongoing engineering efforts focus on integrating modern
satellite networks for operational use and upgraded sensor
payloads for maritime ISR. These enhancements expand
operational flight coverage, increase signal bandwidth, and
reduce signal latency. The Ground Control Station is being
upgraded to allow one operational team to simultaneously
control multiple UAS. Integrating these technologies on the Big
Wing MQ-9A highlights American leadership in UAS
innovation, furthers the DHS mission, and strengthens
awareness and dominance in the border space.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
It’s easy enough to have a laugh about this but the stakes here are minimal, which will not always be the case. Also, the way this can be used to scale harassment campaigns and other anti social behaviors hasn’t even begun to take shape.
futurism.com
Man Says Meta's Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers
A man complains Muse gave out his address and sent a stranger to his home after letting the AI handle his Facebook Marketplace account.
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 26/09/2026
Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, on why she dislikes the phrase ‘I really love reading’. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@ChrisStephensMD

CNN ANCHOR: this is NOT the america any of us signed up for. we’ll be right back.

(five ads designed to trick old poor people into going bankrupt play)

CNN ANCHOR: and we’re back
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can tell, with all of the explicit ethnic cleansing making everything worse and more expensive, the GOP's next target is just to go all out on gender wars. Everyone on X or Rumble is complaining about nagging women 24/7, with brief respites for holocaust denial. Full 4chan incel GOP incoming.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2026
always hilarious when stuff that people insist must be a signifier of an optimistic techno-utopia turn out to just kinda suck
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying. I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.
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to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I firmly believe that we (queer ppl and especially trans ppl) should never talk to the press about intra-community conflicts. I can’t see any way that it can benefit us, and it’s obvious how it can hurt us.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
“For a glimpse into how Ellison sees Oracle’s role in shaping the future, he told investors in 2024: ‘Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.’”
theintercept.com
The Ellisons Could Make a Killing in Big Surveillance With the Paramount Merger
With the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger set to proceed, the Ellisons can stoke Americans’ fears — and sell the government its solution.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Idc if some disabled or LGBTQ ppl are toxic or annoying. The bad actors weaponizing that piece will not distinguish between those ppl and you. I’m also not gonna take any article that acts like Covid magically disappeared, citing case counts when the only way to measure rn is wastewater, seriously.
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
illustration (1981) archive.org/details/and-...
someone is staring/making direct eye contact at a computer that has a huge singular eye on the screen.
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Boston Public Health Commission @publichealth.boston.gov · 16/09/2026
Free vaccine clinics are back! Get your flu and COVID-19 vaccines for free at one of our upcoming clinics. No appointment necessary, walk-ins welcome. Getting vaccinated is a great way to protect yourself and your community. Find upcoming clinics at boston.gov/vaccine-clinics.
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Vaccines
Vaccines help prevent serious illnesses like measles, chickenpox, whooping cough, polio, and more. With vaccine preventable illnesses on the rise, it is more important than ever to stay protected. Getting vaccinated is much safer than getting the disease, as it lowers the risk of your child being hospitalized or having long-term health problems.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
Increasingly, “U.S. jails are moving beyond periodic checks of people in custody toward continuous physiological and video-based monitoring, creating a new layer of correctional technology before common rules have emerged for how the resulting data should be stored, accessed, retained, or reused.”
biometricupdate.com
U.S. jails expand continuous biometric monitoring as data rules lag | Biometric Update
Wearable sensors and AI camera analytics are spreading across U.S. correctional facilities as rules on consent, retention and secondary use remain inconsistent.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
I'll give you the short version: they sponsored & supported the most influential AIDS denialist group of the 2000's, resulting in national policies in South Africa that caused an estimated 330,000 deaths there. They have never apologized or acknowledged what they did. medium.com/the-monthly/...
medium.com
The Foo Fighters’ AIDS denialism should be on the record
By Martin McKenzie-Murray in The Monthly
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Students told us the temptation was greatest when they feared they would miss a deadline,” the report reads. IMO the underlying issue here is the labor practices these students are being fed into as they near adulthood. Learning is not about volume of output, but do these students understand that?
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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Digital illustration of a fish with legs wearing an orange swimming trunks, and an orange and white inflatable tube float around its waist. It is very confused-looking.
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Brent Black @brentalfloss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
everything now costs what it would have cost at the airport in 2019 except stuff at the airport, which now costs 2019 hotel room mini-bar prices except mini-bar stuff, which now requires you to sacrifice a child
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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The moderates won't vote for us unless we do transphobia!" You Democrats and your impurity tests are going to kill us all.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Changing the brand of your mass surveillance tool doesn’t make it any less of a mass surveillance tool.
govtech.com
Boston Swaps Flock Safety for New License Plate Readers
A report outlines how Boston police launched pilots with Motorola and Axon as replacement platforms, which raised new questions about compliance with a city council ordinance.
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Fawn (from Fawn) @fawn.dog · 18/09/2026
ohh but you see investing in AI makes money so we’re making money!!! ok great but has anyone ever pointed out that maybe we shouldbt be treating the entire country as an investment experiment with disposable inhabitants
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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
First they came for immigrants. I voted with them to appeal to moderates. Next they came for Gaza. I voted with them to appeal to moderates. Then they came for trans people. I voted with them to appeal to moderates.
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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 16/09/2026
MACKLEMORE'S MESSAGE 4 A FREE PALESTINE: GOOD MACKLEMORE: BAD BEWARE THE FALSE PROPHETS
bbc.com
Macklemore apologises for 'Jewish caricature' costume
The rapper says he did not intend to offend anyone with his "Jewish caricature" stage outfit.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 15/09/2026
It’s a good example of the kind of soft sycophancy that brings on the ‘chosis for a lot of people. It doesn’t have to respond with overt flattery; the fact that it even entertains this bullshit and doesn’t go “too stupid: revise and resubmit” is its own kind of sycophancy, in some way deeper.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 15/09/2026
In New York City, what were once sloping underwater meadows are now bare sand or dredged-out basins. But in the last three years, all along the Eastern seaboard, scientists have been consolidating efforts in reestablishing eelgrass. hellgatenyc.com/eelgrass-res...
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The Unseen Plant That Could Save New York's Shorelines
Eelgrass could be an ecological balm, cleaning New York City's water and mitigating floods. The only problem is it died out 100 years ago.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 15/09/2026
It's National Voter Registration Day A common misconception is that anyone with a past criminal conviction is barred from voting, a myth that creates de facto disenfranchisement for many impacted by the system In reality, it varies from state to state: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Screenshot of U.S. map showing states with criminal disenfranchisement laws
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
American Samoans are nationals, but not citizens. Do you know what this distinction means? Neither did they, and the result was they were prosecuted for voting in a local AK election. The good news is that the prosecutions were dropped, but when you hear about voter fraud, its often cases like this.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.
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outsidewolves 🔜 FC @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
dreams can become reality… #lasercutting #tractor_feed #trypophobia
An image of a laser cutter making lines and holes in paper.A hand holding a sheet of paper that is entirely tractor feed pinfeed holes.Two hands gently separating strips of perforated paper.
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Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
episode 066
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 13/09/2026
"ICE arrested 50,000 people in July, and another 50,000 in August, eclipsing the monthly arrests made during the peak of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans, and Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.
Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"
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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In the name of electability, I think we can all agree that Quants should be banned from public restrooms. It's a minor wedge issue that'll only affect a small percentage of the population. They can wait for their rights.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 13/09/2026
eat their frame.
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Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez @mvgutierrezmd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
COVID PSA: We now have PEP. Ensitrelvir (Xocova) can be taken after a known COVID exposure to reduce the risk of developing COVID. Preventing the infection in the first place also means preventing its potential downstream consequences, including Long COVID. #LongCOVID #COVID19
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 12/09/2026
After federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the Trump admin reset its strategy. Flashy, made-for-media operations in big cities? Out. Quiet, widespread, hard-to-track enforcement? In. New data shows immigration arrests are surging as a result. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/09/10/i...
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Inside the ‘Shadow Surge’ Driving ICE Arrests to New Heights
Flush with money and leery of bad publicity, ICE has banked on local police agencies to help ramp up immigration arrests.
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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The DSA scores higher with Democrats than throwing trans people under the bus. Which one are Democrats being told to disavow?
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wolfie 🔜 MFF @wolfgirl420.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i could wait for you forever like this
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The plagiarism machine I created will likely kill us all, there’s a 40% chance, no, higher, like 75%,or more! But NO I will not “unplug it,” that’s an insane suggestion. The scientific solution is to *give me more money.*
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Andrew Lewis FC @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There is no constituency in favour of privatizing the sky except the advertisers doing it. No one wants the sky polluted by thousands of drones blocking the stars. It needs to be banned with extreme prejudice, but our feckless governments will do nothing because commerce, lobbyists, & donors.
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
people working in a field doesn't just magically confer an ability to divine information. an AI worker saying they're worried still needs evidence beyond, "if this happens and this happens, then this bad thing will happen, and I just think it's pretty likely that it will"
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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"I swear I hate trans people just as much as you" is a PERPETUALLY LOSING STRATEGY BECAUSE THEY WILL JUST MOVE THE GOALPOSTS. At a certain point you just have to recognize it's not "strategy," they just hate trans people.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
"Did OpenAI “lose control” of these models? No. OpenAI could turn off these models at any time. Did they “escape”/"break out of their cages”? No.These models are computer programs that were always running on OpenAI’s servers;they did not “escape” or “break out” or move from their original hardware"
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 24/09/2025
i made a helpful reference
top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". 

top left:
WRONG
-negating their frame reinforces it
-starts with what it isn't instead of what it is
- your argument is shaped like their argument

bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS

bottom left: 
RIGHT
- you eat their frame
-starts with what's actually happening
-contains and explains what they're doing
-your argument is shaped like kirby
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