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Requinoesis✨ @requinoesis.bsky.social · 17h
Dog Shark 🦈🐶 Carcharocanis familiaris, commonly known as "Shark Puppies", are your best friend from the ocean! #Sharktober2026
A large illustration featuring various "shark-puppies" of different shark species in a variety of poses. They are shown in curious and happy stances, running, sniffing, acting playful, and more!

Below the image, there is a description styled like a scientific species illustration, naming them "Carcharocanis familiaris". This name combines Carcharodon (the genus that includes great white sharks) with Canis (the genus that includes dogs), plus Familiaris to indicate they are domesticated.
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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 6h
Public domain! PUBLIC DOMAIN
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
its wild we are so ground down by cultural expectations that its seen as tacky to love yourself. if i was just to post 'I LOVE MYSELF I AM INCREDIBLE' i promise some folks would think 'get a load of this self obsessed buckaroo, what a jerk'. fortunately i dont care and I LOVE MYSELF I AM INCREDIBLE
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taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
EVERYBODY GET UNIONIZED NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Who saved emergency physicians more documentation time: AI or human scribes? AI scribes were associated with a 1.6-minute reduction in adjusted median documentation time per note compared with 3.3 minutes for human scribes pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42283666/
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 06/10/2026
the Ohio Democratic party is purging its ranks by forcing trans people to either resign or go along with politicians who threaten their existence and calling a pride group an "unwelcoming distraction." If we're just a distraction, then win without our votes and get rid of the fake "pride" orgs 👍🏾
2020: Democrat Stalin and transgender
2026: Democrat Stalin
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026
Since July 27, brave people have been occupying an ancient cottonwood tree to block the construction of Trump's border wall, which is destroying the region's ecology. This morning, Border Patrol raided the camp, arresting a number of people and killing the tree. Background: crimethinc.com/lochiel
crimethinc.com
The Border is an Open Wound
A report from the tree occupation in Lochiel, Arizona that is halting the construction of the border wall.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day.
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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 05/10/2026
Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me that all those "you should need a government ID to access the internet" people are rethinking this position now. [We know they aren't. Ed.]
The first two paragraphs of the linked-to story:

"Denmark has suffered a major data breach that has given unauthorised individuals access to names, addresses and personal identification numbers belonging to about 8.8 million people registered in the country’s central population database.

"The breach occurred after unidentified individuals misused a private Danish company’s legitimate access to search the Central Person Register (CPR), the government said in a statement Monday."
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
“The SFPD can use BriefCam to review thousands of hours of video feed from live and recorded footage from a combination of sources, including its nearly 500 Flock cameras, privately accessed camera networks, and other city-run or -owned cameras.”
sfstandard.com
‘Surveillance maximalism’: SFPD is deploying camera technology used to track Palestinians
BriefCam uses AI to analyzes hours of video inside the Real Time Investigative Center. Critics say the technology is just as invasive as facial recognition.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Atlantic constantly writes fawning and credulous stories promoting Nazis, its owner is a friend of Ghislaine Maxwell, and its editor in chief tortured children for the IDF. It's a fractal piece of shit that taints every journalist who touches it.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
blog.documentfoundation.org
Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 03/10/2026
U.S. police kill civilians at a rate nearly incomparable to other wealthy democracies. It's not just "a few bad apples."
Graph showing that U.S. police kill civilians at a much higher rate (33.5 per 10 million) than Canada (9.8), Australia (8.5), The Netherlands (2.3), New Zealand (2.0), Germany (1.3), England & Wales (0.5), Japan (0.2), Iceland(0.0), and Norway (0.0).
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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 03/10/2026
/ EYE MADE SUMTHING USEFUL / ALL THE RECORDS BROKEN THE PREVIOUS DAY / & RECORDS BROKEN SO FAR 2DAY / UPDATED NIGHTLY & HRLY / smashed.weatherishappening.com
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RECORDS SMASHED
THE WEATHER RECORDS THAT WERE SMASHED 2DAY & LAST NIGHT ACROSS UR UNITED STATES EMPIRE
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If a head or agent of the state is allowed to kill arbitrarily with impunity, is anyone truly able to consent to sex with them?
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
“Attorneys for the observers say that DHS’s efforts have had a chilling effect on their First Amendment rights.”
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❄︎ ☃︎ @moxiest.art · 01/10/2026
while we're all mad about the police waking us up to tell us stuff we don't need to know, it's likely a good time to tell you things they really would prefer you didnt know the number of people shot and killed by the police in the united states is preparing for its yearly cross over 1000
a screenshot from the MPV database that reads 

police have killed 947 people in the US so far in 2026
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“China/USSR/North Korea is good because the US did something worse” is like shitty liberal Democrat logic taken to a leftist extreme. “Other guy bad” does not make your favorite guy good.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 01/10/2026
What's happening in Tennessee is yet another reminder that the death penalty is state-sanctioned torture. It's an inhumane practice that has no place in a just society. The criminal legal system should never get to decide who lives and who dies.
Infographic with text:
Since the 1970s...
At least 1,683 people have been executed in the U.S.

At least 203 people have been wrongly convicted & sentenced to death, later being exonerated.

More than half of all people sentenced to death have been Black or Latino/a.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Banks, the biggest arbiter of what can be distributed online, are steadily restricting the types of speech — art, entertainment, resources — permitted. A payment provider dropped FlowFo for allowing sex-related content, pushing them out of business. Financial discrimination is censorship.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
honestly crying about this. been a long time since i've read good political news. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
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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ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ @maplesugarbear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Maybe when you're 30 while *gestures to the political, economic and cultutal landscape rn*
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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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ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ @maplesugarbear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'll put a spoon under my pillow to help, too, just in case 🫡
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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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ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ @maplesugarbear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
RSI isn't real, like there is no reason to believe it ever will be real. It is not worth spending time highlighting it as an issue, especially when there are so many real problems with generative AI and the companies that produce and push it
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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.
boston.gov
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
🐟🛟❓
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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Burnt Bleghk 🎃 @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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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain 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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