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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

34. Politicians who drop hybrid/remote events completely should be seriously side-eyed.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

1 like=1 thought on disability/chronic illness politics

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Stfu @bsky.app

A article titled "bluesky suspended various trans authors over anti JK rowling Posts"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/10/2026

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/10/2026

Bruh

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
@AbdulElSayed
He says the name just fine when he’s begging the Qataris for a personal jet or the Saudis for funding for his son-in-law’s private equity firm.

Wonder what’s changed?
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Trump on El-Sayed: "His name is actually Abduladadalalalala. It's Adulbabababababa Mohammed Al-Sayed. So his middle name is Mohammed. So I was right. He's a jihadist."

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SJ Klapecki (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 17/10/2026

still thinking about the guy i saw on a harley davidson who wore a leather jacket, a very visible knife, a massive red turban, and his license plate said "SIKH AF" i dont think ill ever encounter someone with that much pure self-confidence again

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

We have no explanation for why we were locked out for 4 hours today. We will be seeking answers. And we will be organizing for more than answers.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Meta has sabatoged Instagram account for No Kings

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Update: WE ARE BACK IN! We can post again. This was utter bullshit on the biggest early vote effort in history. But it will not stop what we're building. No Kings means no kings in the White House or in Silicon Valley.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

The No Kings Instagram account has been reactivated, but administrators have not yet regained access.

We now know that Meta pulled down the account. For approximately 90 minutes, Meta did not respond to our team, even as the account was offline at the peak of our national day of action and livestream. The account is now viewable again, and Meta told us in their response email that they made a bad call.

However, administrators are still unable to access the account, blocking our ability to post about an ongoing day of mass action for early voting. Meta is currently not allowing the team to log in using the No Kings email address originally associated with the account. The team is troubleshooting that issue now.
This is not OK.

This is part of a much bigger concern: activists and movements around the world are increasingly vulnerable to decisions made by powerful technology platforms that can determine who gets heard and who gets silenced.

We will close the loop once our team is fully back in the account. This remains a developing situation.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 17/10/2026

My teenage children, who have never set foot in NYC, go around saying "Help me, Mamdani!" whenever anything goes wrong and/or they can't figure out their homework, just to give everybody a sense of the scale of this man's presence in the culture lol

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And here’s the trailer for BEING HEUMANN. In cinemas Nov 6, streaming on AppleTV Nov 13. I saw it last night at the London Film Festival & it’s a triumph.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Whether it's Kamala Harris buying cookware in France or Donald Trump lifting sanctions on Russia, both candidates have had troubling interactions with foreign entities.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/10/2026

See the problem I have with white people saying "we need the Second Amendment to protect ourselves" is that right now I am representing a Black woman charged with multiple crimes for allegedly *pointing* a gun at her rapist,

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/10/2026

Black text on a white background
“More than 100 elected officials have joined me in calling on parking lot and garage owners across New York City: Don’t give ICE a place to operate. Don’t rent to them. Tell them they’re not welcome.

Last week, ICE agents shot Oscar Belgal in the neck in Marble Hill while his 5-year-old son sat in the car. They had been staging nearby in a private parking lot.

Our city laws keep ICE off public property. Now, we’re calling on private property owners to do the same. One garage on Morton Street already removed ICE vehicles after neighbors spoke out. Every owner has that power.”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

If Brown is fanatical on the anti-Slavery side, why aren't people who enslaved, raped and brutalized others fanatical on the pro-slavery side?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Brown is STILL often portrayed as a crazed fanatic. My question has always been why enslavers aren't also portrayed as fanatics...

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This is the disease for which I research and advocate: #MECFS. Even mild presentation is life-changing, and this is what severe looks like. People are surprised so many of us were athletes. They want to believe this can only happen to people who were already unwell. www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...

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Beth Dobbin: British Olympic sprinter in bed for 22 hours a day after ME diagnosis

Beth Dobbin ran for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Five years on, she is largely bedbound after being diagnosed with ME, a devastating illness for which there is no cure.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

NC STATE STUDENTS ARE DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR NOLAN WELLS AND THE LIBERATION OF BLACK AMERICA! From Mississippi to Raleigh, the Nolan Wells case strikes a chord at the very heart of the seemingly never-ending war on Black Americans in the United States.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

Semi-relatedly: this is one of my favorite pieces of writing on consciousness and the brain. www.ebonmusings.org/essays/ghost...

ebonmusings.org

Ebon Musings: A Ghost in the Machine

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

Personally, I don't think there's anything metaphysical about consciousness, so I guess the question for me is "Are the materials that make us think of something as a 'machine' capable of producing consciousness that works like it does in the materials we think of as 'alive'?" And I have no idea.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

ANHD is the only major housing org I've seen so far that's been consistently telling the harsh truth about Z's housing plan: it's very pro-market/speculator/investor. The admin's failure to even try to provide deeply affordable units will perpetuate or exacerbate gentrification and displacement.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

So when do we start talking about how Pangram keeps detecting Black plagiarism but not white plagiarism ?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I don’t have any idea what the solution to the bigger problem for literature is, but it strikes me as completely outrageous that the Atlantic would level such a serious charge against an author without an iota of actual evidence. And no, a black box analysis by another AI program is not evidence.

theguardian.com

Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story

Article in Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, days after it won Caine prize for African writers

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It is noticeable that the BBC is prioritizing this story and is not trying to make the white woman Oxford lecturer who has recently been found to have child pornography in her computer into the next face of intellectual misconduct.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026

Among the many problems with that site, making sentences ambiguous as to whether they refer to the site or a common generic phrasing trope 😭 (appreciate the read, though!)

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 14/10/2026

This week at The Sick Times: @khaoticaa.bsky.social interviewed 16 transgender people with Long COVID and surveyed dozens more, finding how neglect within healthcare and the queer community both contribute to the medical and social erasure of trans people. thesicktimes.org/2026/10/13/t...

A person in a high quality mask holds a sign at a protest that reads, "Silence=Death" with a trans flag in an equilateral triangle. The person stands in the streets of Los Angeles outside of Children's Hospital Los Angeles during a 2025 protest. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Trans people with Long COVID navigate a new “dark age” in trans health. By Khalil (Kae) Dennis. Reporting.”

Key points you should know:

Both Long COVID disability and anti-trans policies limit access to gender-affirming care through varying mechanisms, including increased medical stigma, upcoming Medicaid work requirements, and symptom pathologization.

Unreliable electronic health records, funding constraints, and cisgender-centered research all contribute to the lack of research into trans people with Long COVID.

Trans people with Long COVID face similar medical, financial, and social barriers as people with HIV during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, necessitating a closer look at patient-first care models.

Solidarity from queer community members and trans health advocates is needed to bolster documentation, and subsequent social services, for this growing, vulnerable group.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2026

this guy gets it. your typical voter just does not care about this shit. does not mean that they support trans inclusion, it just means that it is incredibly low on the bottom of things they even think about.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

theonion.com/man-who-drin...

Business Insider: AI
Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer

The Onion in 2013: Man Who Drinks 5 Diet Cokes Per Day Hoping Doctors Working On Cure For Whatever He’s Getting

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 13/10/2026

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

A white cat is sleeping curled up in a med that has five fluffy white lobes of a flower petal, the cat has half her face peeking upwards and otherwise has filled the pentagonal space in the center of the bed completely

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/10/2026

This particular person is terribly inarticulate and seems to have little experience and/or capacity at speaking in public or thinking on her feet. She is not good at her job. But JFC saying she's dumb because she's like (some large group of women) is just gross.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/10/2026

Women who look pretty are also not inherently dumb. It's a fucking choice. How you present yourself outwardly has nothing to do with your intelligence.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/10/2026

Valley girls are also not inherently dumb. It's a dialect. Speaking in dialect (whatever that dialect is) has nothing to do with your intelligence.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/10/2026

Beauty queens are not generally dumb. Some of them, sure; some of any group aren't that bright. But the vast majority of them have EXTENSIVE public speaking training and are great at answering extemporaneously.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"We should be asking ourselves: When is civility useful and when is it a canard for oppression? When is anger a detriment and when is it a righteous tool?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

insidehighered.com

What’s Wrong With Civility?

Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

listen I know this isn't gonna make a dent but psychotic doesn't mean evil or cruel or horrible it mostly means scared and confused and stigmatized. just putting that out there for the heck of it

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

this really isn't up for debate, and if you really care enough about posting fat jokes to actually try debating it, i have questions about what the hell is wrong with you

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

do not make fat jokes. yes, even if they're about the worst fat guy in the world who bullies other fat people. it only re-normalizea and entrenches popular use of those jokes against *all* fat people. it really is that simple. and it's really not that hard

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Candy Corn is Fine @stillcham.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

Yeah don't give us this fucking "my hands are tied" because we can SEE what you be "untying" them for.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/10/2026

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe…

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The DOJ under the Biden administration opened an investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar in 2024 to scrutinize her finances, campaign spending and interactions with a foreign citizen. The investigation appears to have stalled for lack of evidence. Full Story: bit.ly/4qEqgA3

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Adam Wong @adamwong.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

AirFanta 5Pro Officially Launched: Two Years in the Making, Fully Evolved We are excited to announce the launch of our new air purifier, the AirFanta 5Pro, following two years of design and manufacturing.

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