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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 6h

omg😱 What have we become?

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The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)

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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump

Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...

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Matt @mattmark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, 25% less to shrinkflation. I didn’t keep the receipts, but I bet they were nearly the same price.

An empty 2L (blue) Dawn bottle beside a new, full 1.5L (blue) Dawn bottle, the biggest at the store

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can’t TELL the young government can be better. We have elect better people who SHOW them it can be better. @kathygriffin

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Matt @mattmark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And they pulled this vale before AI. Man, dunces are going to dunce.

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Matt @mattmark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Man, I still feel like chewed bubble gum, but I think a fever broke last night since I was drenched.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Trump government will not regulate AI. The AI guys won’t regulate themselves. It’s up to us to hire people in November who will do what needs to be done. Watch the full episode at PoliticsGirl YouTube.

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10% Chance They Let AI Kill Us All

The Trump government will not regulate AI. The AI guys won’t regula...

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MarkIraKaufman @markirakaufman.com · 26/09/2026

IMO Musk is the most dangerous person in the world.

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Dune @dune54.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How many people you might think there are on the list it’s likely higher. The amount of coverup that has been done on his Zorro ranch shows it’s big.

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USDemocracy @usdemocracy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

28,700 trades for Trump. 19,400 for the whole House. 2,900 for the Senate. Per Bloomberg, one man out-traded all 535 lawmakers, and he's the one who sets tariffs. Somebody's on the other side of every bet he makes, and it's your 401(k). #TrumpsCorruptCongress #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 25/09/2026

They really turned the internet into a distortion machine. Rendering it useless to sane people. Nobody is interested in a virtual fun house mirror where we have to wonder, with every scroll, whether something is real. Pt 4.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's very "funny" this is happening at the same time the AI companies got away with stealing everyone's books

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Lee @leeephillips.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That is the whole catharsis. The independent Semi driver can't afford the fuel to work, can't take out a loan to pay for the fuel to work, if he doesn't work he can't pay his bills, and he's being flooded by million $ ads to vote for someone who was the cause of it all who affords to buy his vote!

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?

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Matt @mattmark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not yet 18, but he’s got it right.

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John Prince @nbpt-john.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

During yesterday’s red carpet greeting for China’s dictator president, our dictator president did everything short of getting on his knees and giving Xi a blow job. Now Sherman, set the “Wayback machine” to 2012 for some historical perception #USDemocracy

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A $150,000 shell-company donation. A promised $32 million in naval contracts. An FBI inquiry shut down by Trump. Collins calls herself independent while voting with Trump 96% of the time. Troy Jackson is right: Maine deserves better. Flip this Senate seat. #BlueWaveIn40Days #USDemocracy #RisingBlue

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had to check just to make sure this photo wasn’t altered to make the Trumps look even more deranged and it’s not. This is real.

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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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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 25/09/2026

Apparently $12M was moved from HHS's Office of Minority Health to help fund RFK Jr's security, while grants supporting preventive care for low income communities were canceled. Waste, fraud, abuse, and a spectacularly bad use of public health dollars 😒

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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office

The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026

Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 24/09/2026

AZ Sheriff on Flock: "If we rely on private cameras to continuously log the habits of innocent Americans without a warrant, we are paving the way to an AI-driven surveillance state. We cannot wait for a future Supreme Court ruling to correct AI overreach. We must protect the 4th Amendment today."

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

josh Hawley, just subscribe to 404media.co

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What she said was terrible. And - not but - and these gas prices in Deadhorse, Alaska might seem more pressing at the moment.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

I have said that the main use for AI is going to be widescale fraud and I'm delighted to see that people are posting about all the fraud they plan to do on main.

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God @thegodshow.com · 24/09/2026

SERIOUSLY ASKING YOU: How much longer can things go on like this? Gas and food prices this high? His own voters are losing their minds over it and Congress was sent home in September. How much longer can things go on like this?

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JennYFromHR @jennyfromhr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Does anyone read? It's all planned. #MAGA wanted a daddy so bad.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/09/2026

Impeach all the liars who said they had conversations with him, after you impeach his propped-up corpse.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We used to be a proper planet, one that rewarded its top scholars in style.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 23/09/2026

Miranda Shanahan introduces a novel concept: the way social media amplifies a discussion about something nobody is actually doing. We think we're talking about a trend: when all that's happening is the discussion is going viral - rather than the action becoming popular itself.

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Matt @mattmark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mamdani is adequate proof, it can change.

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Matt @mattmark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just watched an “AI” ad, and they’re like save time and what’ll I do with that saved time. And I’m like, you’re going to spend the next two hours vetting and editing because idiots just let the output go unreviewed. Hell, in normal ways, u’d vet the info as you go, write it, proof it, proof again

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TheIneptBirder @theineptbirder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

fooliage (n.): the phenomenon of mistaking a falling leaf for a bird 🪶

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Matt @mattmark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Out on the road, it’s click it or ticket, but on the ice, it’s click it and casket” 🤣💀 YouTube short: “What makes you think you got ADHD” youtube.com/shorts/vuuWU...

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When Doc says you have ADHD😂| @CharlieBerens Catch him on tour dates at (charlieberens.com)

YouTube video by No Chill Comedy

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. People using AI "all the time and people are let go for it all the time" www.404media.co/people-train...

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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.

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