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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

Annie caught hell for a homophobic anti-Graham ad a few months ago and has continued right on down this merry dipshit path, in case anybody was still laboring under the impression she might’ve learned something. What a fucking waste.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4h

The death penalty on its own is morally indefensible; Turning it into a public spectacle is an abomination

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 6h

EVERY BATHROOM IN YOUR HOUSE IS UNISEX YOU FUCKING WEIRDOS

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 7h

I deeply hate this. I have been fascinated by the fall of the American chestnut tree and the efforts to bring it back. How grotesque this is.

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Carrie @onekdramamomma.bsky.social · 11h

Just happily squeeing about all the things today. I love to fill my feed with good things. Books, dramas, music and more. Also my son's girlfriend is a huge fan of #Felix. I need to share this video with her.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 7h

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Megan @megbrod.bsky.social · 8h

As someone with great memories of my parents reading to me and my sisters, wow??? Like, you should want to make those memories! It good bonding and also I’m getting horrible future visions of the literacy crisis increasing.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 9h

When the HRC is calling you out for caving on trans rights, you KNOW you've fucked up bad.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

My gosh. Mike Huckabee's top aide: —Covered up an embassy report on Israeli killings of 9 Americans —Fabricated Orwellian reports on Israeli settler violence & the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" to make it sound good for Israel —Questioned staff on whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas”

In late March, at the height of the Iran war, Israel quietly approved more settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank than it ever had at one time.
Staff members at the United States Embassy in Jerusalem saw the move as potentially flouting one of President Trump's explicit red lines for Israel - no annexation of the West Bank - and drafted an urgent report intended for policy makers in Washington.
That memo never reached Washington. It was quashed by David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the process.
This was no isolated incident.
Since taking up his post in April 2025, Mr. Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to a dozen people who work with or interact with Mr. Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington:
• As settler violence in the West Bank surged in the spring, for instance, he stymied embassy reporting suggesting that the Israeli government was failing to take action, according to the three officials. Instead the embassy sent a cable to Washington, viewed by The New York Times, praising Israel for "cracking down" on the attacks.
• When members of Congress pushed for accountability over the killings of nine Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces, he suppressed a detailed report that the embassy staff had written, effectively stonewalling lawmakers' efforts to gain information, according to multiple officials briefed on the matter.

Mr. Milstein rewrote the cable to declare GHF's operation a success while overlooking the mass casualties, according to people who saw the cable and were briefed on the editing process.
Troubled by glaring discrepancies between news coverage and the embassy's official reports, White House and State Department officials seeking a clearer picture of events bypassed standard channels at least twice to communicate directly with embassy staff, according to two officials briefed on the outreach and an internal communication from late this summer seen by The Times.
Veteran American diplomats said that withholding or twisting the information sent to Washington should raise serious concerns.
"The embassy ought to tell Washington everything — the good, the bad and the ugly," said Dan Kurtzer, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush. "If they're not doing so, they are damaging the policy-making process and possibly undermining the president's policies."
Mr. Milstein also questioned several colleagues on whether they were "pro-Israel" or "pro-Hamas," according to four officials, who found the question inappropriate and said it made some people fearful of speaking freely.

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BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 9h

Happy Arthur-versary!

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Prosediva @prosediva.bsky.social · 11h

“Women, just don’t go out at night! Invest your hard-earned money in self-defense classes! As men, we simply can’t be expected to govern ourselves! Sorry!”

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 13h

Per a filing for Louisiana's attempt to restrict mifepristone, FDA gives us an idea of when the (deliberately post-midterms) crackdown will begin. Agency estimates that its "safety review" of mifepristone will be done by March 2027, and that its likely adding back of restrictions will follow

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Megan @megbrod.bsky.social · 13h

oh, i had a coat that did that, very handy when I was in college and flying ryan air 😂

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17h

I notice that everything the press doesn’t like is “social contagion” now, except for the escalating crankery of the press, which is an organisation of a couple of thousand people mostly concentrated in one city, who largely all know each other - one thing that definitely *is* social contagion.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 20h

I, too, love to purchase companies older than most nations, with names that are known to multiple generations of people all over the world, and then get rid of the names and replace them with the name of a thing nobody gives a shit about.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/10/2026

Ms Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”.

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 07/10/2026

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the

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Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There has been some fair discussion about whether or not the rising proliferation of HARRY POTTER references in media is deliberate astro-turfing or tone deaf millenial nostalgia and denial/ignorance. This though? This is DEFINITELY on the suits

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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Megan @megbrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Frankly, using AI to accuse people of writing with AI is very dumb!!! I no longer take y'all seriously if this is your only way of deciding someone's using it!

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is horrifying, also uhhhhh don't read it Like Do read it if it's important for you specifically know but it's REALLY BAD

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

gorgeous framing of the idea that the increase in divorces in the 70s and later was not obviously a huge net good for society as well like no no you're right, before the 70s marriages were perfect, totally equal, the lower rate of divorce was definitely not due to massive structural disincentives-

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Meanwhile, over on X, the Secretary of Homeland Security is posting about "vandalizing the demographics of America," a phrase which is either a chilling suggestion of white nationalism from Mullin or just straight pablum which means nothing but sounds just fash enough to excite the faithful.

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“Vandalize the demographics of America” is either a chilling phrase suggesting that Mullin is a white nationalist or an absurdly meaningless bit of pablum which ignores 250 years of the constantly shifting demographics of a nation of immigrants.

Underneath is a picture of Mullin with a quote "How do you turn a country from democracy to socialism? You have to change the demographics."

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The New York Public Library is making a selection of 25 new horror books available to borrow with no wait through October 31st!! How many have you read?

NYPL Recommends Best New Horror for Adults

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🏳️‍🌈 zel⁷: impregnating yoongi 🏳️‍🌈 @agustdyke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i need someone to hire me soooo bad. someone please use your nepotism powers for good and hire me

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🔮Phoenix 🔜 82World! @dwaekkiholic.atiny.social · 07/10/2026

No like y'all don't understand I'm gonna THROW UP omfg this makeup look is insane

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We're at over 200 signatures in less than 24 hours! Help us get to 1000? actionnetwork.org/events/rally... @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @comixaction.com @gregpak.net

A spooky picture that says "think testing AI on kids is creepy? Tell the mayor and chancellor: No AI Product Testing in NYC High Schools!" And a tombstone that says RIP privacy, thinking, the planet.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

Okay, so. Way back when, in the before times, I made a post about a similar phenomenon on the hellsite. Remember all those cute ring doorbell ads? The ones shoung pet rescues or heartwarming stories? Those serve to affectively prime us to accept surveillance as reasonable through their cuteness.

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Laura Tamman @lauratamman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is amazing. Because it this is NYC, where you can find people to pay for literally anything, there is a whole industry of consultants who parents pay to tell you the information @rachelholliday.bsky.social and @thecityreporter.nyc are telling you for FREE.

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The trans panic is a manifestation of the same logic as the Satanic Panic - shifting culpability for widespread abuse and rape away from cishet men and onto an exotic other who might secretly be somebody you know and must be vigilant against instead of being vigilant against the men in your life

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All the more depressing when you remember the largest bar on this graph is only one tenth of campus sexual assault (90% of campus sexual assault goes unreported altogether)

Sexual misconduct reports at nearly 300 colleges in New York state
Reported incidents of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking in schools' disciplinary process from 2018 to 2024.

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6,250
12,500
18,750
25,000
Reported incidents
25,818
Reported to law enforcement
4,243
School judicial process sought
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People found responsible
1,729
Students expelled/employees dismissed
312
Suspended
623
Incidents involving students, including some where the accuser or accused are employees.
Source: New York State Department of Education

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People are in here telling me their particular phone does not work when they hold it to to their ear. I assure you it does. I'm so sorry to be a stickler on this point but yes it does

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I didn't know his name before this but he's a real one: member of La France Insoumise (to the left of the Socialists), took down Macron's portrait in the mayor's office, said elected leaders belong in the streets with the people

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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 06/10/2026

Hot take, but artists deserve to make a living like everyone else

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026

"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.

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Megan @megbrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ok, y’all NEED to experience heal live, the vocals were VOCALING!! Idk if this video does it justice but my god

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Chace Verity @chaceverity.com · 07/10/2026

ICYMI earlier--new Chace Verity romance!!

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Michael Wehrman @wehrmanm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pedantic, but "botched execution" suggests controllable factors that, if followed, ensure the state can humanely end a life. They cannot, and this proved it. It is a failed execution by a gov't entity that can not guarantee fulfillment of capital punishment in accordance with the 8th Amendment.

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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care. Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed.”

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Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after Tennessee failed execution, her attorneys say

Attorneys for Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her, say she is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital.

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Marisa Ingemi @mingemi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Click bait is when I send several emails over two weeks with a list of allegations from multiple sources and asking to verify or deny them and then never getting a response I guess

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a few austin trans girls i know are starting a tgirl baseball team in Austin!! follow their ig for more but im so excited www.instagram.com/atxtransgirl...

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