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Meg Alexandretta Mercy

@megmercy.bsky.social
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Healing + restoration + our steps forward; multi-hyphenate; philosophical tomb raider; idea man megmercy.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@MegMercy Media Reviews: mercymeg.com Socials: nutmegisme

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 16h
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me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
With great power MUST come great *accountability* else we perish
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, I would like to remind everyone that Martin Freeman has gone on the record as being a fan of using d*** r*** dr*gs
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Enya's LOTR song >>>> Lennox's song
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
lemonde.fr
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NO FLUID was found in Nolan Wells' lungs or airways, per the autopsy report by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner. How do you die by "accidental drowning" if there is no water in your lungs?
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What if converse just didn't decide to be racist... i scream into the void
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We need: Term limits Age limits Competency requirements Corruption rendering unsuitable for office (this is civics for babies)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"
publicnotice.co
Retire in peace
McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
orlandosentinel.com
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.
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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What y'all are doing to Ed Sheeran? I'ma need you to do that same thing to anyone you know personally who psychologically abuses their partner.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
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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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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Soup: hot baby food!
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
ms.now
A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anybody else have whiplash re: all the people opposed to the Palestinian genocide now? Not long ago folks were getting fired for it. I mean, it's very good to be opposed to the Awful Thing... But how much of it is for clicks or popularity?
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
problem with dating sites is I woulda swiped right on curry barker & left on kane parsons
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Petition to remove the laughing reaction from facebook; it's literally only used by trolls
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Due to a profound and well-earned mistrust of the GOP, I check my voter registration relatively often. I just did and I'm OK. You can check yours; just search on "check voter registration status [your state]".
Screenshot of my voter status, listed as "Active"
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/09/2026
hello my baby hello my honey hello darkness my old friend
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A truer post has never been posted.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What's it called when bedridden because pets
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A government that not only doesn't have term limits or age limits, that not only doesn't have health or competency requirements, but in which people can just *pretend you didn't die* to hold on to your seat & literally nothing happens
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 02/09/2026
Computers are not some unknowable force of nature or entity. They're products and extremely knowable. Treating them as this mystical new form of life is not just illiterate, it's a great way to normalize this attitude of not being able to hold the people who made them accountable for their actions.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'ma go ahead and say that I'm not going to see any Marvel/Star Wars/Disney films in theaters anymore. Those uncreative, unethical, AI-using, greedy corporate a**holes don't need my $ and won't get my compliance.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Life makes a lot more sense when you realize America is a giant Walmart. They're going to keep: -charging us as much as they can -extracting everything they can -making the quality shittier & shittier until we live in a massive crumbling parking lot.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If only there was a system in which people could directly impact structural decisions.
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Every day I’m crying,” Renita Theus, 41, said outside her darkened apartment, where her car remained trapped under a fallen tree. “It’s hot … I walked to the dollar store and they’re all out of candles and batteries.” "She lost her cleaning job in Chicago … because she was not able to travel."
nytimes.com
Desperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without Power
Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Take of some temperature: Dating profiles should prioritize video clips, because it's *really* hard to assess personality/manner/energy/speaking style through photos.
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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 21/08/2026
"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.
Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
it's been thundering for thirty straight minutes
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I want to say, as a cinephile, that Hayden Panettiere in Scream 4 is one of the best acting roles I have seen, ever. I was raised on movies, and I was raised on horror, and she had something I have never seen anywhere else.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Complete BS that a normal part of our country is people being ****ed for talking about abuse DESPITE abusive people never being held accountable.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The art of conversation and the art of small talk are NOT the same thing 🌠
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Etymology freaks: is there any connection between Tchotchke and shotski? #etymology #werds
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Dylan O'Brien is a revelation. I'm so glad we have him.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
axios.com
Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic
The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You haven't really watched Tom Holland's lip synch battle unless you've watched it at least 2x in succession, tbqf.
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Game over.
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Meg Alexandretta Mercy @megmercy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I distinctly remember, in 2016, being openly mocked by a Republican friend for stating that we'd end up with concentration camps. Now it's just taken for granted. Shame on everyone who did this.
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