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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 11h

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 11h

I am reposting but can’t bring myself to hit the like button. The only thing I can say is the light must follow the dark. Let it come, let the the window of hope open wide. And thank you for your giving witness.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This post has disorientated me . Is it 2016?

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

I’m ready to be a CEO. I promise to take on debt, fire anyone who seems better than me at anything, and insist you’re going to love my product that kills you

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And that we don’t just self check out of this planet on the daily is a beautiful triumph rarely acknowledged.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People: Why do women mask so much? Huh, it's a mystery *One (1) very clearly autistic, unapologetic woman is on TV for two episodes* People: Look at this twat, God she's awful, pretending to be quirky for attention, fuck that one broad in particular, Christ, nobody'd better act like that round me

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is good on detail and the difficulty. But there is no language for the Arab African tensions in a Eurocentric world. And those conflicts predate the racialising of the world, making those conversations harder as the Egyptian art/Chinese visit made visible this week. #Sudan

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Icelandic word for psychologist is "sálfræðingur". It literally means "soul expert". For short we call them "sáli" or "soulie".

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Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution @brlsi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌍🌱 Eco Talks at BRLSI: Prof Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir on building a regenerative economy for wellbeing. 📅 Thu 15 Oct, 7:30pm 📍 BRLSI www.brlsi.org/whatson/eco-talks-at-… #EcoTalks

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LeedsBookClub aka Drneevil @leedsbookclub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Really vital thread for those of us who believe in a brighter future. And value our educators.

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We must continue to believe, to love and to create the future we want in solidarity.🤎

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 29/09/2026

A challenge for those who decide on graphics to accompany autism articles—maybe AVOID: 1) A bald silhouetted human head in profile 2) A stylized human brain 3) Puzzle pieces 4) Any combination of the above Thank you. (So tiresome.)

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now this I like!

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Described as free but only searchable on Ancestry.co.uk? Please let me be wrong, but…

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is great and also happened with the National Trust, after culture wars ripped into Colonial Countryside. Reminding us the silent majority are usually better than the noisy minority. Now to work on that silence. #Press

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Truly - did no one see this coming? Ok that sentence is working overtime…

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21/09/2026

Of course reparations for the slave trade is an utterly fanciful idea just so long as you ignore the fact that we paid reparations … to those who *invested* in the trade and not its victims.

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And we paid them so much, we didn’t finish repaying the debt till 2015. So British decedents of the enslaved helped. And we’re just fine about that.

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not a gemologist but that looks like a pale Amethyst.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What is with these men and orbs? Is it ovary envy. It's totally ovary envy

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The Economist @economist.com · 18/09/2026

“Up” is the weighty ancestor of modern reality TV. It has illuminated Britain wonderfully—just not in the way the film-makers originally expected

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The “Up” series, an epic of ordinary life, comes to an end

A serious ancestor of reality TV

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

These nasty pervy things have been used for porn since first on the market, with men travelling to African countries romancing women and disappearing. Time to remember why Facebook was created. 👓

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

177 years ago today, Harriet Tubman made her first escape from a plantation in Maryland with her two brothers.

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Digital slavery. The theft and commodification of land, labour and resources built capitalism. Those of us who have already experienced this are not surprised. This is not knew behaviour just a revised technique.

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The eye watering hypocrisy of silence on James Orr has floored me. While our civil service class of media/academia/culture want us to look at #Tommy #Racism it’s all about #Power #Money and #Fear

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now we’re talking. 👇🏾

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Report outlines worsening trends in repression of academics in 22 countries and documents 382 attacks on scholars, students, and institutions in 59 countries/territories www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...

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Free to Think 2026 | Scholars at Risk

Free to Think 2026 is the 12th installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 382 attacks on higher education communities around the world.

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Lars Andersen @lkjandersen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Everything turned into ponzi-schemes so fast and no one seems inclined to stop it.

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

All of this. Plus the greed that makes them refuse to develop it in an environmentally responsible way and the theft that is needed in the first place.

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“ it aims to keep it on track with what humans value.” These words do not inspire confidence. No, greed, selfishness, prejudice or war over here. 😆 #AI #SuperAI www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'

It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not surprising. A bit like the Police ignoring the warning. Not surprising. #Racism in action at every level.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sometimes I wish the general SFFH industry at large would admit, and when I say at large I include everyone writers, publishers, and other entities, that there has been a big turn against Black and brown writers and then also within that group queer, women, disabled people

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Georg Flegel, Two Tulips, 1630. Watercolor

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@natechinen.bsky.social: "Wilson was, and I don’t say this cavalierly, a true American great. She was an improvising vocalist gifted with extravagant natural resources, but in every sense a rebel and a risk-taker, incapable of toeing any line." thegig.substack.com/p/cassandra-...

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Cassandra Wilson, The Conjurer

Parting thoughts on a singular voice and incredible artist

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thank you, I had not heard this sad news. Saw her many years ago in Brooklyn and she was magic. #RIP

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.

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Zodi Addams 🍁☕️🎃 @zodi777.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026

I know that it was “just a show” but Watchmen actually did a good job demonstrating the bone-chilling terror of the Tulsa Massacre. A lot of people learned about it from the show. Pop culture shouldn’t be the only learning tool, but it can open doors for further study.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

hoping Disney will save us is a deeply Americana disease

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Can the government launch a campaign on this for non-refugee men as well, please? Because the statistics show it’s badly needed

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I stopped posting on Twitter properly 2 years ago; I’d be lying if I said I didn’t check it, as a lot of what drives the UK news cycle happens on there But the number of people on there that think people, esp journos, left Twitter because they wanted an echo chamber is bizarre - another culture war

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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bots trying to stoke race wars. Like we need help 🤦🏾‍♀️

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Dr K WILDSCHUT @drkwildschut1984.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I support the call for a public inquiry into the death of Jason #Arday This article paints Cofnas as a sour loser bc he was sacked in 2024 from the University of Cambridge. And FYI Arday’s PhD was confirmed as having been free from plagiarism.

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Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday media 'witchhunt'

Lord Simon Woolley said Arday had been "hounded" by the media and pursued relentlessly.

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