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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 3h

Great moments in accessibility:

A TV screen showing a closed caption line reading “Type Caption Text Here.” You didn’t think I would post THIS without alt text, did you?

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 7h

My hypothesis is that jurisdictions that let police screen rape cases arrest, prosecute, and convict at a lower rate than those that have prosecutors involved from day 1. We have never had data to test it, but we might now. This is one of my current projects.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In addition to the names of the Cornell 7 we should also make famous the administrators and law enforcement officers who originally thought an apology letter would be sufficient.

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By 40, you should have a shirt you can’t bear to throw out, an animal you over-identify with, a bad 90s movie that makes you weep due to unresolved issues with a parent, an apotropaic charm to ward off The Curse, inexplicable memory lapses, blood on your hands, so much blood, & shoes w/ arch support

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 29/09/2026

NYers READ SHARE DONATE My friend Chelsea's daughter has leukemia & needs platelet transfusions. She can *only* have AB platelets. You can donate if you are AB+ or AB-. Please go to Sloane Kettering at 1250 1st Ave. Say they're for Stella Suther. DM me for her bday www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/s/a...

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Rav @rvbdrm.com · 28/09/2026

HIS ARMS WIDE

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the most important thing men can do, and they must be doing it immediately. People create culture. People can change it. If you can't remember the last time you created some social awkwardness by telling another man to stop with that shit, you probably aren't pulling your weight.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t know if she can win, but she is absolutely talking like the kind of politician I want to win.

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Roses are red Redwoods grow sky-high

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Portrait of a rain-hating dog who has decided to ignore Sunday

A small brown dog sound asleep in the middle of the afternoon on a rumpled bed

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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is extremely true! But also, it’s why no engineering problem is purely a technology problem, it is also a social problem, and why the humanities must be co-taught with engineering.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 26/09/2026

I won’t boo him, he’s right. “A moral and ethical story”: he’s describing the need for a narrative. A useful past that defines the country as a multicultural, egalitarian project — not a white Christian-nationalist dystopia. MAGA has a repellent story— but it’s a story. An alternative is needed.

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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Once you see it, you'll never stop seeing it. Secret no. 33 breaks the code. #50SecretsofTransit celebrates the 50th anniversary of the #NYTransitMuseum. Join us as we pull back the curtain on New York's transportation system.

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

no merlin, no bbc sherlock, no stargate atlantis, it's like none of those critics even has an @archiveofourown.org account

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Stunning #NYC sunset!

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a great and heroic list. One of the fun things about all the NYT list discourse this week is remembering all the great 21st-c shows I'd nearly forgotten. Wonder Showzen! Aqua Teen Hunger Force! Please Like Me! America to Me! I Love Dick! Rubicon! High Maintenance!

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Audra McDonald, Donna Murphy, and Kelli O’Hara sing Sondheim? Together?? I am deceased!

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is my take as well. If you create a car that spontaneously accelerates because of how it’s designed, nobody says the car went rogue. You, who designed and sold the car, are on the hook. It’s not everybody else’s problem. Can’t keep it from spontaneously accelerating? Don’t sell it.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow at 9am PT, come join me and @michelet.bsky.social on episode 12 of How People Work, Live! because I am very excited to hear about What's The Worst Idea, as well as what happens when everyone starts bringing prototypes to meetings. Register for free: calendly.com/verylittlegr...

Promo for episode 12 of How People Work, Live! with Michele Tepper on 25 September.

Dan and Michele chat about how you actually build trust, the importance of clearly articulating problems, and her application of the Vince Gilligan Worst Idea technique.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 24/09/2026

Reading these reviews is like watching John Henry race the steam drill, except the steam drill in this case is just another regular hammer that John Henry also has to operate. www.todayintabs.com/p/meta-s-new...

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Meta's New A.I. Agent For Losers

Also: "fast as hell and built for sickos?" That's what they called me in high school.

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Other than that, how did you like the show, Melania?”

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's nice that Susan Collins will end her career, not just as the always-was-the-likelist-victim-of-a-midterm-wave-election, but in actual ignominy. I love that for her.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s the Coltrane centenary.

Black and white photo of John Coltrane on stage, c 1964.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We wrote this 18 damn years ago.

A script from episode 102 of Leverage with the dialogue for defense contractor Dufort:”You know the great thing about Congressmen? Fifty, a hundred grand well spent will get one elected.Once they’re in, they have an incumbency rate of over ninety-five percent. You get, on the average, eighteen to twenty years of use out of one. (beat) In these uncertain times, buying a United States Congressman is one of the best investments a corporation can make.”

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a real thing that is happening! Please join.

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lesson learned yesterday: if I’m going to have to walk 5 miles over the course of a day when I’m fasting, I’m going to need electrolytes at the end of it

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope, especially with the Timothy West narration (sadly an Audible-only offering). The sort of book where if I’d read it at 20 I would have missed half the jokes.

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am SO DELIGHTED to announce that our brand new report: The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania is out today. datasociety.net/research-lib... TechCrunch has the scoop: techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/e...

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Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction | TechCrunch

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026

You don’t need to listen to a three-hour podcast to find the manosphere; it’s right there in the conference room. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A meaningful fast for those who observe and g’mar chatimah tovah to all

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m borrowing “Do not descend into the Charybdis of Discourse!” for the short-term foreseeable future. Thanks, Dr Wilson

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Office of the Mayor put Mamdani’s welcome to the UN on the TLC car video screen for the week. They’re very good at this

A passenger-side front seat leaning forward in a hired Toyota. On the attached screen, one sees Mayor Mamdani addressing the camera

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Software developers think "if AI automates coding, I will be able to spend less time on producing widgets, and more time on strategy and architecture." Bosses think "if AI automates coding, I can get my devs to produce 100x more widgets."

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

when you interact with an object or environment produced by people, every single part of it is downstream of active human choices. and that means they can be legislated. for example: we can make it illegal for chatbots to call themselves "i" and pretend to be a person. that is a deliberate trick.

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Brooklyn’s hottest club is Prospect Park on an absolutely perfect last official Saturday of summer

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s more to be said about the relationship between Pinker-style stardom and the state of academia. Not because academia is Woke, but because star systems loosen rigor at the top while solid scholarship becomes a dead end lower down. Shoddy celebrities and broke PhDs proceed from the same machine

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People keep talking about Mitch McConnell’s frailty without mentioning that he had polio and suffers from post-polio syndrome too. This isn’t just recent, it’s still around us if we remember to look

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tonight at 7pm eastern on public radio in Boston, NYC, and Miami, as well as on YouTube: a call-in special about the TPS crisis for Haitians

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Haiti On The Line: The TPS Emergency | WNYC

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A project I've worked on for the last three months just came out: It's @abortioninamerica.bsky.social's first short film, "No Exceptions." It's the story of Allison Howland of Arkansas and the consequences of our post-Roe reality for women across the country. youtu.be/ZuYNflCS770

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No Exceptions

YouTube video by Abortion in America

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 17/09/2026

Democrats need to declare that any contractor who damages or destroys property illegally, on Trump’s orders, will be permanent debarred. And governors need to declare they’ll inherit those debarments. Take that job, you may never work again.

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now *this* is what you do with filthy lucre!

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mamdani is writing the playbook for how Democrats must continue to communicate with voters after Election Day. He could have done the usual thing and disappear after winning but if anything he’s communicating even MORE now.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t want to know about any of this

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028

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Max Read @maxread.info · 15/09/2026

i would like to have a lot fewer high-breathlessness low-details confessional letters/essays/tweets/resignations from big ai and a lot more specificity & transparency

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