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Jucika @jucikacomics.bsky.social · 25m
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 3h
NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 6h
"20 years ago housing was affordable" -> let's take a big sip of coffee and look at what we happening in the real estate market in 2006. Oh, insurance was affordable in 2006? Before the ACA? People need to read more.
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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In The Abduction (1867), painted at Zola's Paris home, Cézanne aimed for something "immense." The result is a dramatic scene — likely Pluto seizing Proserpine — rendered with the raw force and heavy textures of his dark period.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 6h
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 10h
In today’s @ft_weekend there’s a column by me about the writers of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, screwing up season 4 by attempting to dispense with the format across almost every episode. Perhaps you liked the season. You are entitled to that view. You are also wrong. www.ft.com/content/b1d6...
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In the finale of the latest series in the Star Trek universe, which dropped on Paramount+ just over a week ago, the crew of the Starship Enterprise boldly went where they have been many, many times before. There was a black hole, a time slip narrative, the birth of an alien baby and much more besides. For diehard Trek fans, among whose number I count myself, it was bliss, not least because the rest of season four of Strange New Worlds, a prequel to the original Star Trek of the 1960s, had been a complete bloody mess.A second screenshot which reads:

The majority of the 10 episodes were clumsy experiments with genre, breaking a robust format that has functioned perfectly well for the past six decades. One had a black-and-white film noir setting, with the Klingons as the Peter Lorre bad guys. In another, for reasons too convoluted to explain, the crew were in a soap opera and so behaving completely out of character. There was a fairy tale episode and a horror episode and a drugged-up episode (more character warping). Worst of all was the episode in which, through a transporter malfunction, all the characters were replaced by muppets apart from Spock.A third screenshot which reads:

Star Trek’s age-old mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, had apparently been forgotten by a writing team who at best seemed bored with the show’s premise, and at worst held both it and the fans in contempt. Complaints piled up across social media and elsewhere. As one said, “for god’s sake, just do Star Trek.” Amen to that. All we wanted was the show we know and love. It’s all the fans ever want.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16h
ICE builds more prisons because the goal is explicitly to warehouse surplus labor, criminalize poverty, and assert total control over all of society. When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 22h
This is huge! Another cancer responds well to immunotherapy. A child had metastatic liver cancer. The patient had chemotherapy & a liver resection. No avail. Then: Two infusions, eight weeks apart. Doctors saw complete regression. No systemic toxicity. 🧪 www.bcm.edu/news/care-st...
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CARE study reports complete regression of liver cancer in a child treated with novel immunotherapy
A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Seattle Children’s...
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Erik Adams @erikadams.bsky.social · 21h
You'll never believe how enjoyable it is to watch Ethan Hawke pick fights he will never in a million years win.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h
I am very much not a “read an article, now I’m an expert” person, but what’s astounding to me is how many of the people running our government haven’t even read the single article.
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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on
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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
20 HOURS LEFT! The GIANT 10th ANNIVERSARY How to THINK BOOKS KICKSTARTER IS COMING on a SECRET DATE in EARLY 2027, ONLY WAY to get the books is to join the SECRET LAUNCH MAILING LIST in the next 20 HOURS this month! Send “Add me, Lorenzo!” to DrawKickstarter@yahoo.com joined before?You’re on it!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Nations crumble, democracy becomes obsolete, a tech-powered elite rules… threaded into the Trump admin, with VP Vance one of their own… When a nation is betrayed by its wealthiest citizens, existential crisis follows… tech fascism has global ambitions…”😕🤷🏼 #NerdReich
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running a private school. But to show you just how easy it is to start one, we decided to test the process ourselves.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 02/10/2026
"The University of Cambridge refused to sign plagiarism detection software Turnitin’s new licence agreement, which could have allowed students’ work to be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models."
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Uni opposes Turnitin AI training plans
The University is now exploring alternatives to the plagiarism detection service, according to the SU
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
Jared Kushner’s private equity company reportedly has major stakes in companies that provide weapons to the Israeli military, as new reporting reveals the latest conflict of interest concerns with regard to Kushner’s role as a top negotiator for Trump on Gaza.
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Kushner, Key Trump Negotiator on Gaza, Owns Firm With Major Stake in Israeli Military
Kushner’s private equity company is the biggest shareholder in a Tel Aviv firm that invests heavily in arms makers.
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Sam Lowe @greenlantern44.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nancy 10/1/26 … “Sluggo’s Terrible Hat” Part 4
Nancy vents to Aunt Fritzi, telling her she may have to break up with Sluggo because of his new hat. Fritzi thinks she’s being dramatic, until she sees the hat….
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another factor: Republicans favoring negative freedoms (“Nobody tells me what to do”) over positive ones (“I can pursue the life I desire)”), to borrow Isaiah Berlin’s terms. Think of loud cars. The right often sees them as a personal choice; the left as an audible assault. Check out USDOT's Duffy
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UVA historian Peter Norton: “This is a uniquely partisan moment in transportation.” He believes the seeds were planted in the 1980s, when Reagan sought to unwind transit subsidies, part his push to deconstruct LBJ’s Great Society. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
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Tristan Lánstad @desastertristan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The thing is, the AI that is producing garbage art and garbage writing is not even the one that is doing scientific work, garbage peddlers just profit from making people believe they are the same thing.
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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.
Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“
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The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 30/09/2026
"Overnight, I lost some of my capacity to think and write. After fighting to get it back, I cannot imagine choosing to give those faculties over to a machine." @marianneeloise.bsky.social's argument against AI.
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In Defense of Difficulty
As someone who, overnight, lost some of their capacity to think and write, I cannot comprehend why a person would choose to give those faculties over to a machine.
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UncleofJamiroquai @jessefarrar.com · 01/10/2026
It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN
It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A word. The excused rapists of thirty years ago are the ones on the Supreme Court giving Trump carte blanche permission to put people in concentration camps and deport them to third party countries where they are tortured.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Pablo Picasso @pablopicasso.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Three women at a fountain (study) botfrens.com/collections/111/conten…
Three women at a fountain (study)
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👻 YSUBoOoOooOooo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Guys, if you aren't already supporting the Internet Archive, please consider doing so. They are way more than just the Wayback Machine. They have a massive library of texts, audio, films, video games, and more media available. I'm downloading the 1933 OED right now as pdfs. It's insane.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Rodney Anonymous @rodneyanonymous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Folks, the image below is from “Three Little Bops” (1957) from Warner Bros. - NOT Disney. Three Little Bops is one of my favorite cartoons.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's great that what I'm seeing on the news about the flood is police & insurance companies focusing on ppl who might have driven a car they didn't want into flood water. And not all the ways insurance companies are trying to get out of paying out when floods hit.
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ringa ringa roses @zyla.top · 28/09/2026
HEY IM BAWKIN HERE
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
finally, a good threads post
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/09/2026
One example is the discovery that OpenAI’s tools had hacked into another company named Hugging Face. The company’s report on this incident framed it as a frightening result of these tools’ improved capabilities. But a careful read of the report reveals that OpenAI had disabled the tools’ safeguards.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"i'm james talarico and i approve this message"
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 28/09/2026
Scott portrays an actor overcoming health complications to play the role he's always dreamed of. www.avclub.com/elsinore-tra...
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Andrew Scott will make you weep in new trailer for Elsinore
Andrew Scott will make you weep in new trailer for Elsinore
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
hes going to announce hes never heard of choosin texas
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Paul George Lombard Jr. @herroyalredness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Highlights from the Giants vs Titans today
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 28/09/2026
context if you don't already know: Ashley is a fucking hero who helped so much money get to people who needed it, especially during the ICE raids in Minneapolis. It would be legitimately awesome to visit upon her the same support she's provided for so many other vulnerable people.
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How come no one offers to be *my* sledgehammer.
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Thanks, I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Patriots' backup QB is named Tommy DeVito. That is clearly just a random dude from Boston they pulled out of the stands and threw into the game.
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Philbert @philbert.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
If I mix unknown chemicals and it blows up a city block, did it go rogue? Would I be responsible?
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