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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 7h
It's almost a joke at this point, but the entire story of Mamdani's mayorship really has been "it turns out we can just turn off the orphan grinding machine, the switch was right there the whole time."
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14h
i simply want democrats to be the version of themselves that steven miller conjures in his nightmares
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i am a rock @mildbannered.bsky.social · 14h
Very cool to be waiting 45 minutes for a car to agree to take me home from the airport. Why not take a cab you may ask? Well some genius decided to put the pickup areas for cabs and ride shares on opposite sides of the airport!
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
Again, what do you think the police are doing to people you can’t name if they’re willing to do that to the mayor?
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10/10/2026
i personally would like to live in a large house in a nature preserve with no neighbors that is a five minute walk from grocery stores, nightlife and amenities, a good school, and my six-figure job. i don't see why this is so difficult
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That goose said “fuck what you thought!”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium. People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
speaking of public executions: "as open enrollment begins this month, roughly five million people will be forced to switch plans because their current policy has been canceled or is no longer offered in the county where they live" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
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Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance
As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.
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Alabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the South
At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss.
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Repeating my sotto voce refrain that I think we are very soon going to have to deal with the plain (but seldom spoken) fact that police are simply not under the control of the political leadership who command them on paper.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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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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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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i am a rock @mildbannered.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rest in power, holy shit
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i am a rock @mildbannered.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office
ALT: Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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NER430 @ner430.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gift link www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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When Anesthesia Goes Wrong
A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened.
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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I continue to think that being “too big to fail” is **exactly** their plan for how to navigate the coming crash, and it’s why they’re pushing so hard to get everybody using pricy commercial AI products all the time for everything, even in cases where there is a clear downside (ie, education)
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
👀 “We’re doing this experiment on an entire generation on cognitive development, with no control group." — fmr Google research scientist Mikel Rodriguez. He said people inside Google privately worried about how their AI use was affecting their own cognitive skills. 🎁 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...
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Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far
The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
dropkick murphys fans not fuckin around
Girl wearing a shirt that says I.C.E. Can gargle my balls
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
we are so back
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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i am a rock @mildbannered.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is he perhaps part of MGB and seeing new patients 👀
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better
@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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i am a rock @mildbannered.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I REALLY hope it’s good. I loved the book.
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i am a rock @mildbannered.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
omg yay hi. unfortunately we are like ships in the night 😭 but enjoy MA and keep it cool while I’m gone!
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I AM ACACIAS SWAYING YELLOW,… @riz0me.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"To be fair, I'm not doing so great with men. I told my most recent date that I was working on a novella. 'Because you're Mexican?' he asked. I asked what he meant. 'Isn't a novella a Mexican novel?'" -- oh wow
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The judges said they want to review whether her allegations of sexual abuse and rape as a child were fully considered before she was sentenced to death."
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
LRP: additionally important to know that if you’re allergic to coconut, you’re also allergic to most activated charcoal products. Many of them are made using burned down coconut husks, but no one advertises that/it’s extremely hard to find out. So be careful this Halloween season!
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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i am a rock @mildbannered.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(this happened last year when i was angry-posting about the epstein files)
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i am a rock @mildbannered.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and please don't take time out of your day to message me "not all men are like that!!!!! :)" fuck you.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"A university's obligation to the physical safety of its students is not one commitment among several, to be weighed against reputation or litigation exposure. It is antecedent to everything else the institution does." -- I wish our "professional " media had the guts of this student paper. 
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story.
Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
omg. i love this version so much
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