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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026
It’s a very minor point amongst the far greater injustices of the situation, but the Cornell case has also just reminded me how much all of society seems to have just accepted the fact that big tech won’t allow people to use the word “rape”. (Or at least people *believe* so — nobody knows!)
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Zines From Gaza @coastallinespress.com · 02/10/2026
NEW ZINE! Our latest release is a coloring book by Tasneem Ahmad with illustrations by Yuko Okabe of Palestinian clothing, food, ecology and historic sites, inviting you to color life into them while learning about Palestinian culture and identity. coastallinespress.com/lets-color 🇵🇸 🖍️
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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All good things come to an end: FINAL (!) black feminist theory summer institute in August 2027. Please share with grad students and encourage them to apply.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The white nationalists are turning up the dial on racism against South Asian USians. Will we talk about the fact that the dial has been up on anti-Blackness among this same group for decades? Because I think that it's a barrier to solidarity.
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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 01/10/2026
I absolutely detest how we've gone from "do things" to "outsource things" to "do research and intellectual work so that we can humbly request that the outsourced vendor, who keeps raising costs on services that keep degrading, fix their costly jank".
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have seen the chart saying that people in the U.S. don't invite anyone over to dinner anymore. I would like to say that this may be empirically true. What is also true is that when people invite people over it's often the case that people flake out. So it creates a negative feedback loop.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm grateful to Radcliffe and the Schlesinger Library for ensuring that my mom's work will be accessible to her many students, past and future
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Lani Guinier’s legacy, in her own words - Harvard Law School
Schlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality.
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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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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
so, so, so done with all the rain, drizzle, humidity, and yes, frizz in my hair
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Brittany Paloma Fiedler @bpfiedler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In a country that doesn’t provide sick or vacation days or any job protections, who else has the luxury of taking 20ish days off a year due to lack of childcare besides (some) people with upper middle class jobs? Even if daycare were free, most jobs I’ve worked would make me quit to be a parent.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine. Decide. Act. Make. The human skills, the human verbs
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 29/09/2026
The earth looked like it was lit from within Like a poorly assembled electrical ball As we moved out of the farmlands into the grid The plan of a city was all that you saw
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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s one thing to be aware of how the public is using it and how the disinformation it breeds can be countered in a respectful reference exchange, but it’s entirely different to use a tool that is ACTIVELY HARMING OUR FIELD in a public-facing way
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What a surprise, the organizers of the covid cautious dyke bar hated the article, rejected its framing, and is defending their covid cautious patrons and performers. Anyone who joined in on the viral harassment campaign started by Jesse Singal wanna say oops or…? recorder.com/2026/09/24/g...
Current and former owners of Last Ditch could not be reached by phone, email or social media. However, Last Ditch did share on Instagram that the Globe story allegedly misconstrued statements from Noire, and urged community members to stop harassing Noire.
"It is neither productive, progressive, nor valiant to attack a Black patron. He has been a collaborator and performer of Last Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his mind about accountability and repair from the bar," the Last Ditch statement reads. "There are so many misconceptions due to the disorganization of the Globe article. He did not call for the bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not disparage the owner for being homeless.
"As a result of this abysmal journalism, he has been getting additional threats, slurs, harassment, and is being reported to the police over something he did not do," Last Ditch continued. "This is not supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is, at its core, anti-Blackness hysteria."
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Perhaps you can begin IRL. Or end IRL. Or advertise physically. Could this email be a meeting? Or maybe it’s a Discord. A URL people actually visit. A Roblox world. Cool has always fermented, first, in containment." docs.google.com/presentation...
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EX Research_Cool Is A Skill Issue
COOL IS A SKILL ISSUE A trend report by EX Research Q3 2026
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
when someone writes a GoFundMe update about a tragic loss that also recounts the agentic AI conversation they had about grief and memory, and then I stop reading
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was just pointing out a couple of days on here that this is the LOWEST HANGING FRUIT of low hanging fruit for Democrats to promise if they take control of Congress. RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE from $7.25. It has not risen since 2009. It's criminal.
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Congratulations to @durba.bsky.social for being named a 2026 @caseygrants.bsky.social Freedom Scholar!🔥🥇🦅
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Marguerite Casey Foundation | Freedom Scholars
The Freedom Scholars awards were created in 2020 to demonstrate the Marguerite Casey Foundation’s commitment to academic research and scholarship focused on shifting the balance of power in society to...
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
nothing beneath notice, no work beneath us no part of the work that does not involve us we are for this and it is for us (all) the time it takes is the sign of our commitment life is limited, let's make things well not doing everything as fast as we can is good, actually
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
nothing beneath notice is a labor slogan as well as an aesthetic practice
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"JJ Pionke, librarian, library and information studies educator, and advocate for people with disabilities, has died." One of the best of us has left this world, moving on, I hope, to a kind of peace. JJ, you will be missed. Fiercely. jj-pionke-memorial.org/in-loving-me...
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In Loving Memory
JJ Pionke 1978 – 2026 JJ Pionke, librarian, library and information studies educator, and advocate for people with disabilities, has died. JJ was born in suburban Chicago to Wayne and Rita Pi…
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026
If you ain’t got that dog in you than do knitting content
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
why do I know so many AI startup founders
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/09/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Emily Flake.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay enough of the ugliness wrought by that other Sheeran, here's the Jens Lekman version, whose "Shirin" is also about the relationship of art and politics. youtu.be/WHjbnsC80_k
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Jens Lekman - Shirin
YouTube video by KyotoPurpleSanga
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
me, admonishing the wind: "stop making everything into a video or a podcast and just be words on a page"
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BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to "go back where they came from".
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This thread captures everything I've found annoying about the "using AI as an idea-generator" approach. (And yes, I'm explicitly going against the findings of a panel I was part of in 2023 touting these tools for visual arts research . . . because frankly, I now know more, and can change my view.)
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Need a new PTO category for when one has to deal with or secure precarious/temporary/unwieldy housing. It's not a vacation, it's not disability leave, it's some other thing that's the product of unchecked capitalism, climate change, and/or successive natural disasters.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A villain telling stories about heroes to earn the money to engage in more evil, that's the real story behind the new HP series. So no, I won't be watching.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A reminder that vaccines are widely available right now! And while most pharmacists don't even bother to ask about preexisting condition qualifications, they will also usually help you find out which fit you. Don't get killed by COVID. I'd much rather have you on Earth with me.
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"We commemorate the 3,000 Americans slain on 9/11. We do not commemorate the three orders of magnitude more who the U.S.' actions killed. There could be no righteous victimhood for us if we did." www.forever-wars.com/today-we-mus...
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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Vaxxed and ready
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
when both of the women promoted look like doppelgangers of one another
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We had a vote in my 4th grade class on whether we thought invading Iraq was right and I got sent to the principal's office for being the only person to vote against the invasion 🙃 The early aughts were *fucked*, y'all
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Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Podcasts should go back to being audio only.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?"
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ex Machina (2014) is not supposed to be trending in 2026, except for the Oscar Isaac dance sequence.
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you teach #MLIS classes, consider bringing me in to talk to your classes about the job search. Too many LIS professionals out here giving advice that worked for them 20 years ago, but it's a different world now. 📚
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 08/09/2026
I spoke to a member of the SBWU boycott committee about the call to boycott Starbucks. As a reminder, boycott Starbucks! www.weareravenous.com/starbucks-wo...
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The Starbucks Boycott Heats Up
After negotiations for a contract have stalled, Starbucks Workers United is officially calling for a boycott.
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"It would have been interesting to explore the genre’s troublesome stereotypes and how it lives on in the realm of sci-fi, but there is no such probing — neither on the museum’s walls or in the digital guide." - @cmonstah.bsky.social (a good label can do so much) email.kcrw.com/the-lucas-mu...?
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🎨 The Lucas Museum is a Missed Opportunity
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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1000%, cosigned, no one host an event of any kind until they read this. Do you know how many times I have read through an entire event description and finished without knowing WHAT FUCKING CITY IT’S IN? So many times. Far too many. Please just. Just read and follow this, for all our sakes.
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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 08/09/2026
I've looked at literally thousands of online event listings over the past year and a half and now I have Opinions™ about how they should be structured, perhaps you would be interested in these if you also run events or you just enjoy a slightly exasperated blog post phirephoenix.com/blog/2026-09...
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things I wish every event organizer would do for their event listings
Hello yes, I am aware that it’s been almost a full year since the last post. This is largely because running Show Up Toronto and writing a newsletter for it every week takes a lot of time and energy. ...
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a must-read for anyone trying to create and bring community together. (And pair this with Elise Granata's latest piece for GROUP HUG on the weirdness of using social media platforms to champion hyperlocal happenings: grouphug.substack.com/p/the-weirdn... )
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The Weirdness of Using Social for the Hyperlocal
how i’m using and not using social media for a new community space
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📣 Brand new zine published to celebrate Labor Day: "Don’t Cross the Picket Line : Strike Solidarity for Beginners." Free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/dontcross/. This 24-page zine was created for anyone who's *not* part of a union and doesn't know much about unions or strikes.
Cover of a zine
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Temping for Enterprise rental car, spending 4 days stuffing envelopes with letters to thousands of customers who . . . didn't pay the tolls while using their vehicles. A few years later, electronic tolling was finally introduced on the interstate.
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