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Mary-Anne

@mjack08.bsky.social
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Aotearoa born & grown. Irish national. Recovering Classics scholar. Decoloniser. Disability advocate. Zero tolerance for misogyny

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Mary-Anne @mjack08.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Am I doomscrolling, or am I curating the algorithm so it aligns with my interests?
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Mary-Anne @mjack08.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I'm still figuring out the best way to articulate this. There's something different about growing up in a culture that has its roots in oral history, and passing knowledge directly from person to person. When elders tell you a story, you internalise it in a way that sinks through to your soul.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)
A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees
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JustSayin @justsayin-fromx.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
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Mir 📎 @mirakosh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
'Oh Rascal Children of Gaza' By Palestinian poet and playwright Khaled Juma - Al-Shaboura. Written during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in Operation Protective Edge August 2014, that killed 547 Palestinian children, wounded 3,374 children and permanently disabled 1,000 children. #Palestine
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Steve E. Tricks @refreshingtime.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
i responded to one of the biggest streamers in the world. featuring @kenklippenstein.bsky.social
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Assassin Lookalike Responds to xQc
YouTube video by burt
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Sermon, National Prayer Service 21 January 2025 Bishop Mariann Budde: In the name of our G-d, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives.
Bishop Mariann Budde:

In the name of our G-d, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives.

And, the people, the people who pick our crops, and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat-packing plants. Who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants. And work the night shifts in hospitals. 

They, they may not be citizens, or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.They pay taxes and are good neighbors.

[Clip ends. Ten seconds were cut to fit Bluesky 60 sec. requirements.]

Transcript continued:

They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras and temples. [clip ends]
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
It is such a pleasure to see Trump and his gang be forced to listen to a sermon asking for mercy for queer children and the many people working in hard jobs in America. What courage Bishop Budde has to speak this directly to him. (A transcript is in the following post.)
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The Sumaira Foundation (TSF) @thesumairafdn.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
#ICYMI - Have you ever wondered what it's like to age with autoimmune diseases? Dr. Amanda Piquet, the Céline Dion Foundation Endowed Chair in Autoimmune Neurology at Uni of Colorado, discusses how aging manifests for patients living with autoimmune diseases. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGkc...
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Aging with Autoimmune Diseases
YouTube video by The Sumaira Foundation
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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Transgender Law Center and @reprolegalfund.bsky.social’s Trans Health Legal Fund offers financial support for trans people facing investigation, arrest, or prosecution for seeking gender-affirming care. Share with your community, and apply here: reprolegaldefensefund.org/trans-health...
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Trans Health Legal Fund - Repro Legal Defense Fund
Our judicial system has tried to convince us that we don’t have ownership over our bodies. We know better. In partnership with the Transgender Law Center, we are launching the Trans Health Legal Fund....
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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 15/01/2025
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 15/01/2025
New: Change Healthcare's breach last year affects over 100 million Americans whose health data was stolen. But for months, Change has hidden its official data breach notice from search engines, making it far more difficult for anyone searching the web to find it. techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/u...
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UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months | TechCrunch
Following its ransomware attack, Change Healthcare used website code to hide the data breach notice from search engines.
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AlyceMiller @alycemiller.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
On January 20, let’s all be Michelle. Don’t watch the inauguration. Instead, tune into MLK Day programming.
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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 11/01/2025
A great write-up on the incarcerated firefighter program in California & the folks in prison helping out with the fires in LA. Appreciate The Marshall Project for reaching out to me. All too often, folks write about fire camps without talking to people who’ve been to fire camps. Not the case here.
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The Dangerous Yet Desirable Work of Being an Incarcerated Firefighter in California
More than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their choice are complicated.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A reminder for people evacuating Hollywood that Metro is fare free. If you’re taking transit to get to safety I’d love to hear from you
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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/01/2025
When the Grenfell Tower blaze led to revelations that high-rise public housing across Britain were wrapped in flammable cladding, the government vowed those responsible would pay. Seven years on, the companies have largely escaped financial liability reut.rs/3BY7wYa
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Exclusive: The Ghosts of Grenfell: No penalties for UK firms that used deadly building material
When the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze in 2017 led to revelations that high-rise public housing buildings across Britain were wrapped in flammable cladding, the government vowed the building contractors responsible would pay for their negligence.
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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Hey All, please share and learn about this great summer program, conceived, led and taught by Indigenous scholars to Indigenous students! It's a groundbreaking concept, Indigenous Data Sovereignty #IDSov and protecting resources for Indigenous people's own and exclusive benefit. What an idea?!
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Graphic Medicine International Collective @graphicmedicine.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
These awards are meant to recognize and honor outstanding health-related comic projects published in 2024. They are made possible by your donations and a generous matching gift in Honor of Nancy and Herbert Wolf. www.graphicmedicine.org/the-inaugura...
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The Graphic Medicine Award | Graphic Medicine
CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO THE GMIC AWARD! The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to guide and support the uses of comics in health. The GMIC A...
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Mary-Anne @mjack08.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Important thread
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702ajf @vegasgello.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Read his remarkable Law Day address from 1974... www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/la...
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Law Day Address at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia | The American Presidency Project
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Mary-Anne @mjack08.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Anyone on #Classics Bluesky want to chat about Euripides and Greek drama? I graduated in 2007 so I'm not up to date with current scholarship, but I'm in the Nancy Sorlin Rabinowitz,Anxiety Veiled school of thought.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
2024 was extraordinarily busy, so we’ll forgive you if you missed some of our articles at @bolts.bsky.social. Our team chose our 12 favorite pieces of the year. These are articles I'd love for you to not miss—& give them new life if you did. And: thank you for reading us! ↓
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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I’ve been wondering when I’d get to use this again.
Black and white meme showing James Watt, Rudolf Hertz, and Samuel Morse with the text:

Watt is love?
Baby don’t Hertz me
Don’t Hertz me
No Morse
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
1. Vertical (mother to child) transmission of HIV in the US is close to being eliminated—one of the greatest public health successes in modern times 2. RFK Jr is an AIDS denialist, & I fear that putting an AIDS denialist in charge of the nation’s health could be a huge setback to progress
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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
#unboxing -- The Black Fantastic! IT'S HERE! My first-ever edited fiction anthology! Y'all these authors are THE ENTIRE FUTURE. #BlackSky #SFF #QueerCommons #afrofuturism youtu.be/oQObHBoatXQ
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Unboxing The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories
YouTube video by andré carrington
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
“He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest staged perp walk I've ever seen in my career. What was the mayor doing at this press conference.. the mayor should know more than anyone about the presumption of innocence that he, too, is afforded when he is dealing with his own issues.”
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Jo @ogjojo.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Ya'll FNX has just released a free streaming app for Native content! Just downloaded it and they have some great content up...if you haven't seen The Lesser Blessed or read the book by Richard Van Camp, highly recommend! www.foxla.com/news/local-i...
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Local indigenous group launches free, 24-hour all Native streaming platform
The First Nations Experience has cooking shows, news, movies, documentaries and even cartoons, all created by Native Americans.
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Dr Simon Trafford @simontrafford.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
"The genetic results encourage reflection on the dangers of making up stories about gender and family relationships in past societies based on present-day expectations,” one of the study’s authors said. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Pompeii DNA evidence contradicts long-held assumptions about victims buried in ash
“The genetic results encourage reflection on the dangers of making up stories about gender and family relationships in past societies based on present-day expectations,” one of the study’s authors sai...
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Dr. Ellen Bauerle @bauerle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
An excellent new review of David Mattingly’s Jerome Lectures on North Africa, part of the University of Michigan Press’s publications program in Classical Studies.
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Mary-Anne @mjack08.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Tinu and other black disabled women taught me how to advocate for myself in ways that saved my life this year #ForTinu www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-t...
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Donate to Honoring Tinu's Legacy with Compassionate Support, organized by Brooke Crume
In loving memory of Atinuke Abayomi Paul (Tinu), beloved daughter, gran… Brooke Crume needs your support for Honoring Tinu's Legacy with Compassionate Support
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Tatum Hunter @tatumhunter.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
NEW: The type of conspiracy-thinking that used to brew in small corners of the internet is now a second language for all of us. Here’s what drone panic says about this moment — when paranoia jumps across political lines and online bubbles. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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In online drone panic, conspiracy thinking has gone mainstream
Authorities are urging calm. But with trust in media and other institutions at all-time lows, fringe theories are winning the day.
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
It's not that we become impervious to triggers. It's that we come to trust our commitment to responding to them w/ skill & commitment to not turn on ourselves like our bullies & abusers conditioned us to. And both parts of that equation, skill & commitment, very much matter.
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peter james zarrella @peterjameszarrella.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
the legacy of the black rodeo in Oklahoma - (shared as a gift) the history of the black cowboy runs deep starting in the early 1800s and on through to today - www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Can the Rodeo Save a Historic Black Town?
One woman’s quest to rescue Boley, Oklahoma
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Annual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
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Unvirtuous Abbey @unvirtuousabbey.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Physio therapist will give you more than you can handle
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 11/12/2024
Okay so I have **actual evidence** that he knows what he's saying is wrong. Here he is literally agreeing with my analysis of the minimal area we'd need to provide the whole US with solar, back in the day (2020)
Screenshot of Elon Musk replying to my tweet in 2020 agreeing that we need only a small area of land for solar to supply all our needs.
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greatlakes1.bsky.social @greatlakes1.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
56% percent in his honeymoon phase is historically low approval for any incoming president. What are you talking about.
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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
AI art is scabbing. AI art is a LABOR issue. youtu.be/4kSjbkM5mnU?...
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AI art is scabbing
YouTube video by Ok2BeFat Streams
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A lot of men are gonna be mad that their US history classes were too busy to cover The Hatpin Panic. The Hatpin Panic was a period in the early 1900's where we had to pass laws limiting women's hatpins to <9" because men started to get too fucking free with touching and were getting shanked for it.
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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Similar ideas here, I reckon
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From Pockets to Power: How to Use Fashion as Resistance with Kimberly Jenkins
Podcast Episode · Black History Year · 12/03/2024 · 1h 15m
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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Ever since Reagan, increasing the debt by giving tax breaks to the rich has been a premeditated policy to justify cutting welfare & public services. Neoliberal playbook 101.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/12/2024
It is as Brett Christophers foretold: in Sweden, they've got so much clean energy installed that energy has become incredibly cheap ... which is discouraging investment in the remaining clean energy needed to decarbonize the economy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Sweden’s Free Green Power Is Crippling Its Wind Industry
Sweden’s wind power industry risks becoming a victim of its own success.
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Splinter @splinternews.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Civility is for Civilized Societies www.splinter.com/civility-is-...
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Civility is for Civilized Societies
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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cate @buny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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