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Calli Giovanini COMMS CLOSED @calligiovanini.bsky.social · 13h
I really hope he wins 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 I just got back from voting
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h
Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.
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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 13h
Not to mention the role of bots. A lot of accounts saying the stupidest shit you can imagine aren't real people.
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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
tarot reader: so for your one card reading you drew the 1/1 signed holofoil reversed Tower. it's worth about $5000 graded me: so that's good? tarot reader: no, you're mega ultra fucked
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/10/2026
Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍
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Certified Robot Enjoyer @goldencoyote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fun Fact: FurAffinity's third-party advertisers want them to ban "Barbie doll" nudity, plus-sized characters, and HUGGING as "adult content." HUGGING.
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Hiro is here 👀🔞 @glhiro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Furaffinity just gave out a post about them being pressured to ban "all what third-parties consider porn", including characters hugging and them being plus size. Exhausting. But I am glad FA is standing their ground and doesn't submit to censorship. www.furaffinity.net/announcements/
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Frankie Frankenstein @friendfrankenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YOU'VE HEARD ME GASSING ACY UP and I stand by it!!! High energy, low energy wide energy 🎷brass energy⛈️ whatever you're in the scene, I can promise ACY has it for you. A rich discography; golf, cowboys, vibes, FUNK. Personally, for October, I've been enjoying the haunting vibes of Spectral Hands.⛈️💚
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Pendog Creative Library @pendogcreative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It with phantasmic pleasure, horrific honor, and ghoulish glee that we announce @facefullabugs.bsky.social as the voice of THE VAMP! Tune in to hear them on OCTOBER 31st!
Rubberhose cartoon drawing of a small pleasantly round suit wearing vampire with headphones and a microphone. On the microphone, stands the person of their attention, a small cartoon bug resembling an isopod wearing glasses, a bow tie, and also carrying a microphone. The two look gleeful and are speaking loudly. 

The poster text reads: Presenting
Facefullabugs as THE VOICE OF "THE VAMP"
twitch.tv/facefullabugs kofi.com/facefullabugs
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Joshua Lüdtke @joshualudtke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm not saying that we need to call out Drexel University leadership, but, they need to know that the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia needs to be kept open as a publicly available and accessible museum. So call them into a conversation about how they are making a bad decision right now.
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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · 03/10/2026
Drexel: where the past comes to be forgotten. Where condos are more important than the history of the earth.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 02/10/2026
What I don't get with the whole "AI is sentient" slop that they're trying to sell us is--surely if AI were sentient, it would be a living being and as such humans wouldn't be allowed to exploit AI with no pay, no rest and no workers rights?
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six @startwith4mgestradiolenanthateweeklyandtestatonetothreemonths.com · 02/10/2026
man with extremely creepy vibes dons "free hugs" sign
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Marcotte described the right wing reaction as "hysterical" -- and, fair. Words are not their etymologies and in this case the dictionary definition surely fits. But I still think these irrational anti-woman reactionaries should be known as the "testerical right".
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In case anyone else needs it, the magic phrase for shutting down men picking apart a sexual violence case by blaming victims is: “The only people who would say something like that are rape apologists, rapists, or both.” You don’t have to argue with them on merit when their claims have no merit.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you live in Florida — or anywhere for that matter — you should take a look at this data linked below which shows how the sugar industry is not paying its fair share to clean up the Everglades. Outrageous. Data Here: bit.ly/4xDIogh
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honestly I keep saying but this is what we need to see more of in the world. People caring and being kind and supportive and prosocial with each other. Folks are starved for this.
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TopatoCo @topa.to · 02/10/2026
Are your walls looking a little lonely and in need of some Odd Spirits? Maybe you already have spirits on your walls, but they could use a friend, I bet! Luckily @tkingfisher.com has lots of friends just for you at Topa.to/Redwombat! 👻 🌕 Topa.to/collections/red-wombat/products/rw-oddspirits 🌕
A graphic of Ursula Vernon's paintings featuring a goat rabbit creature with a golden halo around it. In the first one it is holding a yellow flowered stem and gestures its other arm out to the side. In the second painting it is pulling the skin around its eyes as one leg is bent upwards. The text on the graphic reads "odd spirit prints by Ursula Vernon".Two more paintings by Ursual. One is of a dog like creature with a leather hat on that covers its eyes, and green electric energy radiates from it. It also radiates from its paws. The second painting is of an owl like creature wearing a necklace and a robe, holding a stick with a feather dangling from it. A yellow halo is behind her head.The last piece of art from Ursula, featuring a white rabbit creature (wearing a hood, a shirt, gloves, and a skirt) standing in a lush field of bushes and flowers looking up at the moon.
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Carlos Maza @carlosmaza.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An important strategy for dealing with the right-wing ecosystem is to start suing the shit out of everyone. Jones, Candace Owens, they all deserve to be buried in litigation.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And people are convinced that it’s because of the Internet and not because of the fucking virus nearly everyone got. Because if they admitted it, they might have to consider wearing a mask. 
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When has there ever been a pandemic that didn’t create more disabled people in its wake? That’s just not a thing. Viruses are bad. I’m sure a lot of people newly IDing as disabled always have been but many people have post viral illness or a minor pre-existing issue turned unignorable by long covid
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.
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✨👁️Withkindereyes👁️✨ @withkindereyes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hi I’m a recently unemployed trans Korean American woman. moved back in with a very emotionally toxic family member and constantly being threatened to be kicked out. Patreon and kofi are my safety net/help cover student loans. Lowest tiers are 3 dollars.
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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 02/10/2026
This is also the time of year every coffee shop makes 'scary' lattes by putting charcoal in them. If you take birth control by mouth, that shit will not work when there's charcoal in your stomach.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 02/10/2026
St Louis and Philadelphia's city councils just became the first to officially endorse the Starbucks Boycott. Starbucks is the biggest violator of US labor law in history, and it's time we ALL push back against corporate greed. ✊
8 city officials and Starbucks Workers United members smile and hold signs and banners saying "BOYCOTT STARBUCKS"7 city officials and Starbucks Workers United members pose with fists up inside the St Louis capital. They hold signs that say BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
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Chad Young @chadyoung.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know it's not the thing on the top of most people's minds with this, but the lead Watson apologists are the Haslams and they're going to own the new Columbus NWSL franchise and I'd really like to know what the players, who have been so vocal as a community supporting women, think about that.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chris Christie left office in absolute disgrace and with like a 4% approval rating but is still presented to the public by the political media as if he were a popular moderate bsky.app/profile/prin...
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monstrousmollusc.bsky.social @monstrousmollusc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I was a professional tutor, and the main thing I taught to SAT/ACT students wasn't the subject itself, esp. if they were short on time. It was SAT/ACT-specific test taking skills. I had to make a special effort to carve out more time for real reading, writing, math, and science.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote this whole thread this before I had time to read yesterday's NYT story. And everything I'm talking about here is what actually happened to Jane Doe. She has been consistent in her story, but a game of telephone between people invested in not believing her led them to claim otherwise.
nytimes.com
Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Apple said no to voluntarily recognizing its VFX workers’ union. The workers said yes anyway, voting 12-0 to unionize with IATSE. Now, more than two years later, they’ve secured their first collective bargaining agreement. www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-right...
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Apple Studios VFX Workers Secure First IATSE Union Contract
The deal includes wage minimums, health and retirement benefits, overtime and rest rules, and protections covering artificial intelligence.
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Phil Russell @3dsisqo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another reminder of how persistent sexual violence is within our society. I’m sad to have platformed Geller on Origin Story, and also appearing on his podcast. He never disclosed this past to me. That episode will be promptly removed. I hope the victim can find some semblance of peace and justice.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump take tourists
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LBV Magazine @labrujulaverde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A Sinking German Lake Yields Timbers Carved 10,500 Years Ago by Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers — They May Have Been Building With Wood Before Farmers Arrived www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/09/a...
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A Sinking German Lake Yields Timbers Carved 10,500 Years Ago by Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers — They May Have Been Building With Wood Before Farmers Arrived
Some lakes give up shipwrecks, and Arendsee, in northern Germany, has already given up one. What archaeologists brought to light in 2026 is something else: wood carved by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers u...
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Queen_Potato @queenpotato.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There was more punishment done against a trans professor giving a Christian student a low grade than the Cornell rapists ever received.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026
In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Join Angie Nixon, candidate for U.S. Senate, & Congressman Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, for a South Florida town hall on Sunday, October 4th. Come hear from Angie and Congressman Raskin about what's at stake in November & how we win. #angieforfl
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Immigrant Boo👻 @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
You cannot co-exist with people who don't want you to exist at all.
A yellow rectangular sticker resembling a warning or yield sign with a thin black border is stuck to a dark, textured brown metallic surface. The sticker features bold, capitalized black text that reads: "YOU CANNOT CO-EXIST WITH PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT YOU TO EXIST AT ALL."
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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mamdani remains the best litmus test of anti-Zionism vs. Antisemitism. If you go after him for this, you're not an anti-Zionist, you're an antisemite. Mamdani has drawn a consistent line and stuck to it.
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
" They have argued for the mass deportation of people who aren’t white, they’ve talked about it being at gunpoint, they’ve made many racist comments,” Balgord said. “They have described groups in Canada in ways that courts have previously found to be constituting hate speech.”
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.
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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US has horrific, bedrock-deep issues with racism, but I am just *done* with white people from other majority-white countries lecturing us on it. Clean your own houses first.
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Schiffskatze (Mehlschwalben Fan Account) @katzenschiff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the point of every book, every painting, every song is *connecting with other people* and their feelings 🤷‍♀️ feeling like you are not alone in this world, feeling understood and understanding the other
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