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Brona

@mostlydelores.bsky.social
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She/her. Ottawa 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦Get vaccinated. Wear your mask. Tax the rich until they squeal. Profile pic is one of my three dogs.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h
the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h
Gemini told me this image was real, except that Grimace was added. But the entire AI image was created by Gemini. It's 100% fake.
gizmodo.com
Google Launches New Website to Detect AI Fakes, But Don't Assume It's Perfect
Gemini told us the Grimace was added, but the photo of Paxton and Trump is real. It's not.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4h
white evangelical Republicans whose experience of Catholicism is limited to people like JD Vance assumed that their allies on abortion would be their allies on everything and miscalculated so badly here. even the most conservative US bishops cannot function without their immigrant parishioners!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Hemidemiscaryferal @mfwebb.bsky.social · 6h
"Rule-breaking isn’t just some whoopsie-daisy of fraternities. Rule-breaking is the whole fucking point. It is not incidental. It is foundational."
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h
Yell at your electeds and mayor, Boston. "A.i." in education is trash. Tell them about the Chinese study of 26 THOUSAND kids that showed "A.i." improved homework scores (because kids cheated) but DECREASED exam scores up to 24 percent. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 6h
This is very bad and she should be removed from cabinet immediately. She probably should have been removed months ago.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18h
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h
It’s notable how many anti-trans activists who claim their actions are motivated by a desire to “protect women,” are currently attacking Jane Doe and defending the men who she says assaulted her. It’s almost like “protecting women” never had anything to do with it.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11h
"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paramount has closed its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Billionaire David Ellison now controls: —CNN —CBS —HBO —Paramount —Warner Bros —Discovery —Skydance —Showtime —DC Studios —Nickelodeon —Cartoon Network —Food Network —MTV —Comedy Central —HGTV —TBS —TLC
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
Norway plans to introduce a law to parliament that would temporarily ban the tech at places such as parks, beaches, schools, and kindergartens, while also setting up an expert group to propose permanent national rules: arstechnica.visitlink.me/5Agx05
arstechnica.visitlink.me
AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11h
feels like we should make a larger talking point out of the fact that AI is just another attempt to consolidate wealth for billionaires
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 10h
Transit in Ottawa is broken. Four times in the last two weeks a bus has blown by my stop, busy but not packed, and you wait 10-15 minutes for the next and hope it’s not too overloaded to stop. No one cares. You can complain to OC Transpo but you might as well write a message in a bottle.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 19h
Alberta's most recent former environment minister now works for....an oil and gas company. Mais bien sur.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Fucking bastards. This is some devil shit, some demon shit. Desecrating & defiling an ancient tree, a living being older than America & sacred to Indigenous people, on their sovereign territory in Arizona. The United States of America is spiritually criminal. So true in countless ways.
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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am thrilled and proud beyond measure to support the amazing workers who create and design the games I and my loved ones have spent a lifetime playing. I implore everybody to sign the petition and signal boost the campaign as far and wide as we can!
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Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 06/10/2026
youtu.be/wuXip1SCJGs?...
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A 100% Fatal Disease Just Found a Treatment
YouTube video by Dr Ben Miles
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
According to a 2013 paper, almost 40% of female homicides globally are due to intimate partner violence www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A brilliant map of Nova Scotia’s lighthouses, showing each coastal light flashing in its real-world rhythm and pattern. A beautiful piece of cartography that turns navigational infrastructure into something almost hypnotic. Source: buff.ly/16Ye3IN
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/10/2026
MAHA is murder.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible!
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Looks like there’s an mRNA vaccine against pneumonic plague. Eat your heart out, RFK Jr. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Novel Bivalent mRNA‐LNP Vaccine for Highly Effective Protection against Pneumonic Plague
The study investigates mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccines targeting Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. Combined F1+LcrV mRNA vaccination elicited robust immune responses and protected mice....
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In awe of the bravery of these students, continuing to report, continuing to put the pressure on administration, continuing to push for better safety policies, resources and more accountability
kezi.com
UO students demand accountability after five sexual assault reports in school's opening week
Students held a protest Sunday afternoon after the University of Oregon issued a crime warning reporting five sexual assaults on or near campus in less than a week into the
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 06/10/2026
ICYMI: Elon's back, and this time he's making decisions about military strategy and killer robots. Great. Just fucking great. beincrypto.com/musk-project...
beincrypto.com
Elon Musk is Back In Washington Despite How DOGE Ended
Elon Musk returns to Washington as co-director of Project Meridian, a Pentagon study, after DOGE ended with no final report.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🗣️📣TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN GEORGIA! Even if you think you are registered, you may have been bumped off. Check to make sure you're in before it's too late. mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
mvp.sos.ga.gov
GA My Voter Page
Use the Georgia My Voter Page (MVP) to check your voter registration status, find your polling location, view your county's early voting locations, review your sample ballot for upcoming elections, an...
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Republican Party connections to Alberta’s separation referendum daveberta.substack.com/p/republican...
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Republican Party connections to Alberta’s separation referendum
Another bombshell story dropped by Carrie Tait and the Globe & Mail
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Elon Musk has repeatedly used his platform to support authoritarian political figures. His backing of the AfD, Marine Le Pen, Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele has been accompanied by interventions in Brazil, Italy and Hungary, as well as direct involvement in the UK’s far-right political landscape.
globalextremism.org
Beyond AfD: Tracking Elon Musk’s Support for the Global Far Right
Elon Musk is backing the far right across multiple continents. From Germany’s AfD and France’s Marine Le Pen to Spain’s Vox, Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, the tech billionai...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Dude wrote one of the most brutally accurate takedowns of modern American civic life that I’ve ever read.
Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. They know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other nations, or the histories of the various social movements that have risen and fallen in the past, and they certainly know little or nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like "socialism" and "capitalism." Chiefly, what they have been trained not to know or even suspect is that, in many ways, they enjoy far fewer freedoms, and suffer under a more intrusive centralized state, than do the citizens of countries with more vigorous social-democratic institutions. This is at once the most comic and most tragic aspect of the excitable alarm that talk of social democracy or democratic socialism can elicit on these shores. An enormous number of Americans have been persuaded to believe that they are freer in the abstract than, say, Germans or Danes precisely because they possess far fewer freedoms in the concrete. They are far more vulnerable to medical and financial crisis, far more likely to receive inadequate health coverage, far more prone to irreparable insolvency, far more unprotected against predatory creditors, far more subject to income inequality, and so forth, while effectively paying more in tax (when one figures in federal, state, local, and sales taxes, and then compounds those by all the expenditures that in this country, as almost nowhere else, their taxes do not cover). One might think that a people who once rebelled against the mightiest empire on earth on the principle of no taxation without representation would not meekly accept taxation without adequate government services. But we accept what we have become used to, I suppose. Even so, one has to ask, what state apparatus in the
"free" world could be more powerful and tyrannical than the one that taxes its citizens while providing no substantial civic benefits in return, solely in order to enrich a p…
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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sums up my feelings. 
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Elon Musk, who is estimated to have ensured the mass deaths of 16 million people by 2030, most of whom will be children, is also history's most prolific creator and distributor of CSAM. He has basically infinite money to avoid facing any legal consequences whatsoever for his vast, vast crimes.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises
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Brona @mostlydelores.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My childhood border collie chewed all the baseboards and window frames. I loved that dog.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
List of CEOs reportedly accompanying Trump to China, per KobeissiLetter:
1. Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO
2. Tim Cook, Apple CEO
3. Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO
4. Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone
CEO
5. David Solomon, Goldman Sachs CEO
6. Jane Fraser, Citigroup CEO
7. Kelly Ortberg, Boeing CEO
8. Michael Miebach, Mastercard CEO
9. Ryan Mclnerney, Visa CEO
10. Larry Culp, GE CEO
11. Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron CEO
12. Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm CEO
13. Brian Sikes, Cargill CEO
14. Dina Powell McCormick, Meta Executive
15. Jacob Thaysen, Illumina CEO
16. Jim Anderson, Coherent CEO
There may be additional CEOs who join the trip that are not yet named.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Generative AI is not just the instrument and aesthetics of fascism, but it has permanently sewn itself to fascism in a fucked up human centipede of scammers and grifters and guys who've long ago forgotten how to think.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
tremors and jaws are both great movies, and Jaws probably succeeds more as a work of horror. but Tremors is actually perfect. an almost unique example of a film executed flawlessly in line with its vision.
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Drewcifer Rising 🎃😈 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've said it before and I'll post it again: we should embrace and deify TREMORS as much as we do JAWS.
bloody-disgusting.com
'Tremors' Kicked Off the 1990s With the Decade's Own 'Jaws' [We Love '90s Horror]
The ‘90s often get a bad rap with horror fans. After the numerous successful slashers and creature effects films of the ’80s, the ‘90s offered a different
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As I’ve asked many times now, what constituencies does a university president represent? Because too often, the answer seems to not include anyone who works or studies at the university, and that seems like a problem.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026
comedians suffer one (1) consequence and turn into the whiniest men alive
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yeah, the incident with Cornell’s president and his car / hitting the current and former students will really be pointed to as an important moment moving forward. He concocted some ridiculous story, didn’t express any regret, and everyone just moved on.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Arrest them?
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...
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Cornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for Campus
Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention.
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