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stone cold steve autumn @bradis.online · 30/09/2026

Megan is smart everyone (men) listen to Megan

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was a great nigjt at Barclays with #NYLiberty getting the series win! 🖤🩵🗽 #LIGHTITUPNYL

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A great start to the series for the #NYLiberty!!! Barclays is going to be rockin' Tuesday night 🙌 🖤🩵🗽 #LIGHTITUPNYL

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Exciting time for @apodoftheirown.bsky.social #D4D2026 with Mauricio & Lindor going b2b with the 🍎!!! Huge congratulations to Francisco Lindor on his 300th homerun!!! 🎉🧡💙 #LGM #Mets

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That seems appropriate! 🖤🩵🦇 #GoBats #GothamFC

An image with text at the top: "Pause to reveal your medieval creature" Below that text is a medieval illustration of a bat in brown pencil/ink with a blue rectangular border around it. Below the illustration in blue text is: "bat' & below that is the following text:" You're not afraid of the dark"

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nynjpaweather @nynjpaweather.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Intensifying Nor'easter Lifts Towards The Region A powerful nor'easter will continue to bring waves of rainfall and strong winds, causing poor travel conditions, flooding, coastal flooding, wind damage, and power outages through tomorrow evening. nynjpaweather.com/public/2026/...

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well if the #NYHeights had to lose last round, at least they lost to the champs! Congratulations, #LAQueens! 🎉 #WPBL

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 21/09/2026

I’ve been releasing music DIY for 25yrs and I believe that should always be a viable option for artists. The double sale of Bandcamp was a wake up call so earlier this year, I joined Subvert.fm, a member-owned music distribution platform. As a co-op, Subvert can’t simply be sold to investors. 1/

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 20/09/2026

It’s tax time and been a minute since I did this so here is some data. What was the gross income breakdown for this DIY musician in 2025? Licensing & Composer Fees - 48.3% Live Performance - 22.9% Performance Royalties - 18% Streaming Royalties - 9.3% Direct-to-Fan Downloads (Bandcamp) - 1.5% 1/

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Big win for the bats!!! Let's go #GothamFC!!! 🖤🩵🦇 #YERRRR #GoBats

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Let's go #Mets & vamos Carlos Beltran! 🧡💙 #LGM

Citi Field screens with Carlos Beltran speaking from a podium on the in-field dirt with the other screen that reads Carlos Beltran Mets Hall of Fame Induction & Number Retirement Ceremony. The Mets homerun apple has the 15 number retirement symbol on it below the screens

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Two nights of Hayley are healing 😊 #THWS

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🥹🥹🥹💙🧡🥹🥹🥹

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A Pod of Their Own @apodoftheirown.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This part of the @propublica.org investigation of corruption in the DR is not an easy read, but it is an essential one. bsky.app/profile/prop...

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A Pod of Their Own @apodoftheirown.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you read one piece of baseball journalism this year, it should be this one from @propublica.org. This should be an absolutely massive story. We fear it won't be, but we will continue to use our platform such as it is to try to make it so. www.propublica.org/article/how-...

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How the Dominican Baseball Factory Traps Young Players and Their Families With False Promises

Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it.

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fucccccckkkkkkk Arch Manning! I'm so tired of this misogynistic shit happening time & time again 🤬🤬🤬🤬

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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/09/2026

Make sure you’re registered and have everything you need to cast your ballot by November 3 at aclu.org/vote_2026

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Kodai Senga, elite #Mets closer! 🧡💙 #LGM

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Let's goooooooooooooooo, #NYHeights (please)!!! 💙 #WPBL

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Let's go @mets.com , let's go Pete, & let's go #NYHeights!!! 🧡💙 #LGM #Mets #WPBL

Two men, one in a blue Mets Pete Alonso jersey & a blue NY Heights hat & the other in a black Orioles Pete Alonso jersey with a black Mets hat at Citi Field

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Jets and Giants are both 1-0 It’s the first time they both won their season openers since 2009!

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Terrika @sheknowssports.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

September is childhood cancer awareness month. I am doing my part to support St. Jude ensure no family battling cancer has to worry about a bill. I am about $200 short of my goal. Can I count on you to help me reach it? 👀😊 👉🏾 fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR?pg=p...

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Incredible second half for #TeamUSA & they are golden again! 🥇 #FIBAWBWC #FIBAWWC

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Excited for the 2024 Olympic Final rematch! Let's go #TeamUSA (& NY Liberty players)!!! #FIBAWBWC #FIBAWWC

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! The #NYHeights get it done & keep the playoff games coming! 🎉🙌💙 #WPBL

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And that's b2b #NYHeights #D4D2026 dingers!!! Let's goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! 🎉 #WPBL

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Sean @mrmcgins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Let's goooooooooooooooo #NYHeights (please)!!! #WPBL

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