Reposted by MsDWritesNarancia⚧️ still in the blue wonder @naranciazebest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If y'all don't follow French news, for the past weeks, French high school students have been protesting their horrible school situation and their general anger at the government's inaction. One of them burned a garbage. The French government sent the riot cops at them, VERY violently. 24319
Reposted by MsDWritesKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor. 131618447
Reposted by MsDWritesNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earlier 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. 5441481271
Reposted by MsDWritesWill Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Avery Brooks is 78 today 4520158
MsDWrites @msdwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Real small business owner being quoted in a news piece with the ‘I cannot possibly be expected to pay someone a reasonable wage for this service!’ 0110
Reposted by MsDWritesGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c... 10703261
Reposted by MsDWritesTara Flynn @taraflynnirl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In case you or someone you know might need it, the wonderful @irishhospice.bsky.social has a leaflet on pet loss. Can be hard for anyone who doesn't know that particular grief to understand, but everyone who's ever felt it does. hospicefoundation.ie/our-supports...hospicefoundation.ieBereavement Support Leaflets - Irish Hospice FoundationOur Bereavement team have written a number of bereavement support leaflets. These supports are available to download, print and order. Find out more>> 0137
Reposted by MsDWritesIlana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I research teachers' work. There is a known gap between public perception and the actual day-to-day experience of teaching that sociologist Dan Lortie poetically described as coming from "the apprenticeship of observation." This imagination/reality gap creates lots of problems in ed policy. 1012224
Reposted by MsDWritesAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards 61376423
Reposted by MsDWritesAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2026The free speech™️ people are at it again. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 19953261
MsDWrites @msdwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Could they not just find good therapists rather than buggering the whole planet for the rest of us? 020
Reposted by MsDWritesRex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI isn’t a legal person so can’t be found guilty or go to jail for its criminal acts. And if it’s AI gone rogue, the developer/operator of the AI currently can’t be found guilty either - there’s no ‘guilty mind’ needed for conviction. What to do? #auspolmichaelwest.com.auCriminal bots. When AI goes rogue, who goes to jail? - Michael WestArtificial Intelligence bots do not have a legal personality and can’t go to jail. But who is to be held responsible for their criminal acts? 134830
Reposted by MsDWritesVeronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you're inside Australia, Illoura has bank details available. Illoura Animal Refuge BSB - 807009 ACC - 30069080. Money donated to the bank account goes directly to Illoura, I don't see it at all. Money via throne comes to me, and I transfer it to Grace from my bank.from.myPress START - Play Free | Arcade.nowPress START and play instantly. Free arcade games at Arcade.now - no downloads, no signup. 0254
Reposted by MsDWritesVeronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you would like to donate to Illoura Animal Refuge via me (good if you're outside of Australia) we have Ginny's meds and rechecks on our throne wishlist. throne.com/veronicafoalethrone.comVeronica - Wishlist | ThroneSend Veronica gifts via Throne. Browse Veronica 's wishlist and support your favorite creator safely. 14116
Reposted by MsDWritesAndré Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Only a fraction of materials that survive from the pre-digital world have been digitised, and even in a world of ideal funding and staffing we would not be close to digitising it all, never mind the straitened conditions in which so many archives and libraries must operate today 19225
MsDWrites @msdwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every time I see it, I think of the NFTs are the new banking stories at the start of this decade. 140
Reposted by MsDWritesKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026This piece touches on an extremely important and terrible trend: AI-false-balance among polite centre-left politicians. Every critique HAS to begin with something like "AI is here to stay. With the right rules, it can be a force for good. But........." www.techpolicy.press/the-life-and... 815858
Reposted by MsDWritesMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.axios.comU.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new lowLabor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade. 27732264
Reposted by MsDWritesLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970172264
Reposted by MsDWritesMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower 712964939
Reposted by MsDWrites🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 23/09/2026Clear evidence that lactose intolerance is taken seriously in this country: hit someone with a milkshake and you are ordered to pay them compensation and get a suspended prison sentence. Hit someone with a metal stick, with a gang of your mates joining in, and it's a caution 02414
MsDWrites @msdwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I… I am no longer opposed as I was before reading this… 070
MsDWrites @msdwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Same. And I was told recently that I have become an important part of the local community, just by learning those names and having those chats. Here I was thinking they were all brightening up my day, it turns out it was reciprocal! 150
Reposted by MsDWritesPup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... 8236106
Reposted by MsDWritesThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then. 32602263
Reposted by MsDWritesbronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026in case you missed it!! new release of @kudelka.bsky.social’s rusted-on bingo tea towels, with $5 from every tea towel sold going to the Jon Kudelka Fund for Glioblastoma Research at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research get yours now!! www.kudelkashop.com/product/rust... 17213129
MsDWrites @msdwrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Come back with this when an AI creates or solves something without humans doing most of the work on which that ‘creation’ or ‘solution’ is based. The willingness to attribute things like the Navier-Stokes solution to AI ‘intelligence’ rather than compute power using human models is v disappointing. 000
Reposted by MsDWritesKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026It is so funny to me that the fossil fuel industry's big lie is denying an apocalypse that science confirmed as a real risk while the tech industry's big lie is insisting on the threat of an apocalypse for which there's no scientific evidence for at all 726287
MsDWrites @msdwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Yes, but also climate change is causing pollen combinations that have never existed before as the plants with flowering driven by temperatures get out of whack with the ones that have flowering driven by day length. 021
Reposted by MsDWritesJes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 20/09/2026Nature’s version of ‘Twins (1988)’. 0265
MsDWrites @msdwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Weird that he doesn’t consider the systemic sexual assault crisis in the ADF disqualifying for employment around children. Everything else wild about that suggestion aside … 011
Reposted by MsDWritesAgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So Trumpy's mini-me, Petey Hegshit also banned the same news media from the Pentagon. This should terrify everyone. Trumpy's government is banning media it doesn't like. This is a 3 alarm fire on democracy. My demand is simple. PROVE IT. Show us the 'fake news'. They can't, it does not exist. 42858982060
Reposted by MsDWritesKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/09/2026Journalists reporting on people who reject AI like they're doing a piece on some weird cult rather than the mainstream opinion among the vast majority of young people around the world www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auYoung people pushing back against artificial intelligenceAI may be here to stay, but the generation that will inherit the results of the guidelines set for its use has something to say about that. 1235993
MsDWrites @msdwrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I may have gone too far befriending the local magpies; this one came over to demand snacks while I was watering the garden… 230
Reposted by MsDWritesFiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026God, reading this article it's clear that what she said was demonstrably, clearly true and has been willfully misrepresented in bad faith. 1318374
Reposted by MsDWritesJoshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Even Weizenbaum, after watching people use ELIZA was like "Boy, they all treat this bot like a person and that's weird and probably bad." It is very literally the first thing any critic notices. 29024
Reposted by MsDWritesMicah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026“you will let me rename this after myself or I’m destroying the whole thing forever: the Donald Trump experience” 191106212
Reposted by MsDWritesunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/09/2026New: Before Renée and Alex, ICE fatally shot Mexican immigrant Silverio Villegas González last fall outside Chicago in suburban Franklin Park. One year later, @domguan.bsky.social spent some time with the group of local women tending to his memorial. His family is still demanding answers:unraveledpress.comGrowing Where He Died: Silverio Villegas González, One Year LaterOne year on from the killing of Silverio Villegas González, a community of Franklin Park women continue the fight to keep his memory alive–through art, flowers, and “a culture of celebrating life.” 3338158
Reposted by MsDWritesMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Shut up, Jeff Bezos, and your propaganda rag, the current Washington Post. The Kennedy Center is only in trouble because the lowbrow idiot Donald Trump and his stupid, uncultured minions interfered with it, driving away audiences. Adding his vulgar name will *guarantee* bankruptcy, not avoid it. 33939811068
Reposted by MsDWritesDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below. 145136934892
Reposted by MsDWriteskate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026We also partnered with the Canadian Center for Child Protection to analyze Grok images produced during the nudification episode in Jan. It found images of known CSAM victims that were modified by Grok, and new CSAM that it created in response to requests from users. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...nytimes.comElon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists (Gift Article)Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk. 1518126
Reposted by MsDWritesByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🔴 Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times' 'Impossible Data' The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections & retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media storm that engulfed him. Special Investigation by @nafeez.bsky.social:bylinetimes.comJason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times’ ‘Impossible Data’The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him 9242120
Reposted by MsDWritesSimon Lee @simonleewx.com · 10/09/20268 years ago, I tweeted side-by-side maps from NASA GISS showing global temperatures in 1976 and 2018 – both hot summers in the UK. It subsequently went viral and was printed in the Daily Mail! The 2026 version is stark. Two locally extreme summers separated by 50 years of global climate change. 7560305
Reposted by MsDWritesMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As if the headline isn't enough incentive, do read this short news story to the last paragraph because MAN does it escalate! playbill.com/article/man-...playbill.comMan Sentenced to 2-Year Jail Sentence After Strangling Fellow Theatregoer for Singing Along During We Will Rock YouThe dust-up happened at a 2023 press performance in London's West End. 1171074330