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TransMediaWatch @transmediawatch.bsky.social · 20h
If you'd like to read an interesting analysis of what has been going on in the wider world, you might consider buying a copy of J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... If you'd like to pay a bit less, you can use the code word PANIC to get a 40% discount.
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J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic
Weaves the author’s lived experience as a trans woman with pop culture and media analysis to dissect J. K. Rowling’s emergence as an anti-trans activist within the context of the UK’s anti-trans moral...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026
it’s always “make friends with people who hold completely different ethical values from you and also think you should die” and never “disagreeing on tactics can lead to healthy and productive coalition” because this whole thing is about pushing people rightwards
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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People focusing on the Second Sons wearing masks in Kamloops need to realize that there are minimal consequences for residential school denialism when not wearing a mask. This politician is still in office, without a mask, representing a Vancouver district not a rural one.
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Dallas Brodie - Wikipedia
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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godless dustbin 👻 @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My new article, co-authored with @sandraduffy.bsky.social is out today, please read & share: "Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic - Cal Horton, Sandra Duffy, 2026
Trans children in the UK are the targets of an escalating moral panic, centred around access to affirmative adolescent healthcare. Combining moral panic theory ...
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 28/09/2026
The Griffins' Nest student newspaper asked all VSB candidates for their stance on AI in schools. Well worth reading! www.ehnewspaper.ca/articles/can...
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Candidates’ Questionnaire Week 2: Generative AI in Schools | The Griffins’ Nest
Welcome to the second Weekly Issue Questionnaire in our series covering the 2026 Vancouver School Board Election. Last week, we sent the following question to candidates: What is your stance on the us...
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two heavyset fellas sit around an unusual, scrawny humanoid alien at a diner counter. One of the guys pushes a little basket of bread in front of the alien and says, “this here is corn bread.” Panel 2: the alien takes a small bite of the golden corn bread. The alien says, “con… bred.” Panel 3: the alien begins to hover, emitting an otherworldly light and causing gravity to shift around its immediate vicinity. A frightened waitress behind the bar shouts, “what’s happening?!”
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chagadelic @chagadelic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I heard Ring cameras all went rogue and found soooo many lost dogs! Sadly, the Waymos went rogue and ran them all over. It's just nature's way I guess
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Edge O. Erin @edgeoerin.com · 26/09/2026
"Canadian citizen detained at U.S. border crossing, questioned for hours about voting." Please, fellow Canadians, and our allies and friends around the world, DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident detained at border crossing, questioned for hours about voting | CBC News
Paige Adamson was on her way home from a birthday dinner in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Sept. 15 when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing and questioned about voting for hours. Lawyers are r...
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j’ 🌐 @mutualcare.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
great thread on accessibility friction vs accessibility sabotage
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Bethany~ @picklebee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In JK Rowling's defence who amongst us hasn't mistakenly invited convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein to the debut your play and also dinner? It's something people do by accident all the time.
6. Why was J.K. Rowling in the Epstein files?

J.K. Rowling's name appeared in the Epstein files as a result of Epstein being mistakenly added to the guest list for the opening of the play Harry Potter and The Cursed Child on Broadway in 2018.

She never met Jeffrey Epstein or had anything to do with him.
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Gentlemonster @FURPOC @gentlemonster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m so invested in the wellbeing of the family of coyotes currently inhabiting Graceland Cemetery
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.
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Eric "Halloween Appreciator" Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 30/08/2026
It's called the United States of Ontario now, sorry.
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j’ 🌐 @mutualcare.northsky.social · 27/08/2026
most of what i know about abolition and transformative justice i've learned through IC's calls, zines and learning spaces like TJ Hub
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j’ 🌐 @mutualcare.northsky.social · 20/08/2026
so @egalecanada.bsky.social just announced a new executive director and it's this guy? nationalpost.com/opinion/andr...
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Andrew Perez: My fellow progressives — you’ve been lied to about Israel
Many on the left are blind to the suffering experienced by both Israelis and the global Jewish community over the past 15 months
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A very important article to read, the death of Jason Arday was caused by far right attempts to take over UK universities.
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here
Thousands of people
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/08/2026
plagiarism is bad and also it is not even slightly a coincidence that the media only seems to bother to turn it into an international scandal when someone who isn’t a straight white guy is involved
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I think I think i might have a bodyguard
A squirrel, holding a stick, staring to camera.The same squirrel, looking off into the distance, the stick now held at attention like a staff.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026
exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
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Avian Face-Tool 🦡 @beakmoo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I just found out there's a creature called a puffleg hummingbird, that wears a tiny pair of fluffy white trousers.
A green, shiny bird wearing fluffy white trousers.
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Mitch Travis @profmitchtravis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A few weeks ago, after a 7 year delay, the UK government quietly dropped the results of their 2019 Call for Evidence on variations in sex characteristics The results are striking but will of course seem deeply familiar to anyone working in this field. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Variations in sex characteristics (VSC): experiences of life in the UK for people with VSC and those who care for them
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is a Juvenile Gouldian finch it takes about 5 to 8 weeks to complete its physical color transition during the juvenile molt. The entire color change process typically starts around 3 to 4 months of age. Live in grasslands and open savanna's of Northern Australia
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Everyone stop, this is important
A black and white drawing of three dachshunds arranged vertically, each holding a different optical illusion object in its mouth, and the dogs themselves drawn as if a single line optical illusion. The top dog holds a Penrose triangle, the middle dog holds a Necker cube, and the bottom dog holds a Penrose trident. The dogs’ bodies are elongated in an exaggerated cartoon style. The artwork is signed “@IndieTheIntrovert” in the bottom right corner.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/08/2026
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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j’ 🌐 @mutualcare.northsky.social · 30/07/2026
UBC is replacing human scribes for disabled students with ai techenemy.com/a/3mrrhqx6fi...
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Transcribing for Fun and Profit
Our local university is making bad decisions, as represented by "Vanquished" by Emily Carr
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evil maid @lenazun.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
there's a cruel trick built into caring about the long term: it looks exactly like not caring about the short term.
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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
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Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hey folks, I don't think these bad ballot measures are getting the attention they need amidst the swirl of everything else. Please spread the word, so we can help beat them. If you live in AZ, CO, MO, NE, or WA - volunteer. If you don't - give to the work. 19thnews.org/2026/07/tran...
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The fight over trans girls’ sports participation moves to the November ballot
State ballot measures seeking to restrict transgender student-athletes’ participation in school sports will appear before voters in November.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/07/2026
1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ
Promotional image. Title: Gender Census 2026. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Images: On the left, a box with a Venus/female symbol on it, patterned with tree bark. On the right, a box with a Mars/male symbol on it, patterned with grass.
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/07/2026
Please avoid all salads, including word.
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Miffythegamer @miffythegamer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In my opinion, this is litigious thuggery. Amnesty spoke their truth and it hurt the feelings of the anti-trans brigade. TERFs destroy everything they touch. I mean, imagine suing Amnesty, of all organisations?
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13/07/2026
For my Jewish friends looking for scholarship to cite when you resist "AI": Here's a well-known and respected Rabbi.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Potential language for calling people out without unintended ableist strays that hurt folks who have nothing to do with it. 💜 taken from : www.kent.edu/digitalacces...
Some people use "insane" or "crazy" when they mean:
Intense, Awesome, Amazing, Wild, Really,  Extremely, Wicked

Some people use "lame" when they mean:
Awful, Bad,  Unpleasant, Uncool

Some people use crazy when they mean:
Shocking, Outrageous, Ridiculous, Unbelievable, Overwhelming, Bizarre

Some people use "psychopath" or "sociopath" when they mean:
Dangerous, Menacing, Threatening, Frightening
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
But I am urging you: put down a marker here and now. Make sure that the future knows that we did not consent to the demolition of our national research capacity. These proposed revisions allow political appointees to whimsically determine what research gets funding and when and for how long.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’m looking to speak with people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI. 🧵
Text written on a book page reads: Looking to hear from people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI.  If that sounds like you, reach out via kellyhayes.org.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Many “gender critical” groups are funded by right-wing actors who are pushing legal attacks on abortion, drag queens in public, sex education, etc. This is why it’s painfully ridiculous that such groups claim they aim to protect women’s or gay rights — GC groups are fuelled by those opposed to both.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Original Tweet from @Mantia: What’s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

Quote tweet from @hwitteman: That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
There’s a handful; I either write for them (or pitch them with no success yet) …
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
VPD: we need to expand surveillance because Richmond had CCTV cameras Richmond: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Metro Vancouver city ordered to remove surveillance cameras, delete data
A Metro Vancouver city has been ordered to remove surveillance cameras from a busy intersection and delete all recordings captured to date, after an investigation by B.C.’s privacy watchdog.
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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Happy birthday to Labyrinth! Released on this day in 1986.
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Alt: David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King, doing some damn good lounging.
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