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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 9m

You're losing the war you started for no reason, dumbass.

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Mark Balletto @myrecordplayer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Click here then click 4 the live stream popup and keep hope and Irwin alive 4 at least the next slightly less than 3 hours please and thank U 2 @wfmu.bsky.social wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

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Would you rather die after a brief illness or a long illness?: Irwin Chusid

Audio & playlist from September 16, 2026

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 4h

This is one of those important, overlooked stories that's hard to report & even harder to place. I'm grateful @prismreports.org understood what's at stake for students fighting these fragmented free speech battles, while they also endure the chaos in higher ed & the nation in general 📻⬇️

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College radio stations are disappearing

Cleveland State University’s recent transfer of its radio station’s broadcast license to a conglomerate is the latest blow to independent student media

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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CRSTL.FM @crstlfm.bsky.social · 7h

Coming up at 7 AM on Community Radio St. Louis: Feel Like Going Home with Roy Kasten. Listen live: crstl.fm

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h

Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 16h

I am hoping and praying for her sake that she was prepared for this. Judging by what I have read about the lawsuit, and by how comprehensive it is laying out how much the system failed her, I am hoping that she is going scorched earth on the whole damn thing. I’m thinking of Gisele Pelicot.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was thinking about how when I was in college in the early 2000s, we all knew the rule of if you're at a bar or party or on a date and you have to leave your drink, you either take it with you, leave it with another woman, or abandon it entirely. Never drink from a cup you haven't been watching.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tonight (Tues 9/29) & tomorrow (Weds 9/30) at 8pm ET, I'm livestreaming from home via facebook.com/7thinningstretch2020, taking song requests while you watch the Red Sox play their first two 2026 playoff games down in the Bronx. Raising money for GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK and FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK.

I'm wearing a Red Sox jersey and smiling while sitting in my living room playing an organ that's nearly the exact same model as the one at Fenway. There are a few pieces of old-school baseball memorabilia on top of the organ.

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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i think sports are good & cool when done for leisure, but the incentives and culture involved from youth to professional levels are real fucked up. i don't like how we're treating kids, how we're exploiting athletes, how we're encouraging the worst gambling culture. it's all a real bad situation rn.

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Mark Balletto @myrecordplayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you're not on the side of the adjunct non-union paid per class not nearly enough wages who doesn't stand a chance in hell ever being on some fancy pension tenure track with all sorts of FREE SPEECH provisions 🤣 then you're on the

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"Which Side Are You On?" - My Record Player - 2021-05-01 Random Soundcheck

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week's edition of my radio show, "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music), wafts your way tonight at 7 p.m. Listen at 91.1 FM (NYC area), on the web at wfmu.org, or through the miracle that is the @wfmu.bsky.social app. (Watercolor by Valerie, age 13-ish.)

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WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today on WFMU: On Techtonic with Mark Hurst, Let's all ridicule AI. Sometimes it seems like the only reasonable response to the insanity of AI is to ridicule it. Comedians, journalists, academics, and at least one radio host are getting in on the fun (6 p.m. ET). www.wfmu.org/upcoming

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Mark Balletto @myrecordplayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Scott.. those are 3 perfectly reasonable strikes and reasons take it whiff a grain of salt from someone never owned any #Sade records only know what I've heard in public in shopping malls and planes and elevators and dentist chairs and walking in LA and driving and got chyer saxxxy union

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Mark Balletto @myrecordplayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ultimate bet cage match insider trading Panopticon💸™️©️ "last one i sa rotten egg missed the millions on the multi-state payout scratch and sniff ticket"

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The entire higher education system in this country should indeed be dismantled, and every administrator put out on their ass, because they are all rightwing wealth hoarders and real estate concerns now, not because they are on the left, which is a fucking joke.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

As an affirmed dog lover, I have a few things to say. (1) Dogs are harder than people admit. They take a lot of work. They need constant exercise and mental stimulation, especially those with working dog heritage of any kind. Dogs are hard.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the UK, Prince William has launched an anti-suicide campaign with the Premier League, whose every other ad is for gambling. Hey prince: how about you dust off some old dungeons & fill them with every gambling CEO & the celebs who endorse them & watch suicides plummet? EASY PEASY MATE

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

This right here, and it’s not just about rape. It’s literally anything he does wrong.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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Zoë Takaki @zoetakaki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week I saw two ICE abductions that will never leave my mind. Videos were from inside the car of those being detained. Both times, a child was in the backseat, watching their mother pleads to ICE agents not to take their father before their father was violently arrested in front of them.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hahaha holy shit bsky.app/profile/abdu...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026

I haven't had anything to add re: Cornell, because I don't think anyone wants to use this space to reckon with the fact that none of these systems are meant to help you, unless you are a university seeking to minimize your legal exposure. It's not fair to ask strangers to reckon with that here.

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Mark Balletto @myrecordplayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Better yet.. how about his message to all college students: be there in and deliver an actual verbal: "Hell no. Stop this." And proceed right then and there with a proper 'citizens arrest' and physically intervene when necessary before calling any local disreputable authorities ⚖ #IANAL

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NLG Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f*** up!

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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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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Matt Wallace’s remix restored the more raw and rocking original production, reflecting a band that, at the recording sessions at the famed Bearsville studios, scared Metallica.

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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wiener Dog Race has the best vibes. #photography #wienerdograce

Wiener dog on track with blue and white racing jacket that says 13 and RedMile

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For-profit medical care is a crime against humanity.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/09/2026

There have been a lot of jokey jokey about this but it is actually not funny. EA and AI bros are scummy and trying to destroy the world and coercing people into sex is very much a core part of their ethos.

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