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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So "click here" or "read more" won't make sense.

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week!

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Rachel Widome @rwidome.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“She paused. I could see the pain of this admission etched in her face. “It is important to not, in our pursuit of being antiracist, lower expectations,” she told me. “Because this is what happens, right? It’s racism under the guise of antiracism.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Again with continual liars, and abusers - don’t debate them - do NOT combine the reason they give :. With the result they want but with the ACTUAL ESTABLISHED OPTIONS

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Don't want to or can't review something? Tell the editors. Ive done it. Im chronically ill, overworked, and always behind. My cognitive function can be shit sometimes. But please don't tell me how you can't do this without an LLM.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imma say it again. It's not the AI tech that's doing this. Humans are doing this. The humans that tell the ai explicitly to behave the way it does. And the humans who agree to help them do it, even when they know they are harming themselves as well.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So many kids this year mentioned how they liked that Summer Reading gave them an excuse to make time to read. They lost the habit of reading for fun like they did as kids and they want to gain it back. Adults need to be better at facilitating that rather than crushing it.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@pamherd.bsky.social on @npr.org this weekend on how new Medicaid work requirements will affect people with disabilities ⬇️

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

They did what they were designed to do, and because OpenAI ran them with inadequate supervision (without a "human in the loop" that checked each iteration through the Python loop to ensure it hadn't gone off the rails), they trashed a competitor's servers.

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here's my Bat Convertible Bag V2 Pre-order! It's even better than the original! Please share! Have you wanted a cute bag that can be worn as a backpack, crossbody bag, waist bag and can be hooked onto mobility aids? They come with custom zipper pulls & lining! Store: Bibipins.com

Bat Convertible Bag V2 Pre-order graphics

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This kind of misinfo/disinfo gets published *all the time* regarding ME & Long Covid. Thread on the amount of effort & persistence it takes to get the record corrected ⬇️ Patients are amazing but they shouldn’t have to do this work! And a reminder that some trusted outlets aren’t actually trustworthy

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026

mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance

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Annette Parde-Maass @netlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The video of the delivery was eye opening and kind of hilarious... for me not so much for the person whose package ended up in the street.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Darlings, trust me, you do not miss card catalogues. You miss the aesthetic. The abstract ideal of a simpler, analogue time. You don’t miss the paper cuts, the dust allergy, the extreme reliance on one extremely biased white lady’s viewpoint.

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victoria @vashetc.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026

Hi friends. I've tried my best to reach out to HBCU's and other Black spaces but still have a very low amount of survey's from Black people. I even e-mailed professors directly and DM'd people online. Please share with any Black people with ME/CFS that you might know of!

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Wilhelmina Jenkins @wilhelminaj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Friends, a major problem in the demographics of ME/CFS studies is the absence of Black participants. If you know of any Black adults with ME/CFS, please suggest that they complete this survey. I have completed it and it is relatively untaxing. Thanks!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When disabled people oppose Assisted Dying, it’s almost never from a religious point of view. It’s not because we’re anti-choice or that we want to force people to suffer. We oppose it because society devalues disabled lives and uses these programs in an unethical manner. They become eugenics. 🧵

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that's a french ass name @handle.invalid · 11/09/2026

it is absolutely the alt text for me.

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Annette Parde-Maass @netlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“When one neurologist told me I was “just depressed and anxious,” I finally said, “We’re going to stop the gaslighting right now.””

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Annette Parde-Maass @netlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My brain fog is worse today than I thought. Saving this informative thread for another day when I can process it

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Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We're looking for an attorney with 1-5 years of experience that includes transactional work and a passion for libraries, open access, and digital rights. If that's you, click below to apply! www.libraryfutures.net/apply-to-be-...

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Apply to Be the Library Futures Staff Attorney

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 11/09/2026

whenever I’m discussing child safety laws with a mentor they remind that a lot of people think women (and others) are like children and will extend those rules

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Annette Parde-Maass @netlibrarian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“I was an Associate Slop Doula for Mondo Mayo, founded as a mayonnaise company, which now sells consumer packaged goods, software as a service, and surveillance technology, and is one of three large corporations remaining on Earth.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Slop does not refer to criticism or mere dislike. You can use even the most colloquial of definitions for slop and all of them at least minimally refer to volume and machine produced.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"We accepted the pitch everyone else turned down because it sucks shit" wow what a scoop

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World Health Network @thewhn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Long COVID can affect far more than just energy levels. Symptoms may involve the brain, heart, lungs, immune system, digestion, sleep, senses, mood and other parts of the body, and can persist long after the initial infection. Reducing your risk of COVID also reduces your risk of Long COVID.

Graphic from the World Health Network (whn.global). Large headline: “Long COVID can affect nearly every part of the body.” Supporting text: “Symptoms can involve the brain, heart, lungs, immune system, digestion, sleep, senses, mood, reproductive health and more.” A teal box at the bottom reads: “Avoid Long COVID by avoiding COVID.”

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Aimee @aimeenvironment.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This whole thread is well worth your time.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026

When that happens, it's easy to conclude that government is *incapable* of regulating, and to insist that we might as well do away with the state altogether. This is a self-reinforcing belief, because the weaker the state is, the more monopolists can steal from you: pluralistic.net/2022/06/05/r...

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Regulatory Capture – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And frankly, the assumption that trans girls are naturally going to be better than cis girls at sports is some misogynistic, patriarchal, gender essentialist bullshit that I wish people would stop accepting as a premise

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/09/2026

"Yeah, we know, we’re seen as boring and old and out of touch. But we’re hungry for progress. As long as it feels scripted and familiar. We’re ready to usher in profound change, abstracted into a focus-group-tested campaign slogan." buff.ly/tt1slzK

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These Exciting Progressive Candidates Who Might Lose Must Be Replaced by Boring Moderates Who Will Definitely Lose

“Yeah, we know, we’re seen as boring and old and out of touch. But we’re hungry for progress. As long as it feels scripted and familiar. We’re ready to usher...

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The way people are ignoring the large NEJM study of 100K+ adults that found measurable deficits in memory, reasoning & executive function even among those whose Covid symptoms reportedly resolved within 4 weeks 🔗 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 08/09/2026

Awareness is good. I’m having to teach my boys that their headaches from growing or clogged sinuses aren’t migraines. Migraines are a neurological disorder!

A MIGRAINE IS NOT
"JUST A HEADACHE"
LIGHT & SOUND
SENSITIVITY
DIZZINESS &
VERTIGO
NAUSEA & VOMITING
BLURRY& SPOTTY VISION
NUMBNESS
THROUGHOUT
BODY
NECK &
BACK PAIN
CONFUSION & DISORIENTATION
SLURRING OF WORDS
TINGLING
IN LIMBS AND ON FACE
RINGING IN EARS
MUSCLE
STIFFNESS & WEAKNESS
FATIGUE & IRRITABILITY

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When it comes to choosing between a decorated four-star general who's served the military honorably for decades and Kid Rock, Pete Hegseth had an easy choice

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

everyone should watch this. nothing that works this way is conscious.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/09/2026

normal should be a government run by good people who care about making things better and are actually trying to do so

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 07/09/2026

It's Labor Day. A day born out of a working class uprising that helped shift working conditions. Here's the story of how it began, and how it matters today:

Labor day march, 1934. Photo cred: Bettmann/Getty.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/09/2026

"Listen, I like keeping my attention glued to the real America. Where I don’t have to think about politics. Are you taking a vacation this year? We would, but the cost of gas and groceries has skyrocketed with this war in Iran and all these new tariffs Trump imposed." buff.ly/XpCbDuw

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I’m Your Friend Who Just Doesn’t “Do Politics”

“I just have other interests, I guess, apart from politics. Did I tell you I’m working with the PTA in the school library to remove any books with objectiona...

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

7. Dorothy Counts was also going to her 1st day of class. Dorothy Counts was also only 15 years old. But there was no "nine." It was only her. The only Black student at Harry P. Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was also accosted by a hostile crowd And spat upon repeatedly

Dorothy Counts, age 15, attempting to enter her first day of school at the recently desegregated Harry P. Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.

She is accosted by a crowd of white people who heckled and spit on her

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

I think about this ALL THE TIME

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Stock was building the groundwork for this in August bsky.app/profile/nate...

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