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Sheila McManus (they/them)🍉

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Settler in Siksikaitsitapii territory. Bi NB borderlands historian. 🌈 Passionate about t&l in higher ed. Saoirse Don Phalaistín 🇵🇸🇮🇪 sheilamcmanus.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026
“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”
futurism.com
The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible
The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
So much uncertainty for AB's zero-emissions electricity industry.
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Will Alberta get a second wind?
Pincher Creek, among the windiest corners in Canada and home to many wind farms, should be an enviable clean energy success story. Repowering end-of-life turbines could give the Alberta district a sec...
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"the reality is that boosting Canadian oil and gas production will mean more emissions to further warm our already overheated planet. "We see Canadian communities being threatened by increasingly severe climate change effects. These effects are also going to get worse year over year.""
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Plans for more pipelines to export Canadian oil — and emissions — as planet keeps getting hotter | CBC
Pipeline announcements seem to be in abundance at the moment, with ambitions to see more Alberta crude flowing both east and west. But whether or not these plans are realized, the reality is that boos...
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The fact that this still happens in 2026 is precisely why this organization and event will never get a single dollar from me. Pathetic animal abusers.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 10/07/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul Erin Reed runs down how TERF Reem Alsalem, using her appointment as a UN researcher on violence against women, has leveraged it not a one-women hate campaign against trans people world-wide that looks like its coming from the United Nations.
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How One Woman Is Using the UN to Attack Trans Rights Worldwide
It’s no coincidence that the Supreme Court’s decision allowing trans sports bans echoes the work of Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10/07/2026
As Israeli settler attacks on water sources multiply across the West Bank, Palestinian communities that have farmed the land for generations are being forced out. "If this continues, we will barely be allowed to drink," a resident tells Mondoweiss. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/how-...
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How Israeli settlers are weaponizing water against Palestinians in the West Bank
As Israeli settler attacks on water sources multiply across the West Bank, Palestinian communities that have farmed the land for generations are being forced out. “If this continues, we will barely…
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 09/07/2026
The Gaza genocide has prompted people across the U.S., including American Jews, to reconsider their relationship with Israel. The stories of five Jews in Ithaca, NY, illustrate how some are beginning to envision a future without Zionism. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/amer...
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American Jews begin to chart a future without Zionism in the wake of the Gaza genocide
The Gaza genocide has prompted people across the U.S., including American Jews, to reconsider their relationship with Israel. The stories of five Jews in Ithaca, NY, illustrate how some are beginning…
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people www.404media.co/linkedin-and...
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The problem here is not the classroom. I would love this space. The problem is the mismatch. The holy grail of teaching/learning in HE is a system that matches pedagogy to classroom capabilities.
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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 26/05/2026
Joy, in the healthiest sense, is not the loud promise that everything will be fine. It is not a bright sticker pasted over a cracked window. Joy is a steady, clear-eyed willingness to notice what is good without denying what hurts.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🧵105 years ago today, a key moment in early Palestinian political organizing took shape when the Fourth Palestinian National Congress, held in Jerusalem, decided to send a delegation to London to present the Palestinian case against the Balfour Declaration: www.palquest.org/en/media/937...
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Fourth Palestinian National Congress, Jerusalem - 25 May 1921 (Photograph)
Historical Media - 25 May 1921 - Institute for Palestine Studies, Photograph Collection - Jerusalem -
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Across age, gender, region, education, income level, and political affiliation, only two subsets in Alberta would vote against staying in Canada: 1) UCP voters 2) Federal Conservative voters
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 25/05/2026
Itamar Ben-Gvir has been attacked across Israeli politics for a cruel video showing him mocking flotilla activists as they were being abused by officers. His offense was not his fascist celebration, but rather showing the true face of Israel. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/itam...
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Itamar Ben-Gvir is suddenly the villain of Israeli politics for one reason: he revealed Israel’s true face to the world
Itamar Ben-Gvir has been attacked across Israeli politics for a cruel video showing him mocking flotilla activists as they were being abused by officers. His offense was not his fascist celebration, but...
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Sean Tucker @seantucker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🤯 This is like singling out one actor in apartheid South Africa (e.g., P.W. Botha, President '84-'89), when in fact it was the system of apartheid, deeply rooted in an ideology of supremacy, that was responsible. The same applies to Israel @theglobeandmail.com.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
At this point, generative AI has to go the way of the dinosaur. It literally has to be rooted out and the companies associated with it driven out of business. The idea that it continue in its current form is intolerable and a complete disaster at a time when we have no margin for error as a species.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is the first time I have been 100% behind a spaceX decision. I hope they launch really soon.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When another state gleefully subjects your citizens to torture, ‘condemnation’ is grossly insufficient. Sanctions. Now. (Interesting you didn’t post here @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social)
I have just received information from my officials which details the appalling abuse of Canadians who were detained in Israel.

These Canadians have now arrived in Türkiye. Global Affairs consular officials on the ground are ensuring that they receive urgent medical care as required so that they can return home as soon as possible. 

Canada unequivocally condemns the grave mistreatment of Canadians in Israel. Those responsible for this egregious abuse must be held accountable. We will continue to provide additional information as it becomes available.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
genAI is indefensible. Environmentally, legally, morally. Support for it on any level is a red flag.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 22/05/2026
Danielle Smith announces Fall referendum on the concept of referendums www.thebeaverton.com/2026/05/dani...
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Danielle Smith announces Fall referendum on concept of referendums
EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has announced a Fall referendum on the general notion of referendums, including what they are, what if any questions they could ask, and why Alberta Separatis...
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@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
People who say things like "kids need to learn how to use AI so they aren't left behind" unwittingly sell out the very purpose of education, which is supposed to be about learning so you can shape the world, not learning so you can fit into its seemingly inevitable imperatives
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
People always forget how much Jesus loved oil pipelines.
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Oil Pipelines Align With Jesus, Danielle Smith Tells Christian Leaders
Building a new oil pipeline to the west coast of Canada is consistent with the teachings of Jesus, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told a gathering of Christian leaders and organizations from across the province last week. “We reached a landmark energy agreement with Ottawa that will pave the way for a new pipeline to the […]
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
There’s definite plausibility to the idea that the critical thinking which can come from the humanities is in higher demand as AI gets better www.ft.com/content/c0ae...
A few months ago a New York financier told me he had just experienced a "first": his 2025 summer interns "were the first true AI natives I have seen". This meant they had grown up not only among digital tech, but Al too.
So how did it go? He winced. While those wannabe masters of the universe initially seemed wildly impressive, when senior financiers later probed their ideas they found them alarmingly shallow.
Consequently this person's company made fewer return offers and is now focusing less on graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics - and more humanities students instead.
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
It IS very annoying that folks who criticize AI and LLMs are told that they are luddites without actually bothering to know more about the underlying bases for their position. Also, it would be great if people read about the history of Luddism as a social movement.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 10/05/2026
It’s remarkable in this day and age to hear a politician anywhere say the following: “Support for a diverse, rigorous and accessible body of historical scholarship should be a much greater priority for democratic governments even at a time of stretched budgets.“
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Weary international lawyer here again to tell you that states are not the subjects of rights.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 07/05/2026
NEW: Discussions around the plan to privatize airports present worse service/higher prices as cons and private investment for higher returns as pros. These arguments refuse to connect the dots that private profits come from worse service and higher fees. This is what Carney WANTS. Read the latest:
readthecatch.ca
Carney Knows Privatization Worsens Conditions, That's the Point
It has been over 50 years since the birth of neoliberalism, the political and economic outlook that shifts the role of government into facilitating the growth of the private market. Since its bloody i...
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Andie Sophia 💛🤍💜🖤 @andiesophia.is · 07/05/2026
drinking bleach could be making your stomach upset
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Seems a good time to repost this. Alberta separatism, at its heart, isn’t motivated by equalization policies, Senate seats, carbon taxes or oil. These tired complaints may ride shotgun on independence, but bigotry drives the truck. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Among the Separatists | The Tyee
I wanted to learn the true target of their angry dreams. What I heard made me tremble for the Alberta I love.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Kinda tired of the "historians will say they're close friends" meme. Babe, we've been screaming about how gay everyone is for *decades*. Funding for history keeps getting cut as a result. There are entire moral panics about it. You just haven't read any history since highschool.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Every conceivable coalition in Israeli politics has vowed to keep Arab parties out of any governing coalition. It feels like there should be a name for that
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Lisa @lisab0923.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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We’re on their list #electionsalberta #alberta #separation #voterlist #politics #canada
YouTube video by Lisab0923
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Drew Anderson @drewanderson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Chuffed to say I've been nominated for a National Magazine Award for investigative reporting, for this look into who owns delinquent oil and gas wells in Alberta. #ableg thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oilp...
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The prominent Albertans behind delinquent oil and gas companies | The Narwhal
A former prime minister, a major philanthropist and a host of developers emerge from a tangled web of corporate ownership in the oilpatch
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Wiiiiild *Elections Alberta gets court injunction for separatist group to pull down its searchable voter list *Court told the list was provided by Republican Party of Alberta, an upstart separatist party *Unauthorized use of voter list: Really, really illegal! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Elections Alberta granted injunction for separatist group to pull down electoral list | CBC
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/04/2026
"This is the third assassination attempt on Caesar, but things are going great in Rome. The value of silver is strong, the liberti/bad homines immigration is under control, and we’ve bounced back from the bubonic pandemic. So why do people keep trying to assassinate our leader?!"
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Why Do People Keep Trying to Assassinate Caesar?
“This is like the third assassination attempt on Julius Caesar, but things are going great in Rome. The value of silver is strong, the liberti/bad homines im...
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witchy raerae 👍🧙🏻‍♀️ ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Please help Hammam's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them sick, starving & homeless. They've been displaced without a tent again, & desperately need help. His disabled brother Abood has a broken leg & urgently needs surgery:
chuffed.org
Help Abood, nurse Hammam and their family in Gaza
Hello !! My name is Sonia. I'm starting this fundraiser to ask for your help for my friend Hammam and his family, who currently live in Gaza 🇵🇸.
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"in the liberal Zionist mind, which has psychologically invested in the worldview of Zionist founder Theodore Herzl that Israel is “a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism,” it is too difficult to admit they were fooled" www.joewrote.com/p/liberal-zi...
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Liberal Zionism Enters The Bargaining Stage of Grief
Ezra Klein and Jonathan Chait try to convince us (and themselves) a better Israel is possible. It's not.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Lina is struggling to care for her family, including her severely injured husband Mahmoud who's at risk of amputation, her mother-in-law with bone cancer, & her sick daughters, under Israel's genocide, which has left them homeless & starving. Mahmoud urgently needs surgery to save his life:
chuffed.org
Help Mahmoud, injured in the Gaza war, and Lina 💔 to leave Gaza and take care of their children 🦴♿💉
Before the war, we lived in a warm home 🏠, and I had a job to support my family 💼. Then the war destroyed my home and livelihood 💥🔥. In a single moment, we lost everything, and now face life in a torn...
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Futurism @futurism.com · 27/04/2026
"Evidence that AI tools create value for patients, providers or health systems remains scarce."
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Top Medical Journal Publishes Searing Article Warning Against Medical AI
Top journal Nature Medicine argued that "evidence that AI tools create value for patients, providers or health systems remains scarce." %
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 27/04/2026
There is compelling evidence that the Israeli military killed Lebanese reporter Amal Khalil. Why is the U.S. media ignoring the story? mondoweiss.net/2026/04/the-... #Palestine #Israel
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The mainstream media is ignoring Israel’s role in the killing of journalist Amal Khalil
There is compelling evidence that the Israeli military killed Lebanese reporter Amal Khalil. Why is the U.S. media ignoring the story?
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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Hello everyone 👋🇵🇸 Urgent appeal from northern Gaza: We desperately need shelter, food, and clean water. I am Ahmed, the sole provider for my family. Your donation, even just 10 euros, will save us from annihilation and provide medicine for my mother. Save us with your donation ⬇️🫂 bit.ly/4nPlAFg
Ahmad, a young Palestinian man, looking straight at the camera with a tent behind him.Ahmad again.
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Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Meanwhile, in Tony Blair’s Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Oh wow really
An article titled "Groundbreaking study finds no evidence that trans athletes are a threat to women's sports
Trans and cis women Show similar levels of p physical fitness in competition, according to the first neta-analysis of the published research"
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The thing is that this has been true for a long time. Thinking that liberal arts degrees are impractical is received wisdom that collapses under the slightest scrutiny. This claim is only "counterintuitive" if you have bad intuition about higher ed, and, accidentally and on purpose, most people do.
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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
If only our universities could get on board
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A Highlight published by PalQuest traces the historical phases of this border, with particular attention to the Mandate era, when it was drawn, redrawn, and ultimately fixed in a form that has served Israel's expansion ever since. Read more: palquest.org/en/highlight/37742/palestine-lebanon-border
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Palestine-Lebanon Border
Highlight - A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens - The border between Lebanon and occupied Palestine has gone through several historical phases since the last quarter of the nineteenth cent...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics. Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene.

By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks.

One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance.

The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20/04/2026
"With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself."
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Frequently Asked Questions About Our Innovative New EdTech Collaboration
“With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, ...
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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
CW: sexual assault, sexual violence "the most moral army in the world" Utterly depraved
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/04/2026
Palestine weekly wrap: Coordinated attacks and evictions in Gaza, West Bank aje.news/l353i6
Palestine weekly wrap: Coordinated attacks and evictions in Gaza, West Bank
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