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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What they’re hoping for and acting for is germinating the seeds of extreme acts of violence against South Asians. That’s why they use the explicitly Nazi framing of the ‘Indian question’. They want the same results. Their followers are pretty open it on social media, too.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

lot of people on x trying to explain why it’s a okay for six guys to walk into a room with a drunk naked girl in a k-hole.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing I end up going back to over and over again is: while the criminal justice system could do so much better in protecting rights, the only thing that can adequately address a pervasive problem like this is social/cultural change. Rape arises from and reasserts rape culture/patriarchy.

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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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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Aaaaaaanyway this whole thing is a perfect example of how disabled and chronically ill and marginalized people are forced out of society and then if they make a tiny enclave together where they try and make space for each other the society that forced them out tells them they can’t have that either.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.

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max graves @maximumgraves.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

as a transgender person i have to admit i hold journalists in a very low level of esteem bc as a class they kind of did all hop on board with manufacturing consent for the project of exterminating the minority group im a part of

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Travels of a 17th century Abolitionist from Angola to the Vatican

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I stayed off this place for a while because I saw so many of you sneering at masks and those who wear them, and after losing my mother to COVID complications in 2025 partly because she didn't/refused to mask while vulnerable, my emotions re masking are more than a little unstable.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s Respect for the Aged Day #敬老の日 in Japan! Elderly figures, often auspicious, appear in many arts. This wooden mask of an elderly man from the 18th century was used for noh theater. Held by the Tokyo National Museum: colbase.nich.go.jp/collection_i...

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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Enforce Quarantines for Cases A passenger with measles passed through at least six counties on Amtrak – Alameda, Butte, Kern, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Joaquin – while making multiple transfers. www.ktvu.com/news/califor...

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California health department notifies of measles exposure from unvaccinated Amtrak passenger

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is urging residents to get their measles vaccination after notifying the public of an exposure from an Amtrak passenger who traveled on the rail syste...

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Rose Ivy @cityscape-skltns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I firmly believe its a psyop. The whole narrative aims to engineer social consensus that these parties should be "regulated" . The regulation here in question is going to be essentially receiving government protections, making a bail out more likely when the bubble pops

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026

One strange way I've noticed my writing reflexively shift in the Anslopocene is that I've become obsessed with mercilessly editing myself. People are just hurling 5,000 word essays into comment sections, all thoughtless, corporatised, dark grey gruel.

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's Monday morning, and I am reluctantly entering into the discussion about what The Democrats should do about The Trans, most of which translates to "believe in something, for once in your life, for fuck's sake." No paywall on this guy: jude-doyle.ghost.io/transformer-...

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Transformer: Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)

A few thoughts on the queer post-apocalypse.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I agree but you can't talk about the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait without the Iran-Iraq War, which was also very much a Gulf War. So whether you want it to start with the 1979 Iranian Revolution or the Iraqi invasion of Khuzestan, I feel like it's gotta be included.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh hey, there's a new subscriber. As promised, here are pictures of cat in box. help me feed large cat and keep scribbling! support the newsletter; it's $50/yr, $5/month. www.everythingishorribble.net/subscribe

big orange cat resting chin on edge of box; eyes have opened.

cat in box; all you can see is an ear and a bit of floof poking over the edge

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So that's the thing. I grew up Mormon. And there are ~progressive poly folks~ who insist "Oh but haha we're not doing it BAD like those crazy Mormons did, we're GOOD people!" and then merrily describe doing shit that "oppressed Mormon sister wives in the 1860s" 100% would not have put up with.

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

I say this both as a disabled person and as someone who does disability studies, we don't get to be uncritical of the technologies that use our bodies and identities to silence dissent around Big Tech, even if they are useful for some of us. Thats not how any of this works.

“I have really thought it was responsible,” Currier told me. I asked Currier about privacy concerns around Meta glasses; he told me he was not “real invested in knowing what any sort of policy or answer should be moving forward,” but feels the positives outweigh the negatives.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

one of the clearest use cases for “technology” has long been to give the lazy and craven a way out of doing the moderately challenging work of making decisions, such as “how should i communicate this?” or “how do i reach customers?” or “will anyone give a shit?” it’s so pathetically transparent

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel about this roughly the same way I would feel about all the pharmaceutical companies getting together to say they wanted to waive anti-trust laws so they could form a cartel to ban medical research: these people are the enemies of humanity.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This all most recently came together over the weekend, and they got Dario Amodei and Sam Altman and Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis all onto the same page to say they wanted to WAIVE ANTI-TRUST LAWS so that they could "pace", or slow down, research.

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Nirupama Chandrasekhar @niruchandra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Anyway, more than ever, these past couple of months have convinced me to move Malcolm Harris's Palo Alto up to the top of my reading list. We must know our enemy. Since Big Tech have very much declared itself an ally to fascists, they thus are our enemies.

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Nirupama Chandrasekhar @niruchandra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's kind of fascinating, because when I read HPMoR back in the day, I remember being like "this is a conservative weirdo who recognizes feminism is good yet cannot actually overcome his overwhelming male focus to write any woman compellingly. Sad." And it's just. So much worse now.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I do not want an AI agent. I want every corporation/doctor/school to stop offloading their administrative tasks onto me.

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Nirupama Chandrasekhar @niruchandra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All of the "AI will kill us all and we must pacify it in advance" discourse is obviously a financial grift to get a bailout/create legislation that is beneficial to their company's interests, as folks like Ed Zitron have been saying. But we shouldn't underplay the phenomena of techno-evangelicism!

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

why would you even care if you dog was autistic. like, even in a world where dogtism is real why would it matter if your dog had it. he’s literally just here to vibe.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The details make it clear that the University of Michigan is fully collaborating with fascists because it sees a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to destroy a labor movement. Lots of universities would be willing to do this given the invitation. I expect they will.

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🍊Zara Nerd🍊 | KO-FI SALE @zaranerd.grimdorks.net · 08/09/2026

ummmm i think they undercooked my food??? just look at my bowl

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Are my syllabi finished? No. Are my assessments set? Also no. Have I finalized the reading schedules? Nope. Have I built the canvas shells and written my first week lectures and set up Perusall? No, no, and no. Are my kitchen and bathroom the cleanest they've been in five years? Oh yes.

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Many Americans seem to find it easier to imagine a world where "their AI children" end humanity then one where economic trends allow median African countries to someday challenge them. "if we were to all die at the same time, dying together is less upsetting than dying alone" is just the apotheosis.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'The need to outsource services following redundancy programmes may be increasing universities’ costs rather than lowering them, as well as impacting staff productivity, a report warns.'

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Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 14/09/2026

NEW: A hotel in Tokyo asked a Zainichi Korean woman to check in under a Japanese alias instead of her real name. When she refused, they made her leave. She's suing in a case that highlights how many hotels demand ID that the law doesn't require.

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A Tokyo Hotel Asked for Her Japanese Name. She Sued Instead

A Zainichi Korean woman is suing a hotel in Tokyo after they refused to let her check in under her Korean name.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“A San Jose police officer was fired for using his department’s Flock license plate tracking system to share the location of a woman with the suspect accused of abusing her.”

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San Jose officer fired for misusing Flock camera database in domestic abuse case

Police officer shared location of a woman with his relative who is accused of abusing woman

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Valerie A. Traina @v3ndettaval.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

SAN DIEGO activists at Otay Mesa Concentration Camp‼️

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Nirupama Chandrasekhar @niruchandra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm not saying there aren't several conservative Okinawans, of course, but I can't help but feel this election result is the result of a startling change in demographics in Okinawa, where an increasing number of mainlanders now live there... mainichi.jp/english/arti...

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Okinawa gets 1st governor in 12 yrs backing U.S. base relocation plan - The Mainichi

NAHA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Genta Koja, the candidate backed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party, secured victory in Sunday's Okina

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

Is it fair that the school on a shoestring budget has to play the one in the affluent suburb that has a budget for brand new equipment and groundskeeping for a shot at state finals? Fuck off lol

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