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William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social · 2h

On shared governance of universities. Which, it's worth remembering, is how European universities began: as self-governing organizations of scholars, who students could pay to learn from. Not as employees of anyone else, not as servants to a board of regents or CEO.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 2h

This is the basic trick of Roko's Basilisk. Like many supposed thought experiments noodled over by guys who thought Heath Ledger's Joker was the most important moral philosopher of the 21st century, it dresses up as an ethical conundrum what is in truth a deeply evil enticement to abandon the concept of human intention altogether.
Decision-making truly cannot get more animal and reactionary than to extend fixed conclusions about what humanity is like out into the imagined indefinite future, conceived as boundary walls defining the path that future can take, and react to that future before it has even had a chance to
arrive. It makes the future into the past. It is inherently regressive, fascist.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3h

I think when we hem and haw about people going no-contact with their families and what it says about society, what we're often doing is revealing our own discomfort with seeing others starting to pull blocks out of the Jenga tower of Empire and refusing to suffer Just Because.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 22h

Seeing Shahrar Ali describe one of his anti-trans events as "standing room only" with a photo featuring empty seats and literally no one standing is, above all, quite funny

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyway, articles like this are not meant to be helpful or useful for anyone contemplating a decision between college or trade school. They are meant to make people who do not have to make that decision feel ... something. Enlightened? I'm not sure.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are reasons other than net take-home pay that generations of American parents steered their kids toward college. I don't see how "go into construction!" is helpful unless paired with more robust worker protections and a true safety net, especially in right to work states.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 8h

The NYT story is a great example of NYT making informing readers subordinate to pushing their agenda. If you read it carefully, it's clear that Democrats have largely decided to counter attack by saying Rs are obsessed with trans issues and neglecting things that impact ordinary Americans.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3h

“Simon Andriesz, previously a managing director at a Wall Street firm, discovered an email chain from 2018 in which Lutnick and Epstein had discussed the prospects of a start-up business they were both involved in.“ Now he’s dead.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

Fact that despite the fact that someone qualifying for student loans pretty clearly shows they don’t come from generational wealth people have still been able to be negatively polarized against student loan holders because in general we have a large population of petty vituperative people.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 7h

jacob rees-mogg eventually becomes british bill kristol after getting yelled at by right-wing freaks for the next 4 years. then we will know madness

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Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open @dylanmacri.bsky.social · 4h

I've seen a couple Malfoy blocklists because of this and I'd just say be careful. The blocklist function has been abused by bad actors before and this whole thing was explicitly started by bad actors.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3h

On today's episode of "Danielle Smith sure seems to retcon history a lot". Can we talk about "Question 1" for a sec? Because Danielle Smith says she's asking for a mandate for an unprecedented policy shift. But what does she really want? /1

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3h

my best friend worked at University of Mississippi at the time when nearly the entire faculty and student body was demanding the Confederate statue at the entrance be taken down but it wasn’t, because apparently the answer to Mike’s question is “a handful of very rich football families”

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4h

That this is *not* the trust that has been broken astounds me. I gave feedback earlier this year on some restoring trust projects. I mentioned Cornell's president hitting a student and alum with apparently little regret as the type of damage these projects need to care about. Elite impunity matters.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16h

He cheated on her and he protects pedophiles but she’s going to vote for him anyway because oppressing the rest of us matters more.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Video game where your research lab faces a catastrophic malfunction and *you* are a scientist who must leave behind environmental storytelling clues without alerting your coworkers that you are all definitely going to be dead in 24 hours. And then your friend plays, using the clues you left

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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 6h

Who exactly do they think decides what merits "outrage" and then implements said outrage?

WHITE HOUSE MEMO
An Outrage in 2019.
No Problem in 2026.
Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.
The president's decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

Hot dog meme from I Think You Should Leave

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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 6h

Hell yeah. 🔥 The absolute bare minimum because racism is too gentle a word to describe a genocidal fascist ideology...but still, a positive step. So much predictable whining about this on here.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 7h

republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 6h

This is a fun point because i often take the opposite side with regard to oil canada exports. I think in our accounting emissions per capita is bad because the extraction of oil here is ludicrously intensive. But until TMX and the new pipeline we have one customer

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 6h

"Essentially, their careers are based on their appeal to the editors of the Atlantic, official publication of the donor class. Or look at Conor Friedersdorf of Thomas Chatterton Williams. And that's who all the "free speech" culture stuff is aimed at. Because the movement is donor/patron-driven."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6h

one thing I remember thinking about during the NYT's wall to wall coverage of Claudine Gay's fake plagiarism scandal is how regularly the NYT denies credit to the work of local, independent, and/or student journalists

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh so like season 4 is when ALL the memes happen

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

completely unremarkable episode, yet the last line is "dig UP, stupid," redeeming it

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 18h

This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 17h

Not one single National Post reporter was willing to put their name on this article

Bradford closing in on Chow in Toronto mayoral race: new research

At presents Chow holds a slight edge at 38.1 per cent of voters, with Bradford following with 32.2 per cent

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 03/10/2026

oh since a BUNCH of you are blocked. this is the “conversation” i don’t understand how running it past a comms team results in not posting???? fucking hello!???

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If your direct response to our enforcing on our community guidelines to make the folks on here safer is to lash out and say that moderators should be sent to concentration camps - maybe you need to reassess your priors but you aren't making this place safer with that attitude.
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i am again going to politely entreat on you to stop posting about any policy anything without running it past your comms team.
as politely as possible, you are not actually capable of being appropriately objective, which you *should* be when talking about policy
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Yes I've tried that and we then don't post anything. See nearly any post from the safety account as an example.
Users keep demanding policy explanations daily and then make up their own random stories when there's usually an objective and repeatable process on our end (since we train mods).
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this is why, again, i do not think this information should be coming from your personal account and should be going through moderation@ with PR and comms approval. i get that you want to treat this as a small/bespoke platform but it does not function for this
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 23h

sorry, aaron's lawyer here. i've been advising him to post like this for the last 3 years as an experiment to gather research into Poster's Madness and if it can happen to a moderator.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23h

If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.

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In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - Bolts

As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

I am *all for* content warnings, being thoughtful about the language & messages that we expose people to, and letting them have control over what they see. But I am violently opposed to letting Mark Zuckerberg, The Nazi Elon Musk and Larry Fucking Ellison choose the language of billions of people.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

"We need to raise awareness!" Of what, the word that the most powerful and popular platform for mass communications systematically censor, without anyone even having a comment or complaint about it? That's what we're going to have a conversation about? You think AI platforms even know it exists?

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these companies make platforms that don't even let people accurately describe the crimes that they enable.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026

It’s a very minor point amongst the far greater injustices of the situation, but the Cornell case has also just reminded me how much all of society seems to have just accepted the fact that big tech won’t allow people to use the word “rape”. (Or at least people *believe* so — nobody knows!)

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 17h

Calling a snap election cause your political rivals are in chaos but it turns out they're more organized than you when it comes to candidate recruitment 🤌 #bcpoli

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 17h

And this is the really cool shop of stuff where he and his wife started turning plastic waste into funky home products: www.therogerie.com/shop

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Shop - The Rogerie

Everything you need for British Columbia life - crafted with care for the land from which our products are made.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty basic stuff.

Transit should be good enough to replace a car.
The goal of transit shouldn't be to technically have transit. It should be to make owning a car optional for more people.

For a household that can go from two cars to one, better transit isn't just transportation infrastructure. It's affordability infrastructure.

As Kelowna grows, I want us to judge transit by a much more practical question:

Can this system actually replace a car?

That means frequency, reliability, useful routes and connections to the places people actually need to go

We need compassion and order.

People need a path out of homelessness. Everyone else needs to feel safe now.

I don't think those ideas conflict.

Someone living on the street deserves a realistic path toward housing, treatment, healthcare and stability. A business owner also shouldn't have to accept repeated theft, vandalism or open drug use outside their business while we wait for those long-term systems to work.

Kelowna already has more infrastructure addressing this than I understood when I started investigating it: housing programs, outreach coordination, RCMP, Bylaw, shelters, transitional housing and a Community Safety strategy.

So my question has changed.

Where is the system still breaking down? What problems can the City actually solve? What requires the Province? What can we do immediately without simply moving disorder from one neighborhood to another?

That's what I'm investigating now.

Growth should pay for growth.
Kelowna is growing rapidly. That growth creates enormous value, especially when City decisions allow land to be developed more intensively.

Some of that value should come back to the community that created it.

When new development requires roads, parks, utilities, transit and other infrastructure, existing residents shouldn't automatically be left with the bill. And when a zoning decision substantially increases the value of private land, I want to understand how much of that value we're capturing for the public.

Growth should pay for growth, and growth should leave Kelowna wealthier than it found it.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 17h

MEANWHILE, in Canada, meet Brady Rogers, the reluctant politician who's fed up and thinks he can do better. His sign says "I barely want to do this." His website says, "I guess I'm running for Kelowna city council." His business? Recycling plastic into cool things.

lawn sign with a grumpy man in a "DADLIFE" sweatshirt and the sign says "I barely want to do this" with his name and campaign

Hi, I’m Brady.
Do I enjoy politics? No.

Do I know what I’m doing? No.

But am I qualified? Also no.

I was born in Williams Lake and raised in Kelowna since I was 10. These are the streets I biked every day, the cars I threw crab apples at (sorry), and the parks I played in. Seeing this city grow has been cool, but with growth has come a whole new spectrum of challenges. Running for council is the last thing I saw myself doing this year. I don’t like meetings, I don’t like having to be certain places at certain times, and I’m allergic to stuffy offices. But unfortunately, I happen to like Kelowna, and think I can help do some good.

I guess I’m running for Kelowna city council.
Support the campaign

I graduated from UBCO in 2015ish (long story) and worked for 4 years as a robotic automation engineer. As cool as the job was, it was soulless, and I wanted to use my abilities for more than just helping huge companies save money.

Since 2019, I’ve been building The Rogerie.
Starting as a farmers market booth beside the mall, my wife and I began turning plastic waste into new products in our laundry room. Seven painful years later, and we have a pretty awesome shop downtown by Sprout (come check it out!) where you’ll find me just about every day.

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 16h

Honestly, if I lived in PRN, I might be...frustrated?...that my provincial voting options this year are: a BC Conservative or a guy charged with sexual assault who used to be a BC Conservative (and almost was again until the charges became public)

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 18h

guys if you don’t follow UK politics this is like getting owned by paul ryan but worse

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We have been saved by cooler heads from all the many dangers that attend “going too far” when it comes to honesty about and consequence for abusers in a society that encourages and celebrates abuse and rewards and protects abusers. Whew! Close one. Good catch, cooler heads.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17h

Meanwhile, in Children-Are-Private-Property country....

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 18h

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 16h

I have the sudden urge to play Warcraft 2, a game I have not played since I was a child. But the heart craves silly little sprites and voicelines.

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Warcraft 2: Orc Grunt Chases Footman

ALT: Warcraft 2: Orc Grunt Chases Footman

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you for sharing with the English-speaking world! The US has unleashed its police on protesting students as well. A big part of fascism seems to be showing our children that nothing can ever be made better or improved, with our fists. It's unconscionable.

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