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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The clocks can actually go back whenever you want them to. You just have to deal with the consequences.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 22/09/2026
Damn he really is a good mayor
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Chocobone💀Skare🎺Paradie🪦 @chocoboskaparadise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Perfect
A meme of Bobs Burgers kids
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
John Oliver on UnitedHealth Group: ‘Algorithmically driven, ruthless arbiters of who lives and who dies’
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John Oliver on UnitedHealth Group: ‘Algorithmically driven, ruthless arbiters of who lives and who dies’
Ahead of Luigi Mangione’s sentencing, the Last Week Tonight host looked into the corporate healthcare behemoth that is UnitedHealth Group
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
arstechnica.com
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Local man reminds Ontarians to buy Canadian moments before he heads over to American Staples to renew his Ontario drivers licence.
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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 02/09/2026
For those unfamiliar, there's a loooong history of insurance companies working to delegitimize these illnesses to protect their bottom line. Here's some reading for the curious: www.mostewartresearch.co.uk/wp-content/u... www.margaretwilliams.me/2013/role-of...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Five Seventeen @nowwearefive.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Double ungood.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Red graffiti on a white brick wall reads: “the earth isn’t dying…it’s being killed…and the people killing it have names and addresses”
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
yes, but fwiw, that's not what he said. Here's the relevant portion of the statement.
In November of 2024, I traveled from outside of New York State to Manhattan. I then emailed United Healthcare leadership posing as an investor at a firm managing over $50 billion in assets and requesting information about the conference. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour. Before traveling to New York, I used a 3-D printer to make part of a gun, and I equipped the gun with the silencer and magazine. My travel to New York and email to United Healthcare was with the intent to shoot Brian Thompson. On the morning of December 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died. When I did so, I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death or serious bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal.
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Five Seventeen @nowwearefive.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Back in 1999, my best left this mortal coil. Today would have been her 50th birthday. I’ll be enjoying some of her old recordings in rememberance. kymbliss.bandcamp.com/album/kymber...
kymbliss.bandcamp.com
Kymberly Drake. Hail to the Hummingbird: Songs & Accusations, 1976–1999, by Kymbliss
18 track album
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Same applies to epi pens. I pay $400 for a generic pair every other year. Even though there are some brands like Auvi-Q that ARE innovating and making the application easier (and harder to make mistakes), insurance companies fuck w the formulary to make sure you pay more for a worse product.
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Bob Herman @bobjherman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
But there are people fighting back. One of them is Chris Deacon. She has become one of the most influential critics of the ways the health care industry exploits employer-based insurance. What happened to her in New Jersey is jaw-dropping. www.statnews.com/2026/07/07/e...
statnews.com
This whistleblower took on a health insurance giant and a political machine. She’s not stopping there
America’s employers must stop acting helpless in the face of health care industry profiteering, Chris Deacon says.
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Bob Herman @bobjherman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
America’s employer health insurance is decaying. We’re launching a new series, Out of Pocket, Out of Reach, that chronicles how and why this system is harming everyone in a more urgent way than ever. Despair is most apparent among small businesses. www.statnews.com/2026/07/07/s...
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STAT @statnews.com · 07/07/2026
America's employer-based health insurance system is crumbling. STAT investigates why, in our new series, “Out of Pocket, Out of Reach.” www.statnews.com/2026/07/07/s...
statnews.com
America’s small businesses are giving up on health insurance
America's employer-based health insurance system is crumbling. STAT investigates why, in our new series, “Out of Pocket, Out of Reach.”
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STAT @statnews.com · 29/06/2026
AstraZeneca agreed to pay $34 million to settle claims that the company paid kickbacks to improperly influence prescriptions paid for by Texas Medicaid. www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...
statnews.com
AstraZeneca to pay $34 million to settle kickback charges filed by Texas attorney general
AstraZeneca agreed to pay $34 million to settle claims that the company paid kickbacks to improperly influence prescriptions paid for by Texas Medicaid.
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Five Seventeen @nowwearefive.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
15.4°C notgoodnotgoodnotgood www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown
Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region
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Five Seventeen @nowwearefive.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
On June 10, 2026, Schneider received a gag order preventing him from posting and talking any further about Bricks & Minifigs. Because of this. youtu.be/wscQpkcwgNU
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I tracked down the thief who stole $200,000 of LEGO
YouTube video by Reckless Ben
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Not kidding, hand on my heart, when I saw the headline I thought “I bet it’s the brilliant health & science reporter @melodyschreiber.com who wrote it,” & I was not wrong Very grateful for her fantastic work on public & global health, including vaccination www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US insurers’ move to back vaccines sends ‘powerful’ message about safety of shots, experts say
As Trump officials take aim at vaccine schedule, scientists encouraged by companies’ desire to continue coverage
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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”
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Five Seventeen @nowwearefive.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Random thought: Chris Parnell and Megan Salter in a remake of The Seven Year Itch.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Social media comments from last week suggested that Ebola didn't exist, and all the illnesses were metal poisoning from mining. They're wrong, but mining does play into the risks here, bringing animals and people in closer contact and increasing the risk of animal -> human spillovers of the virus.
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Five Seventeen @nowwearefive.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Steak or tofu: why can’t we stop eating so much meat www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Steak or tofu: why can’t we stop eating so much meat?
Despite health risks and environmental damage, the meat industry is working hard to safeguard its dominance
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 01/06/2026
Post-traumatic stress disorder can occur after exposure to a traumatic event. A Primer in Nature Reviews Disease Primers summarizes the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of PTSD. go.nature.com/49gn0EB 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows neural circuits underlying post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
FINALLYE MORE TEETH FOR US
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
😬 "This works similar to a normal camera, the difference being that in our case, radio waves instead of light waves are used for the recognition," explains the cybersecurity expert. "Thus, it does not matter whether you carry a WiFi device on you or not."
sciencedaily.com
Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy
Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, resea...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“The delay in confirming the outbreak was in part because samples were taken to the national lab in Kinshasa, Congo, at the wrong temperature. That task previously would have been managed by U.S.A.I.D.”
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/05/2026
Japanese snack maker goes black and white on Iran war supply crunch ft.trib.al/HtjDVZ2
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Japanese snack maker goes black and white on Iran war supply crunch
Calbee to drain colour from packaging in response to rising prices of petroleum-based inks
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Never thought I’d be living in a world so shitty that I’d find myself saying WHO CARES ABOUT UFO PICS RIGHT NOW
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
regulatory capture phenomenon also affects individuals because if they are associated with Institution and Institution does Bad Things surely that doesn't mean they are bad, that means the people attacking the Institution must be bad, and furthermo
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"Kilcher only learned that Cameron had used her facial features so directly after an interview clip of the director began circulating on social media last year... Cameron stands with the Neytiri sketch: The actual source for this was a photo in the LA Times, a young actress named Q’orianka Kilcher"
theguardian.com
Indigenous actor sues James Cameron for ‘stealing’ her facial features for Avatar character
Suit says director used Q’orianka Kilcher’s features without permission after seeing her in advert for The New World
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Canadian Medical Association @cmadocs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Today, we pause to honour the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit+ people (MMIWG2S+). Let us collectively take accountability for the ongoing impacts of colonial violence, and together, move beyond awareness toward meaningful, sustained commitment to change.
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
As a young law professor in the 1980s, Kimberlé Crenshaw could have never predicted that her life’s work would become a Fox News punch line — let alone the subject of government bans. We spoke about how that feels, her new memoir Backtalker, and much more: www.thecut.com/article/kimb...
thecut.com
The Mother of Intersectionality Thinks You Have It All Wrong
The right is trying to erase Kimberlé Crenshaw’s life’s work. She has something to say about that.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 02/05/2026
"The octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order."
psychologytoday.com
Love Eating Octopus? You Might Want to Read This First
The octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
With the reveal that post-Fox Tucker Carlson has 7.3k subscribers, reminder that *all* rightwing media is a miserable enormously unpopular and wildly unprofitable failure, only kept aloft via the largesse of a handful of billionaire pedophiles pumping them with endless amounts of cash.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 29/04/2026
The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.
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Trump administration rejects women picked for soybean board, appoints men instead
The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.
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Alyshah Hasham @alyshah.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Star's Jacques Gallant has done an investigation into the use of long-term seclusion at the Waypoint psychiatric hospital. It raises some tough questions. You can read it all here: www.thestar.com/news/investi...
thestar.com
Star investigation into ‘egregious’ use of seclusion prompts calls for independent review of Ontario mental health system
Leading experts have described Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care’s practice of isolating patients as “abusive,” “egregious,” and “grossly in excess” of other facilities.
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The Weather Network @weathernetwork.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Radioactive fallout covered much of Europe in the spring of 1986 following the worst nuclear power plant disaster ever recorded. ow.ly/jovQ50YQ1ny
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Weather made the Chernobyl nuclear disaster even worse - The Weather Network
The incident in 1986 remains the world’s worst-ever nuclear accident
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Last Friday, Trump fired the National Science Board. The NSB is made up of distinguished scientists whose job is to oversee the National Science Foundation, setting research priorities by thinking beyond election cycles. It was designed to be independent. We don't know what this means, but it's bad.
forbes.com
Trump Fired The Entire National Science Board. Here's Why That Matters
Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees NSF. The institutional design that built American science is at stake.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Newsweek yesterday: Chinese Scientists Have Been Dying Mysterious Deaths Too The WSWS two days ago: The US government is killing Chinese scientists
wsws.org
The US witch-hunt against Chinese scientists and the death of Danhao Wang
Danhao Wang’s death is the direct consequence of a systematic government- and university-sponsored political operation targeting young Chinese researchers. This xenophobic purge, deeply intertwined wi...
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Five Seventeen @nowwearefive.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Absolutely not. The insurance companies as they exist now aren’t regulated nearly enough.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real and starting diagnosing people with it. Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness? www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com
nature.com
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
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Marine St. Jean @marinestjean.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Trad publishers: we produces better written books than indie. Also Trad publishers.
On March 19th Hachette Book Group made headlines for terminating a book contract with author Mia Ballard over her alleged use of AI in her novel Shy Girl; meanwhile, Hachette has negotiated with the AI editing software company Alighieria to integrate full-scope AI editorial correction tools into their production process.
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