Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15mbut I also think that good reading, good listening, seeks to *forge* that connection -- to divine meaning, by reading, by questioning, by interpreting. this is the process: only really meaningful if both sides of the equation can understand "meaning" as valuable 161
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2hIt feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you. 7721174
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 5hIt’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...theguardian.comSKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the futureSwedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI 9619186
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 9hMost TV is just this now. 13052541519
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 5hThose arguing for mass-adoption of AI art always seem intent on proving the wrong thing; that AI tech will change beyond all recognition. They seem less inclined to prove their argument's much wilder claim; that human nature, and all previous modes of taste, emotion and investment, will change too. 244332
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 6hEvery time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them. 331202229
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 5hthe sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option. 7993228
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialMeg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 6hFive years ago in the middle of a reckoning over abuse and misconduct, the players of the NWSL were debating if they should save the league or burn it down. They picked both. On the last five years, free to read at @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...nytimes.comFive years ago, the NWSL was in crisis. Thanks to its players, it’s flourishing (Gift Article)Amidst a reckoning over sexual misconduct in the NWSL, players faced a difficult choice. The action and change they forced saved the league. 315960
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17hThis is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.” 781181225723
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 6hSo much of the lens on culture has been turned into a numbers game, where everything is about chart placements and streaming numbers and data. Its a horse race to who gets to do data best, and all of these dorks forget that people just want a song that will make them cry at the grocery store. 146665
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6hHow your email finds me 1052297191
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.theintercept.comThe “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18. 3337114
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialmerritt @merrittk.com · 17hwe fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone 112319353
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialKate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 19h"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 572754904
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 19hThis is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 4628991025
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialVicki Rose @vickirose.myatproto.social · 17hThis is a rough read. In particular what gets me are the details of a prominent survivor invited to spill her guts at an institution with a deep sexual assault problem, greeted with boredom by male frat members. Horrifying. 14110
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear: 81119523
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialHayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026new from me: i dug into the White House’s “uh these are just public service announcements” defense for the taxpayer-funded propaganda ads. it’s all bad but the wildest part is them using LITERAL WARTIME PROPAGANDA as a historical precedent to say this is all finems.nowOpinion | The White House says these propaganda ads are PSAs. They’re not.Government-funded ads praising President Trump are the opposite of “educational.” 210037
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21hI absolutely believe you will see more stories about the kookie left and radical socialists in the coming weeks. And a lot of attention on various kinds of unruly women. 115222
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21h I just said in my discussion at the IWPR event on women’s economic policy: asking “why am I hearing this and why I am hearing this now” is good praxis for the moment. 229854
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 21hHow is it possible that we’re still here twelve years later 529367
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 22hThis is very moving. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comPrison Letters: the teenager writing letters to jailed climate activists – documentaryA teenager struggling with climate anxiety searches for hope in an unexpected place – writing letters to imprisoned activists. Max, 14, is on a quest to understand the human stories behind direct acti... 015451
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22h“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”thecut.comHow Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.” 211474510
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22h“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.” 5717228
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23hGobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 270126782084
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 22hI think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick 531351148
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 22hRemember all these memes lol 861261
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialSam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 22hReal lives are being destroyed and snuffed out every day that this policy is allowed to continue and the people who devised it are not in jail. I know we all know this, but I feel like it's important to say it from time to time. 317652
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22hA man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 15182601471
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 23hMeta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling himkarlbode.comMeta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious MessAuthoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable 411657657
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23hThe cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev... 16618126
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026When your big gotcha moment goes so epically wrong that it’s the other party sharing clips of it. 12670117
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players. 31274211
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialThe Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sure folks on Bluesky know this but most normies out there have no idea just how deep their conservative neighbors are into their alternate reality. They do not live here on earth with us at all. 1950689
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes. 1272762539
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialJoe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Independent has a photo of the slide we weren't able to see during the Smith hearing. No texts from Smith in it. 71658130
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah, Schmitt is lucky there’s a Speech or Debate Clause. This is inexcusable. Klobuchar focused on the “dirtbag” claim in Schmitt’s conclusion, but Schmitt also said to Smith, “I think you’ve already perjured yourself.” 20556102
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED 60767111497
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialNorth Carolina Courage @nccourage.com · 29/09/2026Ash answered the call 🇺🇸 210220
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialJeff Kassouf @jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Emma Hayes: "Do I expect that Caterina Macario will be available for the January camp? That's my hope. Do I think she could be back sooner? At what cost would be the question. She also has to respond to everything that goes well within that. She's on the grass. She's training." 2484
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialLoukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'll add another thing to this thread about 'invisible' misogyny: a lot of the time it also presents as chivalry. Putting women on a pedestal, 'yearning' for them; all part of a misogynistic othering of women which can likewise explode in 'surprising' ways. 312535
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialshawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“At the end of the month, I don’t know what I’m going to do,” Morales said.chicagotribune.comAbout 9,300 immigrants in Illinois to lose Medicaid this week because of One Big Beautiful BillImmigrants including refugees, human trafficking survivors and people who’ve been granted asylum but don’t have green cards are slated to lose their Medicaid coverage after Sept. 30. 01315
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Yeah that part affects EVERYONE YOU'VE EVER MESSAGED WITH, WHETHER THEY HAVE MUSE OR NOT. Seriously: do not use muse. Ever. 516139
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/09/2026Finding Backrooms frightening largely due to all the unanchored furniture. 1165496
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialSarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 29/09/2026A beautiful story about a woman whose life ended far, far too soon.nytimes.comCentral Park Was Her Home and Her Studio. She Was Killed There. (Gift Article)Francis Lee Rogers painted birds in the park, her home for decades. She was found dead on Sunday, beaten and stabbed, shaking a community of friends and collectors of her art. 24816
Reposted by @pangwin.bsky.socialMarcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 29/09/2026My favourite chart this year: 55324