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Patricia Bray

@patriciabray.bsky.social
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Writer, cyclist, curler.

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Patricia Bray @patriciabray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why the heck do I own so many books? And who thought it was a good idea to move?!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
PSA: The Trump administration changed the form used to register and request absentee ballots, removing the checkbox for US citizens who have never lived in the US(even though some are eligible to vote under state law). The change could block eligible voters and was made without proper public notice.
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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 02/10/2026
In totally shocking and surprising news.... 🙃 Publishing is making even more money! Writers, on the other hand.... www.thebookseller.com/comment/publ...
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Publishing just doesn't add up for authors
The book trade is economically thriving — but its creative engine is not.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Senior leaders at Customs and Border Protection were left out of the decision to use their agency’s funds for a national ad campaign featuring Trump. They found out from a news report. Trump isn’t smart enough to come up with this himself. Our guess? Stephen Miller.
nbcnews.com
CBP leaders cut out of Trump ad buy decision
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott and other leaders at the agency learned from a news report that national ads highlighting Trump were paid for with CBP funds.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Publishers take a cut, authors get cut out of payments.
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Jessica & the Revenge of the Librarian 💉 @mlisrevenge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's time for the public to learn that public services cannot run on the concept of doing more with less. When there are large cuts to services that rely on public monies, people should feel the results. Libraries, universities, etc. need to stop trying to lessen the visibility of funding cuts.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 30/09/2026
Your 3rd dose today of Anthropic settlement madness (at least from me). Authors, CHECK YOUR CLAIMS! Your situation may have changed, per this email from the settlement administrator that some authors are receiving (subject heading: Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Allocation Updates)
We made updates that may affect your claim.
What Changed?
Wed, Sep 30,
2026 at 5:35 AM
Based on feedback from claimants, we updated how certain works are categorized.
In particular, where multiple claimants submitted default claims for the same
ownership interest in a work, we changed those works from agreement to
disagreement.
In addition, the portal is updated to reflect that some claimants changed their sole
ownership claims to default claims, and some claimants withdrew their claims.
What This Means for You
As a result of these updates, some works on your claim may now be categorized
differently. We encourage you to review the current allocations for your works.
How to Review and Update Your Allocations
Please use your claim number and PIN above to log into the portal below.
Claim Summary and Allocation Portal
For help making updates, please visit the allocation portal instructions.
If You Already Submitted Updates
If you already updated the allocation for a work, then you do not need to
submit those updates again. Any changes you submitted previously
through the online portal are recorded, but the portal is not being
updated in real time. If you submit multiple updates for the same
copyright number, your most recent submission will replace any earlier
submissionsWhat’s Next?
We will continue to work with claimants to help resolve disputes.
For works where all rightsholders are in agreement and where all necessary
payment information is provided, we expect to send a first round of payments in
November 2026.
If You Have Questions
Please contact us at 1-877-206-2314 or info@AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com.
Regards,
Settlement Administrator
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our supporters called America .gov “Selective Intelligence.” We agree. They’re rushing to change its answers to match what Trump wants to hear.
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Patricia Bray @patriciabray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let's Go Red Sox!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The press coverage of the Academy of Natural Sciences has gone from "Oh how sad" to sounding like a hostage negotiation. Which maybe sounds bad, but elected leaders, the press, the people online, all saying "You don't have to do this, man" is better than mourning. share.inquirer.com/YTQg0s
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Philadelphia shouldn’t give up on the Academy of Natural Sciences’ historic museum | Editorial
The Academy's 150-year-old building faces roughly $150 million in deferred maintenance costs. While that may seem daunting, it is not insurmountable.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump officially rolled back fuel efficiency standards today. The new target for 2031 is about 34.5 miles per gallon, down from 50.4. That means more gas burned, more pollution, and more money out of drivers’ pockets. So much for making things affordable.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We found some more fraud, waste, and abuse. The third government-funded Trump ad has been identified by AdImpact in recent days. The latest ad is nearly identical to a video Trump posted during his 2024 presidential campaign. It shows him walking down a hallway declaring, “This is the final battle.”
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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 27/09/2026
This is a big one. When companies are forced to bear the actual cost of all these tokens, they're cooked. Companies are already paying out the ass for tokens. While they are cheaper than the people they fired, that will only last as long as rich people are subsidizing it. And clock is ticking
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
propublica.org
ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Get out and vote! He literally had people raise their hands and pledge to cheat two weeks ago in Dallas.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing
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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/09/2026
Last Sunday, ICE shot another person and refused to give them necessary medical attention, and immediately moved them to a detention facility hundreds of miles away.
texastribune.org
Quick hospital release of Venezuelan shot by ICE raises questions
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was discharged after four hours into ICE custody and taken 135 miles to an immigration detention center.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
POLITICO exposed Vice President JD Vance as the leaker behind one of the stories the White House later cited to justify banning the outlet from White House grounds. So either they planted these stories and then used them as an excuse to ban the outlets reporting them, or it’s MAGA targeting MAGA.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica dropped the first story in a new series on corruption in Congress, and it starts with Sen. Susan Collins. A defense contractor illegally funneled $150,000 to a pro-Collins PAC. The company’s CEO later pleaded guilty to unlawful campaign contributions.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/09/2026
Taxpayers are footing the bill for President Trump's radical anti-immigrant agenda. Our government must prioritize investing in working families over ICE raids and more militarization of our communities.
Brown graphic reading "Instead of spending $268,999,966,016 or $2,358 per taxpayer, the U.S. could fund:..." with a list of things that could be funded instead, including school teachers, firefighters, and people on medicaid
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 21/09/2026
The Authors Guild is grateful the Court has unsealed some of the most important filings in our case against OpenAI and Microsoft. (1/7)
authorsguild.org
Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI: Top Execs Knew Their Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal And Would Put Authors Out of Work
(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their p...
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Patricia Bray @patriciabray.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bear has the right idea
Teddy bear next to pillow that says The Mountains Are Calling And I Must Go
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
LMAO if it destroys the world why the fuck should it be protected from lawsuits??????
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder. 💚✊
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Jeanine 💙 @madammaleficent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If your business requires me to create an account, verify my email, accept seventeen cookies, download an app, and solve a captcha just to buy one thing, I no longer want the thing.
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 17/09/2026
ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT UPDATE: The initial 30-day window for co-claimants to try and resolve any allocation disputes has been extended to 60 days. For more information:
authorsguild.org
Important Information Regarding Anthropic Copyright Settlement Claim Notices
Update, September 17, 2026: The initial 30-day window for co-claimants to try and resolve any allocation disputes has been extended to 60 days. We have updated this deadline below. Update, September 1...
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 17/09/2026
House Republican Whip Tom Emmer boasted this week that ground beef prices are now “less than $2 a pound.” Among the questions: - Has Tom Emmer been to a grocery store in recent decades? - Does he expect voters not to believe their own wallets? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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GOP leader claims ground beef prices are ‘less than $2 a pound,’ despite reality
Politicians can get away with all kinds of dishonesty, but asking voters not to believe their own wallets is a losing proposition.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s funny, but also not funny at the same time.
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Patricia Bray @patriciabray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just visiting
Flying saucer in farmyard
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Red Sox @redsox.com · 14/09/2026
Took the series! 🗒️: bit.ly/4yEeGIY
Final score from September 13th, 2026
Royals 1, Red Sox 4

IMAGE: Final score graphic featuring a photo of Roman Anthony standing on first base looking towards the dugout screaming in celebration wearing his home white Red Sox uniform.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Workers’ healthcare costs are expected to rise by 8.2% on average next year. That’s the sharpest increase in over 20 years. Meanwhile, Medicare for All is supported by 65% of voters — including 71% of independents and 49% of Republicans. Is it any wonder why?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump has been redirecting tens of millions of National Park Service money to wasteful projects in Washington, D.C., while blocking more than 130 planned projects at national parks across the country, putting more than $25 million in already secured funding on hold.
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
wired.com
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 11/09/2026
Only a financial reporter can see Adobe's numbers cratering and think it's because they didn't "AI" hard enough. Tell me you've never spoken with a creator without etc etc
finance.yahoo.com
Adobe Forecast Misses Estimates, Renewing Fears About AI Impact
Adobe Inc. gave an outlook for sales that narrowly missed analysts’ estimates, renewing concerns about pressure from artificial intelligence upstarts.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
PSA: Election officials in California, Oregon, Washington and elsewhere are telling voters if you can, return your ballot through an official ballot drop box rather than trusting it to the mail.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Trump admin’s State Department has hired Nate Hochman, the former Ron DeSantis campaign staffer who lost his job after an uproar over a campaign video containing a Nazi symbol. As we all already know, that kind of resume isn’t a disqualifier in this administration it’s a hiring credential.
nytimes.com
For Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Dept.
The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Battle of Holbeck Moor took place in Leeds on 27 September 1936, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists attempted a march through the city. Their original route through the Jewish quarter was blocked, but they regrouped and headed for Holbeck Moor, daubing swastikas in the Leylands 1/3
Plaque on St Matthew's Church, facing Holbeck Moor Road. It commemorates a violent incident on 27 September 1936 when crowds disrupted an attempted rally by fascists. Leeds Civic Trust plaque funded by Stand Up to Racism. Image Chemical Engineer CC !.0
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A significant contributor to the gender pay gap and the continuing financial disparity between men and women is the undervaluing of all of the unpaid care work done by women in Ireland. Women all over Ireland get up early, every morning, and go to work, unpaid and unvalued.
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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The New Hampshire primary is tomorrow, do you have everything you need to know before you go? Learn more and make sure your voting plan is complete by visiting the link below! www.aclu-nh.org/news/know-your-righ…
aclu-nh.org
Know Your Rights: Voting in New Hampshire - ACLU of New Hampshire
The New Hampshire primary is Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Know your NH voting rights before you head to the polls!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Speaking of plagiarism: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
scientificamerican.com
OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach
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