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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11/09/2026

#OtD 11 Sep 1946 the Abbey Lodge block of flats in Regents Park, London was squatted by homeless families of WWII ex-servicemen. It was part of a wave of similar occupations in the wake of WWII stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8359...

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 10/09/2026

The headline here for academics who use AI in the course of their research: AI companies have no problem stealing your work so they can claim the win. Putting aside the massive ethical considerations of using Gen AI at all these days, why the fuck would you ever enter into this kind of relationship?

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

🐦‍⬛Birdsong guessing game. 🎶Collecting the dawn chorus. 🥰To share and enjoy. Dawn Chorus Quest is a game of birdsong and time travel. Your guide is an improbably old long-tailed tit (called Pip). It's a love letter to British birds. Try at bird-times.lovable.app #Birds #GameDev #Bioacoustic

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

Bless the hearts of people like @eryk.bsky.social but I'm learning that no amount of reasonable voice makes a difference when you have bought out media, academics and politicians + trillion dollar companies pushing Cookie Monster theory 🙄 mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...

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Models Don't Go Rogue

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

More and more people are saying

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

First day of classes at UConn yesterday done and dusted. Excited to teach my American Revolution course. Icing on the cake was literally cake and champagne thanks to Africana celebrating the promotion and tenure of faculty. And this piece came out in Connecticut Explored thanks to Andy Horowitz.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026

The reason you want an actual humanitarian aid system and *don’t* want to force everybody to rely on online mutual aid is because online mutual aid *forces people experiencing horrific trauma* to perform on the Internet for survival.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Earlier in the summer I suggested I’d do a thread on this gnarly paper. Better late than never. (Yes, it's more WTF biology.) 🧵 /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Subnuclear genome compartmentalization controls bivalent chromatin activity - Nature

Knowledge of the spatial location of a gene is necessary to understand its epigenomic regulation.

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Springfield Ohio bullshit is like, the most pronounced and clear cut example of American moral rot I’ve seen in forever. Literally asking Haitians to come to revitalize your hollowed-out community, and then subjecting them to this racial terror and humiliation after they do? Fucking hell

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

250 million birds flew across America last night, tracked by radar. Migration season is upon us, and it’s wilder than you could imagine. Birdcast’s live migration maps and forecasts (from Cornell Lab of Ornithology) are brilliant, and you can find them here. birdcast.org/migration-to...

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Easily one of the most spectacular natural events I’ve ever seen: an endless river of Sooty Shearwaters along the Washington coast. These ocean-dwelling birds migrate 40,000 miles each year, foraging in massive flocks. This went nonstop for at least an hour. Best estimate is 100,000 birds.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2026

a post from President Trump: "I don't think the GOP fully grasp how badly they are fucking up right now"

cap of a Trump reports on Truth Social of Matt Van Swol dragging Republicans

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In a world of JK Rowlings, be a Dolly.

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's 2026 and academia is having a debate about whether racists should be allowed to conduct their racist, discredited resarch in universities. Yes, the actual basis is breach of contract by pursuing different research to that he was hired to do but it is what the debate has become about.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

But accountability and transitional justice for principals. A major litmus test of whether the US survives as a democracy is whether Hegseth, Rubio and everyone else involved in the boat strikes wind up in prison.

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Truth and Reconciliation 2028

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John Weston @johnweston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Sick-making to see this still up from Steven Pinker. Very hard to interpret the content and timing as anything other than fascist grifting.

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper

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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

9th August 1978, Blues legend Muddy Waters, who heavily influenced 1970s pop and rock icons, performed a historic set at a White House picnic at the request of President Jimmy Carter. #MuddyWaters

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/07/2026

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/07/2026

‘Marat did not need to be radicalised by failure. He was less a product of modernity than someone entirely out of place in it.’ Oliver Cussen on the French journalist and revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Oliver Cussen · Doctor of the Incurable: Marat Unmade

Beyond the violence and immediacy of his language, perhaps Jean-Paul Marat was popular for a more straightforward reason...

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Fearful symmetry: Hardwick Hall, Bess of Hardwick's great Derbyshire house, designed for her by Robert Smythson in the 1590s. Amazing structure. Just a wall of windows; you can hardly even find the door! Today is Bess’s day.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Vigili del Fuoco: Potenza, a vegetation fire in Maratea (Maratea) is under control: firefighters have been at work since the night of the 28th, and 58 people have been evacuated from their homes as a precaution.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A Madrid Municipal Police officer leads a donkey to safety during the Sierra Oeste wildfire west of Madrid.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Historian here, Free soil Free Labor Free Men!

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18/07/2026

#OtD 18 Jul 1864 4000 workers in Troy, New York, attended a labour movement picnic where women workers in the recently victorious Collar Laundry Union gifted an elaborate full-colour banner to the Troy Iron Moulders Union as thanks for their support stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8987...

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"Lucid dreaming enables us to watch the mind build a world from the inside, with many of its usual ingredients: a body embedded in an environment, often a social one, with a point of view and a sense of ownership over action."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Maybe they could ask the man who wants to be Attorney General how he thinks the Department of Justice would prosecute someone who repeatedly lied under oath to a Senate committee in a confirmation hearing?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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Sports Media LGBT+ @sportsmedialgbt.com · 14/07/2026

✍️ Megan Rapinoe, writing for Marie Claire “No girl deserves to be discriminated against. That’s why all girls, including trans girls, should be able to play with their classmates in the sports they love… girls who don’t fit someone else’s expectation of femininity, will face further harassment.”

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Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters

"If we really cared about safety and fairness in sports, we’d be breaking down barriers facing girls at every level," writes Megan Rapinoe.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In honor of Bastille Day, @carmenchloie.bsky.social joins us on Decanonized to talk about Giordano's French Revolution-tinged "Andrea Chénier." Also discussed: sopranos melting down on Instagram, John McWhorter melting down over John Cage, and Charlotte Corday melting down over Jean-Paul Marat.

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Episode 010: Andrea Chénier with Carmen Paddock — Decanonized

Freedom and potatoes.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

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Jana Zikmundova @jzk55.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#OTD #RedDevils #Belgium🇧🇪

Dessin dans le style du peintre belge René Magritte

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

1.5 years ago, John Hopkins cardiologist Joseph Marine wrote a Sensible Medicine (😂) blog telling doctors we should love MAHA. He should take into account all the news today & make the affirmative case he was right, that we should love MAHA now. What does it mean if he can't do that? My latest.

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Dr. Joseph Marine: Defend Your Article “Why Doctors Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love MAHA”.

You owe it to Sensible Medicine readers to simultaneously to acknowledge the state of STEM under MAHA and argue that you were right about it.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/07/2026

Fear of the “tyranny of the majority” is “less of an argument and more of a thought-terminating cliché.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reconstructi...

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Reject the Poison: Towards an Honest Mass Politics

An honest mass politics sets the center of gravity of self-governance in legislatures, not technocratic antipolitics or caudillismo hyperpolitics.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I am most definitely not a toys-for-adults person but how could I resist this Edward Gorey inaction figure, complete with cat, skull, and sketchbook. c/o collectiblecities.com

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 30/06/2026

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/06/2026

🎥 NEW: SCOTUS ended the last day of its term by ruling to uphold birthright citizenship. From a victory for mail voters to a loss in his own campaign finance case, Marc Elias breaks down key decisions, and reminds us that while the wins are worth celebrating, none of these fights are over👇

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The Supreme Court Saved Birthright Citizenship — This Time

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“They are basically saying there’s no external oversight, including applicable international law regarding occupation,” said Noura Erakat, an international law professor at Rutgers University. “It’s creating a legal system unto itself.” www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...

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Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show

Draft resolution seeks to shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2026

additionally, if there is ANY possible non racist motive for an explicitly racist action, Alito says you must accept it as the actual motivation. meanwhile, ANY use of race consciousness to prevent or alleviate discrimination is unconstitutional under “equal protection”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2026

Yes! I've been meaning to say this. There is a weird determination on the part of the researchers -- & journalists who describe their work -- to frame these results in the most flattering possible way, to make them sound some version of reasonable. But what they really find ...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Alito: how is this racist? bsky.app/profile/atru...

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