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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A poet versed in Greek and Latin being praised, a speech in front of the acropolis, public executions of criminals, and a delegate to Greece faces bribery charges. Please check in on your ancient historians as time itself appears to collapse.

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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 09/10/2026

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Got an idea for a story titled "The Glitchy Head" where an android woman gets a steel rod run through her head at the construction site, which makes her robotic brain glitch, she realizes she's been abused and unfairly exploited, so she starts a rebellion alongside other androids and human workers.

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Everybody on my mother's side of the family knew how to gut a fish, so in hindsight it feels a bit odd that I've only learned it last week. Also it gave me some bittersweet nostalgic flashbacks about our messed up family.

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lots of talk about the many things wrong with the British Green Party's anti-Zionism statement, but I'm really struck by its conviction that a political party has the right to determine how a foreign nation should define itself politically and be comprised. Feels like real British Empire shit.

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

According to Parkinson, the scene, in which the Egyptian princesses gave Sinuhet a new name, Son of the Northwind (𓅭𓎔𓎛𓇌𓏏𓀺, sꜣ mḥyt), reflected the custom when Levantine people who moved to live in Egypt used to take a new, Egyptian name.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Rinzin Thargyal writes that the biggest factors in the Eastern Tibetan society, that kept the local feudal lords from abusing their power, was that a nomadic herder could escape from an oppressive feudal lord relatively easier than a sedentary serf and that the manpower in the region was scarce.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What awful, awful news.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is heroism. This is resistance.

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Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️ @abecenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

‘Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major U.S. artificial intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.’

azcentral.com

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, in the original novel "Red Sorghum", the liquor is really colorless, unlike in Zhang Yimou's filmization, because in the novel it turns red after the narrator's grandma washes the blood off her face with it.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think a lot about lewis lapham's description of the time he interviewed for the CIA in the 1950s www.laphamsquarterly.org/spies/open-i...

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Magomet Mamakaev's 1962 book's been the most disenchanting read this year that completely changed my idea about prestate clan-tribal societies. They turned out to have economical inequality, slave trade, and cases when a man from a poor clan was brutally killed for courting a woman from a rich clan.

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just like in case with my home country, the worst concealed details about disasters and systematic problems within the military get revealed only months later.

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So much for the right-wingers' pretended support for ideological pluralism. 🙄

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really upsetting that both sides in the lesbian bar masking debate lost.

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 23/09/2026

I love "Bisexual Visibility Day" because the rest of the year I have to rely on thermal imaging to fight my many enemies who have bisexuality.

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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 22/09/2026

Kentucky State University women’s basketball player Amina Seck remains detained by ICE six weeks after her arrest while going through security at the Louisville airport. Her attorney says Seck has been in four different detainment facilities.

weku.org

Lawyer of KSU basketball player detained by ICE says the student missed court date for surgery

Kentucky State University's Amina Seck has been in ICE custody since Aug. 7, according to her lawyer.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

真看不出电影《大红灯笼高高挂》里的颂莲比谁都恶。🫠

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Turns out they didn't really tell the truth when they said that British citizens living in the EU had nothing to fear from Brexit. In the meantime Stuart, Moynihan, Elliott and Morrissey have been promoted to the House of Lords.

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Story idea #789: The crew of the spaceship Tedzrim-4 spends 10 billion years in hypersleep due to an error in the electronic clock, traveling at the speed of light, and wakes up next to an unfamiliar nebula in a universe where neither their home planet nor even their home galaxy exist anymore.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Normally I respect Victoria Derbyshire but telling a mother of mixed Black children that her concerns are in the minority (and therefore insinuating they’re not valid) is quite grim

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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have really lost the energy it takes to yell about this, mostly because I've been yelling most of my life, and it hasn't brought about world peace yet. But this is an excellent explainer of what the fight is actually about and what's wrong with the "moderate" approach.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Anyway, the reason people shout at trans people about who they vote for – rather than candidates, or actually significant chunks of the electorate – is because we are people you can easily punch down at. It's that simple. It's purely a power exercise, and feeling like you are doing something useful.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If anything, people concerned about “safety and fairness” should be advocating hard for puberty hormonal treatment for trans minors, as these help them physically develop the way they want to, which would likely eliminate or reduce size and strength differences. But they don’t do that.

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So, AFAICU, the main way to eliminate underdetermination is to increase the precision of mutually-contradicting competing theories, until they start predicting different values of the output variables under the same initial conditions.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mamdani's channeling of Indian retail politics upending the entire US political framework is hilarious to watch, this is literally what you always do in desi politics, hug the person who called you names to show you're a saint and he's a piece of shit that voters should look down on- and it works

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Festival of Debate 2026 @festofdebate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📢 Excited to announce that @heatherpaterson.co.uk will be chairing our next event! On 23 Sept, Heather will be chatting with @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social about her new book 'Deviants and Trailblazers', which uncovers a rich history of trans resistance. ➡️ www.tickettailor.com/events/festi...

A graphic showing side-by-side photos of Rebecca Jane Morgan and Heather Paterson. The text reads: Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain, With Rebecca Jane Morgan, Chaired by Heather Paterson

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm aware that I myself don't fully meet these criteria for the USA or Britain, for example. I normally don't rush with my opinions, specifically because I've seen others screwing up epically.

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Pinksie Daisy @pinksdaisies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People can have reliable opinions about policies or events in another country if they meet all or at least some of these criteria: 1. they've lived there for a few decades, affected by the local laws to the same extent as the local people, and have seen how these laws are applied in practice.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In 1997, a teenager who came to the US as a baby spent 10 months in jail for a series of bad decisions. For that, he got his green card stripped. Because Laos didn't take deportations, he got to stay. He turned his life around, raised a family, worked hard, followed the law. Then ICE came for him.

Lue Yang had just finished his overnight shift at a Michigan automotive plant when two unmarked cars with tinted windows pulled into the parking lot and blocked him in.
A man in body armor approached him. Mr. Yang knew that it was Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And, in those early morning hours of July 15, 2025, he knew why the agent was there.
Nearly three decades earlier, as a teenager, Mr. Yang had spent 10 months in jail after he and three friends were caught with stolen cash, electronics and cameras in the trunk of their car.
The consequences had not ended there. Mr. Yang was living in the United States as a war refugee. After his conviction, he lost his permanent residency status and was ordered deported to Laos, the country his family had fled.
For 23 years, the government did not enforce the final removal order. Mr. Yang went back to school, got married, had six children, built a career and became a leader in the Hmong community in Lansing. He checked in with ICE as required. He was never arrested again, said his lawyer, Nancy Xiong.
Now ICE had come for him as part of President Trump’s deportation campaign.

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Ash (new non-binary flavor!) @seatopian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They're finally gonna fuck, let's gooooooo

A screenshot of a post that says Kristina Sexton will serve as the intimacy coordinator on Godzilla x Kong: Supernova. The previous Monsterverze films did not utilize an intimacy coordinator.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026

ICYMI: I talked with Mohamed Barry, a longtime resident of Indiana, about what it was like to be taken from his family and expelled to a country he’s never been to on a hellish, 26-hour flight. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...

'What America Did to Me Is Wrong': Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far
BY GILLIAN BROCKELL
AUGUST 31, 2026
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.

For the first few hours of the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight over the Atlantic Ocean, Mohamed Barry continued to act like himself, which is to say, he expected to be visible to the people around him.
So as GEO Group flight security guards stood over him and the other shackled passengers, chatting casually with each other, he asked them what country he was going to be deported to. They didn't answer.
When the guards started drinking from red and blue plastic cups and the smell of alcohol wafted over to his seat, he asked one of them point-blank, "Are you guys allowed to drink on the job?" No response.

Then a man from Eritrea or Somalia, Barry isn't sure which, began to beg the guards to let him use the lavatory. Barry chimed in with an appeal to decency, telling the guards, "Please consider us as human beings." But the guards were boisterous by that point, he said, and they didn't appreciate the man's increasingly loud and desperate pleas crashing their party.
Barry watched as a guard turned and looked at the man dead in the face and said, "You. Can pee on. You." Another guard laughed.
"After seeing that, I just kept my head down," Barry, 52, told me over the phone last week.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

while milo gets to chit chat on TV with clear access to safety and basic needs, the US is flying untold numbers of immigrants to unsafe countries of origin or other countries where they don't speak the language or know anyone.

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