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Kate Powers

@plain-kate.bsky.social
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Stage director, prison theatremaker, college professor, Shakespeare nerd, trauma-informed / consent-based maker of good trouble, radical left-wing scum, apparently. Redhead. #SlawaUkrainii #GoBills 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🚫👑

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Firewall @firewall451.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Henry Street Overpass
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Spare a thought for the White House ketchup bottles tonight.
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𝓒𝔂𝓖𝓾𝔂DC #BlueResister🌊#BlueTsunami🦬#GoBills 3-0🏈#Leguminati🫘 @cyguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We are Keon Coleman days away from the start of the #Bills season. #BillsMafia #GoBills #GameDay
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Come on, rise up Come on, rise up Come on, rise up
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't ever need to see a photo or footage of the Twin Towers ever again. I will never, as long as memory holds a seat in this distracted globe, forget that morning, those sounds, that smell as the wind shifted towards uptown.
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People are stating a fact.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
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September 11 Docs
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I've seen a lot of "saying AI is useless is hyperbolic" but the flipside hyperbole is denying that AI still has serious deficiencies. Bullshitting is inherent to the ways LLMs work. Whatever the form—erroneous facts, mangled data, fake cites, or the plagiarism here—it's impossible to fully mitigate.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 01/09/2026
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In Rochester, N.Y., businesses and officials defy Trump’s Lake Ontario renaming ‘stunt’
Residents oppose the removal of a name that is interwoven with businesses and landmarks throughout the region
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@stevebenen.com @steveinskeep.bsky.social @reuters.com FYI: When people in Buffalo lobbied to cancel the DHS job fair last week, local electeds canceled it. DHS rescheduled it, outdoors, at the Coast Guard. We meant it when we said ICE is not welcome.
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
True North, friends. www.instagram.com/reel/Dcmt0lT...
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CandaceKellyTO on Instagram: "‘We are Canadian’: 25 years later, Joe Canadian is back with a new patriotic video. Nova Scotia’s Jeff Douglas worked with an ‘anonymous collective’ on an update to the ‘...
27K likes, 568 comments - candacekellyto on August 28, 2026: "‘We are Canadian’: 25 years later, Joe Canadian is back with a new patriotic video. Nova Scotia’s Jeff Douglas worked with an ‘anonymous c...
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
‘Lake America’? These Upstate New Yorkers Aren’t Letting Go of ‘Ontario.’ — “Next they’ll be calling Canada geese ‘Donald ducks,’” he said. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/n...
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‘Lake America’? These Upstate New Yorkers Aren’t Letting Go of ‘Ontario.’ (Gift Article)
President Trump on Thursday signed an order rechristening Lake Ontario as Lake America, but businesses around Niagara Falls say they won’t be changing their tune.
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Elbows Up for Canada! @elbowsupforcanada.us · 27/08/2026
(h/t to Burning River Brigade) Eight locks, twenty-seven miles, all of it in Ontario. There is no other route. $26.3BN of American trade depends on gates we don't own. "The United States has the clear leverage," the White House posted yesterday. Somebody get this idiot a map.
The Welland Canal: Canada owns all eight locks. Shut up, Donald.
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Elbows Up for Canada! @elbowsupforcanada.us · 27/08/2026
Lake Release the Epstein Files, is it now?
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thank you, @markpoloncarz.bsky.social; this was a good decision. Thank you, neighbors, for making the calls to shut this Gestapo hiring fair down.
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP
Tim in costume as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Vera Institute is conducting a confidential, anonymous survey to better understand the specific costs people face after incarceration, in order to develop a tool to better support people during reentry. Any returned citizen is eligible to participate. vera.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1st day of classes yesterday. Introductions: one student mentioned that this is her 6th Kate class, and she cannot understand why the university won't let her have a minor in Kate Studies. 🤭
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Elbows Up for Canada! @elbowsupforcanada.us · 21/07/2026
Reinforcing the stupid and the greedy right here, right now.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sending love to our Canadian neighbors. I hate that the First Occupant has broken our allyship. I know it's always like sleeping with an elephant, but this attack is unprovoked, unjustifiable, and an own goal into the very lousy bargain. Elbows Up, eh.
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What are you doing, gents? Abolish ICE is the absolute baseline. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Blood on Elon's hands, Rubio's hands, and the First Occupant's tiny, tiny bruised hands.
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A feeling is not a fact. A grift is not medical understanding. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump’s vaccine order is about feelings, not facts | Robert B Shpiner
There’s no evidence that vaccines cause autism, or that we should separate MMR shots. This order is dangerous
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
In there somewhere, behind the 'be.' wnybb.org #WNYBB
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hey, friends and neighbors, come join us at the cookout and solidarity grill tomorrow in MLK Park on the East Side. Free food. Good folx. Great conversations.
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In what way, and by whom, was this unexpected, exactly?
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.
Comic page depicting how the did the scene in the Muppets Movie with Kermit playing the banjo in a swamp
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Our Town Board just unanimously approved a local moratorium on data center development. This reinforces Gov. Hochul's Executive Order and goes a bit further. We the people made this happen.
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
@mossmallfarm.bsky.social Hello, Mohammed and friend!
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
One estimate "CloudFlare, the Internet security and performance giant used by millions of websites worldwide, says the crossover occurred in June, with bots generating 57.5% of webpage requests." fortune.com/2026/07/23/d...
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Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet's business model | Fortune
Multiple cyber firms agree: bots outnumber humans online, challenging advertising, analytics and security systems designed around human visitors.
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#TeamFauci
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
10 years ago today Americans nominated a woman for President but America lost its collective mind and now women die from... miscarriages.
Hillary the night she accepted the nom
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Anthony Fauci should sue Peter Navarro for defamation. I’m not saying this hyperbolically, I mean it.
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Abolish ICE. Grateful to stand in solidarity with my neighbors outside ICE HQ this afternoon, remembering those who have been killed by ICE and CBP.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Definitely be Like Bob😊🇨🇦
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Texas Nun detained by ICE speaks out: "For me, a nun, not to go to mass on Sunday, not to receive communion, it was very, very heartbreaking for me. Even when I told him, 'can I go to mass? Can I just attend mass? Can I receive communion?' And the answer was no."
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UIS Observatory @uisobservatory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’d like to make it clear for all the people following me what the sheer gravity of the news is. Without this facility we can’t ensure constant communication with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. If this facility is off-line, the Artemis program cannot send a crew to the Moon.
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Unhumans argues that liberals pose an existential threat and must be dealt with severely. Trump’s decision to adopt these talking points signifies that he’s considering extreme measures."
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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"The daylight may always come, but it does not come for everybody and it does not come on time." -- James Baldwin
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/07/2026
Another day, another government climate agency pointing out that unchecked data centre growth directly impacts climate targets 🫠 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Coal mine expansions and a surge in new data centres risk pushing New South Wales further from its emissions reduction targets, which the state's independent climate watchdog says it is already on course to miss.

The NSW Net Zero Commission (NZC) annual progress report found the state is falling increasingly further behind on reducing emissions.

According to government projections, NSW will fall between 10 and 20 million tonnes short of its 2030 emissions target, up from an estimated 7 million tonnes the year prior.

It comes as 20 applications to extend coal mines sit in the planning system, including the proposal to extend Hunter Valley Operations currently before the Independent Planning Commission (IPC).
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 23/07/2026
The Supreme Court has amassed extraordinary power while public trust in the institution has plummeted. State lawmakers should call on Congress to pass term limits for justices — a reform that would strengthen democratic accountability. bit.ly/3Tdzl7e
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Model State Resolution Urging 18-Year Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices
State lawmakers should call on Congress to enact Supreme Court term limits. 
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