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Buffalo DSA @buffalodsa.bsky.social · 10h

It's October, which means the return of Sabres hockey, pumpkin spice lattes, and Buffalo DSA's COFFEE WITH COMRADES weekend socials! Join the social nearest you to hang out with fellow members, neighbors, and the socialist-curious while enjoying a damn fine cup of coffee.

A map of Erie and Niagara Counties with various pins denoting the locations of Buffalo DSA coffee socials the weekend of 10/10 and 10/11

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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They should take her to Anderson's. Frozen custard is what's up.

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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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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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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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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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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What is this fantasy of the Current Occupant?

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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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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What are you doing, Senator?

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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

DHS could have separated their career fair for other positions from the ICE recruitment effort. They didn't. They chose to use other applicants as cover for hiring their tactical brownshirts. Legal ≠ ethical.

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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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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

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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I mean. Because they don't want to.

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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

More the Irish kind of Uncle Ben here.

Martin Sheen and Sally Field as Uncle Ben and Aunt May.

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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

:-) I literally have the original of this quote in the syllabus for my Directing class, properly cited to Uncle Ben.

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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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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 · 10/08/2026

I'll take logical fallacies for $500, Alec.

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Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I had to go look this up. Wow, indeed.

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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

When I was adjuncting, I had a bench on the 2nd floor of the college of the arts that was my 'office' between class and rehearsal. Students knew to find me there.

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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 · 03/08/2026

I would like to talk with you about this work. I have been a college professor and a teaching artist for 15+ years, teach in a distance program now.

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