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Jillybean @jhammerstone.bsky.social · 14h

Delicate Pale Purple Dahlia💕 Happy October 🌱🧡 #flowers #gardening #dahlia #October #bloomscrolling #nature

Pale purple dahlia in a garden - spotted on a walk

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King Killifish @ccgreen.bsky.social · 11h

Submitting this ae’o also known as the Hawaiian Stilt from Keālia Pond National Wildlife Refuge on Maui, Hawaii #Black&White #BirdOfTheDay #birds 🪶

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 20h

If feeding a hungry kid accidentally benefits an "undeserving" kid, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 11h

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From, of all things, an old/archived *Cornell University* page on the topic, and uh BOY IS THIS A RICH TEXT:

archived 2014 Cornell University website page from the Office of the Dean of Students:
"HomeGreek LifeAbout Our OfficeThe Power of 2%
The Power of 2%
From an article in the New York Times:

Since the founding of the American College Fraternity movement in 1776, fraternities have grown to symbolize leadership, independence, scholastic achievement and service to their various campuses and communities. Fraternity men represent a very small percentage, only 2% of the male population in the United States. However, that 2% is a very powerful group of individuals. Fraternity men have gone on to hold many of the top positions in our nation, from the business world to the political arena.

Approximately 80% of the top executives of Fortune 500 companies are fraternity men. 76% of current United States Senators and Congressmen are fraternity men. 100 of 158 cabinet members since 1900 have been fraternity men. 40 of 47 Supreme Court Justices since 1910 have been fraternity men All but two United States Presidents since 1825 have been fraternity men.

It is certainly no surprise that today's college and university students express a keen interest in the Greek system. The opportunities are endless and the benefits speak for themselves. Each year thousands of young men enter the working world with the competitive advantage of fraternity experience and alumni contacts."

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve been listening to songs like Dead Men Don’t Rape and watching shows like Furious and Dietland.

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m finally watching. This is painful. The true confusion on his face!!

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”

usatoday.com

Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive

A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...

ctmirror.org

They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.

Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The funniest part of that rolling stone article is actually the writer’s opining for pop monoculture dominance. White nonsense.

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mamdani understands the Columbo principle of handling egomaniacs. Send skeet.

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betsy cooley @betsycooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tonight's Harvest Moon over San Francisco Bay, Emeryville, California. 📸 #moon #eck #eastcoastkin

Bright yellow full moon. Black background.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

theguardian.com

Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Strip this man of all his assets and throw him in a hole.

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

*throws a copy of epistemic injustice at her head*

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Jawn Redcorn @jerzeejoker.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

I take my like back so fast after I realize something is AI

static.klipy.com

Atl Chain Snatch Incident

ALT: Atl Chain Snatch Incident

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Taylor Swift be like, “I’m not mad. I’m not mad. I put it in a shitty song that I’m not mad!”

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Palomar @palomar-qfwfq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Found their fundraiser: ko-fi.com/lastditchbar

ko-fi.com

Support Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue

Support Last Ditch xoxo

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yeah I very much think they are inventing robot wife-servants because they’re mad human women have better options than wife-servant now I think all the time about that guy who said male clients kept flirting with his automated scheduler because the software defaulted to a female name

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Delilah✨BDAY 10/28 @delilahgallo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Assata said it best. Only a fool lets somebody else tell them who their enemy is.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.

boltsmag.org

The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

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anna, journalist, get woke or DEI trying @fakerobotgamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

what do you know the most predicable thing happened when a bunch of you decided lolcow farming was ok when you do it

lastditchbar on instagram:

Our community should expect more details in
the future. Today we need to address the safety
of the community itself. Stop harassing Soe
Noire. It is neither productive, progressive, nor
valiant to attack and harass a black patron. He
has been a collaborator and performer of Last
Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his
mind about accountability and repair from the
bar. There are so many misconceptions due to
the disorganization of the Globe's article. He did
not call for a shutdown, nor did he call for the
bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not
disparage the owner for being homeless. As a
result of this abysmal journalism, Soe has been
getting additional threats, slurs, and
harassment, and now he is being reported to the
police over something he did not do. This is not
supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is at its core,
anti-blackness hysteria.

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Podcasts are radio not video!! I will die on this hill.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tesla argues the n-word used angrily by white people addressing Black people is an edge case. (They say sometimes it's OK.) Let's pretend it is. The other term white managers used to describe employees is "slaves." What would an average person surmise about the atmosphere for Black workers?

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes it is. That’s not true. The science is actually really fun and interesting. youtu.be/eAdanPfQdCA?...

youtu.be

The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks

YouTube video by minutephysics

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As I'm sure many others have pointed out, this website is an AI scraper. This news is 6 years old. The company scrapes real news articles and rewrites them with an LLM, then republishes them for clicks.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026

Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What’s Xi thinking? Wrong answers only.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

en.wikipedia.org

Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...

npr.org

How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities

Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks to the community speaking up, Wilber has left the detention center to get medical care. This is important news & a positive first step. Now, we have to make sure he fully recovers, is reunited with family, & gets to tell law enforcement the full story of how he was shot in the back by ICE.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

wbur.org

Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can read the full investigation here, and you can get a tiny glimpse into the world of surveillance, profiteering, and overriding focus of U.S. policing on crushing any remotely progressive social movements. www.thisisbydesign.com/how-mpd-buil...

thisisbydesign.com

How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ed Sheeran’s net worth is $350 million ffs.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026

Too many have forgotten that the civil rights movement was fought over, among other things, bathrooms and locker rooms

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