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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

omg finallyyyyyyyyyyyyy I used self-cleaning facilities in Scotland and Oslo, they're awesome and it's embarrassing Chicago lacks these (yes, I know about the 'no paid toilets' rule)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NYT and WaPo fluffed Christopher Rufo when he was *openly saying on Twitter* that he was creating a fake DEI panic. They can fuck off into the sun.

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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am genuinely never going to get over the fact that the incredibly shitty parking meter deal led to this

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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

idk maybe they're skipping ahead to Heretics

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 01/10/2026

Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This scandal should enter the national debate over data centers. Meta evaded $4B in taxes last year by using the "research" tax credit for its data center buildout. Tax accountants say it's highly questionable, the Congressional sponsor says buying supplies was never what was intended.

nytimes.com

How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 01/10/2026

Facebook is a hot mess of garbage that I only still have for very stupid reasons, but every so often it serves up something beautiful. I will probably never be anywhere near this coffee shop, but if I were, I would throw money at them

A facebook post from Caffe Lucca - which appears to be in Halifax - that reads "We don't use AI for anything, but we don't want to be left behind with so many restaurants churning out slick flyers. Here's our best made-by-humans approximation." The image shows a white person with short hair holding three paper coffee cups in about four hands. The fingers are all weird and the images have been pasted together badly. Down the left side of the image, a series of paper coffee cup sleeves have been written on. They say "coffee!" and "hurry!" and "cud" among other somewhat random and repetitive words.

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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

$30 in fees for a $95 concert? Fuck Ticketmaster and fuck the federal government for dropping a slam dunk lawsuit.

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Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fellow @reckoningmag.bsky.social editor @priyachand.bsky.social and I are giving a virtual class 12/1, using what we learned adapting to AI submissions, for the Sojourner Truth School: An "A.I." Primer for Not-So-Technically-Inclined Activists. It's FREE to register: truthschool.org/event/an-a-i...

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An “A.I.” Primer for Not-So-Technically-Inclined Activists

Science fiction has grappled with the concept of “artificial intelligence” for over a century, but the difference between reality and how we imagined it has never been wider. The modern…

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Mike DiGirolamo @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the first time in 150 yrs, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington. More than 250 were successfully translocated back to the region, thanks to the efforts of the iwi (nations of Aotearoa), community members, and the Capital Kiwi Project. They join the podcast this week:

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Iwi and community-led effort return kiwi to Wellington for first time in over a century

For the first time in 150 years, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. More than 250 manu (“birds” in the Māori language) were successfully translocated back ...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wrote about the National Design Studio a while back, and two things worth noting. *It is led by a white nationalist *They do skins, not services. America.gov is a chatbot with a .gov skin. They are promising to make services work better but its all TBD.

Skins vs. services: the National Design Studio is building a handful of attractive single page websites, but not fixing digital services that most of the public relies on when they interact with government. Skins is easy to do, but not very impactful.

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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 30/09/2026

From Sep. '25 through Mar. '26, four deaths at GEO Group's Adelanto ICE camp accounted for more than 12% of total reported deaths in ICE custody, despite the facility holding an average of less than 2.5% of the total detained pop. Ismael Ayala-Uribe, and so many others, should still be alive.

After 39-year-old Los Angeles resident Ismael Ayala-Uribe died on Sept. 22, 2025, from septic shock caused by an abscess on his buttock, the investigators found a litany of deficiencies.

Medical staff at Adelanto Processing Center in San Bernardino County didn’t visually examine the abscess or perform wellness checks, and nurses did not adequately alert an on-call doctor to the severity of his condition.

Medical staff didn’t consistently respond to Ayala-Uribe’s medical complaints in a timely fashion, administer all of his medication in a timely fashion, or adequately document his care, his mortality review stated.

At the same time, the facility’s shortage of staff “hindered their ability to provide their patient population medical care in accordance with timeframes established by accreditation standards.”

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WIRED @wired.com · 30/09/2026

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Checkpoints are suffocating Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank. Over 18 months, WIRED and our reporting partners investigated the full scope of the system that has carved the West Bank up. www.wired.com/story/how-is...

wired.com

How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Check this out! Today, Democratic leaders in the Senate are holding a shadow hearing about the Trump admin's mass delegalization campaign. @immcouncil.org's Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social is on the ground in DC preparing to livetweet the hearing. Follower her thread for more. 👇

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

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Majestic Twelve (plus one for spooky szn) @majestic12.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“What the fuck is wrong with you?” has gotten me some solid results.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026

Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube

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Ryan Ottignon @ryaninevanston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

UPDATE ON ICE IN EVANSTON LAST WEEK: Just got a FOIA back for 911 calls, police dispatch audio, and police reports associated with the arrest. There's a lot to unpack. 1/ 🧵

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

KBJ keeps tryna tell us about the deeply perverse way the Court is exercising its equitable powers on the shadow docket the GOP justices wielding equitable jurisdiction are (surprise surprise) actively hostile to the concept of equity, & produce injustice instead ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

ballsandstrikes.org

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses

The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

terminator reboot but it’s humans going back to 1999 to make sure Y2K happens so the internet dies forever

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...

404media.co

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have discovered a new reason to hate Canada geese: one of them *might* be a cackling goose and so I must stop and investigate every one

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't forget that the legendary LIGHTSPEED and NIGHTMARE magazines have a Kickstarter right now! Let's make sure amazing horror, SF, and fantasy short stories keep getting published. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror

We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books

Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought

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mcc @dryad.technology · 25/09/2026

Why is billionaire-owned media suddenly coming all at once with pieces against drinking fluids. What is this manufacturing consent for. Is it building toward something. Should I be afraid

@wsj.com‬
You don’t need to make drinking water a part-time job since too much of it doesn’t have any real health benefit.

@washingtonpost.com‬
Is asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette?

We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out:

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026

if you quit corporate to become a beekeeper, does that mean you broke out in hives

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:

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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see

'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/09/2026

Yes, the person tasked with convincing the public that it’s reasonable to ignore reams of evidence and end telehealth prescriptions of abortion pills after the midterms is named… Overton

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

🔇🔇🔇 I want to announce a @dairinstitute.bsky.social virtual event concerning the ***REAL**** impacts of "AI" on the most vulnerable of populations, refugees. Everything you see is first experimented on them.🧵 ⏰ October 1 at 6-8pm CET/9am PDT on Zoom. ✴️ Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

flyer for DAIR virtual event on October 1, 2026 from 6-8PM CET. Join DAIR as we commemorate the 2013 Lampedusa tragedy and ask, "What would it take for technology to protect people on the move, rather than deepen the risks they already face?

Meron Estefanos, Dr. Selam Kidane, Dr. Omer Shatz, Dr. Hyab Yoahnnes

Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5517888860006/WN_u2VZxx2RSciVPe2wu039wA#/registration

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm also in healthcare and seconding that THE HEALTHY PEOPLE LITERALLY KEEP THE SYSTEM FUNDED, THIS IS WHY THE PASSAGE OF THE ACA TURNED SO MUCH SHIT ON ITS HEAD (insurers couldn't just kick off sick people anymore)

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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

looking for an English-language movie to watch in the background, oh hey something from Canada...guess which part of Canada 💀

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

thank you bisexual dice polycule

image of a swirling purple background with light blue dice floating in the air they all have faces and look DANG GOOD. the text says 'congratulations. if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the bisexual dice polycule. they have cleansed your misfortune hexes have a wonderful day'

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Thiago Rocha @thiagocrocha.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BIBLICALLY ACCURATE POPE

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...

404media.co

Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help

404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.

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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh yeah I'm watching Lars von Trier's Antichrist, a fun family film for all ages

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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am sorry to have deprived your feeds of like 80 showerthought skeets, but I watched Plan 9 From Outer Space over the weekend and: 1. I assume the acting is wooden because they were too focused on trying not to break 2. mid-Atlantic declamation + slang = hilarious 3. this movie has EVERYTHING

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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

good thread from someone who *should* always be referenced on this stuff will admit I am wondering how much of this overlaps the turn towards avoidance of friction in real world interactions....

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