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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026
Every day we get closer to this:
Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture
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qabluna.bsky.social @qabluna.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It offers Minnesota and Seattle/Portland as tied best matches, which makes sense as a Canadian (ie their database is only US dialetcs, so those are probably the closest dialects to ours)
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's one (1) one flavor from one (1) brand Looks like some ink MIGHT have gotten into the product during handling, so they're recalling just in case. Let's keep in mind the Taco Bell principle on this one guys. "If a company proactively lets you know there MIGHT be a problem… that's a GOOD thing."
Pic of a package of tofu. Hodo brand, "chili crisp lightly fried tofu."
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026
“This is very real redlining…It is appropriating rural, Black-owned land and converting it for industrial purposes, and it’s being done by people who have no historical or cultural tie to the land. These are not people who are local, developing their land for industrial use.”
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‘This is very real redlining’: outrage in Little Rock as two datacenters loom
Critics decry proposed hyperscale projects, fearing overuse of water and electricity, and ‘appropriating rural, Black-owned land for industrial purposes’
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 06/08/2026
This is INFURIATING to me. "We would not allow, as a society, people with heart attacks to come to a hospital and not get appropriate treatment. This is as serious as that." Actually, it's not just AS serious as that, it's MORE serious than that. www.npr.org/2026/08/06/n...
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 06/08/2026
1-year mortality of people who receive the standard of care for a STEMI (severe heart attack) is 7.3%. 1-year mortality of people who receive naloxone by EMS after an opioid overdose is 15.2%. Sources: STEMI: openheart.bmj.com/content/3/1/... EMS Naloxone: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/...
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So basically: social/competitive pressure overrides legitimate (self-interested) concerns about AI use inhibiting learning/cognitive capabilities/etc. And is this really surprising considering how much messaging there is to "OMG USE AI SO YOU DON'T GET LEFT BEHIND"? Including from universities.
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Shireen Ahmed @shireenahmed.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Don't worry, Canada! The 2027 Women's World Cup is next summer in Brazil and we will take all this passion and support dorect it to CanWNT ! We are a soccer nation and our duty, commitment and desire does not end here. It begins. ⚽️🇨🇦✨️
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
World Refugee Day and every day
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qabluna.bsky.social @qabluna.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
6-0!! Canadian MNT finally have a win at the WC, and what a win!
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qabluna.bsky.social @qabluna.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
3-0 at the half!!
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qabluna.bsky.social @qabluna.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Goal!!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/06/2026
Is correlation causation? In this provocative article, we find that correlation is in fact correlated, and conclude that this means causation.
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qabluna.bsky.social @qabluna.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
As a Canadian, am happy that Qatar scored because it makes for a way better path for our team
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Shireen Ahmed @shireenahmed.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Canada is co-hosting the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup. It is being incorrectly shared that is is the "first" World Cup held in Canada. WRONG! Canada hosted the 2015 Women's World Cup. You're welcome.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1
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'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/04/2026
One of the problems with technology today is if you're a millenial/xennial you remember when tech worked.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/04/2026
How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

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"We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree": Director Jay Bhattacharya reflects on his pandemic-era censorship experiences & outlines his commitment to open scientific communication at the NIH.
April 1, 2025A Health Department official said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had met with the study's authors but that they had not wanted to change its design. Eric Lee for The New York Times
By Apoorva Mandavilli
April 22, 2026
The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled the publication of a study that found jthat the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter, a Health Department spokesman said.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
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Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport
The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
Sharing this again in honor of the #Artemis II lunar flyby today
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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Did you know that there is one group of Americans who are not entitled to birthright citizenship? People born American Samoa are classified instead simply as “U.S. nationals” — and as a result they cannot vote or run for office anywhere else in the country. Much more here, for anyone curious:
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Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It - Bolts
In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public official...
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Jon Thompson @jonthompson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I was kind of mouthy about it in the moment, so a few people asked me to write about the exchange between PM Mark Carney &Chrissy Isaacs from Grassy Narrows. I'm on something else up to my elbows right now but my colleague Brandi Morin has you covered. indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/a-poisoned...
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A Poisoned Woman Demanded Justice. The Prime Minister Made her the Punchline.
Her name is Chrissy Isaacs.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/03/2026
An unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale found that mother and calf were supported by other whales throughout the process. n.pr/40THi23
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Scientists watch sperm whales work as a team to assist a birth
An unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale found that mother and calf were supported by other whales throughout the process.
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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 28/03/2026
I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED
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Karlito P @litop12.blacksky.app · 01/03/2026
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology. mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries. But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 14/02/2026
Some of us didn't hop online in the 90s or the 2000s to get rich and famous, man. Some of us hopped online in the 90s and 2000s 'cause it was FUN to chat with people all over the world... for free! Baby, we grew up when it cost a zillion dollars to call long distance! We had pen pals at school!
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm just going to say a thing. What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.
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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/02/2026
people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/02/2026
don't make the ADHD and/or Autistic nerds mad enough to get all of their hyperfocus & special interests into the same group chat
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
An important aspect of the Fight-Don’t Fight divide is Fight doesn’t caveat it with “only if you’re sure you’ll win.” It’s not outcome-based. It says to stand on principle, because it’s right. Oppose bad things because they’re bad. Win some, lose some, can’t really know in advance, fight regardless.
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NPR @npr.org · 06/02/2026
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries. n.pr/4qlvIaa
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Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/02/2026
Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 29/01/2026
i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/01/2026
This.
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The Nicolandorian @nicolandorian.eurosky.social · 27/01/2026
Nemik's manifesto for hope and rising suns to come after darkness
THERE WILL BE TIMES WHEN THE STRUGGLE SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE

I KNOW THIS ALREADY ALONE, UNSURE, DWARFED BY THE SCALE OF THE ENEMY

REMEMBER THIS FREEDOM IS A PURE IDEA IT OCCURS SPONTANEOUSLY AND WITHOUT INSTRUCTION RANDOM ACTS OF INSURRECTION ARE OCCURRING CONSTANTLY THROUGHOUT THE GALAXY THERE ARE WHOLE ARMIES, BATTALIONS THAT HAVE NO IDEA THAT THEY'VE ALREADY ENLISTED IN THE CAUSE

REMEMBER THAT THE FRONTIER OF THE REBELLION IS EVERYWHERE AND EVEN THE SMALLEST ACT OF INSURRECTION PUSHES OUR LINES FORWARD

AND REMEMBER THIS THE IMPERIAL NEED FOR CONTROL IS SO DESPERATE BECAUSE IT IS SO UNNATURAL TYRANNY REQUIRES CONSTANT EFFORT IT BREAKS, IT LEAKS AUTHORITY IS BRITTLE OPPRESSION IS THE MASK OF FEAR

REMEMBER THAT. AND KNOW THIS THE DAY WILL COME WHEN ALL THESE SKIRMISHES AND BATTLES THESE MOMENTS OF DEFIANCE WILL HAVE FLOODED THE BANKS OF THE EMPIRES'S AUTHORITY AND THEN THERE WILL BE ONE TOO MANY ONE SINGLE THING WILL BREAK THE SIEGE

REMEMBER THIS TRY

- KARIS NEMIK, 5 BBY STAR WARS
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents.

“There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me.

If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
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