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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have a lot to say about the Cornell case, but I'm largely keeping it on the inside, since I'll be honest: I find it triggering. But I have one specific ask: parents, talk to your sons. Talk to them and make sure they understand accountability. Talk to them about consent. Do it now.

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026

The snails They escaped their basket Yes YES The snails are out

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If children had any political power, instead of being treated like property, we wouldn't be in such a mess. Exhibit A: Attacks on Critical Race Theory started in schools as "parents' rights" and book bans-- within 7 years, this morphed into an anti-DEI purge of adults in workplaces and academia.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve been thinking about how easy it is to disrupt violence. You often just have to provide the smallest distraction. I don’t know if people resist intervening in gang rape, for instance, out of fear of confrontation/physical violence, but you literally just have to disrupt the flow.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Even more recently it still blows my mind that anyone is falling for it after they just did this with crypto. It’s like they ran a show for a season, cancelled it because nobody watched, and then just released it again with a different title. It’s the same cast! The same tactics!

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 25/09/2026

Hey friends. Don’t forget to get this year’s flu shot and your COVID booster. CVS has them available now, at least in NY. Just scheduled mine

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Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Of course the iced coffee thing is Gender; if E.M. Forster's "A Room with a View" (1908) is anything to go by, middle-aged men have been using their love of iced coffee to dismiss young women as basic & shallow & conformist for over 100 years

When he was introduced he understood why, for Miss Honeychurch, disjoined from her music stool, was only a young lady with a quantity of dark hair and a very pretty, pale, undeveloped face. She loved going to concerts, she loved stopping with her cousin, she loved iced coffee and meringues. He did not doubt that she loved his sermon also. But before he left Tunbridge Wells he made a remark to the vicar, which he now made to Lucy herself when she closed the little piano and moved dreamily towards him:

“If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting both for us and for her.”

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Tom Bombeardil @rantipole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I used to edit and write about pet reptiles and amphibians, there were countless times I found "breaded dragons" instead of "bearded dragons." Those are very different things.

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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It would be nice if we could be confident they’d face more consequences than a student who protested the bombing of children in Gaza

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

" the two main characters are a bunch of euphemisms"

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Go to the polls with Wilber and the millions like him in mind. Vote against anyone who supports this state-sponsored, racialized terror. Vote to send an unequivocal message that you’re not OK with this.”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They keep using this line and it's nonsense for many reasons, but also, if that's truly the case, there are only about a dozen "fraudsters" per state: the insurers. No one else could benefit from this particular no-claims "fraud." So where are the prosecutions of health insurers? 🤔

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

DOJ defending press ban: “it’s national security.” Trump: “It’s viewpoint based! I don’t like their viewpoints! They have bad viewpoints!”

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The nefarious plan of “providing services which enrich the lives of their constituents using tax dollars”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Why is the U.S. public so much more negative on AI than almost anyone else? Well, I think the fact that the U.S. AI industry is being lead by a bunch of very visible, crazy weirdos who talk about how AI will take everyone’s job and maybe kill us all the time is a pretty key factor.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On Dolly Parton Day, I'm remember how she... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research and the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Funded high school band programs She is missed!

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Remember that even though the vaccine is not sterilizing it does lessen the severity in the acute stage and also lessens the chances you get long covid symptoms and damage that can last for months, years, or even be permanent.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This also means that if you go to a pharmacy to get it you don’t have to provide self attestation of co-morbidities to get it; it’s for everyone. You can show the new CDC guidelines to your pharmacist if you have any trouble.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.

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The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool

The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I saw someone earlier today asking about how Rahm Emmanuel keeps getting major-outlet profiles written about his Presidential candidacy despite zero public interest and that's a similar case and one with a, to me, very obvious explanation (Rahm's brother owns a major Hollywood talent agency)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 26/09/2026

if you think this is just a trend puff piece, it isn't, I have literally had seven-year-olds running around my house going THAT'S SO AI

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is no problem to which Rahm Emanuel running for president is the solution.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 26/09/2026

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of the late Jim Henson, and since today marks one month since Dolly Parton died, here they are singing a duet (with Henson voicing Kermit the Frog) on Dolly's variety show in 1987. See you around.

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Dolly Parton & Kermit The Frog – “Everyday People” from 'Dolly' episode 5 (1987)

YouTube video by Jason Kottke

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

the paramount/warner antitrust suit could have done serious damage to this man’s empire and I will not stop being furious at everyone in california politics who caved on it

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dracaena marginalia @opheliainwaders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would just like to note that once I was asked to revise a budget for a USAID project to save $300, because someone determined we had included too many chairs.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026

well "kids don't need to know long division because they will learn how to move sets of transistors around on a die" is certainly *a* take. it is also not the kind of thing I want to hear from the head of the highest valued company on earth

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would be much more likely to visit the Lucas museum if there was a secret room, decked out to look like a slightly messy apartment, that was just a gallery full of pictures of Carrie Fisher having a nice time.

Carrie fisher and Meryl Streep in 1991 at a party. They booth have blonde bobs and Carrie is urgently feeding Meryl chocolate cake

Carrie Fisher with short dark/res hair and. Black dress at a party in 1990 she is holding a cigarette and is doing a silly duck face with her hands to her ears. Tom hanks stands behind her

Carrie fisher and Harrison ford at a party in someone’s apartment - I’m guessing around 2003?

She holds him close with her face in his chest and they both stare with faux, scandalous intensity into the camera

Carrie fisher (black dress) and Margot Kidder (white blouse -
Holding a drink) at a party around 1980 if I had to guess they’re both smiling like crazy - it looks like Margot just told a funny story

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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dracaena marginalia @opheliainwaders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Help my husband just mixed up America Ferrara and Amerigo Vespucci and I'm laughing so hard I'm going to give myself a hernia

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think of the climate harm AI poses the same way: the threats are not theoretical or in the future, but unfolding all around us now.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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