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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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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

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Rev. AJ van Tine @revajvt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Seriously, read the alt-text on this one. Maybe things are okay, but maybe we’re heading into another omicron winter. Have you gotten your Covid shot this fall yet?

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

PMC COVlD Update, Sep 21, 2026 (US) 🔥13th COVlD wave 🔥40 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt text) 🔥3.8 million estimated weekly infections 🔥Outbreaks in NYC 🔥Extremely high levels on the Big Island of HI Mask up and get boosted. 🧵THREAD (1/4)

The US has at least 34 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks. These include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai'i, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Levels on the Big Island of Hawai’i are particularly high. Note also, the NYC area is seeing outbreaks.

There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 40 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. For example, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, and Tennessee likely have outbreaks, but monitoring is poor.

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joao @joao.omg.lol · 20/09/2026

Why is it being for educational purposes imply that it's ok for it to be wrong? Should we stop buying Wiley textbooks because they don't guarantee the quality of their educational resources?

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Rev. AJ van Tine @revajvt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If I’m being honest it was Jazz Jackrabbit 2.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mask up in #NYC, and cancel what you're doing to get your booster today. Kings County is raging with COVlD, per today's CDC update. PMC estimates 1 in 20 residents actively infectious, as of the most recent data on Sep 12. pmc19.com/map We have warned of this for weeks.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"No one is going to vote for a Democrat because they came out for a trans sports ban. No one is on the fence being like, "If they just came out for a trans sports ban, then I would vote for them. I don't think that person exists," says @evanurquhart.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2154... .

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Rev. AJ van Tine @revajvt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I somehow only just today learned that the Mountain Goats sound more like TMBG or Ben Folds 5 than like, Bison or Mumford and Sons or something more banjo-y, which was for some reason my assumption.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

PMC COVlD Update Sept 14, 2026 The US has at least 34 states/territories with COVlD outbreaks (see Alt text for details). Find all charts and graphs: pmc19.com Get county-level estimates: pmc19.com/map

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Matthew Johnson @mjohnsonuu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If the real divide is Team Fight vs Team Fold, and both Dems and independents desperately want Team Fight, then why would you fold?? Throwing trans people under this doesn’t signal moderation. It signals cowardice.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026

The Labour Party did this. That's why trans people are pushing back on Dems capitulating on trans issues. We have seen what happens when the liberal party abandons trans people after saying you must vote for them or it without be worse under a conservative government.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

so the exact scenario all of us opposing this have warned about for the last 2 years

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/09/2026

I learned a lot from this conversation. Perry is doing some of the best expert interviews in media right now

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10/09/2026

Sure looks like Apple went through a lot of trouble to design a pretty impressively secure system with a lot of technical fail safes that I’m also definitely never going to use because lol my dude it’s on all the time and logs what we say!

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is worth repeating again and again.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

PMC COVlD Update, Week of Sep 7, 2026 ◾️33 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt) ◾️Highest levels nationally since March 5th ◾️1 in 86 Americans estimated actively infectious ◾️Peak expected soon, but some caveats THREAD (1/5) 🧵 pmc19.com

The US has at least 33 states/territories with COVlD outbreaks. These include Alaska, Hawai’i, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 33 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. For example, South Carolina and Oklahoma likely have outbreaks, but monitoring is poor.

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Rev. AJ van Tine @revajvt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Doesn’t go far enough for me, but this is a great start!

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The CDC recently downshifted current and historical COVlD levels into lower categories. For example, 6 of the 8 states normally classified as High or Very High have been downshifted to "Moderate." This is Part 2 in our series on the CDC "Bluewashing" ethics crisis.

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colin feral @sal.gay · 29/08/2026

Shout out to the nyt for enthusiastically laundering and mainstreaming anti trans extremism these last several years

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

PMC COVlD Update, Week of Aug 29, 2026 ▪️Outbreaks in 29 states/territories (see Alt) ▪️A projected 13th wave is under way ▪️1 in 95 Americans estimated actively infectious ▪️Peak anticipated around Labor Day THREAD 🧵(1/4)

The US has at least 29 states/territories with COVlD outbreaks. These include much of Hawai’i, Alaska, Washington, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine.
There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 29 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. All of the data in Oregon are at least a week old, and while we do not count the state among the 29, we estimate there are likely outbreaks there as well, given proximity to WA, CA, and NV. Levels in some Texas counties are so high – on par with the national peak of BA.1 Omicron – that it drives up estimates for counties in neighboring states that lack CDC wastewater monitoring systems. Looking closely at the map, notice other instances of Very High counties in one state driving up estimates of an adjacent county in a neighboring state that lacks data. This shows a clear value of the county-level map over the CDC state map. The CDC applies the median level to the entire state. The PMC map recognizes that state boundaries are somewhat artificial with regard to the spread of infectious disease and instead offers localized estimates for counties that lack data based on what is happening in their region.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I see it’s Matt’s first time thinking about the countermajoritarian principle behind rights-based constitutional amendments We’ll get there right about October, buddy, in the second half of the semester. Hang tight.

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Leslie Takahashi @leslietakahashi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Let’s end child and family separation, detention, deportation and let’s do it now. #freefamilies

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/08/2026

AI did not discover a cancer vaccine. Scientists discovered it because their research was supported and funded.

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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 20/08/2026

Federal court records reveal that First Universalist Church of Minneapolis was secretly surveilled by DHS. The UUA condemns this intrusion into a house of worship and the targeting of people exercising their constitutional rights. Read more in UU World: bit.ly/4gmoDDo

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Much of what we call “convenience” is just the elimination of contact. Why ask when you can Google, why go somewhere to meet people when you can swipe, why call when you can click? The friction we’re engineering out of life is also where an enormous amount of life happens. What are we without it?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 19/08/2026

NEW from me: When Rev. Jen Crow told her congregation Sunday that court filings indicate their church was one of FIVE surveilled by federal immigration agents in recent months, she added, “We know what the work of the church is.” The sanctuary burst into applause. religionnews.com/2026/08/19/d...

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DHS, probing anti-ICE activists, spied on at least five Midwest churches, court records indicate

(RNS) — Church leaders were outraged and vowed to continue their advocacy for immigrants.

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Leslie Takahashi @leslietakahashi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“Despite intense White House pressure, the effort has produced only a few dozen noncitizen voter prosecutions nationwide — and even fewer convictions.” www.propublica.org/article/nonc...

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Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters

To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So fa...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026

I love that everybody longingly wishes Zohran could be mayor of their city or in the White House, but trust me, there are many more Zohran’s out there in every community all over the US. So stop daydreaming and start organizing to defeat billionaire backed candidates in elections.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When crypto first got big I spent one full year looking for a plain language explanation of why it was valuable and finally concluded it did not exist. With AI the closest thing I’ve found is “it will automate all work” which is both fantastical and predatory. Anyhow this is your pension money.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We've had 2 national COVlD waves/year since pandemic onset. This is the latest we made it into a calendar year w/o a major increase. The spring/summer wave has never peaked later than Sep 7. If that holds, levels are capped at how much they can rise before then. 🧵3/10

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

PMC COVlD Update, Week of Aug 10, 2026 (US) 🔹National levels rise to their highest in 130 days 🔹5 major regional outbreaks, 4 isolated hot spots 🔹1 in 156 people estimated actively infectious 🔹2 million estimated new weekly infections See Alt text for details. THREAD🧵1/10

The US has 5 regional COVlD outbreaks and 4 isolated outbreaks. The regional outbreaks include much of Alaska, California and western Nevada, much of Texas (central Texas sites have been shut off), the region from Kentucky through southern Illinois, and much of southern Florida. Isolated outbreaks include Franklin County in Washington, Bannock County in Idaho, Floyd County in Georgia, and Jasper County in South Carolina. Levels are rising across much of the US but later and slower than typical.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I have spoken to a ton of politicians about private equity since my book came out, and El-Sayed had by far the most sophisticated understanding and analysis of any of them. He REALLY knows how money works.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/08/2026

Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There are 15 COVlD hot spots across the US, according to our county-level map of CDC wastewater data. See Alt text for details. PMC Weekly COVlD Report: pmc19.com New Interactive Map: pmc19.com/interactive.php

The US has 15 hot spots. These include central California (Fresno, San Benito, Alameda), northern Oregon (Wasco County), Alaska (Juneau), Hawai’i (Kauai and Honolulu), southeastern Idaho (Bannock County), central Colorado (Summit County), northwestern Illinois (Whiteside County), the northern LP of Michigan (Gaylord area), central Kentucky (Lexington), northeastern Ohio (Ashtabula County), southern Florida (Palm Beach area), southeastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster County), central New Hampshire (Grafton County), and southern Maine (Knox County).

Southern Texas still has an outbreak (Webb County). Most Texas sites that had high or rising levels have not reported since July 11. Central Texas may have higher levels than depicted.

Note that these outbreaks are relatively isolated compared with the widespread high levels in the southern and western states at this time a year ago. Levels are rising but much more slowly than typical.

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In Rochester NY the streetcar system & its associated "subway" were active into the 1950s. c2006 I walked around in the abandoned underground parts of the subway. The subway & the streetcars were discontinuous & there's a social-class-story there.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Reminder that the Golden Age of Comics began in 1938 when a couple of Jews started making stories about fighting evil. So many of the people in power now seen so much like cartoon villains bc those archetypes were literally created after some of the most horrific human beings of our known history.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

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