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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

While podcasters and people on the internet argue over the Nikole Hannah-Jones education article in the United States, teenagers in France are rioting in the streets over the same concerns

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

It’s genuinely remarkable how complete the consensus around anti-Black racism as an unremarkable feature of public and political life has become.

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

of course, Tennessee, the state that once built a prison mine after crushing labor organizing with armed militias, would psychotically botch a public execution

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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

please help… my son…

photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the world of diesel theft

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad

Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My NY1 spectrum local news viewing over breakfast has been disrupted by Trump lying at the United Nations this morning

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nothing sustainable about an industry with a sales pitch that it will cause the apocalypse if it succeeds

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've been talking for a while about how Big Oil has tied its fate to Big Tech & vice versa. Big Oil was just running out of products to pitch until Big Tech came along with its energy-destroying data centers. Now, a fantastic name for the unholy alliance: "Fossil Tech." substack.com/inbox/post/2...

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Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech

Final sneak peak before launch day of my latest book with Astra Taylor

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Past 9/11 conspiracy theories at least had work and effort behind them, like Loose Change, which gave them some legitimacy, or early Alex Jones documentaries and early YouTube stuff. Now, in the social media era, 9/11 conspiracies are some of the dumbest theories I have ever seen

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

$5,000 is just enough for you to not realize you are being ripped off

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What makes 9/11 sucks is one, I miss my dad who swooped in magically got us out of the city on the subway when it was on lockdown after the attacks, and second, 25 years later, we as a society have learned absolutely nothing, in fact, things are more fragile and dangerous than before 9/11/2001

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'll fold your phone for far less than $2,000. Reach out

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

25 years after 9/11, Tech companies are rushing to make suicidal Artificial Intelligence that could potentially lead to our extinction

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's not even Fall yet bro, holy smokes

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Amazon cargo plane crashing into a parking lot full of Teslas

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/09/2026

Juan Carlos Dávila reports from Puerto Rico as the island grapples with a severe water crisis. A record-breaking drought has led to severe shortages and a system of water rationing that residents say could have been prevented by better infrastructure maintenance.

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Amid Severe Water Crisis & Drought, Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of “La Junta” Oversight

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026

that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

UN acknowledges that we have lost our chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of climate chaos. I expect we're going to experience a higher level of militant activism that many will not be comfortable with, but will be necessary to fight off greedy sociopaths who are leading us to extinction

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‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching

Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I remember that people were warning about the tech bros in the 1990s. No one was listening because most people thought they were liberals and libertarians. I specifically remember reading Paulina Borsook's work at that time. I wonder what she's up to these days.

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Imagine that Netflix documentary show Worst Roommate Ever, and all the worst roommates now run our society

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There are massive global weapons conferences that constantly showcase non-lethal technologies. For idiot cops to surround someone and just shoot them to death in broad daylight is a conscious choice

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Police arrested video journalist and Unicorn Riot contributor River Akemann while he was documenting Enbridge Line 5 construction on August 24. A day later, the older Line 5 ruptured in Saxon, WI, releasing natural gas liquids. Full story: unicornriot.ninja/2026/journal...

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How you can tell when Media narratives are manufactured is how 9 hit-and-run death accidents in a week are not registering as a critique of car culture or anything, but if there were 9 murders on the NYC subway during the same time, we wouldn't hear the end of it

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

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John Bowman @johnbowman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

How big was Dolly Parton in the ‘80s? Dolly didn’t go on The Muppet Show. The Muppets went on Dolly.

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Dolly Parton & Kermit The Frog – “Everyday People” Extended/Remixed | 'Dolly' Episode 5 (1987)

YouTube video by ddolIly

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 04/08/2026

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I keep thinking about how often the mass layoffs in media, government and big companies, especially women and people of color, will lead to poorer outcomes for years because the people who would point out potential problems or blind spots were deemed non-essential, a "bad fit", and/or too expensive.

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Black American men now have the highest suicide rates since the U.S. government began gathering that data, along with Black Maternal Mortality, which are outrageous statistics like a war zone capitalbnews.org/young-black-...

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Young Black Men Are Now Dying by Suicide at a Historic Rate

For the first time, the rate is surpassing that of their white peers. It's a generational warning that public health officials have yet to match with resources.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I want to write a short thread about this story in Vogue by @thefrankiedlc.news, which I did not like. I wasnt going to say anything publicly, but people keep tagging me on it. First, I'm happy for Cheeks getting coverage & I have no claim to his story. HOWEVER— www.vogue.com/article/the-...

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The New York Artist Embroidering Knicks Merch on the Street

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

These dipshits broke the law by trying to overturn an election and now your tax dollars will be going to support their lifestyle of chatting online with FBI agents posing as 14 year olds.

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If you were around the mid to late 90s, you caught all those vague, optimistic website & internet connectivity commercials on TV. The propaganda was way more pro-social compared to AI. Kids & adults were naively looking towards an easier and more productive future. AI has more of a sad uncertainty

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

When you use browsers like Vivaldi or DuckDuckGo, some major sites like the variety.com don't even function probably, because of so many tracking tools

variety.com

Variety

Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/05/2026

States across the South are redrawing congressional maps after the Supreme Court's effective gutting of the Voting Rights Act, says @ariberman.bsky.social of Mother Jones. “This could lead to the largest drop in Black representation since the Jim Crow era, and it is happening with alarming speed."

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