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Queer, anti-fascist, progressive socialist. Support trans lives, Black lives, science, history, art, facts, the future. Free Palestine. No AI/LLMs. She/her. White.

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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 5h
Armed and masked men with no uniform or insignia, who answer to no one, can pick up anyone, at any time, throw them in a van and we may never know what happens to their victims. There's a lot that has to stop and change, and I'd love to start right here.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 20h
Maybe they could start with trans folks and help safeguard their humanity, first.
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The idea that Newsom is even remotely a serious candidate for president is so goddamn clown shoes at this point In the past month he's vetoed LGBTQ+ rights measures, pushed the Paramount merger through, further cozied up to AI barons and now this. Dude couldn't even win a Governor reelection now
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/10/2026
"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.
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Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says
Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How the joy of helping Princess a little bit on this video go check it out. It’s great.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do not pull this shit, Oregon.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026
I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026
From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NASA's MESSENGER Satellite Captures Spectacular Color Mosaic of Mercury - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/9uD599
NASA image acquired: January 14, 2008

This spectacular color mosaic shows the eastern limb of Mercury as seen by MESSENGER as the spacecraft departed the planet following the mission's first Mercury flyby in January 2008. The colors of this image are not those that would be seen by the human eye but instead convey information about the distribution of different rock types on Mercury's surface. The different rock types result in subtle color variations across all of the 11 WAC narrow-band color filters. The Caloris basin, visible as a large bright yellow circular area in this image due to its infill of volcanic plains, dominates the northern region. A similar image was published in Science magazine in July 2008, but it only covered the northern half of the region shown here. To create this larger color mosaic, MESSENGER Science Team members had to also devise a method to deal with scattered light in the 11 different WAC filters. MESSENGER has obtained color imaging at this resolution only for the portions of Mercury seen on departure from Mercury flybys 1 and 2. 

As spectacular as this color image is, it is just a taste of what is yet to come. In 2011, MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury and begin a year-long observing campaign that includes imaging all of Mercury's surface in color at an average resolution of about 1 kilometer/pixel (0.6 miles/pixel), a resolution that is about a factor of three better than this already impressive image.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 30/09/2026
Take some heart: systems degrade over time. Entropy will have it. When Clod has gone the way of the dodo, vinyl will probably remain.
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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Same in CT. It's cuts cuts cuts ideology at extreme. Society way past 1980s tax/welfare revolt, past peak neolib austerity of early 2000s. Now completely culturally+socially submerged and political-economically engaged in race of cuts. No space for other creative thinking. Only cuts. @aaup.org
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026
“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
‘We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir. (l-r): Clive Lewis, Tom Watson and the Palantir logo, against a pink background
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jack Smith Found Proof Beyond “Reasonable Doubt” of Trump’s Guilt The former special counsel testified he would prosecute anyone, regardless of political party, based on the evidence he found about Donald Trump. newrepublic.com/post/215971/...
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Jack Smith Found Proof Beyond “Reasonable Doubt” of Trump’s Guilt
The former special counsel testified he would prosecute anyone, regardless of political party, based on the evidence he found about Donald Trump.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026
The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000. While this figure represents the official death toll as confirmed by local authorities, the true number could be much higher. “The [ceasefire] plan ended up just buying more time for the genocide,” says Muhammad Shehada.
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A Year Later, Trump’s Gaza Plan Just Bought “More Time for the Genocide”
Writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada notes the release of Israeli hostages is the only plan item that’s been fulfilled.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
So is Youtube/Google going out of their way to make their site unusable?
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Check out this toolkit on how to kick out Flock and organize to stop mass surveillance: bit.ly/kickoutflock
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How to kick out Flock and organize to stop mass surveillance
How FlockOff! Ithaca successfully pressured two municipal governments in upstate New York to end contracts with Flock Safety.
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NPR @npr.org · 29/09/2026
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June. n.pr/4ymLaYr
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A young sailor died by suicide. Her family blames health care gaps and long deployment
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the biggest stories of 2027 will be the savagery of the GOP's Medicaid cuts. But the most indefensible cruelty has already begun, with disabled kids being ripped from their homes and sent to asylums, @matthewcort.land told me.
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 28/09/2026
Former ‘South Park’ writer Toby Morton has created a website to expose information about Cornell University’s administration in response to the group sexual assault case: “Accountability should not disappear when the headlines do. And we all know this headline will disappear.”
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Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gutting title IX is a huge win for conservatives, because it lets them actively harm trans women they've never met while also making it easier for their sons to get away with raping any woman while in college.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I will not be forgetting or forgiving the people who opted to make everyone else's lives less safe out of spite.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/09/2026
A strike by a Russian drone destroyed Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv. The FT witnessed several people scrambling for safety and climbing out of third-floor windows. ft.trib.al/fTb72h2
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Weather West post out this evening! I discuss the hyperactive East and Central Pacific hurricane season, as well as the upcoming heatwave across CA--and also why even a dry & warm autumn tells us essentially nothing about the El Niño winter to come.
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A parade of East Pacific hurricanes will miss CA (but soak the interior Southwest) before major, long-duration autumn heatwave builds - Weather West
September 27, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A hyperactive tropical East Pacific slings hurricanes toward Hawaii and Baja California, with indirect effects (modest moisture & potentially damaging ocean waves) in SoCal It has already been a remarkable, and arguably historic, East Pacific hurricane season. Three hurricanes (Lala, Lowell, Nolo) have now directly impacted the Hawaiian Islands (though none made formal landfall), with #
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll have a YouTube livestream on Monday, Sep 28 at 3pm PT to discuss the hyperactive East Pacific hurricane season, associated impacts to Hawaii and Baja CA, and also the upcoming major autumn heatwave across the U.S. West (including CA).
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Update: Hyperactive hurricane season East Pacific & major autumn heatwave across CA and U.S. West - YouTube
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 9/28/2026 topics: I...
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 28/09/2026
"white preservationist, a white continuationist"
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Fargo: Jon Hamm & Jennifer Jason Leigh - 'A Baby'
Alt: Fargo: Jon Hamm & Jennifer Jason Leigh - 'A Baby' Leigh is telling Hamm he is "fighting for the right to be a baby."
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name: Yonic South
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is also deliberate deliteracy.
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
I once wore a vintage watch that my gran had given me, to a job interview. The hiring guy was so openly intimidated by a WATCH, he said I was over-qualified(??) (and clearly I didn't need the job if I had something that fancy on my wrist). Bring your iced coffee, who cares.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 25/09/2026
The entire history of the US could be explained through the perspective of the worst people imaginable not only escaping consequences but given the ability to cause mass harm over and over again. We have serial killers and pedophiles on legal tender.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The folk protest music scene is back
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Polar Express. Cut out all of the story that involves bullying that kid into believing stuff and whether or not Santa exists, and just stick with a fantastical wintery adventure on a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. With the original audiobook narrator, Liam Neeson.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Oregon Capital Chronicle @oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 25/09/2026
An appeals panel Friday seemed inclined to agree that more than 100 Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador are entitled to due process hearings to challenge their removal, which was made under an archaic 18th-century wartime law.  buff.ly/OCzGDjt
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Venezuelan men shipped to brutal prison under Alien Enemies Act ask court for due process • Oregon Capital Chronicle
An appeals panel Friday seemed inclined to agree that more than 100 Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador are entitled to due process hearings to challenge…
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Help 50501 & @voffund.bsky.social honor Dolly Parton’s legacy on 9-to-5 Day! We all miss Dolly, so pour yourself a cup of ambition, channel that energy, & follow her lead by helping support child literacy, free libraries, & mutual aid drives. #DollyParton #DollyDay #NineToFive #ImaginationLibrary
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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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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vintage-style Gothic artwork featuring a woman in a long white nightgown fleeing past a gnarled, leafless tree under a dark, dramatic sky. White serif text centered at the top of the image reads: "Ask your doctor if running screaming into the savage night might be right for you." A small copyright watermark reading "©ephemera.com" is visible in the bottom right corner.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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barleybap but she's dressed as a spooky skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Alice made The Death Generator, one of the best sites on the internet that you've probably either used yourself or enjoyed through the work of others. Please donate some money if you can afford it.
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The Death Generator
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Me too. In the past week, I've heard some wild and really concerning takes on here: that Long COVID is psychosomatic, and even that its symptoms can simply be chalked up to autism. I say this as someone who is neurodivergent: they are not the same thing
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026
Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”
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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 25/09/2026
Scene from Idiocracy (2006)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I promise, no matter what they say they are doing, Meta is using this to scrape everything they can find on your devices and recording everything you do or say. It is what they’ve done with every product they’ve ever released. Nothing of yours is safe if you use this, no matter how careful you are.
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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To
Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026
impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat
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