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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Made a little Weird Books for Weird Readers video :) With: @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @sofiaajram.bsky.social Ling Ma @tiffmorris.bsky.social / @ericraglin1992.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social @emnays.bsky.social @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The CAQ loves Quebec culture only in theory. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
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$13M cuts to school outings: Quebec Solidaire petitions to maintain funding
The Coalition Avenir Québec government is planning to cut a minimum of $13 million in funding for cultural outings and excursions in schools starting in the next academic year, according to an Auditor...
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
reading your timeline like
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Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 @maggiemaefish.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I have been FLOORED by the response to this video, 350+ views in 4 days!!! We worked for more than 6 months, but unfortunately it only becomes more relevant each day. "Investigating the True Crime to ACAB Pipeline." Watch, share, or donate if you can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=shhu...
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Why aren't more True Crime creators anti-cop??
YouTube video by Maggie Mae Fish
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Orca Books Co-op now has signed copies of my books, in Olympia
all four southern reach novels
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 22/01/2026
💢NEW: Israeli forces have begun digging a deep trench along the so-called “Yellow Line” in Gaza to block Palestinian movement, according to i24NEWS. The outlet said at least 1.5 km has been excavated in southern Gaza, w/ add'l digging in the north & artificial berms built to reinforce the barrier...
💢NEW: Israeli forces have begun digging a deep trench along the so-called “Yellow Line” in Gaza to block Palestinian movement, according to i24NEWS. The outlet said at least 1.5 km has been excavated in southern Gaza, with additional digging in the north and artificial berms built to reinforce the barrier. The trench is intended to delay or prevent crossings by people and vehicles. 

Hamas said this week that Israel has already expanded its agreed area of control by 34 square kilometers, imposing expanded free-fire zones, all in blatant violation of the ceasefire.
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Exposure: IDF is digging a deep trench along the Yellow Line to serve as an obstacle in extensive parts of Gaza

In recent weeks, work has begun on digging a trench several meters deep that will serve as an obstacle along the Yellow Line. It is intended to prevent (or at the very least significantly delay) Gazans and vehicles from attempting to cross into the Israeli side.

The obstacle is being dug along several kilometers in both the southern and northern parts of the Strip – according to the operational plan and in accordance with the defensive needs of the forces in the area.

Already at this stage – at least a kilometer and a half has been dug in the southern Gaza Strip, with additional sections also in the north. In other locations, artificial hills have been created.

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✸ 𝕵𝖆𝖘𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖊 𝕱𝖑𝖔𝖞𝖉 ✸ @jasminefloyd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Crunch 🍎 jasminefloyd.etsy.com/listing/4405...
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 23/01/2026
Can AI be creative? Machine learning mechanisms are based on predictability and following instructions – anathema to making truly great art, which at its core is ‘an affirmation of human existence’, as Richard Beard argues in this passionate Essay
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Sure, AI can ‘do’ writing. But memoir? Not so much | Aeon Essays
As AI’s endless clichés continue to encroach on human art, the true uniqueness of our creativity is becoming ever clearer
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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Blush and Red Lipstick #oilpainting #art
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is quite literally one of the stupidest human beings alive
Wanna know one of the best things about Mr. Rogers growing up? I never knew anything about his political opinions. He just entertained kids. That's it.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 03/01/2026
“Zionism and the state of Israel cause division, cause mistrust, hate, bloodshed, killing, and an endless quagmire of suffering, and a rebellion against God. It has to stop like apartheid stopped. This mayor hopefully will bring this about.” — Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss told us.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Palestinian communism poster "Liberation," "Victory," "Freedom" 1970s www.reddit.com/r/Propaganda...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 26/12/2025
READ: What Palestinians actually mean by “one democratic state,” and what liberation can look like when the settler society refuses to leave. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...
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The Settlers Are Not Leaving: Decolonization, not coexistence
What Palestinians actually mean by “one democratic state,” and what liberation can look like when the settler society refuses to leave.
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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Premiering in 10 minutes
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Happy to talk to @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social at @404media.co about this issue of Instagram adding weird sometimes inaccurate headlines and summaries for Google searches. I find it troubling. www.404media.co/instagram-is...
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Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
So they DO reduce your visibility in people's notifications with an algorithm. Given Bluesky's treatment of Palestinians on this site, it's not a stretch to think that they use this to reduce engagement for people whose politics and beliefs they do not like.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 07/12/2025
🇸🇦🇵🇸 Drop Site News listened closely as the FMs of Turkey, Qatar, Egypt, Norway, Spain, the EU, & Saudi Arabia laid out their positions on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire at the Doha Forum. One thing that stood out: the only official pushing a hard line on urgent disarmament of the Palestinian...
🇸🇦🇵🇸 Drop Site News listened closely as the foreign ministers of Turkey, Qatar, Egypt, Norway, Spain, the EU, and Saudi Arabia laid out their positions on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire at the Doha Forum. One thing that stood out: the only official pushing a hard line on urgent disarmament of the Palestinian resistance was the representative from the Saudi Foreign Ministry.

That official, Dr. Manal Radwan, a Minister Plenipotentiary, warned there must be no “redefining” of what disarmament means under the UN Security Council–backed plan and dismissed debates over logistics, what she called the “who, what, when.”

Her position directly clashed with Norway and Turkey, both of whom warned that forced disarmament up front is fundamentally unrealistic.

Norway’s foreign minister said it is “very unlikely” there would ever be consensus for an international force to physically disarm Hamas against its will, stressing that any weapons process must be Palestinian-led and politically sequenced. He warned that if the “who, what, when” is not settled quickly — with governance institutions and a monitoring force put in place first — the ceasefire will collapse back into war and “total anarchy.”

Turkey’s foreign minister was even more blunt: “We should not expect from the ISF work that has not been completed by the Israeli security forces.” 

He explicitly dismissed disarmament as the ISF’s first task, saying decommissioning of arms can realistically only occur after ISF establishes a security presence between the two forces, governance structures are restored in Gaza, aid begins to flow unrestricted, and there is some normalization of civilian life inside Gaza.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 06/12/2025
Also see: bsky.app/profile/drop...
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
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LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 06/12/2025
I know people want to frame everything through the most villainous and monstrous political entity of the 20th century, but the second Trump regime and the Republican Party architecture that supports it are best understood as a neo-Confederate project.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 06/12/2025
What if the stories we’ve been told about socialism are incomplete — or strategically incomplete? Kristen R. Ghodsee revisits her early fieldwork in Bulgaria and makes a powerful case: even flawed socialist systems got some things right. inthesetimes.com/article/what...
A mother and her children beg in a pedestrian underpass as a picture of Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov is featured on a building in Dushanbe, 23 October 2006. At the time, the post-Soviet nation owed 830 million US dollars to foreign creditors.
Photo by VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP via Getty Images
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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
reading a couple pop science/pop psych books for an upcoming video and these things have way fewer citations than the average post-hbomberguy video essay. lots of "many people are saying this". who though who is saying it "a study found" what was the name of the study
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Sex Work and Sexual Victimization: A Comparative Study of Students’ and Police Officers’ Perceptions of Sex-Working Rape Victims ...police officers attributed more blame when the victim was identified as a sex worker onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Sex Work and Sexual Victimization: A Comparative Study of Students’ and Police Officers’ Perceptions of Sex‐Working Rape Victims
Attitudes toward sexual violence and victim-blaming are culturally dependent and should be examined within specific social and legal contexts. The present study sought to compare Israeli police offic...
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Aaron Aardvark @laughinglemon.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A very good interview with Oliver Eagleton by @versobooks.bsky.social on his recent book and the potential futures of @thisisyourparty.bsky.social
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Your Party: Beyond the factionalism | Oliver Eagleton
YouTube video by Verso Books
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
If you're looking for a sincere, nicely written and improv'd holiday movie, The Baltimorons is a great, sweet and surprisingly deep movie. A nice antidote to the hyper-commercial holiday film.
the two leads at the end of a pier, man in brown overcoat and woman in red, against a white backdrop.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Living histories and testimonies from first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, shared by contributors the book Voices of the Nakba Listen to the conversation with the Mosaic Rooms: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/v...
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Banished Citizens A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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garin | comms open @garin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The Captain. #inktober #drypoint #art #traditionalart #knight #ink #armour #helmet #medieval #print #artprint
A sepia dry point illustration of a knight in profile, down to his waist. He wears a decorated German sallet helmet with the visor down. Only his eyes are visible.
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vampire häxan @sorenhaxan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
shout out to some of my favorite works from my ornament series, all of which are partly why my arm is so fucked up 😎 THE RUFF - KNIGHT OF THE MORNING STAR - KNIGHT OF THE TAPESTRY - SHIVERING (ST. SEBASTIAN)
THE RUFF - b&w pen and ink drawing of a beautiful 1570-90s dude (i can't remember sry), the subject is looking away from the viewer and we can see his magnificent lace-trimmed ruff, the askew cloak, and a hat with three trailing pheasant feathersKNIGHT OF THE MORNING STAR - a close-up of a knight from behind. he is in resplendent armor from roughly the mid-16th century with a lovely sun and lots of italian filigree. He is looking over his right shoulder, his sword aloft, the moon looming large behind him.KNIGHT OF THE TAPESTRY - a knight in late gothic armor from the waist down. he stands upon a tiled floor, his sabotons are crazy pointed and he's got the spurs. a heavily patterned cloak trails on the floor behind him.SHIVERING - ST. SEBASTIAN - st sebastian tied up to a tree,innit. really tumultuous clouds with a lot of heavy shading roll in the background over a dark, dense line of mountains.
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 28/10/2025
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/10/2025
From streets to supermarkets, global boycotts for Gaza have grown as a fragile ceasefire holds for now.
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The rise of global boycotts against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
From streets to supermarkets, global boycotts for Gaza have grown as a fragile ceasefire holds for now.
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Brendan @chibdm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 08/10/2025
"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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Madeleine Fjäll @madeleinefjall.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
FINISHED MY SCARF As usual my phone struggles to show the correct colours so :^) It is more like the first photo irl, but I kinda want it to be more like the second one 😔 maybe I can dye it
Image of bug scarf around my neck Image of my bug scarf on the floor
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Tiffany Baxter - MCM London F-19 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Share your couples art! Here’s all my Halloween couples together 👻🧛🏻‍♀️🧙‍♀️
An illustration of two lesbian ghosts dancing. The left hand ghost wears a 1760s silk sack gown, the right hand wears an early 1500s style gown with puffed sleeves and a short cape with feathered beret. They are both blue and translucent. 

They are in a heavily wooded and overgrown graveyard, a lone candle burning with a blue flame sits on top of a slab grave beneath them.

The illustrated border shows as follows: On top, clasping carved stone hands emerging from yew branches with berries. To the sides: tin lanterns with candles burning, carved stone hourglasses & carved stone broken columns. Beneath: Vaults based upon the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery flanked by trees.
An illustration of two lesbian vampires in a crypt dancing the Volta, as the butch lifts the femme in the air. The butch on the left has grey skin, red eyes & pointed ears. Her hair black with a couple of white streaks. She wears red masculine Elizabethan era clothing, with black and gold accents & white ruffles on the neck and wrists with bat wings sprouting from her back. The femme is in a white ragged Elizabethan gown with red jewel accents and her hair is silver-grey. The decorative border contains a bat up top, a red chequered pattern, coffins with heart motifs, writhing rats with tangled tails & an overspilling blood chalice at the bottom.Two lesbians in faux-Elizabethan dress waltz in front of a crescent moon & starlit sky. Next to them is a gnarled tree with candles on & there are mushrooms at their feet. The figure leading dons a witch hat & red cape while the other has bat wings.  The frame is off-white and with black illustrations of jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, skeletons, bats & black cats.
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Julie Cruse @academicabuse.com · 28/09/2025
Hi, I’m Julie Cruse. I created AcademicAbuse.com – a dashboard of data, resources & tools to help survivors of academic abuse survive and safely speak out. (1/9 🧵) 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The country my family has spilled blood for is daring the world to treat them as a pariah state; a rogue state. I cannot for the life of me understand why *more* of the world is not obliging them. (Some already are. More should. Ireland certainly should.) www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The NFL Is Trump’s America—and It’s Invading Ireland
The league is not coming to Dublin to plant a tree. It is coming to plant a flag.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
How Bartolomé de las Casas bore witness to the violent conquest of the Americas, from Greg Grandin’s Cundill Prize-shortlisted America, América.
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Bartolomé de las Casas, Witness to the Violent Conquest of the Americas
Leaves of Grass “Philosophy begins in wonder,” Socrates said. It matures, Hegel added, in terror, on the “slaughter bench” of history. So it was with the arrival of the Span…
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/09/2025
As more psychiatric hospitals are bought up by private equity, the number of patients illegally turned away has increased with little consequence. The lack of consequences for EMTALA violations may be emboldening hospitals to turn away patients that could hurt their bottom line.
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Private Equity Firms See Psychiatric Hospitals as Profit Opportunities
As for-profit corporations buy up psychiatric hospitals, some flout federal law with scarce repercussions.
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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.
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Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Every day an old video of Charlie Kirk's "debates" pops up on my feed and every day the world is a much better place without him in it.
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IT’S KENNIE AKA “TINDER THANOS" @kenniejd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
this is my new favorite channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMFc...
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How Shirley Jackson exposed the horror of home life
YouTube video by Books 'n' Cats
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IT’S KENNIE AKA “TINDER THANOS" @kenniejd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
“Charlie was Frankenstein and his monster shot him” exactly, someone dying (ironically from the method he said was the price of the 2nd amendment) doesn’t make him SUDDENLY GOOD, ADMIRABLE, OR A FUCKING MARTYR GO STRAIGHT TO HELL. democrats and republicans because fucking obtuse for propriety? FOH
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IT’S KENNIE AKA “TINDER THANOS" @kenniejd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Exactly. I’m not gonna mourn that man, and those of you doing so are the type to mourn that dude with the lil mustache. It’s a slap in the face to say “it was a difference of opinion” no nigga, it was the violence he stoked and got burned by.
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