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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 17h

CNN making this sound more mysterious than it is. It was Yersinia pestis, the plague, the researcher died because she inhaled it into her lungs and developed pneumonic plague, there is no danger but to those directly exposed in the lab. Fear-mongering in the time of global terror is a sick choice.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 17h

New genre just dropped: Integral Weird 🥲

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was wild to see. My first time writing for the screen. My thanks to Zoe Kazan for inviting me on this journey back in 2023, and my agent Jason Richman and everyone at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social for their work on my behalf.

“Written for Television by ZOE KAZAN & ALEXANDER CHEE” in white letters against the black tv screen.

A tv still of Mike Faist, Christopher Abbott and Florence Pugh. White text in a San serif font reads “This East of Eden, adapted primarily by Zoe Kazan-Alexander Chee co-wrote a key midseason episode-with Garth Davis directing, is rich, morally complex and packed with memorable performances."
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The Hollywood Reporter

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Imagine uploading your kids photo to the thing they're using to make kiddie porn.

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Got some new followers, so let's just revisit the Naomi Campbell collection

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

being a rapist isn’t primarily a craft problem but it is a craft problem for every type of art. if a guy bulldozes women’s consent it is going to show up as a problem in his work one way or another

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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Had I had a curriculum that included James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Walker, Tracy Chapman, and just people of color who were brilliant and artistic and queer and unapologetic, maybe life would not have been such a challenging road as it had been at times."

hellgatenyc.com

Brooklyn Will Soon Have One of the Nation’s Only Middle Schools for LGBTQ Kids

Miss Major Middle, opening in Fort Greene next year, is "an opportunity to show something different."

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 03/10/2026

“Being a college-aged woman right now is genuinely terrifying,” says Madeleine, a senior at the University of Arkansas. “Between the constant fear of sexual assault, spiked drinks, and general safety concerns, going out always comes with a baseline of anxiety.”

playboy.com

We Asked College Women About Cornell

Welcome to Fair Play, a column exploring the shifting dynamics of sex, dating and culture by Playboy Senior Editor Magdalene Taylor.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Who's giving the squirrels adderall

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The whiplash from seeing how the country’s being run to seeing how New York is being run. Daily Moments of “oh we can do that?” But in a good way.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

every time i get suckered in by a "but what about all the useful stuff AI does in my life??" argument the useful stuff is either "something you could google in two seconds" or "highly-skilled labor you don't have and therefore can't fact check"

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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Think of Tom Hanks' career, you ghoul.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

The ultimate own of the United States by Canada would be to deeply decarbonize all energy use by domestic resources, mostly renewables, coupling to sufficient consumption. It’s like us Finns cutting energy imports from Russia almost overnight — not a perfect analogy, but you know what I’m saying.

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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1954)

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please do not compare people who are anti-vax to people who are anti-AI.

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is gruesome beyond words. And imagine being one of the nurses or doctors caring for this woman, bearing witness to the violence imposed upon her body in the name of justice.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I have a harem of dozens of women who are my employees to fuck and have my children as I please" is one of the ultimate goals of the billionaire class and one of the main reasons they are so keen to fuck the labor market (so desirable women are desperate enough to sign up for this)

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We need most of those other forms of technology to exist in the world. We don’t need AI. It helps some people do their jobs a tiny bit better. Why the fuck are we building data centers for what is, at best, a minor improvement?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

last night at dinner we were talking about how much tracey sucks and the server overheard and was like are you talking about michael tracey? that guy fucking sucks, and it was very satisfying

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever

huffpost.com

The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like displaying heads on pikes

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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emperorpupprtine.bsky.social @emperorpupprtine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You know the one thing guaranteed to make me NOT do something is to keep telling me how I need to do it because everyone else is.

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Rachel Kambury @rkambury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“why do we need humanities education” asked and answered

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/10/2026

Oh my GOD

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it did not, in fact, leave a “lasting good effect”

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Rachel Kambury @rkambury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

surely THIS derivative of enhanced ebooks will work!

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am proud of what Josh and I accomplished in this essay, which took deep reporting and data gathering, and which ultimately runs to a hearty 7000+ words to explain what's really going on with Jewish American and Israeli books in US publishing as PEN America and the ADL run cover for genocide

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin tracked publishing deals since 2000, they found—rather than a decline in Jewish literature—that 2025 was the third-best year of the 21st century for book deals that publicly signaled Jewish or Israeli content. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

in the same state where Governor Eliot Spitzer was forced to resign in 2008 because of his involvement as a client of a prostitution ring, which is also the state whose attorney general Eric Schneiderman was forced to resign after being exposed, thank you Ronan Farrow,

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's good news that NY Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Leticia James special prosecutor in this case, and here remember that Hochul became governor because Governor Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign in disgrace because of his serial sexual harassment...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026

If you still think Gavin Newsom should run for president, I am not going to try to convince you otherwise, but, going forward, when you see Newsom stories, ask yourself: Does this meaningful improve anyone’s life, or is this symbolic only? Please keep track until it is clear. ✌️

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Miranda Dubner @mirandadubner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe it was all worth it, just for this one moment of transcendent pleasure.

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Rachel Kambury @rkambury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

new Norton imprint kicking off with books—plural!!—by Rhiannon Giddens? HAPPY FRIDAY Y'ALL

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Political liberalism clearly emerged out of white people being really good at getting along with each other and minding their own business.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just want to clarify that in the Lit Hub piece that the New York Times links to, my premise was weird girl lit is a silly category, and also women have been writing this way forever www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...

A recent LitHub article dug back to the 1970s and ’80s, citing Elaine Kraf’s “The Princess of 72nd Street” and Nettie Jones’s “Fish Tales.” Others on Reddit have recommended Dorothy Baker’s “Cassandra at the Wedding” (1962) and Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” (1963).

Besides being skeptical about the “weird” factor, some writers and readers are wary of singling out books by and for “girls.” Moshfegh, for example, pointed out that she’s not a girl, and has “never written a book about a girl.”

Others felt that the use of the word “girl” reflects a tendency to treat writing by women as a separate category from “literature” writ large.

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United Tech & Allied Workers @utaw.tech · 02/10/2026

7000 members and counting 🎈The UK's original and largest trade union for tech workers has hit a new membership milestone, with 7,000 active members joining our branch to fight for better conditions for workers in tech, and for more responsible deployment of the tech we build.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

bloodinthemachine.com

California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US

Finally, some good news

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