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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

one of the reasons that make me think that capitalism cannot be reformed is that in the West the golden years of capitalism produced boomers, a generation of lowkey sociopaths.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17h

Creating an "AI" avatar of your dead loved one w/o their input or consent, & saying that it counts "the same" as the dead loved one— ESPECIALLY as evidence in a MURDER TRIAL— is both a massive misunderstanding of what "AI" is & how it works, & a hugely dehumanizing insult to said dearly departed.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 17h

I really think that if a therapist has a client who is presenting with new symptoms- grandiose/paranoid/agitated or with sudden loss of self-esteem, increased isolation Or with increased conflict/argumentativeness in their relationships or social transactions Assess their AI/LLM use:

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23h

they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition

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Ryan Brazell @ryanbrazell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why use a simple word like “stole” when you can obfuscate with “does not plan to reimburse”

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

lol the country is "too meritocratic" can be directly translated to: "They're about to lap us." AND WILL.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Paramount has closed its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Billionaire David Ellison now controls: —CNN —CBS —HBO —Paramount —Warner Bros —Discovery —Skydance —Showtime —DC Studios —Nickelodeon —Cartoon Network —Food Network —MTV —Comedy Central —HGTV —TBS —TLC

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026

I'm not saying I have a gift of prophecy but

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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An entire generation of faculty and students (rightfully!) fully internalized “the institution cannot love you” and institutional leaders wonder where trust went 🙄

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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 02/10/2026

It makes people less able to use their own brains, babe. They offload their own cognitive processes and become worse at doing basic tasks. It is a cognitive impairment. It makes art worse. I don't care about the nuance of its operations, I care about the damage to humans.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 01/10/2026

Tactics like this are designed to break strikes and bust unions not to find an equitable compromise on a contract. Seems like the boss is running the risk of poisoning the well for Lewis Ginter with this kind of stuff.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 01/10/2026

INBOX: The strike at RVA's botanical garden keeps getting uglier. The union is out with a press release claiming that Lewis Ginter's boss "cancelled healthcare coverage" for striking workers. It's a particularly nasty union-busting tactic that seems strategically risky for the once-beloved org.

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Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden CEO Cancels Healthcare Coverage for All Employees, Sparking Outcry

Brian Trader shocks employees by ripping away healthcare insurance with four days' notice to workers

Richmond, VA - The CEO for Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Brian Trader, abruptly cancelled healthcare coverage for all Lewis Ginter employees effectively today, October 1, 2026, sparking sharp rebuke from community members and workers.

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 02/10/2026

Gavin Newsom Is An Asshole Example #18,729

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 22/09/2026

Newsom is a dipshit, a thread:

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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That Bannon says that about Newsom should be the kiss of death for his nomination prospects. Definition of an acceptable nominee is someone who is Steve Bannon's worst nightmare.

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Black students are demanding accountability from University of North Carolina administrators after a man threatened and yelled racial slurs at students during a watch party. bit.ly/46P96HR

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Black UNC Students Say the University Failed Them After a Racist Attack

A recent incident during a TV watch party illustrates the racial tensions reported on some college campuses.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/09/2026

This is obviously disgusting in so many ways. Gonna highlight one: Servicemember beard exemptions are all on religious or medical grounds. They're either Sikhs (mostly South Asian) or have a skin condition related to shaving curly hair (mostly African American). "No beardos" is racist as hell.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I learned it by watching you" lent itself to more opportunities for characteristic Gen X sarcasm, but the "this is your brain on _____" and "this is your _____ on drugs" construction were memetic before we had a word for memetic things, so it wins for fame.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TRUMP VOTER: “Trump is a bald-faced liar. That's all I can say nicely… I was planning to retire, and I went back to work just to cover my insurance, my gas, and the price of food that keeps going up.”

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 30/09/2026

remember to block @m-tracey.bsky.social and move on. there is nothing you can say to him that will be crueler than his lonely little life

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✨Pretty, Witty, Girly, Worldly✨ @asdoseofreality.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

When I heard this I wasn’t even surprised. Now just imagine how many other police officers have done the same thing and are now responsible for investigating/taking reports from SA victims.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer.

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Dyke Spiegel @cowgirlshebop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Democrats are the left arm of fascism

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

And it's not just migraines, though that part is bad: It can also affect the vascular system more broadly. As previously discussed

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 28/09/2026

The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

You are measuring willingness to respond to a survey, not actual identity. Given the bathroom bans, bans on pride flags, renewed efforts to ban GSAs etc, it's not a surprise some kids prefer to not openly disclose orientation to a federal government survey.

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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Tf you mean they was gon do a George Michael tribute without Adam Lambert and the network had to be yelled at to fix it and get Adam Lambert?!! Yeah let this be the last VMAs. We’re done here.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There remains an active campaign to reply-harass Black people off this platform and it is not on us to solve this problem. It’s on y’all.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People handle tasks so complex and with so many shifting variables as part of our day-to-day existence that the complexity is underestimated. It’s like how knitting machines have existed for over 400 years but there still isn’t a machine that can crochet, though we think of those tasks as comparable

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To develop a coping mechanism as a person with ADHD, first you must invent the universe.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026

There’s something worth dwelling on that the exploitative data classifying and labeling human labor apparatus that tech companies created in the global majority to moderate harmful content was so easily repurposed to facilitate the generation of harmful content. What is trust and safety really?

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

Andy Beshear is proof that you can win a red state without abandoning trans people.

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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story.
Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today is the 40th anniversary of Cleveland's epic Balloonfest debacle. Second only to Ten Cent Beer Night in the great list of Cleveland WTFs. Cheers to all who celebrate.

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The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86

YouTube video by The Atlantic

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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