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Sally J.

@sallyj.bsky.social
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Archivist. History Nerd. Still working my way out of the fog but one thing I know for sure is that every adoptee has a right to their original birth certificate.

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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nothing about this is surprising, but it's heartbreaking AF 💔 at least the people who are supposed to protect children are doing their job, which is something www.latimes.com/california/s...
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'House of horrors': Arcadia surrogacy mansion parents charged with child abuse conspiracy
Guojon Xuan, 66, and Sylvia Zhang, 39, were charged Tuesday with conspiracy to commit child abuse and witness intimidation Tuesday, more than a year after police rescued 14 of their biological childre...
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 20/09/2026
photo by pennie smith. i think when you mention a photographer's work you should also mention the photographer. alt text would have helped that
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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can’t let people see how many women died from the new abortion laws before they vote
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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | Loving Dolly Parton Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard. (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“by a celebrity 💅” fuck her god she’s SO MAD someone else besides her is being lauded as the patron saint of child literacy. you had your chance and blew it, lady! that’s not who you are anymore! gotta force HBO to reboot your movies just to feel something smh
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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
THIS WEEK DOESN'T COUNT so stop with this nonsense 😭 #RIPDOLLY
Screenshot of a phone playing Dolly Parton's Jolene with a notification to turn down the volume because "you've exceeded the recommended limit for audio exposure"
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ar…
middleeasteye.net
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We are all on the decoy plane
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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
👀 "new hires who were seen as 'AI natives' are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead" futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com
Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace
"AI native" college graduates are hitting the workplace -- and, as experts warned, bosses are finding their performance disappointing.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Every AI authorship debate I see a bunch of people say, “Hypocrisy! No one looks down on an author who hires a ghostwriter to write their book!” But… yes they do! It would be a huge scandal if an award-winning novelist was revealed to have had their novel ghostwritten.
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AbiGezunt @abigezunt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"looking for the candidates who are thinking and running as though they know that bases are made of people, not dollars."
nytimes.com
Opinion | Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People (Gift Article)
Democrats are going to have to organize voters, not just fund-raise off them.
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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
same as it ever was 🥚
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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Capitulation to fascists never protects you.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country
huffpost.com
CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country
MAHA.
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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I've been muttering this to myself on and off all dayyyyyy
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A US county welcomed 37 data centres. Now its schools are being told to dim lights as power bills jump 25% timesofindia-indiatimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/timesofi...
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A US county welcomed 37 data centres. Now its schools are being told to dim lights as power bills jump 25% - The Times of India
The Times of India brings the Latest & Top Breaking News on Politics and Current Affairs in India & around the World, Cricket, Sports, Business, Bollywood News and Entertainment, Science, Technology, ...
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Please rise for our national anthem. youtu.be/VYOjWnS4cMY?...
youtu.be
Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Video)
YouTube video by ChildishGambinoVEVO
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 28/06/2026
The timing is probably a coincidence but it's super funny that A24 found this indie filmmaker kid to direct the blockbuster horror hit of the summer for pennies and then announced this Google Deepmind partnership. "Hopefully we'll never have to discuss movies with twenty-somethings ever again"
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caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
David Twohy didn't bleach the negative of PITCH BLACK (2000) in order to get the washed-out look of the alien planet without CG so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable"
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"books should never contain words I don't already know" is genuinely insane when you have a constantly updating infinite dictionary on the device you are currently using
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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Absolutely not. No.
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🟠🟤 Reese's Pieces @andyk250.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"We've got the Backrooms at home..."
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Flea Market Montgomery - Long Version
YouTube video by teedadawg
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The co-founder of Ubisoft died in a tragic accident and the NYT somehow feels the need to spend a lengthy paragraph of the obituary debating whether having a black main character for a recent game was "DEI". Incredible work.
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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖
game-oracle.com
AI in Games: The Impact On Sales
Explore how AI influences game success on Steam. This data-driven analysis uncovers the link between AI usage and sales performance, revealing whether AI-generated content in Steam games is impacting ...
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Agador Spartacus @dabble.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Special s/o to Black Texans on this and every Juneteenth day.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Far from the most pressing issue facing us but as a general metaphor the reflecting pool sure does carry a kick.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19/06/2026
I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It's incredible that the entire panic over "ultra-processed foods" is based on the results of just *five* RCTs, four of which were less than three weeks long. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for establishing cause-and-effect relationships and attributing health outcomes to a specific intervention rather than other factors. Five such trials have been conducted in the USA, UK, Denmark, and Japan to investigate the effect of UPFs on obesity and related outcomes (5–9). The results have been highly publicized and widely communicated, often in ways that suggest that ultraprocessing is inherently harmful to health (1, 2). The design of these clinical trials, however, makes it very difficult to attribute the unfavorable effects of UPF-rich diets to ultraprocessing per se. Instead, these effects are highly likely to be due to differences in traditional nutritional properties that frequently—but not uniformly—co-occur in UPFs (see the figure).
All of these trials used a crossover design, in which the same participants consumed UPF-rich and non-UPF diets in a random order. All foods and drinks that participants consumed were provided in either inpatient (involving overnight stays at a hospital, clinic, or research center) (5, 6) or outpatient (7, 8) settings, or through a combination of supervised and unsupervised eating (9). This “feeding” trial design prevents confounding from varying diet adherence that occurs in “diet advice” studies. In three trials, participants consumed the diets at will until comfortably full (ad libitum) (5–7), whereas in two trials they received a fixed amount of calories (8, 9). The duration of each diet arm of the study was 1 to 3 weeks in four trials (5, 6, 8, 9), with the longest lasting 8 weeks (7).
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA
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Slow Lorus @marylandrockets.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Fired by email. That took courage
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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I remember the way they went after grandmas using Napster so I'm super confused by how this is possible at all. what. do. you. mean. the thieves invited their victim to subscribe to the stolen content?!
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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
i just want to live a life that Daria would be proud of
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Nihilistic Wrong Hordak 🏳️‍⚧️ @shadow27.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Heavy Metal Parking Lot was probably 10-years-old the first time I saw it, 40 years ago now. If you want a look at a 80s America that is nothing like Stranger Things, then please to enjoy pre-gaming at a Judas Priest concert, 1986.
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Heavy Metal Parking Lot
YouTube video by vacantmoon
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
in my dream mark zuckerberg bragged the metaverse was so important he was changing his company name and showed a video of legless avatars with playstation two level graphics and people mocked it so he made another video with dancing avatars with legs and then meta admitted the legs demo was fake
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
What a week.
“This is not a smart man, and it is very funny to watch this all unfold. That he used a fake mugshot from a fake trial about a fake music festival from a very well-known national TV show and presented it as an ‘actual mugshot’ should tell you the kind of groundbreaking reporting methods this fella has used for years,” Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion, said via email. “While we’re very glad this era of InfoWars is almost over, we are appreciating this exceedingly funny crashout from afar as we build out something even better that we hope to kick off next week.”

“In the meantime, all true InfoWars fans worried about being exposed to Satan’s influences should visit TheOnion.Info to purchase Demon Guard™, the only patch that provides 24-hour holy protection against all dark entities.”
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 19/04/2026
YALL. There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!! Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists. LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org
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Chicago Books to Women in Prison
Chicago Books to Women in Prison is an all-volunteer organization that sends free books to women and trans people in prison nationwide.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Caitlyn Jenner can no longer travel overseas as her passport marks gender as “male” following Trump’s anti-trans passport policies. — 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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Caitlyn Jenner Claims She ‘Can’t Travel Internationally’ After Donald Trump’s Trans Passport Policy
Caitlyn Jenner claimed that she is unable to ‘travel internationally’ under President Donald Trump’s passport policy
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Daniel Bond @dwbond.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Nate Silver tweet, edited to say "It's probably foolish to think a NYC mayor will successfully translate into being a national political figure, but I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for "who will be the next (Albanian) presidential nominee after (Bajram Begaj)".
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
we cannot live this way.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
🚨 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster
The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The cost of fresh vegetables is up a stunning FORTY EIGHT PERCENT from February 2025: www.bls.gov/news.release...
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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Can US airlines add a fuel surcharge after you've purchased a plane ticket? Air travel us about to get super chaotic www.reuters.com/business/air...
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Airline SAS to cancel 1,000 flights in April due to high fuel prices, DI reports
Scandinavian airline SAS said it would cancel 1,000 flights in April because of high ​oil and jet fuel prices caused ‌by the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Swedish business daily Da...
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Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
this is one way of speeding up the end times to get to that mythical paradise I guess
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Updated:
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