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She/Her, Star Wars Nerd, Comic Nerd, Cat Lady 🇺🇦Слава Україні - Stand With Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looks like Trump’s new “steel plant” in IA, announced to shore up support in midterms from people his policies have crushed, where he said construction has already begun, is nowhere close to happening and contingent on Iowans giving tax breaks & incentives to a company in India.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Commander Andrii Biletskyi personally spoke with Russian POWs captured during Operation "Vivaldi." In total, the 3rd Army Corps has taken more than 250 enemy soldiers prisoner Severe hunger, exhaustion, abandoned casualties, and execution orders for retreating have pushed not just Russian infantry,
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Math. Logistics. Etc.
Eisenhower logistics wins wars
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's Silent Movie Day! Did you know not all silent films were black and white? Color processes like Kinemacolor were shown as early as 1909, and film was tinted and colored by hand even earlier. Here are some examples of early silent films in color from the Library's National Screening Room!
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 28/09/2026
There are people who can only destroy. Thankfully, there are also those who come to the rescue. Some of these people, including a @united24media.com video operator, rushed to help victims of a russian strike on the National Academy of Sciences.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 28/09/2026
russian war crimes continue: following another attack, Dobrobut Medical Center in Kyiv caught on fire. There are never new lows for russia — only one constant moral bottom. Let’s do what we can to help down their drones: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These talks show that Russia is not interested in peace at all - Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social "There are many countries outside Europe who say: talk to Russians, and then there will be a result. But these talks show that Russia really is not interested in peace at all.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia hit Kyiv's Academy of Sciences with a jet drone at midday The strike on the historic building set it on fire, killed a woman, and injured 5, city officials said. 📹 Facebook/Christopher Atwood
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just read a third or possibly fourth news article where the reality of an 'AI has discovered something marvellous!' story turns out to be GenAI somehow accessed material it had no permissions for, which was the outcome of an expert's years of work, and presented it without attribution. GenAI lies.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026
Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Celebrating Dame Maggie Smith's unmatched versatility--from fantasy to mystery, comedy & period drama. Commanding presence, wicked wit & her legendary arched eyebrow could convey withering disdain or twinkling humor without needing a single word of dialogue. She died #OTD in 2024. #MovieSky #UK
A photo collage showcasing the legendary range of Dame Maggie Smith in four of her most memorable roles:

Top left: Maggie Smith as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter series, wearing a tall, pointed black witch's hat and dark textured robes with a high collar. A large ornate pendant hangs at her neck as she gazes forward with calm authority.

Top right: Maggie Smith as Miss Bowers in Death on the Nile (1978), dressed in a formal black tuxedo-style suit with a crisp white shirt and black bow tie. She adjusts her bow tie while looking intently ahead with a composed, slightly stern expression.

Bottom left: Maggie Smith as Dora Charleston in Murder by Death (1976), seated in an opulent interior with carved wooden details. She has glamorous, voluminous reddish-blonde curled hair, wears a light-colored chiffon scarf draped elegantly over her shoulders, with a serious, focused expression.

Bottom right: Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey, seated outdoors on a white garden bench surrounded by greenery. She wears an elegant wide-brimmed straw hat with a purple ribbon and flower accent, a burgundy velvet coat over lace, and delicately holds a cane while offering a subtle, wise smile.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ukrainian Defenders managed to carry out one of the largest drone operations to deliver food to residents of occupied #Oleshky, where Russia has created a humanitarian catastrophe&continues to hold around 2,000 residents hostage,including nearly 50 children 📹Kherson Regional Military Administration
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Russia strikes apartment buildings. Ukraine strikes refineries. Trump is angry at Ukraine and calls for them publicly and privately to stop bombing refineries while saying nothing about Russia killing children.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was asked about by a pro-life student why he should support me…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
6 weeks from the election & suddenly Republicans pretend to care more about their constituents than cultish obedience to Trump. But 5 minutes after the election they’ll be right back selling you out so they can get a signed hat in the Oval Office or a dinner invite to Mar-a-Lago.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/09/2026
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well? n.pr/4cWzDXd
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Police, fire, EMT and mental health: How one city is leading the charge to reshape 911
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 20/09/2026
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has published its new report on civilian casualties. In just 8 months of 2026, 2,222 civilians have been killed and 13,058 more injured. That's already more than in 2025 overall. russia’s inhumane practices unfold in front of the entire world🧵
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Sara @sara2814.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lanterns is awesome. Now it’s even more awesome. 😁
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just gonna light this bag of dogshit on fire and walk away from the doorstep, but the people in media I hear saying AI has made them "more productive" appear to be producing less than ever, and worse things than ever. I wonder if they can even tell.
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Sara @sara2814.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
MORE OF THIS!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 20/09/2026
⚡️Ukraine reveals new Operation Vivaldi gains in Donetsk Oblast Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps said it has liberated a further 40 square kilometers (15.4 square miles) of territory in Donetsk Oblast, as well as retaking several villages during the ongoing Operation Vivaldi offensive.
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Ukraine reveals new Operation Vivaldi gains in Donetsk Oblast
"As promised, I am reporting good news," corps commander Brig. Gen. Andrii Biletskyi said in a statement on Sept. 20.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Operation Vivaldi, Season 2 - Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps confirms the liberation of Shandryholove and Derylove. Drobysheve is also under Ukrainian control. "During the second stage, more than 800 enemy servicemen were killed.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 19/09/2026
The Pentagon says 18 U.S. troops have died in Trump's Iran war. But new reporting from six U.S. officials with direct access to the Pentagon's casualty data, says the real number is higher. Five put the toll at at least 22, while one put it at 23. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy Batman Day! Art from Batman: Ghosts by Sam Kieth (2018)
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1945. 24 fired female employees of the Lindstrom Tool and Toy Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut picketed outside the factory in protest of their firing to replace with returning men. Let's tell the often untold story of women workers in World War II!
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
👇🎯 The thing that should have gotten front page coverage, from the very beginning, is that threatening 🇬🇱 & 🇨🇦 was an egregious violation of our NATO treaty commitments & should have immediately ended his presidency.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So Trump caves after creating a crisis that was massively costly to key US alliances, and will declare victory for, and lie about the scope of, a “deal” that enshrines the status quo ante but leaves what were good faith relations laden with distrust & resentments. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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U.S. and Denmark Reach Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says
The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here's a list of every media company we've linked to Brown Brothers Media: futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Here's Every Known Publication Owned by Brown Brothers Media, Which Buys News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills
The little-known company Brown Brothers Media operates a vast media empire. Here are the many sites we've linked to the network.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Nearly 10M American kids live below the poverty line. There is a proven fix—the expanded Child Tax Credit, which in 2021 helped cut child poverty nearly in half. But Congress let the expansion expire, and the bill to bring it back has been stalled. #Affordability #CostOfLiving #News #Politics
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 18/09/2026
Every year, on the third Friday of September, Ukraine marks the Day of Remembrance of Journalists. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, at least 152 media workers have been killed in Ukraine. Twenty-one of them were killed while doing their jobs. 🧵 1/10 ⬇️
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/09/2026
Welp, now we know who their other clients are. As I've been saying, the tech fascists are buying up Democratic consultants by the bushel. They have enough money to *BUY BOTH SIDES* Time to burn out the rot and build a party that serves the people, not the billionaires.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Joe Rogan suddenly acting like he was an innocent bystander for years and had no idea what Trump was all about until now and did nothing to help get him elected is pretty weak and pathetic. Just own it.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every news outlet shames itself by using the word “skeptic.” Skeptic implies someone waiting for evidence, not someone committed to ignoring it. Vaccine denialism does not deserve to be lent the prestige of critical thinking.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 18/09/2026
UNITED24 has NEVER paid any ambassadors, bloggers or anyone for supporting Ukraine or the platform. We’ve been seeing these baseless accusations for years. But no proof of that nonsense. Yet, thanks to Tucker Carlson and other russian mouthpieces, this slander continues to circulate. Here’s how👇
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 18/09/2026
⚡️ Pro-Kremlin bots are using fakes from Tucker Carlson's show to target celebrity supporters of Ukraine. @u24.gov.ua confirmed all cooperation is unpaid and donations go directly to official accounts. 🧵 1/6 ⬇️
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In Konotop, Sumy region, two women were injured. Residential buildings, a kindergarten, a school, shops, medical facilities, and railway infrastructure were damaged. Severed power lines left parts of the city without electricity, and a gas pipeline was also damaged.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
I closed my trade imbalance with the grocery store, now I just eat the money I would have spent there.
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