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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

abolish the death penalty

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 4h

We love to imagine that someone would care!

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 5h

This is what I have been thinking about this week. I showed up at college a tiny teen virgin, and my women's dorm was covered in posters about how I had to watch my drink at all times, where the emergency phones were on campus if I ever felt unsafe. I never went to any parties. Too scared.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 9h

do the men in the group chat like each other, i wonder flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...

Do the men in the group chat like each other, I wonder-these men expressing such unmistakable, unrestrained glee as they stain their souls forever and ruin their classmate's life. I can't decide whether they're more odious if the answer is yes or if it's no, but I can't dismiss the question as unimportant, either. These fraternities that the public rarely hears about, except when their members kill or rape: do they foster the bonds of friendship or just cheaply mimic them? When some ex-frat boy needs a lawyer or an introduction to a senator later in his life, when that boy digs through the network of other boys for a hookup, what is the nature of the bond he's leaning on? I want to diagnose it. I'm the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 10h

the THRILL of being in a non customer-facing part of a business and seeing the internal signage that only employees are supposed to see. I love when they're from corporate with a logo on the bottom, I love when they're handwritten, I LOVE when they're a palimpsest of evolving procedures.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19h

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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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

extremely beside several points, but it does feel gratifying that my staunch refusal to deskill myself by injecting the brainworms means that the kid can still knock out a bespoke CSV converter in ~90 mins hyperindividualized solutions to systemic problems, nothing can go wrong

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Zinesters, booksellers, small presses et al, this is a curb alert: if you want some free displays and stuff anytime before tomorrow morning, DM me for the address (Belmont Stakes area, LIRR accessible)

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026

emulsions… very “enemies-to-lovers”

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I got a real customer service person to respond to my ticket with a request for more information. I replied with the information. The bot wrote back telling me to open a ticket. I'm in two overlapping support desk hells, and one of them is Kickstarter. Their site is so awful to use!

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beef buddy @666ofswords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

chicagoo0o0o0o, i am potentially looking for a roommate for next year, my lease is up in may. i live in hermosa by kelvyn park with scout, my 18 and a half year old cat. i work in the north shore so i'd like to stay on the north side. potential to stay in my current place or move somewhere new!

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

websites don't work anymore but at least they take forever to load

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Somehow, the late senator speaking candidly with David Ellison feels good in a place like this

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's what I think: I think if you haven't read ASKING FOR IT by Kate Harding, you should.

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TallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

8 hours for rectangle that makes you money. 8 hours for rectangle that makes you sleepy. 8 hours for rectangle that makes you sad.

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I ran an acorn foraging workshop today for a colleague’s food history class! Knowing some students would inevitably come face to face with their first acorn weevil while cracking nuts, I made a few little pins as prizes for weevil-finding 🐛

Four round black pins with smiling weevil larva painted on them, and gold lettering saying “fear no weevil”

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am in support ticket hell. I'm reasonably sure I'm talking to a real person, but every couple of emails they seem to forget what my initial problem even is, and I don't understand why they can't scroll up. Just scroll up bro, we literally covered this

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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 28/09/2026

these videos make a lot more sense when you realize they’re designed to make you upset on purpose to drive engagement

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remembering that in sixth grade the school had Feudal Day at the end of our history unit about feudalism. Two popular kids were king and queen, there were a few nobles, and the rest of us were serfs. Not subtle, public school system!

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Receiving a newsletter from @sarahbecan.bsky.social with the subject line "More About Squash" and clicking OPEN so fucking fast. I'm not ready for summer to be over but I AM ready for squash season. I have two delicatas ripening on the counter!

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Outfits That Flow Together

Wondering how to dress your group for beach photos? Learn to coordinate colors and styles that connect without matching.

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The Ⓐtomic Ⓔlbow @garbageskeleton.skin · 28/09/2026

This isn't just my favorite book cover, Moorcock cover, or whatever. It's one of my favorite pieces of art in general.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"Beggin' your pardon Mr Frodo, but all this sneaking around gets us nowhere" Sméagol, interjecting: "But what if we's has to sneaks, for a friend!" Sam, yanking the leash: "You idiot! You're a sneaking bitch!"

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Let’s hear it for the Indiana state flag. Now that’s a flag I’m proud to be from the state of

Indiana state flag. Dark blue with a gold torch surrounded by nineteen gold stars and the word “Indiana”

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m glad we got vexillology chat going on bsky today. This is, literally, what I’m here for

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@sesmith.lol apologies if this has been sent to you already—but I obviously thought of you while reading!

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People are CLAIMing they’ve never HEARD Jason Isbell’s “Songs That She Sang in the Shower,” and here’s why that’s a problem for the left:

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Downtown Ottawa has some very committed narcs who black out posters they don’t like. Nice to see a little pushback.

A small flyer poster to a light post. The text reads, “YES! to Political Posters / Elites may control our media… BUT WE CONTROL OUR STREETS / Corporate and state media control our communication as well as spread lies and propaganda / PROTECT FREE SPEECH / PUT UP POLITICAL POSTERS.” There’s a drawing of a circus clown messing with a poster on a post much like this one, and he’s labelled “YOU! Taking down this poster.” To the right is another poster that someone has attempted to black out key information on.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 27/09/2026

🌕 NOW AVAILABLE 🌕 HIDERS a short medieval sapphic werewolf romance comic by Sean T. Collins & Ignatz Award winner Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social on sale for the first time in years, sold out everywhere else b/w on deep orchid $3 "The realest thing there is." www.etsy.com/listing/2494...

the cover of HIDERS by Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. The word "HIDERS" is broken up and superimposed over wolfsbane.

A page from HIDERS. Two young women, one with long blonde hair and one with short brown hair, stand overlooking the countryside, dressed in medieval clothing, one fancier than the other. They laugh at some calamity they see in the distance, then run off together, hands touching.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 27/09/2026

if youre mad about the lesbian bar story becoming a spectacle for people to gawk at then tell your friends not to talk to journalists. everyone involved in that story agreed to be in it

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All the footage of Mitch McConnell from this week looks like a smiling friends drawing

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Psychologists explain how to work through the bigotry that made you claim never to have heard "Choosin' Texas" and could be undermining your career Not knowing Ella Langley's record-setting debut song is "worse than bringing 10 iced coffees stacked in a pyramid to the interview" say some recruiters

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You wouldn’t believe how many songs I can never have heard. Millions. Billions maybe even

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not a serious list. They don't have the 2017 Youtube Upload Of Smiley's People (1982)

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago.

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shoutout to the people who were seated behind me and had a huge emotional reaction to FWWM at the Music Box. One said through sobs, “I feel like I just saw it for the first time” and that’s the power of a big screen, baby

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