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Shannon Carey

@scmaestra.bsky.social
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High school history teacher. Anti-fascist. Oakland. she/her.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 22h
When people tell you that you must embrace AI because it is "here to stay," you could ask them if this is part of what they would like you to embrace
Outlit’s goal is to amass as much real-time information about a company’s clients as possible. According to Earle, agents trawl internal records like call logs and sales data as well as external information like social media posts and the websites of people’s employers; they then compile that data into detailed customer profiles, often complete with “actionables” like outreach recommendations and sales guidance. Outlit argues this level of insight will help companies prevent “churn” — business jargon for lost customers — or find opportunities to upsell.
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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 14h
Worthy of prison. A lot of people need to go to prison. Everyone involved. Under what statute? I don’t give a shit. Find one.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
You know it!
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Keep it coming, Oakland
Spray paint on a concrete column: WE WANT YOU TO KEEP ICE OUT Spray paint on a concrete column: THE VEIL IS THINNING, BREAK THROUGHSpray paint on a concrete column: ice out now
DONT JUST FUCKING STAND THERE
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Shout out to the 16 yo kid who, when reading section 3 of the 14th Amendment (any oathholder who participates in an insurrection against the United States shall not hold public office again) sat straight up in her chair and said, "Now wait a damn minute...!"
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is an actual Nazi rally.
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
the racism, fascism and violence at this rally should make those who have a conscience sick to their core
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 09/10/2026
a million dead from usaid cuts? no matter. polluting black communities with byop gas plants? what's the big deal? give 1s and 0s the sadz? well, that's just intolerable.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk X.com

I think this is the right move. Cruelty to
something that believes it is experiencing pain is
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Usually, I pepper my American history teaching with relevant lessons about what is happening in the America of the moment we're in. This year, sharing the words and actions of our leadership class feels like it would cause actual harm to my students. It feels like I'd be disseminating hate speech.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This Day in Labor History: October 9, 1961. The Supreme Court refused to review a Tennessee state Supreme Court order revoking the charter of the Highlander Folk School. Let's talk about this legendary space of radical labor and civil rights organizing in the rural South!
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 06/10/2026
a moral society doesn’t murder people. not even the worst people. there is no way to do it that is more humane. humane is a story we tell ourselves so we don’t have to sit with how backwards it is.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There's a reason we're not eating human thumbs in our canned meats and have ventilation in our shop floors: muckrakers and labor exposed conditions and people forced Progressive-era lawmakers to legislate. Such actions are *still possible*
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In our 2026 end-time capitalism we've got lotsa muckrakers exposing corrupt business practices, but paltry few politicians willing to *actually pass legislation* to regulate these practices. Read this excellent 🧵 on surveillance pricing.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thanks, Greg!! Amazing!!! 👏👏
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'd like a section about Where His Eyebrows Went
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think of this 15 year old video maybe once a week and accidentally quote it to youngs with embarrassing frequency youtu.be/2UFc1pr2yUU?...
youtu.be
Whole Foods Parking Lot - Music Video [HD]
YouTube video by FogandSmogFilms
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you teach in high schools right now and you so much as mention Cornell get ready for a world of pain and righteous anger. It's all thiiiiiiiiiis close to the surface for the girls and femme-coded kids we teach.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Totally. My older kid, who just graduated from Tech, had to write a college app essay on dealing with diversity, and was literally stumped. He ended up writing about someone he knew from another country and I was like HELLO YOU GO TO TECH what are you doing dude but he was like that's just NORMAL
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is why teaching at Oakland Tech is like the coolest job in the whole wide world
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whatever else can be said about the Jack Smith hearing, I cannot get enough of him leaning into the microphone, taking a beat, and then responding "nooo." Theatre.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's eerily like Phyllis Shlafly's arc!
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I see you Anne and I am here. You're dealing with a bonkers situation that would try anyone to their very limit.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A stray cat wandered on to our stoop this past June, started meowing, didn't stop, and now we're several dozen pounds of meow mix and 2 vet visits in with a new family member that 3 of us are violently allergic to. It just HAPPENED.
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21/09/2025
a group of people were like "i found a way to live my life as a truer version of myself" and instead of being like "that's beautiful, how can i help" people were like "i don't think schools should have books in them anymore"
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The propaganda war for AI feels a lot like the push to sell the Iraq War.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i think about this post all the time. you might too
Snooby
@DoBiddley1
I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To which I may have said, oh you heard CORRECTLY
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shout out to the student who, when I reveal Andrew Johnson's picture in discussing the assassination of Lincoln, says, "Ooh I heard that guy was a dickhead"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
apnews.com
https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What?!? That is both infuriating and totally bizarre
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
finance.yahoo.com
OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ooooooh!!! I hope it's great!
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
L'code, c'est moi
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Amazing!
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You're a better woman than I
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/09/2026
If you’re in California, call @robbonta.bsky.social and yell at him. 916-445-9555
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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