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Christine Kinser @ckinser.bsky.social · 8h

🆘CHERRY 2B KILLED Adopted in August, her family lost their home Gorgeous, smart & spirited, she became reactive 2 dogs inside & ACC made her TDO on the 23rd, meaning she could no longer leave her kennel for walks or potty breaks. She’s their prisoner now 💔 🙏Repost

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If my business put me into a $42 billion dollar hole they would not let me have that business anymore. The way we let rich people just fuck up on a MONUMENTAL scale is wild man.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026

Another day working in AI Safety at a frontier lab. Everyone asks me if they can use the model without it hacking into the UN. Buddy, they won’t even let me use the model without it hacking into the UN.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 29/09/2026

Letter to the Editor: For neighborhood establishments in North Lawndale, this delay carries severe financial consequences.

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Letters: Release the licenses for video gaming terminals. Chicago’s small businesses need them.

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Mike N., MSN, RN @mniesphoto.com · 29/09/2026

"Don't play with your food, kids. Unless you're an appellate justice in the State of New York, then it's OK."

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have to drive slow in the school zone. 🐟

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

Moed Tov! Суккот муборак! Today I joined Rabbi Shlomo Nisanov in Kew Gardens to distribute free food to New Yorkers in honor of Sukkot. Thank you to Rabbi Nisanov for the reminder that community and service deepen our most joyful holidays.

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The loss of peace, quiet, and all the wildlife that welcomes is worth significantly more than $10k a lot. I’d argue it is *PRICELESS*.

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Mega Thee Tron @valarmordollars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Keep going

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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you hear a man taking offense to or "not-all-men"-ing any conversation around the Cornell horrors, run as far away from them as you can (unless you're another straight man—if they're doing that, they definitely are straight—in which case, stick around and have it out).

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The economy can look like it’s moving in the right direction– until you look more closely. New data from the National Women’s Law Center shows that while the overall wage gap for women narrowed in 2025, the gap for Black women working full-time, (cont.) www.theroot.com/new-report-b...

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Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If their family is food-insecure, housing-insecure, healthcare-insecure, job-insecure, and/or transportation-insecure, but they think a higher priority should be placed on their own sexual insecurity because gay and trans people scare them, they are bad parents, bad Christians, bad humans.

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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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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All day this. Property taxes are so high they are UNHOUSING fixed-income homeowners w/fully paid mortgages. After the COVID pause, OH has once again commenced selling prop debt tax to pvt companies to then charge HOMEOWNERS an addl 19% interest on debts. Designed to drain gen wealth + it’s working.

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Each is a long bet on cheap gas. So far, full US export terminals have shielded American prices: by late April, European and Asian gas was up 35 and 51 percent since Hormuz closed, while US gas had fallen 9 percent. But…data centers could add 2 to 10 billion cubic feet a day of US demand by 2030.”

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the clearest possible example of how trans exclusion harms women's rights. This conference hosted important discussions about a whole range of critical issues, but its decisions were devalued by the fact that the party capitulated to the threat of lawfare. Transphobia harms all women.

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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Clavicular, Peters, has been charged with raping a 17-year-old girl, drugging a person for sexual intercourse and supplying alcohol to someone under 21. He denies the charges and has not entered a plea. #OpDeathEaters

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This has been the goal of rw propaganda for decades - at LEAST as long as I have been alive - ANNIHILATE public faith in the USG. (Member Ronnie + “im frm the govt and im here to hlp”? I do.) It is insidious and heartbreaking as one who truly believes the govt can + should serve its ppl. 💔🇺🇸

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life.

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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Levitating right now

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 28/09/2026

Whether you vote early or on Election Day, make your plan and get to the polls by November 3. Make sure you’re registered. Know your polling location. And let your voice be heard. Vote like your nation depends on it. Because it does. 💙 🗣️ jnevarae (IG)

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

call me when there's an AI agent onto which i can offload my chronic sense of dread that just around the next corner is an existentially important task i've forgotten to do that's about to bite me in the ass. i am not interested in models which require me to turn the dread into tasks myself

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is dangerous and illegal af. There isn’t a family in this country who doesn’t count someone gay, lesbian, or non-gender conforming in their tree. NOT ONE. (When will enough be enough, 🇺🇸?)

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Mei, lvl. 38 Warlock of the Expensive Paper @meithemouse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meanwhile, the Cat Dispersal Process continues unabated.

Four panels showing the arduous process of adopting a dog, such as going to a shelter, finding one that looks at you, filling out paperwork, and bringing the dog home.

This is followed by two panels where she is living comfortably before a cat unexpectedly crashes into her life, specifically through the ceiling, which is only slightly an exaggeration most of the time.

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

I love recession art with themes like “don’t buy food, make your fridge into a mid museum”

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 28/09/2026

Cheyenne Hunt speaking at 60 Million Survivors Rising in NYC: “We want powerful men held to the same standards of law as everyone else. We want survivors believed the first time, not the 15th. And we are going to make sure that you stop mistaking our anger for weakness.” #SheShed #BelieveSurvivors

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In lieu of the fake $5000 checks, can we all just get full dental coverage for 1 yr?$500 a root canal means a lot of unsaved choppers. And ain’t nobuddy got implant coverage or $$$. (Jk. Every promise is a lie. Grrrl can dream, tho.) Xo, Gen X

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Idk any of us is prepared for the austerity that has to be in front of us after this insanity. If removed, they will blame the Blues for the pain. Nvr Deer Leedurr or the party truly responsible. And a whole lot of us gonna gobble it up. You’ve been cautioned. And you’ve seen it before.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or biological pathogens. If a product is potentially dangerous, it should be regulated and corporations should be held accountable for wrongdoing. Why would AI be any different? www.commondreams.org/news/ai-securi…

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AI Giants Probe 'Tens of Thousands' of Security Incidents—Some Involving Government Sites | Common Dreams

Security researchers investigate tens of thousands of artificial intelligence security incidents, fueling fresh calls fo

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Big creative + info literacy s/o to the new ELF Cosmetics commercial, “Un-Glammy Valley”. They do a straight up cheetoh dusted face to highlight a concealer that blends properly. 😂 + the “Uncanny Valley” wordplay is spot on this moment in history. 🤖 Would LOVE to know the artist or agency bc 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...

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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.

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i got nothin @shwonline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Victoria aka Blaze @burrddoh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mmhmm

The last 24 hours of news as a woman:
- A man jacks off to the woman next to him on a plane. United makes her return to her seat.
- 7 frat boys drug and gang rape a student for hours, and advertise "free p*ssy" to their frat. Cornell makes them write essays.
- A football player rapes a student. LSU reduces his suspension.
- A teen boy stalks and stabs a girl 10 times.
Courts grant only a restraining order.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026

i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again"

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The piece is rigorous, ferocious and appropriate, and people should click through and read it.

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notthesameone2.bsky.social @notthesameone2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🐾 10-y/o blind Maxine surrendered end of Aug b/c owner moving w/o her. Listed for scratching her kennel walls all day. Housetrained, friendly, quiet, petite, spayed. Earned 2nd best behavior rating, playful w/ strangers, kids, familiar dogs & cats. Foster or adopt by 9/29: nycacc.app#/browse/263706

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notthesameone2.bsky.social @notthesameone2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🐾2-y/o malinois Cherry 🍒 came in early July & is now back again b/c owner lost their housing, surrendered last week. House/ crate-trained, smart, protective, knows cues, loyal, independent, athletic, playful, spayed, young & healthy. Looking to be a solo pet. Foster by 9/29 nycacc.app#/browse/259104

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cultivating a v important vibe rn and honestly bummed realizing that a friend I thought was a lifer is actually seasonal. Even worse? Idt there’s anything she can do or say to change my mind. Sometimes breaks are organic and good. Even if they’re not at all pleasing or fun.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can't stop thinking about how many men read that Snapchat and did nothing. How many men in that house knew a woman was being gang raped and did nothing. This is why we say all men. Bc it's your friends, your besties, your fellow frat bros and you do nothing to stop them.

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