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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h
'I Exist LOL' by contemporary US artist Martha Rich #WomensArt #FridayFeeling #UnlockingWomensArt
Colourful artwork with various motifs, such as star shapes, stylised eyes and lines against a pink background
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SerendipME @serendipme.bsky.social · 1h
Neither can the rest of the world.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h
Charlie Angus: In just a year and a half, Canadian purchases of vehicles made on the American side of the border dropped 30%. If you take the American export auto economy, Canada’s number one. If you take the next 10 countries and put them together, it’s still less than Canada at number one.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 4h
This baby chimp's reaction to reuniting with its caretaker after months apart will wreck you
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SerendipME @serendipme.bsky.social · 2h
I love pitbulls so much. They are just so in-tune with their owners and so loving.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 6h
Dog refuses to leave his unwell owner's side. Loyalty
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Carrie N Baker @carrienbaker.bsky.social · 21h
A new PBS series, inspired by Ms. reporting, explores how medications used in abortion and emergency contraception could transform women’s health and why patients are still waiting after decades of feminist advocacy. msmagazine.com/2026/10/01/a...
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Antiabortion Politics Blocks Research on Fibroids, Endometriosis and Breast Cancer. The Media Is Finally Paying Attention.
Mifepristone is known as the abortion pill, but it has other uses most Americans have never heard about. For more than three decades, scientists have known this medication could do far more than end a...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
He's banning and prosecuting political groups, invoking anti-terror laws (which Obama supported and promised would only be used proportionately and wisely) to chase his grassroots opposition underground: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization
Section 1.  Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.  Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
Of course, Trump is doing everything he can to extinguish *both* small p politics *and* Big P Politics. It's not just his wildly illegal voter suppression tactics.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
But even if you accept the Green Lantern apologetics, the fact remains that Obama *could* have had a clamoring army of ardent supporters in the streets, defending his agenda against recalcitrants in his own party and wreckers in the GOP. He *chose* not to have that army. He sent that army home.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
And his promise to hold the phone companies to account for their complicity in the NSA's mass domestic surveillance: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... He stepped up secret drone warfare: www.cfr.org/articles/oba... And unconstitutional domestic surveillance: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
He shielded the CIA's torturers from scrutiny and prosecution: journals.law.harvard.edu/ilj/2009/04/... He reneged on his promise to shut down Gitmo: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Obama Publishes ‘Torture’ Memos, Immunizes CIA Staff
The Obama Justice Department has released four memos detailing the harsh techniques used on some detainees during the Bush administration.  The memos – three written in 2005 and another in 20…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
He let the bank executives who created the Great Financial Crisis off the hook and encouraged them to foreclose on the homes of millions of Americans, the very same public that had bailed them out: theweek.com/articles/624...
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This is Obama's biggest failure
He could have used law enforcement to protect homeowners from bank fraud. He didn't.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
For Obama, the grassroots were useful for one thing: getting out the vote. The last thing he wanted was for millions of activated voters to turn into activists who'd flame him and harangue him and picket him if they didn't like his compromises. Boy, did Obama ever compromise.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
If you've ever wondered why your vote seems to accomplish so little, I think you can blame the near-abolition of small p politics by Big P politicians of every stripe.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
Which is to say, Big P politics matter, but to *make* them matter, we need a lot of small p politics. That means that democracy isn't something you do every couple of years with a ballot paper (though that's an important aspect of the process). Democracy is continuous.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
From the Magna Carta to the Constitution to the Emancipation Proclamation to 19th Amendment, voting rights (what you might call "Big P" Politics) were always downstream of protests, riots, petitions, mass movements, strikes and good, old fashioned community organizing (that is, "small p" politics).
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SerendipME @serendipme.bsky.social · 4h
WHY IS HE NOT FIRED! I mean, I get it, we don't have a mechanism to fire a voted -in person. Even a total POS. Jfc, the political system in this country.
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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
lmao! capping & cropping bc i don't wanna skirmish this morning, but how do you think Movement Conservatism built (partly) its 50-year advantage against the liberal-left? churches! mega-church "third place" orbits! it's called "civic association" & yes some people find intimate connections there
Literally what is with this rise of "actually the local Dem party should fulfill all my social needs" takes

I am not doing movie night with Dems. I am not joining a Dem volunteer soccer league. I am not joining Democratic speed dating. 

Stop using politics as secular church!!!!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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abby emerson @abbyemerson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My book will be out in the world before I know it! Want to celebrate with me? All welcome - RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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SerendipME @serendipme.bsky.social · 6h
I hope he countersues. He was shot IN THE BACK. He may be paralyzed for life. Take it to a court of peers. This is outrageous. Delivery driver shot by ICE agent faces federal charges share.google/AufYdVw1UgR9...
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Delivery driver shot by ICE agent faces federal charges
A Venezuelan delivery driver shot by an ICE agent in Austin is faci...
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3: 
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange  Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21h
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
US mortgage rates jump the most in four years amid bond sell-off www.ft.com/content/2277...
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US mortgage rates jump the most in four years as bond sell-off hits Main Street
Homebuilders and prospective buyers continue to face challenging market conditions
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last month, “a 20-year-old Haitian man in Springfield, Ohio, walked into oncoming traffic after the Trump administration ended his Temporary Protected Status and ICE fitted him with an ankle monitor.” His name was Pierre Damas Bel.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/10/2026
A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a report about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues:
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Is College Getting Less Safe for Women?
A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a Wired story about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yup. Though I think the more troubling aspect is that it's not that nobody *can* stop him -- it's that those who can, don't want to, and therefore will do nothing to rein him in.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026
it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"But the problem isn’t that lots of people read the Times. The problem is that lots of liberal activists and elites are having their perspectives shaped by the Times in 2026."
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On Twitter, many years ago, I suggested that the GOP had to be completely destroyed as a U.S. political party. This was PRE-TRUMP. This led to SEVERAL days of a pile on by LIBERALS who tried to run my off the site, lol. Good times... [turns out I probably should have left the site, LOLOLOL]
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"... to discover the global wealth of women’s writing, and the prowess of the translators who bring it to our doors.” The prize is supported by the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures & the Arts and Humanities Impact Fund at the University of Warwick, and @bcltuea.bsky.social.
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"They include rediscovered classics and urgently contemporary works. They range in time and place from late 19th-century Japan, the post-First World War Netherlands, and 1990s India, to Norway, Hungary and Gaza today. We hope that our selection will encourage readers to join us on this journey..."
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"... open to work from all countries, territories and languages; open to all translators, whoever and wherever they may be; open to all kinds and genres of excellent writing, past or present. Our chosen titles span poetry, novels, short fiction and memoir..."
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026! The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir. The prize is judged in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, Véronique Tadjo, Boyd Tonkin. For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6
The 13 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation are photographed stood on a wooden shelf with their spines facing the camera. The 13 titles are: 

•	Batool Abu Akleen, 48Kg., trans. from Arabic (Palestine) by Batool Abu Akleen, with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti, Yasmin Zaher (Tenement Press)

•	Hanna Johansson, Body Double, trans. from Swedish (Sweden) by Kira Josefsson (Scribe)

•	Krisztina Tóth, Eye of the Monkey, trans. from Hungarian (Hungary) by Ottilie Mulzet (Seven Stories Press UK)

•	Linn Ullmann, Girl, 1983, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Martin Aitken (Hamish Hamilton)

•	Lalla Romano, In Farthest Seas, trans. from Italian (Italy) by Brian Robert Moore (Pushkin)

•	Hélène Bessette, Lili Is Crying, trans. from French (France) by Kate Briggs (Fitzcarraldo)

•	Eva Luka, The Minotaur’s Daughter: Selected Poems, trans. from Slovak (Slovakia) by James Sutherland-Smith (Seagull) 

•	Geetanjali Shree, Our City That Year, trans. from Hindi (India) by Daisy Rockwell (Tilted Axis)

•	Anjet Daanje, The Remembered Soldier, trans. from Dutch (Netherlands) by David McKay (Scribe) 

•	Ichiyo Higuchi, Troubled Waters, trans. from Japanese (Japan) by Bryan Karetnyk (Pushkin) 

•	Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, We Are Green and Trembling, trans. from Spanish (Argentina) by Robin Myers (Harvill)

•	Anna Nerkagi, White Moss, trans. from Russian (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) by Irina Sadovina (Pushkin) 

•	Ingvild Rishøi, Winter Stories, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Diane Oatley (Grove Press UK)
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Cusszin Vinny @cusszinvinny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here’s a picture from a few days ago. Just a hint of color on the horizon as the sun was feeling a bit under the weather. Taken from my iPhone and digitally modified to my liking. #photography #iPhonephotography #scapes #photographersofbluesky #sunrise
The still lake, and a moody, cloudy sky with a pop of color, captured from the shoreline
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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SerendipME @serendipme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Show this far and wide
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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🌺HippiesRule🌺 @teresa555.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They just don't care.
Drawing of a woman standing - head bowed -  in front of a row of men - behind a long desk with papers in front of them.
One man is saying: "It's not that we don't believe your story, it's that we don't care."

David Hayward 
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you've ever wondered how ridiculously profitable tech companies avoid paying taxes . . .
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Way to go, California! Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill yesterday banning law enforcement (ICE) from using electric shock gloves.
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My phone is terrible with distance photos, but always fun to see a bald eagle. We have lots here but seeing one never gets old.
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Erin Hanson (b.1981, USA) "Autumn in Gold" 2014. Oil on canvas.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
I’ve been asked to weigh in on the debate over whether to bring an iced coffee to an interview. It doesn't matter. Iced coffee is NOT why it's hard to land a job right now, and it's NOT why Gen Z can't get ahead. Our economy is rigged. We need to change that.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First US female photojournalist, Jessie Tarbox Beals, preparing to take a photograph, Austrian Pavilion, 1904 St. Louis World's Fair #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a woman in a long Victorian style dress and hat at the top of a very long stepladder holding a large camera as men below hold the ladder
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