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S.E. Sinkhorn

@sesinkhorn.com
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Mother. Bi. She/her/hers. Californian. Atheist. Writer. Tiny ball of fury. Occasional watercolor artist. Still loves sci-fi and feminism. altChristian newsletter author: altchristian.beehiiv.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 3h
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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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 5m
god what a weird little freak of a man
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 5h
Two hours into #DVpit 2026 and we're already seeing some amazing pitches! For anyone new to the event, here is a summary of the rules. For full guidelines go to dvpit.carrd.co
September 30, 2026 8AM-8PM ET
DVPit 2026
* #DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors.
* Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Sept 30, 2026 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET.
* Your pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use #DVArt)
* A like ❤️ from an agent = a query request
* A repost 🔁 from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
* A like ❤️ from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
* Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches.
go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 5h
NEW: ICE published — then removed — internal mortality reviews detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
sfchronicle.com
ICE published — then removed — internal reports detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S.
The reports, briefly posted online, examined the deaths of 33 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between September 2019 and January 2026.
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 14h
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h
The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h
the single rarest skill on social media
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 15h
Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 19h
It's a myth that's more unbelievable than Bigfoot, crazier than CRT and wilder than "wokeness." Its existence can't be supported by scientific, historical or biblical evidence. Yet we believe it. There is no such thing as an "evangelical Christian"
dlvr.it
Media’s Little White Lie: There’s No Such Thing As an ‘Evangelical Christian’
How evangelical Christianity became part of the biggest myth in American media.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h
NEW: SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness. A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts. Tonight, at Law Dork:
lawdork.com
SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness
A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 18h
speaking of: www.almanacnews.com/ae/features/...
almanacnews.com
Stanford journalist's new book explores dark side of university's relationship with Silicon Valley
Theo Baker, whose reporting led to the resignation of the university's president, looks at how Silicon Valley has shaped Stanford in his new book, "How to Rule the World."
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 18h
you don't have to abolish Greek Life but you should absolutely abolish Greek Housing and "secret societies" that everyone in university admin know about but pretend don't exist
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026
I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...
store.steampowered.com
Dressmaker on Steam
Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Writers, if you are against AI, do not put your writing into ANY tool that is itself AI. Not to check grammar, not to "prove" you wrote it yourself. Everything you give them becomes part of their data, even if it's only to "improve their service" or whatever BS they tell you.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 20h
I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 20h
Specifically the QUEER romance. Most people loved the QUEER romance being given the treatment that usually only straight romances get.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 19h
I still think about the lady I was on a call with to report debit card fraud and she asked me questions and I just... gave her the answers, and she was like, "just... thank you. thank you for knowing things. so many people don't know their last purchase. I probably shouldn't say that."
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 20h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kane (Minkmoding) @kanexan.bsky.social · 21h
Lmao oh my god I think it’s trying to ape the writing in the post-Ender Dragon cutscene because that’s the only written material in Minecraft. Like look at this!!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21h
America.gov runs off of Gemini and Grok (of course), by the way: www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/t...
cnbc.com
New AI-powered government website uses Gemini, Grok, Trump official Gebbia says
Trump called the new website, America.gov, "a restoration of America's founding promise."
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 21h
Third Way are weathervanes and this is what it feels like to have the wind at your back again
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23h
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 20h
I mean can you "turn" on someone when they turned on you first
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23h
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
thecut.com
How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22h
JFC. Another unsigned ruling by rank cowards. How many dead bodies will the fascist Justices be responsible for by the time the next hearing date rolls around in December?. Fascist Supreme Court Justices are an enemy of the people's rights. Pack the court, soonest. Or else lose the Republic entire.
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now (Gift Article)
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 20h
I would say lol lmao, but unfortunately she has caused so much harm by being an asshole that it's not really worth the chuckle. this is good.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 20h
Months before he was killed, a 40-year-old games engineering director at the New York Times alleged his wife and in-laws abused him for being transgender, court records show.
bit.ly
New York Times engineer’s killing followed years of conflict, alleged anti-trans abuse by in-laws
Months before he was killed, a 40-year-old games engineering director at the New York Times alleged his wife and in-laws abused him for being transgender, court records show.
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026
the classic "5 popped collars" meme

a young white man stands in front of a beige wall with a Scarface poster on it, looking off-camera. he wears a light blue polo shirt, and you can see that he has at least four more polo shirts underneath it because all the shirt collars are popped at his neck.

the photo has a black border and white text that reads, "5 POPPED COLLARS: Because 4 popped collars is so last year"
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026
yo local friends
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026
impossible to tell what's a troll and what's incompetence anymore, honestly
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are barely any women or black people in games media and I can think of a couple reasons why but no one will like it
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026
I am here begging more people to read Careless People because its author is still under gag order while tied up in litigation with Meta and she can't talk about it. read what she wrote. it's important for the public to know. it'll be out in paperback in January. bookshop.org/p/books/care...
bookshop.org
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
#1 New York Times BestsellerA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE!“Care...
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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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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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026
we bought our house because we happened to be buying RIGHT at the lull after the housing market crash when interest rates were decent and housing prices were climbing but not insane. it was 2013. our house is now "worth" over double what we purchased it for. we could not do that today.
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026
you should, in fact, stop to consider how you're interacting with other people, whether it's appropriate for the setting, and how they might be receiving it. it's an important part of living in a society.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.
theintercept.com
The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.
After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/09/2026
Our phones have become such essential chroniclers of so much of our lives.
prismreports.org
Smartphones hold entire archives of life in Gaza
As Israel destroys all signs of what Gaza once was, Palestinians hold on to records and memories on their devices
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Many people are asking.
prospect.org
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026
mmmmm cool that's going to be fun to bring up at the next community meeting after the police insist, again, that Flock absolutely does not do facial recognition because it "can't"
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026
my assumption as well, with a side of being able to blame the government when they can no longer deliver for their investors. which they never could to begin with, but they don't want the investors to know that.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With alt text. I yelled
INTRODUCTION

The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they
provide a service without fully knowing how it works. 

This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued
survival of humankind. 

Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the
government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast. 

Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your
cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Transphobia is just sexism, hope all the TERFs who’ve supported ending my trans rights can go stare long and hard in the mirror, then get a good therapist.
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JUCIFER🗑 @jucifer.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
so often you'll see ppl say about incarcerated folx, "well that's why it's called punishment" meanwhile this story is not an outlier
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026
excellent use of just letting the competition dig themselves into a hole with their own words
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