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Steve Faulkner @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

Episodes 1-25 Nov. 2025 – Sept. 2026 25 conversations with 24 people. Still to come: Aaron Gustafson, @wil.to , @shepazu.bsky.social, @shellelittle.bsky.social , Janina Sajka and @sarasoueidan.com, to name a few. #webStandards #nerdVana html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

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Doug Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

One of our missile attacks on Iran struck a school, killing 170 people, most of them schoolgirls. This is on-brand for Trump, because he's known to target young girls.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Doug Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

To all the the End-Times #Rapture preppers: Good luck! Nobody wishes you’d be taken away from this Earth more fervently than I do! To each and every one of you: farewell! #ThanksGod

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Doug Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Kimmel needs to seek an immediate injunction against his suspension, then sue ABC/ Disney for wrongful termination, and the FCC/administration for 1st Amendment violation. ABC/ Disney needs to separately sue the FCC. This needs to be expedited through the courts to SCOTUS. Clear violation of 1A.

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 15/09/2025

Right wing activist is shot - who’s to blame?

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Doug Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Fox News host confuses "liking children" with "childlike". They mean very different things.

Screencap of Fox News host Jesse Watters saying, "that's why we love him, because he has this childlike spirit. Caption: Jesse Watters confuses Trump "liking children" with "childlike".

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Let's be generous, here, and assume that by the solar system Altman wants to put the sphere outside the orbit of Neptune, and we'll just exclude the kuiper belt entirely. That would be a sphere with a diameter of 6 billion miles. Let's assume that it has the thickness of an eggshell: .3mm thick.

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 15/08/2025

The whole idea here gets to something @shepazu.bsky.social has called "underlays." In accessibility, there is an awful trend to make things called "overlays." Let me explain these before "underlays:" Overlays take inaccessible software and try to add an accessible layer over them. They are awful.

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Doug Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

When & where will be the first area to ban non-autonomous vehicles? Some city center, gated community, or something will ban vehicles driven by humans, not because autonomous vehicles are necessarily safer, but because mixing human and autonomous cars is less safe. For good or ill, it’ll happen.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/08/2025

"A lot of this infrastructure, billions of dollars of it, is being built just for a few customers and a few facilities and these happen to be the wealthiest companies in the world,” said Ari Peskoe, who directs the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University.

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As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act

Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

“It doesn’t mean upholding free speech after we win” is a really great summation of modern conservatism tbqh.

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Doug Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Just today in my business accelerator session, over half of the participants cited as risks: - dwindling grant opportunities - uncertain investment market - higher (and unknowable) cost due to tariffs. This is the most business-hostile federal administration I’ve ever seen.

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🗣️“Using #OpenDataEditor has been incredibly beneficial in my data work” As part of the ODE pilot, the City of Zagreb’s Information Systems team used ODE to align with FAIR principles and adopt frictionless standards for consistent data quality 📖 Read their story: buff.ly/NF0jF4n #TheTechWeWant

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How Open Data Editor helps us embrace FAIR data principles - Open Knowledge Blog

The senior advisor of the City of Zagreb reports on his experience piloting ODE: "It has been incredibly beneficial in my data work."

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The same Democrats who say we shouldn't make too much nationally of Mamdani's win are going out of their way to make him a national issue that will alienate voters nowhere near New York.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

[Sees large Jewish turnout for a democratic socialist who advocates solidarity, denounces ethnic hatred, and resonates with NYC's vast Jewish socialist history] "This proves why Jews cannot survive outside a genocidal ethnostate."

Tweet:
John Podhoretz
@podhoretz
"The city with the largest Jewish population in the world will
likely have as its mayor a man whose worldview and
convictions stand in opposition to the fundaments of
Judaism itself. I'm not kidding when I say that people like
Mamdani are why there has to be a Jewish state."
https://x.com/jpodhoretz/status/1937694906761482299

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

Top Dems on House and Senate Intel Committees — Jim Himes and Mark Warner, both members of Gang of Eight — were not briefed before the attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, per sources.

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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 22/06/2025

Hard to defend

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

We have now passed a grand in the kickstarter for NO RACCOONS IN HELL. Thank you! A stretch goal has been met! The bonus pin-up zine will now be 20 pages! The next stretch goal is 24 pages at $1500! The more Val drawings you want, the more pledges we need! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wan...

a screencap showing that my kickstarter is now at $1005

An infographic showing that for every $500 pledged to my kickstarter I will add 4 pages to a bonus zine, up to 32 pages at $2500. Current status: 20 pages / $1000

The cover to No Raccoons in Hell, featuring Val and Tori in a classic sleaze/detective style.

A panel from NO RACCOONS IN HELL featuring a topless Tori barfing off the porch.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

NO endless wars. NO murdering civilians. NO using *our* tax dollars for illegal and immoral military action.

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Doug Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Trump bombed 3 sites in Iran, without Congressional oversight. If this isn’t grounds for immediate removal per the 25th Amendment and/or impeachment, I can’t imagine what is. #impeach47

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

What does India May want to accomplish in the Iowa House?
May said she first got involved in Iowa politics earlier this year when she attended a town hall held by the state legislators in her area, including Thomson.

In part, May said she went to oppose a bill that would deny state funding to libraries that are members of the American Library Association and Iowa Library Association, and another that would remove an exemption in Iowa's obscenity law that shields libraries and educational institutions. Neither bill ultimately passed.

"I’m a nurse and a librarian, and I went to my first town hall this year to advocate for libraries and realized that there were a lot more pieces of legislation that were harmful on the Iowa level that I didn’t even hear about until it was too late," she said.

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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 04/06/2025

Just to be clear: the actual agenda of corporate / genAI isn't to cheaply produce media as we'd recognize it today, it's to redefine taste altogether to suit oligarchical interests. "genAI will never be able to make something as good as <insert fav game/album>" - yeah dude that's exactly the point

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Daniela Kubesch @dnikub.dev · 14/05/2025

It's almost time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day and I can finally share my thesis 🎉 It took a year but I managed to create a website with an #accessible #version of the 160-pages thesis on #AccessibilityOverlays, and some additional content! You can find it here: overlays.dnikub.dev ✨

The printed version of the thesis titled
"The impact of Web Accessibility Overlays on the Usability and User Experience for People with Permanent Visual Impairments", laying on a carpet next to two tiny disco balls.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

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Rachel @raythewren.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I'm gonna break down what's happening here in case it isn't obvious. Oz is laying the groundwork for trying to get y'all to accept the mass killing of disabled folks.

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Doug Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

We recently interviewed some candidates for a job via video. 2 of them were obviously parroting results from web searches or even AI. We care much less about correct answers than about how you think. Why do you think we’d trust or hire someone who would cheat in the interview? Don’t do this.

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Doug From Raleigh @doug-raleigh.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

TRUMP PROPOSED BUDGET - Human Services impact to North Carolina. Where is our Senator Thom Tillis (R)? #ncpol

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Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Today on the #Disability Daily Podcast we acknowledge the eugenic legacy of Buck v. Bell (1927), a U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the forced sterilization of people deemed unfit to reproduce. ⚠️ Please share! Listen & read transcript #eugenics #history #Virginia #ReproductiveRights #Ableism

Black and white photo of a young woman, Carrie Buck, with short brown hair sits outside on a bench next to her mother, Emma Buck, whose light hair is pulled up. Both women wear long light-colored dresses and stare at the camera with furrowed eyebrows and serious expressions. Emma rests her right hand on Carrie's left shoulder.

Illustration of a tree labeled Eugenics across the top of its canopy. The trunk bears the phrase Eugenics is the self direction of human evolution. The roots of the tree are labeled with various academic disciplines including biology, psychology, statistics, anthropology, law, medicine, genetics, economics, history, sociology, and religion. A caption at the bottom reads: Like a tree eugenics draws its materials from many sources and organizes them into an harmonious entity.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

what's very interesting about this age of innovation (derogatory) is that newer things are getting directly, measurably worse

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NPR @npr.org · 02/05/2025

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

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If you're a military veteran at risk of foreclosure, NPR wants to hear from you

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. We want to hear your story.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

If this isn't a cautionary warning for academics then I don't know what is. You are putting yourself one step closer to unemployment each time you use AI to write an email, synthesize literature, code any data, use the socratic method to organize ideas, or write syllabi, lectures & papers.

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 30/04/2025

Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP. "I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"

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Doug Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Hyper-wealth is a disease, a psychological disorder. It’s not a thing to aspire to or admire. It’s a degenerative condition that starts with an abnormal craving to “win” the unwinnable game of wealth and status, and grows to take over the host’s every thought and attitude. It’s akin to hoarding.

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Doug Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Today, I resubmitted a Phase II grant proposal to the NIH. We got good feedback from our original submission, and we addressed all the issues and made a much stronger proposal. We did everything properly. But we’re not sure the proposal will even be reviewed, because Trump is holding NIH hostage.

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

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Doug Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Headline: NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.

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Tony Negron @tnite02.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I agree with every single word in this for only adults rant that Rick Wilson is saying. Every single word!

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

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