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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1h

legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 8h

That this evening may be holy, good, and peaceful,

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David Mattingly @davidmattingly.bsky.social · 8h

I just wrote a Substack post about the Animorph characters' clothing, titled “Animorphs: What Happened to the Morphing Characters’ Clothes?” You can read it here, complete with illustrations: myadventuresasanillustrator.substack.com/p/animorphs-...

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Animorphs: What Happened to the Morphing Characters’ Clothes?

The science of Animorphs

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 9h

I don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 14h

Again: This is what a small team could document with the resources available to them. Let's think about all the cases they WERE NOT able to document. I think an order of magnitude is conservative, we should imagine 5,000 cases as our absolute baseline minimum.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I do not post screenshots from the X app because I am not an importer of filth. All the filth you see here is organic and locally sourced

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Virginia Mercury @virginiamercury.com · 05/10/2026

An SCC examiner determined parts of NextEra's past, including its $150 million settlement to resolve a dispute over whether the company lied about its involvement in political interference schemes in Florida, should be included in the merger review. virginiamercury.com/2026/10/05/s...

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State regulators to allow part of NextEra’s political past to be examined in Dominion merger case • Virginia Mercury

The Virginia State Corporation Commission will allow documents detailing an internal investigation into NextEra Energy’s failed attempt to acquire a Florida utility.

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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Take her away, boys." "I thought you said the law was powerless." "Powerless to help you, not punish you."

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When the bad man finally drops dead we can all move on. We'll still be sharing a country with countless people who gleefully aided and abetted his crimes but they probably won't do it again

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s also notable that the accountability systems are often designed by the police and police unions to be as ineffective as possible and to stand in the way of accountability while convincing the public they’re serious about accountability, just trust us but don’t look too closely.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The cops shot a man as he was trying to enter his own apartment, killing him and shooting holes in the neighboring apartment where other people were luckily not hit. Then cops conspired to fabricate believable probable cause for killing the man.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This article gives a little peek into police culture and how some of them are conspiring murderers and reckless sociopaths who have little regard for the life of others or laws and policies.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

How quickly we've forgotten how many of these university leaders sent the police to beat up peaceful student, faculty, and staff protestors! Start there if you want to talk about "trust."

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

Higher ed leaders are worried about the "decline of public trust"; what are they doing about the fact that faculty, students, and staff at their own institutions do not trust them to lead effectively, defend academic freedom, and meet the challenges of the moment?

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elenloth.bsky.social @elenloth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is what I keep trying to tell people! Oppression is not a single scalar value! It is contextual and variable and different axes intersect differently!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

nevertheless many are impelled in that direction, because one supposes it has the neat feature of dividing up the world into good guys and bad guys, and that makes thinking easier. stupider too, and more incorrect. but easy

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

what i really regret is the bastardization of intersectionality. crenshaw's insight was that systems of oppression intersect in complex ways, rather than merely additive ones. as a result looking for a singular scale of oppression that delivers an ordinal ranking of all groups is a fool's errand

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

We are *clearly* steaming into one of these situations. The wealthy squandered two generations preventing the world from tacking the climate emergency, and now the inevitable has arrived. California is on track to see a *12"* sea-level rise in the next *month*: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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California rushes to prepare for massive ‘Kelvin’ wave and predicted sea level rise

Wave nearing southern California expected to reach San Francisco Bay Area by October as it crawls toward Alaska

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

Since this breaking point arrives as a result of oligarchy, in which nearly all the world's wealth has been hoarded by a tiny number of people, those aristocrats are disproportionately impoverished by the conflagration.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

If 90% of the wealth is in the hands of 1% of the people, a war or disaster that wipes out most capital will mostly destroy the wealth of the 1%. The poor suffer terribly, but they start with nothing - and end with nothing.

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

In other words, voting only matters if it's the final stage of a sustained campaign to build and mobilize popular power. Without that, voting will get you precious little.

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(((Foggy D))) @dogfuck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If I were wiser I would not be on social media at all

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Critical Criminology @critcrim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Policing is a scam that makes you pay for your own repression #ACAB In Vancouver. #FTP

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Nathan Alderman @nathanalderman.com · 02/10/2026

I'll need to trawl through my files to see if I can track where that money went. Meanwhile, records show GCSO is also billing ICE for "ICE overtime," to the tune of thousands of dollars a month. For some, this is ~$100/month; for others, $1000s, equal to 10% to 20% of their salary & hours recorded.

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Nathan Alderman @nathanalderman.com · 02/10/2026

And since not every news outlet is cool enough to provide absolutely free news like @cvilleweekly.bsky.social, here's an unpaywalled archive of WSJ's excellent report. archive.is/sF1ph

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Nathan Alderman @nathanalderman.com · 02/10/2026

I have FOIA'd records from GCSO showing one of these payments, for the round sum of $180,000 -- which, at $15K each, would imply 12 task force members at the time -- for "IT and equipment."

A 4/30/26 payment record from ICE, labeled "298(g) TFM [Task Force Model] Service Provider 2026 IT and Equipment Incentives" with the subject "Greene County Sheriff's Office 287g report Jan 1-Mar 31, 2026," with a payment of $180,000 divided equally between "Information Technology" and "Equipment."

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Juan Pablo De Wes @juanpablodewes.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Appreciate that it’s not easy for everyone to switch to solar, heat pumps, and EV’s for a variety of reasons. But if are able to do it, go for it 🙂

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My new project The Witness Tree comes out today. It’s the result of 2 years of recording & research interviewing/collaborating with remarkable trees in Virginia & making music with a biodata sonification device. You can stream or buy this album at Bandcamp!

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The Witness Tree, by Daniel Bachman

16 track album

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

adding this for context's sake: "We demonstrate that reallocating subsidy savings through existing national social assistance programs can effectively resolve the tension between fossil fuel subsidy reform and social equity." bsky.app/profile/rons...

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"Chiji's" boo-liever @shindleria235.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the inner flame gutters i wonder about how to Talk to Your Doctor about Depression™ what am i not doing (that i haven't been) pressure at the sides of the skull pounding away "polycrisis, polycrisis" a sickness of the soul, swelling siren golden sunlit treetops sticky sweet and overly carbonated

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/10/01/d...

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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

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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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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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Overall things are moving in the right direction: "Around USD 2.2 trillion is going collectively to renewables, nuclear, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency and electrification, twice as much as the USD 1.1 trillion going to oil, natural gas and coal."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Specifically: global investment in solar estimated at 450 billion USD over 2025. Full writeup here: www.iea.org/reports/worl...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But fossil capital's ability to slow energy transition and maintain a measure of political control is a problem with a rising body count, and the sooner we usher them out of relevance the better

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation

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404 Media @404media.co · 01/10/2026

NEW: Public records obtained by 404 Media show administrators taking meetings with parents and alumni when they take issue with student reporting. This comes as student journalists at The Cornell Daily Sun earned recognition for breaking the “Cornell Seven” story.

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How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists

As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 01/10/2026

I absolutely know who needs to hear this, though I won’t name names. Progressive orgs need to stop pretending that “AGI” and “x-risk” are ideas to take seriously. No one is building a computer god that could go rogue and turn us into paper clips.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

and fuck your purple messaging too. drag the window left by forcefully defending human rights everywhere and it will be a winner again. the party has to lead with integrity and clarity of purpose.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There *may* be purple jurisdictions where this isn't true, and that's depressing, but there is no way the party should let the messaging required for that hypothetical backwater dictate what elected officials in safe seats say and do. Trans rights are human rights. Protect your neighbors.

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unethicist @unethicist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're in Charlottesville, free at 5pm today, and interested in learning more about solidarity with Palestinians and resistance to the settler-colonial Zionist project from within Jewish traditions, this is the place for you to be!

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