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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 3h

Christin's wrong about almost everything, but right about this: This committee hearing matters & real Texas parents need to let lawmakers know the effects of SB12 & SB13. @txfreedomread.bsky.social will be there with a TON of data about the damage these laws have done. Bring your stories!

Tweet from book burner Texas Republican official Christin Bentley that reads:

“The Texas Senate Committee on Education will convene on Wednesday, October 7, at 8:00 a.m. to address several interim charges, including monitoring the implementation of legislation passed last session. The hearing specifically includes SB 571, SB 12, and SB 13, all of which contain important protections for Texas children and parental rights.

I expect there will be significant testimony regarding SB 13, which strengthened Texas' mandatory school library standards, established local school library advisory councils, and expanded parental oversight of school library materials.

SB 13 was an important step forward in our efforts to stop the sexualization of children and keep inappropriate materials out of school libraries. But passing legislation is only part of the work. Implementation and enforcement matter.”

Second part of a tweet from book burning GOP official that reads:

“We have already seen inconsistencies in implementation across the state, including districts that appear unwilling to fully comply with the law.

If you have been involved in auditing school libraries, filing local book challenges, serving on a library advisory council, or documenting problems with your district's implementation of SB 13, I strongly encourage you to participate in this hearing and share what you have seen.

You can testify in person or provide written testimony to members of the Senate Education Committee. Public testimony at the hearing will be limited to two minutes per person, and those submitting written testimony at the hearing are instructed to bring 10 copies with their name on each copy.

This is an important opportunity for legislators to hear directly from parents and community members about what is actually happening in Texas school libraries and where implementation of SB 13 may need to be strengthened.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026
8:00 a.m.
Texas Capitol, E1.028
Senate Committee on Education”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

Still somewhat rare to see it in its distilled form like this. Dude just comes out and says it.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 3h

This really throws the reasons why they love Al so much into sharp relief. Not that it wasn't obvious already, but this is a pretty explicit acknowledgment that they hate reality.

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explore.org @explore.org · 3h

Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5h

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...

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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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hark! a hellcat @harkahellcat.bsky.social · 4h

literature is transformational in every format

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*puts on backwards hat* hello fellow book teens, are you looking for horrible queer girls who are also werewolves for your halloween displays? may I humbly submit that you should include SQUAD by me and @lisasterle.bsky.social? thanks I will see myself out bookshop.org/p/books/squa...

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Squad: A Graphic Novel

National Bestseller"If the words 'badass lady-werewolves' aren't enough to convince you to read this book, the luscious art and brilliantly complicated portrayals of female friendship will. Squad will...

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 3h

Anyway this is all very earnest but obviously we're dealing with another high profile case of this and I'm having big feelings about it again bc it IS fucked up, and we ARE right to be mad. It's all monstrous.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 3h

I wrote this book so teens could read and know at least one adult would look them in the eye, agree that it's all so fucked up, and give them space to be fucking furious. Now Squad is one of my most banned books.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 3h

When it came out I visited my high school (they paid me to it was like reparations) and met w the kids who ran the Consent Club. The culture they described was nearly identical to the one I'd grown up in. 20 years earlier. There's just no recourse. It's the only crime the victim gets punished for.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 4h

The thing about this book is that I wrote it from a deeply personal place-- it takes place where I went to hs, the main girl looks suspiciously like me-- about the rape culture I experienced at the age that was unacceptable. And all I've ever wanted for this book was its cultural irrelevance.

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hark! a hellcat @harkahellcat.bsky.social · 3h

real talk: I've been having a very rough time and Im pretty much throwing everything I can at the wall to make it through each day Someone today reminded me to celebrate little wins So here we go, my little wins for today

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Nude van Ristlerooy @muteki-ish.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

No, you don't have to finish it. You *really* don't.

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 4h

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

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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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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4h

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Books are a perfect technology that will never die.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The books you read that you hate are just as valuable a use of your time as the ones you love. You’ll find out more about your tastes and what writing can teach you by being able to spot the antithesis of it than you will stumbling toward a personal canon with nothing to contrast the good against.

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 8h

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid

senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up

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Roger @partlyhuman.com · 6h

Doxxing as a Service: "In one case, Muse unmasked a person whose name had been kept out of news reports for fear of retaliation and harassment. In another, it tied several pseudonymous accounts to the same person. It also matched a private Instagram account to a real person..."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

That cocky, misplaced look of smug success on Senator Eric Schmitt’s face—moments before everything came crashing down around him because he’s so carelessly incompetent.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h

God, I had so much fun putting together this 20 min. video on Eric Schmitt and the most embarrassing moment in a congressional hearing I’ve ever seen. Yes, 20 minutes. Full video on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4wvOY...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6h

Interesting picture of today's festivities.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

This is a list of all the people who are going to be getting bailed out with your tax money. I guarantee it. Not tough to call this shot.

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 6h

Saga! End o’ wild day. Early AM: my side o’town, power out; shower/dress in dark; drive thru for breakfast/coffee (planned to order delivery lunch later). Orange Shirt Day assembly—good/imp. OSD community walk…quickly incr rain! Gong show prep coverage class! Recess: “inside day” re: rain/wet ⬇️

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burnt toast

Alt: burnt toast video of someone using what appears to be an opening/closing campfire toast cooker, on a stick mechanism, but using it on a stove top and opening it as it smokes all over the place to show some thoroughly burnt toast… As in me feeling burnt out.

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 5h

Reinvigorating #LibrarianSoundtrack on drive home for this partly-unique fun/nightmare/novelty/exhaustion-saga-of-a-day…for a bounce back regroup. Next: zoom mtg w/ fab fellow union folk: discuss school trustee endorsements to counter rise-o-alt-right-hellscape-candidates for the municipal election

Screenshot 1 of 2 showing a short playlist called F**K: A Playlist, which shows Chip Taylor, F**k all the perfect people, Dan Redder’s Work Song (a major fave)

Second screenshot showing some more F songs, such as F**k it, I’m a flower, by Crying Day Care Choir.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”

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Dox for Me, O Muse

Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 5h

I’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature.

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Rain @simplyrain.bsky.social · 4h

OMG! You know how as littles you have words for things that you don't know the name of or can't say the name of? Anyway, they just showed a picture of Zwieback (toast) on Jeopardy! where I confidently yelled, "Zweebee toast!" That was toddler Rain's way of saying Zwieback. My Dad loved it. 🤣

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment

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Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social · 5h

The librarians at the Long Beach Public Library really know how to throw a spooooooooky party! @lbplfoundation.bsky.social

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 5h

People who use Canva a lot-- are you noticing that when you put pics of people in to be laid out that it sometimes minutely changes their features?

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know, researchers since the 1980s have found that men can tell when they don’t have consent. They just choose to continue anyway because they prioritize consent as less important than power, domination, and sexual gratification.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10h

While I have you here, let me also link to an article I wrote years ago about how to talk to your daughters about sexual violence—without blaming them, shaming them, or restricting their freedoms.

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What You Should Really Say to Your Daughter About Campus Sexual Assault

It’s not what you might imagine.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is good for your son for you to say no when you need to say no. With a toddler, that might mean teaching him not to climb on your body without asking for consent. With a teenager, that might mean helping with tasks he wants you to do that you don’t have time to do.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To put it another way, you can’t just tell your sons they need to take accountability—you need to hold them accountable. Start with small stuff. Don’t shield them for the consequences of their actions. Walk them through the process of doing the wrong thing and turning it into the right thing.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Researchers find that one-time trainings about consent can actually increase perpetration. In my interviews with young men, they told me that they knew no one believed what they were saying because it hadn’t come up before—and no one actually held men accountable anyway.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Rose/T.A. Summers @rosepetals1984.bsky.social · 8h

The concepts work/function together, not in opposition with each other, y'all. Self-insert is a different thing altogether.

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Rose/T.A. Summers @rosepetals1984.bsky.social · 8h

Going in tandem with Alex's post, I always post this video with Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop talking about the concept herself, especially since she wrote the book about it. She was talking about children and reading, SPECIFICALLY. youtu.be/_AAu58SNSyc?...