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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 15h

Truly, I already knew intellectually that medical emergency exceptions to abortion bans are useless, but Tierra Walker's case was ... painfully demonstrative ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable

Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.

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”Dizzy Yet” Pam, a Scrivener𓋇 @sesheta.chipchirp.digital · 13h

Is it depression, or is it material conditions?

Capitalism has always been the elephant in the room when it comes to mental illness.
Living paycheck to paycheck causes anxiety.
Not being able to see a doctor is stressful.
Choosing between paying rent or having heat/electricity feels hopeless. Working multiple jobs and never being able to see our loved ones is depressing. Laboring for a wage is alienating.
Marketing ourselves to capitalists for jobs that determine our worth as human beings is insulting... capitalist life is a meaningless grind for most of us. It's no wonder we're all sick.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11h

Peoples Temple drew members through promises of racial equality, material support, and community. Most were poor, many were elderly. 70% of its members (and victims) were Black. Wanting somewhere to live with dignity and joy was the vulnerability Jones exploited.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16h

This was a emotionally challenging piece for me to write--angering, saddening, and tbh frightening--but I also think it's important There were so many opportunities to save Tierra Walker's life and it's so obvious why her pregnancy ended in death anyway ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

ballsandstrikes.org

Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable

Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.

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David Howe @monolithfiji.bsky.social · 13h

If this is legal, it needs to be made illegal. There is clearly something broken when clear monopolies are allowed to flourish. The fact that this is inherently a right-wing operation is beside the point, NO company should have this much power over media. This is going to be a bloodbath for workers

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11h

I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever

huffpost.com

The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

The thing about the “no, you don’t understand AI could be used for good people” is that they're constantly yelling at the people pointing out the harm happening now, and I don’t see a ton being done to make this hypothetical good come to fruition.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I contend that people would be more afraid of it if long covid symptoms presented uniformly. of the irl people I KNOW OF covid gave 1 cardiac issues, 1 got MCAS, 1 Bell’s palsy, 1 lost sense of smell, 1 has bilateral tremors, & 1 became narcoleptic. no fucking thanks. I’m as disabled as I wish to be

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

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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Grumpy D Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 30/10/2024

I'll bet you were all taught in school that The Law was something that was intended to constrain the powerful and not that The Law was the set of levers by which the powerful exercised power.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you claim to have never heard Crazy Frog’s “Axel F,” it says more about you than it does Mr. Frog. This about virtue signaling that you are better than entire genres of music, that your friends are not in the custom ringtone game.

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RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

Another goal of the covid conscious lesbian bar hit piece is to make disease mitigations a basis for mockery and social ostracization So that when the next plague/mass disabling event happens (and more are coming), the "surplus" population will die off that much faster and quieter

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R.C. Brougham @captainruck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"president who presided over the then-largest upward transfer of wealth in history and the massive expansion of the surveillance state, unitary executive power, and gestapo, while his supporters entirely ignored it because they thought he was cool" voice: people want stories, not material needs met

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just gonna say in 24 hours I have not seen a single apology at any level by anyone who used the article as an excuse to bash Covid cautious people or queer people as a whole. I have not seen a word from people who gleefully referred to disabled people as “wreckers”. Not one single oops.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 19,1960

P1 - ONE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS WANTS NANCY TO SEE HIS BABY COUSIN
KID: MY BABY COUSIN JUST SAID HIS FIRST WORD
P2- NANCY IS FOLLOWING HIM TO SEE HIS BABY COUSIN
NANCY: WAS IT "PAPA" OR "MAMA" ?
KID : NEITHER
P3- KID: THIS IS A MODERN BABY
P4- THEY ARE LOOKING IN THE WINDOW AT THE BABY BEING HELD BY HIS FATHER
KID: HIS FATHER IS A BEATNIK
BABY: DADDY-O

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience.” W.E.B Du Bois - Black Reconstruction

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

Other part is someone who is in that community or adjacent wanted this person to be targeted and reached out Jesse Singal in order to do so and like clockwork everyone reacted exactly the way they desired.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What a surprise, the organizers of the covid cautious dyke bar hated the article, rejected its framing, and is defending their covid cautious patrons and performers. Anyone who joined in on the viral harassment campaign started by Jesse Singal wanna say oops or…? recorder.com/2026/09/24/g...

Current and former owners of Last Ditch could not be reached by phone, email or social media. However, Last Ditch did share on Instagram that the Globe story allegedly misconstrued statements from Noire, and urged community members to stop harassing Noire.
"It is neither productive, progressive, nor valiant to attack a Black patron. He has been a collaborator and performer of Last Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his mind about accountability and repair from the bar," the Last Ditch statement reads. "There are so many misconceptions due to the disorganization of the Globe article. He did not call for the bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not disparage the owner for being homeless.
"As a result of this abysmal journalism, he has been getting additional threats, slurs, harassment, and is being reported to the police over something he did not do," Last Ditch continued. "This is not supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is, at its core, anti-Blackness hysteria."

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

thats the thing: across the board, there are way too many people who think long COVID is just "mental illness" or some form of COVID obsession

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026

THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wow it’s almost like I said this exact thing and pointed out the article was a fucking hit job and y’all got so mad and now the owner of the bar is confirming that exact thing and saying she believes the story was “abysmal journalism” and telling y’all to stop being so fucking hateful.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

They’re honoring the unbought and unbossed lady by being bought and bossed

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Danny Page @danny.page · 25/09/2026

"turns out we need to have windows that open" - the company with the highest market cap in the world, for some reason

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of people said a lot of things about the ineffectiveness of production limitations for generating greenhouse gas reductions and speeding up renewable adoption for the past decade which were clearly false. May "keynesianism means we have to keep building oil and gas infrastructure" finally die

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anna, journalist, get woke or DEI trying @fakerobotgamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

what do you know the most predicable thing happened when a bunch of you decided lolcow farming was ok when you do it

lastditchbar on instagram:

Our community should expect more details in
the future. Today we need to address the safety
of the community itself. Stop harassing Soe
Noire. It is neither productive, progressive, nor
valiant to attack and harass a black patron. He
has been a collaborator and performer of Last
Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his
mind about accountability and repair from the
bar. There are so many misconceptions due to
the disorganization of the Globe's article. He did
not call for a shutdown, nor did he call for the
bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not
disparage the owner for being homeless. As a
result of this abysmal journalism, Soe has been
getting additional threats, slurs, and
harassment, and now he is being reported to the
police over something he did not do. This is not
supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is at its core,
anti-blackness hysteria.

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

Snooby
@DoBiddley1
I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This AI discourse is amazing. "We've created this very dangerous thing, based largely on the mass theft of labour, that we should stop developing" - okay, so that means that you should be treated like social and economic vandals, not revered as sages on podcasts.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026

They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

chronic fatigue (now ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome,, now long covid many of these predominant in women so many illnesses that could have been treated, studied, and offered people relief earlier if propaganda hadn't convinced everyone they were fake.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Blackfolk have to adhere to PHD levels of fluid unwritten social rules, particularly wrt to the full spectrum of expression daily not just to keep a job but also to mitigate our chances of being frisked so yeah I don’t buy it when them folk say it’s too hard not to say a slur just bc of reclamation

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

I despise him. I loathe his entire being. His mere existence is both a poison and a blight upon humanity. The world at large would genuinely be a better and safer place without him in it. I will loudly & audaciously celebrate his passing. May he be forever cursed to step barefoot on multiple legos.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

When people drive Tesla this is what I assume they think of me

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m genuinely shocked at the people on here who think long covid isn’t real. Seriously? Your actuaries, departments of health even the freaking department of defense know it’s real. Apparently people used to think MS wasn’t real. There’s a long history of telling sick people they’re crazy.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

He did it, this is the final boss level of white people going can I say it?

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Someone asked me my thoughts on Boston Globe lesbian bar drama: My thoughts are that if you only temporarily struggled with isolation in 2020/2021, we should have more empathy for COVID-cautious people who have limited IRL community due to health concerns.

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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

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blinxrepulse.bsky.social @blinxrepulse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah, so much would be handled if we just...treated indoor air like we did water over the last century+ with funding and organization for mandated filtration. Just build your way out, improve the fundamentals.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You got what you wanted! You are living your normal lives, as demanded, free of legal or social responsibility toward disabled people who are still at high risk. Now you’re going to laugh at us trying to find ways to keep going? That’s not just discrimination, that’s dehumanization.

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