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Yup. I've had to recontextualize things I brushed off as a teen, but none it it was OK. Especially the youth pastor @ church feeling me up at an overnight youth group event. I was 14; he was 25. 🤮 That's just the first example that comes to mind right now. There are so many others, unfortunately.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19h

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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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Probably the closest local race MSP can help with

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Josh Martin @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you want a Mayor with different politics, next election is 2029. Until then, if you are passionate about city politics, make your voice heard by contacting elected officials (including the Mayor) about your priorities, especially regarding the city budget. www.minneapolismn.gov/government/b...

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City budget

Our budget tells us how much money we expect to raise and spend within a year.

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Josh Martin @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Or if electoral politics are more your jam, may I interest you in the elections happening *this year*? We have many close statewide elections, including for Attormey General and State Auditor. And plenty of swing seat legislative races to help in too. www.mobilize.us/dflcc/

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Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Minnesota DFL 2026 Coordinated Campaign on Mobilize

Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Minnesota DFL 2026 Coordinated Campaign.

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Josh Martin @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you prefer something more local, help out Cedrick Frazier, the DFL-endorsed, Labor-endorsed candidate for Hennepin County Attorney. www.mobilize.us/cedrickfrazi...

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Join Frazier for Hennepin County! · Cedrick Frazier for County Attorney on Mobilize

Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Cedrick Frazier for County Attorney.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 23h

thinking about nfts and crypto and ai never forget how desperately technofacists have tried to erase your art because you art matters

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pyromorphite is sometimes an ore of lead & lead has been used in pigments since antiquity. Now sold as a resin art pigment. But #Graphite itself has been used in art since antiquity. It’s made a huge impact on art history! It also handily wins the physics vote. So vote Graphite! #MinCup

Rembrandt, Saskia in Arcadian Costume
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Image credit: National Gallery London
Medium: Oil
Support: Canvas
Size: 123.5 x 97.5 cm
Art period: Baroque
National Gallery London
Inventory number: NG4930
Painting in the Rembrandt Database

This painting employs tin-lead yellow as a pigment via ColourLex.

Saskia, a young white woman with wavy strawberry blonde hair is an big embroidered dress in white, pale blue and gold, head band with sprig, necklace and earrings and holds a garlanded staff and bouquet of flowers. The background is dark.

My linocut portrait of Millie Dresselhaus in white sweater, red blazer, and C for carbon necklace, with the structure of a carbon nanotube behind her, in red, silver and black ink.

Title: Inside the Bar
Artist: Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine)
Date: 1883
Culture: American
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 16 x 29 in. (40.6 x 73.7 cm)
Framed: 28 1/2 x 41 3/8 in. (72.4 x 105.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Louise Ryals Arkell, in memory of Bartlett Arkell, 1954
Object Number: 54.183
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

Via The Met

A sturdy looking woman stands by the shore arms akimbo, holding a basket, wearing a blue skirt, white shirt and red neckerchief with her white apron blowing in the wind. She looks right toward a rowboat full of men. Behind her is a sailboat. The sky is threatening and they look like they are seeking shelter behind the sandbar.

Title: At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas espagnol)
Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, Albi 1864–1901 Saint-André-du-Bois)
Date: 1899
Medium: Graphite, black and colored pastel, and charcoal on off-white heavy wove paper
Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 9 13/16 in. (35 x 25 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Object Number: 1975.1.731
Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

“The grand master of urban entertainments, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec made many paintings and drawings on the circus theme in the late 1880s and 1890s, just as his popularity as a commercial artist soared. Fin-de-siècle Paris hosted an assortment of professional circuses, and Lautrec frequented them all. He was personally drawn to circus performers-those colorful equestrians, animal trainers, clowns and acrobats on society's "fringes." It was while undergoing treatment for alcoholism at a sanitarium on the outskirts of Paris in 1899 that Lautrec produced an ambitious group of crayon/chalk drawings of circus figures. These imaginative sketches were drawn entirely from memory, without recourse to preliminary studies. The Lehman horse and rider perform the "pas espagnol", the ambling gait formalized by the Spanish Riding School of Vienna. It was thanks to these circus drawings that Lautrec earned his release from the sanitarium-their impressive handling convinced doctors of his improving health. As Lautrec left the clinic, he is said to have remarked, "I've bought my release with my drawings." “

Via The Met

The drawing shows dancing circus horse and rider in the ring with shadow with two men watching.

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 29/09/2026

Updates + sales goal! I'm broke and I need some sales. I want to keep prices affordable, but it's hard to keep up with demand while avoiding burnout, so *TIPS ARE EXTRA APPRECIATED RIGHT NOW* Goal: $0/$1500 Shop my work → cvkvlv.com Tips → cvkvlv.com/products/tip... MVTO! (THANK YOU!) 🖤

A pair of rainbow beaded drop earrings on a bead mat

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today is CL Polk's birthday - buy their books because they're well-written! I loved Even Though I Knew The End & The Midnight Bargain & have the rest on waitlist at my library!

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love how Republicans are objectively terrible for the economy yet everyone forgets this every election season? how does this happen?

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Instead of reading clueless parents complain about being held accountable for their actions, read this anthology about the painful decision that individuals have made to go no contact with their parents.

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No Contact: Writers on Estrangement

“A landmark work around a theme so prominent—and yet so thoroughly ignored—in modern life.” —Ocean Vuong A poignant and galvanizing anthology that illuminates the realities and nuances of family estra...

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What a weird premise. I have a CD player in my car and a huge catalog of music on my phone. And if I happen to listen to the radio in the car, it's usually classical, because that's what makes me less likely to be angry at the dick moves other drivers are making (use your turn signals).

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can tell at this point that it'll be poor people who are stuck with AI doctors and faulty care/misdiagnosis/service denial while people who *can afford* human doctors/human services...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(Re)watching season 7 of Taskmaster, and watching James Acaster fail flamboyantly and gleefully, in his weird, awkward yet charming way, and I keep being reminded of his iconic rant on transphobia and edgy comedians www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHqm...

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What's Wrong? Too Challenging For You!? | James Acaster | COLD LASAGNE HATE MYSELF 1999

YouTube video by James Acaster

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OK first of all this was hilarious and you should watch it Second of all, the closing ad was for "[Brand], the search engine for conservative people" and whewwwwwwwboy it really proves the thesis lmao

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please help. People's needs always increase this time of year but this year is even greater than usual, and when we run out of tents people are sleeping unsheltered. Finances are tight for everyone but how far are any of us from homelessness?

Weeknight drop-ins have tripled we are tired and out of money. Please donate via the links in our bio so we can continue to support unhoused people.

We cannot keep up with the demand caused by current situations in both Minneapolis and St. Paul, we need financial support.

$18K would allow us to give out additional $0.10 weekly (tent tarp sleeping bag hygiene kit undies) per week through February.

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Mara Abolish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I donated. If, like me, you have a strong urge to clean your closet and drawers this weekend…. You can also give neighbors your gently used clothes. Men’s/masc/nb always in need of clothes. Come on dudes!

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Help me out with a bit of distraction from The Horrors, please: List (& link if you want) the current songs on top of your playlist (& if it's k-pop, tell me who your bias is). For the record: I'm on a D-Day Agust D kick again & SUGA!

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 25/09/2026

Everything Gale says in this thread, but I'm highlighting the visual literacy part bcuz we as a society don't put enough emphasis on visual communication. We treat reading and language as only a matter of alphabet, not images. Children need both. Dismissing the role of art doesn't help literacy.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Wish fulfillment of every white person who’s tried to corner one of us into having this argument

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is ridiculous! If the egg is never fertilized in the first place, it can't be an abortion. Unless every single menstrual period is classed as an abortion (which is even more ridiculous)... you know what, I can't even finish that thought. Heidi Overton's internalized misogyny is killing women.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026

“I wanted to know if you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient,” Washington Democrat Patty Murray asked Dr. Heidi Overton, Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next head of the FDA. Overton not only refused to answer, but her response even suggested that the FDA could change its stance.

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Trump’s FDA pick refuses to say IUDs don’t cause abortions

Dr. Heidi Overton also tells senators she's also open investigating abortion pill manufacturers.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think one reason, and a grim one, that energy-limiting diseases get so little attention (aside from Covid denialism) is that it’s hard to capitalize on those of us with them. We are mostly very poor because our working ability is limited, we have little buying power and thus,little lobbying power.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!

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5 Calls @5calls.org · 24/09/2026

Heidi Overton has spent years attacking abortion access, and she helped engineer the Trump admin’s reckless rollback of the childhood vaccine schedule, a decision that puts countless kids at risk. She is unfit to head the FDA. Call your Senators 🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/heidi-...

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Oppose Anti-Vax Heidi Overton for FDA Commissioner ⭑ 5 Calls

Trump has nominated Dr. Heidi Overton, an anti-vax, anti-abortion extremist, to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency …

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 24/09/2026

1,700 people have signed a petition asking for a pause and independent review of a Long COVID trial planning to test the Lighting Process, a pseudoscientific mind-body program that outside experts have heavily criticized. Read more from spichaksimon.bsky.social: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/22/p...

A close up of a grey stone building at McMaster University. Ivy crawls across the building, changing color in fall. It appears green, orange, and red. The text reads, “The Sick Times. People with Long COVID demand pause of McMaster University clinical trial. By Simon Spichak. Reporting.”

Key points you should know:

A petition signed by 1,700 people asks for a pause and independent review of a trial run by McMaster University researchers who want to test the Lightning Process.

The Lightning Process is a pseudoscientific mind-body program to try to treat Long COVID that has been accused of exploiting people with Long COVID and related diseases.

The trial is designed in part by a Lightning Process practitioner and prescreens participants for motivation using a questionnaire that isn’t validated for Long COVID.

There are very few trials and little funding in Canada for Long COVID research, and advocates believe that studying the Lightning Process instead of pathobiological pathways is a waste of funding.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump doing this is a clear indication of how badly he and those around him are losing their grip. The free press is constitutionally protected in this country. His "ban" of legitimate professional media for transparently BS reasons of "national security" (🤡) is obviously unconstitutional.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Trump White House failing to comply with a federal court order. But also ask yourself why Trump might want to make THIS the story now, instead of.... [disastrous Iran war, horribly high gas and food prices, dismal GOP election polling -- take your pick]

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026

@markfollman.bsky.social reports exclusively on Jesse Van Rootselaar's violent ChatGPT history—detailed here publicly for the first time—which included responses such as: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” “Never get flagged again.”

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

LLM's were and are mostly a mistake. Let "AI" go. Bad for the planet, bad for humans, bad for everything. Fancy algorithms that can scan MRI's for cancer? Fine, with human checks on everything. Sycophantic (& OFTEN WRONG) chatbots & plagiarism machines? No valid use case that I can see.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)

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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues

The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 23/09/2026

Come on out, Seattle!

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Facing four state felony assault charges and federal charges of lying to the FBI over a shooting in Minneapolis, 52-year-old recently suspended ICE agent Christian Castro made appearances in Minnesota state and federal courts last Thursday and Friday.

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ICE Agent Charged for Shooting and Lying Appears in Minnesota State and Federal Courts - UNICORN RIOT

Facing four state felony assault charges and federal charges of lying to the FBI over a shooting in Minneapolis, ICE agent Christian Castro made appearances in Minnesota state and federal courts last ...

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My personal bar is surviving a pulmonary embolism a decade or so ago & being in my 18th year (as of yesterday) of living with multiple sclerosis, so if I clap for the small things, it's because I'm alive & well enough to do them, despite what self-righteous people might think. May you never be ill.

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My studio is accepting applications for our mentorship program! Come learn how to survive in the comic industry from seasoned professionals and I'll be there too.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 22/09/2026

metro transit is proposing discontinuation of 25L, the only route that goes into the heart of loring park. it serves kenwood school and will also serve a future green line LRT stop! there are community engagement meetings scheduled and public comment open www.metrotransit.org/network-now/...

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 21/09/2026

This is happening to my clients. Makes it impossible for me to know if they're still in Minnesota or even in America. ICE can shuttle them around without my knowledge and, unless they get word to me, I have no way to access them as counsel

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2026

The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting. The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells.

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The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco

ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.

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