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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13h

Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 17h

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Aaron Schmit @theaaronschmit.bsky.social · 16h

Spooktober Pinup 02: Goth Devil Sketch

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Little Free Library @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social · 18h

Banned Books Week is NEXT WEEK! Join us in celebrating the freedom to read October 4-10! Learn how we'll be marking the week and how you can take part by sharing a banned book in a Little Free Library! lflib.org/bbw #BannedBooksWeek #LetBooksBe

Colorful cartoon animals and creatures reading books under the slogan 'Let Books Be' for Banned Books Week Oct 4-10, 2026.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am one of the fire survivors he's trying to screw over. If you want to help me rebuild, you can buy something from my Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/thenigh...

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thenightwellforge - Etsy

Shop items by thenightwellforge.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...

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Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?

California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Sarah Tillery @stillery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interview with the Sith Lords #iwtv #iwtvfanart #starwars #stillsart Been working on this one for awhile, nice to have them all together now!

digital illustration of the Interview with the Vampire characters drawn as Sith Lords from Star Wars, with the Mortis Arc symbolism drawn in the background.

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Jey Pawlik 🏳️‍⚧️ @ Nuit Blanche 12 Hours Comics Event! @jpawlik.com · 01/10/2026

Hey are you a comic artist on Tapas? Are you frustrated with the news? Publish your Tapas comic on Itch.io (either partially or in full, even just 1 chapter) and submit it to the Tapas X Itch.io bundle form here by Oct 30th 11:59pmEST forms.gle/QhQaJ4cXvXKT... #Tapas

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A Tapas X Itch.io Bundle

We've heard the news that Tapas is shutting down on March 31st, 2027 and I want to setup an Itch.io bundle to help support the artists affected by this. If you have a comic on Tapas, this bundle is f...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Significant numbers of leftists think Mayor Mamdani has betrayed the left by putting out an anti-antisemitism plan at all, and groups that claim to fight antisemitism like the ADL are giving Mamdani zero credit because he has not suddenly endorsed Zionism, and I am caught between and I am tired.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

If you ruin the ~ bright futures ~ of Ivy League rapists, who will you rely on when you need a wet signature for state-sanctioned murder?

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last month, “a 20-year-old Haitian man in Springfield, Ohio, walked into oncoming traffic after the Trump administration ended his Temporary Protected Status and ICE fitted him with an ankle monitor.” His name was Pierre Damas Bel.

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The appellate court system had stayed this execution today to allow for additional proceedings. John Roberts’s Supreme Court stepped in and said, “nah, kill her tonight.” This is the result.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So many of the same “intellectuals” who are obsessed with undermining the existence of trans people are also obsessed with undermining the Cornell rape victim’s testimony. It’s almost like they don’t believe people have a right to bodily autonomy

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Something that's surprisingly useful is asking my students to draw their research papers. They make all sorts of interesting diagrams and some always say they find it clarifying in unexpected ways (realizing a side point is the main point kind of thing). Low tech, done in class, no outsourcing.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is not at ALL in argument with op btw, just a yes and: the reason it works is bc we've decided that - mentally ill people are write-off-able as deserving of care or respect - mental illness means EVERYTHING you say is a lie/false we can and should change the narrative across the board!!

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/10/2026

That politicians feel empowered to so brazenly assist institutions in covering up and getting away with sexual abuse is an indictment of our society and culture, and how badly they continue to fail women.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/10/2026

In no circumstances ever should the state be murdering people. Judicial or extrajudicial. Period.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

hi abolish the death penalty the state should never have the power to murder (yes this includes indirectly, I see you, ICE)

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Executions were paused in Arizona after the 2014 lethal injection of Joseph Wood, which resulted in him violently convulsing and gasping for air for 2 hours. When executions returned in 2022, the first two men killed by lethal injection also experienced complications with the IV...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Aluminium Bat @aluminiumbat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interestingly, in this article the Third Way rep is even saying that transphobia is a losing position to take, though she is still insisting that it WAS a good thing before but magically in two years things have changed so much that it's a bad idea now.

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Tiernan Blanchard @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I think a problem with a lot of 'retellings' is that the writer goes in with an attitude like they've 'solved' the original story, or 'corrected' it in some way. That usually results in something bad. But a writer who is in conversation with the work, who is exploring different elements? better.

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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most of you who have worked with me know how hard I try to give homes for pieces that mean a lot to people. How hard we work to make sure we can commission pieces when they've fallen through elsewhere. It's rough out there and we can really only get through this big ol' mess if we help each other <3

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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How do you show a whole digitized book in one thumbnail? Modern books have illustrated covers, but in research collections the cover is often a plain library binding. So I made Flipbook: hover over a book from any #IIIF source and flip through its pages. hadro.github.io/flipbook/ #GLAMsky 📚📜

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Perfect Garbage 🌾🪦🔪 wishlist Grave Seasons @perfectgarbage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grave Seasons launches March 9, 2027! 🪦🌾 Mark your calendars and prepare for the horrors - coming to Steam (PC), Xbox Series X|S, PS5 & Nintendo Switch 1 Read more about our new official launch date and see how far Ashenridge has come in this devlog! store.steampowered.com/news/app/325...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/09/2026

"A.i." is a tool of fascism. These LLMs are controlled by far right billionaires and absolutely can be manipulated to crank up racism, bigotry, and fascist lies. Keep this shit out of schools, government, and every aspect of your lives.

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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really want people to not fall for the okey doke here. The illusion of convenience comes at a heavy cost of diverting funds from our already feeble infrastructure

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two hours into #DVpit 2026 and we're already seeing some amazing pitches! For anyone new to the event, here is a summary of the rules. For full guidelines go to dvpit.carrd.co

September 30, 2026 8AM-8PM ET
DVPit 2026
* #DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors.
* Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Sept 30, 2026 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET.
* Your pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use #DVArt)
* A like ❤️ from an agent = a query request
* A repost 🔁 from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
* A like ❤️ from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
* Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches.
go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

The goal is to make ai dominate everything and then manually change all its answers so that they control information flow hope that helps

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Tiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did you know that twice a year, The Comics Courier, a newspaper 🗞️ filled with the best comics criticism around is available through Kickstarter? If this sounds like something you'd like, click that Notify Me on Launch button on our pre-launch page to up to date! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

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Coming soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 5]

A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And imagine if the media turned this kind of scrutiny and skepticism against police, politicians, and powerful interests instead of vulnerable victims of gang rape? What a world we could have

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIS is an instrumental part of rape culture. This is the wider societal enabling of rape and smearing victims. This is what survivors often identify as the most traumatic part of the experience, and as a journalist who believes survivors I can say it’s one of the worst parts for me, too

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