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richie 🪩 @mewtoz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#bryeon #residentevil #leonkennedy #bryanhodukavich #fanart
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Enabuns✍🏼 @enabuns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That was a close one 😮 #residentevilmovie  #bryanhodukavich #Leonkennedy #bryeon
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Podcast w/ Anna Kornbluh & @katewagner.wehwalt.net: "The fascism of the moment merges violent delight in destruction with nouveau riche vulgarity, middle class mediocrity, and internet meme culture." thebrooklyninstitute.com/podcasts/pod...
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Podcast for Social Research, Episode 97: Slop Machine Anna Kornbluh and Kate Wagner on the Aesthetics of Contemporary Fascism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
In this episode of the Podcast for Social Research Anna Kornbluh and Kate Wagner consider the aesthetics of contemporary American fascism in a conversation moderated by BISR’s Audrey Nicolaides. The f...
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It is very interesting that the Mail’s story on Michael Gove’s recent ex-girlfriend being charged with CSAM offences has been memoryholed two days after it was published. Public records show she appeared at Oxford Combined Court centre on September 30 and pleaded not guilty.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026
Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: Federal judge order an immediate end to DHS’s pro-Trump propaganda ads. Judge Jennifer Rochon ordered the Trump administration to “cancel or cause to be cancelled“ any remaining ad placements, including for Sunday evening. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: Federal judge order an immediate end to DHS’s pro-Trump propaganda ads
Judge Jennifer Rochon ordered the Trump administration to “cancel or cause to be cancelled“ any remaining ad placements, including for Sunday evening.
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Carly @nautiluscarly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For 5 painful days, I've screamed into the void while Ibrahim suffers. My heart is breaking. I watch him fade without the medical care he desperately needs. No mother should feel this helpless. Please don't look away! He urgently needs €200 right now for treatment.💔😭 🌟 chuffed.org/project/191450
A nurse is examining Ibrahim, lying on a hospital bed. He's wearing a face mask.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
SA Victims, for example, are charged with felonies or held in jail to ensure they testify. Often they serve longer than their abusers. Prosecutors seem to think these "loopholes" are fine. typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...
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The Defund Movement Aims to Change the Policing and Prosecution of Domestic Violence - Type Investigations
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You're using alt text on every post, and that's awesome. Now stop using fake bold and italics. But why? you ask. Because they aren't words anymore, they're strings of special characters. To someone using a screen reader, they often sound like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip3y...
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How special characters often sound when using screen readers
YouTube video by Brian Sinclair
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
AI doesn't "bring the archive to life" or to even "show what this looked like in color." The medium is the message, in the sense that there is never life in a photo, there is a material object with artifacts that memorialized technology as much as any moment. It's all more imagination avoidance
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silverbeard2026 @silverbeard2026.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FYI
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 11/10/2026
doin’ my best
Photo of a colored pencil drawing on gray toned paper with a little pug sitting at a CRT computer monitor and a background showing Microsoft Paint with a crude drawing of a pug in some grass near a house and tree. The words across the top read “doin’ my best.”
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 11/10/2026
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes
Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Neil Ottenstein @nottenst.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Also back in time I read the essay "When the Book Wasn’t Better or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Adaptation" by the @inktofilm.bsky.social team of Luke Elliott and James Bailey. A fascinating discussion about adaptations. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
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When the Book Wasn’t Better or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Adaptation - Uncanny Magazine
The cocktail party is in full swing. The lights are colorful, the music provides a hum of energy without overtaking conversations, and the circle of relative-strangers forms. One guy poses the topic: ...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
CLAIM: the ICE agents fired into a vehicle with a child in it for no reason at all FACT: these keys here are jingling isn't that interesting? isnt the sound they make really something?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.
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Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Time to boycott HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette. Time to buy small press, indie, and university press books instead!
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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Heather Christle, for the day that's in it.
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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Heather Christle
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq
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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today is International #SaveTheVaquita Day! 🎉 With fewer than 20 left, the Vaquita is the world's most endangered marine mammal. I painted this piece in the hope of raising awareness for vaquita.day. #Cetacean #Whales #Porpoise #Endangeredspecies #Conservation #Animalart #Sciart #NatureArt
A painting of 3 Vaquitas swimming underwater among some corals and underwater plant life. 

This painting was made for Save the Vaquita Week 2026 in hopes of raising funds and awareness to help the vaquita come back from possible extinction. 

Save the Vaquita Postcard Print is a limited run of 100 signed 5x7 inch postcard prints, on premium cardstock, and will be signed and numbered on the back.

This hand painted original postcard print is a little token and a reminder that you made a difference in helping the Vaquita. All funds will be donated directly to porpoise.org for Save the Vaquita Week!
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!
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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ben Affleck used AI to make parts of ANIMALS, which tracks, since the whole film plays like nobody cared enough to make anything feel real. My review of a movie so slapdash and halfhearted that not even Gillian Anderson gives a good performance (!) is at @thewrap.com.
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‘Animals’ Review: Ben Affleck’s Netflix Thriller Has Zero Highs, Many Lows
Kerry Washington and Gillian Anderson co-star in a suspenseless kidnapping yarn that’s so derivative, it’s kind of embarrassing.
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
my dad & stepmom lived a couple blocks from the WTC. the morning of 9/11/01, they'd left the windows cracked, and when they were allowed to return, there was a thick layer of dust on everything in the living room. in 2018, my stepmom died of multiple myeloma. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/n...
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Toxic Dust Was Everywhere After 9/11. Little Was Done for Months.
Newly released records show how residue from the World Trade Center towers coated the inside of homes. Officials allowed residents to return with scant guidance.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this actually gets at what is at the root of a lot of this- these are people with creative dreams and no creative talent so they have turned their holy grail into the ability to vampire other ppls work into a thing they can take home to mommy and claim credit for
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
400 jobs axed and AI tools introduced to wipe out jobs and undermine copy editing (proofreading and rewriting): newsrooms at all nine regional dailies owned by Crédit Mutuel’s Ebra group are striking today.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
Don't hurt Clippy's feelings
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is part of a lineage in fascist thought that stretches back to the very beginning of their movement and, I would argue, is integral to understanding it. (THREAD)
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𖤓Demon Kitty Girl Melanie𖤓 @evelynnayyomi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Life has been kind of rough for a couple of months. Lost one of my jobs and the new job i got to replace it isn't paying as much. Little behind on rent and playing catch up. If anybody can help me out it'd be much appreciated. I think $600 will be enough. www.paypal.me/FallenPrinceA
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Pay Ophelia Alastor using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/FallenPrinceA and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I didn't mince my words. Alberta's anti-immigration referendum questions are racist. They are also a potential disaster for Alberta's economy. Last night, I rose in the Senate to denounce them - and to thank all the thousands of Albertans fighting against them. Please share. #notothenine #cdnpoli
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Watch: Senator Paula Simons denounces Alberta's anti-immigrant referendum questions
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind” by Jennifer Senior :
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What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind
Bobby McIlvaine was 26 when he died in the attacks. Two decades later, his loved ones are still grappling with the loss.
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○☽•adelina•☾○ @adel1na.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Qifrey on Ice ✨️ #witchhatatelier
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 05/10/2026
Mac users on mac OS 27 - we can get our disk space back and remove Apple AI! Somebody has made a tool: www.macrumors.com/2026/10/05/a...
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Mac Users Reclaim Storage With New Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
A new open-source tool is making waves in the Mac community by helping users reclaim valuable storage space taken up by Apple's AI models. Called "RemoveMacAI," the tool disables Apple Intelligence on...
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Prism @prismreports.org · 05/10/2026
Dental care is in crisis in Gaza due to Israel's blockade on supplies, Esraa Abo Qamar reports in a new dispatch from Palestine. As Israel blocks healthcare supplies & anesthesia, patients are going without the dental care they need or living with debilitating tooth pain.
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Dental care is in crisis in Gaza due to Israel's blockade on supplies
As Israel blocks healthcare supplies and anesthesia, patients are going without the dental care they need or living with debilitating tooth pain
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/10/2026
“They took me and they threw me [like] a sheep to the back of a military Hummer. After, they made their dog attack me and bite me, and they hit me,” says Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro, who was detained at a military base by Israeli soldiers for seven hours on Friday.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/10/2026
Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 05/10/2026
“My big concern is that automakers love to collect data,” EFF's @Mguariglia.bsky.social told @wired.com. “With autonomous vehicles, there’s even more data to collect. And the more data they collect, the more they’re going to find reasons to sell it.”
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Your Driverless Cab Is Spying on You
Self-driving cars from Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla are studded with cameras and sensors. Some of them are pointing at riders.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
my best friend worked at University of Mississippi at the time when nearly the entire faculty and student body was demanding the Confederate statue at the entrance be taken down but it wasn’t, because apparently the answer to Mike’s question is “a handful of very rich football families”
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every year, I expect ALA to at least mention the critical importance of people in communities getting involved in library governance. Every year, it does not.
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“They used bulldozers to clear out entire residential areas, turning our villages into completely flat, empty fields."
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heyyyyy Reactor finally let me write about middle grade science fiction, fantasy, and horror! I got a MASSIVE list for you. reactormag.com/middle-grade...
reactormag.com
Middle Grade SFF for Young Readers — And the Young at Heart - Reactor
Stories featuring mysterious spellbooks, dysfunctional robots, and so much more...
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Yasmine A. 🎨 @yasssarts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
here is my zine contribution featuring Re9 characters! #4//ItchyTastyFanzine #REBH30th #REBHfun available for download on: fluffy-wolfe.itch.io/4-itchy-tasty
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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Artists have to get ahead of shifting online spaces CONSTANTLY Youtube changes its algorithm to favor longer content? Animators suffer. Social media pushes video content? Artists have to make videos now. Tumblr goes on a censorship purge? Artists self-censor. Now Ai is forcing us to prove we're REAL
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