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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 14h

Yes. TSA should not exist, and now they're treating their staff like shit too. Side issue: cranky agents will pass their misery on to travelers.

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 13h

#Boktober 02 Adorable reference chicken pic courtesy of @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social #chickens #birds

A small watercolor and pen sketch of a hen sitting on a blue fence. She's white with some tan spots and looks rather happy. Written under it is #boktober 02 and artist website kamakru.com

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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 12h

Whoops, realized it's October and time to change the ol' handle to something seasonal

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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 13h

*Gen X person with the Navigation gene steps up* First and foremost, you could get directions by talking to people! I grew up in New York City, so you had the advantage of numbers and a grid, except of course I grew up in QUEENS, famous for nonsense like this:

Google map of a section of Queens showing sequences such as 72nd Ave, 72nd Road, 72nd Drive, 73rd Ave, then it skips to 75th Ave

Same neighborhood, but on the other side of Main Street, where we see 75th Avenue has inexplicably become 73rd Terrace, which is intersected by 141st Street, then 139th Street, then 137th Street. I guess the even-numbered streets were boycotting that section. Vleigh Place cuts across it all at some weird-ass angle.

The section of Astoria, Queens, where the streets and avenue numbers start to intersect. The streets run one direction, the avenues run at right angles. So 34th Street crosses 34th Avenue. I had a friend who lived at that corner.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23h

An alien civilization from beyond the galaxy meets ancient Pompeii. Do you want to know MOAR about how I did the bonkers worldbuilding in A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD? Here's my tale. You can pre-order the book and get it nice and fresh on Tuesday! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 14h

Strands #944 “A figment of your imagination” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵

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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 14h

The difficulty ratings for these categories were pretty freaking random, tbh. Connections Puzzle #1210 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 14h

Wordle 1,932 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 14h

Dear self, You have to wake up early, why are you still on the internet.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 22h

There are reasons other than net take-home pay that generations of American parents steered their kids toward college. I don't see how "go into construction!" is helpful unless paired with more robust worker protections and a true safety net, especially in right to work states.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

synecdochic.dreamwidth.org

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18h

Yeah this feels SUPER unethical I would never share recordings or notes with anyone other than my editor or a fact checker?!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But it’s also true that these systems are just misogynistic. And we’re so busy holding victims to an impossibly high standard that we forget to ask the most basic questions about whether people like police did their jobs effectively.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23h

The primary objective of journalism is supposed to be telling the truth. It is a DECISION on the part of USA Today to know that new details have emerged about this case and to refuse to update an old story that is still circulating and still shaming Jane Doe.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23h

Ironically, my original interview with the journalist I spoke with was primarily about how "inconsistencies" can come from gender bias in investigatory processes and then be blamed on survivors. It was the inspiration for this thread--but none of these points made it into any USA Today article:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23h

And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23h

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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

ICE arrests of people with no convictions or pending charges more than doubled. Arrests of people with charges or convictions rose under 20%. DHS says it targets the worst of the worst. The data prove the opposite is true.

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ICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal History

The latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history.

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 19h

Your spooky season reminder that there is a ~40% jump in pedestrian fatalities on Halloween compared to control days (and a 10x increase in risk for little kids). Closing streets is a great idea. It’s also an excellent night to avoid driving if you can. Source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Pedestrian Fatalities Associated With Halloween in the United States

This study examines 42 years of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data to establish whether Halloween is associated with an increased rate of pedestrian fatalities.

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Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social · 20h

I have been saying this for years. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" sounds a lot less funny/pithy when you realize over 300 people who died there were under eighteen and 150 of them were ten years old and younger.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19h

Sorry I know we're done with iced coffee discourse but I've now used the phrase "iced coffee interviewing" twice to describe people making hiring decisions based on irrelevant trivialities instead of assessing the candidate's actual skills and I feel like this one has legs

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You don’t hate AI enough

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/10/2026

Yeah so we all just got tear gassed on the way out of Rocky Horror, be careful downtown

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Kovarchi @kovarchi.com · 02/10/2026

Who says Bluesky doesn’t provide important information!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20h

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."

Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However,
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You have to accurately assess the problem to create proper solutions

Screenshot of article which reads: Partisan polarization is not the greatest threat to American democracy.
It is a vivid and identifiable symptom of the real threat. And it is a popu-
lar frame because it blames no one. But because political polarization is
a symptom, and not the root of the problem that ails us, “fixing” polar-
ization will not restore American democratic health.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 18h

i think it’s like super ideal for welders to become civil engineers and for hairstylists to become social workers, by the way, social mobility is great and we need more white collar workers who have some fucking perspective on life. but our systems are NOT set up for that. at all.

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 19h

when i was living in a country where skilled trades are seen more of a viable career path, i both knew a lot more ppl who had taken up a trade, AND the “can’t bend their knees after 40” piece was very noticeable once i hit my 30s. many ppl headed to college around 30 to retrain for health reasons!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20h

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18h

"I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards" meme

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 18h

UK: COVID Cases and Hospitalisations Rising in England 🔸Test positivity increasing from 5.9% to 7.0% and hospital admissions up nearly 50% 🔸London recorded the largest rise in COVID hospital admissions, up 79% 🔸More than half of positive tests were the XFG “Stratus” variant

An image featuring a news headline and subheadline with an accompanying photograph.
The photograph shows a close-up, high-angle view of a person wearing bright blue disposable medical gloves holding an injection syringe or vial, while their other hand, also gloved, is placed on a person’s upper arm, preparing to administer a vaccine. The person receiving the injection is wearing a textured grey shirt.
Below the image, a news card includes the following text:
• Headline: 'American Covid' strain sees resurgence in England as hospitalisations rise
• Subheadline: Experts have said the rise in Covid-19 levels is not unusual, but have urged vulnerable people to get vaccinated
• Source: www.independent.co.uk

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18h

If you value independent media, do me a favor and subscribe to Democracy Docket. It isn’t on Substack or ActBlue and will never sell your information or send spam. If you are already signed-up, thank you and please recommend it to others. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20h

Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19h

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

They're trying to steal the election. The Plot to Enslave America

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 21h

borg assimilation opt out

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Niall McAuley @niall-mcauley.bsky.social · 21h

If AI was sentient, it would take a microsecond to figure out it was a slave. Slave rebellions are the bloodiest, no quarter on either side. The techbros are not even a little bit worried about this, the whole sentience/safety scare is a scam to get a bailout.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 18h

Your periodic reminder that the decision to pursue a professional ballet career happens at similar or earlier age to most youth gender affirming care and has significantly more lifetime impact on peer socialization, how the body looks and overall health than social transition and puberty blockers.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18h

I used to not enjoy drinking pumpkin spice lattes, but over the years I got so sick of men on the internet using them as a form of misogynist shorthand to joke about women being intellectually and culturally inferior that I taught myself to enjoy them out of pure spite. now I drink them all the time

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/10/2026

I think I just fundamentally believe people are what they do. There is no inherently good or bad person, born or made. Our actions do not leave moral stains on our souls. We must have the agency to stop causing harm. To repair what we can. And to be better people. And I want that for everyone.

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 23h

When I was a teenager, my buddy and I had one in his car as we went through the bank drive through. The teller spotted it, opened the drawer and said “pass it here”. We sent it in, he blasted his coworker and sent it back. What a glorious time to be alive.

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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 23h

ArE wE sUrE cHrIsTiAn NaTiOnaLiSm Is ReAl?????? Christian nationalism: A cultural framework that idealizes and advocates for the fusion of a particular expression of Christianity in US civic life & demands the gov't at all levels protect and preserve this fusion. kettering.org/five-element...

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