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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...
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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia
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ChristelAdina @christeladina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is it clear when I ask big, journalist accounts to " #UseAltText please" on screenshots OF text That I'm really saying "Use motherfucking alt text!" to professional communicators? I'm not convinced the subtext is getting through 😒
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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If I found out my coworker raped someone, am I only allowed to be upset if their victim tells me to be? Are you all this servile?
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Aluminium Bat @aluminiumbat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Since people are talking about how fraternities and sororities are basically rape factories, I'd like to remind everyone that the big selling point for joining such orgs was always that it would allow you to make connections with powerful people in top fields. Think about what that means.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
i like the constant stepping forward then turning around & stepping in the other direction that is “wait, i shouldn’t hide from this & it’s my job to be unrelenting in speaking against it” & then “wait, hang on, staring into the sun it self harm” & then “but i don’t want anyone to feel alone” & then
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Sippy Spoopy Psycho @sippycuppsycho.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
I got an email the other morning telling me "your reports are now being muted" for reporting hate speech. Apparently they think that's offensive and it said if I didn't stop reporting I would be suspended for platform manipulation. I was reporting hate speech suggesting trans people should die. 🤷
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
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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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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/09/2026
Chicagoland friends, I have a favor to ask. I have a pro bono client, a Black woman, who is currently facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at her abusive ex - who admitted to raping her. I would love if there could be a show of support for her at her next few court dates.
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Kate 🏴 @themadnurse.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
What's the situation with vote by mail for the midterms? I already have my ballot and my state participates in ballot tracking. Do I go ahead and vote like a month early or is the only way to guarantee my vote to get a provisional and vote in person? Won't a provisonal ballot have the same issues?
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyone who, in 2026, is already saying “I don’t want to vote for Newsom but I will” is part of the problem. This man is a fucking monster and has betrayed everyone imaginable. He is unacceptable in every possible way. There is no world in which this piece of shit should be trusted with power.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Funnily enough, "bread prices skyrocketing >> the French Revolution" happened bc the French monarchy put "helping farmers"* as their top priority, over "keeping food prices sane." The things you can learn from history!
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/09/2026
as someone who has been really critical of a lot of the initial breathless "teehee, weird sex" reportage, i really appreciate this thread for nailing the actual fucked up immoral thing that is happening; you CANNOT consent if your employment or job success are on the line
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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When I got SA’ed by a fellow teacher and reported it to my school district, the assistant superintendent told me that she didn’t believe me, or my restraining order, because my abuser was “well-liked.” This woman is now an educational consultant. www.ashleyconsulting.org/about
ashleyconsulting.org
Ashley Consulting | About
I believe effective leaders enhance organizational culture with equity, inclusion, ethics, and interconnectedness.
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ren faire @lathrys.at · 27/09/2026
reading a lot of this thread i’m noticing how many parallels to and echoes of there are in the pay-to-play hypersexuality for social caché online. i’m sure nobody wants to hear about this but the same subtly coercive social behaviors can show up anywhere, and you’re not immune to perpetuating them.
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Kate 🏴 @themadnurse.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's one that's playing on Roku right now that is a scam medicaid advantage situation but is filmed on a news set and has a burn ins like a news broadcast.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/09/2026
Honestly "cult" is probably generously downplaying the horror of an industry that has normalized the idea of boundary eroding sex parties attended by all the people who have control over your professional & financial future. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2026
The last 5 years have seen the largest rollback of civil rights of a minority group in modern US history. It's caused a mass internal displacement and refugee crisis that per capita is worse than the great migration in both scope and timescale. It's unprecedented.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
The Venn diagram of Dr. Martin Luther King’s ”white moderate“ and today‘s “we gotta compromise on trans rights moderate“ is a circle
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
arstechnica.com
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
I’m gonna keep saying it. It‘s not purity tests. Or trans people. Or Black, disabled or queer people that got us Trump. It’s cishet white guys. you sound like a fool suggesting otherwise.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am going to do some light defense of Lorenz. Although I think most would agree phone/social media is too prominent in our lives the truth is that there is not a ton of research suggesting “phone addiction” or other diagnoses related to phone use is real. Haidt et al really overstate their case.
newyorker.com
Is Technology Really Ruining Teens’ Lives?
In recent years, an irresistibly intuitive hypothesis has both salved and fuelled parental anxieties: it’s the phones.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/09/2026
okay so i love a public bathroom but this kind of sucks "units will operate daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m [....] entry requires a text message, QR code, the Throne app — from the company operating the bathrooms — or a physical tap card distributed through local organizations"
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I finally sat down and wrote an email to the Talarico campaign. Doing nothing felt untenable. I encourage other decent Texans to communicate their disappointment. If this can help you get started, feel free to use anything that works for you
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info@JamesTalarico.com

Disappointment

I hope I am just one of many communications you receive expressing extreme disappointment with the campaign's position regarding transgender children.

Just as it is unacceptable for the government to insert itself between women and their doctors, it is equally unacceptable for the government to insert itself between children and their doctors and parents. Supporting a bill to ban gender related surgery in children ignores the fact that this is not government's place.And coming out for exceptions to transgender children participating in sports is equally unforgivable. There are no safety issues with transgender children playing that aren't also there with cisgender children. Same with fairness issues. Accepting the premise that transgender children aren't just regular children is ceding ground to the fascists who wish to remove all trans 0 people from daily life. I am so deeply disappointed in Mr Talarico and the entire campaign for allowing this framing to stand unchallenged and for the stand he has taken against the transgender community.

You may still get my vote in November, but you will not get my labor in the very hard ground game that needs to be fought. I simply can't fight for a candidate that won't fight for all of us.

Sincerely,

Lisa Seger Waller, TX
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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
SOME OF US ARE TRANS IMMIGRANTS. SOME OF US HAVE BEEN BEGGING YOU TO TALK ABOUT ICE HAS ***KILLED*** TRANS IMMIGRANTS IN DETENTION CENTERS SINCE 2002. I AM SICK OF BEING ERASED. I HAVE BEEN HERE. I DESERVE TO LIVE.
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Kate 🏴 @themadnurse.northsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sippy could really use some help getting their medications and food. She's been through the ringer with anti-trans health care and it's costing her more than usual to get them.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I encourage everyone to read more on Track 2 and ask themselves why the safeguard preventing doctors from proactively offering MAiD was only removed when disabled people became eligible. This article is also a very informative read: bsky.app/profile/wund...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Donna wasn’t terminal, yet she received expedited Assisted Death for malnourishment. The first time a doctor suggested MAiD to me, it was also for starvation. Something a GI consult or a feeding tube could fix. The Canadian government says MAiD saved $86.9 million over palliative care. Eugenics.
dailymail.com
My mum needed help not euthanasia but we couldn't stop her death
Sisters Alicia and Christie Duncan were originally only granted 48 hours notice that their mother was going to be euthanised.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This nurse withheld oxygen from a dying patient to save herself paperwork. This is why disabled people are angry. This is why we scream about eugenics and that our lives aren’t valued. Even in our final days or hours, those meant to care for us don’t care at all.
the-express.com
Hospice nurse takes away patient's oxygen after fall for 'easier' paperwork — DA
A Wisconsin hospice nurse faces 15 years in prison after being accused of depriving an elderly patient of oxygen for 90 minutes, claiming that death paperwork is 'easier' than one for a fall.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Kate 🏴 @themadnurse.northsky.social · 12/09/2026
So what's the deal with mail-in voting? I've only ever voted by mail for disability reasons, so my ballot has already been sent to me.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ez mode solidarity opportunity you might not have been aware of. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract.
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Kate 🏴 @themadnurse.northsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sippy could really use some help getting their medications and food. She's been through the ringer with anti-trans health care and it's costing her more than usual to get them.
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Kate 🏴 @themadnurse.northsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just started my first mpreg book. It's a 4-book series, so let's hope I like the trope because I hate to abandon a series.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/09/2026
I don’t want to dunk in any one person, as I see this argument a lot, so I’ll post a screenshot rather than quoting it, because this sentiment is common. Peter Thiel has a philosophy degree. Lots of these guys have liberal arts degrees. Credentialism & reverence for institutions won’t save us.
PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i'm more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact
WEB CODER: so i met God today, 2/3
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 08/09/2026
I love seeing your kids’ first day of school pics! All of them are beautiful! But saying this with my cybersecurity professional hat on: you probably shouldn’t be posting pictures of your kids. I’m sorry :(
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s the enormous failure of the medical system to be trustworthy that has *created* space for the MAHA movement to flourish. If the US medical industrial complex was ethical, moral, and inclusive MAHA wouldn’t exist. This article I wrote back in 2019 is unfortunately more relevant then ever.
damemagazine.com
Why Are So Many Women Rejecting Medical Science? - Dame Magazine
This feature is part of our ongoing series looking at the inequities in healthcare. Snake oil is having a renaissance. And while it’s true that for hundreds of years dubious salesmen have been riding ...
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 07/09/2026
Getting a little nervous watching the AOC/MAHA backlash swing into "we must always trust the medical system" territory. Especially coming from folks who have never had to ask the medical system to give a shit about their ovaries being covered in cysts or endo scarring eating their intestines.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
people seem mainly concerned with getting them to be more rational and trusting of legitimate medicine, but what my argument presupposes is…just force them to vaccinate their kids and shut down their scam businesses. changing minds=hard, changing behavior=possible.
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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When my wife’s Meta algorithms sniffed out that she’s pregnant a bunch of medical crankery started aggressively filing into her Facebook and Instagram feeds. “MAHA moms” happen because there is a lot of money being spent strategically preying on women going through a stressful experience.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🎯🎯🎯🎯 Every study initiated on the subject makes it clear that the most effective, cheapest (yes, CHEAPEST, most inexpensive, highest return on investment) forms of aid are direct cash payments with zero means testing, and on-request right-to-housing. These are just facts.
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Kate 🏴 @themadnurse.northsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm loosing my mind at the number of leftist men going "she's cuter in the second pic, I like my women natural" not seeing that she also has make-up on in the second pic.
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Kate 🏴 @themadnurse.northsky.social · 05/09/2026
I am a proud cat suductres. I have fixed 3 of the neighborhood cats and by winter we will have turned one of them into a indoor cat.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
seeing this spread by well-meaning accounts. but I don't think this is actually happening and it also strikes me as extremely dangerous both for legal exposure (imitating officers is a fairly serious crime) and for physical safety.
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