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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I won't even allow a Google Home or Amazon Echo in my home, and I've been burned by *password managers* and bad Chrome extensions; I sure as heck won't trust Meta's Muse to do anything involving personal information

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ALA Public Policy & Advocacy @librarypolicy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our team was proud to join advocates for free speech and free religious expression last week here in Washington for a roundtable on the importance of these fundamental rights. ALA's Lisa Varga highlighted the "shared values of libraries and faith communities". More: baptistnews.com/article/coal...

ALA's Lisa Varga speaking at a microphone at a roundtable in Washington, DC

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Tea pot by Marianne Brandt (1893-1983), designer from the Bauhaus school, head of the Bauhaus Metal Workshop in 1927, pioneer of modern design #womensart

Photo featuring a round silver coloured metal teapot with small spout and arched handle

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

I think constantly about how Ruby Bridges is younger than my mother.

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

We’re wasting so much time and energy.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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

"And it increasingly feels like that's exactly what they want." THAT PART!

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New documentary "Reading the World" profiles Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator who connected literacy to critical thinking & democratic participation. It has archival footage of 1960s Brazil and interviews with farmers, students and educators who took part in Freire's culture circles. #FilmSky

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"Reading the World": New Film Spotlights Paulo Freire's Radical Literacy Experiment in 1960s Brazil

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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

#HappyBirthdayJohnColtrane the song he wrote for his birthdays since he was born on the Equinox. Also one of my favorite songs ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m2H... happy birthday Coltrane

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John Coltrane - Equinox (Original)

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Spinch @traviscash.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gentlemen, I guess you're all wondering why I've called for this meeting

Seagulls flock pensively on the dock trying to figure out what to do about the noreaster

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themba @themba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you wanted an American president to make the US worse in every possible way *including for the long term* you couldn’t have done better than this one.

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Nina Friedman @ngfriedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And this was not isolated to NIH. As I understand, at very least, there was partial pause in pivotal gov. operations at CDC, State and the Office of Naval Research. Likely, it stretched further.

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themba @themba.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tuesday’s don’t get enough grief. They might be worse than Mondays.

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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 18/09/2026

To understand how AI auditing actually works, & why we need 3rd party (fully independent) auditors, not just 2nd party (contractors) or 1st party (internal teams), please read the 2022 paper Who Audits the Auditors? I coauthored w/ @rajiinio.bsky.social & @poetofcode.bsky.social www.ajl.org/auditors

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Who Audits the Auditors? - Algorithmic Justice League

AJL provides the first comprehensive field scan of the AI audit ecosystem in new paper - Who Audits the Auditors? Recommendations from a field scan of the algorithmic auditing ecosystem.

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themba @themba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What’s an example of two (or more) things that aren’t very good on their own but are great together?

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themba @themba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I bet the real Kennedys dissed Trump and his family hardbody. The Kennedy Center fiasco is personal.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this week has gone on long enough tbh

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.

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Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Before COVID, the grab-and-go deli sandwiches at my local market cost $4.99 each. From 2020 to 2025, they stayed around $7.99-$8.99. Now they are $12.99-$14.99. It's all airport pricing now. It's "They're trapped here. They'll pay whatever we want," except for the entire country.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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Saulo Ferreira | ReviewsOnReels.ca @saulocferreira.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ (TIFF 2026): Mahershala Ali Questions His Faith Mahershala Ali plays a Muslim hitman suddenly left to raise three children after the death of his wife, forcing him to question his faith and work. Bassam Tariq’s film is highly ambitious, raising fascinating…

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‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ (TIFF 2026): Mahershala Ali Questions His Faith

Mahershala Ali plays a Muslim hitman suddenly left to raise three children after the death of his wife, forcing him to question his faith and work. Bassam Tariq’s film is highly ambitious, raising fascinating questions, but ultimately struggling to tie them into an emotionally engaging whole.

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026

A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.

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themba @themba.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I saw Paul Mooney do this ”joke” live and it always stuck with me. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kne... Recent events show how prescient and sharp Mooney was.

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Paul Mooney - White serial killers and judicial discrimination

YouTube video by angklungeds

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm sorry, a free what of what?

Costco ad seen at the store: 1 free Bucket of Mayonnaise with your first online order

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All of these things require well-compensated faculty with small enough teaching loads that they can devote considerable time to each class.

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themba @themba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Same firm with billboards saying “Size Matters” and something MAGA-y. Already thought ”asshole” - now farkin’ icehole.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026

it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

I really want to write a second book about the COVID pandemic from a Black epidemiologist perspective but my family and friends have begged me not to out of fear of my safety. And it’s incredible that even has to be taken into consideration b/c of insane conspiracy theorists.

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themba @themba.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is part of running govt like a business. it’s also why govt shouldn’t be run like a business. Why pave roads in blue states? Why _have_ roads in blue states?

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themba @themba.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

realized one of my vendors is all AI on support and there's nothing I can do about it. the service is absolutely terrible but _just_ barely enough to actually be viably called support. I hate this world of depersonalized everything. It's like enshittification is moving from the Matrix to IRL.

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