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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 58m
open.spotify.com/track/0xzybI... Because it's now or never now
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Now or Never Now (Dirt Road Version)
Metric · Now or Never Now (Dirt Road Version) · Song · 2021
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 1h
In the afternoon we went to the plague village.
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 1h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence (Gift Article)
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 1h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Trump Suggests Cornell Defendants Won’t Get a ‘Fair Shake’ From Letitia James (Gift Article)
President Trump weighed in on the case when asked about Ms. James, who has become a target of his second-term retribution campaign.
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 1h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u... Some are using the familiar #MeToo hashtag of an earlier movement to combat sexual abuse and harassment. Others have adopted a new one: #IAmJaneDoe.
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Cornell Case Revives Anger About Handling of Campus Sexual Assault Cases (Gift Article)
A lawsuit alleging rape at Cornell has led to an outpouring of women sharing stories about sexual violence on college campuses.
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 1h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...
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How Cornell Punished Each of the 7 Men Accused of Sexual Assault (Gift Article)
Summaries obtained by The New York Times offer a detailed look at the discipline meted out to the men accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student at Cornell University.
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 1h
open.spotify.com/track/4LcxN7... I won't get any older Now the angels wanna wear my red shoes
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(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - Pathway Studios
Elvis Costello · My Aim Is True - 49th Anniversary Edition (2026 Remaster) · Song · 2026
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 2h
open.spotify.com/track/30yeIF... Oh I used to be disgusted But now I try to be amused
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(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - 2026 Remaster
Elvis Costello · My Aim Is True - 49th Anniversary Edition (2026 Remaster) · Song · 2026
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 2h
"What is better, which is number one, The Wire or Breaking Bad," God I hate this crap. There is no "better." The Wire is the Iliad and Breaking Bad is the Odyssey, if you want to put it that way. Books -- stories -- are not beef, to be graded onto prime or scraps.
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Heh, this is him as a mountain man in his own play. Aline Bernstein preferred this photo:
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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gore Vidal - BOTD #Caturday
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
(Burlington, Vt., Free Press)
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The hill I will die on: not everything is a ‘girl’ thing – stop gendering and infantilising it all | Elle Hunt www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "No, I don’t want to go for a girl walk before my girl dinner with my girl mates: I am a grown woman who walks and eats and votes"
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The hill I will die on: not everything is a ‘girl’ thing – stop gendering and infantilising it all | Elle Hunt
No, I don’t want to go for a girl walk before my girl dinner with my girl mates: I am a grown woman who walks and eats and votes – and, patriarchy, I am on to you, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
nyupress.org/978081474120...
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Fraternity Gang Rape
This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on in...
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... READ THIS.
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We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit
Public outcry to punish the alleged perpetrators in the Cornell case misses the point – the only solution is political, legal and cultural equality of women
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump doesn’t rule out declaring state of emergency before midterm elections www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Asked whether he would declare a state of emergency before the midterms, Trump said: “I don’t rule anything out or in. We’ll see.” I will be surprised if this DOES NOT happen.
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Trump doesn’t rule out declaring state of emergency before midterm elections
President also dismissed low poll ratings as ‘fake numbers’ and deflected responsibility for Iran war in Time interview
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump is disappearing refugees into the hands of torturers – and rewarding them handsomely | Tutu Alicante and Uzra Zeya www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is disappearing refugees into the hands of torturers – and rewarding them handsomely | Tutu Alicante and Uzra Zeya
Refugees from third countries are being sent to Equatorial Guinea, where they are often sent back to the very countries they fled
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan
Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington
When the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data
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Matthew Budman, book guy @matthewbudman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Have been participating in these since early 2024. Occasional sessions in London!
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Reading Rhythms
Not a book club. A reading party. Join silent reading sessions with curated music in NYC, LA, London, Chicago, and 30+ cities worldwide. Find your chapter today.
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People Migrate @hannahvh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Once a month I go to the pub meet up with some folks, we order a drink, read our books, and don’t talk to each other.
Table card that reads “shh we’re reading”
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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Apparently this is a real thing. Campaign to get these up and running in the UK starts here 😂
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oct. 3, 1926: MGM’s “The Temptress,” the first U.S. movie to give recent Swedish import Greta Garbo top billing, opens in California theaters. The exotic, enigmatic 21-year-old, playing a manipulative lover opposite Antonio Moreno, is cemented as a star in one of 1926's biggest box-office hits.
Garbo in an alluring pose in a publicity shot for "The Temptress"A man-eaterTitle card for "The Temptress"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oct. 3, 1926: Violet Piercy becomes the first woman known to run a marathon. The 37-year-old runs 26.2 miles from Windsor to London in 3 hours, 40 minutes and 22 seconds. This time will remain as a female record until 1963 in part because so few women attempt the endurance run.
PercyKalamazoo, Mich., Gazette
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oct. 3, 1926: The American Federation of Labor puts its weight behind a five-day, eight-hour week for all workers a little over a week after Henry Ford set the schedule for all his workers. AFL chief William Green says a five-day workweek is needed “because of the strain” of modern industry.
Muscatine, Iowa, JournalCartoon by Lute Pease, Newark, N.J., News
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NPR @npr.org · 03/10/2026
When the 2025 conclave began, no one expected an American pope. But by its end, Cardinal Robert Prevost had become Pope Leo. Here's a look behind the scenes. n.pr/47yfzXS
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No one expected Leo to be pope — except everyone who knew him as 'Bob'
When the 2025 conclave began, no one expected an American pope. But by its end, Cardinal Robert Prevost had become Pope Leo. Here's a look behind the scenes.
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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At the last moment there is always a reason not existing before—namely, the impossibility of further vacillation.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/10/2026
The architect of Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocols is stepping down as leader of the Department of Correction after a second failed execution. (via @wpln.bsky.social) n.pr/3TiuO3V
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Tennessee correction commissioner steps down after failed execution
The architect of Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocols is stepping down as leader of the Department of Correction after a second failed execution
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Daily Rothko @dailyrothko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢 (L) No. 11 (Yellow, Green, and Black), 1950 Oil on canvas 113.7 × 85.7 × 5.7 cm (R) Untitled, 1954 Mixed media on canvas. 235.5 x 142.9 cm. 📸 @deja.vuey Yale University art Gallery © 1998 Kate Rothko & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rghts Society (ARS), New York 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
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TBooQ @tbqtalks.com · 03/10/2026
Though of course one would be remiss to do Ramalama and not include this:
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Ramalama Performance
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TBooQ @tbqtalks.com · 03/10/2026
Today's video: Róisín Murphy - Ramalama (Bang Bang)
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Ramalama (Bang Bang)
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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jan Morris #Caturday
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1939 Johnny Burke added words to Bob Taggart's instrumental version of what became "What's New". My favourite version is by Peggy Lee, from her 1957 album Dream Street. Lou Levy on piano. song.link/y/XPIECgMuJG4
Album cover
Colour illustration of Lee against a black & white street scene.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
On Johnny Burke's birthday, my favourite versions of some of my favourite songs. “It Could Happen to You”, with music by Jimmy Van Heusen. A great songwriting partnership. From Lurlean Hunter’s 1957 album Night Life. A great cover photo by Murray Laden. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPFX...
Hunter at a bar, with the bartender fixing a drink. She’s dressed in a sparkly red dress, smoking a cigarette & holding a fur, looking directly into the camera.
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Game imitating my life, lol
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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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Hochul Denounces D.A. and Cornell Police in Handling of Sex Assault Case
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This Phone Blocks Fascists ❌👑 @jonysake6.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Requiem for a Dream may want a word.
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Welshworrier @dickshiner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes they did, but they got better
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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 02/10/2026
didn't half the cast die in an earlier avengers movie?
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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 02/10/2026
guy who has only seen marvel movies: "this is one of the darkest movies ever made"
Avengers: Doomsday reportedly has at least 6 major deaths.

It's described as one of the darkest movies ever made.
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What they meant was, they hired the lighting guy who was in charge of the last season of GoT.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Holmies At Home @holmiesathome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OH LOOK A MOTH
Mycroft, a pale ginger Maine Coon cat, lies on a striped sofa with a back paw on a tv controller and looks upwards.
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Holmies At Home @holmiesathome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I MAY NEVER RECOVER
Mycroft, a pale ginger Maine Coon cat, lies on a striped sofa with a back paw on a tv controller.
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Holmies At Home @holmiesathome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
MY HUMAN HAS WANDERED OFF I AM OFFENDED
Mycroft, a pale ginger Maine Coon cat, lies on a striped sofa with a back paw on a tv controller.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026
Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt, according to a federal survey. (via @wbur.org) n.pr/4ASBqXF
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Letters announcing medical-debt relief arrive as a welcome surprise
Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt, according to a federal survey.
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oct. 2, 1926: Ku Klux Klansmen leaving a night rally outside Groton, Mass., find themselves ambushed by a group that uses downed trees to block their paths, fires guns on the hooded figures and shouts, “Down with the Klan!” A check of hospitals shows no wounded men.
New York Daily NewsAn anti-Klan pamphlet
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Dessa @dessadarling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is Bandcamp Friday and the bells are ringing far and wide. Signed up some books for the occasion. dessa.bandcamp.com/merch
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