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Pooja Sastry 🍉

@theunkindcity.bsky.social
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ಲಾಲ್ ಸಲಾಮ್! PhD student @ucddublin.bsky.social hegemonic spatial imaginaries, critical AI. Oppressor caste; learning to be a better ally. any pronouns 🏳️‍🌈

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Everyone Says “Hi” and 111 others @everyonesayshi1.bsky.social · 17h
RIP Simon Andriesz. You did your part in exposing the psychopathic, murderous Epstein class. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...
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I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In
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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi
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megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
these people care more about a computer program than the humans their work is actually exploiting
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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please help my sister Om Jameel chuffed.org/project/1839...
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Help us Survive the War(om jameel)
northern Gaza, in the yellow zone under occupation.
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Saeed and his family are living in extremely dangerous conditions in Gaza. Please repost, share, and donate if you can!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Suzan is a little girl in Gaza who suffers from malnutrition, cerebral palsy, seizures, and hyperactivity. She lives with her siblings and parents in an extremely dangerous part of Gaza where bombings and gunfire are constant. Please share and donate if possible! chuffed.org/project/1984...
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Help Suzan's family before it's too late!
Hi beautiful people we are Melissa and Lucien and today we want to tell you about Suzan!
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please help our comrades in Gaza! Repost, share, and donate if you can!
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
we’re at the stage where they just describe the dystopian prison they are building with AI without the pretense. Almost refreshing
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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Book 24 was Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker (narrated by Janet Metzger). Favourite quote: “Neuroqueer is active subversion of both neuronormativity and heteronormativity. Neuroqueer is intentional noncompliance with the demands of normative performance.”
Book 24 was Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities by Nick Walker (narrated by Janet Metzger).

Favourite quote:
“Neuroqueer is active subversion of both neuronormativity and heteronormativity. Neuroqueer is intentional noncompliance with the demands of normative performance.”
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Please share and amplify! We must not forget our comrades in Gaza!
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jamal and Leila are an elderly couple from Gaza looking after their family. Don’t forget our siblings in Gaza! Please share and donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/1844...
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💔 Leila & Jamal’s Family Struggling to Survive in Gaza 🙏
Hello, my name is Leila Mohammed, 63 years old, and together with my husband Jamal, also 63, we are trying to keep our family alive in Gaza.
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Urgent Request to Halt Deportation of Sami Kupiszeski - Sign the Petition! c.org/tBQkcwZN6n via @change.org
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Sign the Petition
Urgent Request to Halt Deportation of Sami Kupiszeski
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
Meta is so unbelievably evil. They make a technology primarily designed to enable abuse, harassment and privacy violations, but also embed real disability aids. The tactic now is to use an entire community as human shields to defend against criticisms www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Meet Mohammad and Mirna, they are trying to hold on to hope amidst the genocide. Please don’t forget our comrades in Gaza! We must continue to stand with them and share their stories! tinyurl.com/4rycmjm5
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When Food and Medicine Become Dreams: Support Ziad & Mirna’s Family of 4 🫂🍉
From the heart of Gaza and the ruins of houses, we write to you with hope amidst the pain. As the parents of Ziad and Mirna, we have lost our livelihoods, facing a harsh reality that threatens our chi...
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As always, Bluesky is muting and deleting accounts from Gáza. Please help Sama’a and her family! Share and donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/1575...
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Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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🎃 🧙🏻‍♀️Yell 👻 Growler💀🎃 @yaelwrites.com · 08/08/2026
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Big Tech and AI companies have refined these prior industrial tactics into what I call 'algorithmic agnotology': the exploitation of technical complexity to obscure accountability and naturalize inscrutability as inherent to digital systems.
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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ
Promotional image. Title: Gender Census 2026. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Images: On the left, a box with a Venus/female symbol on it, patterned with tree bark. On the right, a box with a Mars/male symbol on it, patterned with grass.
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 31/07/2026
The more you know. www.librarian.net/notoai/
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026
Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sama'a and her family need our help to survive. Food and clean water are scarce in Gaza, and both cost dearly. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
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Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
AI “training” is offering the illusion of control and mastery by displacing awareness of how it is being integrated into civic institutions to the disadvantage of people with an illusory self-awareness of “appropriate” use. It’s just a form of on-boarding. 3/n
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 07/07/2026
This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.
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TNH-PhD network @tnhphdnetwork.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Reminder: the Masterclass on Migration, Gender and Empire by Dr @mariejruiz.bsky.social is on this Thursday 12-4pm at the @ucdhumanities.bsky.social H204! Join @hammurab1.bsky.social + @melacholictrees.bsky.social if you work on migration, gender, empire, and everything in-between!
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TNH-PhD network @tnhphdnetwork.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Organised by @hammurab1.bsky.social and @melacholictrees.bsky.social! Stop by if your work intersects with migration, gender, empire, and everything in-between (or come for a fix of interdisciplinary goodness)
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TNH-PhD network @tnhphdnetwork.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Come to the Masterclass on Migration, Gender and Empire on Thursday 7th May 12-4pm at the UCD HI H204. Dr @mariejruiz.bsky.social of the University of Picardy Jules Verne is the keynote speaker + workshop facilitator! Sign up now at tinyurl.com/3c7yy9cs
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
#PlasticsTreaty Plastics "recycling" is largely bullshit & has been for >50 years NO "last chance" for human, climate, biodiversity & ocean-harming plastics—REGULATE plastic production
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This goes well with what Quinn Slobodian has been saying lately which is that the Boas-influenced idea of race as a “social construct” in US was finally overturned starting in the 90s with the bell curve and human genome project, and 23andMe. Everyone is a folk “race realist” now
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Yasmine from Gaza @1yasmen60.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot. 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏 STARVATION. 🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭 www.gofundme.com/f/help-nour-...
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Please react/share! The famine in Gaza continues, please help in any way you can!
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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The Melanin Project @themelaninproject.org · 27/07/2025
A message from our Brother Chris Smalls… #Palestine #Gaza
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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