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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

There are gonna be disabled folks who can't contribute anything to The Cause. They have no money, no energy, no physical ability, no time. They will need to receive and will never be able to give back. You gotta save them, too. Especially them.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20h

DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 17h

A Reddit thread of IT/security people saying execs. are hyping up AI but failing to do the security basics: "Management was literally drooling over the shiny global threat map dashboard. Menwhile I’m sitting there biting my tongue because we still don't even have a functioning asset inventory."

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From the cybersecurity community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the cybersecurity community

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*people* make the design & engineering & business decisions that are behind every one of these types of stories…

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.

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Sunny Ella @sunnywillow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Zionism is racism. The United Nations voted to declare it as such in 1975, half a century ago. This isn’t new, and this isn’t controversial.

A group marching down a street holding a banner that reads zionism is racism

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nyxi🐛 @nyxipuff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know that no one cares about us, except for a few. I know we're just a post and it'll be over, but I'm really tired. I say we're tired. Please help me buy food for my children. If you happen to be passing by, please leave a period. It's just a period chuffed.org/project/help...

A picture of a child doing a victory sign and wearing a key shaped necklace with a silhouette of Palestine, Handala standing in front of a Palestinian flag, and text that reads "Palestine".

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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

💔 Two weeks ago, I was shot twice and underwent surgery. I’m still in severe pain and urgently need $200 for painkillers and wound dressings. I cannot afford treatment alone. Please don’t forget me. Every donation or repost means so much. 🙏❤️ chuffed.org/project/aziz

Aziz lays in bed with a wounded leg wrapped in bandages

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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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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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fine, if people on bikes are expected to follow the same rules as cars, then I guess we're gonna have to start acting like motorists.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a massive human trafficking ring, forcing vulnerable people from place to place, ruining their lives, all to make a buck

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

This morning I want to help debunk a headline I keep seeing about Black Women's unemployment: By the end of 2025, 600,000 Black women were not out of the workforce. That number signifies who got DISPLACED. The end-of-year number is actually between 217,000 and 250,000 cc @epi.org and IWPR.

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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A brief glossary of techbro doublespeak: - Effective altruist (selfish people who don't really care about effectiveness) - Rationalist (least rational people you've ever met) - AI Safety (making their products dangerous on purpose because of religious beliefs) - AI Agents (do not have agency)

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 27/09/2026

This tool from @observingthecity.ca is fantastic. It shows the traffic mode share by intersection using City data. Many downtown areas are dominated by pedestrians (in green). Yet *we still give most of the space to cars on almost every street.* www.observingthecity.ca/intersection...

Map of downtown area of Toronto. Pie charts show the mode share at every intersection.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

$3.89/gal for gas in Indiana?! That's too cheap! Why? Because the Republican governor Indiana suspended the gas tax again, meaning car culture is not paying it's fair share and the tax payers at large are subsidizing their driving habits. Sounds like socialism to me. 😂

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/09/2026

Giving a small, well-organized minority of people a heckler's veto over new housing that follows democratically-enacted zoning laws is not "democracy."

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A new client just contacted me after watching this podcast interview. They said they were attracted by the blunt title, “How To Actually improve A City.” Inspiration is very important, but ideas, action, leadership and much more persuasive communication are key to the urban change we badly need.

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How to Actually Improve a City (w/Brent Toderian)

YouTube video by The Urbanist Agenda Podcast

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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Greater Israel project is important for this crime network. In the words of mafia operative Kushner: "a tax haven for Zionist billionaires." Thus a home for Zionist mafia figures to domicile wealth stolen from the West, subjugate impoverished Westerners, & launch a new mafia empire.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram

Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

sucks when someone posts an absolute banger-looking post and i have to mute them cuz they don’t use alt text.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. The United States should stop all military assistance to Israel. Saying this is not antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We don't have to live like this. Look at all the billionaires and technofascists dining with Trump and Xi tonight. They pay off both sides of the aisle. The only way out is to crush them, and we need fighters to do that. nypost.com/2026/09/24/u...

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Texas delivery driver Don Johnson, 81, works 14-hour days to help pay wife’s medical bills — strangers raise almost $250K

“The reality is that he isn’t working by choice; he is working for survival.”

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 24/09/2026

If you misconfigure an automated hacking script, it's still your responsibility for setting it off. It's not an entity. You wrote a program and it did what you wrote it to do: no more, no less.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

The people directly profiting from this technology at the moment keep driving news cycles with ever more extreme predictions of harm while the current way the technology is entrenching current harms is ignored.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Please help our dear homie Malik get what he needs to legally fight racist & transphobic harm done to him at the property where he's now housed after months of homelessness. That's his specific request today, to fight this important legal battle for his rights he has. It's important, boost & give.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!

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ODB @obitron.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

a lot of white queers don't understand what whiteness is, and that makes much of their interactions with queer folk of color suck, so I'll explain a little. The two facets of whiteness that are most important in this context are that it is a social and legal exemption from racial oppression.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New: from 404 Media. The catastrophic FBI hack also exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The Remote Operations Unit is a highly secretive part of the FBI, responsible for making tools to break into peoples' devices. Some of their names and addresses are in the data www.404media.co/fbi-hack-exp...

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FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit

The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s becoming an increasingly unavoidable conclusion that a portion of mostly establishment Democrat electeds/pundits/consultants don’t like Democratic voters much and would much prefer to have Republican voters instead, and view their voters’ insistence on being represented as an annoying betrayal.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

Y'all, beloved community, that I care for as you care for me in true understanding we share of loving mutuality so we all survive, at this time I badly need mutual aid. This ain't no scam. I'm not secretly rich. I'm on medicaid. I'm recovering from the serious trauma of getting committed by cops.

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Hello friends! It's me, the author of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS and the novella FES IS A MIRROR and poetry and essay that touches your heart. You might know me from Bluesky where I constan...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

They’re lucky a lot of people accepted DEI instead of revenge

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026

The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

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Thomas @thomasthebicyclist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is mass theft, of course, and it deserves unprecedented consequences. But the largest theft of labor? Over what span of time? US slavers kept their blood money after the Civil War and continue that thieving legacy to this day. Redistribute stolen wealth, give back stolen land, seize “AI”.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Many of us need to step away from screens and the perpetual frontlines —and seriously invest in our mental, spiritual, and relational well-being. Or we won't get through what's sure to come next.

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Thomas @thomasthebicyclist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is a type of guy that does most of the speeding like this. But we can’t take away his car or stop him from driving this way even after he kills people because we live under imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy. The roads and courts in the US were built for this to happen.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 20/09/2026

Hey, I notice you're trying to influence political candidates during an election. That's really inconvenient, politically speaking. Wouldn't it be better to wait until after the election, when the candidate has everything they need from you, and you have zero leverage?

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sorry no, it’s just really silly to equate the sound of street life: people talking, playing music etc with car noise. For one thing, there are documented health consequences for noise pollution from cars coeh.ucdavis.edu/research/how...

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How noise pollution quietly affects your health

Whether you live deep in the country or in the heart of a bustling city, the relentless hum of modern life is as constant as the nonstop, digital cacophony that bombards the senses and demands our con...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you saw this system anywhere else, you’d rightly call it apartheid.

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