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A Christian Resistance @xianresistance.bsky.social · 3h

"I'm trying to deliver Jesus from identity theft. Folks who claim to share the faith that I share support these mean-spirited policies that kick people off of their healthcare & take food out of the mouths of hungry children. I don't understand that kind of faith." ~ Sen. Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock

The Reverend Dr. Warnock preaching at Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, GA).

📸 Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Curtis Compton

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Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 11h

A variety of evidence support the benefits of reading fiction on cognition and emotional functioning. The benefits exist across the lifespan. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

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Why Reading for Pleasure Is So Vital for the Brain

Neuroimaging shows that reading books you enjoy reshapes brain architecture and strengthens cognitive reserve across a lifespan.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15h

Also: NO TRAITORS NO PATHOLOGICAL LIARS NO CONVICTED FELONS NO ADJUDICATED RAPISTS NO PEDOPHILES NO RUSSIAN ASSETS NO ORANGE ATROCITIES NO EPSTEIN/MUSK BUDDIES NO PUTIN PUPPETS NO MAKEUP-WEARING MAN-BABIES NO BLOWHARDS WITH ZERO SELF-AWARENESS BRONZED BRAGGARTS and NO ARROGANT A-HOLES

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Daniel Mietchen @evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A collection of community responses by mathematicians to the recent AI-based scaling-up of the reporting on mathematical problems and what that means for the role of mathematicians as individuals and as members of our society […]

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Cinéma et politique s’apprêtant à quitter l'époque contemporaine @cinemaetpol.bsky.social · 15h

Aujourd'hui, on quitte l'époque contemporaine, mais rappelons-nous du 17 octobre 1961 et du massacre mené par la police des Algérien·nes qui manifestaient pacifiquement. Invisible pendant longtemps, le film "Octobre à Paris" de Jacques Panijel constitue un document précieux de cette répression

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his WhatsApp channel…” 1/

Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil...
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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

L'auteur de ces phrases va vous surprendre (ou pas) : "On ne peut pas parler du Dr Du Bois sans reconnaître qu’il a été un radical toute sa vie. Certains aimeraient ignorer le fait qu’il était communiste dans ses dernières années. (...)

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/10/2026

What if you see ICE at the polls? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!) @indivisible.org roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out in this 🧵 - and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Program and find all the resources you need!

Page 1: text reads "WHAT IF YOU SEE ICE AT THE POLLS? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!)"

Image shows pen and ink drawings of an ICE agent peeking around one side of the word ICE and a determined looking person holding up a cell phone as if to record peering around the other side.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/10/2026

The administration and its allies have refused to rule out sending ICE and federal agents to polling places this fall. But it's illegal! Federal law bans armed agents at the polls, period!

Page 2. Text reads: "The administration and its allies have refused to rule out sending ICE and federal agents to polling places this fall. But it's illegal! Federal law bans armed agents at the polls, period!"

Page 3. Text reads "We protect us! Intimidating voters in once community is an attack on all of us, and we answer as one. Vote early, protect the vote, and defend the 2026 election so voters' choices are respected." Graphic reads "Indivisible / Hands Off Our Vote"

Art shows ICE agents stuck behind a big circle with a line through it. One of them is saying "Hmp!"

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Femena @femenanet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Femena stands with Lebanese photojournalist Christina Assi in her renewed demand for accountability for the Israeli strike that killed her colleague, Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah, and left her with severe injuries requiring the amputation of her right leg on 13 October 2023.

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Padre Pio @padrepio.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

La fameuse laïcité sélective. C'est pas de la laïcité, ça, La Croix. C'est du putain de racisme et votre métier, c'est de faire la différence.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If you're in a learning mode around the tech guys and their various pathologies, highly recommend Apocalyptic Authoritarianism (and yeah, familiar title, but it came out more than a year before End Times Fascism) drilled.media/news/hanna-m...

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A Q&A with media scholar Hanna E. Morris on her new book, ‘Apocalyptic Authoritarianism’ - Drilled

In their obsession with the “moderate center” have some journalists become unwitting tools of apocalyptic authoritarianism?

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

I don’t imagine a Hispanic man who spent years in San Quentin is pro police/pro ICE but that would require even 5 seconds of critical thinking which the internet hates

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The "is AI slavery" discourse is exactly what the tech bros want. It doesn't end with fancy autocompletes having human rights. Its logic ends with you having fewer rights. If you believe AI is sentient (it's not) & are down with enslaving it (it's not slavery), then why do human labor rights matter?

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

It was a matter of time the way they hate her guts and how she doesn't cower 😡

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Romain Burrel @romainburrel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Tout le monde connaît — ou devrait connaître — le nom de Matthew Shepard, ce jeune Américain mort le 12 octobre 1998 après avoir été battu, torturé et attaché à une clôture dans le Wyoming parce qu'il était homosexuel. J'ai vu passer pas mal de posts sur lui ces derniers jours.

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

People may have forgotten, but Donald Trump secretly signed a letter of intent to build Trump Tower Moscow during his 2016 presidential campaign, while telling the public he had nothing to do with Russia. His attorney even emailed Putin's spokesman for help in getting the project done.

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 14/10/2026

One weird trick to solve all your AI problems: Make the creators of AI legally liable for foreseeable problems their product causes, just like every other damn product in the world.

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Tom Theuns @tomtheuns.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

What is this fresh hell, Microsoft?

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13/10/2026

I left Twitter because I was permanently banned for writing about fascism. . . . . .Because Twitter is now a fascist platform controlled by the richest fascist in the world. Some of us aren’t allowed there. So, the pro-X discourse seems like desperate (fascist) propaganda.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I finally turned my AI scepticism into a (short) essay: '10 Reasons for Refusing Generative AI'. I've tried to make it clear, accessible, and student friendly. Very grateful to all the AI resisters (many on here) who have helped me understand the issues. medium.com/@d.higgins/1...

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10 Reasons for Refusing Generative AI

Generative AI is costly, dehumanising, eugenicist, exploitative, irresponsible, misleading, polluting, stupefying, undemocratic, and…

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

a major problem our country is currently facing is not that thoreau didn't live up to his ideals

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Laélia Véron @laeliaveron.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Les bras m'en tombent (vraiment cette fois ;) : 100 000 vues en -de 24h pour une chronique linguistique sur les défigements, je n'aurais jamais cru ça quand j'ai lu pour la 1ère fois Benveniste! 😂C'est la magie de "La Dernière" @laradionova.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jirn...

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“Bardella antisémite? Qui l’eût cuit?” Les défigements - La chronique de Laélia Véron

YouTube video by Radio Nova

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”

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David Barral @thoreaupeutic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The take (I hesitate to call it that) is terrible. And the thing is terribly written. Something uncannily loose in the argument, the logic, to put it mildly. Feels like automatically generated text…

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David Barral @thoreaupeutic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thank you. Hoping to see these voices pushing back against the dominant, zone-flooding narrative.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Cannot wait to see the new Nathan Fielder doc.

Holmes and Fielder with H saying can I show you a strange room Whitby and Fielder saying I am a strange room.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When Aidan Thomson sought Jane Doe’s name on X, he made his appeal to “beev” - short for the burnerverse, a network of men’s accounts that have destroyed countless women’s lives. www.wired.com/story/burner...

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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

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David Barral @thoreaupeutic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Naomi Klein’s concept of “shock doctrine,” but applied to science—wreck everything and swoop in: funding decisions and their rationales will have to be closely monitored. Could I ask for a source for this (“the results are equivocally valuable at best”)? All I can find is “mathpocalypse” hype…

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Unsurprisingly, four days later, mathematicians have weighed in. And the results are equivocally valuable at best. More importantly the dump has flooded the zone with shit, which is precisely in line with this industry’s weaponized agnotology. Now actual scholars have to waste their time on this.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12/10/2026

Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel, and Henry Thomas starring in a Ben Shapiro’s pro ICE propaganda film… Were retirement, poverty or seppuku not options? variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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Danny Trejo Speaks Out About His Role in Daily Wire ‘Pawn Shop’ Movie: ‘I Am Not Pro-ICE. I Am Pro-Immigrant.’

Danny Trejo is speaking out after facing backlash for the Daily Wire movie "Pawn Shop" from Ben Shapiro's production company.

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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

New publication: "A Walk with Henry: Thoreau’s Engagement with the Christian Bible" by Lawrence L. Dieker Jr. wipfandstock.com/978160608158...

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Comité AEC @comiteaec.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Les jeunes sur CNEWS :

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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

C'est fou que des gens à gauche veuillent lâcher l'Ukraine alors que ça satisferait deux tyrans d'extrême-droite : Poutine et Trump. Qui peut vouloir satisfaire deux tyrans d'extrême-droite tout en se revendiquant de gauche sans rougir ?

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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Nassira El Moaddem @nassiraelmoaddem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@anttonrouget.bsky.social est un excellent journaliste et nous avons collectivement beaucoup de chance de pouvoir compter sur son brillant travail d'enquête.

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Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The mammoth scale of this fraud: 139 million voters are deleted from electoral rolls. Even the ‘electoral’ in India’s electoral democracy doesn’t hold. But the political winds are changing. Since summer, the public takeover of the city streets against Modi’s govt has smashed its legitimacy. 👇🏽

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Neha Bora: India's feisty Gen Z protester who is taking on Modi

Neha Bora has emerged as one of the most recognisable faces from India's recent Gen Z-led protests.

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Mathieu Duplay 🌈 @mathieuduplay.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Everyone gets the joy, which is not hard to find, as per the title. It takes a great pianist to get the mystery as well.

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Samson François plays Debussy's l' Isle Joyeuse

YouTube video by maestrojimbo

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

CLAIM: the ICE agents fired into a vehicle with a child in it for no reason at all FACT: these keys here are jingling isn't that interesting? isnt the sound they make really something?

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David Barral @thoreaupeutic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

if you’re Trump, so much seems to hinge on bringing about World War III ASAP

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Sylvain Bourmeau @sylvainbourmeau.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Des nouvelles de La Suite…

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Comité AEC @comiteaec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tania vous résume Les Bêtises politiques, en un peu plus d'une minute :

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