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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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I used to feel like half my time as an orchestra musician was spent patiently explaining, over and over, that no, orchestras have never in history paid for themselves through ticket sales; no, cutting concerts or auxiliary trumpets won't balance the books; YOU JUST HAVE TO RAISE THE MONEY.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/10/2026

Arienne Childrey resigns as Vice Chair of the Ohio Democratic Pride Caucus. The state party has censored all attempts to criticize Amy Acton and Marcy Kaptur for their anti-trans votes and/or statements.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Auto transcription (I was curious, sharing for access. Agree this is fantastic.)

$Screenshot of a transcript. It says: “Exactly right, but I want to say a couple things. One thing about cities that I found in this reporting: cities are very unfairly labeled as these problem centers by Donald Trump and others. And one thing is worth remembering: if you look at the population of well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities, look at youth homeless. A pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country. Okay, in the fraction of youth homeless who are LGBTQ, whatever, pretty high. So there are a lot of families in this country who fail the first duty of family, which is to love your kids more than any other thing, and there's a lot of families in this country that look at some verse in some book, and their child's face, and choose the$

Second screenshot says: “verse in the book over their child's face, and drive their children out of Nebraska or out of Florida or out of Idaho, and those kids come to San Francisco, and those kids come to New York, and those kids go to Chicago, and we have friends giving dinners with them. You live in L.A. You are surrounded by people who have those kind of stories, and so cities. Every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, "Ah, look at these cities.” But we are holding a lot of your people who you fail to love and take care of.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, wow, this is a great minute of TV.

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Essential, brilliant reporting by @by-cjewett.bsky.social It's TERRIFYING: MAHA folks are INVESTIGATING pediatricians, who are some of the lowest paid docs in the professions, for vaccinating kids It's part of a 20-year anti-vaxx campaign by RFK Jr "that some of his political allies have joined"

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is what women on the right say about another woman who was gang raped. These are the same people our current Dem leadership thinks should be allowed to participate in normal society after we wrest control from the psychos.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 05/10/2026

Here's what's replacing four 200-year-old cottonwood trees, the last of which went down today after a 71-day tree-sit protest ended with aggressive arrests. So bleak. Mason Kumet photo from azluminaria.org/2026/10/05/f...

Double border wall running off to the horizon

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lol "Reminds me of all the de-crufting you’ve always needed to do when you install Windows. Looks like we’ve gotten to the point on macOS too, where you need to run third-party scripts on a new OS installation to gain back control of your system resources and remove unwanted crapware."

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Have you seen @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social yet? If not, you are in for a treat --- a thoughtful, wry deep dive into the history, present, and ideology of "AI". Streaming for free on PBS's YouTube channel in the US & Korea, rentable on Kinema elsewhere. notaidoc.com

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Ghost in the Machine

Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.

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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams

Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv

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Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The wait is finally over! Ghosties get involved @pbs.org Also airing tonight on your local PBS station 7PM PT, 10PM ET! "The one documentary with the power to burst the AI bubble" - The Wrap www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...

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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary

YouTube video by PBS Documentaries

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Parts of Norwegian society have already reacted with their own bans including schools in the capital Oslo and the country’s biggest company, oil and gas major Equinor, which has banned them from its offices and offshore facilities."

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It's so easy to let this horror become normal.

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Whoa what a neat project! Thanks for the pointer.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Phenomenal thread of book recommendations #Lit #BookSky

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"A recent study found that only 11% of nearly 400 businesses surveyed were able to accurately forecast AI spending." "In 32% of cases, lower-priced models actually cost more than higher-priced models." "Even the same model might use a different number of tokens each time it completes a task."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"In 2003, Mr. Lazare clashed with his synagogue in Israel after translating an article for Le Monde written by his son-in-law Avraham Burg, a peace activist and former speaker of the Knesset, who posited the death of Zionism...'Father was always for peace, and against the settlements.'"

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Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)

He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

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Fantastic eco-reporting here on a complex set of interlinked natural and human issues.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Muse software not only accesses your private messages without your approval, it often ignores all permissions and uploads them to the cloud – even if you specifically told it not to. This is very much all on brand for Meta." A savagely funny takedown with useful reminders of Zuck's awful history.

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Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Because so much of what we "know" about silent movies is based on lazy stereotypes (all melodramas, mustachioed villains, train tracks, pie fights) perpetuated by movies (later tv) of the 1930s to the 1960s or so. So people not marinated in that tend to come in fresher.

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Oh, and "Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era" was another fab UMBC photo exhibit last year, right up your alley, Katherine: librarygallery.umbc.edu/picturing-mo...

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UMBC also put out the fabulous Amos Badertscher book of his photos of marginalized Baltimore queer folks a couple years back: librarygallery.umbc.edu/amos-baderts.... Such a great resource for photography lovers, and even friends who work at UMBC had no idea it had that rep.

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And this was one of my favorite exhibits of 2025: librarygallery.umbc.edu/archive-192-...

This is the exhibit that first turned me on to the fact that UMBC has an incredibly large and multifaceted photography collection: librarygallery.umbc.edu/revisions-ce...