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I support buses and trains and living as COVID safe as possible.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18h
Please vote for B*tch, Listen to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award for the episode in which @elienyc.bsky.social and I talk about how the Constitution is trash but it's working exactly the way the white slaver founders intended. You can vote here. You have to sign up. Do it! Do it now! Please?
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 25/09/2026
So many low-wage workers ALREADY had to work until they died; this economy, wages failing to keep pace with inflation, and the widening wealth gap make this even worse.
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She Leaves Home Before Dawn to Get to Her Low-Wage Job. She’s 83.
Salud Garcia’s struggles echo those of millions of low-wage workers across the nation, where mounting costs erode their already precarious footing.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 3h
I predict that a year from now we'll be seeing the same stories about BMW that we saw about Ford this past summer: after AI fails, they'll be trying to re-hire all of the people they fired. www.forbes.com/sites/joetos...
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Ford Hiring 350 Engineers After AI Failed Shows Human Value In AI Era
Ford rehired 350 engineers after AI systems failed to maintain quality. The decision is attributed to lead in JD Power's ranking for the first time in 16 years.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 4h
🧊✈️ VENEZUELA 😲⛓️ 👉 An Eastern 767 (tail: N703KW) departs El Paso Wednesday morning, trafficking chained humans to Barcelona, Venezuela 🇻🇪
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4h
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mink farming is a massive pandemic risk. It's insane that they are allowed to exist. Now we have an active H5N1 outbreak on a mink farm, & "state officials have no clear plan to rein it in." Imagine if uncontrolled H5N1 transmission in mink were allowed in a research lab...
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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US Gov fuckwittery and incompetence has not gotten a handle on H5N1 spreading in a mink farm - an animal through which WE KNOW the virus can acquire respiratory transmissibility and human tropism. But no - you can’t study these viruses under MAGA b/c scientists can’t be trusted….🤦 Stupid fuckers
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Joker Joker Deuce Deuce @afrosaxon7.blacksky.app · 3h
It's funny to me when people don't believe the country has the capacity to shift to community based because it literally happened during Covid. People were sharing food and supplies with neighbors, distilleries started producing hand sanitizer for free, they government was giving out shit
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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 4h
Just because the presidential election doesn't give us good options doesn't mean "voting doesn't matter." That position never made sense because local counts too. Also doesn't mean that voting is the *only* thing you need to do. You are SUPPOSED to do more than just vote if you want a better world.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 5h
the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.
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Mayor Of Colorado @fuelbydreams.bsky.social · 4h
The 20% cuts to RTD were that bad looking huh?
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RTD was going to start a conversation about severe service cuts. Then the board called it off
Agency staff were going to present concepts built around a 20% reduction in service, the board chair said.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5h
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
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Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
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RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app · 4h
HELLO HI GOOD MORNING I AM STILL $100 SHORT ON BEING HOUSED FOR ANOTHER MONTH ANY AND ALL HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED #MutualAid #HelpSky #MutualAidRequest
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
12. it is usually better to focus on people, and why people are doing things a) why are tech CEOs saying these things? b) why are bosses so excited about it? c) why do we write, draw, and make art? d) what is the fucking point?
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
10. if you are defining a process by what it produces, and i am defining a process by how it changes me, we are not talking about the same thing 11. arguing about what tasks LLMs can or cannot do keeps LLMs at the center of the conversation
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
8. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it
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Rocket Girl Erin 👩🏼‍🚀🚀🔆🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 HELP! READ PINNED SKEET! @rocketgirlerin.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
One last appeal for help in staying in my home. I only have today and tomorrow to make payment before they add additional penalties and start the process to kick us out. venmo.com/u/RocketGirlErin
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Aerin Littlebear | @RocketGirlErin
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
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Temu Tisha Campbell @thatgirlbamz.bsky.social · 5h
Why do they make it so difficult for us to vote if “voting doesn’t matter” ?
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Denzel Washington: Explain It To Me
Alt: Denzel Washington: Explain It To Me
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 4h
Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property fortune.com/2026/09/30/p...
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Palantir CEO Alex Karl quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property | Fortune
Cladonia Skog AB, a newly registered company owned by Karp, said it would use the land for “forestry and other related activities.”
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 4h
US healthcare system: iN oThER cOuNtRieS YoU'lL wAiT mOnTHs fOr aN aPpOiNtMeNt! Also US healthcare system: Wheelchair order will take 4mos. Me: cool so if I started the process on 8/24-- US HC system: --no that's 4 months AFTER your specialist appt. That takes 6 weeks to schedule for 3-4 mos out.
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 14h
Still a bit short I know everyone is struggling but
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 11h
Fuck it Ban every fraternity then Every single one
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moby dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 10h
RFK Jr just coming straight out and admitting that the purpose of genAI is to allow fascists to pretend that inconvenient truths aren't true. Sounds to me like a good reason to ban it at once!
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 17h
👏👏 They won! On behalf of 450 million Europeans! And yet,
Quote from ICCL: "We need your help. ICCL is a nonprofit organisation. We take no funding from government, and the State blocks us from raising commercial funding to pay for litigation like this. Please visit ICCL.ie and donate whatever you can to help our work. Every contribution, no matter the size, adds up to ensure ICCL can keep defending rights and liberties for another 50 years."
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Benjamin @benjami.no · 19h
From what I understand: Instead of YOU having to prove that a tech company DIDN'T follow GDPR obligations, The tech companies now instead have to prove they actually DID follow GDPR. Burden of proof is on them. They cant just blanket deny everything. Huge if true! Nice one @iccl.bsky.social
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026
Soooooooo. As expected, the guy in that story about Muse doing FB Marketplace deals *had* in fact clicked the permission to "always allow" Muse to do things for him. Still very, very poor design by Meta such that the user didn't understand what permission he was giving...
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Update on letting Muse run Facebook Marketplace for me.
So I’ve spoken to 
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 and the Muse team tonight and we went through the log to figure out what went wrong. Regarding the address leak. The first thing that popped up from Muse when asking it to handle my Facebook marketplace was an option with ‘Allow One Time’ or ‘Allow Always’. I clicked the latter thinking it would still send approvals to accept offers later down the line (it didn’t so be careful). 
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By doing that it granted Muse permission to send messages on my behalf going forwards using a template it put together using information it asked from me. Which also included the pickup address that I did give to Muse (again I didn’t think it would send it out to everyone that gave me an offer so it’s worth checking). I mentioned to the meta team it could be easily overlooked as it was with me and they said they will be making this more clear moving forwards. 
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Regarding the lowball offer situation. It accepted an offer of $600 and sent out my address to a buyer to come collect the item after I strictly set a minimum of $700 with Muse. The Meta team informed me this was an error on their end which caused a display issue removing the ‘7’ from the output to the buyer. And with it stating “Sounds good, 00 it is!” after the buyer asked for $600 it made it look to the buyer like his offer was accepted. 
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I suggested to Meta that each message sent by Muse should have a little “Sent By Muse” badge underneath so everyone knows it wasn’t sent by a human as there was really no way of knowing who sent what in the chat which is very concerning.
As for the buyer, we made up and he even came by tonight to buy something else. All ended well.
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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this investigation on long COVID inside of prisons is out today at the Sick Times! I worked on this piece for months and am so grateful to the folks who shared their experiences with me. I'll write up a real thread a little later, but you can read it now: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...
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I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick Times
While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me...
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Team Phil @philforcolorado.bsky.social · 23h
Filed my 84th lawsuit against the Trump admin to stop their unlawful push to open a new ICE detention facility in Hudson, CO. They're implementing harmful and lawless mass deportation strategies, & must be held to account. I'll always fight for the rule of law.
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newsoneofficial.bsky.social @newsoneofficial.bsky.social · 23h
Douglas Stewart Carter has spent 40 years on death row in a Utah prison after being convicted of murdering Eva Olesen, a white woman, in 1985. newsone.com/6873006/douglas-stewart… ✍🏾 Joe Jurado
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/09/2026
We're in court today challenging the anti-trans Kansas law that bans trans people from bathrooms that align with their gender on government property, invalidates driver's licenses with updated gender markers, and lets people sue anyone they suspect of violating the law for damages up to $1,000.
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 22h
By my count, the during the tenure of the current Cornell president, students were expelled for protesting a genocide, an extremely violent sexual assault was dealt with by apology essays, and he ran over a student's foot. Neat. Never, ever send me a alumni fundraising email. Never.
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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 22h
This fills me with so much dread 😞
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 22h
The UAE shares no border with Sudan and faces no refugee crisis from its war. It has only an interest in the country’s gold, ports, and in making sure a popular revolution doesn’t spread. africasacountry.com/2026/09/the-...
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The war Abu Dhabi didn’t need to fight
The UAE shares no border with Sudan and faces no refugee crisis from its war. It has only an interest in the country’s gold, ports, and in making sure a popular revolution doesn’t spread.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22h
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to continue third-country deportations, for now
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Third-Country Deportations For Now
The decision allows the administration to continue removing immigrants to countries they’re not from and have never been to.
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Shannon Bucci 🔻 @shannonbucci.bsky.social · 22h
The vast majority of child maltreatment cases are related to neglect, and the vast majority of neglect cases are related to poverty. The family policing system is just another tool for the state to exert its power—it was never intended to protect children.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 22h
(I mean it when I say she's amazing because she went through everything she could give me before my insurance ran out. I wonder how many of her peers went through the same process. Planning how they could set their patients up to survive for as long as possible without care.)
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 23h
Everyone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions.
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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They also don't see kids as people separate from the need to care for them. The fact that kids like other kids and sometimes get bored around adults used to be dealt with by letting them run around the village, but now they need a specific place to go.
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skylerb97.bsky.social @skylerb97.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Black people tried it, they would've arrested people back when it was initially being planned online
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Sean Padilla (He/They) Will Write a Good Song About Anything @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
As of this repost, I’m @ $100/200 needed ASAP so that I can buy groceries and pay my Internet bill. If I can get 20 subscribers @ the $5 tier, I can make it happen. I plan to post a new custom song (“Hire Brian”) and start recording another one this week! 🎶❤️ #HelpFolksLive2026
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
McDonald’s uses “machine-learning algorithms to continually analyze data from millions of daily transactions across McDonald’s nearly 14,000 restaurants and generate what the company calls ‘the optimal price’ at each location for each menu item, from Big Macs ‌to discounted coffee for seniors.”
reuters.com
Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienating customers and...
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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Revising a previous post: I used to believe the backlash to HR was basically “girl job that I don’t understand ergo not actually important” and I am now belatedly realizing that in some cases people correctly understand that HR’s job is telling you that your company should not have a slutcon
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Dee @dee4ever.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reach out and touch somebody’s hand. Make the world a better place if you can. A like, a repost or a small donation would mean a great deal to our students for the fall festival. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Every conversation about the Cornell case is irritating me because there is no way there was just one victim. Just one report. I need people to stop talking like no one had any idea they were rapists. Go crack open those middle school and high school records.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GOD. @durbin.senate.gov voted for the "Protect College Sports" Act because of course he did. Can't wait to vote for his replacement in November.
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Jessica Killin @killinforco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CO-5 hasn't had a town hall in years- so we're changing that! Join Jessica Killin and special guest Congressman Jason Crow for a town hall this Saturday, October 3rd at 3:30pm. Sign up to attend through the QR code or on Mobilize: www.mobilize.us/killinforcol...
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Lydia Hekataia @frogmother.net · 29/09/2026
(Even then, despite trans athletes being allowed in the Olympics for nearly two decades, no trans woman competing in women's categories ever won a medal, and the overall number of trans women who have won any sports competitions is anomalously low)
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disabled & need help the State won’t provide @foreigner.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can anyone match $20? This is due by Oct. 5th. 70/1380 1,310 more to go. 🙏🏼🩵💜 🩵 linktr.ee/ayudamutuax 💜 ko-fi.com/foreignwire 🌸 c/v ayudamutuaX #bipocma #mutualaid #helpfolkslive202
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Amparo | Linktree
🌟 Autistic & ADHD Latina immigrant navigating life & mental health.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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