Reposted by Transitional FossilMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10hThe 2,000 residents at NYCHA’s Nostrand Houses have lived with outdated appliances, faulty heating and cooling systems, unreliable elevators, untreated lead and mold, and weak security systems that have decayed over time. 332120472
Reposted by Transitional FossilMollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 5hNo, really. Good question. 15213
Reposted by Transitional FossilSusan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 13h"The GOP playbook relies on an absolute lack of shame, and so Schmitt dutifully bellied up to the microphone to celebrate his flawless victory with the chuds keeping the grift alive in Charlie Kirk’s old studio." Boom from @lizdye.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's PN: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...open.substack.comSchmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack SmithWhen gotchas go disastrously wrong. 1830065
Reposted by Transitional FossilKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14hSeveral people are mad about this so I will briefly clarify! No, I’m not saying a novel is comparable to a real-life assault in any way. No, I’m not saying the author is bad or responsible for bad things. I am saying I’ve seen real bad stuff come from “consensual” student-faculty relationships. 1959242
Reposted by Transitional FossilThe DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 10hATO shows that 30% of large companies paid NO TAX in 24/25 None. Our systems are broken. 21438166
Reposted by Transitional FossilJoe Z @underflow.dev · 8hRecently participated in anti-harassment training at my STEM org. It was good. It did leave me with one question, though. Would management fire Richard Feynman? Or would they bury his very public misogyny, his alleged spousal abuse? Experience tells me the answer. Hopefully I'm wrong. 061
Reposted by Transitional FossilKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12hOne of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control. 9780126
Reposted by Transitional FossilAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12hA lot of people are speculating that this will lead to the US government having to bail out AI companies but there's no world where that happens and the government bond market doesn't completely collapse and cause a fiscal crisis. 70687210
Reposted by Transitional FossilKittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 11hCollective Dream! 71970204
Reposted by Transitional FossilWTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump @wtfgop.bsky.social · 13hCornell University’s TimTok page is brutal There are 40k comments on their page. And MAGA CULT SLAYER just posted this one 🤣 271511391
Reposted by Transitional FossilChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10hPretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should. 43183631869
Reposted by Transitional FossilRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14hEx-WV police chief violently attacked a woman over an expired registration. Though innocent, she spent five days in jail before the charge was dismissed. He resigned and was decertified. 90445212216
Reposted by Transitional FossilJayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 8hIf our government doesn't make the wealthy and Corporations pay their fair share, we'll never get out of Quackmire. Corporate Welfare and no taxes for Tech Bro's are killing us. 0112
Reposted by Transitional Fossilryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15hoh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...nytimes.comStudents at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case. 161942474
Reposted by Transitional Fossil4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 9hJack Smith is an American hero 👇 10547241575
Reposted by Transitional FossilDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17hOpenAI’s seeming lack of focus makes more sense when you realize Sam Altman is a prolific investor with stakes in 400+ companies. OpenAI is run similarly. Make lots of bets, double down on what works and kill what doesn’t. The lack of focus is the strategy, not a bug. 5486
Reposted by Transitional FossilKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12hJust a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot 1564995747
Reposted by Transitional FossilWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10hHow the Oligarchy Uses Sports To Control the Narrative: Life Surge, Prosperity Gospel, and the LA Clippers Saga With @pablo.show thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-the-ol... 1020953
Reposted by Transitional FossilRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11hSee what I mean when I say the system is rigged? 12140051735
Reposted by Transitional FossilAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10hI for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 722198804650
Reposted by Transitional Fossil𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12hA grim little montage of where American politics has landed. 631261594
Reposted by Transitional FossilCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15hFour-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t... 12622871049
Reposted by Transitional FossilDr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 17hRussia is a terrorist state. International politics will never be rational until diplomatic relations are severed with the falsely-named Russian Federation. Treat the Muscovy terrorist formation exactly the same as Daesh (the falsely-named Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant). 2824976
Reposted by Transitional FossilDr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 17hThe inside-the-newsroom account of a 22 yo reporter, her 20 yo editor, a 23-month investigation, and the decision to publish the names of the Cornell 7 on the front page—the spark that lit the fire. The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...nytimes.comStudents at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case. 0184
Reposted by Transitional FossilPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 17hThings I never fully understood until now: 1) that most men think women want to have sex with them& would enjoy it if they tried it. 2) that most men think sex is a transient trivial thing, and if it happens to your body you can just get up and keep on moving 3) that most men think most 23713
Reposted by Transitional Fossilbiologist077.bsky.social @biologist077.bsky.social · 29/09/2026These early Phase 1 results for prula-cel in lupus are impressive! This "off-the-shelf" therapy led to 50% complete kidney response in lupus nephritis patients after a single dose at 12 months. Amazing what biotech can achieve for challenging autoimmune conditions.biospace.comAdicet Bio Reports Positive Safety and Efficacy Data for Prula-cel in Systemic Lupus ErythematosusAdicet Bio, Inc. has announced positive safety and efficacy results from its Phase 1 study of prula-cel, an investigational allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy, for patients with systemic lupus erythematosu 2124
Reposted by Transitional FossilOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026its very weird to me when people rewrite recent history we all lived through 6655
Reposted by Transitional FossilSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Really something to have this be your takeaway from the last decade of American culturenytimes.comOpinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to. 4119632
Reposted by Transitional FossilOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18hjoe biden is the most powerful president in american history, able to control world events from his home in delaware, far away from the trappings of the presidency. biden, god emperor, manipulator of markets and media. bow before his grace, first of his name. 917432
Reposted by Transitional FossilDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith wasn't at an Atlanta Hawks game but Donald Trump definitely had troves of classified documents in his bathroom 6573136
Reposted by Transitional FossilCasey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 30/09/2026Just a reminder that you can have a PhD and also be an idiot 921832
Reposted by Transitional FossilThe Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 20hReporter: "China gave Iran satellite pics of our bases in Jordan." Trump: "They do what we do." Reporter: "Will you confront Xi?" Trump: "He's behaved well. I don't wanna criticize him." Reporter: "So you WON'T criticize China for helping Iran kill our people?" Trump: "Be quiet." 1146
Reposted by Transitional FossilRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Until the Reagan years, the SEC considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. Now, NVIDIA has announced the largest buyback in American history — fueled by the data center boom. It's time to make buybacks illegal again.youtube.comStock Buybacks, Explained | Robert ReichRobert Reich explains that Trump's corporate tax is going to stock buybacks, leaving most workers behind.Watch More: Tru 361063401
Reposted by Transitional FossilJayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026But we're the Communists. 🤔 095
Reposted by Transitional FossilPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 19hIt’s not a war. It’s a genocide with mass ethnic cleansing and land theft. A war implies at least two combatants. Israel is just slaughtering civilians. There is no other combatant. Hamas was never an actual army, and is no longer even a fighting force. 24126
Reposted by Transitional FossilJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19hIf 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. 772827854
Reposted by Transitional FossilDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The most interesting part of OpenAI’s Dots is the permission system. - Unattended research is read-only - Users can require approval for actions - A separate system reviews consequential actions - Some things always require a human AI agent safety is increasingly about authorization not alignment. 4364
Reposted by Transitional FossilSTOP MAKING SENSE 🇨🇦🦋 @davidbreakpar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Republicans aren’t just enabling Trump. They’re accessories to his criminal activity. 27698152
Reposted by Transitional FossilChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026No AI Government Guardrails: if we leave it up to Trump Listen to this man 🤦🏽♂️ "They're really going to be policing each other... It's going to be very, very safe and there's a self-policing and there's also a group policing and it's going to be great." 4924990
Reposted by Transitional FossilDr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 20h🥚 4,000+ kids separated from their families were adopted abroad during the chaos of Greek civil war and its aftermath in the 1940s, becoming a prototype for predatory adoption practices by U.S. agencies. Now the Greek adoptee diaspora is regaining citizenship. greekcitytimes.com/2026/09/30/g... 13315
Reposted by Transitional FossilFrank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 20h"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." -- Elie Wiesel, born #OTD 1928 0114
Reposted by Transitional FossilShameka ❤️🏀 @shameka23.bsky.social · 22h#WNBAArt recap of last night. #WNBA 🔊 Press play 1385
Reposted by Transitional FossilElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20hWhen I was in college, there was a group of frat boys who would routinely respond, in response to the use of the word “frat,” “would you call your country a cunt?” “Nah? Then don’t call our fraternity a frat.” Just now processing the layers of that, and what happens when those men rise to power. 2529
Reposted by Transitional FossilDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To be honest, "Idiocracy" understated the kind of threat stupid government poses. 62951172