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The enemy wasn’t men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin’ stupid people, who came in all varieties. And no one had the right to be stupid. GNU Terry Pratchett she/her/afraid

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 17h
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 17h
I think if you’re not local to DC it’s difficult to comprehend how fucking sad it is to watch all this happening to this beautiful city. I’m barely local, as a transplant to northern Virginia, and I’m very sad
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026
You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 05/10/2026
Bruno on what happened: azhdarchid.com/bsky-suspens...
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I've been temporarily suspended from Bluesky
Bruno Dias' personal blog.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The #2026IgnyteAwards recognize outstanding achievements in genre literature or community work from 2025. Works from 2026 will be acknowledged by the 2027 awards. Congratulations to all the finalists! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/current-fina...
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Current Finalists - The Ignyte Awards
The Awards seek to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding eff...
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Cat @twohuskies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At 17 years old, I chose a college with no frat/sorority culture because it was already a known problem. That was Thirty Fucking Six years ago.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 28/06/2025
about 18 times a week I am too excited about something and try to post without adding alt text. I say "try" because it will not post, my post button is GRAYED OUT until I add alt text, because bluesky is awesome and gave me a way to catch myself. turn on the setting!!!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As an expert on sexual violence, I have to add that these ethical violations are a nightmare for interviews on sensitive subjects. I would never recommend ANY survivor goes public with their story at an outlet that would do this to them.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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Sabrina Vourvoulias @handle.invalid · 01/10/2026
I was so upset about SCOTUS allowing "third country" deportations to resume, I wrote a column — and asked the amazing @older.bsky.social, David Unger, Francisco Goldman and Sarah Paoletti to give me their thoughts on the ruling... www.inquirer.com/opinion/scot...
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In a disgraceful emergency ruling, SCOTUS lets Trump resume violating human rights | Sabrina Vourvoulias
While the ruling does not make a determination on the legality of what are known as “third-country” deportations, it is being celebrated as a victory by the Trump administration.
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 30/09/2026
"What is beautiful in a good novel hasn’t strayed in accidentally. Beauty in the novel is bone-deep, essential. Everything in a good story or novel is essential." You can read the original post here:
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Ursula K. Le Guin — 25. Petty Expectations
Part One. Critical Expectation: Genre and “Literary” Fiction I’ve been pondering, tracing connections, wondering about expectations. The first object of my brooding is a pair of sentences from a boo...
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dr. uncle boobs phD 🗿 @retroshorts21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
use alt text u dopes
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just needs alt-text:
How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE* 

sexual violence centre cork 

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS 

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE. 

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM. 

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU. 

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
to be fair i do think republican men not knowing they exist is a valid way to Protect Women's Sports
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you appreciate our frontline coverage from Gaza, please consider supporting UR contributor Mohamed el Saife to get his family out of Gaza >> tinyurl.com/supportmo <<
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Help Get Journalist's Family Out of Gaza
Help Mohamed get his family out of Gaza! Mohamed el Saife is a journalist who's risked his life for many years covering the Israeli occupation of Palestine and siege on Gaza. His family and him have b...
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
to the Cornell victim: you are so precious and important. you did nothing wrong. you deserve to be surrounded in safety by those who love you; you've always deserved that.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wolves & wild horses have returned to Portugal’s Côa Valley. Rewilding Portugal has been working across the Greater Côa Valley, releasing Sorraia horses & Tauros cattle since 2021 to restore natural grazing. Iberian wolves have now returned to the area on their own buff.ly/xEAcxIx #ShareGoodNewsToo
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The return of the wild in Portugal's Greater Côa Valley - ELSP
When Marta Calix moved to Portugal’s Greater Côa Valley in 2019, she joined an ambitious effort to bring nature back across one of western Europe’s important wildlife corridors. Six years later, new…
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Shannon Chakraborty @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Minneapolis friends! I am briefly emerging from the writing cave to chat about writing historical worlds with the wonderful @lollardfish.bsky.social at UMN next month. Come join us!
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026
Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
happy Jim Henson’s birthday from the museum of the moving image
A display case with the Statler and Waldorf puppets above one of Henson’s sketches
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Cat @twohuskies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't care how good the article is. If it's on Substack I will not click your link. Sorry, have some principles and some standards please.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Instead of researchers being questioned about their companies’ habit of plagiarizing academics’ work or using customer data to train models without consent, the public’s imagination is redirected to fears about what the future might hold upon the arrival of fictional superintelligent machines."
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Cat @twohuskies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
super weird to spend the week seeing hot takes on the discours(es) of the week in passing, but not reading the actual thing(s) being discussed (look, it's been a busy irl week).
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Arturo Serrano @carturo222.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whenever a Worldcon is not hosted by an Anglophone country, I'd like them to use their Special Hugo option to award a Best Work Originally Created in [Our Language], regardless of whether it also exists in English.
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Cat @twohuskies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A medium sized blue and black butterfly on a vine on a wooden fence.
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 25/09/2026
Today, we're launching our first women's sports story co-published with @valkyriesbeat.bsky.social: on how the inclusive culture touted by the Golden State Valkyries is faring amid the culture wars embroiling the rest of the WNBA. www.coyotemedia.org/valkyries-tr...
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Amid Anti-Trans Uproar in the WNBA, the Valkyries Are Standing Their Ground. Is That Enough?
For Valkyries fans, the inclusiveness of Ballhalla is sacred — even moreso as the culture war comes for the WNBA.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Guys! Susan Collins just said she's having 'doubts' about the President's plan to murder us all! She is hinting that she could be voting AGAINST this new bill!! I told you she was the last reasonable Conservative politician and YOU didn't bel-- Oh, she just voted to murder us all. Never mind.
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Cat @twohuskies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Dolly Day youtu.be/UbxUSsFXYo4
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Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 (Official Video)
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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Kristina Gehrmann @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
P.S. If I may recommend a directory of illustrators, there is www.bookishartists.com where all artists are human and vetted!💙
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Weren't you fucking LEAVING Why are you STILL HERE
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 24/09/2026
NEW: Two leading Democratic candidates for Congress and several local elected officials were among those taken into custody as the Israeli prime minister assailed Mayor Mamdani at the General Assembly.
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More Than 100 Arrests as Demonstrators Block Traffic to Protest Netanyahu at UN
Two leading Democratic candidates for Congress and several local elected officials were among those taken into custody as the Israeli prime minister assailed Mayor Mamdani at the General Assembly.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ATTENTION BLUESKY! Annie says they are really hoping to boost the number of artists (crew, performers, creative teams, anyone) outside New York who are filling this out to get a broader sampling. If you are in the arts please take a second and fill this out!
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 24/09/2026
A Democrat-backing political action committee is getting into the 9th Congressional District race with an ad accusing Republican Sen. Brent Taylor of taking campaign cash from artificial intelligence companies and passing data center legislation.
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Democratic-leaning PAC goes after Republican congressional candidate over data centers • Tennessee Lookout
A Democrat political action committee is accusing Republican Sen. Brent Taylor of taking passing data center legislation in a new ad.
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026
I feel actually sick from this, the sheer fucking audacity of the grift claiming to be "a tool that will help professional journalists" while not citing a single journalist, stealing the photos from the Guardian article & stripping them of any info re: contents or photographer.
Screenshot from London Daily that shows four images at the top of a headline: three of a ship from different angles and one of Pia Klemp, an activist, holding a pair of binoculars. Beneath that the text reads as follows:
Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

The British street artist Banksy has financed a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north Africa, the Guardian can reveal.Screenshot of the top part of the 27 August 2020 Guardian article which London Daily scraped. The journalists listed in the byline are Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Maurice Stierl in Berlin, and a helpful yellow tag at the top of the page notes "This article is more than 6 years old."
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 23/09/2026
This year, the winner of Fat Bear Week will come to your home and replace your smoke alarm batteries.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
Since SCOTUS destroyed the Voting Rights Act, Southern states can now redraw a dozen majority-Black districts in time for the 2028 elections, triggering the largest drop in Black congressional representation since the end of Reconstruction. And that’s just the beginning.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know that many of us have been inured to much of the lawlessness of the Trump admin by now, but we must continue to talk about how this is explicit white supremacy being institutionalized. Anyone who doesn't root this out of our government stem and root will be complicit with ethnic cleansing.
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