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Worse-ula Owen

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I do visas. Somehow married to @nbeaudrot.bsky.social. She/her/hers. same username on that other site. Bad opinions are entirely my own.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1h
!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Worse-ula Owen @ueowen.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Master Chief: if you think of space as a ball of yarn, with threads going different directions Me: this mfer doesn't know how yarn balls work
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I’m a Ghoul’s Girl @saraghaleb.bsky.social · 6h
If you’re goth or witchy you should get all of October off to celebrate the season.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 6h
ATTENTION COMIC NERDS!
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 5h
i need gmail to stop automatically marking all of my conversations as important none of my conversations are important
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 7h
This mfer spittin
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 10h
Nurtured in Seattle by the same ppl who now employ Jonathan Choe & fund We Heart Seattle. They NEVER stop at homelessness
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Worse-ula Owen @ueowen.bsky.social · 7h
Placing 4 holds with the library and then immediately pausing them all like a goddamn maniac
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Worse-ula Owen @ueowen.bsky.social · 9h
Chris Rufo can get ****ed. I hope he ***s on a **** and ****s himself to *****.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h
Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21h
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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Worse-ula Owen @ueowen.bsky.social · 20h
Tonight I am tired of empty "reckonings"
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 21h
In 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank in Abu Ghraib, effectively eliminating hundreds of varieties of indigenous seeds adapted to growing in the drought-prone desert climate. A year later, U.S. law prohibited Iraqi farmers from seed saving. (First published in 2025 by Prism)
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Saving Iraq’s Seeds, One Garden at a Time
Comprising a diverse range of backgrounds and ages, the collective fosters a space for voices of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian seed stewards from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region…
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 28/09/2026
When I set out to fact check “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs” which argues that harm reduction may increase overdoses, I expected some cherry picking and misdirection. But not to find basic math errors and debunked right wing talking points asserted as fact in the Atlantic’s print edition.
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Atlantic's anti-harm reduction screed riddled with errors
A close read of "The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs" found errors in basic arithmetic as well as more deliberately misleading elements
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amirite tho
White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite
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Worse-ula Owen @ueowen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every OS update is a new battle with my archnemesis, User Presence Sensing
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 01/10/2026
You don’t have to have the right equipment, or a secret location, or a car to start foraging. Plenty of tasty, foraged foods are easier to find than you might think: your backyard, parks, and local trails.
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In ‘Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!’ Alexis Nikole Nelson helps backyard foragers harvest safely
You don’t have to have the right equipment, or a secret location, or a car to start foraging. Plenty of tasty foraged foods are easier to find than you might think: your backyard, parks, and local trails.Alexis Nikole Nelson, also known as the @BlackForager on TikTok, wants to make it easier. She has a new cookbook that teaches expert and novice foragers how to find and eat the mushroom, berries, and flower petals. "Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!" is packed with delicious and informative recipes for every season."Seattle Eats" host Brandi Fullwood spoke with Alexis live at Town Hall Seattle as part of the Seattle Arts & Lectures speaker series.
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a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is my day today, someone put my out of my misery
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Judge Strikes Down Latest Version Of $100,000 H-1B Immigration Fee www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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Judge Strikes Down Latest Version Of $100,000 H-1B Immigration Fee
A federal judge has struck down the $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa holders and invalidated the Sept. proclamation that renewed it.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026
it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is it?
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This sign is a great example for helping to explain why chatbots present such a potent illusion. A probably not short thread 🧵>>
Photo of a sign with a doorbell attached. The printed sign reads:

CURRENT GUGGENHEIM ACCES BY HUSKY CARD ONLY
[Logos for Amazon, FedEx, UPS]
DELIVERIES/VISITORS
PLEASE RING THIS DOORBELL

Delivery hours M-F 9:00am-(obscured)
University of Washington

Taped next to the doorbell is a hand written note that reads:
yes! it rang! Pelase wait 30 seconds before pressing again.
thanks!
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 03/09/2024
the three genders
three squeeze bottles of sauce labeled 
special, Halloween & Mild
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I will never make a tiktok !
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Without disregarding that there are real executive/cognitive challenge tasks, both this and the OP's example are functions of the US health care system deliberately offloading that work onto patients/payers in the interest of profit
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pottery. Do pottery that can later be carbon dated to this specific period and make sure you sign your name bsky.app/profile/mtsw...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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veery @veery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
lord have mercy
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Kiku @ SPX W15A @kikuhughes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hi friends, I am participating in a symbolic pilgrimage in October where we walk a physical path reflecting the historic path from WWII Japanese American incarceration to current ICE detention centers. If you're in the area, please check out our public events, especially the Solidarity Day at NWDC
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 30/09/2026
A prosecutor candidate in Washington says she decided to run after federal agents shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti; a sheriff candidate in New York says he wants to “kick ICE out.” All over, local candidates say immigration matters to their bids.
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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this looks rad as fuck
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this
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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 30/09/2026
Boosting in light of the discourse surrounding Cornell University.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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Worse-ula Owen @ueowen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm sorry, I simply refuse to watch a seated US Senator do dumb shit for 7 straight minutes
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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the health and safety ratings for restaurants should have an S rank
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 30/09/2026
Researchers at Washington State University have developed a new treatment for endometriosis, an often debilitating disease that affects one out of 10 women.
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WSU researchers design groundbreaking new treatment for endometriosis
Researchers at Washington State University have developed a new treatment for endometriosis, an often debilitating disease that affects one out of 10 women.
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every single company is run like an investment whose only responsibility is short term "line go up". A sock factory will sell the knitting machines to bump the YOY numbers and then act surprised when they can't make any socks to sell twelve weeks later.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Help name our first-ever prehensile-tailed porcupette! 💖 Vote by tomorrow, Sept. 30, 11pm, at pdza.org. The one-month-old wasn’t getting enough milk from her mom, so staff is hand-rearing her to ensure she continues to grow and thrive. She’s gaining weight (now 2 lbs) and trying solid foods.
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Worse-ula Owen @ueowen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
YESSSSSSSSSS
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026
emulsions… very “enemies-to-lovers”
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DongWon Song @dongwon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hello. I am widening my submissions categories to include: - Epic Fantasy - Space Opera - Near Future/High Concept SF - Horror Details here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...
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Submission Guidelines — DongWon Song
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Imagine a judge asking a toddler with NO lawyer if they agree to voluntary departure or want a removal order. That's what the Trump admin is forcing kids—who are as young as 2 years old—to do in immigration courts. That's not due process. That's insane. These are KIDS.
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Puget Sound Sage @pugetsoundsage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚉 Join us at the Graham Block Party on October 3 for food, music, activities, community partners, and a chance to connect around the future Graham Street light rail station and neighborhood! Graham Block Party Saturday Oct 3 11am to 3pm, free MLK Jr Way & Eddy St
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