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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 9h

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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 6h

there's this impression, I think, that AI-generated abuse imagery is hiding and hard to find. in reality, it's being propped up by some of the biggest internet infrastructure companies in the world. very interesting new report: www.404media.co/deepfake-abu...

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Internet Infrastructure Services Empower Deepfake Abuse, New Study Finds

Cloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 3h

If we must have articles about tradwives finding that patriarchal white men don't make good allies, I wish they'd highlight (preferably in the headline) that these same women are viciously racist and homophobic and for the most part do not renounce those views, let alone try to make amends for them.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

Hegseth is aspirational for some white people. He's proof that mediocrity is rewarded if you are a white man. You can always fail up. That's his appeal and make no mistake, the appeal is real.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 7h

Everytime I see someone talking about Talarico's chances in Texas, I just want to claw my face. I. Do. Not. Care. Manchin and Sinema and Lieberman and Fetterman should have taught you a lesson. If you betray trans people for "electability reasons" you are not to be trusted.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 9h

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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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 10h

In 2013, the Daily Princetonian revealed that in 2008, Princeton University had paid to conduct a survey of students about sexual assault - then buried the results when *one in six* female undergrads reported unwanted vaginal penetration within the past year. That’s just under 17%.

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Survey quantifies sexual assault

More than 15 percent of female undergraduates reported experiencing non-consensual vaginal penetration during their time at the University, according to an unpublished survey conducted in 2008 by seve...

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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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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 17h

Oh, they're physically incapable of picking up the correct lesson. I am still hoping that THE ODYSSEY will lead to an expanded Iphagania universe or maybe an Antigone/Elecrta roadtrip/buddy movie.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 22h

They also are making hockey shows that . Don’t actually replicate the things folks like . Instead going for the engagement bait.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 22h

just a reminder that a whole lot of prominent center-left men went to fucking Epstein for advice about what to do about the #MeToo movement, like, in case you were wondering why 2 seconds after it started the media was like HAS IT GONE TOO FAR???

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 17h

This could have been avoided if the mayor of NYC simply didn’t post to the fascist child porn website as a matter of principle.

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chelsea bridge @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 20h

there are no worthwhile qualities of fraternities, full stop. when they're not busy raping women and defending their rapist members they abuse and kill new members for fun. colleges have proven they cannot be made safe or reformed. the only reasonable policy at this point is banning all of them.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23h

Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 23h

I have a 9 yr old boy and I want everyone to listen when I say this: some of your boys are already the problem. Which is bad enough but then I am watching you *let* them be the problem and insist that *everyone else* also let them be the problem and THAT is how we get news cycles like this week

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 23h

If you ever needed a clearer proof that the "I would die to protect women but they won't make me a sandwich" script is utter bullshit... 50+ men were HANDED the PERFECT chance to be the Knight in Shining Armor with zero risk to themselves. And to a man, they failed. Catastrophically.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

just another day in a country too corrupt to pass a privacy law, regulate data brokers, or adequately fund its regulators things are going to get wild

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💐 weepscreed 💕 @weepscreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Any defense lawyer should assembe a dossier of the 100s of proven lies ICE has told; their undocumented testimony shouldn't even be allowed.

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Brian Guilfoos @guilfoos.com · 29/09/2026

But we can't have single-payer because "government shouldn't come between a patient and their doctor". Bitch, I've already got several companies in the way. Getting it just down to one - one I get to at least vote for - would be a massive improvement.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

APPROVE MY PRIOR AUTHORIZATION OR I AM GOING TO CRASH OUT

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Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

just so everyone knows, the title IX changes also made it even harder to report sexual assult as well as making it legal to descriminate against trans people. anti-trans means pro-rape. every time.

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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mike Johnson dismissed the House until after the midterms, saying members needed time to campaign. We're not paying the House to campaign; we're paying them to govern. Bring them back. Vote on this legislation. www.kob.com/new-mexico/l...

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Lawmakers behind new Epstein legislation say they have the support to force House vote

House lawmakers say they have enough support to force a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act Two, which could help New Mexico's Attorney General get unredacted Epstein files.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Oops, my bad.” “You’re right. Sorry everybody.” “That sounded way worse out loud than it did inside my head.” “Yeesh, I apologize.” “I was trying to be funny, but yeah, that was not great.” “Noted! Howabout that subject change.” There are SO MANY ways to not double down on being an asshole!

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Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only way guardrails will be put on AI is if the people in charge experience criminal consequences that are not just monetary. Start pressing charges with jail time and guardrails will be installed before the trial gets to jury selection by multiple companies.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Australia, you can issue an arrest warrant. You should.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

"ohhh noooo it's toooo powerful! it's gonna hack ur dudes!" style fear-hype for the governments, "invite this adorable bastard demon into your home; we super swear it can't and won't steal your true name (PII)" style lies for the plebs

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing with the Cornell rapists is that there are folks having discussions about what can be proved and legal standards and university actions, and then there are people who are discussing if these young men did anything wrong at all and if we should be mad at them. Those people are evil.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 29/09/2026

I still stand by this and I've seen nothing to disprove this assertion in the last two years.

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JeffCO @ijeffco.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey Jack Smith idolators, before you name him AG, what if the next Dem President appointed a Dem? In fact, what if we simply dropped naming Republicans and Independents to our team and actually put Dems who strongly believe in Democratic ideals at the head? Give that a try for once?

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

Anyway if Meta is doing this with your texts I’m not sure what’s stopping them from ingesting your whole hard drive so you should probably assume they are.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tweet that immediately came to mind:

We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
9.8K Retweets
32.7K Likes

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the migraine has achieved sentience🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 29/09/2026

removing women from sports is a tentpole of their goal to remove women from higher education. they want to remove women's options so they can force women into the 1950s housewife roles they dream of recreating. well 1950 is right, they want to take the whole country back to the 1850s socially.

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smols/rachel @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

"we need depictions of healthy sexual/romantic dynamics" thanks, but actually we need mandatory comprehensive sex-ed

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That person y'all keep shoving on my timeline at the center of the lesbian bar masking drama seems like the most obvious, clumsy troll account on Earth and seeing no one echo this sentiment is kinda driving me slightly batty.

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now *that's* some juicy gossip... Supposedly, the price for Newsom tanking the suit stopping the Paramount/Warner merger was the Ellisons taking Harris out of contention for 28. Which is doubly hilarious since neither of them can win the primary, and if they did, either would lose the general.

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I was working for Harry Reid, he said on meet the press that Thomas was an embarrassment to the court. Wasn’t in the talking point I gave him but whatever. The usual suspects in the media kicked the crap out of him. Fuck them

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

God I hate being right.

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Stonkers @stonkers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.

a crop in on the image in the quoted post, it focuses on the kitten on the far right originally. it's a tiny potato shaped tabby standing on its hind legs with its forepaws up on a box. its shape is 100% perfection

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every woman you know 📢EVERY 📢WOMAN 📢YOU 📢KNOW has a story of sexual harassment &/or assault; most of us have more than one. I've been -grabbed & street harassed x infinity -dehumanized, grabbed, & harassed by men I thought I cld trust -stalked/followed at night -threatened (online & IRL) w/ rape

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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