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Barry Combo @barry-combo.bsky.social · 1h

BBC news is a hate group and a far right campaigning organisation.

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And nobody "Stopped wearing Nikes," that's just literal delusion. They just stopped buying them at inflated prices from looters like you because they no longer had to.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just speaking for film & TV there isn't really a job loss due to AI. It's been mostly due to successive punches of pandemic, streaming collapse, union strikes, studio consolidation and interest rates. This trend was in place way before Midjourney was pumping out pictures with 14 fingers.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 15h

and, like, ontop of being morally reprehensible, can we just underline how staggeringly, stupidly bad a call this is? transphobia is BROADLY UNPOPULAR! Just go, "Hey, Elon Musk and Trump loves transphobia" and most normal people will go, "ew, gross" because most people hate those guys

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 14h

Some things are incurable. Get it through your heads that science is fantastic, but sometimes people are sick and will remain so

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Grudging Signup @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 12h

It feels to me that they've decided some conditions simply aren't real, and they don't want to include them in NHS care never mind the relatively low costs, never mind the benefits, never mind the reality just: I don't approve of this & I don't think we should be pandering to it Daily Mail brain

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 8h

If more of them talked like that, more of them would.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 8h

Sweet calves

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 17h

When you say "cut red tape," I hear "cancel regulations created to protect people."

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The University of Toronto, by far the closest to Ivy League culture in Canada, banned fraternities in the 1960s because they wouldn't admit black students. Which is another telling dynamic of the history of fraternities.

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 17h

The only candidate I'm interested in in 2028. There are a few who can catch up, but the bulk of them should go straight to hosting a podcast.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 19h

Lrs: artists, I usually don't advise on pricing beyond "at the precise point you'd rather have the money than your art, that's your floor" but don't give up your copyright lightly. A magazine does not need the whole shebang in perpetuity to use your work once.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

feels like the Venn diagram between people going "it's fine for AI to raise your children" and people going "kids going no-contact with their parents should be illegal" has a lot of overlap what if -- and I'm just spitballing here -- you tried having a relationship with them

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Elizabeth she/her @eisraeldavis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reading teacher just back from reading conference here. This is how we get a reading and critical thinking crisis. Reading to children isn't about saying the words on the page out loud to them. It's about the conversation and language development.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21h

This is a lie, and it's a lie they've been telling since the 1950s. They push the story that technology will give the white-collar populace 4 or even 3-day work weeks, but that never materializes. 5-day work weeks with exponentially greater output expectations does.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 23h

If Lauren Boebert's district here in Colorado can vote for a reproductive health amendment that permits abortion without it being tied to fetal viability, then any red district can—and you will never change my mind. We don't have to settle for crumbs. I wrote about it here.

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Missouri’s Abortion Rights Amendment Fell Into the Fetal Viability Trap. Let’s Talk About It.

The viability standard failed us under <em>Roe v. Wade</em>. It doesn’t have to be the future of reproductive freedom—just ask Colorado.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 21h

This is where I want to say again that if we don’t insist Dems be on platform, then even if those Dems win elections, WE ARE LOSING It’s not a bullshit “purity test,” it’s not just being a naysayer, it’s understanding that a platform based on principles matters. It’s not a brand.

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Aaahh!!! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic literally has more concern for their imaginary friends than for the actual literal people being exploited and traumatized by the creation and use of these awful products www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

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Alder Cheems @aldercheems.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Have these guys offered a single detail about how they plan to do this? Especially since the last president had no problem keeping Trump 45's tariffs in place?

When asked if impeachment was a top priority, Jeffries said “of course not” during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” “I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living.”

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/10/2026

COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

anyway! it's fine that everything now is scams, magic beans, gambling, and financing at usurious interest rates

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

She and Telerico can both go in the dustbin of history. "Oh! But we need them to..." Yeah, you were saying the same thing about the guy with the Nazi tattoo a few months ago.

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Camerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The truth behind this and other weird chatbot quirks is that this is what engineers with little user experience training just sort of decided the use cases for it could possibly be, & it got baked into the way they’re trained. See also: planning your vacation, writing your email, etc.

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Mike Puterbaugh @mike.puterbaugh.net · 08/10/2026

If I were an exclusive restaurant I’d take down the information for anyone who sends an AI to make reservations and blacklist them

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/10/2026

i think it's this and them assuming their super weird and specific use cases are normal. maybe there are like 20 super exclusive restaurants in northern california they're all fighting for tables at? but i'm normal so i just click two buttons on the reservation website

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why even have a kid? You can just train an AI model to act like one.

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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Note: It’s absolutely not about giving public school parents more control over what’s in their library. This is a narrative to sell a bill. There is evidence this is not true. Please see this post. TX was one of the states : bsky.app/profile/flfr...

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MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The "parents rights" movement is a scam to enforce minority control of bigoted viewpoints.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have actually rather strong feelings about the right way to handle being called a slur for a thing you actually aren't, because it can accidentally be extreeeemely revealing a panicked "GROSS, NO I'M NOT!!" forever undercuts anything that sounds like allyship you might ever attempt to say again

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

we didn’t appreciate these images enough.

Earth rising above the Moon’s crater-covered horizon against the blackness of space. The partially illuminated blue-and-white planet reveals swirling clouds and oceans, while the rugged gray lunar surface stretches across the foreground.

A wide view of the Moon’s heavily cratered surface, with Earth appearing as a small, partially illuminated blue-and-white crescent just above the lunar horizon on the upper left. Countless impact craters cover the curved lunar landscape, contrasting with the deep black background of space.

A dramatic close-up of the Moon’s densely cratered surface dominating the left side of the image. Beyond the sharply sloping lunar horizon, a partially illuminated Earth appears against the blackness of space, its bright blue oceans and white cloud formations visible along the sunlit crescent.

Earth peeking above the Moon’s sloping horizon, with its bright blue-and-white upper portion visible against the blackness of space. The foreground reveals an expansive, rugged lunar landscape covered in countless impact craters of varying sizes, with pronounced shadows highlighting the terrain.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not just vile experiments and Mississippi appendectomies (forced sterilization) but there's tons of data on medical racism now -- COVID, birthing care, the lingering racisms about Black folks and pain, what isn't taught in med school, etc. and yeah, white folks-- NOT the same basis. I wonder+

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also, I don't know about you, but I've worked for several iterations of This Guy and watched him drive the company off of a cliff while us peons could do nothing except watch and say, "This is a really bad idea."

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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 08/10/2026

Okay, at this point I have to ask where the national Democratic party is on telling its candidates, "Don't talk like JK Rowling, it's probably demoralizing." Because this is just fucked. And if your answer is, "They need to run to the concerns of their district," you're fucking wrong.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 08/10/2026

Yes the kids won't remember but "overturning roe will be good for abortion rights" was a big centrist thing for awhile

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I notice that everything the press doesn’t like is “social contagion” now, except for the escalating crankery of the press, which is an organisation of a couple of thousand people mostly concentrated in one city, who largely all know each other - one thing that definitely *is* social contagion.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

“we call this flavor ‘the shoggoth.’ it opens the mind to non-euclidian geometry. it drove three of our top technicians to madness.”

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Translation: too many black people are able to buy homes for the president's comfort

WSJ headline that reads:

Wells Fargo Faces Regulator Probe Over Efforts to Boost Black Homeownership

Trump's Housing and Urban Development seeks to crack down on race-based lending, calling it a potential violation of Fair Housing Act

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 08/10/2026

Conservative activists are chipping away at the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell because Alito told them exactly how to do it.

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Sam Alito Wants You to Forget How the Conservative Legal Movement Always Works

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It...

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

AI detection tools are bollocks. They're also probabilistic algos that will be highly prone to error (and bias like racism & sexism). The solution to genAI in the arts is not more tech-developed bollocks, it's to ban genAI from the arts completely. Eradicate this cultural poison.

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fast forward 20 years. "And then my child went no contact for no reason at all!" Although, in 20 years, I'm not sure he'd notice or care.

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Tindi (who yells about goalies) @sparkletindi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

...i regret to announce this is relevant again. Mind you there's a reason this verse is in here, along with the weapons one

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

we do not have to live this way.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.

Screencap from Invincible: "I do love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me."

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm having this conversation in every left-oriented space. The reward for doing this work must not be measured in big wins. We must keep going because *it is right and necessary*. Don't expect to get to the mountain top in your life. We are links in an endless chain of liberation.

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Of course it is. They've been trying for 12 months to generate some buzz about the new series, and it hasn't taken. They announced S2 in a desperate attempt to reassure people they weren't going to pull the plug. If it was literally any other property, they'd have hit the eject button last year.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And "droplet precautions" as sufficient to protect against pneumonic plague. Every time I hear the WHO referenced as if it were some sort of authoritative source on airborne diseases, my eyes involuntarily roll so far back I can see my own optic nerve.

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seven possums in an AFI hoodie @volare.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

same. knew a couple that'd been living together for over twenty years; one passed unexpectedly and his family told his partner he had two weeks to clear out, none of their shared possessions were his & if he did take a single thing they'd have him arrested for theft. Everyone. Make A Will. PLEASE.

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