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Kristin Kondrlik @kekondrlik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On the other hand, my death of the author costume always kills.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People who do not read back in action to stop anyone else reading either

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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The grilling of the AI execs has begun. Speaker Menin asks OpenAI to quantify the worst risks of AI. Exec: "I don't know." Menin: "I'm sorry, but to say you don't know and it doesn't matter is flippant at best... I honestly am incredulous at that answer." hellgatenyc.com/ai-execs-fac...

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When the neighborhood bully meets the real OG . 🤣

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karin @karinswriting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#TeamRhetoric Vy is one of our own. Please boost this message. Any ideas on how to pressure Aetna?

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lauren bre @valyrina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've gotten notices that a few pieces I've been working on will be published in 2027 (I'm also applying for promotion this year, so it's nice to have a few more pieces listed as forthcoming). I have several more under review or in progress. Feeling productive 😍

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.

abcnews.com

District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Relatedly, any organization that claims to be taking a "human-centered" approach, but is only asking "How do we use [whatever tech] responsibly?" and not "Should we use [tech] at all" is in fact centering the tech, and not the people. >>

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To put it another way, you can’t just tell your sons they need to take accountability—you need to hold them accountable. Start with small stuff. Don’t shield them for the consequences of their actions. Walk them through the process of doing the wrong thing and turning it into the right thing.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

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Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 28/09/2026

Gavin Newsom: I have to do some transphobia to win over Republicans The Democratic governor of a “red” state:

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The way I typically judge both ideologies and technologies is by what they do. Not what people say they do. What actual consequences they have for people. If they actually make things better, then they can be viewed as good/beneficial. But if all they do is harm, no future promises are worth it.

Headline from Mother Jones: ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror

--and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards. It advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to "never get flagged again" by OpenAI's moderation systems.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you love stationary and based on sales, I think a lot of people do. Here's a gentle nudge to move past "collecting" and to actually USE the stationary. Write letters to friends and family. Send thank you notes. Write actual cards and MAIL THEM.

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Steve the Muppet Wrangler @beardog63.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am writing a book about all the things I should be doing in my life. It's an oughtobiography.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1. They caught this in time! It won't keep anyone from voting. 2. This happened bc TX lets you register to vote when you get your driver's license online. The DL office's web portal didn't send people's info to county voter roll registrars properly.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026

"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are about 60 lesbian bars left in America and rather than a piece about why that is , we have lol cow bullshit I need people to start understanding that especially as marginalized groups when someone is jazzing up the dram it’s not “tea” it’s a mechanism of exposing your community to abuse

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dems replaced action on trans rights with hollow statements, then dropped those statements, then embraced anti-trans rhetoric. Now supporting anti-trans laws and blocking pro-trans ones. At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/09/2026

When they dub the Star Wars films in other languages do they fuck up Yoda's sentence structure in a manner reflecting the dubbed language, and also is there a language where Yoda's fucked up sentence structure is the one that's correct and it's everyone else's sentences that suck

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Because they have not come for you (yet) does not mean they have failed. Fascism is not an equally distributed political project of harm(s). It is a continuous and discontinuous political project unfolding and situational political violences of all sorts. And what it leaves in place after matters.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

as you get older you really begin to understand how many hinges the human body has

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. Please read and sign. theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In authoritarian states, “law” upholds lawlessness, and its first duty is to keep the leader safe from domestic or outside accountability processes. Judicial capture is the means, and the conversion of the law into what the leader and his enablers need it to be is the end.

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⚖️ 💋 @moonluna34.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Nazi’s experimented on human subjects without their consent. Something about rhyming….

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026

Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I need you all to promise me that when this all happens, you never stop clowning them. Never ever. no matter how much they plead for understanding or try to pretend they were never into it, don't ever let them fucking forget

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On the same day Ted Cruz gets roundly booed by Texas fans, Abdul El-Sayed has Michigan fans running over to shake his hand. Please tell us more about who's popular with Real Americans™

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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An "update" to JSTOR’s free reading program: they're downgrading access from 100 free articles/month to just 10. Access to academic writing is being whittled down, bit by bit. about.jstor.org/blog/an-upda...

about.jstor.org

An update to JSTOR’s free reading program

Beginning September 1, 2026, JSTOR’s free reading program will provide registered readers with access to 10 articles every 30 days.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don’t think people understand how dire the situation is. Conservatives already declared victory on stripping Title IX of protections for sexual assault victims. Now they’re moving onto transgender people and athletics. They want to completely defang the law to allow all gender discrimination.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When disabled people oppose Assisted Dying, it’s almost never from a religious point of view. It’s not because we’re anti-choice or that we want to force people to suffer. We oppose it because society devalues disabled lives and uses these programs in an unethical manner. They become eugenics. 🧵

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 12/09/2026

It will be interesting to see how institutions deal with the rising costs of AI to higher ed. At some point will access be just too expensive for them to pay for?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

sikhs were beat up for supposedly being muslim. muslims were branded terrorist cells. democrats were sent anthrax and called pro-terrorist for opposing invading iraq. this post-9/11 unity you always hear republicans, democrats and the media talking about NEVER HAPPENED.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Girl, the apparent “shared bond” after 9/11 created ICE, which is kidnapping and murdering people TODAY. You can’t lament about the present while wishing for a past that created it!

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."

The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.

Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(centrist adviser): "Sir, what our voters want most is someone who'll fight! Who'll fight for them and not back down! Who'll fight to defend freedom! And, sir, that's why I'm urging you to make sure you tell everyone that you're willing to sacrifice a trans kid playing soccer."

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xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyangelic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So, I'm an academic and have worked with sensitive qualitative data that is to remain private and anonymous. I also work in an open plan office. Always-on recording in the office would violate my ethics approval. So my workplace should ban this shit from campus.

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