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Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Days like today I need an emotional support rattlesnake

Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Fellow #teachers let me share that the last three years have conclusively taught me that throwing 'high teas' for your kiddos once a month does have a noticeable improvement in their cafeteria behavior. Also, they are adorable when they start dressing up for it.

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Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I give my kiddos a list of treats they can vote for each week for their Friday celebration. Usually one's a joke. This week the joke option was 'vial of anthrax'. How concerned should I be that it's the only one with votes? These boogers are getting takis. Close enough.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/02/2026

This is truly some of the meanest shit I’ve ever heard of and I firmly believe the intended this to end with his death The Rohingya have already survived one genocide, one driven by lies spread on Facebook. The horror show is now continuing here.

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Blind Dad of 2 Is Found Dead After Being Released by Border Patrol and Left to Find His Way Home 5 Miles Away

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a refugee from Burma who was visually impaired and spoke limited English, was found dead on Tuesday, Feb. 24 in Buffalo, N.Y. after he was dropped off at a coffee shop by Border ...

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Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I don't get it. when the folks who routinely get the most excited about new innovations in tech are all looking at a thing and going 'this is a bad thing', why are we all taking the opinions of people that don't know what words mean?

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Why are all history teachers left-wing? Because they studied history.

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Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Some buffoons are upset because I changed the ice cream making activity time from 5 to 6 to accommodate Ramadan and to them I say... Fuck all the way off, no ice cream for you

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026

Reminder for people who might forget: Ryan is one of the journalists who used a white supremacist as a source for that Mamdani college application story, without revealing that the source was a white supremacist, which is fucking relevant to the privacy breach in the story!!

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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

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The President is Lying to the Public

YouTube video by Governor Wes Moore

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10/02/2026

Rep Raskin reports he reviewed the full unredacted Epstein Files & Trump's name appears MORE THAN A MILLION TIMES. We knew of 38K times—meaning we know of only ~3% of Trump's involvement with a convicted child sexual abuser & sex trafficker. Anyone still unwilling to impeach & remove is complicit.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

There was a reason my parents told me “Focus on school for now” when I hit my teens. I was never a beautiful girl, and I was never in movies that sexualized me in in any way. But it didn’t matter. It was about access. I still got harassed. The 2000s were a bleak, bleak time for young girls.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/01/2026

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

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ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested

There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 29/01/2026

MN Judge: "ICE has violated ~100 court orders." ICE: "We're acting on orders of Kristy Noem" Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of Trump & Miller" Nuremberg Trials: "I was just following orders is not a valid defense to criminal behavior" Abolish. Impeach. Prosecute.

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Bryn Nelson @seattlebryn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Don’t look away.

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Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

ICE actively murdered someone again today.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 07/01/2026

I’m a human rights lawyer. I’ve dealt with ICE Fascists. I wrote this on how to protect your community, assert your rights, and how we fight back against ICE Fascism, together. No paywall. Share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...

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How To Protect Your Community From Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids

Last night I received a credible tip that Trump is deploying mass immigration raids in Chicago this week—here's how we stand united to fight back

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot & killed by an ICE agent, had a young son whose father died in 2023, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune “There’s nobody else in his life,” the boy’s grandfather told the paper. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come get my grandchild.” www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

A photo of the vehicle surrounded by crime scene tape

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/01/2026

Reminder: The US has refused to join the International Criminal Court because it argues extraterritorial justice is incompatible with national sovereignty and citizen's rights.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

You let the devil in, he brought his pirate friends, they brought a hunger for blood and flesh and bone and skin

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

This war will destabilize the entire region and set off a global shockwave of anti-Americanism vs. no it won’t

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

there is no constituency that needs you to fall all over yourself to call Maduro illegitimate before you dare criticize Trump. Voters have been down this road before. No one thought Saddam Hussein was a nice guy. Criticism of Maduro at this stage correctly reads as a defense of Trump to most people.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I think we need to be able to balance the reactions "this is another expression of 250 years of American imperialism" and "what do you MEAN we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and renditioned him to the US and are now claiming to run the country" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/01/2026

My analysis as a human rights lawyer where I cite: •The international & constitutional laws Trump violated •His absurd justification for this attack & why it will absolutely fail in any court of justice •The horrifying global implications that Trump just unleashed www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-ill...

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Trump's Illegal Act of War In Venezuela

Trump’s bombing of Venezuela and abduction of Maduro shatters sovereignty, invites global chaos, and establishes a doctrine no democracy can survive

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Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Most of the villains we loathe in media are significantly less evil than Elon Musk and the Pedo in Chief + minions/handlers.

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Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

"why don't they teach ____ in school?" we do. You were on your phone the entire time and never turned in the assignment, or just cheated and had your parents threatened to get the teacher fired when there were consequences. *balance checkbook, read a recipe, fill out a resume, etc...

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Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

“She thinks this is an appropriate place to get married?” Brian frowned. “May I kill her?” “No.” Sugar shook her head. Brian paused, then leaned in toward her. “Is that a not at all no, or a not in public no?” “Let me get back to you on that one.”

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 04/10/2025

“Why doesn’t Bluesky leadership ban this known person” because they like that person’s views and work. That’s all. It’s the same reason Democrats cede rhetorical ground to fascists. They like it

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2025

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024) By @stephannnnie.bsky.social

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When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...

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Just Andre @justandre.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I meant this literally then, I still mean it literally now, and if you've found a similar sentiment phrased more effectively, use that one instead. Even if they notice complaints are being copy-pasted, better they be flooded with those than receive even one complaint fewer. bsky.app/profile/just...

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

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a man giving a thumbs up to a dog with the words do not blow this for us below him

ALT: a man giving a thumbs up to a dog with the words do not blow this for us below him

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Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Just saying, if a superhero ever throws my vehicle at a villain, they better not fucking miss

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N. R. M. Roshak (Natalka) @nroshak.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The only article on AI you need to read this week. TL;DR: "If LLMs as a technology are viable, they’ll still be around when and if I decide they’re useful for me. If not, I’ll have missed out on losing my life’s savings in Beanie Babies, The DotCom bubble, or NFTs."

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Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

After twelve years upon this wretched earth, a dog has discovered the joy of crunching on an ice cube on a hot day. We can no longer enter the kitchen without her sitting by the freezer and screaming for us to make the cold snacks. Bitch, it's 72F outside. You're not suffering.

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Vin Avis @venavis.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I gave my students the writing prompt of 'you're an AI, given a writing prompt of 'reddit post about worst mother in law wrecked my wedding but keep it PG'.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 23/07/2025

Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now

To Whom It May Concern,

I became aware of your recent article “Trump posts fake video of Obama in jail, declares ‘treason’ and ‘crime of the century’ in AI-driven blitz” which contains a completely fabricated quote from me. The article attributes the following to me regarding Donald Trump’s AI video depicting Obama’s arrest:

“This deepfake is political disinformation at its worst,” said Nina Jankowicz, disinformation analyst and former executive director of the US Disinformation Governance Board. “It erodes public trust, damages reputations, and poses serious threats to democratic stability.”

I did not say this. In fact, I have not issued any comment related to this Trump AI video to your outlet or the public. The manufactured quote is incorrect and irrelevant, and it negatively impacts my professional reputation.

Please remove the false quotation and append a correction to the article, stating that a prior version of this article included a quote falsely attributed to Nina Jankowicz.

Sincerely,

Nina Jankowicz

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

To whom it may concern, and it should concern the editor:

I was quoted in your publication:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans/can-we-engineer-our-way-out-of-ocean-acidification/

Still, others aren't convinced that good intentions are enough. Dr. David Ho, Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaii at Manoa, a cofounder and the Chief Science Officer of |C|Worthy, a non-profit that works on verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, believes carbon removal efforts like ocean alkalinity enhancement shouldn't be left solely in the hands of private companies.

"They have no way to prove that what they're doing is effective - that's a big problem," Dr Ho said.

The crux of the dilemma, he explains, is that we are fighting a planetary-scale problem, but are doing it with tools that are still being built and tested. Geoengineering is not inherently good or bad, but it is inherently powerful. And power, especially when exercised in ecosystems as complex and fragile as the ocean, must be handled with caution.
However, I have never spoken to your reporter, nor would I have said those things. I would like you to remove my quote from your story, and issue a public correction and apology. Furthermore, you should look into whether the other parts of the article are also factually correct. Thanks.

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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 26/07/2025

I was just fucked over $1k so if you guys could like sell this bundle into the stratosphere, I'd appreciate it

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