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@vinkayem.bsky.social
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Read banned books. Protect the LGBTQ+ community. Believe in science. ITNBC currently NED! Fuck cancer! She/her

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Hydra @hydragoon513.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2026 #Holoctober Day 1: Stickman Another Holoctober begins and we're starting off easy. Going to be drawing random members for most of the prompts as always. #AZKiART
Azki Sitckfigure
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Hydra @hydragoon513.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2026 #Holoctober Day 2: School Uniform Today is Suzuna in a school uniform. #つづり絵お届け
Suzuna Tsuzuri wearing a red school uniform, sitting on a schoold desk, while chewing on a letter.
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Hydra @hydragoon513.bsky.social · 3h
2026 #Holoctober Day 3: Dress Ayame in a dress inspired by one of her outfits. #百鬼絵巻
Ayame holding her hand towards the viewer
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
President Donald J. Trump commuted the prison term of David Gentile, who led GPB Capital, less than two weeks after he began serving a seven-year sentence in a $1.6 billion fraud that prosecutors said harmed more than 10,000 investors. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-free...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
people acting like trump is some kind of departure from reagan and bush are part of the problem
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Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Games media cuts have felt unending for a while, but the mood feels especially grim among indie outlets with the latest wave of layoffs. More than ever, if the game industry values its media, it needs to support them. Buy some advertising, sponsor content, purchase subs. It makes a big difference.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thinking of that time after Biden got elected, when a VERY fancy lawyer and Dem strategist called me on the phone like, “Moira, everyone at my firm is mad that the Title IX rules are going to be stricter, because it will be bad for our university clients to have to punish rape.”
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you are invited to her gallery opening
A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.
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Brooklyn Kennedy Scott @brookekennedyscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cornell University President: Michael Kotlikoff phones: (607) 255-5201 (607)255-9924 email: president@cornell.edu
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"indoor cats are miserable and they long for the outdoors and you are depriving them of their true nature by trapping them inside" okay here's my cat when he was outdoors vs now that's he's indoors
orange cat all beat up and bloody in the snow :( orange cat asleep splayed out on his side on his blanket
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At this moment Elon Musk alone is worth $893,449,882,001
macfarlanenews.substack.com
“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
GET ON YOUR FEET GET UP AND MAKE IT HAPPEN
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.history.com/articles/the...
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The Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | HISTORY
School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/09/2026
Happy Bake Off Returns Day to all who celebrate.
The famous raspberry cake missing one raspberry from the Great British Bake Off opening credits
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026
Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation
Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...
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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Tbh it doesn’t exactly require a rocket surgeon to figure out why Americans don’t trust big tech companies very much.
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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 24/09/2026
It’s actually possible to spend money on things that benefit humanity. We just forget that because everyone with money in our society is a fucking useless dipshit.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Age. Timing. Selective memory. Say what you will, I know for a fact that people used to have more sense than they do now.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
elon musk buying a chunk of major movie studios for shits and giggles while every artist and writer I know is out here saying please subscribe, please buy my book, please leave a review, please support me with a few paltry dollars
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I will write this more in days ahead. But it is really important to know that (on Xitter) Stephen Miller is trying to stave off being blamed for the catastrophe that is now predicted to happen to the GOP. Frantically. [ahem] I'd like to prevent this from happening.
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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Help me raise some money for my kids’ elementary school! Buy one of these large DRAW pins and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to their arts magnet school! Do it for the kids! www.harebraineddesign.com/collections/...
Black enamel pin with red type that says “DRAW” and white lettering underneath that says “To keep kids off generative AI” in the style of DARE program tees.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
With plenty of room.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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carmenlynn.bsky.social @carmenlynn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Flock seems to be going out of business. They’re offering buyouts, and there are rumors that they are going sell the company in pieces.
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Signs of Crisis at Flock as It Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit and Get Off Payroll
As backlash against the company shows no signs of dying down, Flock is enticing employees to quit with generous severance packages.
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Hydra @hydragoon513.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ocarina of Time n64 Excited for the remake so I beat the original again. This time I played it with an actual n64 controller and it was pretty different since I've only ever played it on virtual console with a gamecube controller. Didn't mind the camera besides the lock-on being annoying sometimes.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Someone needs to write about the sports gambling industry and the sheer number of athletes promoting this stuff.
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I haven’t talked about this very much because honestly I’m just too devastated, but Trump really did just take my city’s beloved arts center and trash it because fascists hate art and I’ll never be over it, for my community and for all the artists and all the Kennedy Center employees
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
every trans person in America is basically praying to whatever deity will accept them that the democrats don’t turn into Labour and decide to take turns with republicans throwing us into wood chippers. trans women have like a 30% unemployment rate. everybody fuckin’ Chill Out toward us a little
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Annette @donotgiveuphopeusa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
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Trump has made 29 private prison stock trades since taking office - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Trump’s brokers have made 29 trades of private prison stocks since he returned to office, with the first purchases early in his second term.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dem politicians kicked women in the teeth on abortion for decades and their reward is that they got to move on from pearl-clutching about the Abortionplex and put their energy fully into kicking trans people in the teeth
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are not living through "an authoritarian impulse," we are living through actual AUTHORITARIANISM.
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The same cover, but with the "say 'i am alive'" AI meme pasted on top of it after 10000 hours in MSPaint
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