Reposted by A.P.Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1hMaybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions). 5456153
Reposted by A.P.ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1hoh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...nytimes.comStudents at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case. 447593
Reposted by A.P.Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 14hTbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping 151861295
Reposted by A.P.Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 17hthey DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1452731401
Reposted by A.P.Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 18hShe was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable. 413494566
Reposted by A.P.Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 18hThe Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet. 713920499
Reposted by A.P.Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17hLet this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college. 511902596
Reposted by A.P.Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15hA truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system 11565461237
Reposted by A.P.jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 15hlike i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape” 1979230
Reposted by A.P.Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Stop calling people who wear masks and take Covid precautions the “forever covid” crowd. We’re literally the only ones trying to eliminate the virus. It’s not gone. It’s not over. It’s still disabling. People who deny this reality are the “forever COVID” crowd. 311173311
Reposted by A.P.Bwillett Comics, Monster Boyfriend Specialist @bwillettcomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also not all of us wear n95s for *just* Covid. 'Just a cold' causes me month long lung infections. I like not spending 1/6th of my year in bed with a fever and barely breathing. I'm kooky like that 418354
Reposted by A.P.C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s not a story that anyone wants to hear but in February 2018 I caught a friend’s sore throat. While he recovered fully, I just kept declining, and by June I was 99% bedbound. Eight years later, that’s where I remain. We desperately need better defenses against all respiratory viruses. 618253
Reposted by A.P.Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21hA man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 15182421468
Reposted by A.P.Kavi Kat 🌬️ @katinthestars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's a federal violation of 18 U.S. Code 1512 if they engage in tampering with a witness, victim, or informant, such as by intimidating or interfering with their testimony. 11687
Reposted by A.P.Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This 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. 12276951923
Reposted by A.P.Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today’s Baseball Name (submitted by @localfavorite.bsky.social) is Pickles Dillhoefer 917612
Reposted by A.P.evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 1001910976
Reposted by A.P.Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026TMZ reports that Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, has been fired from his job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigationtmz.comCornell Student Diego Sarabia Loses Wells Fargo Job Amid Alleged Sexual Assault CaseDiego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, is suddenly out of a job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation of the alleged 2024 incident ... TMZ has learned... 1042353545
Reposted by A.P.m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I noticed last year that sweetgreen pivoted to MAHA when it started advertising seed oil-free french fries. Going MAHA is what a failing restaurant chain does now to get free advertising. 211062143
Reposted by A.P.Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A little reminder. #art #illustration 21685571
Reposted by A.P.Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m seeing a lot of posts from older women about how they won’t talk or think about Cornell because it’s too painful or the problem is too big to solve. I’m urging you all to remember how you felt as a college student when older women said that to you. Don’t turn your back on the next generation. 533876
Reposted by A.P.samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking 33898542
Reposted by A.P.Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The 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. 31794616
Reposted by A.P.Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen 252838647
Reposted by A.P.Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I 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:jezebel.comNot Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special TreatmentSince 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 1662227
Reposted by A.P.Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my experiences with being trashed in the media, and I think it’s interesting that the scientists who believed the bad press about me never noticed that the only colleagues who said bad things about me were men And they didn’t question why that was 6749131
Reposted by A.P.Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11141611429
Reposted by A.P.Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...ctmirror.orgThey served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison. 22493290
Reposted by A.P.James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules. 273295769
Reposted by A.P.CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I stg I never thought this needed to be said, but DO NOT PAINT THE TURTLES. Especially do not paint them with exterior, oil-based paint. (If your poor impulse control won’t listen, water-based finger paint. It’s still making microplastics, but it does wash off.) www.popsci.com/environment/...popsci.comShockingly blue turtle discovered in Kentucky backyardPSA: Do not paint turtles. 49025
Reposted by A.P.Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/09/2026The worst part about twitter is there are a number of people who think they have to be active there who are left-leaning but have had their brains absolutely cooked by the site. You can't inundate yourself in exposure to that stuff without it having an impact on you. 681810256
Reposted by A.P.Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Several protesters just interrupted the pro-data center party, flipped everyone off while yelling “thank you for using all of our water!” 231226207
Reposted by A.P.Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living. 532625435
Reposted by A.P.Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just make the pitchers hit again for fucks sake, I want to see weirdly proportioned guys hit dingers 3 times a year not ruin the majesty of creation 1158958
Reposted by A.P.Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded. 23993181
Reposted by A.P.Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity. 213354822
Reposted by A.P.Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad. 8246611159
Reposted by A.P.Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture 642825631
Reposted by A.P.Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7978751393
Reposted by A.P.Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.socialnbcnews.comAmerica had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected. 23535642005
Reposted by A.P.Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026I applaud the survivor and the brave journalists who did this: “To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.”cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 111536
Reposted by A.P.Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27674883137
Reposted by A.P.I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026The people directly profiting from this technology at the moment keep driving news cycles with ever more extreme predictions of harm while the current way the technology is entrenching current harms is ignored. 116671
Reposted by A.P.Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech. 491400381
Reposted by A.P.Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103094369
Reposted by A.P.Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026That's just fraud, my dude. Even if you use an AI agent. It's just fucking fraud. 1454402516
Reposted by A.P.Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Mask up in #NYC, and cancel what you're doing to get your booster today. Kings County is raging with COVlD, per today's CDC update. PMC estimates 1 in 20 residents actively infectious, as of the most recent data on Sep 12. pmc19.com/map We have warned of this for weeks. 310047
Reposted by A.P.Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026COVlD-associated hospitalizations are exploding in NYC. This is quite serious. Due to vaccinations and prior mortality, the acute effects of infection are often less obviously apparent in 2026. It's a testament to the high transmission. Screenshot from @datareport.bsky.social via the devil app. 017394
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.
Absolutely wild. 1/2
[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]
Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]
$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.
10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.
Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.
I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?
[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me
[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreiaanor72a6up5kzdjejmmzvad3lvqqimzavejo6yowdodrqftlzwq)
