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Johanna Draper Carlson @johannadc.bsky.social · 18h

Literał spyware.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 17h

His excuse is so weak and transparent it should go up in flames for the pandering to Silicon Valley.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 17h

100%. As a Gen Xer media when I was growing up was full of situations like this and movies/tv movies about how bad frats are. So it is really horrifying to me that we're STILL allowing this in 2026. They're toxic.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 17h

The situation at Cornell is horrifying and I want to remind people there was just a piece about a "trend" of young men ruining college women's lives via either rumor or videos over on X. One target is fighting back and her situation was very similar to Jane at Cornell.

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JCJB @phantanoir.bsky.social · 15h

I hate what vaping has done to this generation, it's worse than smoking and they don't even know the risk.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 16h

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 14h

oh yeah I forgot IT'S HALLOWEEN SEASON which means it's finally time for It's Bitter to shine! please enjoy my 34-page horror comic about 3 teenagers on October 31st, 1994 keezyyoung.itch.io/its-bitter

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/09/2026

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ICE is not going to use these for safety checks. They are going to use them to attack, harass, and injure innocent people. Boston Dynamics is owned by Hyundai, and you can contact them to ask them to stop the sale: www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en...

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Hyundai Motor Company's enquiry form serves as the practical contact point for customers and owners looking to get help with ownership or product questions.

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tyler page @tylerpage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Has anyone done a study looking at the decline of smoking and rise of ADHD diagnoses? Nicotine is a wildly potent CNS stimulant - way more than Ritalin or Adderall. How much of the adult population up to about 20 years ago was unknowingly 'treating' their ADHD w smoking???

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CAer here; this is one reason why it matters that Newsom vetoed a bill that would ban extraditions from CA to other states like these. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care

California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Me waking up on September 30th: ah what a lovely autumn day Me waking up on October 1st:

A black cat with yellow eyes gleaming in the dark

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Tim Smyth @historycomics.bsky.social · 22h

The truth is out there.

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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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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23h

it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution

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Mr. Savile Row @mrsavilerow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pay Attention: You don't hire 5000 more killers to join ICE because they don't have a plan.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h

NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died. Then their brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan. Later, a fourth sibling died. Their parents believed in prayer, not medicine.

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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.

An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21h

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nurses and community members are protesting in San Francisco today as part of the "People vs. Palantir" Global Week of Action. Organizers say the demonstration is focused on Palantir's work with ICE and concerns over immigration enforcement.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 01/10/2026

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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is why I chose to be a plaintiff in one of the AI lawsuits, alongside several literary writers, because I saw this bullshit coming for genre writers from the jump.

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a 4,500 year-old tomb in Giza, Egypt, excavated in 1927, archaeologists found about 7,000 separate beads. After a seemingly impossible but meticulous re-assembly, they were revealed to constitute this bead-net dress www.messynessychic.com/2019/09/09/1...

Slim fitting sleeveless open weave dress made from gold and green beads

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

do the men in the group chat like each other, i wonder flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...

Do the men in the group chat like each other, I wonder-these men expressing such unmistakable, unrestrained glee as they stain their souls forever and ruin their classmate's life. I can't decide whether they're more odious if the answer is yes or if it's no, but I can't dismiss the question as unimportant, either. These fraternities that the public rarely hears about, except when their members kill or rape: do they foster the bonds of friendship or just cheaply mimic them? When some ex-frat boy needs a lawyer or an introduction to a senator later in his life, when that boy digs through the network of other boys for a hookup, what is the nature of the bond he's leaning on? I want to diagnose it. I'm the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.

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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 01/10/2026

*THIS* is why I have been a broken record about the representation of women in comics and my experiences since I joined Bsky:

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyway! For cis men who read this and feel “shame”: My suggestion is you should work on shifting your shame into guilt, this is echoing an Esther Perel line I heard. Shame means 'I am bad.' Shame is self focused. Guilt means 'I did wrong.' Even if by MERE ignorant compliance with patriarchy.

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the institutional sanction of sexual violence against women and the state trying to kill a woman and failing. galling to take those together

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 01/10/2026

There’s this weird phenomena that, best I can tell, is only on Bluesky, but is people certain that “no one told Harris and Walz to stop saying ‘weird’, that’s a myth.” It’s not, and there’s named sources in CNN articles about, from August 2024.

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VP 😈 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 @vpanderson.com · 01/10/2026

Fun new trend called “Jo-Rolling/Rolled” in the vein of getting “Rick-Rolled” except it‘s code for swerving toxic after having attained positive recognition and then doubling down when challenged until your name becomes a curse and a farce all in one and anyway if there is one person I would fisffig

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/09/2026

*raises voice very slightly* TODAY SEEMS LIKE A GOOD DAY FOR PEOPLE TO READ THIS BLOG POST, FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON

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schmoe :⬮] @spongebeatle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

having artist friends with styles way more complex than yours but they still fw you

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Chris Griffin Dances: Take On Me (Family Guy)

ALT: Chris Griffin Dances: Take On Me (Family Guy)

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is literally what happens when you fire all the brilliant trans women who were in charge of our entire cybersecurity infrastructure.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/09/2026

y'all if you get mad about women saying "choose the bear" please look up bear assault and murder statistics and then contrast with human men. It is objectively reasonable to choose the bear.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Proud to be a designated spokesperson for the anti-AI humanist movement in this excellent @newyorker.com piece. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Paragraph from linked New Yorker article reads: This is not A.I. populism, as Sun describes it, so much as anti-A.I. humanism; its champions worry about what would be left if human pursuits became pointless. I was struck by how many A.I. skeptics converged on the same formulation: what is this activity for? When I called Lila Byock, a mother of two and the founder of Schools Beyond Screens, a coalition fighting the influence of big tech in schools, she said, “I think that we just need to ask ourselves, like, what is school for? What is education for? One of the really basic problems with using A.I. in education is that it is designed to make tasks easier and to reduce friction, and friction is how learning happens.”

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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026

Far right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his cabinet have voted to designate the U.S.’s leading Muslim civil rights group as a “domestic terrorist organization,” threatening to shutter and impose severe penalties on the group and its state affiliate.

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DeSantis Administration Votes to Designate Major Muslim American Group as “Terrorist” Organization

Florida Republicans have spent months maneuvering to grant DeSantis the authority to ban the group.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The “Cornell 7” framing rubs me the same way described in this thread. We usually use that language for people falsely accused of crimes. Personally, I’ll be going back to “the Cornell gang rapists.”

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 30/09/2026

More Anthropic settlement stuff: here's the email Wiley is sending For Dummies authors to explain the percentages it's claiming. Also note that they're saying payment for the author share will go to agencies rather than directly to authors.

Dear Author,

A number of For Dummies authors have asked why the claim percentage Wiley submitted for their titles in the Anthropic settlement differs from the settlement's Default Option for trade titles. We want to explain why.

Wiley classifies For Dummies works as Education Works, based on their instructive nature and the substantial editorial and production investment Wiley makes in developing each title. The For Dummies trademark, series format, and visual identity are owned and controlled by Wiley. Each title is developed within a Wiley-established voice and structure covering organization, icons, and design, and Wiley edits and produces every title to this pedagogic standard. The terms of Wiley's author contracts for For Dummies works reflect this level of publisher investment and control.

Because For Dummies works are Education Works, Wiley's claim reflects the electronic royalty rate set out in your author agreement rather than the Default Option reserved for trade titles. The percentage due to you under that rate is what you should claim. If a work has more than one royalty-bearing author, that percentage divides proportionately based on the author royalty split in the agreement.

If sums due under your agreement with Wiley are payable via your literary agency, your agency will receive the settlement payment for your share, and you should receive it from your agency, as with any other sums due under your agreement. If you and your agent are already paid separately, the allocation will reflect that division.

If you have questions, or would like to provide documentation you believe supports a different percentage, please reach out to your Wiley editor.

If Wiley and an author are unable to agree on the percentage, the dispute is resolved by a Court-appointed, neutral special master, as described in Question 24 of theAnthropic Publisher FAQ. Claim percentages can be updated by navigating to the following link (https://secure.anthropiccopyrig…

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/09/2026

Before the ACA, you couldn't get health insurance if you had a pre-existing condition, and that included everything from just being pregnant to having cancer. Obamacare was a giant step forward. Next: universal health care.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 30/09/2026

It’s a great day to check voter registration deadlines in your state.

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Jesse Lawrence @jesselawrence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So all those billionaires who stole books and IP are going to prison too, right? I mean, they also knew "from the very beginning" that they were going to break the law.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.

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NPR @npr.org · 30/09/2026

In most states, people with Medicaid coverage will have to prove they're working, volunteering or studying, starting Jan. 1. But Montana is starting that early, and it's sowing confusion and anxiety. n.pr/3VXrvzM

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Montana starts enforcing Medicaid work requirements on Oct 1. Patients are confused

In most states, people with Medicaid coverage will have to prove they're working, volunteering or studying, starting Jan. 1. But Montana is starting that early, and it's sowing confusion and anxiety.

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

another day in the layoff industry

My bad Canva edit of a tweet about feeding game studios to shareholders

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026

Pete Hegseth has reportedly fired 20% of the military's generals, claiming, "No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors." This toxically masculine ethos sounds straight out of the handbook of Doug Wilson, Hegseth's Christian nationalist spiritual advisor.

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Pete Hegseth dreams of holy war. Meet his spiritual adviser.

Doug Wilson preaches iron discipline and male dominance. One of his disciples runs the Pentagon.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 30/09/2026

Recently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.

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What's the matter with trans panic media?

Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people."

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