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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 7h

What's even more bleak about this is that Ohio is still on the cheaper side for cost of living than many places in the US, and they still have so many people who can't afford housing that we're at this point

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 14h

most wild part of this is that they're a FAMILY of human cannonballs: father, mother, daughter

Brian, Skyler and Tina Miser during Ringling’s 135th Edition

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It's Shrimp 🦐🏳️‍⚧️👻 ($0/$700) weekly shelter goal @shrimpsdude.com · 7h

so, officially, the surrender fee for my dog is covered, with a volunteer giving me his number and offering transport when they call us up. all i need to cover each week (outside of monthly bills every 4th week) is the cost of the cheapest pet friendly motel in town. #mutualaid #HomelessSky

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Sarah IS LOOKING FOR WORK!!! @killianfantasy.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026

I know not all my followers are of the comic world but if you know someone who is, share this resource with them. I want to came some creative lives easier. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Get notified when Graphic Novel Planner launches on BackerKit!

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Horse girl, but for trains @maxamas.bsky.social · 14h

Everyone should read this: sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/33-underst... (I only discovered it due to your interview in The Nation!) "Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies."

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33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and Pain

From the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence onto victims to protect men.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 16h

we take the systems from them and build something new those are literally the only two options.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 16h

It's in the fact that survivors of harassment, bullying, abuse, assault, manipulation, credit-theft, retaliation, so many horrors small and large move through the world with their nervous systems absolutely trashed, their careers and often lives trashed

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h

It's in the fact that Louis CK has a Netflix special now tho his comedy moved into even more racist, awful, even punching down at the people whose lives he ruined -- but hey, that's showbiz. (Other notable comebacks of the coming season seem to include Jonathan Majors, Kevin Spacey, Conor McGregor.)

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h

It's the fact that we TOLD YOU nine years ago in a massive public outpouring, started setting up networks, organizations, projects, truth-tellings, ways to make things different and we were blocked, discounted, gaslit, told "whoa, you're not going to cancel me, are you??"

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h

It's not just frats. It's not just universities. It's not "just" rape. It's all the systems and structures of our institutions.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10h

Many of the men who perpetrate gang rapes are only sexually violent in that specific context. Because they know there is protection (for them) in numbers. Impunity is almost guaranteed. We might see it as particularly egregious, but they see it as low risk.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10h

Every single problem we know about reporting sexual violence is amplified in gang rape cases. There’s more labor. There’s more retaliation. There’s more disruptions to education. There’s more scrutiny. There’s more victim blame. There’s more trauma.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10h

The reason we don’t hear about gang rapes often isn’t because they’re rare. It’s because it is so uniquely hard for victims to come forward. Jane Doe had to participate in twelve Title IX hearings. TWELVE.

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Lisa Cowan Pineo @lisacowanpineo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Indigenous Peoples Day celebrates and honors Indigenous people and commemorates their histories and cultures. Here are picture, middle grade and young adult books by and about Indigenous people. Book lists in ALT text. #indigenouspeoplesday #indigenousbooks #kidsbooks #kidlit #booksky #books

Indigenous Peoples Day
PB, MG and YA book list
Posted by @pineolisa

TILLY AND THE CRAZY EIGHTS by Monique Gray Smith
BE BRAVE, BE BRAVE, BE BRAVE by F. Anthony Falcon & Trisha Mason
THE CASE OF WINDY LAKE by Michael Hutchinson
THE GIRL AND THE WOLF by Katherena Vermette & Julie Flett
MAY WE HAVE ENOUGH TO SHARE by Richard Van Camp
INDIAN NO MORE by Charlene Willing McManis & Traci Sorell
THE PENCIL by Susan Avingaq, Maren Vsetula & Charlene Chua
IT'S A MITIG! by Bridget George
WE ALL PLAY by Julie Flett
BUFFALO WILD! by Deidre Havrelock & Azby Whitecalf
BERRY SONG by Michaela Goade
THE BARREN GROUNDS by David A. Robertson
BE A GOOD ANCESTOR by Leona Prince, Gabrielle Prince & Carla Joseph
TOGETHER WE DRUM, OUR HEARTS BEAT AS ONE by Willie Poll & Chief Lady Bird
BEAUTIFUL YOU, BEAUTIFUL ME by Tasha Spillett-Sumner & Salini Perera
SWEETGRASS by Theresa Meuse & Jessica Jerome

THE STORYTELLER by Brandon Hobson
FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS by Cherie Dimaline
THE REZ DOCTOR by Gitz Crazyboy & Veronika Barinova
FATTY LEGS (10th anniversary edition) by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton & Liz Amini-Holmes
THE STORY OF THE FOX AND THE WOLF by Jaypeetee Amakak & Nuria Muro Gio
THE OTHER SIDE OF PERFECT by Melanie Florence & Richard Scrimger
NUTSHIMIT: IN THE WOODS by Melissa Mollen Dupuis & Elise Gravel
LITTLE MOONS by Jen Storm & Ryan Howe
INDIGINERDS ed. by Alina Pete
LOOKING FOR SMOKE by K.A. Cobell
ON A WING AND A TEAR by Cynthia Leitich Smith
IT'S POWWOW TIME! by Martha Troian & Hawlii Pichette
MORTIFIED by Kristy Jackson & Rhael McGregor
BETWEEN THE PIPES ed. by Albert McLeod et al.
WALKING TOGETHER by Albert Marshall, Louise Zimanyi & Emily Kewageshig
THE LAND KNOWS ME by Leigh Joseph & Natalie Schnitter

YOU WERE MADE FOR THIS WORLD ed. by Stephanie Sinclair & Sara Sinclair
LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN ed. by Cynthia Leitich Smith
THE OTHERS by Cheryl Isaacs
SISTERS IN THE WIND by Angeline Boulley
ORIGIN by Nat Cardozo
OF THE SUN by Xelena González & Emily Kewageshig
TOGETHER WE SEE by Ari Tison
WE ARE WHO WE ARE by Wab Kinew & Janine Gibbons
SHIRLEY by Joanne Robertston & Shirley Fletcher Horn
SHARDS OF SILENCE by Brian Lee Young
AN EXPANSE OF BLUE by Kauakanilehua Māhoe Adams
MEDICINE WHEELS by Byron Graves
DEATH IN THE TALLGRASS by Andrea L. Rogers
RAVEN, RISING by Christine Hartman Derr
LIKE GLASS by Jen Ferguson
TUUTARJUK: THE SPIRIT OF STRING FIGURES by Louise Flaherty, Neil Christopher & Kagan McLeod

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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Happy belated #indigenouspeoplesday. #Ootd is this 1950s dress by Lloyd Kiva New. He was a Cherokee fashion designer and cofounder of the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. He made designs using the fashion silhouette of the day combined with imagery and materials

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 16h

To further contextualize Ryan "Rhein" Amacher's threat, he once posted the immigrant murder fantasy film Citizen Vigilante in full on Xitter, and then threatened a Muslim woman who complained abt the film. "The vigilante is the cure," he said. "Better lock your doors at night Zara."

Rhein Amacher posting the Citizen Vigilante film on twiiter / X. Saying "The vigilante is the cure".

Zara Hussain writes, "I've had enough seeing that actor from the disgusting Citizen Vigilante movie in various replies. I refuse to watch it because it's about the far right attacking migrants and Muslims. It should be banned in every country and from all social media platforms." Ryan Amacher replies, "Better lock your doors at night Zara!"

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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 13h

I actually did it!!! Episode 1 of Piles for Miles about ✨laundry✨ is on YouTube! Unscripted, unedited, and filmed in front of my artisanal clothes pile 🧺 Great to listen to while body-doubling, on your drive home, or while walking your pet penguin!

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Piles for Miles #1: Why is Laundry So Hard with ADHD?

Welcome to this week's episode of Piles for Miles—all about Laundry...

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 14h

"Trauma-informed" is much like in 2020, when...white folx expressed an interest in racial justice as they informed us of all the anti-racist books they bought, as if their being more informed about our oppression would result in any...improvements for our communities! 🤡" - Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW.

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A Past Accessibility Advisor Makes a Dire Plea for Trauma-Responsive Practices for Survivors

The author continues her journey as a Disability Justice practitioner, desperately attempting to survive the costs of Access Intimacy Abuse at the hands of Makai Livingstone, the founder of Embodied S...

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 20h

i will be turning this off on friday! thank you to everyone who has got something so far, my heart is very big

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 10/10/2026

Extremely grateful for the $68.18 that came in today, but I remain desperately in need of $329.56 ASAP for meds, food, bills, etc. (in addition to outstanding housing payments for 3 months, which is stressful as fuck), so please donate & share, as able!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 paypal.me/kjagoo ko-fi.com/equitablefor...

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John Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil @thealexnevil.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve judged several books by their covers. I’ve also been known to have opiniona on critics’ blurbs, authors’ photos, and copyright pages. I am a publisher’s worst nightmare.

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👻 YSUBoOoOooOooo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 18h

Or betterworldbooks.com. Every book you buy from them, new or used, printed, ebook, or audiobook, sends a book to a literacy program in need. They also work with libraries and other nonprofits to keep books out of landfills so reading doesn't contribute to pollution. They have UK and US warehouses.

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Shop affordable used & new books at Better World Books. Every purchase fuels global literacy with book donations to transform lives. Free shipping on qualifying orders.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 19h

beautiful bsky.app/profile/pela...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h

Yes. It’s a big driver of the racial and gender disparities in the student loan crisis.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h

By the way, a bill has been repeatedly proposed to allow students taking a leave of absence after sexual assault to defer making student loan payments. It can’t pass the Senate.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 17h

Student debt is at the heart of why campus sexual violence derails victims’ lives too. The primary reason victims drop out of college is because they are encouraged to take temporary leaves of absence—and then they can’t return until they are current on student loan payments.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"We should be asking ourselves: When is civility useful and when is it a canard for oppression? When is anger a detriment and when is it a righteous tool?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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What’s Wrong With Civility?

Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless.

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

@lilymasonphd.bsky.social's work is so important on this topic and I'm pleased to see it getting NYT attention

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14h

I was pulled aside by my creative writing professor before class and asked if (1) I actually wrote my story and (2) if I knew that "burnished" wasn't a word (it was).

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 14h

"Across California’s Central Valley, a reported surge in Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations that began last week has disrupted agricultural communities, sparked confrontations and left families scrambling to locate detained relatives."

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'Very few people out in the streets': ICE surge rattles California’s Central Valley

Fresno City Councilmember Miguel Arias said the enforcement operations led to a drop in school attendance and sparked student protests Friday.

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Quint @cptnquint.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t know why but it’s reminding me of this bit from 40k’s Wicked and the Warped, I guess a similar vibe.

“Shaping the future is no trick, Trazyn” Orikan shouted, livid now. “You do it all the time. You are doing it now! The choice you make in the present shapes your future. Tomorrow this moment will be the past. There’s no need to travel through time to find the optimal result. All you need to do is understand that you, right now, are tomorrow’s past self. If you make good decisions in the present, you will have made good decisions in the future.”
The Wicked and the Warped (Warhammer 40,000) by Robert Rath.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

this is one of my favorite sentiments from Pratchett we can always make today better, even if yesterday was worse than we wanted it to be

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight “There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 15h

Under the current UK legislation the works of Sally Rooney now can't be published in the United Kingdom but those of Adolf Hitler can be. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action

Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 16h

Always wet! No Survivors!

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 15h

It's getting awfully Klanny over in Camas. The segregationist movement for bigots is alive and well over there.

Amy E. Sousa post: "Girls from Camas track and field huddle together and comfort one another after walking off the field at their cross country meet where they faced a boy."

Image of white girls and woman standing under a tree.

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 14h

It's Mariame Kaba's "knowing who to be mad at is praxis" and more. Knowing who to be mad at IS praxis. Then you gotta know what moves the person you're mad at to do things differently. You gotta know who THEY listen to, and how to get to them. Anger alone isn't a vision, strategy, tactic or goal.

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elliepnw.bsky.social @elliepnw.bsky.social · 15h

Going to a pizza place in Connecticut tonight and ordering an open face burrito to see the reaction

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 16h

Heritage is explicitly saying they aim to “stigmatize” sociology academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/sociology-...

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Sociology Is Being Used as a Wedge to Destroy the Research University

Solidarity across disciplines is a must.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 14h

the two genders

Flatwater Free Press post: Der Viener Schlinger, the world’s first handheld hot dog launcher, can now fire a 2.67-ounce Fairbury Tomboy at 90 mph from Tom Osborne Field over the 165-foot-high skyboxes. The machine has come a long way, in part thanks to 170 UNL engineering students.

The post is accompanied by a photo of the Nebraska football stadium - a sea of red - with a man in the foreground, seen from behind shooting a hot dog from a handheld cannon into the crowd.

NOLA.com headline "Human cannonball, 51, goes 0 to 65 in half a second. Catch her at the Baton Rouge State Fair."

The photo is of a photogenic woman in a human cannon

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 19h

I wanna be in a long term feud with the love of my life

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

it’s just great marketing

3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2:
Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3:
Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20h

I just think she’s neat

Riley Pinkerton, the "Rat Queen" of the band Castle Rat, dressed in a sort of Red Sonja gold chainmail bikini getup and holding a guitar onstage, eyes closed and in the groove

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⸸ Andrea Celeste ⸸ @andreaceleste.meangirls.online · 18h

trans man who calls his phalloplasty the xbox

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 21h

thank you macaroni and cheese lawyer

image of a swirling blue background with a sentient macaroni and cheese lawyer in the middle it says: congratulations if you are seeing this the macaroni and cheese lawyer has chosen to represent you pro bono. all legal and spiritual cases have been ruled in your favor

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

and you're welcome

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 21h

October 14th: Left (Extra Long Walk) Yes, you read that right. She turned left but did not stop back at the house, instead opting to loop into a full long walk *after* the short walk. A first! Miga (pictured below) declined repeated requests for comment.

An old brown chihuahua mix giving side eye on a sidewalk

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Kikuyu Land” won Best Indigenous Feature. “First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath” took the short prize and the Audience Award. Tantoo Cardinal was honored for five decades on screen. redpopnews.com/kikuyu-land-...

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“Kikuyu Land” and “First Descent” Lead Indigenous Awards at Bend Film Festival

The 23rd Bend Film Festival wrapped up Sunday, Oct. 11, after five days of screenings in Bend, Oregon. The festival announced this year's winners Saturday, Oct. 10, at a dinner at Greg's Grill, and it...

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