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@wapperson.bsky.social
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she/her PNW wife and catmom, tifosi, knitter, former Angeleno, CSA survivor, adoptee, Abolish DHS

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Can confirm: “Not knowing anything about yourself genetically is terrifying," says the 26-year-old, "you can't even begin to imagine it." 🥚 Many heritable health problems emerge later in life. Hence, ongoing communication between adoptees and birth families is needed. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
What happens when you grow up not knowing your family medical history?
People who have been adopted or are in care sometimes struggle to access family medical history which could be crucial to their own health.
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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Lying to a child doesn’t protect the child. It protects the people lying. Lying to a person is not love. Concealing a person’s identity is abuse — state sanctioned." 🥚
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Thus far in Donald Trump’s second term, ICE has arrested more than 8,500 children. Many of those children have been detained in locations where lawyers and family members couldn’t find them, such as hotels and hold rooms in office buildings." Arresting children. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Chaos and cruelty’: the kids trapped in Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign
Children are being detained in record numbers, sometimes alone and where lawyers and family cannot find them
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The center-left think tank Third Way is now decrying Republicans “sheer obsession and extremism” on trans issues. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Every woman who comes forward and lays her trauma bare for the world to see does so hoping it will lead to a better world for women. It never does. And yet, we keep trying.
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wapperson @wapperson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hope they both die in prison. Surprised the nannies aren't being charged. That's a big mistake.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.news-medical.net/news/2025081...
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Synthetic sugar-coated nanoparticle blocks Covid-19 from infecting human cells
Groundbreaking research led by a Swansea University academic has revealed a synthetic glycosystem - a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle - that can block Covid-19 from infecting human cells, reducing i...
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wapperson @wapperson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you're still on Facebook, it's way past time to delete your data and your account.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Rick Havoc @rickhavoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The people at Cornell who decided that writing an essay was suitable punishment for rape should also spend time in prison.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
washingtonsun.com
White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rape. Culture.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Democrats will be like "i'm the only thing standing between you and Trump!" and then don't stand in the way of anything
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
maybe y'all should listen to us when we tell you what motivates politicians to say transphobic shit and what it means for us instead of throwing tantrums about how unfair it is that we get to be the arbiters of transphobia
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/09/2026
Of the billionaires By the billionaires For the billionaires Newsom 2028
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So this week we've learned: 1) The AI goons CONFESSED they were committing the biggest theft in history. 2) The data centers really are sucking up all the energy during an energy shock. 3) AI almost caused a World War.
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Alexander Laufer @alexlaufer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Even just replacing "AI" by "software" paints such a different picture. "our software broke out and hacked some organisations". Who's reponsible now?
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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m back from getting my first shingles vaccine. Here’s a short story. When my dad was dying from kidney cancer on his dying bed he told me that this is nothing compared to how he suffered from shingles. If you’re on Medicare I advise you to get your shingles vaccine before it’s not free next year.🔄
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
inquirer.com
A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
WARNING: Self harm/suicide After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened. @samleecole.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/austin-gordo...
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wapperson @wapperson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So cool!
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The AI industry claims their products will "improve efficiency" and "accelerate science" but I'm able to do less science because I have to spend more time screening applicants to my lab. LLM noise drowns out signal- last year I shortlisted unqualified apps, and surely missed some gems.
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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 10/09/2026
"Compared to the 5.08 million deaths attributed to COVID-19 by state officials during [the first two years of the pandemic], the researchers determined that the actual number of COVID-related deaths (based on these governments’ own hard numbers) was more than twice that: ~12.47 million."
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's no wonder the American tech companies are selling us AI machines for companionship and support. They are exploiting a cultural glitch in America, where opting out of the hard work of human relationships is seen as a virtue.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
…So Anthropic leadership not only misunderstood the TV show Person Of Interest *as a whole*, but they actively thought Team Samaritan were the *good guys*? Yikes. Also, so much for "ethical red lines against domestic mass surveillance," amirite?
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 09/09/2026
DOUBLED www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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wapperson @wapperson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This man would rather go to jail than support the child he adopted. 60 days is truly not enough. #humantrafficking
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Beyond the specific pollution issues the utter contempt for the law we're seeing from the tech industry and unwillingness of regulators to do anything, or even to seem to care about lawbreaking, is incredibly corrosive to society
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wapperson @wapperson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
💯 I so miss my Zune!
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wapperson @wapperson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's not part of any one's job duties to be raped. This is a disgrace. The American military is disgraceful.
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wapperson @wapperson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It starts with hating themselves.
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wapperson @wapperson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you! These changes are significant and meaningful! And you will have teeth to enforce them now!
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We just secured a MAJOR settlement holding Meta accountable for lining their pockets at the expense of kids' mental health. I took them to court, and not only will they pay up to the tune of $17 billion, but they must make real changes to their platforms that prioritize our kids over their profits.
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wapperson @wapperson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No one has a free choice to harm a child. No one. Being pro child abuse and murder is an indefensible position.
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wapperson @wapperson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Adoptees in the comments of the article do a good job explaining why this is so completely asinine. So I'll just say, what a fucking oppressive dumbass.
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026
This is quite likely part of why France made such a big deal about divesting from the US American software ecosystem earlier this year.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19/08/2026
Ever notice how they evoke the image of fully grown cis men playing sports with seven year old girls?
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/08/2026
I don't know what lessons were "drawn" here, but I feel like we learned in Hebrew School that the regime tattooing numbers on civilians was the BAD GUYS
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Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Yep. Most of my life. #adoptee 🥚
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wapperson @wapperson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They all have to go to jail, all the way up.
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