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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I swear to god I want this fucking podcast to be about something other than the American century of humiliation but we have to stop humiliating ourselves for ONE WEEK for that to happen

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Sarah @sarahscience1.bsky.social · 11h

This is an important thread regarding abuse of expert witnesses and good journalism: naturally there's an AI slop component, too.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10h

Don’t accept interviews with USA Today (or Gannet), apparently. Creepy.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 20h

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13h

"What's it like to run for office" in 1 simple screenshot

Screenshot from tumblr user "professorcapybara."

"Man Who Lost Arm By Plunging It Into Lava Smugly Refuses To Describe What Lava Feels Like"

and a later reply to their own post that says "so i was running a fever the other day and have no memory of writing this"

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Autumn 🍂🏳️‍⚧️ @autumnfennec.gay · 13h

Finding out you're autistic: ok...so a ton of my traits are related to this..what's me and what's just my neurotype?? Years in to self acceptance: All of it IS still me because my brain IS what makes me who I am. Knowing the how and the why is great but ultimately, it's all still me regardless. 🩷

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23h

"Hey, you've demonstrated to us repeated, in the best conditions, the thing you want one person to do in eight hours your best team from corporate takes fifteen (3 people, five hours). When i point out the mathematical impossibility of that, that guy (point to district manager) blames our mindset."

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Elizadeath 🌘 @auntieentropy.northsky.social · 15h

Dune. It's got a messianic Chosen One, its point about hubris would be utterly over their heads, there are thinly veiled ethnic stereotypes, and there's DRUGS and TECH and SPACE.

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 22h

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #BestBeaks ....well, what other bird could I choose? An I'iwi shot through a hole in the understory, showing off Resting I'iwi Face LOL #birds 📷🌿🦉

An I'iwi (vermillion honeycreeper) with its long, curved, nectar-seeking bill standing against a grey 'ohia trunk and framed by out of focus foreground vegetation

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 15h

I think it is evidence of how so much we have been made to think that gaining an audience is the goal of life in this attention-seeking economy that saying "a rapist shouldn't seek a public persona that is available for consumption" is taken as equivalent to saying they "can never rejoin society."

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 15h

This is a photo of some rocks and sand. It was taken earlier today, with a camera 247,000,000 km away. It was taken on Mars. And now you're looking at it on your screen.

Dusty, red rocks, and red soil. Darker soil in the middle of the image marks where one of the rocks has been displaced.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 15h

It would be indulgent and silly to commission an artist for an illustration of one of the MCs in the book I'm working on just for inspiration/motivation, right? I happened across an artist who I thought would do the character justice and am sorely tempted.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 17h

Trump’s Justice Department is deciding if Nixon was mistreated.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 17h

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 16h

I am delighted to learn that Friday Afternoon Tea Room in Seattle is masks required every single Sunday. I thanked them for highlighting a staff member who masks and was so grateful when the owner let me know that’s their policy. Seattleites, please show them love for me!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 18h

look no hate intended, but: the people making the environmentally catastrophic mass plagiarism job killing antihuman hallucinations Clippy are calling AI sentient, capable of feelings, actually alive, and literal gods; I don't think it's the people who think it sucks that are out of touch. also,

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Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻 @punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 18h

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 18h

OMG my father is pushing my sister to get married. “Just, you know, think about it!” As though any young woman might somehow be ignorant of the concept of marriage?! No way, never considered the benefits and CERTAINLY not the downsides before!

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 18h

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19h

This Wednesday, Elon Musk called for the death sentence for transgender youth care providers. It was in reply to a post calling for full criminalization of all gender-affirming surgery. Musk is becoming even more radicalized in targeting trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Elon Musk Calls For “Death Sentence” for GAC Providers

Musk’s posts are not just inflammatory rhetoric. They have real-life consequences.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 18h

I’d imagine the lion’s share of dead in the European Wars of Religion were folk we’d consider white today, and those wars killed somewhere between 7 million and 17 million people.

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European wars of religion - Wikipedia

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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When witches are cackling and telling you “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” take a step back. Breathe. Those are normal things for fire and cauldrons to do. They’re trying to mess with you.

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.

Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 19h

I've been seeing "remigration" entering common language, even among some folk I don't think of as fascist-aligned. It's fucking scary/disgusting how hard the Overton Window is shifting rightward.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20h

The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.

Department of Homelan... • Follow •.• X
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
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ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 19h

It's so incredibly systemic and it's been a known problem for at least 30 years. *flips tables*

Screenshot: Key takeaways
Doctors are paid less for gynecologic surgeries than for similar surgeries on men. That pay gap has barely improved in the last 20 years.
The value of each procedure is largely set by a committee of doctors that relies on self-reported, and sometimes inaccurate, surveys in which doctors report the skill and time their own procedures require.
When doctors are paid less to treat women’s health concerns, hospitals allocate fewer resources to those services, leading to worse outcomes for women
Experts say the gap can be closed by reconsidering how gynecologic surgeries are valued and removing sex-specific billing codes.
That term, which has since entered the medical literature, stuck because the problem it describes has been well documented for decades. In 1997, a group of gynecologic surgeons published a paper in the journal Gynecologic Oncology with a title that gets straight to it — “Is Adam worth more than Eve?” Dr. Barbara A. Goff, now chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Washington Medicine, and colleagues found that doctors are paid around 44 percent more for performing male-specific procedures than analogous female-specific ones.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...

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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II

A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).

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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Before even hitting play I knew it had to be Shining. 🤌🏾

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FIRSTLY as the piece alludes: Loren Rex Cameron’s also-trans and arguably more famous older sister, Cameron, was a I believe fully stealth working model and actress (a la plot of Pose) in the 80s and 90s mostly … I rewatched like I dunno, dozens of TNG episodes, where she appeared as Ensign Kellogg:

A stunning redhead woman in a Star Trek TNG uniform

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gonna do a thread of cutting room floor stuff re: my new Loren Rex Cameron feature … bsky.app/profile/sand...

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 19h

I grew up in Worcester MA and I 100% remember having to wear a winter coat on Halloween. Not every year, but many of them. Hell, I clearly remember trick-or-treating with a couple of inches on snow on the ground one year.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When articles talk about the increase in disabled people but don’t mention Covid, I just have to wonder what level of denial is this? This is a subtweet of an expert I still respect but… & to be clear this person believes the newly IDed disabled ppl are truly disabled, that’s the point of the piece.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 22h

Working on slides for my planetary geology class and am once again going through my pictures of Apollo astronauts making what I can only describe as "the fuckboy face."

Gene Cernan from Apollo 17 covered in lunar dirt and half-undressed from the EVA suit. The slightly blurry focus plus the dirt plus his facial expression gives the impression that he is about to send a "you up?" text.

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 21h

That Part of My Brain: Hey. Me: Oh no. TPomB: EminKid sounds like it would be a diuretic for children. Me: ...fair.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 21h

We re-watched "Knives Out: Glass Onion" (2022) two nights ago. It's part our family's set of The Times We Live In movies, alongside "The Big Short" (2015) and "V for Vendetta" (2005). It's bullshit, if thematically appropriate, that we can't legally buy "Glass Onion" on disk to own all three.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 21h

I am VERY uncomfortable with the fact SGU was SEVENTEEN FUCKING YEARS AGO

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 02/10/2026

Stargate Universe started 17 years ago today on Syfy. I liked the concept and characters, and I wish the show could have had a proper ending. It's too bad the new Stargate series project fell through; we could have at least found out how the Destiny's story ended in the course of a conversation.

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Miscelena 🌳🧬 @miscelena.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love this seemingly-left-field attack: "if they're conscious, you're building slaves. I don't think they're conscious, so I'm not worried, but if you *do*, you should be fighting this" is brilliant.

A screenshot from the article: '"I think you should be fighting the South and freeing the slaves," Rabbi Navon said he told Mr. Olah that night. Afterward the rabbi sent Mr. Olah some of his writings, arguing that building conscious machines should be banned.'

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Sam @sodazen.cryptoanarchy.network · 22h

Oh, this is very good. The whole thread, the paper itself, but this especially. We’re not “polarized,” we on the Left are reacting to the Right wanting to remove our rights, hard-fought & won, and also natural human rights.

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 22h

Im old enough to remember when cartoon characters advertised cigarettes.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 23h

just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 22h

For people running events to fail disabled attendees year after year isn't just an oversight. It's discrimination. It doesn't matter that different groups organise it every year. They're using the event name/branding and so should be improving on previous years. The organisers should be ashamed.

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