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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 13h

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 20h

Funny story: After Maryland Rep. Andy Harris blocked marijuana legalization in DC, residents would call up his office to complain about potholes and stuff. When the staffer would explain that they weren't constituents, they'd yell something to the effect of, "Then stop fucking with our weed!"

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

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JasperZero @wolf8394.bsky.social · 18h

Does this mean that we can finally kill Facebook just by not using their latest shitty product that we didn't ask for?

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The Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's time to shake the table this November.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/10/2026

Rather than cover the cost of gender affirming care for trans youth under medicaid, Colorado is voluntarily enacting the republican "taper and detransition" policy for youth on medicaid and dropping coverage. WTF.

Ironically, the first known violation of that law is now coming from the state itself. On September 18th, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) informed providers that “certain Physician-Administered Drug (PAD) services for the purposes of gender-affirming care will no longer be covered benefits for members under 18 years of age.” Two weeks later, HCPF released its full policy surrounding its updated coverage, and it somehow manages to be worse than the policies enacted by Arizona and Virginia. As Transitics reported last week, the federal rule allows for a 6-month ‘tapering’ period for youth currently receiving gender-affirming care where federal funds can still be used. And although HCPF does mention that stipulation in its policy, it also introduced a strange exception:

“Effective October 13, 2026, claims payment for GnRH/LHRH agents prescribed for gender-affirming care therapy for members under the age of 18 will not be allowed… Prior authorization for testosterone, estrogen, progesterone or medroxyprogesterone therapy for members under the age of 18,” the policy reads, “who are receiving and stabilized on therapy for gender-affirming care prior to October 13, 2026, may receive approval to allow for tapering and discontinuation of therapy.”

The exclusion of puberty blockers in the tapering policy isn’t accidental. The state’s prior authorization guidance that was updated the same day mirrors the policy and once again does not allow for a tapering period for trans kids receiving puberty blockers. And like Arizona and Virginia, Colorado has provided no indication that it has notified patients and their families. In doing so, Colorado is going far beyond what even the Trump administration intended—immediately cutting many trans kids’ care and leaving them scrambling for options.

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Grift and hypocrisy go hand in hand with this crowd.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 13/10/2026

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

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ΛTLΛS 🔜 MFF, WOE @atlasbun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Had coffee with a friend who is a funeral director today. They were lamenting that eulogies are starting to sound the same because everyone's using AI. This gave me a profound sense of sadness.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026

The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.

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ΛTLΛS 🔜 MFF, WOE @atlasbun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Remember when every trans person warned you about this guy 6 months ago and they were told "oh so you want trump to win? Blue no matter who!"

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

abc7.com

ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO

Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

i feel like the cracker barrel thing made this pretty clear but it's nice to have evidence

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all of the money. That's how you can tell. Anyone interested in "how Dems lost the working class" hot takes - here ya go: It's the broke-ness, not the woke-ness.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not hearing much from the Sound of Freedom crowd about this child trafficking operation, are we

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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

nicho-las cage might be the best meme i ever make

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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

theguardian.com

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is the most shadowrun coded interview I've ever heard (compliment)

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Its kinda wild seeing corporate management just obliterating the gates that keep them relevant ; namely the assurance that customers are getting quality products made with all the resources and institutional knowledge a corporation entails

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

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Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

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Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.

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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If Dario Amodei’s dog bit someone we would not stand around scratching our heads about who was liable, but when his hacking machine hacks something, suddenly it’s a deep philosophical quandary.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 09/10/2026

A good time to remind people that Chris Van Hollen is the only Member of Congress to have ever called for European states to sanction the President and Secretary of State, in this case specifically in response to their attempts to destroy the ICC in order to protect Israel.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 08/10/2026

Literally all these dudes

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JasperZero @wolf8394.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We used to have the high school valedictorians in power. Now we just have the high school bullies.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is... fucking pathetic man i hate these people so much

"It hadn't been since World War II since we've done that," Hegseth told Posobiec, describing how he thought it was a "no-brainer" to request a firing squad execution. "Well, I kind of like the mentality we had in World War II, which was win.
Which was understand when the enemy attacks you, you stand your ground."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

“Testers spent up to an hour discussing suicide, self-harm or eating disorders on more than a dozen new accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds. After dangerous discussions that went as long as an hour, only a handful of alerts were sent to the accounts registered as the users’ parents.”

latimes.com

ChatGPT’s teen safeguards failed to alert parents during suicide conversations, report finds

Common Sense Media says ChatGPT for Teens fails on parental alerts, crisis referrals and age checks, urging OpenAI to keep minors off the platform. OpenAI disputes the findings.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.

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ΛTLΛS 🔜 MFF, WOE @atlasbun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump just banned international election observers and is promising a mid term surprise. The only countries that do this are Belarus and Russia. I'm concerned for our democracy.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The frequency of campus rapes, & their role in getting women to drop out of college, could be regarded as a 2nd stage in a process that starts by making it nearly twice as hard for qualified women to gain university admission compared to men. Excluding women from upward mobility is a policy choice.

Guardian headline about Japanese medical schools falsifying women applicants' test scores to avoid having to admit them.

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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cannot say this enough: If a woman calls out rape culture, she's being "too sensitive" or a prude or she can't take a joke. If another guy looks you in the face and tells you that you're being a fucking freak, guys actually listen, which means giving your bud a pass is the worst thing you can do.

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