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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21h

“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Working on a story about this and hoping to speak to USA Today journalists or journalists at other Gannett to better understand the editorial process. Anonymity granted. Contact info in bio.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

so often the stupid personal essay de jure is a flagrant case of "that's an inside thought, mama. that's for your journal"

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i have had many complicated and unpleasant thoughts about current events, my own life, etc, etc that I needed to work through in privacy or with a trusted friend, and that's how you need to handle that shit!

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Many supposed news organizations are launching weird AI and tech products that fundamentally break the rules of journalism. Any interview is an individual conversation with its own terms between a source and reporter.

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Two people in the replies called this “skin crawling” Tony you’ve done it again

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t imagine any off the record remarks were removed from the audio recording before it was shared—including before it was potentially uploaded into an AI service.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As an expert on sexual violence, I have to add that these ethical violations are a nightmare for interviews on sensitive subjects. I would never recommend ANY survivor goes public with their story at an outlet that would do this to them.

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yash-o-lantern 🎃 @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To interview an expert, claim corporate ownership of the convo, + feed that audio (likely unredacted!) into AI models to draw on without appropriate sensitivity to subject matter or context? Experts like Nicole aren't a soundbites jukebox, + folks who contribute their time/talent deserve better.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I reposted an old interview I did with Bong Joon Ho about PARASITE from 2019 today and this quote hit like a wrecking ball: "I think maybe there is no borderline between countries now because we all live in the same country, it’s called capitalism."

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Beyond the horrifying reality that a hospital is trying to "clear the pentobarbital from [Christa Pike's] system" currently, the litigation over Tennessee's actions this week will shine a very clear light on the many, many reasons why governments should not be trusted with killing their citizens.

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yash-o-lantern 🎃 @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my favorite sport is baseball. my second favorite sport is hockey. my third favorite sport is watching someone trying and failing to parallel park their gigantic pickup truck in front of a cafe's outdoor seating while everyone there can't help but watch

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 02/10/2026

I’ve been listening to the @theycreateworlds.bsky.social series on the home computer price wars of the early to mid 1980s and the decision to engage in a race to the bottom on price more or less wrecked Commodore, TI, and Atari; this is not good news for *any* of these AI companies

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 02/10/2026

Sometimes this comes up and I like to point out that I’m a non-EU immigrant and it turns out “they don’t mean me” which…. is racist

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026

ask yourself how many times you see people write long threads about how annoying it is to have a man working in their apartment building, who never wonder how hard it is to wake up at 5, work for 12 hours, and come home to read people talking down to you about your place in the world.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026

talked about this before and again, i'm speaking as a third generation journeyman trades worker, but working in trades is not something that any of the people who write these pieces, or honestly most of you, respect at all. It's perceived as something you do when all the "good" options are gone.

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yash-o-lantern 🎃 @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

that eminem verse.......... good lord lmao

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I get these kinds of responses regularly on here and I usually keep it moving because the poster is not really talking to me but is voicing personal frustration that has nothing to do with me. But I want you to know this is annoying.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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yash-o-lantern 🎃 @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it's particularly fun to enjoy evelyn waugh's fiction bc he'd Super Hate My Whole Deal and it's like hahahahahaha nothing you can do about it, you're dead and you're stuck with me and i'm rereading Scoop!!!!!!

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yash-o-lantern 🎃 @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

[gregory alan isakov voice] i'm a ghost in the garden/ scaring the hoes/ if it weren't for second chances we'd all be alone

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Revolutionary Jason @jason.revolutionarygames.co · 01/10/2026

The Wall Street Journal, the official paper of the owner class, is reporting that clear majorities of Americans support a pause on AI development, a wealth tax on billionaires, Medicare for All, a $20 minimum wage, and to end military aid to Israel. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Exclusive | Americans Want Populist Policies That Defy Traditional Political Labels

A new Wall Street Journal survey finds broad support for caps on prescription drug prices and strong border security.

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

i wasn’t looking for a man to be my protector, i was looking for backup flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...

"What the hell was that?" I asked. "Why didn't you say anything?"
"You expect me to pick a fight with a crazy person?"
"No!" Even I could hear myself sounding hysterical.
"I don't expect you to pick a fight with a crazy person, I expect you to say something for me!"
My friend had a point. If a guy is so determined to own the sidewalk that he'll literally behave like a rabid animal about it, he might indeed take any remark about his behavior amiss, perhaps even as an invitation to fight. But I had a point, too. As long as my friend said nothing on my behalf, the lone man correctly figured it was just him against some girl. He could take me. We both knew it. I wasn't looking for a protector; I was looking for backup. For someone to take my hand and assure me that whatever happened, it would not be one against one.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

“Becca Good addressed the media for the first time, saying, ‘I’m Renee Good’s partner, and she was the love of my life.’”

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Live: Renee Good’s partner calls for ‘accountability’ in emotional statement

Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

keep thinking about "personalised" books/art made by AI and remembering James Baldwin's quote "you think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" these AI bros are deliberately doing a psyop on themselves to cauterise their capacity for empathy

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

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Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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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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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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yash-o-lantern 🎃 @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

if you want to keep having media to enjoy, it's worth learning about how it's worked in the past and how it's trying to work now.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 01/10/2026

Great thread to read if you respond to every paywall like someone has shot you in the chest

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

pervert governor

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 01/10/2026

She’s so me

Cassie, a sort of ungulate woman in a leopard print dress and leather jacket, looking googly-eyed and saying “DIGGITY DAYUM! DOES SHE NEED A FUCKIN' WIFE?”

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

not "millennial gray" - it is "landlord gray" or "flipper gray"

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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So excited to see PEOPLE launching the cover of my new novel The Amnesiac today! people.com/jami-attenbe...

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yash-o-lantern 🎃 @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else noticing that it takes like 3 tries to get an email to delete in gmail now? you delete the email on one device, but if you reopen your email later on another device, it's back, and you gotta delete it there, but then it's also back on the original device, ad nauseam. gmail used to work

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026

End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I don't understand it. I don’t know it. I don’t trust it. I don’t use it. I wrote 50 books before I ever heard about AI so I don’t need it.” john grisham said get fucked ai nerds lmao (answer about 5 min in)

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Bestselling author John Grisham reworked the first sentence of "The French Illusion" for six months

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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