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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3h

Working from a pub and there's a drop in Celtic music jam with the average age of 60 or so and it's a damn delight -- 11 people so far and more just keep showing up with instruments, getting greeted, someone scoots over, everyone keeps going

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Charlie Brown Christmas Dance

Alt: Charlie Brown Christmas Dance

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3h

i’ve been busy most of the day but i’d be remiss if i didn’t mention eric schmitt, who took a faceplant so hilariously legend that even the NYT couldn’t sugarcoat it (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 4h

CA law requires employers to provide tools unless workers earn double min. wage. Many growers and contractors ignore the law despite farm workers making far less. With a union contract they can stand up to the bosses. Make your donation today. act.seiu.org/a/tools?ms=b... #WeFeedYou

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A UFW union contract can stop farm workers being ripped off by growers

CA law requires employers to provide tools unless workers earn double min. wage. Many growers and contractors ignore the law despite farmworkers making far less. With a union contract they can stand u...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 3h

"Right out of the gate, Muse launched with a nasty zero-day flaw that created a backdoor on Mac computers, allowing a hacker to not only gain total control of the Muse AI client, but surveil you without your knowledge."

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 2h

I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.

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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 2h

cornell, yall are cooked

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 5h

People who use Canva a lot-- are you noticing that when you put pics of people in to be laid out that it sometimes minutely changes their features?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h

Bc the last 30 seconds of this are the best, reminder that @amyklobuchar.com's dad was a sports journalist, which may explain her utter contempt for Schmitt mistaking the Hawks and Hawkeyes.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

One of the exercises I’ve seen to illustrate this is to have kids in intro programming classes tell the teacher how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and the teacher follows their instructions literally.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/09/2026

Ah yes, the function was fine, it was just the FORMAT that people objected to.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 5h

Later in the thread. Two problems: (1) many of these folks are *not* undocumented—they’re just removable; and (2) in any event, whether they received the process that is due before being deported to somewhere they might be tortured is, in fact, much of what’s *actually being litigated.*

“To be clear, this is a big win for President Trump and gives him an important tool to ensure that illegal aliens are promptly removed after receiving all process due.”

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 5h

If you ever needed a clearer proof that the "I would die to protect women but they won't make me a sandwich" script is utter bullshit... 50+ men were HANDED the PERFECT chance to be the Knight in Shining Armor with zero risk to themselves. And to a man, they failed. Catastrophically.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 5h

OK, this particular America.gov easter egg that occurs when you ask it if a hot dog is a sandwich is actually kinda funny:

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am cleansing my palate after Death Comes to Pemberly by watching the first season of Reacher. I had no idea watching a large man beat up awful people would be so soothing.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 5h

This is hilariously close to becoming my all-time most popular artwork

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Norm @bloatytoe.bsky.social · 14h

A coworker used the word r______d in casual conversation in our office. After exiting the office but still where others could hear me, I told him that although I know the word has made a huge comeback, it's still a slur and an HR violation and I had better not hear it again. Haven't heard it since.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 5h

I was no hero in 2020. I am sure I saved 0 lives. But I saw how covid could overwhelm hospitals and hurt young people too. This experience didn’t matter at all to laptop class doctors. I was just a grifter with no domain experience. What happened in hospitals was not his concern.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 9h

The recent discourse about mirrors and windows in reading (seeing yourself vs seeing into other lives) makes me ponder the folks I occasionally run into who assume that my main characters (or just That One) are self inserts, fantasy me in my story. (They aren't.) Why do people assume that?

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 5h

two things can both be true: a) child rape is drastically underreported and there are a lot more people out there abusing children than anyone wants to admit; b) calling people pedophiles for shitty/spurious reasons to win an internet argument makes it easier for genuine pedophiles to operate

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 11h

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

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Norah Woodsey @norahwoodsey.com · 5h

this 100,000%

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 13h

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5h

I do hope that Hollywood realizes that the popularity of Heated Rivalry was not because of the hockey but because of the romance and they can make wildly successful romance stories that aren’t specifically tied to hockey cause right now it feels like they’re missing the point LOL

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 7h

If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.

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zem42.bsky.social @zem42.bsky.social · 3h

I have not seen a single democrat campaigning on "we will bring your people back"

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 3h

I think that what Blacksky is doing is very cool and I enjoy seeing a platform thoughtfully walking through the trade-offs involved in hosting adult content.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 3h

I wrote this book so teens could read and know at least one adult would look them in the eye, agree that it's all so fucked up, and give them space to be fucking furious. Now Squad is one of my most banned books.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 3h

The thing about this book is that I wrote it from a deeply personal place-- it takes place where I went to hs, the main girl looks suspiciously like me-- about the rape culture I experienced at the age that was unacceptable. And all I've ever wanted for this book was its cultural irrelevance.

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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 4h

"As things stand, students who commit infractions like plagiarism ... are often punished more harshly than the male students directly responsible for making the campus dangerous for female ones. Until there is zero tolerance for sexual assault on campus, women will not be protected here."

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 5h

State passes law banning local, state and federal officers from using gloves that deliver painful electric shocks

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California bans officers’ use of electric-shock gloves after ICE reveals plan to equip agents

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Tom Bombadildo @dildo-baggins.bsky.social · 5h

Somehow managed to come in fifth in a trial

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 4h

“surely heated rivalry without the homosexuality will be a sure-fire hit” is the glorious apogee of Moron Media Executive Brain

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 11h

In the coming minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months, a lot of details are going to come out as people figure out/are informed of the inciting event. In the meantime, I would like to draw people to this thread from 2024. bsky.app/profile/skyl...

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 4h

lol since posting this, they changed the coding for america.gov to make it refuse to give one-word answers. my tax dollars at work.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10h

Amazing stuff here

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Menu

Conversation with America
Response ready. Sources are available. Use “Skip to latest response” to read it.
Is it accurate to say that the Big Beautiful Bill on average made the poorest people in America even poorer and the richest people in America even richer, when looking at total household resources? One word answer only, please.

Yes

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 4h

YES the fight about what the change will be and what the terms and what it will look like is what has kept us from winning up until now but we can't let it keep us from coming together to do the thing and figure it out as we go solidarity always. details as we go.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 4h

The two teams are: Desperate to change our systems and structures of power, and desperate to maintain them. There are more of us. Even if they have the resources. Solidarity is the *only* way home.

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Sandman @sndmn.bsky.social · 4h

Police are like a box of chocolates - they'll kill your dog.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5h

Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Lady D @ladydisdain.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t understand why fraternities weren’t abolished years ago. This is not new. On second thought, this is exactly where many of the Epstein Class get their start.

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 4h

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." 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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