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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 17h
The most amicable and charitable contextualization of the discussion for a microblogging website is as follows: secret societies, and the derivatives born in institutions of higher learning, were fundamentally remade at the advent of the American Civil War in multiple ways.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026
It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.
Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement
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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
annie abrams has actually done real scholarship on the college board and AP testing and how literacy is taught and it's pretty fucking weird how out of hand that got.
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Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I enjoy how the cto of bluesky is very clearly and publicly beginning to suffer from AI madness
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
And by the way, those tasks that some people say isn't really writing, or isn't really research, and so is outsourceable to the psychosis machine? It's not okay to use it for them, either. And those tasks ARE writing and research. Insight is an emergent property of doing the work. 5/5
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The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy
Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...
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James everything is analog @analogist.net · 05/09/2026
Seattle city council's District 5 has been held by pro-business backed candidates for a long time. Debora Juarez has held this seat on-and-off for nearly a decade. Cathy Moore won the seat in 2024, but resigned 18 months later. There is a special election *right now* to fill the seat until 2028.
Seattle Dept of Neighborhoods map for D5: Bitter Lake, Haller Lake, Pinehurst, Lake City, Broadview, Blue Ridge, Crown Hill, Greenwood, Licton Springs, Northgate, Maple Leaf, WedgwoodJulie Kang, Nilu Jenks
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 28/08/2026
wrote about how visiting the karl marx hof cures depression defector.com/there-is-onl...
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There Is Only One Lesson Of Red Vienna | Defector
Two things are true about me: I hate rich people and I love architecture. These days, that presents a terrible contradiction because only the extremely rich are able to finance the perpetuation of arc...
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The wild thing about this is that, at root, this is every opinion in the UK. Me, my friends and family are real people and we should be treated with kindness and respect. Everyone else is a grifting fake taking money out of my pocket and using up resources that should be mine.
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Daniel Podgorski @thegemsbok.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Squares aren't rectangles, but rather squares. They're a type of polygon that always has all sides the same length. As a supposed square, I am HORRIFIED at the idea that I would need to be a square to be a rectangle. I don't be a square with my angles; I do it with my side lengths.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/
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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Seattle policymakers take note
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The biggest US transit story of this year has been the massive growth of Seattle Link Light Rail ridership in the wake of the 1 & 2 lines connecting The Link moved a record 5.4M passengers last month, up 57% from last year, and it's now America's biggest light rail network!
a graph of seattle link light rail ridership
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UNITE HERE @unitehere.org · 05/08/2026
🚨 Embassy Suites hotel workers have been on strike for 7️⃣ weeks! Pennies won’t pay the rent. We need healthcare all year. Embassy Suites workers are fighting to live with dignity in Seattle. @UniteHereLocal8.bsky.social
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Despite all of this, I want to note that there are many librarians out there (including me) who have done a great deal of self-reflection and are prepared to go to jail to protect your privacy and right to read. I just want us to be as critical of our business partners as we are of our government.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday.
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America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman...
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potion of @candlestick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
perhaps it's time we drank water
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 31/07/2026
🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇
A graphic poster reads "We have a deal! The ProPublica Guild has reached a deal with ProPublica's management on our first contract and has voted to ratify it. Swipe for the highlights [pointing emoji].
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Dickgirl Van Dyke @trashwytch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
it's that time of year in seattle again
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
youtube.com
Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol (1973)
YouTube video by Nostalgies 60'-70'-80'
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/07/2026
Many people, including one former BLS economist, seem to read this as an attack on the concept of charts or statistics and not on a particularly unpleasant and dickish way of engaging with people.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
ppl keep tagging me on this and he’s right, tho he wasn’t (as this headline implies) talking about about generic black leaders, he was talking about overseer class types in congress specifically—and william lawrence is correct
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Static Media Union @staticmediaunion.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Bluesky, we'd like to introduce ourselves. The staff of Static Media would like to announce that we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Much like Jalopnik has already unionized and been recognized, we would like to request a voluntary recognition for all the Static Media sites.
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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 07/07/2026
🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...
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Hachette Book Group employees win election for largest union in trade publisher history | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 01/07/2026
We formed our union three years ago, but we still don’t have a contract. Our members are now releasing public testimonials to demand a FAIR CONTRACT NOW: www.propublicaguild.org/updates/vide...
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ProPublica Guild Members Speak Out to Demand Fair Wages, AI Guardrails and Layoff Protections — ProPublica Guild
We recently passed the three-year anniversary of our staff unionizing. Through the power of our union, we’ve realized major wins, from stability in health insurance providers and the company covering ...
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Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
in Seattle, police are even contractually obligated to advance private economic interests, while taxpayers fund their salaries, all while dubbing themselves "marauders": www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-poli...
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Seattle Police Advance Private Economic Interests, Dub Themselves “Marauders”
For years, a 501(c)(6) downtown business improvement area corporation in Seattle has used the Seattle Police Department (SPD) as a contractor to advance their own private economic objectives. Last mo...
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Cory Miller🌹 @corymiller.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Shame on @fredhutch.org for union busting. Management is bringing in lawyers and sending out anti-union propaganda on Fred Hutch letterhead. Shame on you. @fredhutchprotons.bsky.social @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social #solidarity #unionstrong #healthcare #cancer realfactsfredhutch.com
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Real Facts Fred Hutch
The Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) filed a petition on May 28, 2026, to represent Advanced Practice Providers (APPs)
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Battle Creek Enquirer April 11,1919
Outbursts Of Everett True By A.D. Condo

P1-MR. TRUE IS AT THE OFFICE OF A FACTORY MANAGER WHEN AN EMPLOYEE ENTERS 

EMPLOYEE: MISTER GRIGGS, 
THAT MACHINE IS OUT OF ORDER AND DANGEROUS TO OPERATE

MANAGER MR. GRIGGS: WELL, LET THE MEN RUN IT TILL NOON AND
THEN  WE'LL, HAVE IT FIXED -

P2- MR TRUE IS VERY UPSET BY THE MANANGERS DISREGARD FOR THE WORKERS SAFETY 

MR. TRUE: DO IT NOW!!!!

MR. TRUE POUNDS THE MANAGER RIGHT ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD CAUSING HIM TO FOLD UP LIKE AN ACCORDION
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The enraged bellow of the 21st century Polyphemus:
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
What's so insidious about this is that it's cloaked in the language of reestablishing academic rigor and standards even as they do not feel beholden to these things. Is their report peer-reviewed? No. Is it rigorously factual? Also no. Are its methods clear and accessible? Haha. No.
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I never thought I'd see a story that quite so beautifully captured the phrase 'decline of empire'.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.
Joint Statement on the "State of Scholarship" Report
The Vanderbilt University and Washington University chapters of the American Association of University Professors express our profound disagreement with the "State of Scholarship" report commissioned by our universities' chancellors. The report distorts the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship at our universities and in the academy overall. Worse, it proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty.
The report currently appears on Vanderbilt's website under the insignia of both Vanderbilt and Washington Universities. It is already receiving public condemnation. As the American Council of Learned Societies makes clear, the report is founded on false premises and anecdotal evidence and thus does nothing to "ensure deeper and more meaningful relations among scholars and members of the public." No doubt more rebuttals from scholars, departments, and professional societies will follow. It suffices for us to say that the report falls far short of the standards of political neutrality and disinterested inquiry it claims to champion. Historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists are singled out for caricature while the authors fail to acknowledge their own public biases against scholarship performed in the name of social justice. Nor does the report divulge its source of funding or conflicts of interest that may entail - standard practice for any work of humanistic or social scientific scholarship. In sum, the report is itself a clear example of "politicized" research that its authors attempt to decry.
What is most alarming is the guidance the report offers to its intended audience of university chancellors and presidents. By falsely arguing that humanities and social science departments are in the throes of an epistemological crisis, the authors lay the groundwork for university adminis…Weakening faculty governance does nothing to solve the real challenges facing our universities, and undermines our ability to effectively address society's most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change.
Indeed, the direst threats to public trust in higher education are not philosophical debates about the nature of truth. Currently, the federal government is dramatically cutting funding for the humanities and social sciences as well as for the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, public health, and the arts. In response, university administrations have instituted austerity measures, even as administrative salaries and administrative positions have taken up an increasing share of decreasing budgets.
The best way for scholars to cultivate diverse opinions and advance knowledge is by strengthening academic freedom. Political threats to higher education have degraded, and will continue to degrade, the quality of all fields of our universities' research, to the detriment of America's global standing.
We note that the organizations now working most actively and successfully to defend academic free inquiry from politicized federal interference are not university leaders but the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association - professional societies of the very disciplines chastised by the report.
We call on our chancellors to rescind the report and affirm their commitment to the intellectual autonomy of faculty, academic departments, and governing faculty bodies. Administrative interference into academic departments, as licensed by this report, is a violation of the standards of academic freedom that have made American universities the envy of the world. Rather than undermining these bedrock principles, administrators should vigorously and publicly defend them.
Vanderbilt University AAUP
vanderbiltaaup@gmail.com
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Kathryn Gehred @katyghistory.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
That wellness woo to fascism pipeline sure is something
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UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Every time the legacy media tries to whip up some suburb-coded bullshit about Mayor Wilson she should pedestrianize another block. Whenever they get really over-the-top: whoops here's a superblock
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Figured out why Greenblatt's The Swerve sold so well: it's cake. One of those illusion cakes. Try opening a copy. You can't, because it's cake! No Lucretius, only frosting.
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RYE Workers United - IWW IU 610 - CURRENTLY ON STRIKE @ryeworkersunion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We are the unionized workers of the Real You Electrolysis Vancouver branch. Our workforce is nearly entirely trans, and we work to provide gender-affirming care to our trans clientele. We organized in response to increasingly alarming behavior from our management. This is our opinion. 🧵 1/9
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 03/06/2026
We stand in solidarity with the Star Tribune Guild and join them in their call for the newspaper’s management to reverse this deeply harmful decision.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
happy pride 💕
Fake news screencap of Gritty with the chyron, “BREAKING NEWS / Gritty announces it’s illegal to be straight in the month of June / No more straight people | See something | Say something”
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"It's ok I wrote I strongly worded letter and made a speech in the senate" are you twelve?
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no fixed abode @zvh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I do not think it is in any way an exaggeration to say that university boards and administrators are enemies of learning
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Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU
Photo of the Dark Horse Workers United statement. 

For ALT TEXT readers, the statement is too long to fit into ALT TEXT. Please find the full statement on the DHWU website, linked in our bios
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My heart breaks for the student, a 19-year old trans woman; for her family; for the LGBTQIA+ community at UW; and for all affected by this horrific loss. Trans people deserve to live without fear, free from the rhetoric and actions that fuel this kind of violence. She deserved so much better.
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Search underway after fatal stabbing of University of Washington student
Police say the victim was found Sunday night in the laundry room of an off-campus apartment building.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Interesting detail in this story about a group trying to overturn same-sex marriage, blaming gay people for child sex trafficking and abuse: Their board chair is Paul Guppy, a frequent guest on @kuow.org's Week In Review. WiR often includes a conservative POV, but this is hateful extremism.
seattletimes.com
Meet the Seattle woman behind a national effort to end same-sex marriage
Katy Faust, a Seattle-based Christian activist, has quietly gained prominence as a national leader in a conservative campaign to undo legal same-sex marriages.
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no fixed abode @zvh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
sometimes I listen to people in my office talk about transit and I feel totally insane. the incessant appeasement of the carbrained has to stop
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