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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 35m

These freaks are so fucking creepy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not sure how we got through the kirk discourse without someone pointing out Abbott pardoned a guy who shot someone at a blm rally after saying explicitly he wanted to so that www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Violent Fantasy Behind the Texas Governor’s Pardon Demand

A grant of clemency would encourage those who dream about someday engaging in murderous political violence.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

Abbott not only “tolerates” political violence, he encourages it by pardoning the perpetrators when they kill people he doesn’t like www.expressnews.com/news/politic...

Violence and destruction will never be tolerated in Texas," Abbott said in a statement announcing the deployment. “Texas will deter criminal mischief and work with local law enforcement to arrest anyone engaging in acts of violence or damaging property."

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 3h

Remember how the Death Star had that one hidden weakness?

Well, an important kill switch in this massive surveillance network is: individual control over a bunch of the nodes. People hold the power to tear the network down.

Love your neighbour, trash the Ring camera.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

Legion of Doom to partner with the Sinister Six.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

techcrunch.com

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 4h

Freud is like: lol lmao

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Johnson: That is not the principles of the Republican Party. You want me to articulate them? We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 5h

Jesus Christ I am so tired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18h

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts

Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 10h

The president is illegally taking money from opposition stronghold states and giving it to his allies. SCOTUS is about to add 15 permanent Republican seats to Congress.

Now to make the kids' lunches and join a work call!

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M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social · 10h

In which I talk with the woman who won't shut up (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

Opinion | The U.S. Denounces Her. Multinationals Threaten Her. She Likes Her Odds.

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

Say it!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 10h

i was wondering how tf i remembered them existing when i was in college, but this tracks. tysm

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your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 10h

after a male doctor died of breast cancer in my town, in 2000 his widow started a charity raising awareness for men about self examination. those were rare edge cases; trans women are not, and it blows my mind that some will straight up say FUCK YOU to science that is deeply not gender essential.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 11h

The Supreme Court and the Republicans in Congress have helplessly stood by and failed to exercise their ambition to protect the American people. Literally, today, Congress could into session and assign Russell Vought a 1 dollar or impeach him. We are about enter into a self-induced Long Parliament.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 19h

Unlike Trump, I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care.

I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 20h

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 1d

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

And, again, maybe the immediate answer here isn't "train on more disabled users' faces!" but rather perhaps stopping and thinking "hey maybe a sociotechnical paradigm that is literally predicated on and made of unending surveillance and a demand for certain 'right kinds' of bodies is bad actually 🤔"

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

The increasing proliferation of facial recognition systems which often fail to properly capture and categorize disabled users with facial differences As Faces At All is leading to mischategorization, inaccessible systems, personal tech lockout, & other harms, & like… Yeah, dawg: we told you it would

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

www.wired.com

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Jon Robinson @jonr1183.bsky.social · 1d

Baby orca mini breach! 🦑

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 22h

2021, MSFT claimed a Teams app could read emotional affect & I's like "holy shit this will fuck over so many Black & autistic & otherwise neurodivergent & women & non-binary ppl & ppl w/ chronic pain & … like Everybody at any of those intersections."

This PainChek thing is that, but a doctors' tool

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 1d

Louisiana v. Callais, in one sentence:

The only way to stop discrimination against Black voters is to stop discriminating against white voters in remedying the initial violation.

This case is about appeasing white voters, and nothing else.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 23h

cannot like this, but appreciate the report. ugh.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, Justice Gorsuch is nodding along to oral arguments at the Supreme Court about how there’s no racism in politics anymore

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

This guy was a clerk for Justice Gorsuch. Anyone want to argue this is not a racist (and damn stupid) taunt?

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

Really important that we don't become numb to the President designating unspecified groups as terrorists who he can just kill without any process and without much evidence that the allegations against the unknown people are even actually true.

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