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saghira efendi @taalluq.bsky.social · 3h

Montreal Elections website crashed as this is the last day for registering as a voter... 🙃

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 16h

buy gold

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 17h

Watch out, in the darkest of all possible worlds, people get what they ask for www.businessinsider.com/youtube-star...

YouTube star MrBeast lays groundwork to get into financial services, including crypto

Top YouTuber MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is eyeing an expansion into financial services, per a trademark filing and investor deck.

www.businessinsider.com

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saghira efendi @taalluq.bsky.social · 3h

I dpent last 10 seconds trying to check for artifacts to confirm whether this is AI generated or not

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3h

i'm not even being remotely hyperbolic. cancer does not give one single fuck about the political claims of the gender critical set about our bodies. it is a biological fact that trans women on HRT have breast tissue and are at risk for breast cancer.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3h

this will kill people.

Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23h

50% of American adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. Just 10% are more excited than concerned.
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Chart showing concerns about AI are especially common in the United States, Italy, Australia, Brazil and Greece, where about half of adults say they are more concerned than excited. But as few as 16% in South Korea are mainly concerned about the prospect of AI in their lives.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

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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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds like a joke but the actual argument here being made by the white voters is that making state policy to enforce Black people’s equal access to the franchise is a violation of the 15th amendment, which was ratified to ensure Black men’s equal access to the franchise.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1d

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 4h

On this World Bread 🍞 Day, some bread loaves from the tomb of the architect, Kha, from the Egyptian artisan village at Deir el-Medina (image via CARAA). www.jstor.org/stable/10.75...

“Bread loaves found in the tomb of architect Kha (TT8). New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1386-1349 BC. Deir el-Medina, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. #Egypt From Cara’s”

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Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 4h

A locally acquired case of Chikungunya virus in New York State? This is a first.

Chikungunya is a mosquito-transmitted infection that can cause impressive (and sometimes lasting) joint pain and inflammation.

Link: tinyurl.com/57ue229x

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 4h

1/ Weaponized interdependence has proliferated and the US doesnt seem ready: “China has really begun to figure out how to take a leaf from the U.S. playbook and in a certain sense play that game better than the U.S. is currently playing it,” Mr. Farrell said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game

www.nytimes.com

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 4h

You don't find out until the 12th paragraph of this story that what Trump is doing is illegal. Just from a newsworthiness standpoint, how do you not lead with that? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump is opting some of the government out of the shutdown

The administration is finding ways to pay troops and for government work Trump favors while targeting “Democrat programs” for layoffs or closures.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 4h

In memory of:

Muath Ahmed Harb Al-Kurd / معاذ أحمد حرب الكرد
Age: 29

We will not forget you.

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saghira efendi @taalluq.bsky.social · 4h

I appreciate whenever foreign comedians visit Turkey or Turkish ones visit abroad to do shows as I do think it helps against xenophobia among other things but it'd be fair to be critical of it if it was sponsored by gov or some Erdoğan relative...

saghira efendi @taalluq.bsky.social · 4h

This is a thought provoking read from @kshaheen.bsky.social on controversies around recent Saudi expansion. I think a point it doesn't address is state/gov involvement. Not White folk maybe, but I'd hope many of us would be equally critical of comedians/influencers attending events hosted by US gov?

New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: Riyadh’s comedy festival and video game investments are aimed at Saudis first — the “whitewashing” frame and Western outrage say more about us than them, writes @kshaheen.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

newlinesmag.com/spotlight/sa...

Saudi Arabia and the Tired 'Whitewashing' Trope

Riyadh’s comedy festival and the Electronic Arts megadeal aren’t image laundry so much as a domestic culture pivot, and our scolding says more about us than about the kingdom

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20h

Brown University has rejected the Trump administration’s compact, saying it would “restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance”

Brown University rejects Trump administration compact

President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 said that the compact would “restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance.”

www.browndailyherald.com

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