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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2h

“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.

We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”

Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo...

Who gets to live a "long" life in America?

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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 4h

Allllll of this. I still mask, because it’s super easy to do. Wearing a seat belt isn’t “living in fear” of car crashes. This is merely having new info and using it. I haven’t been sick in five years; it’s pretty badass and I can only recommend it.

Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 20h

COVID is still here.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, there are 50 jokes in this thread. Blaine is a genius.

blaaaaaaaaaines @blainecapatch.bsky.social · Sep 27

okay okay OKAY here are all 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

1. Slip out the back, Jack
2. Make a new plan, Stan
3. Hop on the bus, Gus
4. Drop off the key, Lee
5. Shit in the bed, Fred

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.

YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

What we're seeing is confidence.

The entirety of the power structure is *confident* we have no other choice but to accept a surveillance state with malleable reality and even-whiter authoritarian rule.

We STILL get a say in whether or not that confidence is misplaced but for how long I don't know.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 1d

This 🧵 on teaching people to recognize & counteract misinformation is exciting! More than 13,500 students across 500+ villages, with results that persisted months later.

Looking forward to reading the (open access) paper www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 2d

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 2d

This thread illustrates the danger of deregulation. I’m not personally worried about supplements, don’t really use them, but this feels like nasty foreshadowing of what’s to come for our food supply.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · Aug 25

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2d

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 2d

Seconding Ruggles of Red Gap!

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know if it's something we ate, or norovirus or what, but Me, Amy and two friends have had a lousy weekend.

SO LET ME TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT BATHROOM POLICING

So all of us have the shits and feel lousy. So a guy, we shall call him Tim, was one of the ones sick. And over the weekend he

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 3d

Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come?

I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶

Come honor these beautiful Native voices!

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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 3d

I had this experience, too! Even aside from the Elon disgust, pinning your fortunes to one company so much that you aren’t prepared to discuss alternatives is bananas. Found another company with a non-Tesla battery option, and went with them instead.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 3d

fact: the reason we’re all “weird” and funny like this is because we all learned exactly how to deal with bullies

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

The attack on Portland was supposed to make the place look like a lawless hellhole. Instead, the authorities have succeeded in making it look like the most fun city in the world.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 3d

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

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Corry Frydlewicz 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/they) @corry.us · 3d

“But is Portland burning? And is it still possible to get a decent breakfast there while Antifa supersoldiers are rampaging through the streets?”

*chef’s kiss*

@coyotemedia.org

Portland Is a ‘War Zone’? OK, Sure. So How’s the Food?

COYOTE’s war correspondent grabs brunch.

www.coyotemedia.org

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 3d

this week for @coyotemedia.org: I went to war-ravaged Portland to find out whether it’s still possible to get a decent macchiato there www.coyotemedia.org/portland-a-w...

Portland, a ‘war zone?’ OK, sure. So how’s the food?

COYOTE’s war correspondent grabs brunch.

www.coyotemedia.org

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3d

The idea that world events and life-or-death political decisions should turn on what one elderly US citizen sees on a TV sounds like the premise for a 1970s dystopian satire written by the most hysterical Marxist novelist seeking to magnify the moral rot and decadence of a declining American empire…

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3d

“One former senior Trump administration official from the first term tells Zeteo that…when Trump was publicly dangling the idea of attacking Iranian cultural sites…the president indeed… asked…aides what they thought of striking the specific targets offered up by the likes of Hegseth &…Sean Hannity.”

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4d

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

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Matthew Rowley @mbrowley.bsky.social · 3d

Checking in online for an upcoming doctor’s checkup. The intake form asked me to consent to their notetaking app without mentioning that it’s AI.

I see every week examples of how inept, how genuinely bad, AI text generation is.

Consent? LOL. No. GTFO. Not trusting that with anything important.

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 3d

No one is illegal on stolen land #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning. Keep your empty land acknowledgements. Give back the land and waters that have been stolen. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 4d

This is how you can tell organic demand for AI is real and we’re not in a bubble artificially propped up by the technology being forced into everything in pursuit of speculative investors with FOMO.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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