May-lee Chai (she/her)
@mayleechai.bsky.social
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Writer. Prof at SFSU. Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain, etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/
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mikeokuda.bsky.social
Voters in California: Please vote YES on Proposition 50, the temporary redistricting measure that will fight fire with fire against cheating by the radical right in other states. Deadline to vote and to send in your ballot is Tuesday, Nov 4).
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
And the bubble: "In financial markets, a bubble occurs when the level of investment in an asset becomes persistently detached from the amount of profit that asset could plausibly generate... A.I. investment fits that pattern."
Opinion | Warning: Our Stock Market Is Looking Like a Bubble
www.nytimes.com
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seanhowe.bsky.social
In 1969, the Wayne State University president told the printer of the student newspaper to cease publication. Its editor, 19-year-old Cheryl McCall, held a fiery press conference, and two local underground newspapers pitched in to transform rough copy into a 24-page issue.
Cheryl McCall at the microphones
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt
Textile artworks show in a grid of sixteen squares all reflecting different embroidered garden flowers and plants
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resist.bot
🖋️ “Reinstate the Special Education Professionals NOW” hit 2,000 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PAWZEU to 50409
Reinstate the Special Education Professionals NOW
Text SIGN PAWZEU to 50409 — Congress must act immediately to reinstate the Department of Education’s special education staff, nearly all of whom were laid off last week. These professionals are the backbone of the Office for Special Education Programs, which oversees $15 billion in federal support for 7.5 million students with disabilities. Their abrupt dismissal cripples the federal government’s ability to uphold the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and safeguard the rights of infants, children, and youth with disabilities. This isn’t just a bureaucratic reshuffle—it’s a moral failure. Targeting programs for children with disabilities is cruel and callous, especially from a regime that once claimed to be a champion for those same families. Parents struggling to ensure their children receive a fair education now face a federal government that has abandoned them. It’s clear these cuts are part of a political strategy to punish the public during the shutdown and shift blame elsewhere. But Americans see through it. The people responsible for this decision are millionaires and billionaires who have no idea what these families endure. Meanwhile, the Trump regime found room for a $20 billion loan to Argentina while dismantling protections for children with disabilities. Congress must intervene now: restore every special education position, fund these offices fully, and ensure no administration can again use a shutdown to gut civil rights obligations. Disabled children and their families deserve better than this cruelty disguised as cost-cutting.
resist.bot
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tyleraking.com
404media.co
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
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charlie-ashby.co.uk
RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔
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cfaunited.bsky.social
They separate us through ICE raids and mass incarceration, they gut medicaid and food stamps, and they even cut children’s school lunch programs and ban books. Our families, children, and communities deserve better.

We’ll see you in the streets ✊

Join us: seiu.co/OCT18 #NoKings
mayleechai.bsky.social
Star Wars, TESB , Raiders, Blade Runner for sure
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chriswarcraft.bsky.social
“We’re saving God by shooting priests in the head with crowd control weapons” is generally something you only get in the most unhinged JRPGs from the SNES era
atrupar.com
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
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jordantyranny.bsky.social
FINDS THEM AND KILLS THEM

"Finds Them and Kills Them (Osh-Tisch) looked like a man, but wore women's clothing and had the heart of a woman.... she was brave and good."
― Pretty Shield

Her strength as a warrior is what earned her the name Osh-Tisch, which translates to “finds them and kills them."
Who is Osh-Tisch?
Osh-Tisch was a Apsáalooke Badé, a role within the Crow Nation that defied traditional gender norms, embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. Before colonization, Badé were deeply respected for their unique spiritual gifts, artistry, and contributions to community life.
As a Badé, Osh-Tisch carried responsibilities tied to culture, ceremony, and social balance. Their life shows how many of our nations embraced gender diversity long before Western colonial powers imposed rigid binaries.
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okbjgm.bsky.social
the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.
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atherton.bsky.social
Google is now returning AI summaries even for searches that start with "-AI", this bubble cannot burst soon enough.
Send feedback to google: product design or functionality

Is it embarrasing to work at Google these days? I know that one upon a time google was the crown jewel of silicon valley, a part of the web so integral it became a verb. But every AI summary is so likely to be riddled with errors it detracts from my research. Now "-AI" doesn't prevent AI summaries. You're giving me the trash I'm asking specifically to not get. This is dogshit.
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taoleighgoffe.bsky.social
This year I wrote a book about how Columbus colonized the Caribbean in 1492 - not what is now the US mainland.

My book DARK LABORATORY celebrates Kalinago survivance and the African agrarian x aquatic traditions people like my ancestors, who were enslaved, brought to the region.
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propublica.org
Taxpayers aren’t supposed to deduct losses from something that has no hope of being a profitable business.

But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars.

(Published 2023)
Private Planes and Luxury Yachts Aren’t Just Toys for the Ultrawealthy. They’re Also Huge Tax Breaks.
What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns o...
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knownforms.bsky.social
Remember when Mitch McConnell's SIL was killed by her Tesla?
mayleechai.bsky.social
Yes!!! Angela Chao’s Tesla was in auto drive mode and backed up into a pond then the doors wouldn’t unlock and she was trapped inside even as her friends tried to help.
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