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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

Here's @laminda.bsky.social's ESSENTIAL starter pack of independent journalists and news outlets. So many mainstream outlets have failed us miserably or been taken over by right wing billionaires. Follow these indie joints for better info in 2025. go.blacksky.community/6Wdyb4E

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 19h

It’s official! Book news appropriate for the season

Publisher’s Marketplace posting. Publishers in dark blue font with Marketplace in red font. “Deal Report” on the right side of the heading, also in dark blue.

Text below reads:

THE UNHAUNTING By Micaiah Johnson
Imprint: Putnam
October 13, 2025
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize finalist Micaiah Johnson's THE UNHAUNTING, in which a young Black woman joins her friends to renovate a Confederate-era plantation house, where past and present begin to blur uncomfortably, pitched as Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE meets Toni Morrison's BELOVED, for fans of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Stephen Graham Jones, to Ruoxi Chen at Putnam, at auction, for publication in fall 2026, by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English).
Foreign: rokumura@penguinrandomhouse.com
Film/TV: Josie Freeman, CAA

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 2d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 21h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 20h

Also read up on tactical frivolity: a millennia-old form of protest that works just as well today as it ever did.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 20h

There are two types of people on this. Those that believed these you g republicans when they told you they were "trolling" 8 years ago, and those who didn't believe they were trolling.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 21h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 20h

Brett Kavanaugh is basically arguing tha there have been "sufficient remedies" for racism.

This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21h

this is today's Supreme Court oral argument on the Voting Rights Act in a nutshell

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21h

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21h

Kavanaugh looking to find the "end point" when the Court no longer has to worry about the intentional use of race to create black districts.
I'd say "WHEN WHITE FOLKS STOP INTENTIONALLY USING RACE TO DECREASE BLACK VOTING POWER" but he thinks white people doing that is cool.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

Abortion should be accessible to anyone who wants one, and restrictions on healthcare and bodily autonomy are bad enough. But there’s also this extra blast radius of harm. As abortion restrictions have spread, I have increasingly been made to feel like a pre-pregnant incubator, even in a blue state.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve refilled my RA medication monthly for 2+ years without issue. This month, I was repeatedly pressed about pregnancy, which has never happened (I also cannot get pregnant as I lack the required organs). Apparently, this has been a thing since Roe fell:

www.everydayhealth.com/rheumatoid-a...

What Women Can Do if RA Medication Methotrexate Is Denied

Methotrexate treats rheumatoid arthritis, but it can also end a pregnancy. In anti-abortion states, some women can't access this RA medication. Learn more.

www.everydayhealth.com

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the thing.

I feel like, if you'd spoken to a group of women, of any & all backgrounds, they could have predicted this. Same-same Black people. Same-same LGBTQIA+ folks. Same-same Jews.

I'm never surprised when men ~joke~ about raping women & non-Jews about shoving Jews into ovens.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

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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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Dragon Con @dragoncon.org · 1d

It's the #DragonCon2026 Hotel Hunger Games part 2!

Tomorrow at 10 AM Eastern, all overflow (aka non-host) hotel booking links will be updated and live.

Please review www.dragoncon.org/hotels/#atla... for booking instructions and hotel specific booking policies.

A time-lapse photograph of the Atlanta Skyline

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Seelix the Seventh @seelix.com · 1d

That is an excellent way to summarize it

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Seelix the Seventh @seelix.com · 1d

Not to mention, it turned out at least half of the prominent New Atheists decided that allying with the Christian Right was better than not harassing people

John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 1d

It strikes me as more than a little ironic that the new atheists spent years itching for a fight between science and folks like the Christian Right because they assumed science would win.

Well, we're now having that fight and we're all talking about generational damage to science.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 1d

August 2026. Massive heatwaves kill 1000s of Americans, mostly low-income and elderly, because as a society we decided it was more important to be able to create pervy deepfake videos of the girl next door than to power air conditioners.

Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was a profoundly evil genocidal piece of shit, and if hell is real, I hope he is roasting there slowly in a vat of boiling acid. He was so horrible other European explorer types and the church were like "Whoa motherfucker can you not?"

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 3d

The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 5d

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 4d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 4d

If I hadn't had a great special education teacher, I would not be a writer today. I might not be anywhere, doing anything. Special education changes and saves lives.

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 4d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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