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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 6h

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”

Cute light beige dog dressed as a Halloween ghost.

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 15h

whether it is feeding the hungry or taking bribes openly in the white house, both sides are problematic

The Economist @economist.com · 15h

Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani are set for a dramatic clash, with New York as its stage and victim. The city may soon become an arena for a fight between two men with bad ideas econ.st/4hAdMpv

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d

🚫 NO DMS 🚫 NO CRYPTO 🚫 NO TELLING ME THAT SOMETHING IS "BOFA" 🚫 NO SLEIGHT OF HAND TO MAKE IT APPEAR AS THOUGH YOU HAVE PULLED A QUARTER OUT OF MY EAR 🚫 NO PRETENDING TO HAVE "GOTTEN MY NOSE" 🚫 NO ASKING ME "PETE AND RE-PEAT WERE IN A BOAT, PETE FELL OUT, WHO WAS LEFT" 🚫

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

NEW — After hours of deliberations, a jury found Sean Grayson guilty of fatally shooting Sonya Massey in her home.

“While we believe Grayson’s actions deserved a first-degree conviction, today’s verdict is still a measure of justice for Sonya Massey.”

thetriibe.com/2025/10/ex-c...

Ex-cop Sean Grayson found guilty of murdering Sonya Massey in downstate Illinois • The TRiiBE

After hours of deliberations, a jury in Peoria, Ill. found Grayson guilty of fatally shooting Sonya Massey in her home.

thetriibe.com

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KQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · 1d

San Francisco Will Cover Full SNAP Benefits for November Amid Federal Shutdown

Mayor Daniel Lurie announced an $18 million public-private partnership for the roughly 112,000 San Francisco residents expected to miss next month’s federal food aid benefits.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

It is disturbing to consider what might happen if the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is placed under RFK Jr's oversight at HHS. The program has already been gutted & this would be yet another sign of Trump's regressive & harmful disability policies.
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

RFK Jr. May Oversee Special Education For Students With Disabilities

Trump has said he wants to tap RFK Jr to head special eduction, moving it from DOE to HHS. Kennedy has said controversial things about autism. What might happen?

www.forbes.com

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Callie @calliesflowers.bsky.social · 3d

1980s teen ski movie name

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 3d

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Python Software Foundation @python.org · 3d

Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...

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🇨🇦Shauna🇨🇦 @domesticgoddess67.bsky.social · 3d

Please read ALL directions before assembling your cat.

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Callie @calliesflowers.bsky.social · 3d

come the fuck on, hockey

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3d

They made an entire platform to say

We care too much about Brown people and signal to white voters ….

If they get power they will put those colorless back in their places

That’s their main. Goal

Meanwhile folks are defending their neighbors from racialized kidnapping

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VI Part 1: How We Got Here
the 2012 Democratic Party platform.®
The Democratic Party's priorities have changed
Change in frequency of select words in the Democratic Party platform (2012 to 2024).
Terms
Absolute change (per
1000 words)
Percentage change
White/Black/ Latino/Latina
+1.28
+1137%
Climate
+1.13
+150%
Gun / Guns
+0.82
+725%
LGBT /
LGBTQI+
+0.79
+1044%
Justice
+0.54
+76%
Hate
+0.50
+1323%
Child Care
+0.42
Not in 2012 platform
Democracy
+0.39
+147%
Reproductive
+0.29
+766%
Equity
+0.29
+766%
Transgender /
Trans
+0.23
Not in 2012 platform
Race / Racism
/ Racial
+0.20
+132%
Union
+0.16
+86%

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · Mar 3

Greetings, traveler...

Wawa Yaga -- a Wawa store standing on chicken legs in a spooky forest.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 3d

just keeping score here: poisoning our water and air is free speech, speaking out against genocide is terrorism

Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 3d

Exxon says it can't reveal how much pollution it makes because doing so would force it to “serve as a mouthpiece for ideas with which it disagrees.”

Which is just the "homework is against my religion" excuse, if the student saying it killed 8 million people a year.

Exxon sues California over climate laws, alleging free speech violations

Oil firm asks court to block enforcement of laws that would require disclosure of planet-heating carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 3d

Good god.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

🔥 🔥 🔥 from @aoc.bsky.social

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez V @AOC
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Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn't have come in fifth.
Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_• 17h
We're being destroyed from within

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 3d

Oh Bari Weiss is just Ms Rachel’s Wario

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Callie @calliesflowers.bsky.social · 3d

god, they suck so much

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Krembler @krembler.bsky.social · 6d

Esther continually deadnamed Brianna during the call and honestly if you didn't already know what happened, you would have assumed suicide. There was no focus on external dangers or how we could combat them. The focus was purely about the dangers of how 'obsessed with social media' she was.

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Krembler @krembler.bsky.social · 6d

My workplace arranged a large teams call with Esther during pride month and it ended up being entirely about mental health and phone access for kids. It was infuriating how much Brianna's past felt like it was being rewritten and how impossible it was to confront her mother about what she was doing.

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Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 6d

I don't say this to be shocking, but adding "and then she was stabbed by two bigots" to Esther Ghey's incurious babbling about Brianna's phone and mental health really reveals how fucking irrelevant it all is and how the festering transphobia of British society is being entirely erased.

🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 25d

No I need you to realise how insidious this is.

The FRONT PAGE of this "charity" wix site could easily fool you into thinking Brianna killed herself.

Clicking "Read More" Reveals her cause of death, but completely ignores transphobia and instead spends 4/5 paragraphs discussing Brianna's phone!

Shoddy Wix website called "Peace and Mind UK" though there's a much larger heading of "Brianna Ghey legacy project" that appears to be an attempt to mislead you over the actual name of the charity.

The following content is beneath an image of Brianna:

"Peace & Mind UK was founded in memory of Brianna Ghey, by her mother Esther.

In the last years of her life, Brianna suffered with her mental health which was exacerbated by harmful online content.

Peace & Mind UK aims to help young people and their families to improve mental health through group well-being activities and online safety education.

More Info"

I ask the reader or listener: if you did not know Brianna's story, how would you think she died?

Brianna Ghey website.

My daughter, Brianna Ghey, was murdered on the 11th of February 2023. She was lured to a park by two fifteen-year-olds and stabbed 28 times. The children who killed her had been consuming violent and extreme content online. One of them was watching torture videos and so-called "red room" material on the dark web. Part of their motive was to act out the disturbing things they had seen online.

In the months before her death, Brianna was struggling deeply with her mental health. She was self-harming, battling anorexia, and becoming increasingly isolated from those who loved her. I worried about how much time she was spending on her phone and who she was speaking to online, but it wasn't until after she died that I discovered she had been accessing harmful content that encouraged self-harm and disordered eating. I still don't know the full extent of what she saw.

Her phone had become an addiction. She was constantly scrolling, often late into the night, and trying to take it away led to constant conflict. I could see it was hurting her, but I didn't know how to help, and neither did the professionals we turned to.

It is my mission to prevent young people and families from suffering the way we did. I carry Brianna in my heart every single day, she is the driving force behind everything I do.

Esther,

Brianna's Mum x

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Note Trans not mentioned ONCE.

Note the focus on Brianna's "phone addiction" and the claim of her killers being driven to a murderous frenzy by "extremist content" with no political affiliation whatsoever. It is simply suggested that she was a participant in her own slaughter.

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Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 6d

The "online" Esther Ghey is railing against isn't even the constant transphobia of politicians and new outlets and media figures. It's that Brianna Ghey had any access to social media at all, it's about the mental health of a girl who was murdered instead of the hate she was subjected to.

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Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 6d

Two teenagers were radicalized by the transphobic political climate into seeing a 15 year old girl as less than human. They killed the girl, and then the girl's grieving mother chose to embark on a moral panic crusade against "self-harm", acquitting the actual perpetrators of her daughter's demise.

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Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 6d

Esther Ghey: "It was just that constant pressure of social media and wanting to get those likes. One of the hardest things was learning about what Brianna was accessing online that was encouraging her to self-harm and develop an eating disorder.”

Did 'the pressure of social media' stab Brianna Ghey

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 7d

Most of us have pathologically useless parents who don't care to learn about protecting us properly, but this dogshit really takes the cake.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 3d

Taps the sign:

Tweet by my from a week or so ago that says, “Ok-or we could just admit white supremacy makes zero sense and stop blaming it on mental illness.”

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re a Bloomsbury author, I’d make sure they’re not using your work to train AI and maybe send a note about gross this is.

Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 3d

Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury, telling us why AI is good for publishing with this fun caveat: “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, & that applies more than ever to the names of big writers."

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief

Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

www.theguardian.com

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

Why Wikipedia editors have deleted entries from the “List of unusual deaths”:

“hippos are extremely dangerous and very aggressive and there is nothing unusual about hippos killing people”
“the man was working on the toilet, making his death inherently less strange than if he had been using it”
“no longer an unusual or unique occurrence” regarding impalement by beach umbrella
“being hit by multiple motorcycles in a race is not an unusual death”
“fatalities involving objects or animals being launched into oncoming traffic are considered commonplace” regarding a Canadian couple’s fatal collision with a “flying bear”

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