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Claire Phillips @clairephillips.bsky.social · 5h

N+1 is looking for a managing editor. Who's got the time? The talent? Healthcare is a definite plus!!

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

n+1 Seeks Managing Editor

n+1 is seeking a full-time Managing Editor to work in our Brooklyn office. Compensation will range from $58,000 to $64,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literatu...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 9h

. @prisonculture.bsky.social's zine is very popular in our library free zine distro (76 copies have been taken, # only limited by that's what I've had time to fold/staple/put on the rack yet). It's a friendly+free workbook for connecting your values, strengths, needs to advocacy you can do now:

my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · 23h

Today in #ZineCataloging

One Million Experiments volume 8: Making a Plan
It's an activism workbook zine by @prisonculture.bsky.social. The whole series: millionexperiments.com/zines

Read the Zine: One Million Experiments

Read the Zine from One Million Experiments, where we explore community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.

millionexperiments.com

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 7h

no DMs test never fails

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 9h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 7h

killdozer pickup trucks are rolling hostile architecture; their manufacturers and drivers should be thought of like people who install park benches studded with caltrops to prevent the homeless from resting on them

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 7h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 14h

I'm fascinated by the insistence in almost all VtMv5 materials that scenarios have 6 major scenes/acts/chapters. It is very specific & in almost every scenario I read for prep. Arguably even true of the visual novels on Steam that came out recently, It'll be fun to see how it works out to adopt.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 15h

Tried to go outside to inside w/this one, start w/the area, people and specific locations and emerge a plot out of them, which felt like it made more sense for a Vampire the Masquerade scenario. But I needed to step back and go to building out more narrative framework instead and loop back around.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 15h

But like... all of those things are basically as un-American in origin as a fajita except maybe buffalo/chicken wings. I think that one is all us?

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 15h

The thing about writing TTRPG scenarios is that no matter how long you think it will take it always takes longer.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 22h

He really is the worst isn’t he www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump announces new 100 percent tariffs on China

President Donald Trump said he is unhappy about China’s “hostile” move to limit access to rare minerals and may cancel an upcoming meeting with Xi Jinping.

www.washingtonpost.com

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 23h

Invaluable piece, grateful to these patients for organizing.

The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 1d

A group of 53 people with #LongCOVID joined a clinical trial for Vyvgart. For many of them, the treatment changed everything.

Then, without warning, Argenx canceled the trial.

Most of them have now relapsed.

They're calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug: bit.ly/48l1Qp5

A photo Nicole Barrick, a woman in a pink KN95 mask, receives an infusion of Vyvgart. The text reads, "The Sick Times. Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug. By Clare Banaszewski, Nicole Barrick, Mike Bilik, Addie Davis, Mia Delli Gatti, Ellie Hayes, Roman White."

"For those living with Long COVID, every ounce of hope is hard-won. This isn’t just about physical symptoms. It’s about the emotional toll of being given hope — and then having it taken away." - Vyvgart clinical trial participants
Clare Banaszewski, Nicole Barrick, Mike Bilik, Addie Davis, Mia Delli Gatti, Ellie Hayes, Roman White

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22h

This eugenicist fucker

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Apr 3

Flashback to 2020, peak of COVID pandemic when Dr. Oz said "...the opening of schools may only cost us 2-3% in terms of total mortality... it might be a tradeoff some folks would consider."

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Senate confirms Mehmet Oz to lead Medicaid and Medicare

Oz will assume the role as administrator of the CMS with little to no experience in government health policy.

www.msnbc.com

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 22h

Gotta love the subway during Comicon.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I'd like to thank the Center for Cultural Innovation - AmbitioUS!
Their support of Blacksky Algorithms with a $30K grant will help us further our development of infrastructure for online communities (moderation, deliberation, and peer-to-peer payment tools). 🎉

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 22h

Also like... WTF is "American street food"? What food would that even be? Nathan's Fries?

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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 1d

"The impulse to view everything in terms of efficiency, of reducing costs and maximizing output, is radically overapplied in the modern world."

lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...

Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem | Los Angeles Review of Books

Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's stupid antifa roundtable didn't need to make sense to be effective www.garbageday.email/p/the-war-ag...

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

The NYT says its journalists won't sign the Pentagon's revised press pass policy, saying it threatens to punish them for First-Amendment protected newsgathering (The New York Times Company)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 1d

The age verification bs is endless and exhausting and clearly failing in every context it has come to reality www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

With tech on board and Hollywood in revolt, Gavin Newsom’s call could reshape online privacy

Entertainment giants are waging an eleventh-hour campaign to sink a proposed kids’ online safety feature.

www.politico.com

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 1d

Seems Bad techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/s...

Shutdown silver lining? Your IPO review comes after investors buy in | TechCrunch

With 90% of SEC staff furloughed, the agency announced on Thursday that it won't penalize companies for omitting pricing details during the shutdown.

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 2d

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

Where ICE Has Taken The Most People | On The Grid | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

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Charlie Westney @charliewestney.bsky.social · 1d

Carbon Offsets have always sounded a bit too good to be true. And it seems they are.
Maybe we should all be asking companies to focus on 'doing good and telling great stories about it' - and they'll have a bigger impact than reaching a hypothetical number on paper.

Small World Consulting @smallworldconsult.bsky.social · 1d

Has trying to reach 'net zero' driven companies to invest in offsetting, even when they are plagued with problems?

And if nonadditionality, impermanence, leakage, double counting and “gameability” make credits a bad call... what should orgs do instead?

www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/carbon-...

Carbon offsets have failed for 25 years, and most should be phased out - research

Academics at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the most comprehensive review of evidence on the effectiveness on carbon offsetting to date and concluded the pr...

www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 1d

There's a lot of really shitty implications about paid protesters and the specific antisemitic dogwhistle of using Soros, but also:

Even if someone paid protesters (dumb and untrue as it is) that would still be free speech & the laws of our country say it should be something he could do unbothered

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

They’re now publicly threatening a military crackdown of the No Kings protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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