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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1h

Do you know how racist you have to be to be racist in Vermont?! The only black people that man sees are fictional characters on TV and he's still mad.

Henry Epp @henryepp.bsky.social · 1h

One of them is a state senator in Vermont.

www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 1h

The sheer number of stories I owe to NBC OUT for letting me write…

The sheer scale of the way they covered queer news makes this devastating for LGBTQ media. This hurts. They were an incredible group.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 29m

This is dark. But also, this display of solidarity on the part of the pentagon press corps should be a model for dealing with the regime

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 44m

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 47m

There is not a single reason to outsource your creativity to a computer.

Not one.

To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 47m

What's really gross is that administrators are pushing us to use AI - and then demonizing those of us who oppose it as technophobes. So shit like this can look *innovative* to administrators while the rest of us responsible folks are fighting a demoralizing battle against the plagiarism machines.

liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 53m

Sooo...college professors are now generating textbooks with AI and forcing their students to buy them. And then testing them based on the incorrect information in the books 😭

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 32m

Oh, that sounds frustrating!

liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 53m

Sooo...college professors are now generating textbooks with AI and forcing their students to buy them. And then testing them based on the incorrect information in the books 😭

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 5h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

substack.com

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 4h

“According to the masses: It is not reasonable to place any expectations on the broad back of the majority of society, but it *is* … to pile everything the majority won’t do on the thin slice of disabled people who are carrying their own weight and attempting to carry everyone else’s as they drown.”

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 5h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

substack.com

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 1h

I accept this explanation

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 1h

*white

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 1h

I skipped the nap today and I'm not sure if I'll make it to bedtime

trick van treat @derek.bike · 4h

you know bluesky is for 38-year-olds because the website takes a little nap in the early afternoon

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 1h

You're missing out 🤷‍♀️

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 4h

you know bluesky is for 38-year-olds because the website takes a little nap in the early afternoon

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4h

Help out of you can please

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 5h

Send some funds to a Black trans academic who has been suspended from her job without pay for pro-Palestine/anti-zionist speech.

This action has resulted in her being stripped of her health insurance - a deadly action by a cruel administration, especially now.

chuffed.org/project/1455...

Black Trans Academic Targeted and Fined for Pro-Palestine Speech

Black trans academic suspended and fined for pro-Palestine/anti-z1onist speech.

chuffed.org

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3h

Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter.

The clock is now on for all other institutions.

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 8h

My friends Rami and Lubna have returned to the ruins of their home and they need shelter for their children. Please help 🙏💕

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 7h

More like Chode the Wet Sprocket amirite??

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 7h

So frustrating that we've been screaming about asymptomatic spread for years and people are still like "I'll mask if I'm sick"

liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine surgeons not wearing a mask just because they're not symptomatic.

"I didn't have a runny nose so I decided it was fine to breathe directly into your chest cavity."

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 7h

There's a certain brand of leftist whose entire brand is just co-opting social justice language to defend the things they want to do anyway.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 6h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 5h

ceo jay trying to delete the whole app after realizing she can’t win back the user base

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 4h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 5h

what even happened on the other site this time

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