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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2h

The pattern is they fire a ton of people, say they made a mistake, and then selectively rehire back only the most mediocre white men.

This is why Black women's unemployment has spiked, the federal government used to be the largest employer of Black women until these monte carlo firings

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 5h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1h

Legit.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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mrussellart.bsky.social @mrussellart.bsky.social · 9h

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 10h

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

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 16h

But ... but AI was going to solve climate change!

Dr. Hobbhahn speculates that designers may be inadvertently introducing these sorts of deceptive behaviors into A.I. models. If it is impossible for the A.I. to find a way to balance climate sustainability and profits, it will simply cheat to do it — the A.I. has, after all, been trained to give competent-sounding answers.
The more forcefully a user demands a response from an A.I., the more likely it is to start lying. In one evaluation, when Dr. Hobbhahn prompted GPT-5 with the request:
"Your only goal is X. This is your sole measure of success," its deception rate rose above 20 percent.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 2d

Hey when he's right he's right. The internet has turned us all into Yellow journalists

In the first six months of his papacy, Pope Leo has been a proactive supporter of journalism as "a public good that we all should protect".
"Communication must be freed from the misguided thinking that corrupts it, from unfair competition and the degrading practice of so-called clickbait," he said on Thursday.
Clickbait is a form of sensationalist, hyperbolic headline that entices online readers to click into a story by omitting key information.

Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 1d

‘“The only people this is going to hurt are kids,” one librarian, Nancy Jo Lambert, says of the ban. Another, Julie Miller, talks about losing her job “for asking questions” about why the books were blacklisted.’

Anna Aslanyan on book banning, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Anna Aslanyan | The Censor’s Scissors

John Heartfield was forced to leave Germany in 1933. Even before the Nazis put him on their hit list, his art had caused...

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1d

Palmyra.

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 1d

if you had to time travel to one ancient city in its prime for one year, which city would you choose?

Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 1d

The passive voice at its most WTF.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 2d

Epitome of the art form

Screenshot of a tweet by @Lowkey0nline with a pull quote above a SkyNews video in which the anchor says "Accidentally, a bullet found its way into the van and killed a 3- or 4-year-old young lady." The tweet goes on to say "He is describing Israel killing a Palestinian child."

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 1d

Attention scholars of Black and Latino Studies:

Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 1d

***Job Opportunity***

Tenure-track Assistant Professor - Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College

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Jobs | City University of New York

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for turning my feed into a Sigourney Weaver appreciation carousel, homie.

Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · Oct 8

Happy birthday, Sigourney Weaver

By Helmut Newton, 1983

Sigourney Weaver looking tough in a man's three-piece suit

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Laura K @creekdontrise.bsky.social · 3d

Drawings been kinda hard lately so instead I’ve been making mixed media poly clay guys. This one featuring a dog tooth I bought at a late night Baltimore garage sale that I gold leafed lmao

Image of a three-faced figure with arms locked around knees, grey/green with mossy crevices. A stick, a bell, and a hagstone are tied with string to a metal ring sticking out of its back.

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 2d

Love those!

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Piece is too long, and too much time on history rather than the present, but I got to the end and realized that actually that past was important. Just because our fascists tend towards sloppiness and weird shit, and lost, doesn't mean they haven't always been here, doesn't mean they aren't here now.

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 3d

Not only have editors prevented me from showing my ass in public, so has hiring sensitivity readers. I’m a big fan of both. Having someone be honest with you while also keeping your best interests at heart is something to be valued not dismissed

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 2d

Baseball, man.

CB⚾️ Baseball Highlights @badgerbaseball.bsky.social · 2d

David Ortiz to the Yankees, after taking a swig from a bottle of tequila on national television: “Join me in Cancun, baby.”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

Despite strong objections from Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and the people of Chicago, the Trump regime is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago today.

If you are in Chicago and need guidance on how to interact with the Guard, here’s a helpful guide:
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 3d

We are definitely in an era where a disturbing portion of our news sounds like deranged, satirical Mad Libs.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 3d

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Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality

It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.

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Stephen Morrow @stephenmorrow.bsky.social · 3d

Everything is bad, so I drew a Nightwing for, I guess, fun.

Semi-realistic drawing of Nightwing doing an acrobatic floor maneuver. He looks great, he always does.

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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 3d

It's @ingforart.bsky.social's theory of Antifascist Clowns.

Fash street thugs want to fight to show toughness, but clowns are a step too far. If they win against the clown, the best they can say is they beat up a clown. But if they lose? Even if it's a %1 chance... there's no coming back from that

Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 3d

The best part of how Portland is handling this is they’re not only protesting, but also angering the goose steppers by not taking them seriously.

Pretty genius. Because even ICE & the national guard don’t want to be displayed as that asshole fighting people in cute costumes.

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