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🎃 Elaine

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I’m here because you went here, I love you, and I want to see you. 💛 Most of my attention goes to mastodon because it is what I think the internet is supposed to be. Profile pic is from 1995. Banner: some Zuri dresses.

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🎃 Elaine @uselaine.bsky.social · Apr 27

Someone made an easy, free search bar that eliminates AI results from google. I have it pinned to my Mastodon account, but I thought I would bring it over here too.

udm14.com

&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

udm14.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 20m

Our galaxy is so good

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 20d

Tonight's Milky Way taken from Point Reyes, California. The frames were taken about 33 miles, as the pelican flies, from San francisco. Light the curvature of the Earth is weird!

The Milky Way vertically with some orange and yellow tints at the bottom. These are four 60 second exposures edited in Lightroom and Stitched together on my phone comma so there's definitely a better version on my laptop if I ever release it

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1h

Here's Diane Keaton at Warren Beatty's AFI tribute, talking about a perfect (no exaggeration) scene in Reds--taking the mystique out of filmmaking and then putting it right back in, in just two minutes. She was exquisite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_RS...

Diane Keaton on making REDS with Warren Beatty

YouTube video by American Film Institute

www.youtube.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14h

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1h

I just know this cat walked a Roosevelt down, took no prisoners at the fall of an empire, and still owes money to a Pharaoh

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 7h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1h

I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h

First it was Los Angeles. Then, Washington, DC. Then, Memphis. Now, Portland, Oregon, is in President Donald Trump’s sights—just the latest Democratic city facing increased militarization.

But the picture that Trump paints of a “war-ravaged” city literally just doesn't exist.

The “war-ravaged” Portland only exists in Trump’s head.

My video report paints a very Portland scene of defiance—and dance.

www.motherjones.com

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Ellison has also been talking about creating mass surveillance, so "everyone will be on their best behavior." It's grotesque and Orwellian.

https://fortune.com/2025/09/28/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-oracle-tiktok-deal-social-media/

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Larry Ellison once predicted ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media

"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said last year.

fortune.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 4h

The fascists goal is not just power to dominate society but the ability to rewrite history and reality itself.

Those who try to control history are attempting to control the present and future.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 6h

“I never dreamed of anything like this."

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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admirablewomen.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 13h

Stella Gaitano was named as Writer of Courage by Leila Aboulela, the 2025 winner of the PEN Pinter Prize.

Gaitano is a writer, journalist & human rights activist who has written extensively about Sudan & on themes of identity, migration, and displacement.

www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

A smiling Stella Gaitano sitting in a chair with her legs crossed and and her hands clasped.

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🎃 U.S. Elaine 🎃 @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 6h

I just turned off auto-correct in the Keyboard settings. Fighting with it took more time than the "corrections" saved me. Now my typos belong to me again.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 8h

Pope to journalists: “…it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that ‘the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.’”

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🎃 Elaine @uselaine.bsky.social · 17h

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218. Banned Books

Podcast Episode · The Allusionist · 10/07/2025 · 40m

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 17h

Germany decided not to turn its back on privacy, at the last minute. We're very happy for that.

But we're not out of the woods yet, and awareness raising like this is essential.

Follow bsky.app/profile/figh... to stay up to date, and see a bit more on where we are here: bsky.app/profile/mere...

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of what we’d think of as the journalists’ code—tell the truth, be accurate, credit your sources—is actually about establishing provenance and chain of custody for evidence. Fact-check codifies those tracks. This is all how you know you know. It’s what marks something as journalism.

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 1d

look i dont want to get all historian/art history/journalism posty about AI videos but we *have* ways of autheticating recorded/archival material, its chains of custody and provenance research, and you shouldn't have been trusting random videos on the internet to begin with???

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The Economist @economist.com · 17h

Science has always been an international endeavour, but the share of top researchers who are also immigrants is higher than ever

Which countries breed Nobel laureates, and which import them?

Without immigrants America’s medal haul would be much smaller

econ.st

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 18h

#BREAKING Madagascar mutinied army unit says all military forces under its command

Members of a section of the Malagasy army ride an armoured vehicle surrounded by protesters celebrating their arrival as they head to City Hall following clashes between demonstrators and security forces during protests calling for the resignation of President Andry Rajoelina in Antananarivo, on October 11, 2025

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 18h

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina on Sunday said an "attempt to seize power illegally and by force" was underway in the country, a day after a contingent of soldiers joined thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital ➡️ u.afp.com/Sman

Members of the Malagasy army surrounded by protesters celebrating their arrival at City Hall during protests calling for the resignation of President Andry Rajoelina in Antananarivo, on October 11, 2025

File photo shows Madagascar's president Andry Rajoelina at the opening session of the 19th Summit of the Francophonie at the Grand Palais in Paris, on October 5, 2024

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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🎃 Elaine @uselaine.bsky.social · 19h

A reference: www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

Archbishop Broglio: Pope Leo understands the Church in the U.S - Vatican News

Following the first formal meeting of Pope Leo XIV with the leadership of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Timothy Broglio speaks of ...

www.vaticannews.va

🎃 Elaine @uselaine.bsky.social · 19h