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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 2h

Like Bari Weiss being stuffed by a billionaire atop CBS to lie to normies, this is billionaires stuffing rightwing ideas into AI systems to lie to normies.

The whole fascist takeover of the US is built atop an information war.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 56m

With thanks to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, in particular.

The Last American Center that Cannot Hold

My first real Substack post is a brief video tribute to two favorite writers.

open.substack.com

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 8h

reply with a selfie/pet pic and i’ll surprise you with an edit.

if you’d like a header for your page reply with some things you like, colors, things you vibe with, etc.

xo. tips appreciated but not required: linktr.ee/riotgrlerin

@riotgrlerin | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

linktr.ee

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 3h

@philokelly.bsky.social

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t0ussaint @t0ussaint.bsky.social · 13h

driving a truck thru a crowd is attempted murder with a deadly weapon, the bar is in hell
www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/u...

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 4h

Our nonprofit’s journalism is created by Mississippians, for Mississippians. Our defining goal is to continue to bring the kind of deeply reported, beautifully written, people-first journalism that inspires solutions inside our home state.

We center people over power. It’s non-negotiable:

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 15h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 20h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15h

"Don't you ... forget about tree."

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 16h

Why will AI never take my job? Because it tagged this GIF "a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree ."

a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree .

Alt: Judd Nelson raising a fist in triumph as he crosses the football field in the closing shot of The Breakfast Club.

media.tenor.com

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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 16h

"Lower me, Mr. Starbuck; lower, lower,—quick, quicker!"

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20h

I will wreak that hate upon him.

Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 16h

One of many critical (and often counterintuitive) insights from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's latest Q & A. Highest recommendation!

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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 1d

"That's a pretty big risk for a Science Officer. It's not exactly out of the manual, is it?" 👾♥️

Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 1d

Sigourney Weaver was born October 8, 1949 in NYC.

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Aridyn @aridyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

a group of people are dancing and one of them is wearing a dant sweatshirt

ALT: a group of people are dancing and one of them is wearing a dant sweatshirt

media.tenor.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

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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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 1d

Critical Response Strategies continues staffing Florida's state-run ICE detention facilities.

A screenshot from Indeed.com for jobs with Critical Response Strategies (1-star rating). Positions include Detention Site Leader, Detention Camp Manager, Detention Audit Manager, Detention Compliance, with pay ranging from $3,180 to $4,240/week on a temporary, full-time, contract basis.

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 2d

Free her!

Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 2d

Tyesha Long’s attorneys are appealing the decision. capitalbnews.org/tyesha-long-...

She Got 27 Years for Killing Her Abuser. Judge Rules Oklahoma’s Survivors Act Won’t Free Her.

A judge will submit a written decision in Tyesha Long’s hearing next month.

capitalbnews.org

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2d

This one is called “AI companies exploiting artists for profit”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 3d

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 3d

Officials also feign shock to avoid accountability. If they pretend they just learned about something bad, they can claim they weren't responsible for doing something about it. That's why the destruction of media has been a boon for them: people lost access to records of who knew what and when.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 5d

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 6d

"it might be conscious but unable to express it! You can't know."
O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 6d

Part of same thing "it seems like in humans consciousness just appeared when sufficiently complex systems. So you can't rule it out for LLMs"

Yes we can. The way it makes mistakes is exactly indicative of nonconciousness.
Of a lack of any sense of comprehension of its inputs.
And of self awareness.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 5d

1927 poster for the film Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang of a woman beautiful face a futuristic looking helmet

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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 7d

Gutsy but unconvincing win for Aces? Even w/ Satou's foul trouble and Dana's dead-eye stroke, LVA barely pulled it out against aggressive, confident Mercury. LVA also got a pretty friendly whistle? (Cheryl R.'s tirade worked, just too late for Lynx?) If ultra-thin LVA wins, cements A'ja's GOAT case?

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