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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 5m

Oh, my wypipo, this happens to my wife too. When your mental images of what black women in America doesn't include large numbers of black women in America, it's your mental images that need updating, not reality that needs backdating.

Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 16m

Why do people keep talking to me as if I am not a black woman in America.

*Notice I didn’t put a question mark at the end of that sentence.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 34m

Householder: "I blame the two party system."
Detective parson: "Right, we'll be charging them too."

AC @ahmadchildress.bsky.social · 1h

Bro, change parties already.

theintercept.com/2025/10/08/v...

Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks

Republicans in the Senate voted down an war powers bill to block Trump's deadly attacks on alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean.

theintercept.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 4h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 1h

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 43m

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perhaps they need to develop a mode that is more friendly to screen readers.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 44m

It's actually there, but the FAW Youth Cup knockout round games are listed first, then the Genero Adran premier, then the Genero Adran trophy group games, then still more below that. So it's necessary to slide down several screens worth of games.
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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 2h

Sign me up for a Levar Burton shirt from @pbs.org

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 2h

Utter silence on this issue. It is literally never discussed.

Uhhhmmm ... that is, in the Gen-Z sense of "literally".

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 3h

Poll: Huge majorities support extension of ACA subsidies affecting 400K Ohioans ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/10/p...

Poll: Huge majorities support extension of ACA subsidies affecting 400K Ohioans • Ohio Capital Journal

The government is shut down in a fight over insurance subsidies for lower-income people. Huge majorites of Americans want to extend them, a new poll says.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Pantonedreams❌️👑 @pantonedreams.bsky.social · 7h

As a healthcare worker, I literally wasn't taught how to treat measles. Yes, all of us in that line of work know how to research and apply that to patients, but there is no experience and decades of knowledge like there is for pneumonia and sepsis. "I've never seen this before" isn't a good place.

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Taith Pêl-Droed @taithpeldroed.bsky.social · 7h

Diolch i CPD Bwcle am gynnal gêm gystadleuol rhwng timau merched @wrexhamafc.co.uk a @cardiffcity.bsky.social yn #adranpremier heddiw. Fydd ras y bencampwriaeth tan y diwedd eleni? Falle… #wxmafc

taithpeldroed.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/w...

Wrecsam Merched 1 Caerdydd 1 12/10/2025

Cyffro, pryder, ansicrwydd, gobaith. Mae’n swnio fel cymysg o emosiynau tebyg i ddêt cyntaf neu gyfweliad swydd, ond baswn i’n defnyddio’r geiriau i ddisgrifio teimladau cyn y gêm rhwng timau merch…

taithpeldroed.wordpress.com

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 23h

I mean, I'd think that US life expectancy is one of the things that that even "AI browsers" would be able to find out.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 23h

... it's one of the behaviors by the government of the day which American patriots revolted against in the 1770's.

Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 23h

Without due process, it is not yet known for sure if someone is here legally.

So "no due process" means no right for an American citizen to *prove* they are an American citizen, meaning that whatever abuse has been made up for "illegal aliens" can be used on anybody. ...

Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 1d

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 1d

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 23h

Why Trump administration was wearing a hot dog costume remains a mystery.

andi @andil.bsky.social · 1d

#GiftArticle #EndICE #ICE @jdscholten.bsky.social @claytontuckertx.bsky.social @bobbyfortx.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social

“Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices”

wapo.st/48Iuil5

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

wapo.st

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

"CVS will be paying you 550% of the original drug price to get the drug" - Doctor Oz.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

What you're getting from an LLM is a statistical approximation of what the answer would be to a statistical approximation of the question.

This is why prompt engineering is fake. The prompt (and any input data) is just a suggestion - and helps fool you into thinking that your question was answered.

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody talks about mom when her hands rise to cover her face. Where did she go?

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 1d

I’m currently at a pop culture convention with 120k+ attendees where there’s Game of Thrones stuff literally everywhere, and the Marvel TV panel was so overpacked they had to shut down the floor. But I will agree people do not talk about Succession quite as often as when it was airing every week.

Nobody really talks about Succession anymore. Or Game of Thrones. Sort of confirms my thesis that, with rare exceptions, television does not really matter.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 1d

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Let's be clear on who Christopher Columbus was, a conquerer who spread disease & slavery who was so sadistic in the ways he treated natives he appalled the architects of the Spanish Inquisition. That's the fact of him there is to reclaim.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 1d

When the Native Americans on what was then the island of Haiti did not collect silver from the beach as he demanded, he lined some of them up and cut off their hands.

Columbus was the first Conquistador.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Let's be clear on who Christopher Columbus was, a conquerer who spread disease & slavery who was so sadistic in the ways he treated natives he appalled the architects of the Spanish Inquisition. That's the fact of him there is to reclaim.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

Nice Nobel Peace Prize you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it... or the whole damn country!

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

What if the guy who inspires fear of reprisal for not winning does not actually deserve the Peace Prize?

headlines describing Norway shitting itself for when Trump does not win.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 3d

Franz kafka ruined waking up as a giant bug. now if you wake up as a bug it's automatically "kafkaesque"

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