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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 1h

Um, what?

Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2h

i’m sorry, this is your nobel peace prize winner? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Venezuelan opposition leader dedicates Nobel Prize to Trump for ‘decisive support’

“I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause,” she wrote in a post on X.

www.politico.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

Some Democrats are already doing this, but I think all of them should treat No Kings protests as mid-term mandatory attendance events, like the local fish fry or county fair. Push back on the sweaty Republican attempts to make them seem scary.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3h

There's a bill on Gavin Newsom's desk right now that would stop monopoly utility companies from adding the costs of their lobbying and PR campaigns into customers' bills.

It's unclear if Newsome will sign the bill, despite 93% of voters agreeing with its premise.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 1h

This rich loser sounds like my father, who is a lifelong cultist. Thiel is in a position to cause huge amounts of harm to a great many people.

Rich delusional assholes need to be ridiculed out of public life. Shame them. Shame them forever.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 5h

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 2h

Oh lord this is a scorcher

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14h

With receipts!

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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

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ikckckcabod bring back llink 🎃 @katecrane.bsky.social · 3d

Bring AJ Link back.

Banning Link is racist and petulant. I will never be the smartest person in the room on ATproto, but I know mean-spirited retaliation. This is mean-spirited retaliation

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 3d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

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Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2h

New AI School should totally be fun and safe for academics. Totally.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 5h

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2h

Also Free Link you bastard cowards

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2h

Link being cast down by the false gods of bluesky doesn't mean Mutual Fund Fridays are over. We continue the work. @mutualaidvoid.bsky.social account exists to help boost mutual aid, consider perusing and supporting.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2h

"Authoritarianism is a machine that eats people."
@impossiblephd.bsky.social powerful ending to a great post: stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/stained-gl...

Put plainly: people reading about trans oppression, trans or cis, are under a lot of pressure. They need comfort and hope for a better future, they need to be able to identify with other people going through their same struggles, and they need reliable information in a sea of myth and prejudice. Any public rhetoric approach working for trans liberation needs to address each of these needs centrally.

Authoritarianism is a machine that eats people. It does not–will not–can not stop until it runs out of people to eat, and that only ever happens one of two ways: either there are no more marginalized people to eat, or those marginalized people stand up and dismantle it. Make no mistake: unless we accomplish the latter, it will not so much as pause after it’s done consuming trans people, and its ravenous maw will turn to those newly at the furthest margins of society. As technical writers and queer scholars, we have a unique ability to communicate both the existential danger it represents and work directly to dismantle that danger through personal, plain public rhetorics.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2h

helping my friend Mohammed raise money for food and other expenses during the ceasefire ❤️ he's only $45 away from reaching 50% of his goal

Donate to Help Mohammed and his family from famine, organized by April m

My name is April from Chicago and I am a US citizen organising this fundraiser on beh… April m needs your support for Help Mohammed and his family from famine

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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isukatpushups.bsky.social @isukatpushups.bsky.social · 20h

Just to clarify my previous comment on the "Purple Revolution" I don't think it's impossible for MAGA to have a change of heart. But if any of them were going to leave the party, it would've been between 2020 & 2021

NO ONE who watched Jan 6 unfold and went "yep that's my guy!" Is to be trusted

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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 3h

That “Purple Revolution” shit is whack af.

MAGA voters need to put in the footwork and the hard work to save the democracy they directly destroyed.

If we don’t make this request of them, then it becomes a temporary slap on the wrist until they are comfortable enough to start cutting up again.

a woman in a black and white jacket is sitting at a table in a diner .

ALT: a woman in a black and white jacket is sitting at a table in a diner .

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Shannon Rosa @shannonrosa.bsky.social · 2h

If you haven't subscribed to the Thinking Person's Guide to Autism Newsletter yet, please consider doing so (or at least sharing!). It's free, and penned by the incomparable @ejwillingham.bsky.social. #autism #neurodiversity

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2h

"I ask you to consider that autism itself has the power to bring people joy. I experience happiness to the extreme. I can be entertained by the simplest things. I show ppl love in the most unique ways.” Marcy Hannah Waring, @ejwillingham.bsky.social's TPGA newsletter:

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Do some tall people have "profound tallness?" (This is an autism labels side-eye)

You can’t take the tallness out of someone, not in any ethical way. “Tall” is just what they are.

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 3h

I lived with Dianne Feinstein as a legacy senator for decades. Maine you do not want this. we need to end the gerontocracy

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

Janet Mills — who is 77 — should stay the absolute fuck away from the Senate race and this situation is honestly

FRUSTRATING. AS. FUCK.

GRAHAM PLATNER FOR SENATE!

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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 2h

Democrats got storm trooper aim with friendly fire turned on. She needs to stay out. Need age limits for elected offices fr

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

Janet Mills — who is 77 — should stay the absolute fuck away from the Senate race and this situation is honestly

FRUSTRATING. AS. FUCK.

GRAHAM PLATNER FOR SENATE!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

Trump can't deliver the lower costs he promised. All he has is cruelty and revenge.

Cuomo is unable to confront him because they share the same billionaire donors. Just look at his statement last night.

I will stand up for this city and with our Attorney General.

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Sidereal Maven @siderealmaven.bsky.social · 4h

Libra is the zodiac sign of law & order for a reason. Laws are rules that we have all agreed to follow & there are punishments for breaking those rules. However not all laws are considered moral or ethical. In fact, there are many such cases in which the opposite is true.

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Sidereal Maven @siderealmaven.bsky.social · 4h

When planets are transiting Libra, it’s important to ask ourselves: “Do I actually want to do X thing? / Do I actually believe X thing? Or do I just feel pressed to do / believe that thing in fear of the social consequences of not doing so?” Take time to sit w/ YOUR feelings.

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Sidereal Maven @siderealmaven.bsky.social · 4h

One thing that sidereal Libra teaches us is that just because everyone has agreed on something doesn’t mean that it is true, accurate, or even ethical. Agreement can be manufactured or forced, a tool to manipulate people into complying with things they normally wouldn’t.

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Diana @artemis-98.bsky.social · 11h

PSA: You are not an ally if you think trans kids shouldn't transition medically.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 4h

Zohran Mamdani says the ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ producers pitched a ‘thumbs-up or thumbs-down’ segment with prompts like ‘Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state.’ ‘I just couldn’t believe what was happening,’ Mamdani recalled.

The Late Show Pitched Zohran Mamdani a ‘Game’ About Palestine

Zohran Mamdani says the ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ producers pitched a ‘thumbs-up or thumbs-down’ segment with prompts like ‘Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state.’ ‘I just couldn’t believe what was happening,’ Mamdani recalled.

www.vulture.com

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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 4h

“When I directly pressed Bhattacharya about this exodus during our meeting, he said that if researchers did not like the way things are in the United States, they were welcome to go elsewhere.”

😮😮😮 holy shit Jay B really does not give a fuck 😮😮😮

www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4h

Remember how people lost their minds when I said go to a protest but don't rsvp to one

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