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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 3h

Listening to Peter Gabriel’s song “Wallflower.”

youtu.be/81NIqD5Oa-g?...

Wallflower

YouTube video by Peter Gabriel - Topic

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 13h

Some of Discord’s records have apparently been hacked.

I think the article is saying that 70,000 users’ government IDs were exposed, mostly age-verification documents and info about Nitro payments.

(CW: mention of Charlie Kirk shooter.)

(Article may be paywalled.)

www.404media.co/the-discord-...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics.

“Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

The number of times I've heard that what education is has to change because AI! When people say this to me now, I just say, "no." Usually they stop talking for ten seconds because no one is ever telling them no, and that's the whole problem

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Do you carry documents that prove your citizenship everywhere you go? Cause I sure the fuck don't, and to do it would need to carry birth certificate, previous marriage certificate, and name change order to prove the man on my ID is the baby girl on my birth certificate.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Mayor Melanie Kebler @melaniekebler.bsky.social · 1d

When immigrants have no due process, none of us have due process.

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Milwaukie Man Says ICE Abducted and Held Him for Hours Despite His Proving Citizenship

The case may be the first incidence of a documented Oregonian and U.S. citizen being swept up by ICE in an immigration raid.

www.wweek.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 1d

!!!

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency.

Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.

The fascist leaders themselves, as we observed in chapter 1, called
their movements ideologies, and many interpreters have taken them at
their word. It is commonplace to see fascism defined by extracting common threads from party programs, by analogy with the other “isms.” This works better for the other “isms,” founded in the era of educated elite politics. I tried earlier to suggest that fascism bears a different relation to ideas than the nineteenth-century “isms,” and that intellectual positions (not basic mobilizing passions like racial hatreds, of course) were likely to be dropped or added according to the tactical needs of the moment. All the “isms” did this, but only fascism had such contempt for reason and intellect that it never even bothered to justify its shifts.

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 1d

The unicorn’s rainbow tail and horn have people asking a lot of questions already answered by its rainbow tail and horn

Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 2d

“‘No, no!’ said the Queen. ‘Sentence first—verdict afterwards.’”

www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-X...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Chapter XII

www.cs.cmu.edu

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 2d

(20-second video showing protesters in Portland, in inflatable animal costumes, dancing to music)

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

War is hell, Portland style

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 3d

“Chicago was *not* a war zone when Operation Midway Blitz began, but DHS and ICE made sure it became one. As author and activist Kelly Hayes put it, ‘The president is waging war on our city for welcoming those he wishes to expel.’”

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 3d

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 4d

The 11th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications. We're particularly interested in TPOC-led collectives engaged in ongoing community work.

Apply 💫 genderpodcast.com/grant 💫

If you'd like to help fund one of our no-strings-attached grants, visit genderpodcast.com/donate, tysm!

graphic that says: are you a trans person of color doing rad organizing, art, or community work? we want to give you $1000! applications for the gender reveal podcast's 2025 grant program are open now thru October 31. apply and learn more at genderpodcast.com/grant.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 4d

On this day where librarians consider the closing of Baker & Taylor, I would like to remind you that Sandy Berman still walks this earth and today is his birthday.

www.sanfordberman.org

Welcome to the Sanford Berman website devoted to the work of librarian Sanford Berman who created an innovative, radical and inclusive catalog which used terms we use when looking for information instead of the 19th century language of the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Berman worked for the Hennepin County library from 1973 until 1999. Sandy continues to create subject headings and works for political and social justice.

www.sanfordberman.org

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 3d

#EvergreenGoodOldDays

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 3d

SFWA’s FAQ about the Anthropic/AI/piracy settlement: www.sfwa.org/anthropic-faq/

(I got this link via Locus)

Anthropic FAQ - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association

Frequently Asked Questions about the Anthropic/AI Settlement Please note that all answers are based on the settlement documents as of […]

www.sfwa.org

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 4d

Think I might adopt that one.

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, me too. I occasionally see people repost the image with alt text, but I’m not sure how they do that—I guess they just copy the image and add it to their post, and add alt text to that? I considered doing that here, but decided that since the image was just text, it wasn’t necessary.

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 4d

(Image is missing alt text. It’s a screen snap of text from the linked-to page; the highlighted text says “Because the recent attacks on Venezuelan vessels and their crews were unauthorized by U.S. law and in violation of binding international law, they were illegal summary executions – murders.”)

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 4d

“the immigration agency proposes entering into a contract to buy ‘all-in-one’ tools from a company called PenLink that will allow agents to ‘compile, process, and validate billions of daily location signals from hundreds of millions of mobile devices.’”

Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 4d

“ICE [wants to buy access to a] new tool to monitor [location data from] hundreds of millions of smartphones.”

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

ICE buys tool to monitor millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous

Move comes after immigration agencies ceased buying some location data during Biden administration after inspectors found they abused privacy protections

www.the-independent.com

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 4d

Just in case anyone missed this last week: “ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building”

newrepublic.com/post/201258/...

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building

ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.

newrepublic.com

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 4d

“We refuse to go about our normal lives, or to allow normalcy to exist, while our beloved neighbors are stolen. We are living in opposition to fascism, capitulation and complicity, however dangerously, and we are doing it the only way we can—together.”