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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 14h

“You being snarky and mean doesn’t make me want to join”

Yeah well you not being willing to name power dynamics

Means you’re exactly like your “Boomer” mom and Dad

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 14h

But problem is that when Black women say this or express any urgency about it

The instinct is to find and interlocuteur or filter to “emphasize it” or broaden it

They are directly attacking Black women. Admitted they would do this for a decade and it’s still being treated as vague

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 15h

People enjoy seeing Black people poor , they enjoy lecturing us about it, they love ignoring our observations by pointing to " commitments"

and they love feeling justified when we have appropriate human reactions they can villainize to justify the inequality

DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · 15h

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14h

When I clicked over, I thought it was going to be accounts of men using ChatGPT to game women into one-night-stands, but it's so much worse. It's not laziness. People actually have no idea how to maintain a romantic relationship.

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Adrian C. Jackson @adriancjax.blacksky.app · 1d

Just say this daily affirmation.
You got this.

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 20h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Phillis Tee-Hee @frygriddle.bsky.social · 1d

On purpose?

Marlo, Support me Bitch! @ceereespeaks.bsky.social · 1d

The men are running around here with completely bald parts?!?

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 1d

My heart is broken, RIP to the supremely talented incomparable Oscar award winning icon Diane Keaton. Another great has left us.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

When large numbers of people who used to have Medicaid coverage become uninsured, those health care providers will still provide health care to those patients.

They are required to, by law.
But these are nonprofit health care practices that have the thinnest of margins to stay open.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

And not just because people who lose their health insurance will die. They will, but that’s not the only reason. Rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, and community health centers depend on Medicaid payments to stay open.

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4d

Excellent. In the parents’ spare room tonight, and just discovered both bedside tables are stuffed with copies of every memorial service/funeral they have ever been to.
They’re in their mid-eighties.

Sleep well between the Drawers of Death.

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

Drake lost that rap battle so badly that I wrote about it in my book about SPACE-TIME

A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions

Find out how by preordering a copy!!

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Drake sitting there reading about how good the judge thought the song was and how everyone really enjoyed it

The song contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat and propulsive
bassline. "Not Like Us" went on to become a cultural sensation.

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Phillis Tee-Hee @frygriddle.bsky.social · 3d

There are a number of parents who have been arrested for harming their Autistic children. So many refuse intervention and inclusion for a "cure" because of religion or stigma.

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 3d

It's also why your sons don't have friends. For some, it's why none of your kids have friends. When you live by such a strict set of rules on how people are allowed to express themselves, very few are going to measure up, and no one will be able to live within such constraints.

And it's nonsensical

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 3d

did you know THE DEADLANDS is doing a fundraiser

raising FUNDS to keep publishing GOOD STUFF (about death)??

please by a coin and help FUNGUS we mean FUND US

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

A meme image based on Nickelback’s “Look at this photograph” scene. The lead singer is holding up a framed picture, but instead of a photo, the frame shows a custom coin design featuring a skull with mushrooms, plants, and the words “Admit One.” Below the image, the meme text says: “look at this coin” with the word “coin” in red replacing “photograph.”

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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 3d

The Cut did a story on it, and its paywall free.

The Forever-35 Face

The face-lift is better than ever, and everybody wants one. Deep inside the uncanny world of the surgically ageless.

www.thecut.com

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APTN Investigates @aptninvestigates.bsky.social · 3d

Darlene Jimmy holds a framed sketch of her mother, Tootsie Jimmy-Charlie, whose body was found in a landfill in 1967. It’s the only image of Tootsie the family still has. The RCMP have apologized for mishandling the investigation into Tootsie’s death.

Justice for my Sister – Watch Saturday.

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Phillis Tee-Hee @frygriddle.bsky.social · 3d

Offline I had an argument with someone who said the album was good bc Kanye was turning to Jesus. But I'm the bad guy for saying "he don't care about no damn Jesus." Don't get me started on Donda Academy.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 4d

AI has a lot of issues but a big one is the way it’s used to :

- demonize basic real emotional desires and needs
- the inability to just straight up and say

“ there is something maladaptive and ill intentioned about wanting to have a digital slave “

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“The more ways that a student reports that their school uses AI, the more likely they are to report things like 'I know someone who considers AI to be a friend,' 'I know someone who considers AI to be a romantic partner.'"

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

www.npr.org

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 4d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 4d

WHO #pertussis case definition misses many infections, needs revision, study suggests

Compared with WHO's definition, a modified definition including apnea but not cough duration boosted sensitivity but reduced specificity.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...

Photo: anjanettew / Flickr cc

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Princess @themultiplemom.bsky.social · 4d

I graduated yesterday with my second masters (family studies and human development). It was a wild ride but I did it! So if you want to buy your girl a smoothie $themultiplemom.

😘😘😘😘

a woman with red hair is wearing a purple shirt and pearl earrings

ALT: a woman with red hair is wearing a purple shirt and pearl earrings

media.tenor.com

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