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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 10h

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 10h

Friends in the Northeast! I and a whole bunch of authors are headed your way in the next two weeks for @yumewrites.bsky.social 's Traveling SFF Festival! Instead of having conversation partners, we'll be paneling with one another at each stop. More info at
www.yumekitasei.com/travelingsff...

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8 nights, 8 cities, 8 panel discussions

Elaine Cho, JR Dawson, Emily Jane, Micaiah Johnson, Yume Kitasei, Mia Tsai, Julia Vee, with Amanda Foody, Matthew Kressel, Ray Nayler, Sarah Pinsker, Veronica Roth, Fran Wilde

Week 1
Monday, Oct 13: PT Knitwear, New York, NY
Wednesday, Oct 15: Greedy Reads Remington, Baltimore, MD
Thursday, Oct 16: East City Bookshop, Washington, DC
Friday, Oct 17: Mavey Books, Philadelphi, PA (Ardmore)

Week 2
Tuesday, Oct 21: Possible Futures, New Haven, CT
Wednesday, Oct 22: Smith College, Northampton, MA
Thursday, Oct 23: Norwich Bookstore, Norwich, VT
Friday, Oct 24: Brookline Booksmith, Boston, MA

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 10h

happy to be on the same level of known as you 😂 i would like to not be perceived, actually.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 12h

once again the ai bros telling on themselves as gumptionless and mentally weak, unable to handle prolonged failure

SuperChill @frozzbot.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn't believe my ears when that music AI guy said nobody actually enjoys making music. That ranks as one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Anybody who knows how to make music enjoys making music. Why would they have ever learned to do it if it didn't bring them joy?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 17h

Research is a skill! Here is a great guide from Bookriot on how to become well informed about your local elections. Maybe the way you help protect the right to read is by taking these skills & making a voting guide or candidate scorecards to distribute to your neighbors.

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

bookriot.com

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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 18h

THE MEMORY HUNTERS by @itsamia.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781352...

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 18h

😘 thank you!

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 21h

hello from the ice detention center in broadview, illinois.

a small but growing crowd of protesters are gathering along 25th street in opposition to the masked agents who are kidnapping people across chicagoland.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

2 of 3; the human one was to me immediately apparent, as was the very AI one. waffled on the last one and shouldn't have overthought it. should have followed my gut.

takeaways: genAI has gotten remarkably better in the last year. it's going to get even more difficult to spot in the future.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 3d

Hey all, I'm trying to get a baseline for how good people are at detecting whether fiction is AI-generated or human-written (most of the research on this is for nonfiction and my hypothesis is we're better with fiction).

If you have time, give it a try?

jlp-experiment.github.io/ai-detection...

AI vs Human Fiction Detection Test

jlp-experiment.github.io

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

““I don’t know what the Supreme Court will decide,” Ms. Wilcox said. “But I had to fight this. Not just for me, but for working people, including those who have cases before the N.L.R.B., and to fight for the agency.””

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 2d

me anytime i think about cake's "the distance"

he's going the distance
he's going for speed
she's all alone (all *TRUMPET NOISE TRUMPET NOISE TRUMPET NOISE TRUMPET*) need
because he's weeeEEEeeeEEEeeeEEEeeeEEEeeeEeEeEEEEE

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 2d

do i even wanna know?

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 2d

this admin is so incredibly racist and yet somehow this manages to be on a new level of racist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 2d

this shit used to torpedo your career and make you an eternal laughingstock on reddit

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 4d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 2d

me anytime i think about cake's "the distance"

he's going the distance
he's going for speed
she's all alone (all *TRUMPET NOISE TRUMPET NOISE TRUMPET NOISE TRUMPET*) need
because he's weeeEEEeeeEEEeeeEEEeeeEEEeeeEeEeEEEEE

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 2d

caught the spirit over some fish sticks, entirely by accident

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 2d

just reading baking instructions and launching into a praise break, nbd

halfway through cook time~ (double claps) HALFWAY THROUGH COOK TIME

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 2d

What is "New Piedmont"? How you gonna have ATL and half of Birmingham outside the Deep South?

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 3d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 2d

This premise 👀

Mel The Bardbarian @mcarubia.bsky.social · 2d

FREAKY FRIDAY x LABYRINTH

Body swap, but it’s a neurotic human overachiever and a chaos muppet fae king, and the two men fall in love while stopping the apocalypse.

#DVpit #F #R #LGBT

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking about the early closeted days as a teenager and a memory I hadn't thought about for ages popped in my head.

As a teen I was DEEP in the Experimentation->Shame->Repression->Repeat cycle that lasted until I came out at 28 and one way I experimented was sneaking make up from my stepmother

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