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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 1d

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark

Horror & Disability. Help us write disabled takes on horror movies for a free zine. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Please feel free to reach out for more information. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

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SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 9h

Flyer promoting the Citizenship Education Project https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2010.60.1.56.1

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 16h

We 🤚🏿 also got a never again

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 16h

Listen guys if i can’t convince you to not do a slavery I’m going up gently suggest you enslave folks from the community of your origin

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 17h

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6h

Fake AI videos mocking dead celebrities are going viral. We talked to their families, and they're horrified.

We break down OpenAI's Sora 2 and the moral and legal problems of "synthetic resurrection."

Gift link: wapo.st/4nNKzd3 w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social

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SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 6h

Photograph of integrated American Expeditionary Forces in France https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.63.78

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

So glad we stopped all those terrible identity politics and got back to concrete material issues…

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

Now that we’re out of the dreaded Woke Times billionaires are requesting federal troops to occupy cities they dislike for aesthetic reasons after hiring a private police force.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 16h

“If outbreaks continue until the end of January — coinciding with the anniversary of the start of West Texas’ massive outbreak — the United States will lose its status of measles elimination.” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 6h

"“We got 27 historical markers around town. We have so much history. When you sit there and you listen to all the history that’s here in this town, it’s incredible."

Founded by Freedmen, Forgotten by Textbooks: The Men Reviving Mound Bayou

From “Women of the Movement” to “Sinners,” this Mississippi town is ready to take center stage.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 6h

“In the case of the US, CEOs of publicly listed companies earn 269 times more than the average full-time worker. People thought CEOs only earned 18 times as much, and they would prefer it to be just 5 times”

– Christopher Hoy in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

The wage gap and far-right support for redistribution

New study on beliefs and preferences about the wage gap (CEOs vs average worker). When the true gap is revealed, far right voters change their policy views most.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 6h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 6h

“The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Militia drone strike kills at least 30 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group

RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter on university grounds in western city, says resistance committee

www.theguardian.com

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

Heatmap News' Robinson Meyer explains why electricity bills are rising faster than inflation.

An energy expert explains why electricity prices keep climbing

Heatmap News' Robinson Meyer explains why electricity bills are rising faster than inflation.

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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 21h

A state appeals court handed a partial victory to critics of Detroit’s controversial ShotSpotter surveillance system.

Court of Appeals sides with ShotSpotter critics in Detroit, finding city ‘repeatedly’ violated transparency law - Detroit Metro Times

A state appeals court handed a partial victory to critics of Detroit’s controversial ShotSpotter surveillance system, ruling that city officials violated a transparency ordinance when they approved co...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21h

“Laugh at them”

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Laugh at them. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 20h

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 20h

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Blake Rogers Wilson @bodyindc.bsky.social · 2d

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was born in Delaware OTD in 1823. She was a journalist, abolitionist, lawyer, educator and news paper publisher among many other things. She passed away in D.C. in 1893. Her former home is on W Street not far from Howard where she graduated law school at 60.

Brick townhome where abolitionist, journalist and lawyer lived in D.C. A biographical sign with her picture is in on the fence in front along with a historical plaque and a sign promoting a remodeling co.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23h

Inspired by @marcwatkins.bsky.social and wanting to share his piece with my newsletter subscribers, I put my two cents in. open.substack.com/pub/engagede...

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Q Manivannan @qmanivannan.bsky.social · 2d

Screaming, crying, very quietly so the next office can’t hear me

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

Today’s mandatory faculty mental health slideshow, “Going Through the Motions: How to Function Despite the Fact Your Supervisors Hate You and Your Job Is Destroying You Spiritually,” has been postponed again.

The Faculty Mental Health Fair Has Been Postponed Again

Dear Faculty: Due to concerns expressed by the students, parents, and staff, you are invited to attend a mandatory emergency mental health fair in ...

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