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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 12h

Abusers gag us.

They tell us what we can and can't say. They dictate who we can and can't talk to. They instruct what we're allowed to believe about ourselves. We're commanded to behave certain ways so we don't disrespect them. We can never ask for help. We can never say we're in distress. We can't

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 13h

Hitting
isn’t the only
way we abuse;
it doesn’t take
physical contact
to cause psychological,
emotional harm;

thrown
words
become knives
meant to
pierce
the sense of self,
meant to disempower,
meant to control,
belittle;

words
hit
like
falling
on concrete

#poetry #domesticviolenceawareness

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Structured Success @structuredsucc.bsky.social · 13h

Working memory is a major barrier for people with ADHD. It's more prone to being erased, overwritten, or overwhelmed.

Expecting ourselves to follow changing or complex instructions without support, especially in a chaotic or distracting environment, is often a recipe for missing something

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

Normalise admitting you don't know enough about a subject to form an opinion of it.

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Peyton Reads 📚💜🌻 @peytonreads.bsky.social · 1d

It's Thanksgiving weekend here in 🇨🇦! Some will be feeling loss throughout the days ahead! Here are some helpful thoughts you may wish to review if you are wanting to provide support to someone over holidays and special occasions! #HealingPurrsPawty 💜🌻🕊💜🌻

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

"What FIFA has done is created another layer of gambling on top of gambling. Who would have thought that FIFA would become a creator of exotic financial instruments?" This is not unrelated to the fate of democracy.

Late-Stage Capitalism and Late-Stage Democracy

A unified theory of everything.

www.thebulwark.com

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 2d

You’ve spent decades adapting.

Performing.

Surviving.

Now you finally know why - do you do with that truth?

www.theautisticcoach.com/late-diagnos...

late identified autistics workshop - starting ocotber 22

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes I pause and wonder what would happen if all the time and energy and especially $$$ that has gone into AI in education the past 2 years would have been redirected towards tangible things we already know works to make classrooms and schools better.

Oh well.

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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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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20h

No Kings
All Frogs

there won’t be an inflatable costume left for miles around

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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lifelonglearner.bsky.social @lifelonglearner.bsky.social · 15h

I just tried to do a lit review yesterday on AI in the classroom and was absolutely flummoxed by the slop out there pushing AI as if it was written by… AI. 🤔🤷‍♀️

I guess I was naive, but the number of people willing to cede their work and their scholarship to a machine will never cease to shock me.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 20h

What makes a rescuer?

Some insights from the Holocaust.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23h

Good night, friends.
Tonight was deeply painful.

We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.

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Seth Moulton @sethmoulton.bsky.social · 1d

For more than four decades, France has had trains 3.5x faster than any of ours in the U.S. today.

We built the transcontinental railroad 156 years ago. What in the world are we waiting for?

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19h

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921 #WomensArt

Painting of a hilly landscape reflected in still water in colours of purple green and blue

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 18h

"I should be over this by now" is almost always a sign it's time to lean into the tools of self compassion & radical acceptance. It's not a thought that sparks sustainable motivation-- it usually means we're slipping into old BS (Belief Systems) that don't serve our recovery.

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Mr. Dr. Prof. Patrick @mr-dr-prof-patrick.bsky.social · 1d

Fortunately, Billionaire’s disease is a treatable condition. The treatment is taxation. Ask your congress if taxing the billionaires is right for you.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

the list of things that needs to be done to repair this country is extensive but high up on it is breaking the power of the tech lords

they are convinced they are untouchable feudal barons whose money allows them to dictate everyone else's life and they must be disabused of that notion

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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lifelonglearner.bsky.social @lifelonglearner.bsky.social · 19h

Do we… just not ever sleep?

Is this the next stage of late-stage capitalism?

How many more stages can there be???

I’m tired. 😓

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

You could write a different version of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” for every week this year

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 1d

People are buying more clothes, but they don’t stay in closets for long. This fuels overproduction and waste.

An easy fix? Wear them longer. The planet will thank you!

More tips on #BeatWastePollution: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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