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MirandaPitcher
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Auntie, hat lover, always looking for the work worth doing. (Photo credit: Millinery By Anna: www.etsy.com/shop/MillineryByAnna)
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MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social · 1m
I haven't been this certain that something was bunch of poppycock since Theranos.

Starting with the absolute idiocy of mis-using "situational awareness" and continuing on to the absurd and ludicrous cult-like belief in "artificial general intelligence" (lol), with stopovers for crypto & EA scams.
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MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social · 4m
From Fortune reporter @sharongoldman.bsky.social's email announcing this story:

"Reporting the story, what struck me most is how belief itself has become a form of capital — how people are literally investing in a worldview about where AI is heading."

fortune.com/2025/10/08/l...
How former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner turned a viral AI prophecy into profit, with a $1.5 billion hedge fund and outsize influence from Silicon Valley to D.C. | Fortune
Aschenbrenner is a Wall Street novice. So why have some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names trusted him to manage billions?
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MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social · 4m
From Fortune reporter @sharongoldman.bsky.social's email announcing this story:

"Reporting the story, what struck me most is how belief itself has become a form of capital — how people are literally investing in a worldview about where AI is heading."

fortune.com/2025/10/08/l...
How former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner turned a viral AI prophecy into profit, with a $1.5 billion hedge fund and outsize influence from Silicon Valley to D.C. | Fortune
Aschenbrenner is a Wall Street novice. So why have some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names trusted him to manage billions?
fortune.com
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1h
Like, sorry to folks who believe you should never criticize a politician you think does some good sometimes, but if they're in charge of the guys wearing brown shirts clubbing people with giant wooden bats and they're not putting a stop to it, they're doing something wrong.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Jul 27
Half the time I post something related to race on this website I get someone in the comments like, “yeah america is a racist country what do you expect.” I’m starting to think folks like this are bots or ops designed to make people feel helpless. Think we should call it “doomsplaining”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jul 27
I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h
Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):
She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.
Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5h
I know we should celebrate Tony Fitzpatrick for his Chicago art, but I'll always love his portrait of NYC's Flaco
A colorful, vibrant collage with Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl at its center, a multicolored pinwheel on top of him, and various iconography, including the NYC Parks Department logo (a green London plane tree leaf), the old subway-token design, a map of Central Park, etc.
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1h
If the Bog Irish family I married into is any indication, they are READY
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Patient Zero @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 1h
I get the sense that Chicago might be a center of Cathoic resistance to ICE. Both because Pope Leo has signaled his support for protests, but also because there are a shitload of Bog Irish and Italian Catholics who can be called on to protest.
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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 1h
I know not everyone will be moved by this because it’s not “radical” etc but I have trump loving family who are devoted to religion and will only take their cues from religious leaders. It’s because of things like this that they start questioning Christian nationalism
Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility
Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday.
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 1h
As a trans New Yorker, this is heartwarming and amazingly powerful 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🗽

Watching @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, our next mayor, openly and proudly celebrate our history, our trans-ancestors, and his commitment to our future is exactly what I need this #NationalComingOutDay!!!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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Rachel Grant/R.S. Grant @rachelgrant.bsky.social · 2d
I don't usually share my own books like this but it feels relevant to share TAINTED EVIDENCE--set in Portland, OR--and is about white supremacists trying to use archaeology to steal Indigenous land...and features several white supremacist rallies & counterprotests.
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Tainted Evidence by Rachel Grant book cover
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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 3d
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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 3d
To that end, this week, we're recommending books that feature Chicago, Washington, DC & Los Angeles as settings. We're also sharing resources and ways you can stay informed, help communities of immigrants, and get involved in whatever way possible.
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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 3d
We're thinking about Chicago, DC, and LA this week, and standing in solidarity with the people living and resisting in those cities. While reading isn't action, it can supplement it, and keep us joyful as we do the hard work of standing up.
S08.04: We Love You Chicago, Dc, and LA — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People
We're thinking about Chicago, DC, and LA this week, and standing in solidarity with the people living and resisting in those cities. While reading isn't action, it can supplement it, and keep us joyfu...
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 1h
"When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt."
- @AriCohn.com
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 1h
Thanks for explaining all this - familiar with Jewish ritual/symbolism but not Catholic, so this was super helpful. (Also bc I now know why there are cathedrals that post times for adoration, which always confused me.)
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Misandrosaurus Hex @bexone.bsky.social · 3h
I can’t help idly wondering how the tradcath adult converts are feeling about this, to wit: how sincere were their conversions, or was it just that they wanted the history and power to go with their evangelical protestantism
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h
And the exact moment they're turned away: bsky.app/profile/unra...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h
Request denied/unanswered.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h
Yeahhhh I just found a local news org with video (starts here: bsky.app/profile/unra...) and just, wow.

Notice how Fr Dowling has his hands covered with a veil of silk while he's holding the monstrance? It's so holy that you do not touch it with bare hands.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h
Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h
Denying entrance to a Eucharistic Procession is to Catholicism kinda like what desecrating the flag is to the American civic religion, except with even more weight of history and tradition behind it!
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h
This is a really, really good act of protest that uses a protest language that has a chance of reaching people who would otherwise dismiss the issue. You can tell by how many former Catholics are seeing it here and having like entire full-body shudders despite having left the church decades ago.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h
But in case you missed it, Fr Dowling's statement takes the time to make it explicit: "Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing."
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h
For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h
These days, there will usually be specific times where a church is open for eucharistic adoration, because there are rules about how many people have to be present, etc. Unless you live in a big city, it is often hard to find a convenient adoration time!
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h
Eucharistic adoration is a form of meditation and reflection. It was common in medieval times for priests to bear the monstrance through the streets regularly so people could have the opportunity to adore the sacrament, but that kind of processional is uncommon today.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h
The monstrance (from the Latin "monstrare", "to show") is the vessel that holds the consecrated Eucharist for adoration, and while it holds the consecrated Eucharist, it becomes the actual presence of Jesus. One does not worship the monstrance itself, but the presence it houses.
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