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Broke Boy Eccentric @ NearZone @nearzone.bsky.social · 3d

Extremely important to understand how much the "Christianity" of certain groups is top-down and highly manipulated. It is simply not the case that each of these people has their own personal faith that they then bring to the group. The group's ideas are directed from the top & everyone adopts them.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d

Based on the interviews I've done with conservative Evangelical moms, I'd say--a lot of them aren't engaging with the Bible directly. They're reading Evangelical self-help and parenting books like Your Best Life Now and Growing Kids God's Way that selectively interpret the Bible for them.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 4d

If teachers are told using AI technologies creates time to spend developing relationships with students, and the report’s findings suggest AI technologies undermine these vital relationships, then it seems to me resistance and refusal of AI technologies is the most caring response.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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PV (Probablement Vélo) @mubou-rider.bsky.social · 7d

"Everything has to scale, everything has to be revolutionary" , social media should have been turned into a public utility instead of a for profit mechanism.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7d

It’s really ridiculous behavior if we’re being honest.

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 8d

If I put milk and sugar in my tea, it has carbs and fat and protein. Sounds like a meal to me!

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 8d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Cuw @cuw.bsky.social · 9d

I had a discussion with my therapist who got a scam phone call during our visit that its just beyond frustrating that literally every single second of being american is fending off people trying to fleece you, email, phone, hobby stores, whatever its just scams on scams

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 11d

I'm a historian. Sewage systems have saved more lives than any medical intervention. Vaccines are second and antibiotics third.

Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation.

Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 11d

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12d

Trump is too lazy to get us to the mass graves part--and I want you to hear how fucking terrifying it is that personal laziness is the limitation, not belief or structure--but it's still fascism. Sloppy fascism is fascism. Failed fascism is fascism. Half baked fascism is a gooey butter fascism.

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Rob Wisc @robwisc.bsky.social · 12d

This is such bullshit. The public allegations are that Dixon participates in an NC chapter for Redneck Revolt. The gun club for a different chapter in a different state posted flyers on a different campus, which riled up fascists on Twitter. Dixon is blamed.

www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14d

Is that effective campaign messaging? I don’t know & I don’t care.

It’s true. It’s my job to discover and say things that are true. The radicalization of the American right is *the* political story of my lifetime and the public should know about it. Politicians can do what they like with that.

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 13d

Friend of mine opened every history class with a piece of art to discuss and I feel like this would be a good one

Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 13d

Sunday

A family sitting in a living room, each of them using Etch A Sketch. An orange Giancarlo Mattioli Nesso lamp sits on a table in the background.

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 15d

It'll stop any day now (any day now, any day now)

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 17d

So are Ayn Rand's books...

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · Aug 27

the modal domestic terrorist over the next decade is going to be a terminally online 20-something who cooks their brain in irony-poisoned social media spaces and decides to kill a bunch of people as an elaborate shitpost

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 17d

I've said it before, but I think the current spree of memekillings is the product of an ideological transition. It's hard to parse because it's rapidly evolving. It's clearly derived from far right precursors, but it hasn't progressed to coherence yet.

Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 17d

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17d

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social with the receipts, actually talking to the shooter's friends.

Surprise! Not the left, or even MAGA. Another white kid who spent countless hours online and "was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed … to rile people up.”

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 18d

(for a good 20 minutes. We had to intervene)

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 18d

My grandpa info-dumped about the Venetian system of accounting to the funeral home workers removing my grandmother from the bed where she died.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19d

I was part of a couple of meetings last week where I thought: "yup, people are braver when they know others have their backs."

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 19d

We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21d

“why some people be mad at me sometimes”

they ask me to remember

but they want me to remember

their memories

and i keep remembering

mine

- Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 22d

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 24d

This cartoon by artist Frank Ape grounded me today #artmatters

Cartoon character with text bubbles that talk about why making art matters in these challenging times

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 24d

Learning to be a good teacher meant unlearning the normality of coercive control. Had to update my politics to keep up.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 24d

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 25d

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 25d

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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