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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 8h

Especially in smaller markets. DC and Connecticut are always a vibe.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 9h

It’s because they’re eugenicists.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 9h

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h

Drake’s federal defamation suit against Universal Music Group has been thrown out of court, TMZ reports

Drake's Federal Defamation Lawsuit Against UMG Over 'Not Like Us' Dismissed

Drake just took a big legal loss against his own record label ... because his federal defamation suit against Universal Music Group has been thrown out of court.

www.tmz.com

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 10h

The tension between how happy I am for A’ja and Nalyssa and my animus for the Aces as an organisation. #wnba

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 13h

I think low key I’m annoyed because Vegas was in no way the best team this season and even through the playoffs. But there is clearly something to be said for peaking at the right time and knowing how to close games which you absolutely have to give them credit for. I’m just being churlish. 😂

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 13h

You’re right. Also Minnesota and even Atlanta.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 14h

I believe you. I think that second game just kind of deflated my interest. Maybe I’m just tired of picking the wrong team. 😂

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 17h

For clarity watching West Coast games live involves staying up late/waking up early for me. I’d stay up for a more competitive series but this seems fairly one sided.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty much. I stopped watching after game one. I guess that it’s the experience gap between the Aces bench and the Phoenix bench - AT and Kah can only do so much, and DB should be doing more. #wnba

Travers Supports Trans Kids! @drbaseball.bsky.social · 1d

What a relative disappointment the WNBA finals have been from a competitive standpoint compared to the first and second rounds. I always want the series to go the distance, to have an uncertain outcome. The Aces are playing on another level. But the Storm almost eliminated them!

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 19h

Yikes!

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

A White Christian nationalist pastor argued recently on a right-wing podcast that the Bible--specifically Deuteronomy 21, about how a father must bring his rebellious son to the town square to be stoned--justifies state violence against Black boys and young men.

www.theroot.com/why-this-whi...

Article from "The Root" by Asheea Smith. Published October 8, 2025

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RFI @rfi.fr · 22h

Soudan: deuxième largage de ravitaillement de l'armée sur la ville assiégée d’el-Fasher

Au Soudan, l’armée a réussi à procéder au largage de plusieurs caisses de nourriture, munitions et médicaments, le 7 octobre 2025, principalement à destination de ses troupes à el-Fasher, capitale de l’État du Darfour-Nord assiégée depuis plusieurs mois par les paramilitaires. Il s’agit du deuxième largage par voie aérienne en 10 jours, alors qu'ils étaient interrompus depuis plus de 6 mois.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of supporting women basketball players and investing in the initiatives they started on their own like AU Pro Hoops, Unrivaled and others, LeBron James and Maverick Carter have decided to start their own league. #wnba

Mike Vorkunov @mikevorkunov.bsky.social · 1d

The Maverick Carter-backed basketball league doesn't have Carter associated now but it has still raised eyebrows around the NBA.

The league plans to start with women's basketball, attract WNBA players. And then...

With @samamick.bsky.social + @joevardon.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

What is Project B? The latest on a new global league recruiting basketball stars

Speculation has bubbled for months about an international league that could pose a threat to both the NBA and WNBA.

www.nytimes.com

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 1d

This list pleases me.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: Paul Biya (92), President of Cameroon, has been the president of Cameroon almost twice as long as Monique Akoa-Makani (24) has been alive (43 years). Biya is currently running for another term in office.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 1d

Andscape with another profile of an African player in the W, last woman standing Monique Akoa-Makani. #wnba

Sean Hurd @seanahurd.bsky.social · 1d

Phoenix Mercury rookie Monique Akoa Makani is the first player from Cameroon 🇨🇲 to play in the WNBA Finals.

She hopes her visibility will inspire the next generation of Cameroonian players to chase their own basketball dreams.

“It only takes one person.”
andscape.com/features/pho...

Phoenix Mercury's Monique Akoa Makani derives pride, purpose from African roots - Andscape

The Phoenix Mercury's Monique Akoa Makani is the first player from Cameroon to play in the WNBA Finals.

andscape.com

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 1d

Phew. And everything is just getting smaller and smaller and smaller.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 1d

One silent victim of all of these changes in the multilateral space is people’s mindsets. Working with people who are stuck in a scarcity mindset and trying to save their jobs instead of trying to do their jobs is actually really hard.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

All anyone wanted to do with OpenAI's new Sora 2 app was make clips of copyrighted characters. Now they can't, they're pissed. Literally what is the point of this app www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

OpenAI and Anthropic are considering using investor funds to settle potential claims from multibillion-dollar lawsuits on.ft.com/4mWEfyK

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 2d

Cathy, trying to find a way to remove Phee and A’ja from the list. #wnba

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 2d

My rage, in graphs: #wnba #nba

“The W.N.B.A. makes more money than the N.B.A. did at the same point in its history”

The W.N.B.A. makes more money than the N.B.A. did at the same point in its history
ANNUAL REVENUE
$500 million
Projected revenue the 2026 season
W.N.B.A/
400
N.B.A.
1982-83-season
300
1968-69
season
200/
100
< 2019 season
23
25
27
29
31
SEASON
33
35
37
Sources: Rodney Fort's Sports Business Data • Note:
N.B.A. revenue is in 2025 dollars.

much.
÷96
Players get a tiny cut of the W.N.B.A.'s revenue, even as the league has grown significantly
ANNUAL REVENUE
How much money -
$300 million
the W.N.B.A. makes
Money the players would 250 mshare, if they were paid
like N.B.A. players
200 Möney that W.N.B.A. players actually make
150 mil.
100 mil.
50 mil.
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025|
Sources: Bloomberg, Forbes, Sportico, Rodney Fort's
Sports Business Data
Some of this is educated
guesswork. The W.N.B.A. doesn't release official revenue data —

What It Would Look Like to Pay W.N.B.A. Players What They Deserve
By David Berri
Graphics by Sara Chodosh
Mr. Berri is a professor at Southern Utah University who studies sports economics.
Oct. 3, 2025
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The 2025 W.N.B.A. season has set records for attendance, both in total and per game, even before the playoffs. More than three million fans have flocked to see stars like A'ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces and Alyssa Thomas of the Phoenix Mercury, whose
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year.
•+95
What the top 10 W.N.B.A. players should have earned this year
Players were ranked by how much their box score statistics, like points and rebounds, affected wins.
1 mil. 2 mil. 3 mil. $4 mil
A'ja Wilson
Alyssa Thomas
eronica Burton
Chelsea Gray
Jackie Young
pheesa Collier
Aliyah Boston
Allisha Gray
irtney Williams
Skylar Diggins
Each player's current salary
Source: Original box score stats used in calculations from Basketball Reference
What about Caitlin Clark? She missed most of the season with a groin injury. But during her magical rookie season in 2024,

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 2d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 2d

David Adler, a coordinator at @progintl.bsky.social is still being led by the Israeli government even while other members of the Global Sumud Flotilla were released. Please consider signing this petition demanding his release.

actionnetwork.org/letters/free...

Free David Adler

Please take this action with us to demand the release of David Adler. He is a beloved friend, community member, and Angeleno. David bravely joined over 450 volunteers to sail to Gaza with the sumud fl...

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