spokespider.bsky.social
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genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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We aren’t going to defeat fascism with a politics-as-usual approach. That’s why we’re gearing up for a massive primary program to put forward a new wave of candidates who can win at the ballot box and in the battle to defend democracy: indivisible2026.org/?utm_source=bluesky
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Fernando Moreno has been waiting for a kidney transplant for about two years. His Philadelphia hospital connected him with a pilot project called the Great Social Experiment.
To find living donors for kidney transplants, a pilot program turns to social networks
Fernando Moreno has been waiting for a kidney transplant for about two years. His Philadelphia hospital connected him with a pilot project called the Great Social Experiment.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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There's hardly a parish boneyard in England without gossip of phantoms. Hauntings refuse to politely stop at porch thresholds, are not deterred by solid stone walls. The Holy Ghost is not the only spectre resident in English churches. They are spirit crowded. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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With nearly 169 MILLION addresses nationwide, USPS delivers 44% of the world’s mail — and during the busiest time of the year, letter carriers like Los Angeles Branch 24 member Randy Lovejoy are rising to the occasion and ensuring a joyful holiday season is delivered to all!

youtu.be/yKhKMMT9jJw
How the U.S. Postal Service prepares for holiday rush
YouTube video by Spectrum News
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December 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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🖋️ “Save medical massage therapy program for veterans” hit 3,000 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PKCUTG to 50409
Save medical massage therapy program for veterans
Text SIGN PKCUTG to 50409 — I am a veteran, and I’m writing to advocate for a treatment – medical massage therapy (MMT) – that has greatly benefited me and other veterans at a lower cost to the VA than other treatments. MMT reduces my pain, has reduced my dependence on opioids and other pain medications, helps me to sleep better, improves my mood, helps me to move better, and allows me to perform simple tasks around the house more easily. Most importantly, unlike other forms of prescription pain management, MMT works to reduce the scourge of opioid use, which often results in a dangerous and even deadly addiction to prescription painkillers. Unfortunately, shortly after Veterans Day, no less, my medical massage therapist told me that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been underpaying all massage therapists in the Community Care Network (CCN) by applying inapplicable Medicare discounting and bundling rules to billings. These rules generate up to a 40% discount on one hour of MMT, resulting in a rate that is below the cost to deliver the care, resulting in many massage therapists quitting the program. Ultimately, veterans like me will now lose access to this life changing treatment. I urgently request that you work on behalf of all veterans to reverse the VA’s decision for MMT, a critical non-opioid, non-surgical, cost-effective treatment for veterans in pain. Otherwise, the program cannot survive. Thank you in advance for your attention to this important matter.
resist.bot
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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important
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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🖋️ “Enforce the Law: Impeach Officials Who Defied the Epstein Transparency Act” hit 100 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PVALBR to 50409
Enforce the Law: Impeach Officials Who Defied the Epstein Transparency Act
Text SIGN PVALBR to 50409 — When the Trump administration promised compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the American people were told to expect sunlight. Instead, the Department of Justice delivered darkness by design. The DOJ’s release was not a good-faith effort to comply with the law. It was a calculated act of obstruction that violated a clear statute, defied congressional authority, and inflicted renewed harm on survivors of one of the most notorious child sex trafficking operations in modern history. The Act is not ambiguous. It requires the DOJ to release all unclassified Epstein-related records in its possession by a fixed deadline, in a searchable format. Not phases. Not partial dumps. Not excessive redactions. Yet the DOJ labeled its production a “first phase,” a concept Congress never authorized and the law does not allow. What followed confirmed bad faith. Entire documents were blacked out. Court-ordered grand jury materials were rendered unreadable. Long-public filings were recycled to pad page counts. The searchable database required by law did not function. These failures were not technical. They were intentional. Even more disturbing, the DOJ admitted it applied victim-level protections to “politically exposed persons” and wealthy individuals connected to Epstein—shielding the powerful under the guise of privacy. Congress explicitly rejected that rationale when it passed this law. The selective nature of the release made the motive unmistakable. Certain figures were highlighted while references to others—particularly those connected to Donald Trump—were aggressively obscured. Survivors deserved truth, not narrative management. This is no longer merely a transparency dispute. It is a constitutional crisis of enforcement. Attorney General Pam Bondi and other DOJ officials knowingly ignored statutory deadlines, withheld required records, and defied court orders. That conduct meets the threshold for contempt of Congress, obstruction, and impeachable offenses. The Constitution does not permit executive officials to nullify laws they dislike. Congress must act immediately by: • Issuing subpoenas for all Epstein-related records, including draft indictments and withheld investigative materials • Initiating contempt proceedings against DOJ officials who defied the Act • Opening impeachment inquiries into Attorney General Bondi and any officials responsible for noncompliance • Referring potential criminal obstruction to appropriate authorities This law exists because institutional failure once protected a predator. Allowing its violation would repeat that failure. Survivors deserved accountability on the deadline Congress set. Justice delayed is justice denied—and continued silence is not an option. Congress must now enforce its own law.
resist.bot
December 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Consumer-facing “A.i.” is a fascist project of right wing billionaires to replace actual knowledge and human interaction with lies, disinformation, slop, and propaganda.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The Epstein Files, everybody!
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!
Alright scientists! It's that time again!

Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester.

Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026?

Sign up now 🥰

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December 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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As long as no one objected to the genocide in Gaza, it’s all good
December 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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NEW: The FBI has launched "domestic terrorism" investigations into anti-ICE activity across the US. Some cases are under Trump's NSPM-7 order to crackdown on "anti-fascism" and "anti-Americanism."

Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared w/ Guardian include FBI map of cases in 30+ states:
Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US
Internal report shared with Guardian shows FBI has launched cases in 23 regions, some linked to Trump memo on thwarting ‘terroristic activities’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Democrats have been busy working to bring down Americans’ sky-high housing costs.

Republicans are standing in the way.
December 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Just a reminder.
December 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Celebrating the 89th birthday of sub-micron electrical engineer Wu Dexin! She was the director of the Chinese Academy of Science's Microelectronics Center where she worked on improving transistor switching speed and heterojunction FET research.

#WomenInSTEM #ElectricalEngineering #Physics 🧪⚛️
December 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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THIS. *They stole your fellow writers' FUCKING HEARTS' BLOOD to power their fancy-ass text-based writer-imitation machine.* You wanna get all NUANCED about that? Your easygoing take on that issue will sooner or later (most likely sooner) be used to steal *your* stuff. Let's see how *you* like it. 🫤
And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”

Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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NEW: After months of the government telling the court under penalty of perjury that the US Attorney alone made the decision to charge Kilmar Abrego with a crime, there is now EVIDENCE tying Todd Blanche to the decision. More to come on Substack... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#272 in United States v. Abrego Garcia (M.D. Tenn., 3:25-cr-00115) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE of Defendant's Supplemental Brief on United States' Motion to Quash (Redacted) by Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (Hecker, Sean) (Entered: 12/19/2025)
storage.courtlistener.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Nick Cave Troll
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Chappell Rohan
December 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Makes me proud every time!

Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!
December 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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UPDATE: Jeff Bezos' #BlueOrigin venture sent a wheelchair user into #space for the first time, marking a milestone for space accessibility. "It was the coolest experience," German aerospace engineer Michaela Benthaus said afterward. www.geekwire.com/2025/blue-or...
Blue Origin breaks the accessibility barrier by sending the first wheelchair user to space
Blue Origin launched the first wheelchair user into space, two days after an initial attempt was scrubbed.
www.geekwire.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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The thing that I find morbidly interesting is the effort this author puts into not saying "Jews". The attackers killed Jews. Jews stood up to them and died trying to protect others. They were Jewish.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 8h
The attack at Australia's Bondi Beach earlier this week on people who were celebrating the first night of Hanukkah was horrific. Stories have emerged about those who died trying to stop the gunmen. n.pr/4s8cXJo
Opinion: Remembering the lives lost to a senseless act of terror
The attack at Australia's Bondi Beach earlier this week on people who were celebrating the first night of Hanukkah was horrific. Stories have emerged about those who died trying to stop the gunmen.
n.pr
December 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM