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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20h

More. Of. This. Any city that allows a corporation to build a data center will be unlivable within a year of construction.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org · 1d

Joel Swanson on VPOTUS' casual, horrifying antisemitism

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JD Vance Trivializes Jewish History by Referring to ICE Criticism as 'Blood Libel' — But Reveals What this Admin Thinks of Jews

Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As Va...

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 7h

One gets the impression, throughout the period, that there were a great many ideas floating about whose sole value was to console, and occupy the time of, those who had them.

—Peter Ackroyd, on the early war years

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 6h

Let's be clear on who Christopher Columbus was, a conquerer who spread disease & slavery who was so sadistic in the ways he treated natives he appalled the architects of the Spanish Inquisition. That's the fact of him there is to reclaim.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 6h

Butler's "Wild Seed" got deep into how telepathy might develop and the perils of learning to read others' minds and it's great. Books that take a well-known idea and say, "Yeah, but what happens minute-to-minute with that?" are always welcome.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 6h

Being a telepath does seem like it would be terrible. I don’t want to know what strangers are thinking. And my thoughts are loud enough as is. #TrueBlood

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 6h

So good.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 6h

still thinking about this (excellent) piece on Audre Lorde

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10h

‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 19h

Black people told y’all they’re never letting you in no matter how much they’ll use your own racism to their benefit. Theirs. Not yours. Ever.

Sucker! 😜

Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy's Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism - The New Republic

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Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy's Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism — The New Republic

Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn’t Christian.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 6h

If you're an extrovert (in the getting energy from social interactions sense 🙋🏻‍♂️) it can be hard to tell if a developing teen is experiencing social isolation of the electronic age, an introvert, or just an emo teen.

Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 17h

Ohhhhhhh!
I never connected mobile/stabile until your post! Learning!

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 1d

simple, beautiful bystander intervention and genius way to make community values legible

Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 1d

Context for the whistles (though the above is about Rogers Park/Edgewater, not Little Village): blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/17/i...

In Little Village, Residents Are Blowing Actual Whistles To Warn Neighbors About ICE

Residents have equipped themselves with bright orange whistles amid ramped-up ICE arrests. "People could hear that noise, and if they don’t have legal status, go the other way," one immigrant advocate...

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 17h

Just under 2 hours left for some of the best music humankind has ever made! (I am not joking.)

The host said they're going to get into some live and rare recordings soon.

#JazzSky

Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning. Time to listen to lots and lots of Thelonious Sphere Monk on the fabulous WKCR, the best thing about Columbia University. (Right now really defamilarizing the melody to "How High the Moon".)

89.9 FM / wkcr.org / mobile radio apps

#JazzSky

Cropped version of https://lccn.loc.gov/2023868081, a 30-year-old Thelonious Monk at the piano at Minton's Playhouse in a low-angle raked black-and-white William Gottlieb photograph from 1947.

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday, to the originals' original, Thelonious Monk, whose music and life I've been dwelling upon for a couple of years now.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 17h

If it's AI, you have to call yourself a programmer, or maybe a Head Plagiarist, never a director.

Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 17h

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Netflix Wins Joseph Gordon-Levitt Directed AI Thriller From T-Street; Rachel McAdams Boards Pic

Netflix Wins Joseph Gordon-Levitt Directed AI Thriller From T-Street; Rachel McAdams Boards Pic

The Joesph Gordon-Levitt-directed AI movie package has been set at Netflix with Rachel McAdams attached to star.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 17h

(Wish I gave better promotion for the things I like.)

Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 17h

If you live in or near New Haven, CT, get out to the Night Market when they have them. They're tons of fun.
#NutmegSky

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dr. eerie katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 4d

Final one of these ⬇️ tours ever, Saturday Oct 11 @10am. The architecture is really fabulous and the history is wide-ranging. I am just saying

Full Story Baltimore @fullstorybaltimore.tours · 24d

Upcoming tours: ~~Victorian-era Seton Hill~~, Saturday October 11th, 10am fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#s...

Photo of a brick Romanesque Victorian building in Seton Hill, Baltimore, on a cloudy day.

Photo of a brick Romanesque Victorian building attached to a modern one, in Seton Hill, Baltimore, on a sunny day.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 17h

Also the idolization of "natural" is all kinds of problem. Some people are schvitzers — is their heavy natural smell OK, or just her dewy ozone? Some people work in meatpacking with viscera. All natural, but not commonly accepted outside the abbatoir.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 17h

Sempre Marta

Lis Schendel @schendel.bsky.social · 17h

Honestly I’d cry

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 17h

(Dogma was so good.)

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 21h

Hot damn. Will the VA senate hold that line?

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social · 21h

Free Link

#ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @permanentalien.blacksky.app · 1d

also @moderation.bsky.app have y’all gathered enough legal advice to conclude that banning a Black user for exercising the same free speech y’all claimed to stand for when you didn’t ban a white man who was reported for harassment and hate speech by thousands of users is a civil rights violation?

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Ronald AKA DJ Regularity @djregular.tech · 22h

I think I'm going to just post this once a month as a reminder to myself and others.

Ronald AKA DJ Regularity @djregular.tech · Aug 19

Anyone running on 'dismantle the DHS' gets my vote and active support immediately. The US allowing the shared psychosis of the war on terror to become agreed upon governance is probably my generation's version of leaving Reconstruction unfinished.

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