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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 3h

MY GIRL

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 5h

REI easily top of the list of companies most likely to do a land acknowledgement before layoffs

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 9h

This morning, we proudly cut the ribbon on the new Sarah Roberts School in Roslindale!

In 1847, a brave five-year-old girl and her father became the first to challenge school segregation in court. Sarah Roberts and her father, Benjamin Roberts, sued the City of Boston. 🧵

Mayor Wu cuts a red ribbon on stage surrounded by students, staff, and other community members that hold the ribbon. A crowd watches and photographs them from beneath the stage.

Mayor Wu poses for a photo with a crowd of community members.

Mayor Wu smiles and engages in conversation with five students.

The Sarah Roberts school exterior can be seen during a cloudy and rainy day.

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Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.bsky.social · Aug 31

#Texas friends, I know many of y’all love the Hill Country and our gorgeous rivers. There’s a plan to put huge transmission lines directly through some of the most wonderful, fragile ecosystems in our state, to supply power to the Permian basin. Please consider signing this petition against it.

Sign the Petition

Stop AEP/CPS Transmission Line Project in the Edwards Plateau Region Texas Hill Country

www.change.org

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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 12h

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 13h

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 13h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 15h

that’s a very good reason to do so but also if you need a second one Wells Fargo let someone wash a check of mine, cash it for all the money in my checking account (which they only could have known if they had an employee on the inside) and then refused to extend me credit and stalled on reversing

Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how

Mama Murphy☘️ @mamamurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s how you can close your account:

Call 1-800-TO-WELLS (1-800-869-3557)
Visit a Wells Fargo branch near you.
You can close most accounts immediately when:

The account has a positive or zero balance.
All deposits, outstanding and pending items are posted.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 16h

Back from my family trip to tell you that I have a new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! "What a Big Heart You Have" is my tender tribute to Grandma and Aunt Ellen, though the characters aren't literally them. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen

kaleidotrope.net

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 13h

Oh, look, a cover!

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ann-l...

Radiant Star

Space opera's sharpest mind returns to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone from award-winning author Ann Leckie. The Temporal Locati...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 15h

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

bookshop.org

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15h

OT1H, this is likely the right way to think abt the politics. Being in LA demoralized the Cal NatGuard; this deployment can be used to weaken Trump’s authoritarian push too.

OTOH, TX went 56-42 for Trump, bet higher Trump % in NatGuard. If they’re “pawns,” it’s in a game they voted to play.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 1d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

The one that always gets me is that the last American born into slavery died the year John Lennon released “Imagine.”

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 1d

My daughter @madepn.bsky.social has invented a great scale for the triviality - importance spectrum. It goes from “nothing burger” to “everything bagel”.

I doff my hat in tribute to genius.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

doomscroll break

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 1d

A quest to eliminate $5 million has tripled, thanks to the generosity and passion of THE TOXIC AVENGER fans across the country.

Together, you didn’t just meet that goal, you crushed it, helping wipe out over $15 million dollars in medical debt for 10,000+ people!

‘The Toxic Avenger’ & Undue Medical Debt Cleared $15 Million in Real-Life Medical Debt Together!

Before Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger released in theaters back in August, the Cineverse marketing team came up with a wonderful idea. They took the remainder of their marketing budget for the film a...

bloody-disgusting.com

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever that praying means for you, get it done. That includes scientifically cheering for her wellbeing. Don’t fuss about it, just make good thoughts for a good woman.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 1d

I did this last year. No shaming for my lack of insurance, or for my disability, just professionalism and kindness

Boston Public Health Commission @publichealth.boston.gov · 1d

Get your COVID-19 and flu vaccination for free at one of our clinics throughout Boston. Select clinics will offer routine childhood vaccinations. No appointment necessary, walk-ins welcome.

Find dates, times, and locations at boston.gov/vaccine-clinics.

#GetVaccinated #Boston

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MariWho @mariwho.bsky.social · 1d

PEOPLE OF EARTH SEND HER YOUR ENERGY!!!

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 1d

Dancers, what are you gonna do

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 1d

you could buy a book about the horrors of an actual embodied artificial intelligence (as opposed to the horrors of "artificial intelligence", for a change!) and support local bookshops

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 1d

They may, however, have hit the trust thermocline

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Ok this seems pretty explicit. Hive is not training its AI on your images on Bluesky (that we know of) because Bluesky is not paying them for that.

june $118/$3900 @juneever.green · 1d

it’s in their terms of service. it’s not part of the product bluesky pays for. hive will train a custom model on customer-provided data if that’s what a customer pays for but it’s not part of the moderation labeling service.

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