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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · Sep 17

Corporate HR has asked you stop referring to the newly announced mandatory RTO policy as "Poop from Office"

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 3h

Hell yeah--this is awesome.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 23h

Yes! I do something similar as a Google form because for some reason, I like filling them out more than I do spreadsheets.

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

Guys this violates the first rule of climate discourse, which is:

If you're gonna compare an impact to the pollution of a half million cars, and not propose reducing the number of cars by that amount, you are a handmaiden for Ford's F150 fall sales special.

"Equal to a half million cars"

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 1d

Also, the residents of DC do not love this!

Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh his book where it rains all afternoon is so gorgeous, too! One of the first mostly wordless picture books I remember loving.

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 1d

We got it in Ward 3, too!

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHhHHhhh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 2d

delighted to report that MARGHOULRITAVILLE is open for the season

Andrea's yard Halloween display is up and running: a load of actual human-sized skeletons in lawn chairs and a hammock, enjoying the "Marghoulritaville" bar with light-up drinks and a fun palm tree

A close-up of the Marghoulritaville bartender, a Grim Reaper-style skeleton with a scythe

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 2d

During a shutdown, the federal government can deploy troops to invade US cities but can’t send WIC funds to states to feed infants and children. Speaks volumes about how the rules around shutdowns systematically serve GOP priorities while harming everyone else.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 2d

I have joked before that the fundamental difference between administrators and faculty is that administrators think that work gets done at meetings and faculty think that meetings produce work that will eventually need to be done.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 3d

The collapse of local news is one of the features of our media landscape. I know there are people swimming upstream against it, but it's a big problem. Social media can't make up for it.

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 4d

The @washingtonpost.com should be doing daily stories about the regular people in DC who are getting detained and deported. The impact on their families. The tears in the fabric of the local community.

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 5d

John Oliver comes to mind.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 5d

you can often tell the fake academic freedom/free speech heroes from the real ones because when asked to think of ways to defend freedom, the fake ones don’t generally think of unions, and in fact often blame them. wrongo!!

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 5d

UNC Chapel Hill has reinstated Prof. Dwayne Dixon.
Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom. @aaup.org
www.wral.com/news/local/u...

UNC professor reinstated after investigation into alleged ties with politically motivated group

UNC-Chapel Hill has reinstated a professor who was linked to groups believed to call for politically motivated violence. An investigation found that Dwayne Dixon posed no threat to the campus communit...

www.wral.com

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 5d

Social media, meaning the spaces for people to meet and socialize globally, has been dead for possibly 10 years already.

What we have now is parasocial media: a form of mass media where there’s illusion of relationships covering a high virality broadcast tool controlled by algorithms.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5d

Have we passed peak social media? on.ft.com/46OjAa1 | opinion

Have we passed peak social media?

As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

on.ft.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5d

I really did think “surely the big business republicans whose corporate overlords are getting fucked by these policies will be SOME sort of guardrail against SOME tiny slice of this” and like ….. we aren’t really seeing that the way I assumed we would

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 6d

It’s honestly shocking to me that tech has effectively rolled over and accepted it now costs $100K to hire a foreign worker.

The degree of capitulation during his second presidency has been quite stunning.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

This social app can put your face into fake movie scenes, memes and arrest videos

The new Sora social app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI encourages users to upload video of their face so their likeness can be put into AI-generated clips.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 6d

University presidents it’s time for a united front. I mean, it’s past time. What are you going to do.

From the NYT: “The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation's top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump's political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds.”

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 6d

The federal surge didn’t end in DC.

It became entrenched. ICE is still riding with MPD. We have “local control” back & people are still being detained & deported. National Guard is still here with long guns pacing our streets.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 7d

this is important

Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 7d

ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests, according to officials with knowledge of the data.

We detail how that happened:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

How Washington Became a Testing Ground for ICE

www.nytimes.com

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 6d

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 7d

Vaccination during pregnancy was associated with lowered maternal risks of COVID infection, stillbirth, preterm birth (including a 34% lower risk of severe preterm birth before 28 weeks), neonatal intensive care admission, & congenital anomalies

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 7d

COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy conferred benefits for mother and baby without increased risk, according to an umbrella review of meta-analyses comprising more than 1.2 million women.
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Mom's COVID Shot Aided Baby, Too, Large Review Confirmed

Vaccination during pregnancy was safe for both mom and baby

www.medpagetoday.com

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 7d

inbox, from Democratic Assembly nominee Katie Brennan (LD-32, Jersey City/Hoboken): Brennan Calls for New Jersey to Withhold Federal Taxes, Seize Trump’s Bedminster Golf Course After Gateway Tunnel Funding Freeze

"This is not how the government is supposed to work. We pay federal taxes but get a President who sees us as the enemy and takes away our own money as retaliation.
This has to stop.
"Donald Trump has shown again and again that he is unfit to lead this country. When he's not too busy golfing, he's doing active harm, whether it's sending masked troops into cities or shutting down vital infrastructure projects like this.
"These funds were already approved. And if people can't cross the Hudson to get to work, it will literally destroy our economy.
"We have to show Trump that this isn't okay.
"Yes, New Jersey should sue the Trump administration, but we have to do more. We should be withholding federal taxes, dollar for dollar, to backfill funding that's illegally cut.
The state should also eminent domain
Trump's golf course in Bedminster and build some affordable housing there instead. If the federal government won't stand up for New Jersey, Trenton should."

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