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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve lived in rural America long enough to know that the entire point was to bankrupt farmers…

We are all about to find out.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

Pathetic. bsky.app/profile/step...

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 14h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s a very helpful guide to voting in the city school board election. There are 4 candidates for 3 seats.

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

hi charlottesville! if you're voting in the city school board election this november, there are four candidates running for three seats. here's where they stand on the return of police to our schools:

keep police out of cville schools! 2025 school board candidate guide.
zyahna bryant [✓]: opposed school resource officers
lisa torres [✓]: voted against SROs
dashad cooper: supports SROs
emily dooley: voted for SROs as chair
VOTE NOV. 4 2025

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jenntheflower.bsky.social @jenntheflower.bsky.social · 7h

the tail. the ears!

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jenntheflower.bsky.social @jenntheflower.bsky.social · 7h

wowza.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 6d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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jenntheflower.bsky.social @jenntheflower.bsky.social · 6d

I cracked and was lucky enough to be given a supervisor-sanctioned week and a week of reduced workload. this is day two. I slept for 12 hours.

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ybbats 🦇💀🎃 @scribblymoth.bsky.social · 6d

All I want to do is hype up my phone and irl friends, eat snacks, make things, and just, like, exist, man.

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jenntheflower.bsky.social @jenntheflower.bsky.social · 6d

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 7d

The entirety of this administration can be summed up by a show I was on for NatGeo Explorer in 2016 where Gavin McInnes tried to peddle his brand of alt-right bullshit, and I told him flat out “if you believe in rule of the strong, throw your coffee mug at me and see what happens”

He declined.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

It was never about money. What a shame that so many in the press went with that line.

NPR @npr.org · 7d

Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.

Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE's push to cut

Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.

n.pr

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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 7d

More excellent reporting from the student paper.

Deeds sends additional letter to U.Va. Board seeking answers on Ryan’s resignation

Deeds said that because he had not received sufficient answers to his previous questions, he spoke to outside sources for knowledge of the events leading up to Ryan’s resignation.

www.cavalierdaily.com

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 8d

If you know anyone in the U.S. military at any level, please make sure they see The Orders Project, "a non-partisan program...to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal."

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may...

www.nimj.org

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jenntheflower.bsky.social @jenntheflower.bsky.social · 7d

oh, good! I’ll continue ignoring its plaintive appeals to “just let me be useful!” as long as I (appear to) have the option.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 7d

Dictionaries: The original LLM is still the best LLM.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 7d

Another #Cville #WeekWithoutDriving success story. And, sure sounds like the Crozet CONNECT is popular!

Here's the schedule and route map for an curious if it might work for you: ridejaunt.org/connect/croz...

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jenntheflower.bsky.social @jenntheflower.bsky.social · 7d

too young to pass up the chance to make a vibrator joke. too old to figure out a good one I’d tell in mixed company. 🤷‍♀️

The Verge @theverge.com · 9d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

buff.ly

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”

Jane Goodall

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 7d

Night night sweet dreamies

Imagine if you spoke to yourself with the same kindness you offer others.
You’re not a burden.
You’re not too much
You’re just tired, and that’s okay.

The voice we search for in others… is the one we need to become for ourselves

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8d

This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a house painter and father of four from Mexico who was critically injured by a sniper at an ICE facility in Dallas, has died, the second fatality of the shooting, according to Latino civil rights leaders representing his family.

Second Victim of Dallas ICE Shooting Dies

A house painter who had been in the United States for two decades had been critically injured in Dallas by a gunman who the government said was aiming at federal law enforcement officers.

nyti.ms

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 8d

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment

The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

www.aaup.org

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8d

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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