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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19h

Welp that article is going to be seared into my brain.

I'm not linking to it, but I will shout again that DISABILITY IS NOT STATIC. Disabled people, like everyone else, have a range of capabilities.

Just because you see someone do something you don't think they can do doesn't mean they're a fraud.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 8h

And before anyone thinks "that'll never happen", I present to you the revisionist public rehabilitation of GW Bush.

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Mairead⁷ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 1h

gentle reminder to please try not to use * to censor words. I know it's used to avoid loads of comments, or bc of fashy tech censorship, but w/ sensitive or traumatic terms, peoples' "muted word" functions won't
work.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h

Because customer service chatbots are famously beloved by all. This definitely won’t devolve into dying people yelling “REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE” and jamming the 0 button

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 18h

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

buff.ly

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Mairead⁷ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 3h

sweetie that's the colonizer/grave robber's girlfriend

Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 6h

Mairead⁷ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 3h

alt txt pls

Mairead⁷ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 3h

well damn. Ok I see u Axl

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 4h

It is remarkable that of all the celebrities from the '80s who've gone full fash Axl Rose of all people zoomed in the other direction.

Meia tigela @brunodoamaral.bsky.social · 18h

No show do Guns N' Roses de ontem em Bogotá, o Axl recebeu essa bandeira da plateia durante a música Civil War.

Mairead⁷ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 3h

media and cops shooting the shit abt the cubs like ... of course they are. Gotta play nice with the SS 🙃

Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 6h

Last protester holdout moved across Lexington.

The cops are joking with media, some reporters catching up on the Cubs score to give an idea of the tension here.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 6h

The thing I wish everyone knew about canes is that you don't need a prescription to use one

If you think one might help you, try out a cheap one. Does it make it easier for you to get around? Does it increase your range, endurance, energy?

Congrats - you are "disabled enough." You can use a cane.

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Ghassan @ghassandwich.bsky.social · 6h

There was a ceasefire in November 2023, another in January 2025, and one declared but never implemented in any way in July 2025. I will save my excitement for implementation. However, that Israel feels compelled to negotiate at all means the resistance won.

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Mairead⁷ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 5h

What The Actual Non Consensual FUCK

Svensk uppfinning revolutionerar besök hos psykologen

8 oktober 2025 05:00

Verktyget registrerar allt klienten säger och ger ett förslag till journal på ett par sekunder. Det våldsamt växande svenska företaget Tandem Health har precis landstigit i Finland.

Mairead⁷ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 5h

JAG HATAR AI

Göran Öström @goranostrom.bsky.social · 19h

Min åsikt är att innan de försöker spara ytterligare på vården bör antalet läkare ökas betydligt.

AI kan inte idag bedöma och ge förslag på diagnoser. AI kan inte ge 100% rätt råd kring bokföring. Det räcker att nåt företag inte har koll och skrivit fel råd.

www.hbl.fi/2025-10-08/s...

Svensk uppfinning revolutionerar besök hos psykologen

Registrerar allt patienten säger • Ska erövra Finland.

www.hbl.fi

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Moohamed Taw🍉 @mohammmedtawa.bsky.social · 19h

Hello friends, I'm still alive

I'm so so tired 💔

Support me with a word and Donate to me please 🙏
gofund.me/d0ecb613a

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Mairead⁷ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 5h

all tech overlords hate their users. ugh.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 7h

it's pretty funny to talk about open protocols and then throw a huge fit and ban people for using those protocols to figure out you love the heritage foundation

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Mairead⁷ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 5h

obstruct that traffic!! (minus ambulances bc protests are good about that when cops dont fuck shit up)

Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 6h

Palestine Action Group has lost the legal challenge over this Sunday’s march. This does not mean the march is prohibited — it means that it will not have immunity for eg. obstructing traffic.

They should march to the Opera House anyway. Minns made it a symbol, so we should too.

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 6h

Palestine Action Group has lost the legal challenge over this Sunday’s march. This does not mean the march is prohibited — it means that it will not have immunity for eg. obstructing traffic.

They should march to the Opera House anyway. Minns made it a symbol, so we should too.

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Mairead⁷ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 5h

now would be a great time for a chgo winter to freeze them out

WBEZ @wbez.org · 6h

Texas National Guard troops have been deployed to the Broadview ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs, a military source told the Chicago Sun-Times. Details were scant on how many troops would be arriving, but a publicly available mission summary indicated it could be as many as 200 soldiers.

Texas National Guard expected to be deployed in Chicago area tonight

The troops will be deployed Wednesday evening to the Broadview ICE facility in west suburban Chicago, a military source told the Chicago Sun-Times.

trib.al

Mairead⁷ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 5h

well that's terrible.

Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 6h

One thing I forgot to mention, that I think a lot of people outside Germany don't know, even German Antifa are Zionist and have defended Israel all throughout this genocide. When I say Germany was never de-nazified, I mean it in a very deep, calcified way.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxK...

A Clockwork Orange and the Myth of German De-Nazification

YouTube video by Politically Depressed

www.youtube.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 5h

Let us recall what Palestinians have been demanding:

Ceasefire AND,
End the siege.
End the occupation.
A free Palestine.

We do not stop until Palestine is free.
We do not stop until everyone is free.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 5h

May Palestinians have a moment to breathe, gather, mourn, rest, and live.

A reminder for the rest of us. Korea has been under ceasefire for 70 years, technically still at war, and still occupied by the U.S. Empire.
We are not yet free. I wish more for Korea.

I wish more for Palestine, too.

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