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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 4d

but now I know those people, i would notice if they werent at class and vice versa. go from there.

taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 4d

thats what the gathering is for. if you regularly spend time among people you see how they treat others & you over time rather than JUST when stakes are high.
don't think only movement stuff either. no one is trying to sell me out at my weekly dance class. there's nothing to gain there but fun.

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 6d

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 7d

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’

The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

www.theguardian.com

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 7d

don't vote for Andrew Cuomo, Mayor of Slop

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI.

Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo driving a train.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo working on the outside of a building.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 8d

the two things keeping my brain okay right now (volunteering at repair cafes, going to dance class) do not at all involve computer. i am going to learn nothing from this.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11d

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 14d

my gender? miss piggy

Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 14d

i feel in most relationships one partner is miss piggy and one partner is kermit. it's important to understand which one you are

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 16d

i appreciated the show mad men with its realism of how most people just saw major events on tv and kept on going to work and worrying mostly about themselves

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 19d

proud subscriber of @hellgatenyc.com and @hearingthingsco.bsky.social because worker owned media rules

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 19d

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19d

The brain tricks us constantly. It mistakes scrolling and "seeking information" for DOING THINGS. That is not doing. You have to act.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21d

I wrote this essay right after inauguration day and it’s even more true today. dansinker.com/posts/202…

We have to become the media that has collapsed. Pick up the pieces and build anew. Build robust. Build independent.&10;&10;Of course none of this is easy. These are not easy times. But it's necessary to make it through them. And while it may not be easy, it won't be lonely, because there are a lot of us out here looking to build anew. We'll do it, and we'll do it together.

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 21d

small in the scheme of things, but a well functioning government could stop u from getting 12 to 25 scam texts about fake jobs per day

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21d

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 21d

Rather than seeing this as a political project, I would suggest it's better to see this as a reflection of an economy increasingly centered around the extremely niche emotional needs of people with billions of dollars to spare...

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21d

lol new clown car just rolled up

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 22d

hey! looks like I'm finally gonna get the fuck off tiktok.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22d

* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ

$ORCL

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 22d

i’d feel even safer with a trex there rly

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 22d

grown men afraid to take the subway meanwhile on the subway it’s just a dude trying to wrestle his plastic model skeleton and his electric keyboard back into his ikea bag

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 23d

from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."

The trans-shooter myth, reports the Trace, a newsroom focused on gun violence, largely began circulating in 2023 around the aforementioned Nashville shooting, “as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest.” As I’ve explained previously, trans people are over four times more likely than cis people to be victims of violent assault. Conversely, over the past decade, according to the Gun Violence Project, less than a tenth of one percent of shootings were committed by someone who identified as trans or nonbinary. Nonetheless, last week the Justice Department was reportedly considering how to ban trans people from buying guns.

Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all or, like in the past week, spending more time mourning the death of a guy who gleefully mocked Nancy Pelosi’s husband being attacked with a hammer than urging caution to protect a population that voted for Kamala Harris second only to Black women. It would almost be surprising, considering those numbers, how quickly 2028 hopeful Gavin Newsom praised Kirk, if Kirk hadn’t been Newsom’s first podcast guest.

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 26d

In this moment of emergency, a lot of people are realizing that they can just… do things. Without people giving them directions or instructions, people are just showing up to escort their neighbors to school, to cook them meals, to share resources & support.

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 27d

my review to my loved ones was: madison mentioned 😎

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miriam nielsen @zentouro.info · 28d

some personal news

Screenshot of an email reading:
Dear Dr. Nielsen,
Congratulations on

a photo taken after i successfully defended my dissertation. i'm in the center wearing university regalia, my advisors ben cook and kate marvel are standing on either side of me. we're posed, smiling, front of a map of the world.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29d

Dear NYC:

1. The last day to register to vote is October 25, 2025.

2. There will be two mayoral debates, on Thursday, October 16 and Wednesday, October 22.

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 29d

started reading casey last year> lifting > carried a bookshelf home by myself that i found on the nyc sidewalk and a passing construction guy said "girl you look STRONG"

read this book and that could be u

Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 29d

my publisher reliably tells me that there is no such thing as selling enough books, and i have to keep going forever til i die. to that end, you should check out the book I wrote, A Physical Education, which inspired Cheryl Strayed to start powerlifting and costs only $5.42 if you ask ChatGPT

A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

bookshop.org

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Roberto Baldwin @strngwys.bsky.social · Sep 5

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

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