listen i won’t shed a single tear for kim or any of the women who work for trump, but it remains interesting that only the women in his orbit suffer consequences for being pieces of shit

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d ago

AP: "A senior U.S. official said Sunday that Trump and Rubio are 'extremely pissed off' by Guilfoyle’s reported conduct and would likely decide on what action to take this week after Monday’s Columbus Day holiday."

why the fuck was a DHS agency doing the search

No, you blow-dried turnip, the abortion pill does NOT have the same chemicals that they used in the extermination camps.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d ago

WH Press Sec Katie Zacharia: The abortion pill has the same chemicals that they used in the extermination camps in Nazi Germany

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 4d ago

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 2d ago

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...

Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon

A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.

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Donald Trump's dangerous rhetoric makes all of us less safe. Minnesotans rejected it this winter, and we will do it again. Somali Minnesotans are our neighbors - and in Minnesota, we look out for each other.

Today we built a tiny radio station in the forest. These are the networks I favor.

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 4w ago

A program with the great Greta Byrum at the METRO NY Library Council's Library Field on Friday October 9! Join an in-person workshop on FM transmission as a model of collective sense-making, navigation, and relational learning.

JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

In terms of lingering horror, definitely this one.

Robin James@robinjames.bsky.social · last wk.

The Day After en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day...

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · last wk.

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

gadgetreview.com

We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last wk.

Endless corruption.

It's not only Data Centers: Farmabedrijf Eli Lilly wil in Katwijk diabetes- en afslankpillen produceren. Vergunningen om afvalwater te lozen ontbreken nog. Omdat er geen ruimte op het stroomnet is, gebruikt het bedrijf voorlopig gasturbines om eigen elektriciteit op te wekken. nos.nl/l/2633354

Katwijk stemt in met komst miljardenfabriek Amerikaanse farmaceut Eli Lilly

Eli Lilly, een van de grootste farmaceuten ter wereld, wil vlak bij het Valkenburgse Meer in Katwijk diabetes- en afslankpillen gaan produceren.

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When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w ago

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

Being in a fraternity was a vital part of my undergraduate experience, and I feel confident my chapter was a net force for good on our campus. But such exceptions aren’t worth it.

John Pavlovitz@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2w ago

We don't talk enough about how Russell Vought was given an entire chapter in Project 2025 to explain how he would do his part to wrest the entire Executive Branch into the President's iron grip as quickly as possible before anyone noticed static.heritage.org/project2025/...

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w ago

Class solidarity.

Feminist Media Studies is seeking to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief. The successful candidate will have a record of intellectual leadership to support fast growing, global, original, relevant, high impact feminist media scholarship. editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

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It really is all that.

Kristin Hersh@kristinhersh.bsky.social · 3w ago

Breast cancer patients shouldn’t be denied hope of a new lifesaving treatment because Russ Vought thinks women’s health research is woke. I will fight this plan tooth and nail.

White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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It's not even hypocrisy on their terms, they're being totally consistent within their own worldview. For right-wingers it's trivially obvious one would privilege the in-group while harming and depriving the outgroup, that's the thing they believe in.

Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 3w ago

Please learn that "you don't apply the same rules to yourself as you do to others" isn't "exposing" conservatives, and definitely not an effective means of shaming them. They are very intentional and deliberate about this! It's an exercise of power, of deeming themselves exceptional and superior.

That bot stirring up trouble abt a certain Klan epic and “political correctness”? Do not take the bait. Unarmed people are being shot in the street. Kids are in cages. Billions in US tax $ are funding a genocide. Basic human rights are eroding for LGBTQ folks. We may not have another fair election.

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

Kundera cites the proverb that Russia likes to call everything Russian Slavic so they can later call everything Slavic Russian. Here, AI firms want to be part of the nation so that later the nation will be part of the AI firms.

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4w ago

The plot thickens. First they stole everything, then they wanted to be loved. Now it is time to fear them, and partly nationalize them. It is so obvious: they desperately need money, land, water, and energy to further exist.

For our new readers: A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator Norwegian Consumer Council #Digital #products and #services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into #enshittification & how to resist it.

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Het Nationaal Archief is ons collectieve geheugen dat breed gevoed en geduid moet worden www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Wat vindt NRC | Het Nationaal Archief is ons collectieve geheugen dat breed gevoed en geduid moet worden

Archiefwet

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And (wearying as it is to keep saying this day after day, issue after issue, but it's the only constitutional language we have for it) it is an impeachable offense to attempt such a circumvention of Congress. I think it would be fair to impeache just for trial-ballooning it. 6/6