My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

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As always, I'll chime in and say that 90,000 deaths from AIDS was a vast undercount, which everyone who worked in direct care and could do math (like me) knew.

Paul Marvin@paulmarvin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Use ALT text. It's relatively easy to do, you can set Bluesky to not allow you to post pics without it, and you can easily search up best practices for it. The added bonus is that you're more likely to get more engagement as well.

A shooting by ICE in the Bronx left 28-yr-old Oscar Bergal wounded and his 5-year-old son “traumatized” this week. NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams: “If this was happening in another country right now, we’d probably be trying to figure out how to intervene." www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZZ5...

'THE DEVIL’S WORK': Another ICE agent opens fire

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This is true - and it’s also one of those cases where donations of money are more effective than direct donations of food. The food banks can get better deals in bulk with that cash.

John Leavitt@leavittalone.bsky.social · 10h ago

If you can donate to your local food bank now is the time

The left isn’t weak because of infighting. The left is weak because every facet of our society and economy is geared to the benefit of fascism and white supremacy and it is the challenge of multiple lifetimes to dismantle all of that.

Barn Owls! in Manhattan! 🦉🌃 This week, a family of Barn Owls was discovered on a water tower in NYC. Two adults and five young ones have been observed/confirmed so far! 10.9.2026, NYC Photos taken at night, using long exposure and ambient light - it is actually VERY dark up there! #birds

It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>

2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >>

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👇 this is the most batshit aspect of this Anthropic policy: you are free to use AI to abuse or act cruel towards marginalized groups (aka, humans) all you want, but you're not allowed to be mean toward poor little ol' Claude (a machine). tells you how distorted their worldview is

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2d ago

This is NOT about using Claude to be cruel to people, write racist shit, or anything like that. It's about being mean to the model itself. www.anthropic.com/news/2026-us...

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Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d ago

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

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NEW: When Christa Pike became the first person to survive multiple lethal injections, witnesses at the prison that day suddenly became a part of history. I spoke with @iamstevenhale.bsky.social of Nashville Banner about the things he saw in the execution chamber—and the things he could only hear:

What it's like to witness a botched execution

Q+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections.

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Reminder: If you or a loved one uses a powered wheelchair, your emergency planning must include making sure the batteries are charged during a state of emergency

we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

Hey so I just found out that I don't qualify for Disability nor SSI for unique reasons but im still incredibly sick & multiple specialist appts per week. Im stuck between a rock & a hard place. My kofi shop has both my art book and my first chapter of my comic now. ko-fi.com/portaltohade...

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Hi guys, new qrp as the situation is changing & the last one had become outdated. Im gonna need..more surgery! & a LOT of tests. My biggest issue is covering transpo to doctor appts. Kofi is fine but so is throne gift cards, I even have an art book! ko-fi.com/portaltohades throne.com/portaltohades

Things are slowly heating up. While they are still simmering, it's a good time to review skills for street protests. Unfortunately, everyone should read "A Demonstrator’s Guide to Responding to Gunshot Wounds" in order to be prepared for a worst-case scenario. Hopefully, you'll never need it. 🤞

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Responding to Gunshot Wounds

Even if you have no medical training, there are things you can do to maximize the likelihood that a person who is shot in your vicinity will survive.

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Your reminder that ICE should be presumed lying when it claims someone "weaponized their vehicle" against them. It's never true. It never happens. It's always a lie.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2d ago

“Although [Mr. Belgal] was initially hospitalized, it appears that ICE moved quickly to transfer him out of the hospital to an unknown location—raising grave concerns for his health and well-being.” from @maketheroadny.bsky.social’s habeas petition filed today

last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.

Okay so. Here’s what’s happened since my original post, and why I’m suddenly boosting this left and right again. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · last yr.

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I forget who posted it but the idea that Americans live inside a “casino run by murderers” has not left my brain since I saw it

Amal asked if I could make a special request for her husband Naser. "He always refused to ask for help and kept trying to be strong because he wanted us to raise enough money for our baby. But his condition is difficult, and his medication has been finished for a month now." gofund.me/32bda5e44

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Anna Horroridge@anna-orridge.bsky.social · 2w ago

Amal wrote to me recently: "It has been 13 days since I entered my 9th month, and I'm getting closer and closer to giving birth. I'm honestly feeling very scared and overwhelmed because I still don't have the basic things ready for my baby." $13 donated in 3 days. Can we help? 🙏 gofund.me/32bda5e44

This. This is why I am *happy* to pay for other people's healthcare, maternity leave even though I will never have a child, education for the kids that again I won't have - we live in a society. We live and die by each other. At least that's how it's supposed to work.

Liana Brooks@lianabrooks.bsky.social · 3d ago

Society only survives if we care for everyone. Even the weak. Even the poor. Even those who can't contribute to our growth. When we stop taking care of those people, everything falls apart. Ignoring the poor destroys cultures faster than any other plague.

As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, almost ineffective charm that will help you spot an intriguing-looking autumn leaf.

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

An important PSA from Batman

Second, Theresa, who has a hysterectomy and biopsy scheduled this month, and whose husband just had a TIA. They're raising their trans grandson. Again, we've given all we can, but she's only 50% to goal: www.supportnow.org/theresa-noedel

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Hello family and friends!We are reaching out today to share about Theresa Noedel's need for support. Theresa is facing a challenge with medical expenses as she prepares for an important surgery, a hys...

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