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Understanding Egg Labels

Today, you can choose between brown and white, free-range and cage-free, organic and non-organic eggs.

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Don’t worry guys, Compact Magazine assures me it’s only unpublishable due to woke www.compactmag.com/article/ross...

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold.bsky.social · 3h ago

horror story in five words challenge: “Ross Douthat YA fantasy novel”

I should have said fought and are still fighting here: the way our benefits system works *still* prevents many people from getting married

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5h ago

1. It devalues something a lot of people fought very hard to be able to access; 2. There can be very real consequences for children born to unwed parents. Those consequences can be avoided, but most people don’t even know they’re a possibility, so don’t take the necessary steps.

Related to this…if you or someone you love has a podcast with listeners who might be sympathetic to my plight…

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 7h ago

So, I’m sorry, I know you’re all sick of it, but I’m gonna be reposting this thing a lot, because right now this is the only platform I have, and there’s nothing else I can do.

California just adopted a law to guarantee that... kids who are detained in the state are guaranteed the right to hug family members who visit them. On the one hand, at least they have that right now. On the other hand, wtf? boltsmag.org/california-p...

This New Law Will Make It Easier for Californians to Visit Family in Prison - Bolts

Families of incarcerated people have long faced arbitrary denial of visits and harassment by prison staff. They advocated for reforms that passed last week.

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Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.

Now’s probably a good time to say that a couple years back I turned down a five-figure offer from HarperCollins because they refused to put in a clause prohibiting AI from touching any of my books at any point in the process. I was lucky to be able to walk away, and it was the right thing to do.

WIRED@wired.com · 7h ago

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

Does the man who wants a panopticon fascist future HAVE to look just like the Johnny Cab robot from the movie about a panopticon fascist future?

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h ago

My man looks like Neo waking up in the goo pod

this target list says the DCCC is convinced the majority is theirs and they're looking to utterly break the GOP's spirit

Yeah, this is a pretty aggressive list. The incumbents in that first list of top races won last time by 20, 19, 17, 25, 17 and 17 points. (The SC district is Nancy Mace's and the NY one is Elise Stefanik.) If these are the front lines, the GOP is basically dug in outside Berlin

Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 3h ago

this target list says the DCCC is convinced the majority is theirs and they're looking to utterly break the GOP's spirit

Link to the job: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Well, this should be an interesting job:

I'd like to encourage every single historian of Nazi Germany to submit an application to this job.

Nahal Toosi@nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 2h ago

Well, this should be an interesting job:

“Why is he effective” bc he is saying out loud what we all can see with our eyes!

Ossoff is hitting hard bc we are all furious and he knows it. The corporate press can elevate those loud, minority of voices praising what’s going on as much as they want, but most of us are angry and tired of being forced into living in pain.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2h ago

He’s mad our country is run by crooks and murderers and so am I. I’m no longer interested in negotiating with these people and neither is he.

horror story in five words challenge: “Ross Douthat YA fantasy novel”

FCC chief defers to Pentagon on airing US execution on TV networks reut.rs/4hBGNTr

FCC chief defers to Pentagon on airing US execution on TV networks

The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said on Friday that he would defer to the ​Pentagon on whether US networks could air a planned December 3 ‌military execution, which would be an unprecedented broadcast.

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it’s real and Douthat really went with “Emperor of all Narsil” bc like every rightwing asshole he robs Tolkien’s names at will and thinks you’re fucking stupid

I think, if I’m being honest with myself, this is the main reason I refuse to touch these things. More so than being environmentally dilligent, even more so than wanting to avoid being a thief. I am very good at my job. I enjoy being very good at my job. I do not want to become less good at my job

It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 4h ago

It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

We're living in the world they've always promised: A Christian-tinged hellscape where the divide between the rich and poor is monumental. And they never thought there might be some consequence to starving people and taking away their medicine.

These people think they are coy and do racist things, but say, "I haven't said anything racist, so how can I be the racist? It's actually you who is the racist," and there is a hunger for people to just call it what it is right to their faces. It's why Collins and Rogers look so weak.

When the political opposition basically says every day, "Sure, we're corrupt, but what are you going to do about it?" paying consultants in the mold of Jim Carville to "find a bridge to bipartisanship" belies the fact that most people can see the corruption with their eyes, and they fucking hate it

The point isn’t abandoning material concerns; it’s refusing the false choice. Voters can care about grocery bills and whether a government treats people as disposable—and leaders sound stronger when they say so plainly.

After seeing so many elites—in business, media, politics, more—eagerly jump on board with Trumpism fascism, or weakly acquiesce to it, the public is craving leaders who act like this awfulness is serious and bad. Yes, the public. The real public. A majority of the people, not only right-wing volk.

Instead of shying away from the values of democracy, pluralism, and rights—as many consultants and pundits urge—Ossoff asserts those values. Look at what he’s gotten so much praise for: calling a white nationalist a “white nationalist” and treating that as bad. As a reason to vote against someone.

No “I’ll hurt immigrants too” or “I’ll repress trans people too” with a “that’s just what voters believe” rationalization. No treating “working class” and “white working class” as interchangeable synonyms. No effort to court tech oligarchs. No “Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way.”

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 13h ago

Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was a public extrajudicial execution. Keep that in mind when you say we haven't had a public execution since 1936. We have, actually. Many times. They're called police murders.