If you are planning to vote in the Midterms, do vote early if available in your state. Don't wait for 11/3.

Vote like it may be your last chance to vote.

I was told I have a deadline of September 28 to change a thing on my student loans since the SAVE act was gutted by SCOTUS. I went to log in today (Sept 27), the whole site is undergoing "routine maintenance" and is completely offline today. Fucking great system we have here, y'all.

No, they didn't "go rogue." They were given instructions that led them to do this. Or they were inadequately confined to particular areas. We need some serious safety experts looking at these incidents, not the AI believers.

Brandi Buchman@brandibuchman.bsky.social · 7d ago

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...

Another very bad poll for Trump just dropped

Mike MacFerrin@icesheetmike.myatproto.social · last wk.

The one dude in our neighborhood who’s flown both a “Trump” and “MAGA” flag above his garage for almost a decade has taken both down.

The one dude in our neighborhood who’s flown both a “Trump” and “MAGA” flag above his garage for almost a decade has taken both down.

At least where I got my PhD, if I wasn't sure what I found, how it worked, if it was useful or significant, nobody pretended I accomplished anything.

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)@katjathieme.bsky.social · last wk.

Who are the scientists, what are their names, and what have they published on this topic. 🤦🏻‍♀️

WHEW this 🧵 is a wild ride. It’ll take a lot of mental bleach 😣 to remove where it went in the second half. You’ve been warned.

Caroleeena@caroleeena.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”

Maybe I’m off-base here (you’ll let me know if I am): tho this is clearly a 1000th sign of fascism, the “access journalism” at press briefings never seemed very important to me anyway. Hire more investigative journalists, who dig up leaks and report what the gov’t *isn’t* saying into a microphone.

CNN@cnn.com · 2w ago

MS NOW denied access to White House after Trump said he's banning the network, CNN and Politico. https://cnn.it/3T8R687

"[Private] schools often reject children with disabilities ... That leaves those children with few options beyond the public schools. And as public schools lose enrollment as a result of more and more voucher use, they lose resources that would benefit children who remain[.]"

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w ago

NEW: To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest time finding schools that will accept them.

This is AMAZING!

HydrologyNL@hydrology.nl · 2w ago

In other, and more important, news: children learn how to make rain by cooperation.

A significant part of that *as a user* is having a moderation team that is sensitive to racism and misogynoir online So people feel safe

Mike MacFerrin@icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 3w ago

The biggest thing, to me, is that @rude1.blacksky.team is building what I believe is what social media should’ve always been from the start. BlueSky gets credit for getting AT Protocol off the ground, but BlackSky is really delivering the vision, IMO. I believe in what they’re doing.

I googled "how to migrate to the BlackSky servers," and had my whole account ported over in <5 mins (in my case, to the myatproto.social domain). WOW they made that easy. Highly recommend. 👍 docs.blacksky.community/info-about-b...

Migrate to Blacksky | Blacksky Documentation

Complete guide to migrating your Bluesky account to Blacksky's infrastructure. Covers migration tools, step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting, and how to use Blacksky services without migrating.

docs.blacksky.community

We are looking for a PhD student to join our FirnMelt team on the topic of "Radar glaciology and firn hydrology of the Greenland Ice Sheet". This position is based in Copenhagen (GEUS/DTU) and the call closes 14 October 2026. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

PhD position in radar glaciology and Greenland Ice Sheet firn hydrology

Would you like to investigate how Greenland's firn has changed over the past 25 years using airborne radar? About the position This PhD project will use airborn

candidate.hr-manager.net

William Colgan@glacierbytes.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our @firnmelt.bsky.social team is looking for a PhD Student to use airborne radar to assess changes in the near-surface firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The position is based in Copenhagen, at GEUS (@anja-ruti.bsky.social) and affiliated with DTU (@louisesandbergs.bsky.social).

It’s extremely refreshing to still see local reporters doing actual investigative journalism in this day & age, when too many mainstream outlets just capitulate and normalize the <waves arms everywhere> blatant fascism.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 3w ago

Marx, his family, and his campaign promoted a merch shop where Marx said donors could funnel unlimited funds to support their effort. Meetings with Marx sold for $1300. When we uncovered a filing indicating Marx owned the LLC, the merch site vanished. www.9news.com/article/news...

There’s a kind of fetishizing of disabled people who don’t rock the boat. It’s an offshoot of inspiration porn—the way nondisabled (or laterally ableist) people hold up disabled people who have done great things “in spite of” a disability—or somehow have something to “teach” nondisabled people.

hey academic pals, tenure packet request: if you've assigned any of my work in your classes, can you let me know and maybe boop me a syllabus if you have it handy?

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

WIRED@wired.com · 3w ago

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...

see, it’s not that hard

Ed Markey@edmarkey.bsky.social · 3w ago

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

~~~ A gentle reminder that The Guardian formed a “commercial media partnership” with OpenAI last year. Ponder “why is this an ad rather than a warning” ~~~

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

OpenAI not on track to reduce risk of ‘catastrophic’ loss of control, says board member

There’s an indignity to owing an outstanding balance to a company with more money than god that makes up extravagent prices from thin air, just because my insurance company bumped my annual deductible to a thousand bucks. It’s a joke. A charade. Gawd I can’t wait to get single-payer healthcare.

Very on-brand the techbros are all ~HEY we made the most innovative school using a patented blend of and AI and Innovation™!~ …but all they created in the end was a child-abusing robot babysitter that vacuums tax dollars.

BURN. IT. DOWN. 🔥

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 3w ago

As part of boot camp, Alpha School students apparently have their heart rates monitored as they watch recorded videos of their parents critiquing them. This activity takes place in front of their classmates, and students must keep their heart rates within 10 percent of their baseline to pass.

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

#Colorado #Vote Today is a great day to check on the status of your Voter Registration! Pop open the Secretary of State site at the family picnic and help your relatives to check theirs! www.sos.state.co.us/voter/pages/...

I enjoy that the median BlueSky response to the ‘38 Most Influential BlueSky Posters’ poll was some version of “OMG this is incredibly silly to the point of nonsense but also please vote for me.”

truthout.org/articles/vot...

Voting Rights Groups Are Preparing to Confront ICE at the Polls

Trusted figures such as firefighters and clergy will protect Black, Latino, and Asian precincts that could be targets.

truthout.org

Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!

COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season

This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...

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Just found out that a documented abuser in the academy who *almost* faced consequences several years ago—only for colleagues to rescue them so they could be awarded our field’s highest honors—has since been recently fired at *another* university for blatant & rampant abuse. We f’n told y’all.