Lutnick got his way and fucked up the deal, looks like Guessing Carney probably took one look at it and said "Quebec will be gone by Christmas if I sign this heap of shit"
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 6h agoMark Carney suspends trade talks with U.S., says Canada will match new tariffs ‘dollar for dollar’
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Just one of the many reasons we continue to campaign for enforced and substantial school streets for every London school... #streetsforkids #londonparents #20splenty
Child pedestrian casualties are almost five times higher in England’s worst-off areas
Official figures expose widening gap in road deaths and injuries between poor and wealthy postcodes
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University of Minnesota students are testing soil for what enduring harms tear gas caused. Good, vital work. www.startribune.com/operation-me...
What did a winter of tear gas leave in Minneapolis soil? U of M researchers are trying to find out.
The study aims to determine whether chemical munitions used by federal agents left contaminants in neighborhood gardens and soil.
startribune.com
Imagine being so desperate to be right you’ll happily run roughshod over trans artists. Full clown ass behavior from this labeller.
Emoria - Aftertaste OUT NOW@emoria.bsky.social · 4h agoHi, recently, someone put labels on my account of sharing AI art. They used the labeler @aimod(dot)social I spent hours in DMs trying to show my evidence that @imnobunnywhoareyou.bsky.social is a friend who draws by hand. At the end of this, they said "she's scamming you for money" 🧵
Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.
The tabloid boasted in a now-deleted article that they found White and promised to reveal her ‘secret new life’
Daily Mail accused of stalking woman mistaken as White Stripes drummer Meg White
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People will share some absurdly terrible take and be like "I'm never leaving this site." I'm never leaving bc I love great takes that are also well crafted jokes.
Gabe Moshenska@gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 23h agoRace scientists are like asbestos: unwisely built into the fabric of universities many years ago, will absolutely kill people, and require careful but total removal. Also, mostly harmless if embedded in concrete.
Sounds like a skill issue, Amy, you should work to better yourself
TofuNYG 🏈🏳️🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊@groguspeak.bsky.social · 19h agoNah, keep mocking the shit out of her
New York Guardsmen worked almost a million hours in prisons share.google/hVhxLvsJdRfC...
New York Guardsmen worked almost a million hours as prison guards
Over 8,000 New York National Guardsmen were mobilized to state prisons in 2025 after workers went on strike. Nearly 2,600 are still there.
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The Justice Department's war against trans healthcare providers continues with QueerDoc, who are fighting a subpoena that demands all of their data relating to their trans patients. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you the story here in this week's TWIBS!
TWIBS: QueerDoc Case Sent Back to District Court - Assigned Media
A Justice Department probe case quashed in October has been revived by a judge who says the government can try to eradicate transgender healthcare if it wants.
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i think the true crime media industry has irreparably rotted the brains of a specific demographic of women between the ages of 25 and 45. and now we're all witnessing the culmination of a mass delusion event marketed as entertainment.
talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 21h agoA support movement surrounding Lindsay Clancy has emerged as her trial for the murder of her three children continues. Social media content referring to the trial centers postpartum depression and the psychological strain of being a “single married mother.”
the iron law that once you post transphobia you never post normally again seems to apply to pro AI posting as well
many of you were wondering why the hot part of the cigarette is on his head. well,
The expansion of police adjacent companies, like Flock, is a system of laundering money to elected officials. It's corrupt. It's racist. It's Right Wing. youtube.com/shorts/GQoQk...
Flock values their privacy. Oh well.
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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They’re just really concerned with free speech on campus and academic freedom bsky.app/profile/polp...
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 23h ago'mere' authoritarians seek to capture the state & a few key sectors for fascists, every institution must brought low & made complicit in the new social order
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I remember when psych orgs and medical orgs would issue statements like this supporting trans healthcare. Unfortunately, the statements didn't stop the media onslaught, and they're quickly overwhelmed by the ongoing propaganda.
Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar)@autisticrealms.bsky.social · yesterdayRCPsych statement on Channel 4 ADHD documentary "The focus should be on improving access to high-quality assessments and care by addressing waiting lists that leave many people without vital support for years at a time, not questioning the legitimacy" www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...
Harvard had a $57 billion endowment. A lot of it is earmarked, but it’s still hard to believe they lack the resources to wait out two more years of a vindictive dotard.
Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 21h agoHow Harvard’s Epic Fight With Trump Is Costing the University The federal government has slowed Harvard’s funding, despite the university’s legal victories. The conflict is forcing hard choices on campus. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
If you have questions or fears about this, we have the perfect opportunity for you: A scholar who is publishing a book on the Census and how it all works and shapes politics has agreed to an AMA with Bolts readers on the Census. Share any question here! boltsmag.org/how-the-cens...
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 3d agoTrump is already planning for the 20*30* Census. This time, not only does he want to stop counting noncitizens, he wants to stop counting race and ethnicity. Can't have an unconstituional racial gerrymander if you pretend not to know where Black people live. My latest in @thenation.com
Freshly struck by the way this is all fundamentally a colonialist mindset, and the way colonialist thinking still informs our politics, three hundred years later.
Bruce Wilson@brucewilson.bsky.social · 20h agoThey rape wilderness, they rape children, they rape the poor. They rape society, they rape culture. They rape the public good. They rape our collective morality.
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He never should have been hired to begin with and the fact that he could is because the guy who did so has lifetime tenure and very little oversight because of that I need folks to realise that students, staff and even some residents here have been protesting this guy getting hired since FEBRUARY
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d agolol
I would simply ask my agentic girlfriend that loves me very much and thinks I'm the brightest boy in school to filter my bluesky experience in a way that makes it useful.
Return of the Cmonmacques@cmonmaque.bsky.social · yesterdayI love these types of guys so much. Keep talking, you’re not embarrassing yourselves at all with this spectacle
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... One of the most beautiful and ancient places in the United States is about to ruined by drilling.
Trump plan to allow drilling near US world heritage site sparks alarm
Administration’s plan to scrap drilling-free buffer zone around New Mexico site prompts scrutiny from Unesco
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btw the reason there is not a universally understood definition for "artificial intelligence" is because there is no universally understood definition for "intelligence". everything that uses "intelligence" is built on a fucking house of cards
More to the point, Anthropic and OpenAI and all the rest could wink out of existence tomorrow with no particular damage to any ML-based scientific research program, except perhaps that the end of the hype cycle would end an artificial incentive to put the word "AI" in grant applications
