The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.

Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · yesterday

184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...

Last year, every* gender studies scholar in the US was spammed with a hardcover copy of an "academic" book by some TERF from a big publisher. (I opened it to a random page and gave up after 3 factual inaccuracies, I didn't get to the next page.) I wonder why I am reminded of that all of a sudden!

Anthony Strand@durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d ago

Scholastic sent me a whole box of paperback copies of Sorcerer’s Stone that I sure didn't order. When I asked why, my rep told me they're sending complimentary giveaway copies to random schools that do Book Fair.

You probably think this is a touch of hyperbole. If you do, that just tells me not only are you not paying attention, you are actively ignoring all the trans people this has happened to. This is life in the UK as a trans person in 2026.

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2d ago

Now it's gone way beyond that - if I use a female toilet in the workplace I risk being drawn into a public facing employment tribunal, where I'll be hounded by the press have people on the BBC payroll call me a rapist, and have a billionaire lawsuit funded against me that I will lose

People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

Repression in France’s overseas territories gets little attention. But protests are also happening and kids are detained. In Guadeloupe, 21 schools were blocked on the 6th of October. In Le Moule, gendarmes were choking, kicking and pinning a teenager to the ground during his arrest.

Mr. Propagande@mrpropagande.bsky.social · 3d ago

Au moule, en Guadeloupe, un adolescent a été violemment interpellé par un groupe de gendarmes. Étranglement, coup de pieds, placage au sol, tout ça sur un ado qui doit peser 50 kg. Ce mardi 6 octobre, la mobilisation s'est intensifiée sur l'archipel avec 21 établissements bloqués

THE BURNINATOR

Oh so a fundamental section of a necessary discovery was recognized by the woman interacting most with it .. not the credentialed “scientists” And it’s being shown that the person with privilege kept lying This isn’t common at all

Wendy Peter Pan: Internally Screaming

ALT: Wendy Peter Pan: Internally Screaming

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Science Magazine@science.org · 5d ago

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

There is never a "one size fits all" in life. The more viable* options available to all, the more likely you are to benefit everyone. *viable: public and accessible public transit that works in practice, rather that be a check mark on a list, for example.

'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con!@nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 4d ago

Last re-skeet: there is no one solution for accessibility, and we really, really need to do better at accepting that as an immutable fact across all areas of disability. What provides access for one person can even close the door for another. Having *multiple* choices/options is the way ahead.

🧵 "Too many of these "solutions" gloss over cognitive and/or physical issues that make them unusable." 🧵

Stacia Seamonster 🦑@stacia.bsky.social · 4d ago

Not. All. Disabled. People. R's myoclonus prevents her from self-propelling a wheelchair but also from using hand controls. Add her cognitive impairment and you have a person for whom these solutions aren't solutions. A car lets her get from place to place without exhausting herself in the process.

So we don't get to be "the fun ones," and we don't get asked back, because when our official duties ended, we didn't go to the bar to join the after-hours social party. It's not required, not mandatory, but the social impact is very real.

I have been a guest at conventions where, during the pre-con walk through, my handler has pointed out the bar and mentioned how some guests are "more fun" and "get asked back," then names only men. Because a lot of female guests aren't comfortable hanging out around alcohol with strangers.

maura quint@mauraquint.bsky.social · last wk.

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

Trades. crafts, apprenticeships all gaining in respect as alternatives to absurdly expensive college ... unless the trade in question is perceived as women's work. Cosmetology doesn't pay as a craft/trade because it is licensed & regulated in a way that ensures it doesn't.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 5d ago

*stokes anger* *pooh-poohs anger^

THIS MOTHERFUCKER www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgaC...

Square One TV: Mathman - Multiples of 6

YouTube video by tiradorfranco2

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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 6d ago

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

Buried in this story that everyone’s leaving out of the conversation is that he blames Jews for creating the FDA to ban “holistic” health treatments and make everyone sick to profit off of them. It always, always, always comes back to antisemitism. It’s the core that rots everything from center out

MisterJayEm@misterjayem.bsky.social · 6d ago

"holistic influencer"

this is why we don’t do “poor Melania” or write fanfic narratives where the wives of these men are victims. they wake up every day of their marriage and choose this

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 6d ago

He cheated on her and he protects pedophiles but she’s going to vote for him anyway because oppressing the rest of us matters more.

If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.

In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - Bolts

As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.

boltsmag.org

“The share of workers who’ve been out of a job for 27 weeks or longer now stands at 27%, the highest since 2015 outside of the Covid-19 pandemic. The median spell of unemployment lasts about 11 weeks, and the average is more than six months, suggesting rising levels of long periods of joblessness.”

It’s rarely been harder for people to find new jobs

The unemployment rate is low by historical standards, but the job market is anything but dynamic.

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Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...

‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect

Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.

prospect.org

RFK Jr just coming straight out and admitting that the purpose of genAI is to allow fascists to pretend that inconvenient truths aren't true. Sounds to me like a good reason to ban it at once!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919. A shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to crack down. Let's talk about the Elaine Massacre!

This young woman, just 21, has already been driven out of the state. Another guy in this story has young kids who only know him as Dad and can no longer take his son to the men’s room. Sensitive reporting (as always) by @caseyparks.bsky.social

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.

In February, the Kansas state legislature passed a law that required all driver’s licenses to reflect sex at birth. Roughly 1,700 intersex and transgender Kansans received a letter saying to get new licenses, including Dakota West. Now, she’s suing. https://wapo.st/3VaB9yX

I do not care what Leo says into a mic until it's "all the total trans healthcare bans in the Catholic Church's massive hospital networks are immediately repealed."

Trans News Network@transnews.network · last mo.

Underneath the "progressive" papacy of Pope Leo remains a deeply reactionary institution, one of the biggest enemies of trans rights worldwide. @sjklapecki.itch.io, who survived the Catholic Church's bigotry firsthand, goes in-depth on why it's time to see through the propaganda and face reality.

France is known among Jews for 1. Foundational scholar Rashi 2. The Dreyfus Affair, thought to have been the impetus for Herzl to develop Political Zionism 3. Shipping their Jews off to Auschwitz a couple decades after that

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭@ajaanmark.bsky.social · 2w ago

I really find this formulation continually jarring. Does Macron understand many Jews were enclosed in ghettoes, had professions closed to them and no civil rights in a lot of continental Europe into the 19th century? That's just the legal stuff too. share.google/Bk0GXn4JIM4K...

Zack Fox is one of the funniest niggas to ever grace this Earth 😭😭

the fun part of the articles saying the cyclospora lettuce outbreak was “over” was that they knew no one was going to read the body of the article to see that just that *one* outbreak was over, but that other smaller outbreaks were ongoing and still being investigated.

Mike X. Nichols@mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2w ago

does anyone know which foods are safe to eat

This all needs to be illegal

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

8/ As the @nytimes.com reported, DraftKings uses machine learning and data scientists to entice losing customers with promos to keep them going — even if those are the customers at risk of becoming addicts. The company says it doesn’t unfairly target people.