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Kate Hamill@katehamill.bsky.social · 43m ago

Behold - the play that’s been eating my brain for 5+ years, THE JANES, based on the story of the radical feminist abortion access group that operated from 1968-1972. First public reading at ART Nov 9, May Adrales directing… and tix are free. Get ‘em at americanrepertorytheater.org/shows-events...

The Janes Reading

The Janes by Kate Hamill is a brand-new play inspired by the Jane Collective, the radical feminist group that defied the law to perform 11,000 illegal abortions between 1968 and 1972 in Chicago.

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Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

The tone of the news in the US was that Lula was done, election was just a formality, and you have to have a ton of respect that the people in Brazil weren’t going to settle for that as an answer

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3d ago

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Serbia’s strongman leader Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shift

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

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Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3d ago

Someone reverse engineered their Samsung TV using codex. They found that Samsung TVs were using always on mics, network mapping, and all kinds of Spyware that would collect data and sell it to data brokers. A day later, their openai account was banned and frontier labs cracked down on doing this.

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brendy@uplift17.bsky.social · 7d ago

Many years ago I tried very consciously to assume as part of my worldview that many powerful people are simply very dumb and it has had the most explanatory power of anything that has shaped my sense of what is happening at any given moment

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7d ago

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 2w ago

the reason that germany is a democracy is a system of ex post facto punishment, often lethal, levied against the previous government, and the only reason that hungary is trending towards democracy is that fidesz is being persecuted out of existence and its politicians are banned from power

Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yes they do and creating a nebulous category of ppl who have no rights is the exact opposite of how we reconsolidate this democracy. This is a justification for mass repression when what we need is a mixture of targeted prosecutions and wide-ranging reforms that rip up MAGA power by the roots.

The Onion@theonion.com · 2w ago

“Our investigation of a remote atoll in the area where Earhart’s plane vanished in 1937 has led us to believe she ended up assimilating into a colony of coconut crabs who welcomed her with open claws.” — Sheryl Thompkins, researcher

New Evidence Suggests Amelia Earhart Was Accepted Into Crab Society

NIKUMARORO, KIRIBATI—Claiming to have finally solved the longstanding mystery surrounding the missing aviator’s ultimate fate, a team of Purdue University researchers announced Friday they had found n...

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Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2w ago

A Brooklyn City Council member claimed victory after she got developers of a potential housing site adjacent to a subway to reduce the number of units and add far more on-site parking than city law requires — a lose-lose for the neighborhood. buff.ly/OKwIfSy

Lose-Lose? Bay Ridge Pol Celebrates More Parking, Less Housing - Streetsblog New York City

Council Member Kayla Santosuosso bragged about securing “major benefits": fewer units, more parking. What benefits?

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