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Aimée Hall
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Same handle as Twitter. #WoTSkies! she/her/hers
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Aimée Hall @astronaimee.bsky.social · Jun 1
Ok, early morning boiler check after the overnight worry of smelling gas briefly - it's safe, we can use it!

Our wonderful gas safety engineer kindly fit us in before his holiday!

Hopefully this will be the start of a much needed positive trend.

Next stop: job application by the end of the day!
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
At least Twitter said "Here's an instance of how you violated the T&S - do you want to appeal?" BlueSky just bans you without warning, specifics or any right TO appeal, it seems...and the most nefarious thing it, I gather, is that's it's just algos.
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
My gut hunch: Kendzoir was probably not banned by a human for any reason, but by an automated computer process by accident, and BlueSky doesn't want to admit this mistake nor to open up that automation for debate. It wants the power to let computers do this w/o expending $ for human review.
thrasherxy.bsky.social Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 2d
@bsky.app last week my DMs were cut off. Moderation said I could not be trusted.

Hours later, you said it was a mistake.

Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.)

Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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oldenoughtosay.com
Oh. Oh my god. Oh my god???? Oh my GOD.
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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edpoole1975.bsky.social
Just be be clear: Under this Labour government the NHS will pay £1billion out of future NHS budgets in order to have less staff providing oversight of outsourced services.
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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rnib.bsky.social
The good folk at Waitrose released their audio described and non-audio described versions of the ad on the same day, so blind and partially sighted people can get soppy and festive too🎄
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
astronaimee.bsky.social
GO OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW. Aurorae going bonkers anywhere there isn't cloud!

Given my dire weather, let me at least live through your excitement instead!!!
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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greenparty.org.uk
People fleeing war and persecution are ready and able to contribute to our society.

The problem is... they're not allowed.

Rather than shipping them off to army barracks all over the country, it's time to let asylum seekers work.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. LET THEM WORK Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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jackfifield.uk
Was lovely to speak with Dr Uy Hoang - who has uploaded over 300,000 photos of the UK's canals and rivers to Google Street View and is ninth in the world by number of uploads - for this piece. www.londonworld.com/news/people/...
I’m mapping Britain for Google on foot - I’ve taken 300,000 snaps over 10 years
Watch as Dr Uy Hoang from London discusses how he’s mapping Britain's waterways, having covered at least 75% of the nation's canal network so far.
www.londonworld.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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nome.bsky.social
Especially - ESPECIALLY! - for topics on which there is no default progression of knowledge.

Someone can love Star Wars and know nothing about the Samurai movies that inspired it - or be an amazing self-taught baker who's never learned the chemistry behind it or had to adjust anything for altitude.
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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charlieedmunds.bsky.social
My biggest warning about using LLMs is that you can't trust it to tell you about anything that you're not competent to check.
naomialderman.bsky.social Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5d
9) don't use it for research on anything where you do not have the skills to do that checking
10) my experience is when I use it for research on a subject I know pretty well, what it comes up with is:
50% totally misunderstood the assignment
30% I had these already
20% oh, huh, maybe interesting
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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formalsorcery.bsky.social
The concept of ending a Frankenstein adaptation with a Byron quote……don’t piss me off…..
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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askaubry.com
Notice he wants full custody not because he wants to see his kid more, but because he doesn't want to pay $515 a month.

But the same type of dudes will whine about how family courts are biased against them.
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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canray.bsky.social
I've had to explain this oh so many times. We don't get routines.

Every single time is *JUST AS DIFFICULT* as the first time. Always. FOREVER.
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · 7d
They just become more familiar, so I dont have to dedicate as much thought to the steps.

Every single time I've brushed or flossed my teeth, for 37 years, it's been a series of conscious actions that require thought and willpower.

Nothing gets to be automatic.
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
these chat replies are nauseatingly evil. like I'm actually sick to my stomach.
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7d
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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jdotj.bsky.social
In my almost 20 years as a lawyer, as a leader, as a department head, as an executive...the people I have worked with who are the biggest gossips, who are the most emotional, and who are the most conflict-averse are men. And the women are the ones who end up cleaning up that mess as a result.
November 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.
jdotj.bsky.social J.J. @jdotj.bsky.social · 8d
I'm not linking to that NYT piece today, but of all the horrible parts of it, this was the worst. This was an explanation of "female vices" in the workplace and LET ME JUST TELL YOU...
Andrews: Gossiping. Inability to deal with conflict directly and kind of suppressing conflict. An aversion to directness, which, naturally, in a workplace, is a big problem because you need to be able to give direct feedback to people, including negative feedback.
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost." soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
June 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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emilykerr36.bsky.social
Just read the below on Zohran Mamdani, NY's new mayor who actually understands the increasing risks and danger of SUVs and other larger cars on our streets. Fascinating.

Thanks @timmorton2.bsky.social
awalkerinla.bsky.social Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · Jun 26
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost." soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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rincewind.run
whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 9d
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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ultralaser.bsky.social
"in america we have free markets and consumer choice"

TOYSRUS WAS A PROFITABLE BUSINESS THAT WAS BOUGHT UP BY PRIVATE EQUITY WHO MADE TOYSRUS PAY BACK THE LOAN THEY TOOK OUT TO BUY TOYSRUS THEN SOLD TOYSRUS FOR PARTS FIRED EVERYONE DEFAULTED ON ALL OF TRU'S DEBTS & WALKED AWAY

NOW WE HAVE NOTHING
June 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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rachelholliday.bsky.social
whew, per the Board of Elections, we've hit 2M votes in New York City
NYC Board of Elections @BOENYC We officially hit TWO MILLION votes - first time since 1969! Polls are open until 9pm. If you are on line by 9pm, you will be allowed to vote
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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oldenoughtosay.com
oh i can't wait, this is gonna be god tier content

not in the way they hope, but still incredible
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10d
A former adviser to Keir Starmer and Tony Blair has urged the Prime Minister to reinvent himself as a 'social media star', warning that his cautious communication style is leaving voters cold
Keir Starmer told to ‘be a social media star’ in bid to win back voters
www.thenational.scot
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
I've been thinking about this post a lot, and I'm trying to recall the last time a person who started arguing with me on social media was actually knowledgeable about the niche topic.

Because I'm a woman, it's like 85% clueless men explaining my job to me. Incorrectly.
willoremus.com Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 11d
For me, the ability to learn from and occasionally even argue with folks who are knowledgeable and care about a niche topic, and see others who are interested weigh in, all without the risk of IRL fisticuffs is.. maybe not quite, but almost, the whole point of this particular social media format.
November 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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aturls.bsky.social
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM