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xkcd.com
Fifteen Years

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Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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elouyn.me
I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖

Hint. Fucking. Hint.
newsfortnite.bsky.social Fortnite News & Updates @newsfortnite.bsky.social · Nov 1
Harry Potter x Fortnite coming in Chapter 7

(In other words, Fortnite is adding a transphobic authors work into Fortnite)

#Fortnite #FortniteNews
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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hmsnofun.bsky.social
gen"AI" is, at its core, a mechanical fall guy. it transforms the conversation, obscures the chain of decisions, provides an infinitely malleable alibi to those who have always been and will always be truly responsible for the harms caused by untempered corner-cutting profiteering. it is that simple
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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theonion.com
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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linnybobinny.bsky.social
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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erininthemorning.com
1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters
Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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npr.org
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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amypond.gay
(X) Animated, virtual, or sexual activity generated by artificial intelligence. (XI) Depictions of characters acting or resembling minors in sexual contexts. (XII) Any other pornographic material. (B) Is a depiction, description, or simulation, whether real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory, that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex by means of a combination of attire, cosmetology, or prosthetics, or as having a reproductive nature contrary to the individual's biological sex. (ii) Prohibited material does not include any of the following: (A) Material to be used for scientific and medical research or instruction.
September 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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wajali.bsky.social
Like I said yesterday, I implore you not to give an inch to bad-faith right-wing talking points, shaming, and bullying, which tragically is amplified by corporate media and establishment hacks.

Call out their hypocrisy and hate. There is 10 years' worth of evidence.

Don't be cowed or silenced.
September 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Picture of a carrot with two branching roots on a napkin. The relative size difference of the left and right branches, along with the angle of the larger root on the right, makes it appear like the legs of someone posing or stepping on something
September 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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micchiato.bsky.social
Everything you need to know about the western press: Reuters called its own camera a “Hamas camera” because Israel called it a “Hamas camera” after they bombed the Reuters camera.
© Reuters World v Business V Markets v Sustainability V Legal v Commentary Technology Investigations More V Initial inquiry says Hamas camera was target of Israeli strike that killed journalists By Reuters 贝 August 26, 2025 12:00 PM CDT • Updated 3 hours ago Aa [1/2] Equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who was a contractor for Reuters, lies at the site where he was killed, along with other journalists and people, in Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in this still image taken from video, August... Purchase Licensing Rights C Read more
September 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here.

This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
A TruthSocial post from Donald Trump, featuring an AI generated image of him in front of Chicago burning and under invasion with the words “Chipocalypse Now” near him stylized like the poster for the film Apocalypse Now. The text accompanying the post reads “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR 🚁🚁🚁”
September 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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danifroom.bsky.social
It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.
September 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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aaronradney.bsky.social
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
August 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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aranock.bsky.social
Note how blue no matter who is near exclusively used to support bigoted right leaning candidates while that energy disappears when a more socialist leaning candidate like Mamdani does well.
August 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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nome.bsky.social
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.

Two genders - male, and political.

Two religions - Christian, and political.

Two races - white, and political.
August 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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rswirling.bsky.social
Last night, I got home a few mins before 9pm. By the time I was outside to walk the dog at 9:05, there were a dozen federal agents and local cops on the stairs and lawn of the house directly across the street from me.

This is what the federal enforcement looks like in DC right now:
10 cops from MPD, US Marshals, and an unidentified agency likely to be DHS/ICE are standing on a residential street at night. 3 marshals (2 white women, 1 white man) are in the foreground/bottom right of the photo, standing and watching from my side of the street. Across the street, 3 MPD are standing on the sidewalk facing the house/with their backs to me. 4 federal agents are visible on the porch talking to someone who is inside the house, where the front door is open. The background of the other houses is blurred to preserve anonymity and safety.
August 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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mahtowin1.bsky.social
This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing. -Doctors Without Borders
www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...
This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing. | MSF
MSF's frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza, Palestine.
www.msf.org
August 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
UPDATE — 13 members of Congress are now calling Israel's genocide a "genocide."

Added Minnesota Rep. Betty McCollum.

The list ranges from Rashida Tlaib, to John Garamendi, to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

See which other politicians, nations, organizations, and genocide experts are on the list here:
Who Says Israel Is Committing a Genocide in Gaza? Everyone on This List
After almost two years, more and more politicians, experts, and human rights groups are finally using the G-word to describe Israel's violence in Gaza, but the list is still relatively short.
zeteo.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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acvalens.com
www.thegamer.com/adult-game-b...
Game Devs Says That Itch Adult Content Ban Is Targeting Lesbian Games, Even If They're Safe For Work
Game devs say that yuri games are being disproportionately targeted for delisting and deindexing on Itch.
www.thegamer.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime
August 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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aljazeera.com
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
aje.io
August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM