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Franchesca Ramsey

@chescaleigh.bsky.social

Last month I had 16 viral videos, totaling 17.6 million views. In today’s video I’m breaking down how much each platform paid me & why you should get serious about posting long form content. Keep watching on YouTube! youtu.be/gnoCVy2pl8g

September 11, 2026 at 12:15 AM

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Ima Cygnenoir

@ima-cygnenoir52.bsky.social

remember the *GOP* death panels accusations? Well here they are

September 9, 2026 at 11:37 AM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt

The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"

Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt

A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.

www.actionnews5.com

September 9, 2026 at 10:31 PM

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Franchesca Ramsey

@chescaleigh.bsky.social

This week on Lemme Fix IT, Raven-Symoné challenges us to see Raven Baxter as green & we’re joined by actor-comedian-creator @bmotheprince for a super inspiring chat about the artist’s way, plus a special Law & Order edition of “name that white woman” and more! watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnXp...

What If That's So Raven Was Green?? (ft. @BMothePrince)

YouTube video by Lemme Fix It!

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September 10, 2026 at 12:34 AM

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Mrs. Betty Bowers

@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

The Bible never says that God has a penis.

But in fairness, Ken Paxton, you missed *a lot* of verses in the Bible, you adulterous liar.

September 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM

Izo thee Dynamic Observer

@izzyg1217.bsky.social

Good morning ☕🌱💪🏾https://youtube.com/watch?v=sot-yu9dIZE&is=0_6FlAclRI4WamIh

Toonami - Life Advice Speech (HD 1080p)

YouTube video by Junior

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September 10, 2026 at 10:19 AM

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Temu Tisha Campbell

@thatgirlbamz.bsky.social

Is it a secret or is it NOT your business?

September 9, 2026 at 2:56 AM

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The New Big

@tinclock.myatproto.social

people just don't take alarms seriously enough

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d

The alarms are all flashing red.

Screenshot of a thread on X by user Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) detailing his resignation from Anthropic.
The first post reads: "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."
The second post reads: "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing."
The third post reads: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger."

Screenshot continuing the thread on X by Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess).
The first post reads: "A common response is 'if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?' At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk."
The second post reads: "Accepting this race and entering the 'endgame' is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available."
The third post reads: "I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities."
The fourth post reads: "If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because 'it’s happening anyway' - or take this moment to call for different conditions?"

September 9, 2026 at 3:44 AM

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The Friend Zone Podcast

@friendzonepod.bsky.social

Episode 543 of #TheFriendZone is now live.

Listen to "Big Lotts" on @Simplecast: the-friend-zone.simplecast.com/episodes/big...

Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite podcasts.

Big Lotts | The Friend Zone

This week on #TheFriendZone, from the Teeth to the Streets - a discussion focusing on cameras tracking everything from cavities to cars and the invasiveness of it all.

the-friend-zone.simplecast.com

September 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM

Izo thee Dynamic Observer

@izzyg1217.bsky.social

Pics from the Labor Day trip this past weekend.
I let the ocean water cleanse the messiness of capitalism.

A sandy beach with blue ocean water and clouds in the distant horizon

Two fingers holding a dark seashell with ocean water in the background.

Four white seashells in the palm of a hand with water in the background.

September 9, 2026 at 3:02 AM

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Steven Underwood

@blaqueword.bsky.social

And let it be known: yes, all Black nerd creatives know each other and talk and ride for each other. So come correct or you will be traveling alone.

September 6, 2026 at 4:06 PM

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Ballad

@mrloveballad.bsky.social

14 years in and this STILL means something to me. Thank you to Spotify for platforming “Change Your Mind” 🌹

September 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM

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Steven Underwood

@blaqueword.bsky.social

👀👆🏾

September 8, 2026 at 4:52 AM

Izo thee Dynamic Observer

@izzyg1217.bsky.social

Y'all get on here and play too much.
And I like that.

The Grinch's Evil Smile

ALT: The Grinch's Evil Smile

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September 9, 2026 at 2:57 AM

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cutie patootie 🫶🏾

@christianaaaaa.blacksky.app

Girl, I’ll squirt all over you don’t play with me

BlackPrincess💫9/25 @sexyblckprincesstt.bsky.social · 8d

if you over 30 pussy trash no shade

September 8, 2026 at 10:26 PM

Izo thee Dynamic Observer

@izzyg1217.bsky.social

30+ coochie got magic like Maleficent, I heard.

September 9, 2026 at 2:55 AM

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@izzyg1217.bsky.social

New moon coming up this week.
Stuff being shed and whatnot.

September 9, 2026 at 2:53 AM

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Sandhya Dirks

@audiosand.bsky.social

The anti-Brown racism (and the surveillance state) we are (re)encountering was in great part birthed by 9/11 - I have reported on in multiple stories how that hatred, bigotry and violence also gave a new generation of South Asian and brown Americans a push into politics: www.npr.org/2023/01/05/1...

A screen shot of the written transcript from an NPR audio story from Jan 5th, 2023:

DIRKS: 9/11 fundamentally changes what it means to be South Asian American, says political scientist Sangay Mishra.

SANGAY MISHRA: It's a highly underappreciated story - right? - how South Asians have been targeted, not only Muslims, not only Sikh, but just being brown.

DIRKS: Just being brown made you suspicious. Mishra says 9/11 created a new kind of racial category - being Muslim-looking. And for many South Asians, this punctured the myth that they were somehow protected as a model minority. Which brings us to now.

MISHRA: You take any major progressive issue and Indian Americans are largely on the left.

DIRKS: There's also been this real trend of especially younger progressive Desi candidates taking on establishment Democrats.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI: I'm a Democratic socialist who ran against the party.

DIRKS: That's Zohran Mamdani, one of the first South Asians elected to the New York Assembly in 2020.

MAMDANI: Because if you played the party's rules, the time just never seemed to come for South Asians.

DIRKS: He says he thinks more Desis are running to the left because they were left out.

MAMDANI: I think that we have seen the limits of institutional politics and the racism of institutional politics.

September 8, 2026 at 12:01 PM

Izo thee Dynamic Observer

@izzyg1217.bsky.social

Mask on.
Baby, put that mask on!!!
😷

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 9d

PMC COVlD Update, Week of Sep 7, 2026

◾️33 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt)
◾️Highest levels nationally since March 5th
◾️1 in 86 Americans estimated actively infectious
◾️Peak expected soon, but some caveats

THREAD (1/5) 🧵
pmc19.com

The US has at least 33 states/territories with COVlD outbreaks. These include Alaska, Hawai’i, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 33 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. For example, South Carolina and Oklahoma likely have outbreaks, but monitoring is poor.

September 9, 2026 at 2:51 AM

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA

@michael-hoerger.bsky.social

PMC COVlD Update, Week of Sep 7, 2026

◾️33 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt)
◾️Highest levels nationally since March 5th
◾️1 in 86 Americans estimated actively infectious
◾️Peak expected soon, but some caveats

THREAD (1/5) 🧵
pmc19.com

September 8, 2026 at 6:05 AM

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LaDarrion Williams

@itsladarrion.bsky.social

7 more days until it all comes to light.

Have you preordered?

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#booksky

September 8, 2026 at 2:44 PM

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Ned Resnikoff

@resnikoff.bsky.social

More Democratic mayors and governors should be doing stuff like this. Actively working to build up private sector union density is good policy AND enlarges the political coalition that will lead to more electoral and legislative success in the future. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

Mamdani Creates Workers’ Rights Office in Effort to Boost Union Power

The Office of Worker Power, designed to support labor organizing and strengthen worker protections, comes as the mayor works to win over the city’s business community.

www.nytimes.com

September 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC

@mattnegrin.bsky.social

if you're the abc news editor who wrote that the nyc mayor attending the 9/11 ceremony is attracting "growing criticism" solely because he's a muslim then you are the criticism you're writing about

ABC:
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual remembrance ceremony.

September 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim

@pdjeliclark.bsky.social

In the original series, the show’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, came up with a philosophy held by the Vulcan people. He called it IDIC: infinite diversity in infinite combinations. It suggests that an ideal society is made up of many different types, all working together.