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still not a real question whatever my latest is: www.iflscience.com/dr-katie-spalding
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Hey! You! Do you like... learning things? Do you like... laughing?? Do you like... being that annoying person in the conversation who gets to say "um ACTUALLY Einstein wasn't even that smart he couldn't even swim and he KEPT falling in the ocean and making people save him"? Then you'll LOVE my book
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Sebas
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One day I hope to have even a fraction of the confidence of Fred Durst when he wrote "you better get some better beats and get some better rhymes" in the same verse where he rhymes "Limp Bizkit" with "Limp Bizkit"
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Tyler, from the Internet
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if the day you got into a relationship with someone is celebrated as your anniversary, then the day you became mortal enemies with someone should be celebrated as your anniversusary.
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depths of wikipedia
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derek guy
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RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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I started using duckduckgo like a week ago and it's already better than google because I can block results from grokipedia from ever being shown
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Assigned Media
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
2026 Jun Guardian 14 y/o trans athlete, who transitioned at age 4, shows that it's not about "unfair" or "protecting girls," it's just about hate as she details the abuse to which she's been subjected by the Right.
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Iām a 14-year-old trans athlete. No one should face the vicious attacks I have faced | Lina Haaga
People understand gender differently, and I was taught to respect all ideas. But the vitriol I recently experienced was not a healthy debate
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/17/trans-athlete-no-one-should-face-vicious-attacks
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Sarah Tuttle
1 day ago
Just a reminder that fascism is wrong. Basically always. So a really useful tool for resistance is delay. Oh no, we don't have the tool to do that. Oh no, I don't have the authority to sign this off. Oh no, we're missing that part and it has a super long lead time from *checks notes*....
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Chris Boyd
1 day ago
he needs to stop doing whatever a spider can right this instant
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Elizabeth Taylor
1 day ago
Unhinged things the UK gender critical movement said that altered my brain chemistry part 1: When Maya Forstater tried to apply the principle of sexual dimorphism to a cartoon alien library mascot
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you've seen a penis in the popcorn bucket, now get ready for ...
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Mel Andrews
2 days ago
When generating bibliographies, the models not only omit female authors or misattribute womenās work to male authors; they will also produce lists of works cited in which all work by men is attributed to its authors, while work by female scholars is simply left unattributed.
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Mel Andrews
2 days ago
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute womenās work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Alex Hanna
1 day ago
Ah so LLMs operate like senior male academics. Who could have envisioned that technology trained on existing texts could operate in a fundamentally conservative nature
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Ann Leckie
1 day ago
Every time I see someone say "the pronouns have just become a gimmick" I look over at the folks who say they love the pronouns and it makes their heart happy and start trying to figure out how to put even more pronouns in the next book.
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Gregk Foley
1 day ago
If youāre wondering what kind of Bizarro world we are living in that Labour could make a big song and dance of purging its ranks of antisemites only for its ideological North Star to be inviting Holocaust Revisionists for a friendly chat then Iām afraid you donāt understand grown-up politics.
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See folks racism isn't only a moral failing, it also leads to things like this, where you get your ass handed to you over and over by an adversary you assumed was an NPC speaking simlish
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote
2 days ago
Real diplomatic instruments are not full of basic grammatical errors and unintentional ambiguities. It is a unique humiliation that the American regime did not even have a professional translation and resolve ambiguities. They ran it through grok and signed it.
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counterpoint don't do this unless you want to discover, as a friend once did when researching his family history through wwii, how much your grandma was into watersports
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Stephen Bush
2 days ago
Also before that - have people been on Facebook, or LinkedIn, where people will post the maddest abuse you've ever seen *next to their CV*?
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Melissa Gira Grant
2 days ago
not people demanding āreal nameā (legal name now, at birth, after marriage?) policies online when the feds are indicting āenemyā activists
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Vicky ACAB
2 days ago
A semester on trans healthcare would be unheard of, most doctors get a few days on any and all endocrinology and the vast majority of that time is spent talking about insulin. The only information they get is "give as little estrogen as possible"- (bad) advice based on cis menopause treatment
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3 days ago
also "Herve Renard" sounds like a name a French spy blurts out when asked what his name is and can't remember what his cover identity is actually supposed to be
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Atrios
3 days ago
British journalists do love to ban anything that annoys them and never give any thought to implementation, enforcement, punishment, consequences for violation, and those rules never applied to their employers.What does it mean to mandate real names when they regularly write about "Tommy Robinson"
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flyingrodent
3 days ago
Call me a pessimist, but I do not think the people who brought us mass arrests of little old ladies, Tommy fucking Robinson at the Oxford Union debate and state participation in the IDFās destruction of the Gaza Strip are now going to admit their crimes, apologise, work to atone and then retire.
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flyingrodent
3 days ago
I donāt see how you can look at this and not conclude that the British elite has deliberately and calculatedly rehabilitated extreme racism and fascism into the mainstream, to help them fend off the left, because Thatcherism has collapsed into slapstick travesty. That is clearly what has happened.
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flyingrodent
3 days ago
Forget the Russia stuff for now and focus on: how much of the last decade has been very right wing, deeply horrible people demanding unlimited freedom and invites to prestigious events, plus ruthless, unrelenting crackdowns on people who correctly say that they are hateful, extreme bigots.
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Talia "ESTRO JUNKIES IS OUT NOW!!!" Bhatt ā¢
3 days ago
Turning the moral of Brianna Ghey's death into a cautionary tale about "growing up online" is explicitly revisionist history and seems to reveal that Esther Ghey believes Brianna's transition was the cause of her demise, rather than the radicalized classmates who stabbed her.
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alyson āend journalismā greaves
3 days ago
Iām a trans woman in my forties. Growing up without social mediaāand during Section 28āI knew nothing about transness and I knew no-one like me. I almost didnāt make it; I dread to think how many didnāt. You canāt tell me that returning to this state is not an intended effect of this proposed ban.
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Starmer really bheard "two-tier Keir" and took it as a suggestion
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
3 days ago
In MAGA Trumpistan, it's legal for Grok to produce child porn but illegal for the latest, newest Claude to help you with research mathematics.
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Joel S.
3 days ago
I truly could not ask for a clearer example of what Republicans mean when they talk about āJudeo-Christian values.ā
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TACC
3 days ago
"Delegates at UNISON's local government conference passed a landmark motion titled 'defending trans, non-binary and gender diverse rights in local government workplaces', with passionate speeches drawing repeated applause from the conference floor and not a single vote cast against the motion.
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kate b.
3 days ago
thereās no way that you can hate us enough to make them love you, is the basic problem here.
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Rachel (loves LA, always will)
3 days ago
These Christian Republicans are hateful people. And donāt let all of the talk about āJudeo-Christian valuesā fool you. Any Jew who thinks theyāre safe around these ppl is justā¦Iām going to say it: an idiot.
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Dr Fern Riddell
3 days ago
But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. Iām gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:
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vic! įįįį· || open source rodent
3 days ago
just saw anubis the god of death in the audience for the egypt game belgium are FUCKED
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vic! įįįį· || open source rodent
3 days ago
each nation has sent its strongest champion. in one side theres anubis the guardian of the afterlife. on the other theres obelisk. only time can tell which one of them will come out victorious
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nilay patel
3 days ago
The most shadow banned post in the history of posts lol
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ryan cooper
4 days ago
the de facto conspiracy to pretend he didn't do that is crazy-making. all this straight news about Tesla and SpaceX without so much as a whisper of the 7-figure child murder thing
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ryan cooper
4 days ago
say what you like about JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, et al, but I think it's fair to say that it wouldn't have even occurred to them to do what Elon Musk did to USAID. only an utterly degenerate monster would murder a million+ children basically for the hell of it
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the Russian for "circular" appears to be "kroogly" and I think that's neat actually
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Noah Berlatsky
3 days ago
It's notable that when Ben Shapiro asked Newsom to denounce his own social media posts, Newsom obediently rushed to remove his own spine. There's every indication that his anti trump online posts don't particularly reflect his personal views.
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Louisa
3 days ago
My brain every few days
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Alex
3 days ago
also, the straight hockey romance show had full frontal locker room scenes and while Heated Rivalry didnāt show anything more than butts but Iāll let you guess which one gets described as scandalous and pornographic and etc.
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Genial Black Man
3 days ago
"Why tear down the Berlin Wall? What do you replace it with?"
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Tim R
4 days ago
Before you get warm feelings about this story, keep in mind it was **labour and contract protections** that got these people back. Not some grand realization that Librarianship is necessary. Get unionized people. 1 / 2
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A Regional College Laid Off All Its Librarians in 2024. Now It Has to Hire Them Back.
Western Illinois University claimed the library was not an academic program when it essentially was, an arbitrator has ruled, and therefore failed to follow the correct process for eliminating the job...
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-regional-college-laid-off-all-its-librarians-in-2024-now-it-has-to-hire-them-back
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Tamar
4 days ago
It's genuinely unclear to me what objection some Labour members and fellow travellers actually have to a Reform government other than 'it wouldn't be led by us'
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