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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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Finn
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something I wish was better understood by a lot of people is that the UK's anti racism organisations are literally one guy (
@sundersays.bsky.social
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Joel
1 day ago
trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles
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RL Stine Action
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this has riled me so fucking much because i'm 40 and i don't remember once feeling like the country has stood up for us. the best i've seen is hyperlocal community organisations and that's being generous in the face of whatever the fuck this is. muslims have been a punching bag since i can remember.
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Michelle Cohen
about 2 hours ago
Was not expecting to see an argument *against* teaching men about cunnilingus.
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Louise Seamster
about 2 hours ago
I’m giving this as a gift to all the people in the last year who have said “I think [XYZ use] is bullshit, but some of the medical AI applications seem to be impressive…" where radiology is the most frequent example
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HK
about 1 hour ago
A few weeks ago, a woman wearing a hijab was deliberately hit by a car just around the corner from where I used to live in south london. There's cctv footage, and a car that is pretty old, and therefore not difficult to identify. It did not make even the local news
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Brian Beutler
about 2 hours ago
An “era of extreme gerrymandering” just began out of nowhere.
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✪ April Foolishness! ✪
about 8 hours ago
*stares judgmentally in Black Southerner*
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alix e. harrow
2 days ago
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
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Neil Mackay
1 day ago
I’m fucking horrified that folk 100s of years from now are going to refer to this period as the Trumpian Age or some shit and I’m gonna be lumped in with all the dumb extremist dicks. Solidarity with dead people from the 19th century who thought empire was for arseholes and now get called Victorians
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈
about 5 hours ago
oh it's my favourite genre of terf whining. 'none of my friends will return my calls anymore and that is the fault of the trannies!' 'our only comfort is each other' you are in a far right cult that has separated and isolated you away from your friends and family to make you easier to groom.
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Nate O
about 3 hours ago
This is a political programme shared across Labour, Reform and the Tories, based solely on a whipped-up, insane fear towards a minoritised group that has done nothing wrong, and is systemically oppressed by the state, for simply existing. And professors defended a figurehead of the oppressors!
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James Medlock
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Grantaelangelo is a party dude
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to the tune of papa roach:
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about 3 hours ago
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András Forgács W
about 3 hours ago
"he brushes off claims" Fucking don't let him get away with it
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Innocent🕷Abroad
about 3 hours ago
Nigel Farage having a photo op in a Jewish community after an antisemitic attack is like Josef Goebbles having a photo op in a Jewish community after an antisemitic attack. Sorry; I couldn’t think of a funny analogy that was more apt.
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Tim Onion
about 10 hours ago
This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.
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Kat Abughazaleh
about 10 hours ago
This is literally establishing a second special code of law just for Alex Jones so he can do whatever he wants. What the fuck are we doing? How the fuck is this allowed?
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Nate O
about 3 hours ago
On second-order concerns of ‘free speech’, no one had speech suppressed by the state; analysing power dynamics, Sussex repeatedly backed Stock to the end and, e.g. targeted a Sussex undergrad that criticised her anti-trans comments. On first-order concerns, this was about *monstering trans people*
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Nate O
about 3 hours ago
The evidence was there from the start. The laser focus of the UK media on the alleged mental anguish of Stock after 100s of students and faculty objected to her publicly saying… something … in the nation’s newspapers. But what did she say? What were they objecting to? That’s passed over in silence
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Nate O
about 3 hours ago
I will hammer this point. It took five years for a High Court to determine exactly what I and dozens of others said was happening: this was a manufactured moral panic, based on flimsy (and, as it turns out, nonexistent!) evidence, to remove harassment policies protecting trans professors/students
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Thee Meganox
about 3 hours ago
a lot of people are going to be very shocked at how well the US far right playbook works here with only a very little translation
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Tom Usher
about 4 hours ago
This seems really obviously a grift and she is really obviously an idiot. But that’s how the right works, constant foot in the door tactics, constant pressuring, endless money to do so, when its targets don’t have the same resources to fight it. It might feel ridiculous but it creates pressure
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The Onion
about 20 hours ago
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’
https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/
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Kat Tenbarge
about 19 hours ago
They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along
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Temu Tisha Campbell
about 20 hours ago
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We Have Always Existed: Transgender History
about 21 hours ago
I was interviewed in IFLScience!
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Jon Bois
2 days ago
How do you feel about Donald Trump's actions as president so far? [adjacent to an artful and flattering black-and-white sketch of me] Jon, 43, white "I no longer call it the Sun. I call it the Hot Moon. You cannot catch and eat the Hot Moon because it moves too fast because it is late for school."
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I wrote this!! Thanks to
@transgenderhistory.bsky.social
for the interview; go watch her videos as they are FASCINATING
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about 22 hours ago
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IFLScience
1 day ago
The Enarees are thought to have wielded weapons, including ones such as this ornately decorated sword.
www.iflscience.com/the-enarees-...
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Jess O'Thomson
1 day ago
Judgment effectively outlines that the OFS was determined to make an example of Sussex to force other universities into submission to its ideological position.
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Nate O
1 day ago
Maybe the OfS is institutionally captured by Arif Ahmed, Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom, a reactionary that is directing OfS to pursue vendettas against universities that don't withstand legal scrutiny, perhaps?
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Nate O
1 day ago
You're telling me Arif Ahmed, connected to Peter Thiel, the eugenicist and reactionary magazine Quillette, and Jordan B Peterson, with a questionable MBE (for 'education'!) and somehow appointed by Badenoch to the EHRC Board (left after six months for the OfS) might be bad for the OfS?
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Nate O
1 day ago
It's great to know that the thing we all said at the time was the case (they were using this as a test case to bully universities into removing any stated internal policies defending trans students and faculty from bigoted comments by anti-trans academics in the classroom) was in fact the case
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Nate O
1 day ago
Oh my god the Arif Ahmed/Kathleen Stock email correspondence. It sure looks like he was pursuing a vendetta against Sussex for a personal friend
bsky.app/profile/nate...
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Nate O
1 day ago
I don't care the bigot felt really bad when the students said she was a bigot, I don't understand why we should care about her private feelings. You can't make me care. I deny this premise just as I deny any attention to the bad feelings of racists and antisemites
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sego dreancas
1 day ago
in what way is he their "demise"? compared to any other primary candidate? why is weight on his campaign in particular? (racism. it's racism.)
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
1 day ago
that's an album cover right there
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What the fuck??
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ
1 day ago
"Deviant writer", guess who the NYT is coming for next once they get bored with trans people
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idk man maybe if you live in a country that continually asserts that even the most basic of social protections are communism, maybe you start to think communism isn't so bad after all
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Nate O
1 day ago
Farage created a week-long media fracas over the time he got de-banked from Coutts because he didn't have £1m in his account, he damaged their image, and he was a politically exposed person. Don't tell me lies in the newspaper, nothing happened to his house, he's lying
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Nate O
1 day ago
You know it isn't true because Farage didn't mention it at any time in 2025 or 2026 until this precise moment, a week before local elections
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kikimora 🏳️⚧️🏴
2 days ago
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
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Catherine Rampell
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by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
1 day ago
Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.
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this is like when the stasi kept records on like 5.5 million people and bugged their homes and read their post and like 99% of it was "Jan Schmidt likes eating gherkins, more at 11"
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Slurms MacKenzie
1 day ago
If I was said "proper journalist" I'd probably rather spend my time looking into the connections various MPs in the governing party, including ministers, have to right wing transphobic hate groups, but that might require actual work
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