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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Warren Harding did this in the 1920s. He botched up the word 'normality' and said 'normalcy'. Now that is the word used in America ... for normality. Still wrong.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Warren Harding did this in the 1920s. He botched up the word 'normality' and said 'normalcy'. Now that is the word you use in America ... for normality. Still wrong.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just missing his toothbrush moustache at this point.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not worth commenting except to say, he won't even take 2% of the first primary if he ran. A non-starter.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How all-powerful can these techbro oligarchs be if they're so scared of ... journalists.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've lived in 5 countries (6 if you count China for several months; yes, it's 'she') and when I hear Arabic — prominent names/words — so butchered by anchors or pundits, I know I can ignore them. They have no listening nor learning ability so it's a 🚩that screams 'not interested just let ME talk'.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI isn’t the nuclear code and can only ever attack other digital systems. The doomsday scenarios are being pushed by techbros right before IPOs. Don’t be scared.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They're delusional paranoid Peter Pans, whom I agree do live in perpetual fear. As I'm the polar opposite, frequently living in dangerous places, it's such a waste of life. I just cannot grasp, however, how such people also need to hate others in order to breathe.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thiel is now attacking the Pope. No decency amongst these techbros. Pope was a ‘useful idiot for China’ when he attacked AI, says Peter Thiel Paywall free: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/0c9cc32...

telegraph.co.uk

Pope was a ‘useful idiot for China’ when he attacked AI, says Peter Thiel

Palantir co-founder dismisses pontiff’s 83-page encyclical as effectively ‘working for the Communist Party’

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Galloway doesn't get to claim expertise in genocide studies just because he's Jewish. And being Jewish doesn't grant the credentials to decide what 'genocide' means. Somehow Galloway thinks it's about numbers and percentages. It's about *intent* @profgalloway.com.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Convenient eh? Anthropic self-portraying as the clean AI just before its Oct IPO just before the midterms, & signing a multi-billion$ contract with Rum (hosts Trump's Truth Social), throwing shade to OpenAI & Nvidia. Funny how Amodei forgot its own 4 AI breaches www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/....

aljazeera.com

Anthropic discloses 4th AI hacking incident as researcher quits over safety

AI firm says Claude Opus 4.6 hacked external systems during testing as concerns mount over security breaches.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Great interview but not nearly enough time. Very glad I was up late in the UK to watch live. Cannot recommend the book enough; I've now bought 8 copies for family/friends.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Old news. From 2023: Yann LeCun, an AI "godfather" w/Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, said concerns that AI could pose a threat to humanity are "preposterously ridiculous". Also in 2023 '34% of respondents said that AI could "destroy humanity" in 10 years'. www.businessinsider.com/yann-lecun-a...

businessinsider.com

One of the 'godfathers' of AI says concerns the technology could pose a threat to humanity are 'preposterously ridiculous'

Yann LeCun said concerns about AI were overstated and that if people realized the technology wasn't safe they shouldn't build it, per The BBC.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Problem: Argentina didn't exist as a country until 130 years after Britain got there and took sovereignty.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mummy Dearest weighs in on Baby Elon. 'Watching...your son...falsely labeled a Nazi and a drug addict in “respectable” publications around the world...He waves his arm, trying to express emotion, and they see a fascist salute.' Sure lady. Our fault. Gift🎁link: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/2aed199...

telegraph.co.uk

Maye Musk: My son Elon was a genius by three years old

The septuagenarian supermodel reveals what it was like to raise the world’s richest – and, at times, most controversial – man

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

White supremacists raised on cartoons, sci-fi, and Bond films, accumulating so much wealth for themselves to know worry — but the human condition is to create fear. They're afraid of their shadows. I'm not afraid of AI taking over. Humans survived without it; we will when if it eats itself.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There has never been a phone as perfect as the unsmart Motorola Razr. I have 4 still in the drawer; 3 still fully functional. Zero chance I'll buy a flip or foldable that isn't this.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wonder whether it's worth thinking about Paul Ehrlich's 1968 book, The Population Bomb, again. Can't help wonder how wrong so many predictions may be.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The good thing: Newsom keeps digging so many holes to ensure he'll never be president.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ed Miliband, 🇬🇧 Foreign Secretary, announced plans for sanctions on Israel “in the coming weeks”, promising a “comprehensive reset” in British-Israeli relations. Mike Huckabee, 🇺🇸 ambassador to Israel, accused the British Government of “Jew hate” www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ec0cc8d...

telegraph.co.uk

Burnham to fast-track sanctions on Israel

PM brings forward restrictions on West Bank settlements despite criticism from White House and Labour MPs

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"AfD thanks Elon Musk... " If that headline does not trigger the mass migration of Liberals, Leftists & those with moral integrity away from Musk's hate-filled platform.. then we shall abandon all hope.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Your assessment is not close to alignment over here in Europe. You can invoke Tories and you'd be wrong: here, we are trying to catch breath because of this seismic shock win. They are not Tories or any other in Europe. We're trying to process this tectonic shift.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They're all Jewish. Not even a reverse Wailing Wall photo op.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My mother (here; UK) always let me know how severe her PPD was with me — but even in the 60s/70s midwives were common and treatment available. It's why she was there for the birth of my 3 sons: to ensure I never went through what she felt, and if I did, she'd know. (I didn't, but I sympathise).

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I insist: never change the way you pronounce 'contractor' ever again. Absolute perfection @mrjamesob.bsky.social <chef's kiss>

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They're mummifying him. Preparing in advance.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So that's where Trump picked up the bedroom pose.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is why America shouldn't have guns! Police killed Hee-Haw — a little donkey — for daring to bray in its own pasture. Gift link: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f8ec6b8...

telegraph.co.uk

Donkey foal shot dead by US police

HeeHaw’s owner says ‘frightened’ officer tried to taser animal then killed it

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Met honoured Karl Lagerfield, a documented Islamophobe. And no one said a word. Hypocritical.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Switch all the 'hidden' toggles off. And don't use Android.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Know what's absolutely bonkers and yes, shallow? These tech bros spend gazillions to look like wax melts in an android Madame Tussaud's, thinking they look great. And I'm about the same age, never use face soap or creams, and don't have a wrinkle yet. My secret: don't muck around with nature!

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Appalling priorities. But wholly repressive of a rotting Dem party today. Such a pity.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Priorities. You're actually putting this on 'Send' to cement your priorities. Utterly appalling.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Time for people to rediscover MapQuest! But fear not: here in Europe it's still Lake Ontario.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What the hell is happening with Cambridge these days?! Yet another failure and cover-up. The VC has to go...as do plenty others. (David Lodge was smart to reject the uni.) www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

thetimes.com

Inside Cambridge bullying row that saw Judas pinned to professor’s door

The bullying and misogyny whistleblowing case exposes damning revelations about the culture in which some academics work

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How fearful is anyone from any other country when watching a man who lives in a pink mansion and another one swimming in spray-on gold paint?

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I've only seen clips of him sent to me by people very concerned, and I've no clue as to what Twitch even means/is. I saw nothing but extreme profanity every other word (adjectives and nouns can't be normal?), and yes, serious ferocious righteous rage. Not a good link for anyone.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Love how most media here are using the worst photos possible of him as well. How long before he's in prison on a paedophilia conviction? He's been quite public about his thoughts on this.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

That’s what George Bush Snr did. Then found out everything was rusty and outdated.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Good luck. Venezuelan oil (from the Orinoco Belt) is not only the extra-heaviest and sourest to refine, it's also extremely complex and requires specialised, complex refineries (Arab Sweet Crude by contrast is light and the least complex). This is going to be very costly, slow, and painful.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Good luck on that one. Venezuelan oil is not only the extra heaviest and sourest to refine, it's extremely complex to refine and requires specialised, complex refineries (Arab Sweet Crude by contrast is light and the least complex). This is going to be very costly, slow, and painful.

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excellent reading on MI6's Cambridge 5. In advance of 'Legacy of Spies' (BBC series soon, from John le Carré’s 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold') to boot. 'Pictured:The declassified files that lift the lid on MI5’s Cambridge spies investigation' Gift link: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/717f3f2...

telegraph.co.uk

Pictured: The declassified files that lift the lid on MI5’s Cambridge spies investigation

Records shared with The Telegraph reveal anguish over defecting to Moscow, a wife’s deceit and the Queen’s response to her aide’s treachery

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wait...the universe took Dolly Parton and let this 'close call' slide? Is there an admin error upstairs and Heaven's HR dept typed in two Ls instead of Ns?

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