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Ásta Heiðrún Elísabet Pétursdóttir

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Þreytt. Safna og týni hugmyndum. Hinsegin. Skynsegin. Hún. Tired. Likes books. Bi. Neurospicy. She/her.

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Libby @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 8h
Good 🧵. My conversations about consent with my kid were kicked off by him REALLY wanting to pet other people's dogs. He understood having to ask first, but wanted to ignore anything other than an outright no. ("He's not really friendly.") We had a lot of convos about recognizing soft no's and
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026
this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory
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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy #BiVisibilityDay!
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Bisexual Pride Heart Animation
Alt: Bisexual Pride Heart Animation
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Macklemore "every child deserves to live" Ed Sheeran "this is hurtful to a lot of people"
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
«Most trans people aren’t trans, they are seriously mentally ill, and so are you» This is what my primary care doctor told me when I first came out, citing his wife, a PhD student at the national gender clinic. Now, having been found guilty of misconduct, all her work is being retracted ⬇️
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I've seen so many things labeled as "made with AI" from creatives who I *know* do not use genAI and are in fact aggressively against genAI and I no longer thing this is conspiracy
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Jón Frímann @jonfr500.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Donald Trump apparently just posted this. This also shows Iceland being annexed by United States.
Donald Trump posting on his Truth Social platform map of North America, showing annexed Canada, Greenland, Iceland and all of Latin America and Cuba too as part of United States.
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Ásta Heiðrún Elísabet Pétursdóttir @astaheidrun.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sakna eldri versjónar af sjálfri mér. Sumar uppfærslurnar virðast hafa innleitt alls konar bögg í kerfið.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This post is ten years old and still accurate. #climatechange
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The battle to keep global heating from passing the agreed 1.5-degree threshold has been lost. This should be an era when human ingenuity works to save the planet from catastrophe. Instead the tech broligarchy is busy embarking upon ludicrous AI data centre “infrastructure” fuelled by coal and gas.
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Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost - UN
Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report
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Andri Snær Magnason @andrimagnason.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Minnisvarði um Yala jökul og hamfarirnar í Nepal: andrisnaer.is/2026/09/minn...
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Minnisvarði um Yala jökul og hamfarirnar í Nepal - Andri Snær Magnason
Hinn skelfilegi atburður sem átti sér stað þann 26. ágúst 2026, jökulflóð sem olli miklu manntjóni og hamförum báðu megin við landamæri Tíbets og Nepals, varð
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Ásta Heiðrún Elísabet Pétursdóttir @astaheidrun.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Keypti mér strætókort til að ferðast Grafarvogur-HÍ 2x í viku og þetta er 8564% betra en að sitja föst í umferð og finna stæði í stresskasti (er alltaf sein). Ég er bara að lesa bók.
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Jae 🏳️‍🌈 @jaeauthor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Readers of sapphic fiction, I'd love your input! I’m running a survey to learn more about your reading habits & how you're dealing with the changes in the book world. I'd appreciate it if you could take a moment to fill out the anonymous survey: jae-fiction.com/sapphic-fict...
Survey for readers of sapphic fiction
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.
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Elisabeth J. Hobbes author @elisabethhobbes.co.uk · 25/08/2026
The stuff Dolly did with the Imagination Library and Covid jab showed exactly what could be done with $ billions if you weren’t a cunt. #DollyParton
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Ásta Heiðrún Elísabet Pétursdóttir @astaheidrun.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Síminn minn vasahringdi í undirleikara minn frá því fyrir uþb tuttugu árum (sem svaraði og ég panikk skellti á). Sendi sms á sam ERASMUS nema frá því fyrir 16 árum. Draftaði annað sms og (!) draftaði skilaboð í Signal á hóp mæðra líffræðilegra systkina barnanna minna (sami gjafi). HVERNIG??????????
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The most interesting thing about Rowling's statement is not the statement itself -- which absolutely not worth taking seriously even for a moment -- but that she (or more likely, Warner Brothers) felt the need to issue it. Someone over there is getting a bit nervous that she's fucking up the bag
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/08/2026
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of rewilding land in the face of extreme weather brought about by the climate crisis. The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown. Continue reading...
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
jk rowling threatens international human rights organistions and the nhs with slapp lawsuits and we still have to hear from cis ppl about how she just has opinions that we disagree with. it's not normal to be engaging in vexatious lawfare against human rights organisations and the nhs.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026
This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Birds that were fed > 5 g of plastic as chicks (affecting more birds now than in 2011) are basically never seen again. But even 0.5 g of plastic was enough to affect recruitment to the breeding population 6-10 years later.
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Big new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper - we show for the first time that plastics affects seabirds at the POPULATION level. Plastic ingested as a chick reduces recruitment of birds to the breeding population. And the story is pretty grim. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 14/08/2026
THIS is how you be an actual trans ally! 🙌 variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
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‘Black Mirror’ and ‘Loki’ Directors Say They Rejected HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Due to J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia: ‘Absolutely F—-ing Not’
Top TV directors Ally Pankiw and Kate Herron rejected the chance to join HBO's forthcoming series adaptation of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" novels.
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As trans people have been saying for years: it was never just about us. And the Christian Nationalists are now feeling emboldened enough to move onto what was always their actual main target: women’s rights. The question now is, will cis society fold as easily as they did over trans people?
Shannon Minter, the legal director of the National Center of LGBTQ Rights, said the report shows that laws that ban transgender athletes from participating in sports are helping to usher in a
"direct attack" on women's sports and rights as a whole.
"The same people who are aggressively seeking to exclude transgender people from sports are doing that just as a vehicle to go back to some very archaic beliefs," Minter said. "They're trying to push women into traditionally stereotypical feminine roles and activities and interests,
whether that fits what they want to do or not."
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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
what a total eclipse looks like under heavy cloud cover (sped up 30x)
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Ásta Heiðrún Elísabet Pétursdóttir @astaheidrun.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I interacted with humans today. Both at (my first ever!) bookclub, and also just over email. Normal stuff. Me just existing type of stuff. My brain is kindly reminding me of every. single. thing. I. said. And of course why that was ridiculous/should have said something else.
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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I talk a great deal about reading for pleasure; I’ve written elsewhere about the necessity of pleasure in the classroom, and why it is not an optional extra but the hallmark of true education. We must find ways to show children that reading gives you access to an inexhaustible source of delight. But I worry, too, that we are limiting the meaning of the word pleasure. Learning is a strange and discomfiting experience; it’s a struggle and a frustration, and epiphanies are rare. It is not always pleasure in its easiest sense.
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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If AI disappeared tomorrow, the only change in my life would be that google search suddenly got better again.
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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 03/08/2026
"removing my adhd diagnosis was a relief (because of ablest policies that discriminate against a significant proportion of the population)" is the new "I'm happier after detransitioning (despite my ongoing dysphoria, because I'm not being actively transphobically abused every day by my society)"
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Well, I was going to spend the day reading 1st pass pages but instead I've spent it talking to reporters about how developers should of course pay writers if they want to use their work to train AI and how fed up I am with people thinking it's for some reason OK not to pay writers for their work.
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Vilja fá ó­keypis að­gang að gommu af höfundar­vörðu efni - Vísir
Hildur Knútsdóttir rithöfundur segir að hún hafi fengið sérkennilegt viðskiptaboð fyrir skömmu sem gekk út á „samstarf“ við aðila sem eru að þróa gervigreindarforrit til að styðja við lestrarkennslu. ...
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
💪 🤖🫧💥 techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/l...
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Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I do worry a lot about the future for kids, but increasingly I also worry how this is going to affect my own generation growing older. Selfishly as well as selflessly, we must act.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Good. The message is getting through.
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Such a magnificent and magical world… 🦋✨🫶 www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/4101/Ch...
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras
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Reyn Alpha @haframjolk.com · 18/07/2026
Skrifaði smá grein um heitasta umræðuefni vikunnar 👇
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Barnið vex en Fésbókin ekki - Vísir
Í vikunni birti mennta- og barnamálaráðuneytið áform um frumvarp til laga um aldurstakmörk fyrir aðgengi barna að samfélagsmiðlum í samráðsgátt stjórnvalda. Áformin eru lögð fram í nafni þess að auka ...
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