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Dielectrical materialist, macrobe, eclipsing variable. marxism-vernadskyism-levinsism. seeking correct ideas through social practice. she/her. if i dont know you or have mutual friends i will probably block you. en/de/fr. readsettlers.org

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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 6m
something to note about the "basically no consumers are paying for llm use" is that if/once that becomes necessary, llm use will function socially basically like sports betting, gascha games, and day trading, just a new way to waste incredible amounts of money on your phone
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 2h
proust report: charlus is calling things "bogus"
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 11h
i found power rangers terrifying as a very small child. like 3 years old
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 12h
Lula (president of Brazil) “asked the court to investigate possible support from the Rockbridge Network, a [Peter Thiel-backed] conservative U.S. donor network co-founded by…JD Vance. It said a political organizer tied to the group works at Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign headquarters...” 10/4/26 …1/
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Lula seeks probe into possible US election interference
Lula’s coalition asked Brazil’s top electoral court to investigate actions benefiting Flávio Bolsonaro, while the Workers’ Party sought a Federal Police inquiry from the Supreme Court.
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 13h
the international right wing and US capital have an iron monopoly on the entire planet's information technology & data flow, and are directly using this everywhere for their purposes, and neither leftists nor liberals have an answer to this because they are wedded to cellular localism.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 13h
As long as the US is the imperial hegemon democracy in this hemisphere is a complete farce
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 15h
causing a downroar
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h
The Bolsonaro wing is also crushing it for congress and the state elections.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h
Brazil is voting today, and while the presidential election is likely to go to a runoff — the results are a clear and significant shift to the right since the 2022 election and set up Flávio Bolsonaro very well to oust Lula in the October 25 runoff.
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Wlz @lalimols.bsky.social · 16h
As urnas horrendas da América Latina
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h
If Bolsonaro wins, first order of business will be to pardon his father.
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 20h
es gibt ein tumblrkonto "eingedeutscht" das posts auf deutsch übersetzt und die sind alle ~30% länger als die englische originalen
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Quantum Computer Janitor @qcj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The second student started to protest that "cromulent" wasn't a word, but then googled it. Seeing a dictionary definition, he let it go figuring it was just a word he didn't know, and couldn't understand why I started lauging
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Quantum Computer Janitor @qcj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yesterday while teaching, a student wrote a number on the board in nonstandard scientific notation (eg 123 x 10^5 rather than 1.23 x 10^7). Another student complained about this, and I said that the first student's notation was "perfectly cromulent".
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shalloween @idlerat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
changing my name to agnetha
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
me seeing people talk about the new fire emblem and wanting to play it. except i do actually really like fire emblem
bloom county comic where portnoy the bear sees a commercial for boo boo burger and finds himself compelled to go and get one
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Organdy @organdy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the thing to understand about the "AI personhood debate" is that it is the technological front of the national reactionary culture war.
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
rene magritte attempting the impossible
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
annas archive seems like its really chuggin
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colorscolor @uglyjacket.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People with a lot of money aren’t allowed to be “tortured souls.” Get over it dweeb.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thinking of the famous, now-tenured academic woman who told me that she thought anti-rape activism was “inevitably reactionary” and how she’s the Title IX coordinator for her department.
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
pawpaws are delicious it turns out
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i'm nobody, who are you? @fivek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yankee, You should probably care more about this
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i think my posture has improved
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/10/2026
NEW: Public records obtained by 404 Media show administrators taking meetings with parents and alumni when they take issue with student reporting. This comes as student journalists at The Cornell Daily Sun earned recognition for breaking the “Cornell Seven” story.
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How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.
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queer & pleasant danger BDAY 10/9! @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there’s an incredible documentary about how Rufo & his goons targeted journalists at New College of Florida (RIP) as they dismantled the school. it’s called First They Came For My College and is currently touring the US. hopefully it’ll be available for download soon.
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
when i trim my bangs I'm generally pretty conservative in how much i trim them (for probably obvious reasons) and it means i need to trim them a lot. maybe i just need to become braver
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rita hatesville @ritatreats.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the needle got an interview with a popular trans podcaster today and got a slightly more popular article about it seattle theyre grifters with a backlog of bullshit. heres a quick rundown of the people youre dealing with, use a different source for your news and journalism
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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 10/09/2026
It rocks that saying you think it would be funny if a public figure were to die is a Two Strike Moderate Violation but calling an AI freak a "smug dumbfuck" is a Four Strike Serious Violation that becomes a permaban when you go public about it. What are we doing here man
Post text: Just saw my first instance of an account getting nuked by mods over nothing in realtime, @dpad.fm got ethered because an account associated with it hates GenAl shit

screenshot of bsky support email with text: Your behavior was classified as a Serious Violation, adding 4 strikes to your account. You now have 4 total strikes.
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i feel sort of jilted that i didnt end up as an aaron bsky team autoblock
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/09/2026
Viruses run rampant across Havana as water, power fails reut.rs/3VaLvPk
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Viruses run rampant across Havana as water, power fails
Cuban housewife Yuamilka Hechavarria was asleep last Tuesday when water rushed into the cistern of the crumbling tenement where she lives in old Havana.
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Fruit and Bug Administration @waxwing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Laughy taughy
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re interested in gender violence at universities, my favorite book on it is A Survivor’s Education by Joy Neumeyer, which looks at the Title IX process both as a system of political repression and as a way of revoking women’s epistemic authority. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joy-n...
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A Survivor’s Education
A Kirkus Best Book of 2024  An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to belie...
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colorscolor @uglyjacket.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Watching the same discussions play out on consent, rape, misogyny for decades with no improvement and in fact a more vocal seemingly prevailing evil SUCKS !!!!
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
its always sort of staggering to me how many women in the arts and Culture are really vicious knee-jerk misogynists
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
norpois being a convinced and full throated antidreyfusard but dissembling with both-sides stuff around bloch because he doesnt respect him is really a really incredible scene
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Uyghurs in Paris @suckonda4evr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just learned that one of the Cornell 7 is a cop who’s mother worked in law enforcement before he got that gig and like, if that isn’t emblematic of everything America is actually about IDK what is.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights".
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Since I started noticing in the late 90s, I‘ve seen lists like this in bathrooms in libraries, bars, and restaurants. I even found a list with three dudes’ names in different handwritings in a copy of Brigitte Jones’ Diary.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case
Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i think ive discovered my german reading level and its "lesbian romantic novel"
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
xena goes to participate in the romance of the three kingdoms
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
anyway back to proust. whenever one of the guermantes makes a really stupid, spiteful, and regressive joke, looks around the room to see people laughing, and then repeating the joke i keep thinking about those videos where elon musk is trying to be funny
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol it didnt take long to go from "trans women only" to "lgbtq+". "lgb without the t" looking really stupid rn
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
one thing that i think is strange about the way proust gets written about is the way the name of the narrator gets interpreted. "x said my name, which, if it was the same as the author's, would be marcel" doesnt really suggest to me that we should simply take the narrators name to be marcel?
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another man accused, Scott Norris, denies that he partook in sexual misconduct but acknowledges in his own statement that misconduct took place. The men are already contradicting each other but I doubt any of them will be held accountable for making false statements while accusing the survivor of it
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.
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Read Settlers da Silva @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the cornell gang rape case nauseates me. i cant even talk about it. its easy to write this off with hopes that the perpetrators go to prison but the dozens of other men who enabled this and said nothing, the fact that punishment for rape is often light compared to nonviolent offenses, the fact>
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