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Haunted Hannah 👻 🍂🎃 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It always feels shocking when someone is a racist against his own wife, but never when he's a misogynist against her

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

The Bluesky philosophy absolutely is that once a Black person reaches a certain number of followers, people are allowed to talk to us any old way and we are supposed to take it and the medical and psychological consequences of swallowing it because we have a lot of followers

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hammam is a volunteer humanitarian nurse treating Gaza's wounded since the war began. He urgently needs our help: his family is starving & homeless, and his brother is disabled & suffers from severe seizures. Any donation -even small ones- can help get food & medical care chuffed.org/project/1844...

Nurse Hammam at work, wearing a dark scrub, a blue facemask and white medical gloves, preparing an IV access for a patient, surrounded with medical equipment at the hospital.

Nurse Hammam at work wearing a blue scrub, blue medical gloves, cleaning a patient's leg with cotton.

Selfie of Hammam wearing a black shirt in front of a destroyed building partially collapsed

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

Trump Jr’s wedding appears to have been paid for by Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch *linked to the theft and kidnapping of Ukrainian children*. This is both hideously evil and so utterly tawdry. newrepublic.com/post/215371/...

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The Terrifying Person Who Bankrolled Trump Jr.’s Wedding

Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, which he described as attended by “just really close friends,” was thanks to an ally of Vladimir Putin.

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Karena Avedissian @karena1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Syria Is Sidelining the Fighters Who Beat ISIS Damascus fought to bring the SDF under its control. But fewer than half the SDF have joined the new Syrian Army — even as foreign jihadists get folded in. thedefensepost.com/2026/08/26/s...

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Syria Is Sidelining the Fighters Who Beat ISIS

Syria's new army is sidelining the loyal, US-trained SDF while absorbing foreign jihadists and abusive warlords instead

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 21/08/2026

boosting soad in gaza, i wanna do whatever i can to keep her and omar afloat!

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YourAnonRiots 🐈‍⬛🏴🇵🇸🇲🇲🇺🇦🇸🇦🦋 @youranonriots.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Rojava is also important for Hacktivists because in the past, during ISIS attacks, some of our friends and anarchists from all over the world went to defend Rojava, some of them lost their lives. Yes, some Anons fought against ISIS, we should defend Rojava too. #DefendRojava #Antifascists

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Veronica Anrathi @disarmonia.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Please look at this map depicting everything launched at Kyiv last night. Just for a second, imagine your home being the target of this. If it weren’t for our air defence, we would all be dead.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/08/2026

We should keep posting this until the media writes about this and more... I did not become an academic to watch it go more racist. We're supposed to improve year on year — and not revert back to full blown eugenics and scientific racism.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In case anyone forgot 👇🏾

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026

Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/03/2026

anw sign here: www.change.org/p/stop-the-h... > In these venues he has repeatedly advanced claims about the supposed cognitive inferiority of Black people , along with broader arguments about the “feminization” of academia and suggestions that eugenic ideas deserve renewed scientific consideration.

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Stop the hiring of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/03/2026

> The question is not whether Cofnas should be permitted to hold his views[. It's] whether a public research university in Belgium should be [granting] credibility to those views, funding their dissemination, and providing them the cover of academic legitimacy. www.brusselstimes.com/2020728/the-...

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The danger of legitimising hate through academia

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Sama'a and her family have endured unimaginable suffering in the ruins of Gaza. Please give what you can to help them survive. chuffed.org/project/1575...

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Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d

Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.

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Woodland Park Zoo @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's berry season and you have the tiniest friends. These critically endangered babies are Egyptian tortoises that hatched on July 4 and 6, 2026. Currently, our Egyptian tortoises are living behind the scenes in a warm and cozy habitat with lots of attention from their dedicated animal keepers.

Two small Egyptian tortoises are positioned on either side of a bright red raspberry on a gravel surface.

A small tortoise is on a sandy surface, next to a plump blueberry

An Egyptian tortoise is close to a blueberry on a sandy surface.

Two small tortoises face a large blackberry on a gravel surface.

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sexy baba yaga @beardynoise.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Inventing sex / Adding women

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Obligatory repost: bsky.app/profile/cher...

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.

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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026

Donations have decreased significantly, While the needs of Samaa's family remain. Every day she tries to provide food and basic necessities for her two daughters amidst harsh conditions. Thank you to everyone who stands by them. . chuffed.org/project/1575...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13/07/2026

I'm willing to bet there are men colleagues who have more women academics blocked on social media than women they cite in their references. Easy bet because many cite exactly 0 women. 🥲

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You mean the minute anybody put any effort into coming up with something else they could make this better by almost nearly entirely this, it's my surprised face

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The Office Jenna Fischer

Alt: The Office Jenna Fischer is not surprised

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Pizza is mid." - Karl Marx, Capital Vol 1., chapter 6

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 08/07/2026

While writing this script, I went back and forth over whether I was being too hard on Majority Report, Kyle Kulinski, and others. But while editing I had to actually watch many of the videos where they mocked a woman who Platner abused while confidently announcing she was lying, and I was disgusted.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 09/07/2026

A few people asked why I didn’t include @ryangrim.bsky.social and his response to all this in this video. Not only did I record it before his comments, but it appears that he only posts his pro-rape comments on Xitter. Probably bc Nazi bars also are Rape bars.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/06/2026

I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society broadly too. "Models" doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Thanks @carvalhais.org for inviting me to write this.

Models in cognitive and related sciences are part of an overarching methodology, computational
or broadly formal modelling, that aims to test, refine, and showcase our understandings of
brain, cognition, and behaviour.1 In their foundational book Models as Mediators, Mary S.
Morgan and Margaret Morrison (1999)2 make the case that models play a mediatory role in
science between what we observe and what we want to build to house our understandings,
theories. Under this conception of models, known as the pragmatic view,3 we can carve out
not only their unique role, but also why and how they must be protected from forces that
do not prize understanding. Taking a broad perspective that sees all human activity that
strives towards understanding as scientific or as under our purview as modellers, allows for
this characterisation of models as mediators to be more generally fruitful.4 In the context of
human-centred design, for example, our theories may be anything from our understanding of
users’ behaviours in a specific context to our understanding of what a user expects from a
product or system a priori.
Importantly, scientific modelling is apart from other scientific praxis, such as concocting
a verbal or formal theory or designing and running experiments.5 Models, as described by
Morrison and Morgan,6 have the following characteristics:
a. construction — models are neither directly derived from theory nor from data, but
through an effortful friction between the modeller and the medium (e.g. their favourite
programming language, mathematics, natural language) through which they are building
their model;7

In the contemporary entanglements with industry that scholarly fields find themselves —
such as with the imposition of gargantuan statistical models, which consume breathtaking
amounts of energy, and which require the building of evermore data-centres to house the glut of
data unavoidably required for their so-called human-like abilities9 — the idea of using models
in such slow10 ways is seemingly out the window. What is worthy of perseverating on in our
specific context is not so much that so-called artificial intelligence (AI) models may harm our
individual practice or displace our labour. They certainly may.11 However, the threat from AI
worthy of highlighting here is that a culture of frictionless practice, which such models (in
name only) promote, is not only harmful to people’s mental health and skils, but also directly
undermines scholarly praxis.12
Avoiding the effortful and difficult process of building, testing, and throwing away models
— be they written in well-crafted code, be they not-yet-fully-formal models, or be they mock-ups
of potential final products — with the goal of deeply understanding our theories about the world
is anti-scientific and anti-scholarly. This spills over into an anti-intellectual stance for a designer
or user of models. Such avoidance is normalised by the addictive convenience culture facilitated
and entrenched by contemporary AI. A culture in which so-called prompting a machine for a
seemingly polished output requires none of the above characteristics of modelling as a process.
Furthermore, presenting anti- or non-scientific modelling endeavours as something other than
what they are, may even veer into pseudo-science and pseudo-technology.13 To add insult
to injury, if junior modellers are not trained to perform this praxis, the end of skills being
inherited by future generations is nigh.
To subvert this, we must preserve the special status of crafting models. I propose this
can be done in a two-pronged manoeuvre: a) rejection …

quantitative predictions of the tides, which have been being refined over the millennia,24 to the
qualitative shift in explanation produced by carving out the concept of gravity. Quantitative
predictions did not pile up to produce our contemporary understanding of gravity.
Protecting modelling praxis may be difficult, but needs must when the devil drives. The
alternative is stifling our knowledge about (our understandings of) the world. And so to
avoid making theorising and modelling seem superfluous, we must remember that scientific
models do not operate like inferential statistical models wherein prediction is the goal. As
expounded on above, models are the instrument through which we perform fully-fledged
scientific reasoning on our theories, and which mediate between theory, formal or otherwise,
connecting it to observations, data, and phenomena, and back again. A model (in name only)
that is built through applying statistics over a dataset, which all contemporary artificial neural
network-based AI models are, will neither function as mediator between data and theory —
it has been contaminated — nor provide qualitative predictions.25 Nor will it serve any user
who seeks to gain insight and skills, nor any designer of systems who wishes for a society
comprising such fellow humans.
Ultimately, “all science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of
things directly coincided.”26 If we merge essences and appearances in our reasoning, we risk
our understandings of the world. All modelling, all metaphorical, theoretical, and mediatory
thinking, enrich us and our societies and make possible not only valuable understandings of
our own humanity, but constitute our humanity as such

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on track for eviction @foreigner.northsky.social · 09/07/2026

Saiahmed is a Sudanese artist trying to survive a genocide. Please help keep him and his family safe. Share and please donate if you can. No amount is too small. 💸💕 #KeepEyesOnSudan

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“His most recent piece for the student paper, which was published last month, criticized what he described as discriminatory hiring practices in academia biased against white men” well knock me over with a feather

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Few sexual assaults get reported, investigated, charged, prosecuted, or result in any legal penalty. This is because every formal system required for “justice” to be served treats women as unequal or like property. Men in the public eye, & their stans, keep using this dynamic to their advantage.

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Unfriendly Soulaani Princexx @lenadreamsingld.blacksky.app · 01/07/2026

$1415/$2500 - only $1085 to meet my goal. Hitting my goal will support me until I start working mid Aug! Giving to my cash links avoids fees and delays in receiving aid. #BIPOCMA #helpsky #mutualaid #helpfolkslive 💕💸 #blackqueer cash.me/$lenadreamsi... paypal.me/lenadreamsin...

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shanna 🩷 @shannasins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

HELLO do you care about trans children? are you upset about the supreme court ruling today and want to do some good like helping a trans girl stay safely housed during/right after pride month? juniper is a disabled mom to kids including a trans girl and they all need help to stay housed this month!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Sama'a's neighborhood was bombed this morning. Her neighbors lost their children. She lives in fear that the same will happen to her own daughters. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...

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Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d

Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.

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