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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Russian judge only gave him a 7.1

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We’re gonna be sorry either way, tbh.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seventeen years of decorative gourd delight!

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/09/2026

Oh do listen

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some days - quite often, lately - this timeline terrifies and disgusts me. And some days there’s Jethro Sheeran.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Trans" is not a policy.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

If a man with this tragic sense approaches, not fire, but another manifestation of original power, like the splitting of the atom, he will do so with fear and trembling. He will not leap in where angels fear to tread, unless he is prepared to accept the punishment of fallen angels. - Norbert Wiener

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our pro-tection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment. It is a dangerous world, in which there is no security, save the somewhat negative one of humility and restrained ambitions. It is a world in which there is a condign punishment, not only for him who sins in conscious arrogance, but for him whose sole crime is ignorance of the gods and the world around him.
If a man with this tragic sense approaches, not fire, but another manifestation of original power, like the splitting of the atom, he will do so with fear and trembling. He will not leap in where angels fear to tread, unless he is prepared to accept the punishment of the fallen angels. Neither will he calmly transfer to the machine made in his own image the responsibility for his choice of good and evil, without continuing to accept a full responsibility for that choice.
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much "know-how" he may have, has very little "know-what." He will accept the superior dexterity of the machine-made decisions without too much inquiry as to the motives and principles behind these. In doing so, he will put himself sooner or later in the position of the father in W. W. Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw, who has wished for a hundred pounds, only to find at his door the agent of the company for which his son works, tendering him one hundred pounds as a consolation for his son's death at the factory. Or again, he may do it in the way of the Arab fisherman in the One Thousand and One Nights, when he broke

Let us remember that there are game-playing machines both of the Monkey's Paw type and of the type of the Bottled Djinnee. Any machine constructed for the purpose of making decisions, if it does not possess the power of learning, will be completely liter-al-minded. Woe to us if we let it decide our conduct, unless we have previously examined the laws of its action, and know fully that its conduct will be carried out on principles acceptable to us! On the other hand, the machine like the djinnee, which can learn and can make decisions on the basis of its learning, will in no way be obliged to make such decisions as we should have made, or will be acceptable to us. For the man who is not aware of this, to throw the problem of his responsibility on the machine, whether it can learn or not, is to cast his responsibility to the winds, and to find it coming back seated on the whirlwind.
I have spoken of machines, but not only of machines having brains of brass and thews of iron. When human atoms are knit into an organization in which they are used, not in their full right as responsible human beings, but as cogs and levers and rods, it matters little that their raw material is flesh and blood. What is used as an element in a machine, is in fact an element in the machine. Whether we entrust our decisions to machines of metal, or to those machines of flesh and blood which are bureaus and vast laboratories and armies and corporations, we shall never receive the right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions. The Monkey's Paw of skin and bone is quite as deadly as anything cast out of steel and iron. The djinnee which is a unifying figure of speech for a whole corporation is just as fearsome as if it were a glorified conjuring trick.
The hour is very late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States of America.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've written about anti-trans Dems and how cis ppl should respond repeatedly over the last few weeks. I have multiple threads recommending this action by BHF. Some have taken to yelling at trans ppl who lash out in pain and grief and betrayal. That's not helpful. This is.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Trump’s Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center, Judge Rules" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/a...

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Short and sweet: ”fairness“ isn’t really a thing.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Great thread on “fairness” and trans kids in sports. Long(ish) read, and worth it.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Is it perfect? No! But are you convincing anyone with, "But the GOP sux!" ALSO NO! We're not stupid. We know the GOP sux. & we're telling you we don't feel safe voting for anti-trans dems.“

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Each person who falls under our front bumper teaches us something valuable about how humans act in the real world.”

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A message from our Presidink:

Old fashioned button features Hostess King Don character with text

King Ding Don says:
“Say no to drugs”

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Make your own: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Behold. The "genetic master race".

A photo, originally posted by @magicmoneytree.bsky.social, of the eugenecists/"race science" advocates Richard Hanania, Curtis Yarvin and Nathan Cofnas.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Mmmm, blood of my enemies!

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“No, the Bog Rat did not make us a soufflé made out of Bog Rat meat. It was a traditional Bog Rat soufflé containing carrots and Stilton cheese.”

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

These guys are so *wholesome*!

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Block Man @dwn-081.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I wonder how much of this is going on.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Right now, the focus is on the conditions on the ship, how they are terrible, and how Donald Trump's denies the facts. A better perspective: a ship at sea, forgotten by the commander in chief, in which sailors are suicidal, is the consequence of defeat.

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