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Scott Burnett

@burscott.bsky.social
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Author of Analysing Environmental Discourse (2026) and White Belongings (2022). Asst Prof of African Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State. Organiser @ PSFA

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every half-ass plan for our extinction that they provide just turns me on. No internet, you say? No online banking?? No 2FA to use the bathroom at my job??? Baby I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s. You’re describing my platonic ideal. Extinct me.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/09/2026
"Gibney’s basic take on Musk is that he’s a confidence man whose power comes only from the stock market and disappears the minute we see through the facade of sales pitches"
hollywoodreporter.com
Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”
He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he may also be the most dangerous.
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MJF @pi3832.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
TBH, trans-rights are currently a great litmus test. Anyone who sells out trans-people cannot be trusted to properly punish the fascist. They're just collaborators waiting to happen.
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Even as far back as The Blank Slate, Pinker's sloppy pop sci books had to get major corrections by experts www.nybooks.com/articles/200...
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Darwinian Storytelling | H. Allen Orr
1. What do Stalin, modern architecture, radical feminism, and most parenting experts have in common? They are all products of the false belief that we are
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Journalists might sleep on anti-migrant stuff from a fascist bookshop, but how about Claire Fox (and Academy of Ideas), Paul Embery, Tory councillor David Moore, David Starkey, and senior policy fellow Harrison Pitt at Restore Britain, connected to a fascist bookshop selling Hitler speeches?
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
oh no
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Haley has support from a lot of respected Dems in Michigan. And she has raised doubts about El-Sayed's electability in the general election. But the outside money is not so much for her as against El-Sayed. It will disappear if she wins, and switch to the Republican side if she loses the primary.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Two additional points. One: This was at AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference, in Rio de Janeiro. And: "A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included ⁠in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools."
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...
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The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.
I have a
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/05/2026
Yet another example of a polling agency actively participating in spreading an actual, serious and consequential lie to the public. Fossil fuels are more expensive. Clean energy is cheaper. @yougov.co.uk is very literally lying in this poll, and there should be actual consequences for this
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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 28/05/2026
Argentina, you say? Interesting choice. Has anybody done that before?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company
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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The response to this from every educator must be "No. Fuck you. Kill me." There is no compromise less than that. The safety of the students is non-negotiable.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
DHS posts a new propaganda video that uses the White Stripes song "Icky Thump." DHS didn't include a line from the song, "why don't you kick yourself out, you're an immigrant too?" Jack White is famously anti-Trump so it'll be interesting to see what he says about this one.
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I thought the last word in this tweet was gonna be “rescued” but boy did I laugh when it was not
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Why we need the humanities more than ever, exhibit 3756.
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I'm looking forward to this conference! Not looking forward to the Kafkaesque nightmare of getting a visa for travel to the UK, but it'll be worth it to hang out with my gender & language folx, some of the most interesting and welcoming scholars you'll find – so join @igala.bsky.social!
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IGALA 14 @igala14.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We are delighted to announce the first Call for Proposals for the 14th conference of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), to be held at York St John Univeristy (York, United Kingdom) between Wednesday 21st and Friday 23rd July 2027. @igala.bsky.social @lsjysj.bsky.social
This image announces that the call for proposals for IGALA 14 is now live!
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Will 100s of UK profs that signed statements supporting Stock due to the falsely claimed suppression of her speech by Sussex express outrage over being lied to in order to (1) further the career of Stock and (2) force unis to remove statements protecting trans faculty/students from harassment?
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Usually, when I get interviewed for a piece on something like "AI consciousness" I am relegated to the skeptics box --- some short paragraph near the end. So it is a nice change to see this piece by @hollybaxter.bsky.social Short 🧵>> www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-news...
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The people building AI think it might be conscious. That’s not the most alarming part
Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amadei says he can’t rule out that its chatbot, Claude, is conscious. A Google engineer is sure he once built a sentient being. Holly Baxter speaks to the experts about whether o...
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Ja fine except the number of South Africans who have to explain that they don’t mean Brooklyn, Pretoria is not negligible 🤔
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Anybody who still wants a Cybertruck after watching this review… really deserves to own a Cybertruck
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Sheesh this is absolutely terrible: deepening dystopia, Target edition
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 12/04/2026
I hope this is good news for queer Hungarians but from an outsider it feels like, at best, a "we won't actively persecute you" type of politics. further right than Joe Biden.
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Not to be a killjoy but is nobody concerned that Magyar only left Fidesz two years ago?
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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Reading this you might think post doctoral men never have children but of course that’s not true. We simply don’t demand men juggle these things. It’s 2026 and we still treat women— with whole ass PhDs— like that’s what they’re for.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope."

Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war.

A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic.

Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"
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Phīlomorph @philomorph.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
An interesting and insightful piece on Ai in journalism and in general from @marisakabas.bsky.social "If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled—AI is already here, the end is already here—then we will create that for them." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
thehandbasket.co
Refusing to accept an AI-poisoned future of journalism
Humans, however flawed, are
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A professor friend of mine taught in Missouri earlier on in her career; when she referred in passing to the US having lost the Vietnam war, her students challenged her and then refused to believe her when she explained it to them real slow
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just Zohran making basic infrastructure cool and sexy, that’s all
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I greatly enjoyed speaking to The Cairo Review about masculinist self-help and the neoliberal grind cultures at the heart of the manosphere: www.thecairoreview.com/podcasts/int...
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Internet Influencers and the Far-Right—with Dr. Scott Burnett: CR Amplified ep. 8
How did internet self-help culture and the online manosphere evolve into a pipeline for modern fascism? Dr. Scott Burnett joins CR Amplified to revisit the historical roots, neoliberal anxieties, and ...
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 04/12/2025
"USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025." did the US Navy post a profit last year?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.” Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.
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Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank
Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in their car as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Just refollowed this clown because this is too good
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
this made me cackle all the way through
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/03/2026
In the last decade, the Atlantic has not platformed a single trans person to speak about issues affecting them or the broader trans community. Not a single one. Yet, they have monthly screeds by Helen Lewis and endless money to pay random transphobic grifters to pump stuff like this out.
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The war continues working, day and night. It inspires tyrants to deliver long speeches awards medals to generals and themes to poets it contributes to the industry of artificial limbs provides food for flies adds pages to the history books achieves equality between killer and killed” Read it all:
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If we’re ever going to get out of this, the British media class must be destroyed
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Hannah Spencer combines the spirit of CBeebies with the politics of Gaza
The new Green MP campaigned in Urdu and appealed to the communal fury of Muslim votersBrendan O'Neill
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If Queers for Palestine were a person, it would be Hannah Spencer. No one better sums up the dimness and sheer vacuity of the modern Left than the new MP for Gorton and Denton. There she is in her blue jeans and trendy trainers dancing awkwardly as Muslim men who dream of wrapping her sinful body in a black cloak look on with restrained fury
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
UPDATE: it's legit! TIME Magazine did a kind of retrospective "Women of the Year" in 2020, and this is in fact an official image from the magazine, though Makeba did not appear on the cover. It seems to have been a strategy to make up for their historical failures? time.com/5793625/zenz...
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Zenzile Miriam Makeba: 100 Women of the Year
Find out why TIME chose Zenzile Miriam Makeba as one of the 100 women who defined the last century
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