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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'These photographs should be hanging in MoMA or the Whitney' - huge thanks to @sandyernestallen.bsky.social for this beautiful piece on Loren Rex Cameron. 'Body Alchemy' was a sacred text when I bought it, aged 19, in 2003. It still is, to be honest.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a popular/trade biography of Hildegard? I really want something cozy to curl up with, but that won't break my brain with inaccuracies (as a feminist musicologist). Trying to ground myself in the good things too, and Hildegard is always a good thing.

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The worst part of my PhD research was having to read the 17th century texts men had written boasting and fantasising about gang rape as a bonding activity between buddies, putting uppity women in their place, and I simply don't understand at this point how any cis man doesn't understand this?

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'those with the most severe and debilitating disabilities would not lose any money.' - I don't know a single severely disabled person - all of whom have reams of medical evidence of impairment and illness - who hasn't had their conditions deliberately downplayed by benefit assessors

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is heroic This is true anti-fascist resistance I don't know how many of us would have the bravery to do this, knowing there are violent thugs on your doorstep Does anyone know of a place to donate to her legal fees? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Nurse charged with helping man in hospital escape from ICE custody

FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in Michigan

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think a lot about the fact that mocking/refusing/throwing outrage at the idea of building resilience used to be an easy way of promoting yourself and growing your audience in certain online circles. What are the incentives for brand growth vs. community health?

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes! Fight more, win more!

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do any of these clowns even know - let alone admit publicly - that music is a bodily system? Music isn't a programme or a language or a series of problems and solutions, although it can incorporate all of those things. It's a uniquely human bodily impulse/reaction/response THING - come on now!

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There a very few books that deserve being called 'vital', but Sara Ahmed's 'Complaint' is one of them.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“There’s a feeling today that Britain only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942 [...] you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC," said historian Martin Winstone www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth

Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London

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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This links to how I see patriarchy as a form of generally invisible subsidy of male life by female labour, so I will tend to take this kind of lens of course.

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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(Bob was always implicitly like that; but one day he didn't get enough of the invisible appeasement he felt entitled to, and blew up, in a way women around him probably implicitly knew he could)

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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think one major way you can miss seeing this as a man is all the work women around you are doing to navigate misogyny is invisible to you. There's a minefield that you only see when it blows up, and you wonder, how did that get there. "How did Bob turn into that."

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are really good reasons *not* to do it, but both this Labour government and the last are hamstrung by the inability to just clearly state 'Donald Trump is bad and has bad consequences'.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026

🚨 We need to hear from YOU Have you had a problem accessing gendered services since April last year, outside of school and the workplace? Are you a service provider worried about remaining inclusive? PLEASE let us know through this form - and share widely goodlaw.social/mzb3

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There a very few books that deserve being called 'vital', but Sara Ahmed's 'Complaint' is one of them.

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not going to share graphic details of what happened at Cornell (and what is normalized on campuses in more places than we may like to admit), but I wish more people would read "Complaint!", because it helps understand, in part, how harm is institutionally enabled. www.dukeupress.edu/complaint

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Complaint!

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026

the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

And we tell elaborate, politicised stories to justify that jonesing for catharsis. We deserve it, we say. We're oppressed. The world is on fire. We're--one might say--mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore. Then you make your dumbass death threat and nothing changes.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

And I just don't accept that logic anymore. It's just plain shitty behaviour! But it's downstream of the social media prime directive: if it feels good, post it. Like so much else political posting, it's about empty catharsis rather than achieving anything.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

And the only coherent answer people who defend this behaviour seem to give is that if you are marginalised to a certain degree, then you're entitled to a certain amount of "venting." You know, as a treat.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

There's all sorts of excuses that are made for this kind of behaviour--I should know, I used to make them. Psychic wages of oppression; small account; pales in comparison to rich evil people; an unserious, unrealistic threat. But as I got older I just started asking, "why act like this at all?"

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/09/2026

This part, this part that has been the issue for so many minoritized folks for such a long fucking time is what just destroys me constantly: "I wish that 55% of my brain was not devoted to strategizing about the survival of me and of my friends." We just want to do our goofy little stuff.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m helping Dr Kat Gupta with this project! We are delighted with the number of responses we’ve had so far, and anyone else who would like to participate is very very welcome! Participation is super easy – pretty much just need to fill in the consent form!

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Does anyone have any good tea house recommendations for South West/South Central London with a similar kind of vibe to the original Angel Katsute 100? Craving somewhere to curl up with a book, but I'm rarely in that part of town and I miss it! www.katsute100.com/angel

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Angel | katsute100

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

katsute100.com

Angel | katsute100

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 24/09/2026

Tweet by merman_melville: Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What are ‘the canonical ethnicities’ anyway? German? Greek? Hungarian? Not Austrian, Belgian, Italian, Moroccan, Russian, obvs. Imagine being so assinine. You can be an Austrian German but not a Scottish English. A Bosnian Serb but not an Icelandic Norwegian. Where are the Burgundians at?

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the priority here being the migrants and not the vigilantes is *insane* and also more evidence of my Belphegor theory.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026

The man who filmed himself stabbing one, with a person on board, is still seemingly at large.

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Courtney Love Lies Bleeding 🫦 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 23/09/2026

what’s the matter babe, you’ve barely touched the featureless void where your soul used to be, that constantly gnaws at the rest of your existence

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