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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't know how you make City's punishment big enough that the cheating wouldn't have been worth it. Strip the titles and they could just win more, a single relegation to the championship and even with players leaving they'll be back up and a big team in no time. It needs to be even stronger

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I find it bizarre how in the 7 years I’ve been in the US how quickly it’s gone from far better than the UK on online gambling to far far worse

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath.

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

- 'I love Bertrand Russell.' - 'Yeah, so do I.' - 'What's your favourite Bertrand Russell book?' - 'Tough one. I think I'd have to say 'Bertrand Russell's Best'.'

A picture of Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, wearing a black bomber jacket and in the middle of answering a question.

A screenshot of the Routledge page for the book 'Bertrand Russell's Best'.

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Spong @besidetheteesside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What at horrible day to have eyes.

A glory hole of Capt Tom, so it looks like you're sucking off the old garden wobbler.

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...

Ummm hard to describe: a creepily colour-inverted Ichthyosaur wearing spectacles crawls through a cave to discover a copy of Currie’s “The Science of Lost Worlds”

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you guys broke watergate

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People on this app will post anything. “Chris Philp has hoes.” No he doesn’t. That’s not true.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not for the first time, I'm struck that Thomas Aquinas was wasted as a theologian and should have been a trad game designer. This was prompting by seeing he defined 5 sub-classes to Gluttony.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 23/09/2026

this is daft. driving passengers away is the whole point of a bus

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have decided the only path forward is for philosophers to become as smug and elitist about non-philosophers as they imagine we are

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 22/09/2026

Total victory for team anti-science. Everything is "can I find the first hit on Google to link so that I look informed now."

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tomorrow the amazing @cailinmeister.bsky.social will give an online talk at @center4philsci.bsky.social Go the Center’s website for the link. Talk from noon to 1:30! (Part of the Features Former Fellows Series)

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amphibians I have seen in Philadelphia so far. I think this was my first Salamander ever

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A poll that doesn't really show what it's aiming to show (lots of major cities with lots of Lab voters have lots of Wetherspoons, Greggs sell matcha etc) but does show a lot about various, mostly inaccurate, cultural assumptions and things we think of as markers of identity

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Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm trying to organize a session at the 2027 @ishpssb.bsky.social meeting in Buenos Aires on philosophical, historical, or social science issues related to random drift. Mike Dietrich has expressed interest. Please contact me if you think you might be interested or have questions.

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amphibians I have seen in Philadelphia so far. I think this was my first Salamander ever

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It annoys me I can’t even laugh at Spurs fans this season when we’re in the same situation the league below

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You know what? Fuck it. If Rishi Sunak is willing to say the thing before any ostensibly progressive politician, he deserves the credit

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Some people are saying we might never win again

Scoreline showing Burnley drew 1-1 against Derby County after Derby scored a goal in stoppage time

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 19/09/2026

I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.

Grid of logic gate options as Venn diagrams of Tilly Norwood, Tilly Orwood, Tilly Andwood, Tilly Xorwood, Tilly Nandwood, and Tilly Xnandwood

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This image makes me laugh every time

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I see they‘re doing the same destroying Christianity by having an acclaimed director making a film based off one of the most famous Christian series discourse as they did destroying western history by having an acclaimed director making a film based off one of the most famous Greek epic.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely lost my shit at this co-op mode for Hearts of Iron, which you play as the Army, Navy, Emperor, and Government. All have their own win conditions aside the Government, which lost the game automatically in 1925. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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True Imperial Japan Experience

True Imperial Japan Experience A Hearts of Iron 4 Game This is a counteroperative roleplaying game. The resolution system is a game of multiplayer Hearts of Iron 4 and a number of discord chats. Requi...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18/09/2026

"Keynes regarded the tendency to hoard money as a 'somewhat disgusting morbidity…' The fact that this social malady was allowed to spread unimpeded throughout the body politic was a powerful testament to the extreme humiliation of religion in post-Victorian society."

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You Should Read Keynes

Keynes was a liberal for our age: morally serious, hopeful for a better future, and yet reconciled to the compromises necessary to preserve the fragile liberal order.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/09/2026

Not going to comment on the whole "AI safety sex cult" thread that's making the rounds *other* than to note that it's been interesting to watch actual trust & safety people moving into the AI world and clashing with... those people...

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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

logician who gets briefly excited upon hearing that the solution to navier–stokes involves forcing

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Jim Weatherall @jamesowenweatherall.com · 16/09/2026

Just launched! LPS is running a new certificate program on Science for Policy and the Public. It's an introduction to modern philosophy of science aimed at people who communicate about and advise on science. Check it out! ce.uci.edu/programs/soc... #philsci #philsky #academicsky

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Science for Policy and the Public | UC Irvine DCE

The Science for Policy and the Public Certificate is an interdisciplinary certificate program designed to provide learners with foundational knowledge in...

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 16/09/2026

Some of you have never had to scrape a soul off the ceiling because you didn’t rope it down first and it shows

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Truly amazing the degree to which liberal Americans will look for any other country to blame other than their own for the rise of far-right ideology accross western liberal democracies

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“I really hope we don’t have a relegation battle with Preston” monkey paw curls as we both easily go down without a battle

Image of championship table showing Burnley and Preston North End as the bottom two

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Which is better: Human history as it is, or this mystery box you will never experience because you wouldn’t have been born?”

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What I love about the people answering “negative” is they are basically saying “the last thousand years? I don’t care for them”.

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romulus - 🛸METROID RAVENOUS🍽️ @romulusofficial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented

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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

They call him Batman Beyond because he's made entirely of plant proteins

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Reading about Japan's first astronaut, who was a chainsmoker and spent most of his mission being violently sick. He died earlier this year, RIP to a real one.

Akiyama was not a trained astronaut, scientist nor engineer. During his time aboard Mir, Akiyama gave live reports each day documenting life aboard the station, but his apparent discomfort led to him being described as the first "antihero in space". He described his struggles such as space sickness and craving for cigarettes. During training, he quit smoking cigarettes, having previously smoked four packs a day. Before liftoff, when asked what he looked forward to most upon his return to Earth, he said "I can't wait to have a smoke". His fellow cosmonauts later reported, in regards to his nausea, that they "hadn't ever seen a man vomit that much."

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

don't think about too hard

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I really really really dislike this new trend of politicians hiding behind lawyers. Parliament is sovereign in our system, if you don't like a law, it can be changed. As a result, there is no point claiming that a political issue has been 'resolved' by the courts, as that is literally impossible.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The writers of this show getting increasingly desperate in finding new ways to reset the status quo to “there is a Tory government”. “Guys, what if Farage just started saying and doing mad things, like ‘let’s dig up Napoleon III’?”

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Going to Argentina is great. Imagine going to a friend's house and they have pictures all over of your wheelbarrow and they speak about how "la carretilla" is crucial to their identity and fashion and their relatives died trying to sneak into your garden to take it, but you forgot you had one.

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I actually really enjoyed visiting Argentina, but deeply odd country sums up my reaction to seeing these signs legally mandated on public transport

Sign on a bus saying “Las Islas Malvinas son argentinas”

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is where I command the Chilean economy from

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Current day Ringo post: peace & love to me fans ✌️✌️✌️ Current Paul post: Just petted dog! Hypothetical George post: heard a new album, give it a listen Hypothetical John Lennon post: Come to “Cancel Me if You Can Fest” all funds raised benefit the Ricky Gervais cartoon where cats say the word slag

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Why do the views outside the site even matter for the world heritage site? The Tower of London doesn't suddenly become less of an important historic site because you don't get as nice views of it

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