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Wayne Myers

@conniptions.org
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Dreamer, muesli enthusiast, he/him etc. Placeholder account. Not here. Ok, maybe a tiny bit here. Find me mostly over on Mastodon at @conniptions@mastodon.social or wayne.conniptions.org

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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 5h
Where, by the way, do you think those lies originate? Only the Israeli state - deeply invested in the racist branch of Zionism - has an interest in erasing the very explicitly non-racist binational Zionism of such as Martin Buber and Hannah Arendt. Odd that you should join with them in that erasure.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 5h
Well no, I don't. I enthusiastically support you in opposing the genocidal Israeli state. I also encourage you to stop repeating ahistorical lies about Zionism that undermine your opposition to the genocide by cutting you off from potential allies in that opposition from within the Jewish community.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 6h
1. Rd8+ If 1... Ke7, 2. Re8# If 1... Kg7, 2. Rg8#
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Lisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social · 9h
My latest is about the films NAZA and Yes!, and the meaning of the cacophony of angry reactions. newlinesmag.com/review/two-f...
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Two Films About Gaza and the People Who Hate Them
The documentary film “NAZA” and the satirical drama “Yes!,” both by Israeli directors, hold up mirrors to Israeli society that most find too difficult to see.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 8h
That's flatly contradictory. As you say, the drafters do not accept that non-racist forms of Zionism exist. They define anything called Zionism to be racism. That is their very clear intent. All forms of Zionism are "defined" by the motion. That of Martin Buber and Hannah Arendt? Also racist. Etc.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 18h
Thank you for saying so! Very much appreciated.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 05/10/2026
If the main thing you want to do right now is to read a long, rambling, angry response by a non-Zionist Jewish now ex-Green Party Of England And Wales member to the not-so-hilarious antics of yesterday, then have I got the post for you: wayne.conniptions.org/2026/10/05/w... (It may not be, tbf)
wayne.conniptions.org
Why I Am No Longer A Green
I joined the Green Party of England and Wales in 2014.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 05/10/2026
So we are told, repeatedly and forcefully, from all sides. But I think an interesting through-line can be drawn from there to the likes of Hadash and Standing Together.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 05/10/2026
The pre-1948 Hashomer Hatzair platform (among others) explicitly advocated a binational state for both Jews and Palestinians; it is wrong to say that political Zionism has always only envisaged an exclusively Jewish state. Binationalist Zionism more or less vanished after 1948, but it was a thing.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 05/10/2026
about:config browser.nova.enabled = false you're welcome
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i will shed no tears at this amazing news
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 04/10/2026
Told this, among others, by JEWISH GREENS, by the way. Steam will stop coming out of my ears eventually.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 04/10/2026
I have been repeatedly told not to worry, the fact that party has just voted that my synagogue is a racist organisation is no reason to be concerned and the chances of me being kicked out of the party for being a member of a racist organisation are slim to none. This has not reassured me one whit.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 04/10/2026
G-d damn them all!
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 04/10/2026
a letter of marque came from the king to the scummiest vessel i've ever seen
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 04/10/2026
So synagogues affiliated to the MPJ, etc, are now in a special and unique category of "racist" organisations which it's ok for Greens to be a member of. It's not just absurd but oxymoronic.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 04/10/2026
As of today, I'm both a member of the Green Party and a member of a synagogue affiliated to the Movement For Progressive Judaism, which, from its position on Zionism, the Green Party has just voted is a racist organisation. Why should this "racist organisation" be treated differently from any other?
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 04/10/2026
That would have been better.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 04/10/2026
Counterpoint: not only will Jewish Zionists be expelled, or made sufficiently unwelcome that they leave, but some Jewish non or anti-Zionists who are insufficiently capable of proving they are the Right Kind of non or anti-Zionist will also be expelled, or otherwise pushed out.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Green Party deserves thanks on two fronts. Firstly, for helping to bring down Kier Starmer's government. And secondly, for reminding us how toxic and useless some parts of the British left are.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 04/10/2026
Possible cheese-related playlist: Isn't Cheese Lovely Gouda Get You Into My Life Blue Brie Hill Camembert-by Light My Fire Roquefort Round The Clock Simple Twist Of Feta Stilton Crazy After All These Years Wish You Were Paneer Halloumi Favourite Songs Curd You Be Loved
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 04/10/2026
Thank you for posting this.
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Ruthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And finally - for now - Carla (And I will note that I think thst motion E03 answers her trust that the party can write a good motion emphasising our values - I really hope we get to vote on it tomorrow!) #gpconf 3/3 bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Ruthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Then an excellent video from Sian (noting that she says the amendments will make it better, but not enough for her to support it) 2/3 bsky.app/profile/sian...
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Ruthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very pleased to see our MPs taking a clear stand against the very problematic Zionism is Racism motion, which #gpconf will be voting on tomorrow. Starting with Adrian 👇 1/3
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 03/10/2026
I'm very stuck on this whole "adding punctuation turned Hebrew into a spoken language" thing. The most charitable explanation I can come up for is that the interviewer created it while attempting to decipher scribbled unintelligible notes originally intended to record something else altogether.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 02/10/2026
Honestly? I am concerned about your wellbeing. I don't think we have any friends in common I know well enough that I could ask to them check in on you, but if I did, at this point, that's what I'd do. I've unfollowed you now, so we needn't continue this uncomfortable interaction any further.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 02/10/2026
No reason you'd remember this particularly, but many years ago, Tom, you were very kind to me at a time when I was at a very low ebb. I remain grateful to you for that. My comment above was rude, but also deliberately didn't identify its subject. You are the one who blew up at mild pushback on AI.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 01/10/2026
Are you saying that numbers mean things? Huge if true.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 30/09/2026
Blocked angrily by an ex colleague for daring to suggest that AI hallucination has in fact not been solved and their example of an "indistinguishable from real" AI-generated photo was in fact clearly slop. It's sad. This person was once very bright and empathic. If this is AI psychosis it sucks.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 30/09/2026
Seriously?
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 30/09/2026
Those use cases - vibe coding, image/video generation and tax calculation - are all somewhat orthogonal to the assertion about hallucination. Do these super-sekrit best and most exclusive models no longer confidently state incorrect stuff some fair % of the time? Or is that 'yes' actually a 'no'?
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 30/09/2026
What does 'it does work' mean? Confidently stating completely incorrect stuff some fair % of the time has been solved? Huge if true. But, if so, why only on the super secret "frontier"models only some select few access? Why not... just fix hallucination? Or is that maybe not how it works? Dunno
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 28/09/2026
My beloved does make awesome candles. #ProofOfCat #ProofOfCandle
A candle in the shape of a black cat, sitting on a teatowel.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 27/09/2026
Bravo!
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Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HEY! Wanna read the short story I wrote that won a contest? Inspired by the art of @innavjuzhanina.bsky.social OF COURSE YOU DO. It's about bad people getting the fate they deserve, so it is, of course, a work of fiction.
societyforritualarts.com
The Witch of the Crocus Valley - Roses and Wildflowers Autumn 2026
Journals Home Table of Contents Next Wondrous Tale Featured Author We created a challenge: Tell the story of this painting by Inna Vjuzhanina The Witch of the Crocus Valley By Josh Dobbin She yawned a...
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 27/09/2026
The problem with home-made burgers is that once you nail it, by and large you can never go out for a burger again without disappointment.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 24/09/2026
It can fuck off. Then, it can fuck off some more. It can keep fucking off until it is done fucking off. Is it done? Good. Now it can fuck off even more than that. It can never stop fucking off. No distance between us and it is great enough.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 24/09/2026
This too will pass, and I wish you better times.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yuval Avraham, co-director of "No other land" and "Naza" in an interview on how he started learning Arabic. With English subtitles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LTQ...
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يهود الشرق الأوسط // درس العربية ويعارض الاحتلال
YouTube video by People of the Book أهل الكتاب
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 15/09/2026
Wait, look, I'm not your brother-in-law or anything, but who is talking about not keeping secrets now? Full disclosure: am in fact a big fan of both you and vagina yeast bread lady, may you both keep shooting your mouths the hell off forever :)
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 13/09/2026
What's particularly amazing is that this is blatantly obvious to absolutely everyone except all politicians and all journalists, none of whom have apparently ever heard of any such concept as 'conflict of interest' before.
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Piers Beckley @piersb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
AI isn't going to kill humanity. It isn't going to become superintelligent. AI just puts shit together in probabilistic patterns, and our brains use the same mechanisms that help us see pictures in clouds & faces in toast & gods and monsters in the dark to imply there's something behind it all.
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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s the one year anniversary of finishing my crocheted Patti Smith
A crocheted doll resembling Patti Smith from the album cover, Horses
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 09/09/2026
If your revolutionary new tech won't work unless you buy up the entire global supply of computer hardware and then some, that may just be an indication that your new tech is not, after all, so revolutionary, just stupidly expensive and massively inefficent.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Also worth re-upping: Mathematicians standing up against how their field is being used as marketing for OpenAI and the like: leidendeclaration.ai >>
leidendeclaration.ai
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 07/09/2026
Breakfast of champions! Bon appetit retroactively.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 06/09/2026
AI in the NHS - doesn't work, but they're forcing it on us anyway: pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/03/u...
pivot-to-ai.com
UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn’t work
The National Health Service in the UK is trying super hard to get doctors to use AI voice recognition everywhere a human might previously have been. For transcribing patient appointments, they just…
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Henry is surprisingly short for his 45 years. A little rounder in the face than you might expect, a little heavier than you might expect, and he is extremely, extremely eager.
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 30/08/2026
Yeah. "Hey guys, we invented a computer that doesn't work. Can we please have a trillion dollars, and also we're replacing all your existing computers that do work with ours that doesn't, by stealth if necessary. All the politicians and CEOs love our new computer by the way."
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