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Men’s, women’s, youth—everywhere, they get it done. Outstanding stuff.

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Pardeep Cattry @pcattry.bsky.social · 2h

Can’t think of another period of excellence across all the major forms of a major sport that’s extended as long as Spain’s, at least under real competition

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NEW: the #USWNT’s shaky start proved costly against Spain and questions persist about their perennially unresolved midfield, among other things, but as Trinity Rodman puts it… “I don't think it's always necessarily a bad thing to lose” www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

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USWNT's errors stick out almost as much as their strengths in loss to Spain

Spain scored twice in the opening minutes thanks to Patri Guijarro and Eva Navarro, creating a hole the USWNT could not dig themselves out of

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It is not obvious, to say the least, that identities are always or usually chosen.

would have. So even if one doesn’t think there’s any common measure, and one cares only about SA, Noah is still wrong.

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Without Columbus, you might think, Rhodes or someone like him is much less likely. But given Columbus, then even if you can prevent Rhodes there’s a real possibility that he’s fungible: given the conquest of the new world and the enrichment that followed, if Rhodes hadn’t done it in SA someone else

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On the other hand, Noah’s reasoning seems vulnerable on its own terms. *Even from a South African point of view* it’s an open question whether you should go back in time to prevent Rhodes or Columbus doing their thing. But Columbus is another people’s villain.

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The despise Hitler/dismiss Rhodes combination is observed, so that’s naturally taken as proof that we either aren’t talking about the same thing or don’t have a common measure.

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 3h

I think it’s better read as a straightforward dismissal of commensurablity: if those who despise Hitler dismiss Rhodes, then it’s not clear we’re talking about the same thing or have a common measure.

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To say nothing of learning how to write experimental material in a way that is plausibly understood by participants as intended. An absolute dark art that basically every beginner trips up on (especially philosophers).

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 3h

One day he’s teaching the Pope Catholic doctrine; the next he’s letting Methodists know who among them count as heretics. JD Vance’s magisterium is truly universal.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They need to make a sacrament of reconciliation but instead of forgiving sins it’s forgiving the times you were an embarrassing dumbass. Like being publicly wrong about Nehemiah, or waving back at the person a block away who’s excited to see the woman 20 feet behind you.

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La Repubblica @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social · 3h

Leone XIV, i messaggi dopo l’annuncio dell’intervento. Mattarella: “Il popolo italiano l... www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026/10/1…

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David Spurrett @doctorspurt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Five out of six chapters of "Whose Mind is it Anyway?" done enough that I'm not allowed to fiddle with them until I've wrapped the last one (only one section to go).

Five chapters of a book manuscript arranged on a wooden table.

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 7h

In Canto 18 of his Inferno, Dante puts a lot of people from Bologna in Hell, and mentions their local word for 'yes': sipa. Words for 'yes' matter to Dante; he's the first on record to recognise sì, òc and oïl as alternatives in Romance – hence the lenga d'òc (Occitan) and langues d'oïl in France.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 7h

‘The English belief that they have the oldest and firmest nation-state, or the Spanish belief that they are on the front line with Islam – go straight back to the middle ages. The medieval period lies at the origin of modern myth-making.’ Chris Wickham RIP www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/r...

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Chris Wickham: interview

This is the latest in a series of interviews with Fellows of the British Academy, showing leading humanities and social sciences academics at work.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 9h

Not your average seminar room. Not visible: the glorious views across the Loire from those windows. The people of Blois know how to get people up on a Sunday morning for a 9am discussion about notaries.

Impressive room with marble pillars and massive windows and chandelier. And a bunch of people who are interested listening to speakers at the front

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But, also, the hatred and fear in the Zionist case rise from the fact that almost from the beginning the goal was exclusive ethnic sovereignty. Ignoring the settler-colonial setup at the start makes its effects a cause—the sort of the sort of inversion familiar from conservative propaganda.

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If you don’t, I will admire your bullet biting from afar.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 18h

If you admit a difference in outcomes between apartheid and democratisation, then your explanation makes it hard to see what could account for them. After all, both apartheid and democratisation were preceded by long histories of hatred and fear in the same territory.

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single funniest response to religious auspices not going your way

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

A thing that seems to pass totally undiscussed here is that this is empire—this is a feature of imperial life. One guy spends time abroad doing imperial violence, and is surprised to be threatened at home.

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Fear of violence is invisible but operates to reshape the behavior of political figures, like unobservable dark matter gives shape to the structure of the universe. The age of Trump has reintroduced it into American politics, & is arguably transforming it.

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Think of a pregnancy test.

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You sure you can think of counterexamples to this? (If some feature is present in cases A and B, it cannot make one or the other more likely.)

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I think we can leave it there for now. It’s unlikely we have anything more to say that might be useful on this one.

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Is that so? So, for example, if voting is observed, that gives us no reason to think we’re looking at a democracy? (After all, voting occurs in non-democracies; and states with different origins, structures, and regimes can converge on a single piece of behaviour.)

(Also: it’s obviously not true that if the *outcomes* don’t differ in any way then there’s no way to distinguish the kinds—quite similar political violence can be caused by durably different political views. But set this aside for now.)

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The second was something like a failure of argument—not seeing what was at issue—and the first, the offering of examples, was an empirical one. But either way, it seems that line of reasoning is in trouble.

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The problem is that the examples don’t show frequency; and the reasoning on offer earlier was that if these outcomes weren’t barred to national-liberation movements, then there was no relevant difference between national liberation movements and settler colonialism

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But even setting that aside, the rebuttal would be that these outcomes are just as likely or more under non-settler-colonial national-liberation movements, not that they also happen under them.

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And Indonesian rule in West Papua wasn’t settler colonialism, I take it.

requirement isn’t universal. Either way, this is another feature of Israel that’s better explained by settler-colonial theory (as the case of SA suggests, national liberation doesn’t entail exclusive ethnic sovereignty; settler rule typically does).

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In defence of liberal arrangements in, broadly, English-speaking democracies, exclusive ethnic sovereignty is dropped—it’s possible to be self-determining even without exclusive ethnic sovereignty. And if the concept is two-faced—if self-determination requires both, then it’s not clear why this

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Also explains the treatment of Arab citizens of Israel and, more amusingly, the inability of liberal Zionists to make up their minds just what self-determination consists in. In defence of Israel, its exclusive ethnic sovereignty, so directly implies domination of Arabs through the territory.

Other than reasons already given elsewhere in thread, I can’t think of another variety with this feature (non-nationals persuaded that its success is necessary for their own and the world’s salvation). It’s certainly quite unusual.

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And, obvs, it seems that the relevant claim—settler-colonial theory has an explanatory advantage over popular Zionism in explaining Israel’s behaviour—has not been rebutted.

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differences in how they came to hold the state.)

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national-liberation movement. Nothing thats been said here shows that Zionism’s outcomes mirror those of other national-liberation movements; and the diagnosis depended on soot ignoring a central feature that does (the clock was started with the group that held the state, rather than checking for