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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When I die I'd like the epitaph on my headstone to read "I wanted to be buried over there, you've made a grave error."

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Infrastructure is important in our four-season climate. It is well-maintained in the winter. Many ride in temperatures below -20°C because it is easier than digging the car out, removing the snow and pre-heating it.

Dedicated cycling lanes open in the spring.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 24/09/2026

Sometimes I don’t like the cut of someone’s jib and I see no reason to apologize for this.

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Dave Sayers @davesayers.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

I once had a work trip that was severely screwed sideways by a fantastically incompetent outsourced travel company, and the fight was MAD-HEL. Even then I had to laugh.

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gueueti.bsky.social @gueueti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve flown MAD-HEL several times in my life.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I somehow never saw Dead Poets Society before & it is way weirder than I realized. Also, I am skeptical of the central theme that wealthy private school boys should be encouraged to be *more* smirky, self-expressive and aggressive, I can see some downsides to that theory

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think @darrigomelanie.bsky.social said everything that needs to be said.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is going around as essential reading and for very good reason. Honestly the most incisive and full summary of the longtermism/x-risk pathology I have seen. Every stanza is a gem, and the closing is genius, but my personal favorite, because I have had this exact conversation almost verbatim:

[nitter.app post excerpt from banteg]

>someone asks where the one-in-a-million number came from
> expert judgement
>which expert
>us
>how calibrated
> extremely thoughtfully

›reduce estimate to one in ten million to be conservative
›still beats curing cancer by 38 orders of magnitude
›epistemic robustness achieved

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 18/09/2026

Never ever forget or let anyone forget the reason why #EU exists in the first place is to keep Europeans from ripping each other apart the third time. If the membership fees had achieved nothing else, they would have been a bargain.

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Pablo Nepomnaschy @pablonep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not new, and not discovered...still great news. I offer a, perhaps, more accurate, less colonizing, title: "Western scientists describe a felid known to local communities as Tilcayo. It is the first description of its kind in over a century"

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Oops𓅓 @vodkula.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Due to economic conditions i had to downsize

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

kids are the worst

kids biking on street

Annoying kids force drivers to lightly tap a pedal directly below their foot to engage mysterious and unused brake function.

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Dave Sayers @davesayers.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Suddenly feel like walking 500 miles to get away from them.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Not the first to say but the people who say trans folks deserve rights and dignity aren’t obsessed with trans people, we simply believe they deserve the same respect we all have because they’re human like the rest of us. The ones who want to take away rights are riven with obsessive monomania

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Dave Sayers @davesayers.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Next in the @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social English online seminar series: @emma-putland.bsky.social (@lancasteruni.bsky.social), Mon 12 Oct, 13:00 EEST: 'Generating bias? A case study of AI-generated text and images of dementia' See the abstract and register👇 Go go go! r.jyu.fi/engseminars2...

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Its not *the* main reason I'm staying, but certainly one of the factors in my decision to stay here in Finland has been "... This seems like a good place to ride it the next 50 or so years of human history..."

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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

LOL. It’s Stewart Lee’s UKIP sketch!

Part of a sketch by British comedian Stewart Lee on UKIP and immigrants from a decade ago.

And before them in the 5th century it was the Anglo-Saxons, weren't it?
BLOODY ANGLO-SAXONS!
Coming over here from Northern Continental Europe, the Anglo-Saxons.
With their inlaid jewellery and their ship burial traditions, and their miserable epic poetry:

Lif is laene
Wyrd biỗ ful arad!
Swa (cwæỗ) eardstapa
Earfeba gemyndig
Wrabra wælsleahta
Winemæga hryre

If you come over here Anglo-Saxons learn to speak the fucking language!

Bloody Anglo-Saxons, coming over here and laying down the basis of our entire future language and culture.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 05/09/2026

"this email could have been a series of pictograms etched in stone"

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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Spending 3 hours trying to secure sign language interpreting services just because you live and work in a different EU country #deaftax

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“A war does not end when the people who fought it die, but when the generations born afterward refuse to inherit the enemies of their parents…As long as hatred is passed down through families as an inheritance, the war is not over; it has only changed form.” eualive.net/war-criminal...

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War criminal Ratko Mladić is dead. The wars of the 1990s have yet to truly end

For decades in Serbia, it has been difficult to acknowledge Mladić’s guilt without that acknowledgement ...

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BAAL Language Policy SIG @langpolicy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

**Announcement** Call for Papers: Language Policy Forum 2027 Venue: University of Osijek, Croatia Speakers: Ingrid Piller (Hamburg), Hassan Belhiah (Rabat) Deadline: 30 Sep. 2026 Theme: Language Policy in Context: Bridging Global Perspectives and Local Realities sites.google.com/view/langpol...

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BAAL Language Policy group - 2027-LPF

Language Policy in Context: Bridging Global Perspectives and Local Realities Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Republic of Croatia, 3-4 June 2027 📍 Venue address: Cara Hadrijana 10, 31000 ...

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Shiela 🐑 we have talked about this before no snuggles when I am on duty

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 24/08/2026

It would be useful if someone bothered to check how many of those now crying about academic freedom being threatened when a racist crank was suspended (for not doing what he was hired to do) ever commented anything about e.g. academics losing their jobs for speaking out about Gaza.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Note from my notebook (2017). Still true.

Truths About Writing
Most people will ignore what you write
Someone dead did it better than you
You will be misunderstood
That's all ok

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Equally, if a university hired you to research or teach in a given field and you did so but all of your conclusions were terribly wrong because you were an insane racist who believed things that were not true, the university is still perfectly within its rights to get upset with you.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/08/2026

The dialogue around LLMs is kind of broken both in terms of critique and advocacy. For critique, we need to focus on how we attack fascist tech power consistently — LLMs are only one part of that; merely saying "AI bad" has simply ended up with a lot of people using AI quietly while feeling shame...

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Charlie Close @charlieclose.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think it’s ultimately a fight over who benefits from AI and who governs it. The fight against data centers is a fight against predatory capitalism run by psychopaths. Without shared benefits and humane rules the answer is Hell No.

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Eleanor Boyle @eleanorboyle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yes @enviroem.bsky.social! The myth that local meat (esp. beef) is better for climate than most plant-based sources of protein (even imported) is a tough one for many people to shake.

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Dave Sayers @davesayers.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

"American Twitter has the same kind of magnetic pull as a garbage disposal unit. A sick part of you wants to shove your hand in. You want to let the blades cut into your knuckles, if just to see if you can slow them down a little."

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Counting has begun in Clacton. Love cover at the vote count. ich bin ein Binliner

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Dave Sayers @davesayers.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

We're BACK! First in the 2026-27 @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social English online seminar series: @kurtsengul.bsky.social (Macquarie Uni), Tue 8 Sep 10:00 EEST, 'Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and far-right networked misogyny: Emerging vectors of anti-gender politics' Abstract/register👇 Go go!

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO HAVE MY DATA COLLECTED AND STORED BY A THIRD PARTY - SHIRT BY dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

A SKELTEN IN INFORMATION HELL "EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO HAVE MY DATA COLLECTED AND STORED BY A THIRD PARTY" ON A BLACK TSHRIT THAT YOU CAN GET AT DASHARE.ZONE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11/08/2026

Now's as good of a time as any to reiterate that I have never seen anyone in a mainstream newspaper or magazine write about how Mamdani, El Sayed and Hamawy are representing positive masculinity.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Nothing says ‘dad energy’ like striding through an airport clutching a plastic wallet of passports and unnecessarily printed out information.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This part, exactly.

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Dave Sayers @davesayers.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

This is great, and just in time for the new semester! Thanks @eviljoemcveigh.bsky.social for encouraging us to adapt it. Could you add a @creativecommons.bsky.social license note at the top, to make it even clearer?

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 06/08/2026

Here’s one promising progressive application for #LLM s. These are very powerful technologies and unilateral disarmament is probably not a great idea.

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