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David Mallery

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Lecturer in ecological economics | complexity theory | post-normal science | ecological political economy

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Pentagon investigation found that the murder of 123 Iranian children at the school in Minab resulted from a cascade of failures, Bloomberg reports. * Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you think “healthcare economics” (in the United States no less, good god) is a real science then you’re probably also an expert in transvestigations, phrenology, and race science
A cartoon where a precocious child is standing on a stack of books and pointing at a chart, saying “the poors have to die,” while her father figure gives her a thumbs up and says, “economics is a science”
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse
It's never just one minority.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The “madhouse of corruption that is the second Trump administration is nothing less than an attempt to mulch our civilization so that we may be recycled into something that better flatters a small class of oligarchs.” @dogsinautumn.bsky.social in @liberalcurrents.com on excuses and elite impunity
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A Republic of Excuses
You will not like it here and it will get worse until we get better.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Call for a public inquiry over the relentless hounding of Jason Arday goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fair point. Not trying to imply the two are similar or same. I think it's relevant to pair them because I see this film as an expression of a broader agenda seeking to undermine accommodations and supports for vulnerable groups.
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm neither for nor against medication. I was diagnosed 31 years ago and I've been unmedicated for 30. Many people find medication helpful, and they don't need the added stigmatisation this film is encouraging.
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We don't know the etiology of adhd or autism. There's a chance we never will. Again, the brain and body are complex, which not the same as "complicated"
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I mentioned biomarker because that was the point the film hammered on about, which is odd because the specialist the film quoted has over 200 peer reviewed papers noting the functional and structural differences in adhd brains.
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
No, they're not wrong. There's no single biomarker for ADHD, but that's also true of *many* other conditions. The brain and body are complex, and that's why clinical diagnosis exists and is necessary. There's no single test for climate change either. That doesn't make it a myth.
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Please submit a complaint to Ofcom. This is why we have media regulators: adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Please submit a complaint to Ofcom. This is why we have media regulators: adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Please submit a complaint to Ofcom. This is why we have media regulators: adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Please submit a complaint to Ofcom. This is why we have media regulators: adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Please submit a complaint to Ofcom. This is why we have media regulators: adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
PSA If you encounter someone who dismisses your #ADHD because they watched 'The Great ADHD Myth?', feel free to tell them to contact me via my site so I can explain, at length, why they're an idiot Hell, send my their address and I'll do it face to face. I'm willing to go full 'Punisher' over this
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"The great ADHD myth isn’t ADHD. It’s the idea that you can settle a question science has already answered by assembling the handful of people who dislike the answer."
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The Great ADHD Myth? The Real Myth Is That This Was Balanced Television - ADHDworking
Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth?, broadcast on 18 August and fronted by NHS psychiatrist Dr Max Pemberton, sets out […]
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
adhduk.co.uk/challenging-... I would encourage everyone to submit a complaint.
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Anyone who has read Merchants of Doubt will recognize the same cynical tactics at play in last night's Channel 4 ADHD-denial documentary. This is dangerous and irresponsible misinformation. ADHD UK has a template you can use to submit a complaint to Ofcom: adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Everything about this makes me sick. Academia is as culpable as the British media. Both need to be held to account for what they did to him.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“They’re the Vampire Class, sucking the life-blood out of the people beneath them. They want populations weak, powerless, unprotected, sick, hungry. Then they’re no threat.”
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Watch The Shadows
Trump moves the US into the Axis of Evil column
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
One of the worst things about the Senate’s attempted Fauci show trial is how the supposed evidence against him is early in COVID he considered multiple hypotheses, then increasingly ruled some unlikely as evidence came in. The objection is he did science. Fundamentally that is what’s under attack.
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Oh good, a new slide for my lecture on Popper
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Apparently not part of Western Civilization (incomplete list): Homer, Socrates, Plato, democracy, Aquinas, Shakespeare, liberty, Locke, Montesquieu, Superman, NATO, vaccines Western Civilization that Must Be Defended: Carl Schmitt, the Confederacy, Green M&Ms in heels, the movie 300, domestic abuse
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 20/07/2026
Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM
Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 16/07/2026
ICE cannot be reformed because its purpose is not enforcing the law. It is terrorism for a white supremacist vision of America.
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The Unrestrained Brutality of ICE Is a Reign of Terror
​There is little point in considering DHS’ pretexts for killing on a case-by-case basis. ICE’s abuse of immigrants is not the result of individual misdeeds—it is policy.
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I almost scrolled past this because I assumed it was a joke. I mean, it IS a joke, but not the kind I thought it was.
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is the perspective we sorely needed today.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
More than any other global event, the World Cup channels postcolonial legacies and the entangled nature of global modernities, from the countries competing and the commentary about specific teams and matchups, to the makeup of individual squads. I find it poignant, enraging and hopeful all at once.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Yep. We argue in this piece that it's no accident that Musk decried "civilizational suicidal empathy" while his USAID cuts were going into effect, resulting in untold numbers of deaths abroad. It's a test run for a much worse abdication of empathy later:
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes
Dale Cooper from Twin PeaksMr. C from Twin Peaks
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 06/05/2026
4/ A country's reputation in the world matters. It just does. "All that naive hippy shit is irrelevant, what it all comes down to is missile destroyers and GDP" is the sort of faux-savvy world-weary cynical take that sounds like wisdom until you remember geopolitics isn't a game of Starcraft.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Journalists might've once had the excuse that the didn’t realize how bad MAGA extremism would be. But they can't plead cluelessness now. What’s left are cowardice, complicity and courage. Pick one. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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It’s not media cluelessness – it’s cowardice and complicity
But there’s another word starting with “C” that describes some journalists: courage.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
For what it's worth, I don't think Vance is doing this because they think it will change the reasonably apparent outcome that Orban is going to lose at the polls. They are signaling and encouraging that they want him to not accept the result. They want anti-democracy for anti-democracy's sake.
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
my kingdom for a single journalist at the BBC, or any other major news org, to push back and point out that 1) settlement is not automatic, and then 2) ask the home office why they have been repeatedly lying about this for months
"A Home Office spokesman said: "The privilege of living here forever should be earned not automatic.

"We must be honest about the scale and impact of hundreds of thousands of low skilled migrants getting settlement rights."
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
1/ News that the Iranian regime is proving more resilient than expected highlights its unusual governing structure as a 'polydictatorship'. In many ways, it was designed from the ground up to resist regime change. ⬇️ x.com/ErinBanco/st...
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Erin Banco on X: "SCOOP: U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of imminent collapse after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, per sources briefed. w/@JonathanLanday https://t.co/02kwMBgUKG" / X
SCOOP: U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of imminent collapse after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, per sources briefed. w/@JonathanLanday https://t.co/02kwMBgUKG
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
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Adam Smith @adamndsmith.com · 04/03/2026
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
schools are never valid military targets, on or off base if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime. The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.
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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This might be the funniest (and may favourite) lead photo/ headline combination of the year.
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 18/02/2026
Democrats spent most of the Trump era being forced to defend existing institutions against a corrupt demagogue. Now those institutions are destroyed and replaced with kleptocracy and fascism. Being anti-system isn't only the easy thing, it's the *only* thing.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
People are mad at @samuelmoyn.bsky.social but this is a good piece from him and @ryandoerfler.bsky.social on need to accept that SCOTUS has become functionally illegitimate. Key point is legitimacy does require the public to think the court operates in good faith: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/02/2026
Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is an interesting read. Know your enemies.
authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
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