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@drxzcl.bsky.social
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Data-wrangler and byte nibbler. Born during the Years of Lead. He/him.

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That last part was about how Bobby Kotick was friends with notorious pedophile and friend of pedophiles Jeffery Epstein, a sex trafficking pedophile whom Bobby Kotick was friends with.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cheryl has made a fine point. I, nor other safety professionals, have really said much about general safety precepts as they relate to AI, as opposed to the bullshit artist millenarian cultists that are happy to do so at length. One of the reasons is "These tools are an active detriment to safety."
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The standard Democratic response to "why do you want men in girls' sports?" should be "why do you want to chase brave, loyal American men and women out of the military and the intelligence community?" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Curious about how to model a constellation of space-based interceptors? Well @aaronstein1.bsky.social, @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social, & I have a report for you! We tailored SBI constellations to genuine adversary missile threats to get a more realistic, flexible sense of their size & cost
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 02/09/2026
A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got the best SVG pelican I've had from any Anthropic model (at a hefty cost of $3.30!), which I then had it animate simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/c...
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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And now for part two of our unfortunately-timed two part series that was scheduled weeks ago: nebula.tv/videos/linds...
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Lindsay Ellis — Why is Dollywood?
Why did Dolly Parton own a theme park, and is it really the best theme park in the world? Let’s do a deep dive into the park and a battle royale for other contenders for the “best theme park” title to...
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I might have made something cool. I’m not certain, but I can’t stop playing it
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Hexsweeper 3D
Minimalist minesweeper on a sphere — themes, controls, and sharing.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Sinon’s story, to me, feels like a warning. Abandoning the trans community has a price. We aren’t a shame that can be buried forever. The pendulum will swing, and we have long memories.”
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
On this day in 2014, a russian Buk shot down a passenger aircraft MH17 flying at 10 km from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed. Girkin confessed that is was russians. NL courts agreed
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 12/07/2026
If your child was recently diagnosed as autistic, please know that most problems you encounter will be due to lack of understanding & accommodation about autism from other people, and society in general—not because of autism. We have specific advice, at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/09/afte...
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After an Autism Diagnosis: 13 Necessary Next Steps For Parents — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
If your child has recently been diagnosed with autism, please take my hard-won advice: Learn from my mistakes, so you don't repeat them.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Daily Mail poll going hilariously south for Nigel Farage.. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
Who would you vote for in the
Clacton by-election?


Nigel Farage


17%
1546 votes


Count Binface


72%
6391 votes


It's all a waste of time and
money


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8878 votes. 72% of others agreed with you.
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David Crowley Stan @fanofsheldon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you would like to share your thoughts with Graham Platner’s campaign team, now you can! www.surveymonkey.com/r/9XL7GGG?my...
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Graham Platner Volunteer Survey
Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Just in time for the heat wave, HUMAN NATURE: NINE WAYS TO FEEL ABOUT OUR CHANGING PLANET is now out in paperback! bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
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Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 30/06/2026
Today, on this last day of pride, tell a trans person you love them & you will fight for them tooth & nail. Trans people deserve every right that cis people have access to, & every time we open another exception in the margins we harm them. Inclusion means for everyone. Show up for trans people.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler was born #OTD in 1947. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (1995). #booksky #litsky #scifi #SpeculativeFiction
A color portrait of Octavia Estelle Butler (1947–2006), the visionary Black science fiction author and pioneer of Afrofuturism. She looks directly at the camera with a calm, deeply thoughtful, and serene expression. Resting her chin on her right hand, her fingers curl gently beneath her jaw. She wears thin, metal-framed glasses and a colorful, multi-patterned blazer featuring bold geometric blocks of red, yellow, purple, blue, and black. The foreground features a neatly arranged horizontal line of books facing forward. Prominently displayed are four teal spine copies of her acclaimed trilogy compilation, Lilith's Brood. To their left are other sci-fi and speculative titles, including Bitten and Catch the Lightning. The background is softly out of focus, revealing tall library bookshelves tightly packed with vibrant book spines. The vertical composition, rich colors, and academic setting create a warm, intellectual mood. This emphasizes her historical significance as a ground-breaking, award-winning literary figure.
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Content-based restrictions on speech always, *always* hit marginalized groups first and hardest, because that is the speech that is most socially disfavored. The first people these laws are used against are *always* trans and queer people, sex workers, adult content creators, and racial minorities.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It really is not! One of the best datasets we have on the issue is the same site (the HuffPo comments section) under three different commenting schemes and the corresponding toxicity of the comments. Here's one of the papers' findings written for a lay audience: theconversation.com/online-anony...
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Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names
A higher quality discussion emerged among commenters allowed to use personas instead of their real names.
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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Still on my syntax stylometry stuff. After masking, the first sentence of the Aeneid becomes: NOUN NOUN -que VERB PROPN qui ADJ ab NOUN <EOL> PROPN NOUN ADJ ADJ -que VERB <EOL> NOUN multum ille et NOUN VERB et ADJ <EOL> NOUN ADJ ADJ VERB PROPN ob NOUN <EOL> 🧵
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Greek and Roman Verse | Audio-Visually Enhanced
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Decker Eveleth @dexeve.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Latest Substack post on the Rueters story about Chinese "launch pads." The highlighted facilities cannot support a nuclear LOW mission and are almost certainly not even related to the PLARF. horsdoeuvresofbattle.substack.com/p/on-reuters...
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On Reuters' "Launch Pads" Story
A couple of weeks ago Reuters published an interesting story about Chinese launch pads being built around a set of three octagonal bases out in the Chinese desert.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Clanker wankers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/05/2026
interestingly under callais the only black lawmakers who could escape constitutional scrutiny are those elected by white voters, which is a pretty clear statement of who gets to be a legitimate political actor
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
So I started writing this week's DOOMSDAY MACHINES about stockpiling a million paper cups for nuclear war, but then a somewhat chilling photo sent me in a very different direction — Civil Defense in the land of Jim Crow. doomsdaymachines.net/p/paper-cups...
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Paper cups and a Confederate Flag
Civil Defense and the Deep South in the 1950s
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I love all these extremely pointed signals that this papacy is not going to put up with this shit
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ScyHigh✿ @scyhigh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Ain't no fucking way the moderation team of this site is basically crying that they're being cancelled
Aaron Rodericks, head of Bsky trust and safety:
"Moderation decisions are about behaviour and violations of the rules. Harassment, dog piling, targeted abuse, and coordinated intimidation make communities worse and drive people away from participating."
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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, I ask Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social about how he developed a principal argument in his new book—that, through misapprehension, President Truman did not understand Hiroshima was a city rather than a military installation until after it was bombed.
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Q&A: Alex Wellerstein on the craft of nuclear history
AIP History Weekly Edition: May 8, 2026
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
4 May 1945, Italian-Somali partisan Giorgio Marincola (photo) is killed by SS troops at Stramentizzo in the Fiemme Valley in the Trentino region of northern Italy [Thread] >> 1
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Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
40 years ago today, the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster occurred when the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine exploded, spewing radioactivity across eastern and northern Europe. Photos from @iaeaorg.bsky.social archive.
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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Anyway, hybrid/composite signatures are more comfort blanket than anything: soatok.blog/2026/04/13/h...
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Hybrid Constructions: The Post-Quantum Safety Blanket - Dhole Moments
The funny thing about safety blankets is they can double as stage curtains for security theater. Art: CMYKat “When will a cryptography-relevant quantum computer exist?” is a question ma…
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drxzcl @drxzcl.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Check out this sad American situation here.
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 11/04/2026
UCS just released a very nice and concise guide for how to stay safe in the public eye -- for scholars and researchers, but also for anyone else concerned about safety during autocratization: www.ucs.org/sites/de...
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Post an image from a game you played as a teenager:
XCOM: UFO Defense
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💥Cybercrimeinfo | Ptr Lhss💥 @cybercrimeinfo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
POLITIE ZOEKT EXTRA SLACHTOFFERS VAN VERDACHTE TURPIEN Verdachte uit Spijkenisse zou op Snapchat tientallen meisjes hebben afgeperst. Hij zit vast, politie verwacht meer slachtoffers. Hulp is gratis en vertrouwelijk. CSG WhatsApp +31 6 14644309 of politie 0900-8844. ➤ www.ccinfo.nl/menu-nieuws-...
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Politie zoekt extra slachtoffers van verdachte Turpien
De politie roept slachtoffers op van een man uit Spijkenisse die onder de naam Turpien op Snapchat tientallen meisjes zou hebben afgeperst. De verdachte zit vast, maar de politie vermoedt nog meer slachtoffers door de hoeveelheid aangetroffen beeldmateriaal. Hulp en aangifte via WhatsApp +31 6 14644309 (Centrum Seksueel Geweld) of 0900-8844.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
April is Autism Acceptance Month🧪
Christopher Penn
@cspenn
Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A different perspective. Always helpful.
Christopher Penn wrote:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 25/03/2026
How do you turn a vast text game like Fallen London into a TTRPG? We've spent a year working with @magpiegames.bsky.social to do exactly that. In May, backers will get the first look at the full PDF of the game (and you can still back, actually). What have we learned?
a sigil from the game fallen london which means "the vexing improbability which, nevertheless, is the result you got"
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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.
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“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
*at Real World Crypto and someone mentions crypto agility* Me: Hold on this is my special interest. I hope you're ready for a poorly rehearsed spiel about algorithm confusion attacks.
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Ryan Benson @hindsig.ht · 10/02/2026
Have a big number (or hex value) you found and think might be a timestamp? Drop it in `unfurl` in the terminal and see what comes out! (add -d or --detailed if you want the type of timestamp, or run without it if you just want the value) #DFIR #BF4SA #Unfurl 🌿
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Dave Williams @syrstorm.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Great piece about the controversy in the 1970s over the estimated range of the Soviet Backfire bomber, as primarily derived from satellite intelligence www.thespacereview.com/article/5126/1
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The Space Review: The Backfire bomber controversy
On June 1, 2025, Ukrainian drones launched as part of Operation Spider’s Web destroyed at least four Tu-22M Backfire bombers and damaged at least one more during an attack at Belaya Air Base near…
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Fuck YouTube. I would rather my videos stay removed than edit them to cut out the word gambling. For years, my work was about how loot boxes were gambling, and I used the word because companies didn’t want the word used. I’d sooner lose every video than destroy the point of them. Fuck. YouTube.
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