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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 10m

Of course it breathes. It thrusts air, doesn't it? Air comes in, air goes out. This is the problem with philosophers, if you mean something more than that by "breathing" you are just begging the question. No, I have not read any of the literature on this.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1h

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 54m

Right. When humans write a chain novel, they don't all begin their chapters with "I am a different author from the authors of the other chapters, I will be approaching the chapter differently and here is how". They contribute to the novel, which could be one about the experience of writing a novel.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2h

Peggy Flanagan runs the kind of ad that every user on this website has been demanding Democrats run for years and the replies are just people getting mad that she didn’t use the exact words that they wanted. This website is addicted to getting mad and should knock it off. It’s embarrassing.

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Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 1h

Two days after saying he felt "betrayed" by Trump, mocking his attitude to Putin and dismissing the diesel deal... Zelenskyy is asked if Trump was making him into a scapegoat for the US President's own failings. Here is his hugely illustrative (non) response:

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Dr. Joanna Horrocks-Paschedag @joannahorrocks.bsky.social · 5h

From dream to heartbreak in four short questions

Text from Google Search:
People also ask
Why do Damascus goats look like that?
What is the purpose of a Damascus goat?
How much do Damascus goats cost?
Why are Damascus goats so expensive?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

This morning I re-watched my video argument with the NY Times' Patrick Healy, and it's clear that the Times believes if it says explicity that the Trump regime is assaulting democracy, that would undermine its work to investigate how the regime is assaulting democracy. What an absurd position.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 2h

Singer-songwriter turned novelist? Huh, like that would ever catch on...

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 2h

They do that to anyone without a bundle. Why didn't you bring one with you?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3h

no offence but why is the British public being asked about my medical diagnosis, would it also like to check out my ankles and my elbows to decide whether I really have hypermobile joints, should I cough on them next time I have a cold so they can confirm that I'm ill

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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

I think I've told this story here before, but I'll keep telling it until it's no longer relevant. A friend was sent to China for a couple months for a work assignment. After about a month, his Chinese colleagues decided they trusted him enough to start asking questions about American life.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3h

Politicians can change their mindbut none ever travelled so far, so fast as Robert Jenrick. He came into politics claiming to self-identify as a migrant (!) & now speaks of mass depprtations & lethal force. How did we get here? Me @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...

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The moral depravity of Robert Jenrick

A high-profile English politician proposes the idea of killing immigrants in the English Channel. How has it come to this?

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 2h

"The Daily Mail is not known to be a conservative outlet or friendly to conservatives..." Looooolllllllll

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 12h

YOU GUYS. Even future popes have to do foolish teambuilding activities at work: Bob Prevost with a painting he made to represent himself. (From AMERICAN POPE us.macmillan.com/books/978125... )

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 3h

Reminder; the Germans had a word for people who didn't believe in the tenets of Nazism, but went along with it anyway because it was personally convenient or advantageous. It's "Nazi".

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Adam Boulton: "she, in common with a lot of people in Ireland is taking a very strong pro Palestine & I have to say anti Israel & anti Jewish stance" Adam, can you provide evidence that Sally Rooney is taking an anti Jewish stance? Or are you, in fact, lying to smear critics of Israel?

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Richard Gallagher @richardgallagher.bsky.social · 17h

The face of Sky News calling Irish people “Anti-Jewish”. Sky have approximately 600,000 customers in Ireland by the way.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 3h

Still Alice, for tax purposes.

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Still Alice, for tax purposes.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 3h

She's not "even" talking about a trans woman on a women's ward; it is the presence in a *mixed* ward that she objects to, in case her Mum says anything. Vile and unforgiveable.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 16h

Sorry it’s just intolerable that Labour MPs can now get away with quite literally posting that trans people make them uncomfortable *because they are trans* and our expectations are so lowered that we just don’t expect any action to be taken at all.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 4h

I want to get on this grant!

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 4h

The jury would also have accepted a speech bubble with Big Jim saying "gargle my balls Donal Murphy".

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 4h

Boxing Helena for tax purposes.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15h

The levels of immigration of 2010-24 now call into question whether Ian Wright or Marcus Rashford should be regarded as English is a dumb argument. When immigration was lower, we could accept Ian Wright in 1997, but the levels of net migration mean we will have to tell him he isn't English anymore

All this is why the debate over Englishness cannot be dismissed as a mere racist fixation; and why it’s a particular problem for right-leaning parties. If it is not to threaten the electability of British conservative movements, three things need to happen. Firstly, there needs to be much greater honesty from politicians. People can see the illusion of coherence crumbling around them. There must be an acknowledgement that demographic change is not some great, unbridled good, nor is it an inevitable price of globalisation. There needs to be a greater recognition that what happened under nominally conservative administrations has made a non-racialised concept of Englishness more, not less, difficult. Some humility wouldn’t go amiss. Historically, it is incredibly difficult to assimilate millions of people from different cultures. Very few countries have managed it.

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 20h

White nationalist tries and fails to carry out mass shooting at a Hindu temple while a member of Congress is present. The right has been chin stroking about South Asian assimilation and "the Indian Question" for weeks.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 18h

Whole thread is good, but I think this is key. (although; *whose* moral psychology? Evidently not Dario Amodei's, which I presume is what prompted the thread)

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h

When Ron was a boy London was getting bombed flat in the Blitz... and hammered by doodlebugs and V2s ...and about 30,000 people were killed and millions made homeless.... ...and you know I suspect folk were slightly more concerned about that than the colour of other people's skin.

took 92-year-old Ron back to the streets
where he grew up in Tottenham for the first
time in 56 years

When he was a boy it was ~99% white
British. In 2021, it was just 23.2%,

On the way home, he told me I had given him
nightmares for the rest of his life.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h

When Ron left London in 1970, London's homicide rate was approximately 1.39 per 100,000 Today it's 1.1 despite the population growing massively When Ron was a young man the Krays ruled the East End and the Richardsons the South The Met was corrupt as fuck... Violence was through the roof...

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 20h

Good. Could have been even longer - hate speech kills.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18h

Again an open call for foreigners living in Beijing during Katie Zacharia's reported tenure there: Did anyone meet her? Remember her? Just curious. (We were living in same part of BJ w slight overlap in 2011—end of our time there, reported beginning of hers. Foreigners generally stood out.)

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19h

❤️this! Healy: "If the NYT was using the word ‘lie,’ 20 times in an article…don’t you think that would change, not just people’s sense of our own fairness…but also lose the potency of the word itself?” Jacobs: “So you’re saying you want to retain the potency of the word ‘lie’ by not using it?” 2/7

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 21h

Taking notes helps you to organise your thoughts, which has been shown to air comprehension and later recall *even if you don’t actually look at the notes afterwards*. Using an #AI device to do this for you provides none of those benefits. 🤷 #AIHype #Deskilling #CognitiveScience

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 21h

"Come and take it, please!"

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Let me try to articulate why this is so irresponsible to suggest to students. The LLM-generated IQ number is almost always going to be wrong. If it is too low, it risks demoralizing and hurting the esteem of the student. If it is too high, it risks creating the conditions for AI psychosis.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Not sure if you're completely fucking illiterate, or just a fucking prick.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

She has said she and they are "in full agreement". Sometimes things like that are said in one-sided arrangements to avoid the appearance of conflict. But I think there's exactly nothing in her record that would suggest she was likely to stay quiet in such circumstances.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm sure because Rooney knows the actual arrest of a retired vicar and 90+ campaigner gets only a fraction of the press attention that she gets for even talking about it. An arrest would be unimaginably embarrassing for the government, they categorically do not want to pick that fight. So she will.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

At a certain point when they've said "we will start a civil war" often enough, your response should be, "then I have no problem killing you."

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

... of their policy, because of course they cannot, even if in practice it is not. She's forgoing sales to do it, but I think it's her choice. She's written about her time as a champion student debater, and she was as good as any I've seen. She absolutely 100% knows how to set a trap like this. 3/3

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

... she can gain huge publicity for the cause, and cause considerable embarrassment to the government, by invoking threats that have no realistic prospect of being enforced, but are in fact the logical endpoint of government policy. It challenges ministers to deny that that's the consequence... 2/

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don't think she is actually being punished. I think that as with "I could be arrested", she and Faber are acting very cleverly to amplify her voice far more than merely adding her name to a petition or speaking about the issue in interviews could achieve. She has correctly worked out that... 1/

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We don't design degrees based on polling data on what students who do not yet understand their subject think their subject demands. Before chasing student satisfaction on AI preparedness (whatever that is) we need to work out with students how AI relates to their cognition and learning.

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Students report little AI teaching on Russell Group courses

Post-92s better at equipping students with digital skills – while most undergraduates interested in degrees tailored to them by technology

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Piotr Wilkin @ilintar.org · 15/10/2026

So, he's the only president to ever take the dementia test, he travels with an array of doctors and those doctors are precluded from saving other people's lives because they have to cater to him personally - and he's bragging about it. Great guy.

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Jesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"When a Man doth compass or imagine the Death of our Lord the King [...] that ought to be judged Treason which extends to our Lord the King and his Royal Majesty."

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

also a bit weird, given the longtermism discourse, to see people aghast that a tescreal type...values actually existing, present interests over potential ones

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Mispronouncing “cognitive” while bragging about acing a cognitive test is hall of fame stupid.

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