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Philippa Cowderoy

@flippac.org
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Executively dysfunctional, yet occasionally effectful programmer. Crazy trans dyke. Electronic music nerd. Autistic af. Plays lots of games in all the spare time that's no use for anything else. (she/her)

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Dennis Furia @furiagames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tickled with my contribution to a discussion about life lessons learned from XCOM 2.
Image of Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/1ww3hxx/comment/pdjnia4/
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Conor Titania Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
because they're so tricky to clean; next
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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 30/09/2026
For as long as I have been writing, I have met people looking for someone else to do the work for them. They want to call themselves writers but they don't want to put the time and effort in, just boom! Instant book. Those are the people who went straight to AI. Losers and cheats.
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI propaganda is play for play the same as car dependency propaganda. Including "the cork is out of the bottle; it's integrated into everything now & it'd be too difficult & disruptive & expensive to change that." & if you fell for it with cars, that should show you there's a real danger it'll work.
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Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 26/09/2026
Feeling cleansed after writing this ashley.rolfmore.com/twenty-thing... Seen so many moans about PMs not getting stuff. I do my best not to be one of “those” types of PMs. Well, turning the tables back for a little cathartic release. How to not be one of “those” software developers…
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Twenty Things That Were Exhausting to Explain to Software Developers
❗This post is a rant. We all get caught in our own rabbit holes so don't take it personally. Take the point instead. A growing list of things about data, software, and reality that apparently aren't...
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Jesse Mac @jessemackinnon.com · 26/09/2026
uwu i’m just a little fascist Tamagotchi uwu
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We—all of us—must act to protect RNLI volunteers and all people in peril at sea from these fascists; the state has refused to protect the helpless and heroes, so we must follow our moral duty and protect and defend them from this monstrous violence
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🧵Great and heartbreaking article from @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social about Swinney dropping the Learning Disabilities Autism and Neurodivergence Bill. I have dyslexia and really need an autism assessment as i have even more of those traits. Every time I complete www.heraldscotland.com/news/2656211...
heraldscotland.com
'They asked for our trauma. Then they scrapped the Bill'
Learning-disabled, autistic, and neurodivergent people speak out over decision to abandon proposed legislation to protect their rights.
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Not driving won't shield you from price rises because fuel costs impact everything!" isn't some checkmate against urbanists; it's yet another way that car use where there are viable alternatives & opposition to viable alternatives where there are none inflicts harm on drivers & non-drivers alike.
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So my grubby little urbanist secret is that I used to work at a car factory. And ever since this occurred to me, I have been unable to get over the fact that the safety standards to which we hold car production all but disappear the second those cars turn a wheel on public roads. And we accept that.
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Philippa Cowderoy @flippac.org · 12/09/2026
The QAQALY: Quality Adjusted Quality Adjusted Life Year, in which the patient's current quality of life is always 1 and if the same objective improvement makes an even bigger difference to some then so be it. Why bury patient subjectivity?
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inaction
theguardian.com
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When disabled people oppose Assisted Dying, it’s almost never from a religious point of view. It’s not because we’re anti-choice or that we want to force people to suffer. We oppose it because society devalues disabled lives and uses these programs in an unethical manner. They become eugenics. 🧵
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 11/09/2026
To my recent point about the left needing to develop propaganda literacy as one of the top three most critical tactical advances, everyone needs to emblazon, “Not sharing the disinfo/propaganda because that’s what they want” on their eyeballs. Repeat it as a mantra three times before you log on.
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Seth Polansky @sethpolansky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Someone posted this to my discord. Still laughing.
twitter post that says "pro tip - tell your boss that ai said you'll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out."
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Meghan Wilson Duff 🦑 @mwduff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The antifascist position is supporting people's rights without wavering. The minute you go, "well, but trans kids in sports?" or "oh, no, I didn't mean deport all immigrants, just the bad ones", you're gone. It's done. You've conceded.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As a brown migrant living in the UK legally, this is precisely why there can be *no* compromise on the fundamental right of seeking asylum. Pretty quickly it’s anyone who ‘looks’ like an asylum seeker - ie brown or black - who is targeted. No one is safe from this.
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The person who says we shouldn't push for safe micromobility infrastructure until we have comprehensive & frequent transit or that we shouldn't push for comprehensive & frequent transit until we have better sidewalks does not, in fact, want us to achieve any of those things.
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
when conservatives say “facts don’t care about your feelings” you need to understand that it is not meant to say they are committed to facts but that they are committed to creating a form of epistemological dictatorship where no one is able to disagree with their obvious lies.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 03/09/2026
"The right keeps winning because the left is hostile and mean" The right:
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Give Me An Axe @givemeanaxe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I kepp saying it. Over and over again. Newsom is a piece of shit and HE WILL continue to prove that the longer we let him.
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If they take your safe bike lanes, you take the whole lane as protection, as praxis and as protest!
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Philippa Cowderoy @flippac.org · 31/08/2026
Saw Coyote vs Acme... Not sure it's better than Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - that's going to take me years to settle on though. Seriously, see it in the cinema if you can: every bit in the trailers is *better* in the actual film!
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Transphobia *is* sexism, to anyone who doesn't get that, still.
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
While drivers bitch about having to pay for parking at hospitals (with exemptions,) my mum's elderly neighbour is rationing visits to see their sick elderly spouse because they can't manage four buses, the cab fare is expensive & they don't qualify for patient transport. Fucking bitch about that.
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You can opt out of appearing on Discover! It's under Privacy and Security in your Bluesky settings. Merry Christmas!
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When the NHS talk about “concerns regarding referral appropriateness” they mean they want cis people to have more control over our bodies. But I take the much simpler stance that if someone wants to change sex that’s their business. Like abortion or fertility help it should be fast and on demand.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 28/08/2026
The shit going on with America declaring an italian anarchist media cooperative to be a terrorist group is abominable. Equally they're demonstrating how dangerous the existence of the nation state is for everyone to see.
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Philippa Cowderoy @flippac.org · 28/08/2026
This is one of those things that "everyone knows", but: if you're taking a look at a dietary supplement, check if it affects the absorption of other meds and leave a big enough gap if it does. Otherwise you're decreasing your doses of everything else, and life will suck.
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Conor Titania Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
PAY FOR WORK, YOU PRICKS! HELP YOUNG PEOPLE INTO PAY! corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/news/press-r...
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Sainsbury’s launches major new Modern Work Experience programme to help 10,000 young people into work
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 27/08/2026
The SNP have long promised a ban on cruel conversion practices, but time and again they have delayed. We can't wait for, or trust Westminster to deliver a watertight ban on these abusive practices; we need a Scotland-specific ban now.
Ban Conversion Practices
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 26/08/2026
Well, this was inevitable. Forstater is now using her own case to argue that racism should/is protected as a philosophical belief 🤮
"Even comments which are “serious, severely hurtful and 
prejudicial”are covered by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human rights (freedom of expression) which doesn't mean absolute freedom of expression in a situations, but employers should treat beliefs equally.

As the judge said in my case even beliefs that are profoundly distressing and offensive to many others are beliefs that must be tolerated in a pluralist society.""Cofnas's hereditarian belief has already been found to be "worthy of respect in a democratic society" by a court in the UK. 

Though not binding in Belgium, but its anti-discrimination law is based on the same principle.

Still it's better to have a good job than a good legal case. 

Ghent uni could string out the suspension - the process is the punishment.

If there are calls for a staff member to be discriminated against because of their beliefs the answer should be No (unless the belief falls below the v low threshold for belief discrimination), not "oh well if 2000 people object..."
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“by a celebrity 💅” fuck her god she’s SO MAD someone else besides her is being lauded as the patron saint of child literacy. you had your chance and blew it, lady! that’s not who you are anymore! gotta force HBO to reboot your movies just to feel something smh
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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
All 10,000 of these "placements" are with Sainsbury's by the way and are for children aged 14+. It's just free child labour.
theguardian.com
Burnham to announce plan for 10,000 work experience placements for young people – UK politics live
Prime minister to speak to press this morning while on visit to Sainsbury’s supermarket
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It was only a matter of time
Epistemic Assholes
Cameron Boult
Synthese (forthcoming)

Abstract
In this paper, I develop and defend the concept epistemic assholes. An epistemic asshole is someone who exhibits a distinctive form of epistemic badness characterized not by gross irrationality or hostility to truth, but by a stable, entitled disregard for one’s epistemic relations with others. Drawing on Aaron James’s (2012) account of moral assholes, I examine how people can systematically exploit epistemic cooperation by allowing themselves special advantages—such as “freedom from inquiry”, “doxastic comfort”, and “freedom to criticize”—while remaining insulated from criticism by an entrenched sense of entitlement. The resulting view, the Relational Approach to Epistemic Assholes (REA), explains why epistemic assholes are not epistemically the worst, yet are nonetheless deeply galling. After motivating the need for this concept, I show how REA captures both “impure” cases (involving both epistemic and moral assholery) and “pure” epistemic assholes, whose objectionable conduct is driven by epistemic aims themselves. I further explore connections between epistemic assholes and epistemic vice, and the causal role that epistemic assholery can play in active ignorance and epistemic exploitation. Through this latter connection, I argue that epistemic assholes play an insidious causal role in sustaining objectionable social power dynamics. The concept of epistemic assholes provides a valuable lens for understanding and calling out important but often-hidden hazards in our social epistemic environment.
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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you haven't played it yet, Control is currently 90% off on steam and it is one of my favorite games of all time. It's not perfect by any measure but it has so many moments that'll make you go "oh fuck that's fucking awesome hell yeah fuck yeah" that you owe it to yourself to try it.
store.steampowered.com
Save 90% on CONTROL Ultimate Edition on Steam
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the rallying of support for Cofnas, a fucking nobody, compared to the relative silence in defense of Claudine Gay and other Black academics really shows the rot at the core of the whole damn enterprise
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isaac 🌻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
wow ...... the spaces controlled by women tend to be less anti-trans? what next, you're gonna be telling me that the push for sex-segregated spaces is a patriarchal ploy to keep women sequestered and surveilled by men?
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/08/2026
He's suspended because he broke his contractual obligations. This is not fired at all. Ignorance of EU employment law leads to issues here. He is sat at home being paid. Stop assuming countries that have dealt with Nazis taking over are more clueless than the USA, which has gone fascist on its own.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 24/08/2026
The real "fairness in sport" issue around trans people is that all the structures for transitioning from "kick a ball in a park" to "would actually like to regularly play in an organised way", in almost every mainstream sport, are closed to trans people at the point of entry.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 19/08/2026
I really feel like violability (the question of who it is allowable to harm) is at the core of like 90% of public discourse shitshows. The press identifies somebody as okay to destroy (Jason Arday, Beth Upton, Mridul Wadhwa) and just relentlessly attacks.
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Conor Titania Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you don't like transphobia, you're "misogynist". If you don't like genocide, you're "anti-<fit your own cap>". If you don't like racists, you're "the real racist". If you don't like nazis, you can't get a job in the English media.
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ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The MOD refused to answer any questions posed about the donations, their size, their timing or the potential conflicts of interest (either real or perceived) amounting from them. READ FULL PIECE HERE: wefightthegoodfight.substack.com/p/revealed-w...
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Revealed: Wes Streeting raises £64,000 whilst agreeing to suspend leadership campaign
Defence sec has raised over £200,000 this year with those linked to Palantir, Israeli weapons companies, property developers and health, gambling, and privatised energy sectors among donors.
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