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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own

@galsh.bsky.social
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Humans. Data. Puns. AI/ML. WIDS_Sweden. MSc Epidemiology program at LSHTM. Ex-King. Ex-Google. Ex-Northvolt. ☕☕☕. A mostly American living in Sweden. Formerly @galinash on the semi-dead app.

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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 2h
1st of Owltober Four weeks after a critical head injury this Great Horned Owl showed huge signs of improvement thanks to expert care from the team at Shades of Hope Wildlife Refuge in Ontario, CA. Want to donate to SOH? www.shadesofhope.ca/donate.html Source: fb.com/121487677400... #owlsintowels 💛🦉
Draped in a vanilla towel before a wall of wood panels painted mossy sage, a Great Horned Owl stares at camera with wide yellow eyes. The owl's chest plumage is tabby-patterned and calico-toned in shades of black white and ginger. The ear-like tufts for which the species is named are raised at 11 and 1 o'clock. They're mostly black, with tan highlights along the inside track, giving the impression of Unicode character U+223 (ȣ) much like the symbol for Taurus the bull. The owl expresses a photogenic sort of anger, and like a bull, looks ready to impale any who come near.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 2h
The only good use for a Harry Potter reference these days.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 5h
About to vote against this guy.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 6h
USSR shit
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Re-open the Department of Education
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 15h
True story. I was really confused in 2004-8 (our time in SV), why so many people obsessed over the Fountainhead. It's FO time now, unfortunately.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a huge area, but here are some more ideas of what the land might be for (even if legally that's not allowed). The Nerd Reich, pages on SV techo elite and their ideas if "network states."
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
M.A.'s "techno-optimist" manifesto, quoting from the cradle of fascism. from The Nerd Reich.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All my countries have ongoing political idiocy, but at least I got my midterms mail-in ballot....
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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They’re not exactly superintelligent.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The real question is whether Google and others rename it in their materials like they did with Lake Ontario. It's hard with VertexAI etc...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”
hntrbrk.com
Dox for Me, O Muse
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026
In which Eric Schmitt, rumored candidate for VP in an (ugh) JD Vance 2028 presidential run, pre-emptively loses 22 electoral votes in Georgia and Iowa
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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think this is a very educational and enlightening article: arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
arstechnica.com
NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Insane
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was funny.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bookmarking #books
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"We stole money from you and we might give some of it back. But probably not."
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
😭
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
20 years later, and now Karl Rove, of all people, is sounding like a voice of reason. Please rescue me out of this timeline.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OMG I am dying, congrats to the editors who ALWAYS find a match between RFK Jr’s face & the recalled food 👏👏👏
Photo of RFK Jr looking like recalled salted caramel ice cream Pic of RFK Jr looking like recalled clamsRFK Jr looking like the recalled tomato soup
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The work, which has not been peer reviewed" Dear Science magazine, how's that clickbait working for you? Lots of clicks? Nice numbers?
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ex-wife of Gavin Newsom.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
US, better on vaccines than Sweden, despite being run by antivaxxers.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks god. No more public-money sponsored "advice" from Wold. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/chri...
sverigesradio.se
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I keep telling everyone that Thiel is the most dangerous and most out of his mind of any of these evil tech billionaires. He needs to be stopped. Period.
codastory.com
Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — Powered by AI - Coda Story
His investment in Objection.ai points to a new model: private investigations, AI verdicts, and accountability mechanisms that operate outside democratic institutions.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bookmarking #books
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Unfortunately, this option appears to only be available in the EU/UK because they actually have privacy laws. Facebook's AI policy in the US is lol fuck you
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meta....
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One more thing to do this weekend or next.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ouch. I guess we will see if I get to vote in this election after all 🤪😡
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Steve the Muppet Wrangler @beardog63.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am writing a book about all the things I should be doing in my life. It's an oughtobiography.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump, the climate president
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
By UPS HAHAHahahahahahahHAHA
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Overly Sarcastic Productions @overlysarcastic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Corporation: This is mine. Give me money. Youtuber: This is critique and commentary. It's fair use. Corporation: Ok, argue it in court. Can you afford court? Youtuber: No. Because you're at this moment taking my money. Corporation: That's what I thought. Thanks for the advertising btw
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For a classic read on technology and millenarianism, David Noble's "Religion of Technology." Think I mentioned this one also a few days ago.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sadly a recommended reading. More things to add: Yud was trying to raise money from Epstein in 2016. TESCREAL (so people could wander off and see how weird all the other subcults are, though honestly, likely less weird).
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How about not doing advertising for transphobes, Google, in my SYSTEM UPDATES!!!!
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Tatiana Trifan #FBLC @tatianatrifan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In Sweden and Australia, official guidance still recommends GET and CBT. In Switzerland [] treatment is spiralling backwards, with a new wave of psychologisation. Norway, Finland and the Netherlands, despite their progressive medical reputations, sound like a waking nightmare for ME/CFS patients."
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I love good data visualizations
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It took us 5 years to find a well sized but dumbest microwave with the fewest physical controls to replace the microwave my husband bought in the 90s, when he moved out of his parents'. Its door was cracked a bit on the outside, but it was still functional. None of our smart appliances are connected
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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