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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 05/10/2026

In which the author disagrees with Mr Wolfers and discusses what it *really* looks like when you sit down and have a conversation with your ideological opponents. When you do not have the protections of the ivory tower it turns out to be a much darker experience than he imagines it to be.

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Dining with wolves – Notes from a data witch

Polite discussion over lunch is not a reasonable option when you are on the menu

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Boy in a turban, with flowers. Beautiful & enigmatic work by Michael Sweerts of Brussels etc., who was born yesterday in 1618.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ll take this a step further and say, I believe we should be able to support an average-sized family on a single income at what we determine to be the minimum wage. A lot of Boomers got this. But for whatever reason, we’re considered ridiculous for proposing it.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of ’em.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've had to make five phone calls today for medical-related stuff, and I believe I may be entitled to compensation.* *Or cake. Cake would do.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh, you're single? Don't have nearby family? Don't have a friend who can take at least 3 hours off work to wait in the lobby until your procedure is done and take you home afterwards? Sorry, in that case we won't schedule this potentially life-saving medical procedure! Hope you'll be okay!

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I did the 120-question version, and answered for childhood me (because I've changed some of my regionalisms as an adult) and the quiz located where I grew up very accurately. It's fun!

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The first episode of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was originally broadcast on this day in 1979. This BBC2 screening was swiftly followed by a two part omnibus repeat on BBC1 during Christmas 1979.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This. I resisted trying a GLP-1 for ages because of shaming and fear-mongering. Now I take one & my blood sugar's controlled (without starving myself) so I can avoid things like blindness & kidney failure & early death. The diet industry's evil; the drugs aren't. Let's not turn into antivaxxers.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Now reading a different professionally published novel. This one features a British police Inspector (or maybe Detective Inspector) who is outranked by a sergeant and calls him "sir." I guess neither author nor editor did the barest research. The novel's romantasy, not mystery, bit still.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Kinda wild so many people are so easily able to just ignore or dismiss the many women science communicators who are now and have been easily accessible to “MAHA women” for many years if they wanted helpful, accurate information. Most of MAHA is looking for confirmation bias, not factual information

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The professionally published novel I'm reading has, in less than 100 pages, managed to misspell "pallet" as both "palette" and "palate." (Before anybody chimes in, yes, I know all 3 can be valid spellings. But they mean different things, and here the author definitely means pallet.)

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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 07/09/2026

weirdly, trans people, who are often talked down to and dismissed by the medical establishment when they raise real concern about their health and the health of trans kids, do not end up in the maha pipeline at all

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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Look, this is right out of the Nazi push for eugenics in medicine, and the way they lamented the corruption and softening of the youth. Every person was part of the collective whole and duty of the individual was to be fit, strong, and reproduce correctly. perspectives.ushmm.org/collection/p...

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Public Health under the Third Reich

A digital tool for studying the Holocaust through unique, original sources.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Went to the farmer's market this morning (I usually can't b/c work schedule). So $$$. I accidentally paid 10 (TEN!!!!) dollars for 2 big handfuls of green beans. There was no price sign, I didn't ask and was then too embarrassed to say no. Literally everything here is for rich people. I hate it.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned.” - Gloria Steinem 1934-2026

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Discovered during #gardening work: #Roman bronze figurines of deities from the ‘Treasure of Weißenburg’, one of the most important hoards north of the Alps, consisting of around 150 objects, e.g. votive plaques, figurines of deities and various vessels. It's believed to be the...🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

The picture shows nine bronze figurines of Roman deities: Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Mercury, Herkules. Apollo, Venus, a Genius, and Lar.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026

so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel like this must have been done at some point, response poems are a storied tradition, but anyway I wrote "Margaret, Bringing Fresh Flowers" today and thought I'd share

Uncle Gerard, do you remember how,
when I was a kid, you found me crying
and I told you it didn't seem fair how all the nice leaves
had to die in the winter when I loved them so much;
and you told me, well, it gets worse from here,
and besides, it's not really the leaves,
you're a smart kid, they'll be back next spring,
but in the meantime you're right of course,
all kinds of things are going to die
and die and die and die and die and die,
your whole life, and it doesn't get easier,
it gets harder, because eventually you realize
all those dead hands go down pointing a finger at you,
and that's actually why you're sad, see,
because in a sense you're next,
even if it takes a while for next to get here?
And do you remember
how I said, Jesus Uncle Gerry,
can't a person be sad for a tree sometimes,
just sad about a tree?
Well, anyway,
you were probably right,
and you know this already,
because I tell you this every time I come here
but I suspect it's harder to remember things
where you are now
so I'm telling you again,
just in case.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nixon's resignation speech on TV. I was extremely bored and everyone kept shushing me.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Good news. And I want to remind US trans folks who are leaving problem states that New Mexico is an option. Good laws and a lower cost of living than either coast.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"If you really try, you can probably find a way that the cognition-killing, psychosis-inducing, water-guzzling, plagiarism-based probabilistic language simulator could make one of life's minor tasks slightly more convenient," is certainly a point of view. But fuck you, no, I won't try that.

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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Despite a broken leg, 61-year-old teacher Giselle Piburn was wheeled to the front of the protest line. "I think it's just horrendous they would approach a facility like La Familia," she said. "That immediate reaction from our community is important." www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

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'We can't allow this to happen': Advocates decry recent spike in Santa Fe ICE arrests

At least 11 people reportedly were arrested Wednesday, while other arrests occurred over the weekend and early Thursday.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 20/08/2026

The thing about terfism is they decided in 1979 that "All transsexuals rape women's bodies by reducing the real female form to an artifact, appropriating this body for themselves" and then they went on from that acting as if that was literally true rather than a violent way to describe our selfhood.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Actual take actually seen on this site: "How can people celebrate the murder of a health insurance CEO and lionize his killer?" Gee, maybe it's because we live in a society where the rich never face justice for anything? Where attempts to fix the system go nowhere? Of course that breeds violence.

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Brett Coughlin @coughlinbrett.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In 1967, Charles Schulz ran a famous week-long Peanuts comic strip arc where Linus van Pelt reluctantly faces getting the newly developed measles vaccination. #Art #MMR

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Gabriel S. Pumpkins 🎃 @gsjphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

let's be real: plagiarism scandals in academia happen all the time (not because academics plagiarize a lot, but just because of how many millions of faculty there are around the world) and it is never general-public news unless the culprit is a member of a minority.

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Cadaver Formosus is Already Spooky @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New from me: Why is Communion so WEIRD? Why does the second half feel like a different book? Why does it get Catholicism 101 wrong? What’s with all the non sequiturs about spies and why did Ross Douthat quote a literal Nazi in the NYT last week? Well, Vance thinks we’re too stupid to ask…

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J. D. Vance’s Straussian Moment | Los Angeles Review of Books

The US vice president wrote his new book without citing his source—Peter Thiel.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

OK wait: The "pipeline rerouted because of grave of fictional character" story was never true? It's a silly season spin-up reposted by the BBC, Guardian etc.? The pipeline never went near the "grave" and was never rerouted? Rusty Foster with the links: www.todayintabs.com/p/dobby-s-gr...

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Dobby's Grave Not At Risk From The Greenlink Interconnector Project, Also Not Real

Harry Potter Adults are still the worst but not because of what they're currently being blamed for.

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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The fundraiser will take the form of a reception, titled “Celebrating Our Beauty: Two-Spirit Realness and Artists” and occurring Thursday at the Canyon Road Indigenous art gallery Dineh & Co. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

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Two-Spirit & Native LGBTQ+ Center for Equity to hold first-ever fundraiser in Santa Fe

The fundraiser will precede the kickoff of the weekend's Santa Fe Indian Market festivities, but will feature art of its own.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

TIL that my state, one of the worst in the nation educationally, has mandated AI use in schools.

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Susie "Nickname In Quotes" Beeca @susiebeeca.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ah, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...

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An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price. - LGBTQ Nation

Kirralie Smith admitted in court she didn't have any evidence to back up her claim about a trans woman injuring two cis women.

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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

i think it's important for people to remember that puberty blockers *were* the "moderate, compromise" position.

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Actually | DO think twelve year olds should get hrt. That's the normal age to start puberty. so why does it have to be different for trans kids?

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

TIL that, for a fairly ridiculous sum of money, you can get knishes shipped from Yonah Schimmel in New York to anywhere in the US. Deeply contemplating this fact in conjunction with my upcoming birthday.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 16/07/2026

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

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Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.

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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment

The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is actually a measure to protect kids, by letting them read queer books without the covers announcing that to the world. I don't like that it's come to this, but I don't think "no, we must force kids to out themselves to read queer stories!" is helpful as a response.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Writhing scene of grotesque heads (ca. 1520) by Daniel Hopfer, a German artist who is widely believed to have been the first to use etching in printmaking. One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/product/grot…

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A lot of people who support the US bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent seem to think that DST is "real" time and Standard Time is somehow stealing hours of sun from them. DST will not give you more hours of light in the winter! Nothing but changing the earth's axial tilt will do that!

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Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New rule: every US elected official who jokingly calls Hegseth's latest bullshit "gender-affirming care" has to immediately start work on a law/policy that will help trans people. Protect our healthcare; repeal a bathroom ban; protect/restore trans girls' right to participate in sports. Be allies!

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