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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I believe we have reached new levels of irrationality and disgustingness.

Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks! You know, I was thinking we should set up a tradition where each Thanksgiving, the English make a gift of a thousand of our most prominent current day Puritans to honour the occasion. What do you think?

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Can someone explain the context of this to my British brain? x.com/elonmusk/sta...

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I've been pissing off Xitter again.

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

There's not even really a right to be heard, only to speak. In the marketplace of ideas, people choose who they listen to just as they choose which stalls they buy from in a regular marketplace. If people are not listening to you, it's your responsibility to make your wares more appealing.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The "Twitter is not real life" thing is overplayed. The dominant problem now is not that we overestimate the role that social media plays in public opinion & elections etc, but that we underestimate it.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Failing to reduce yourself to the lowest ethical level of the most despicable of your opponents may indeed result in defeat, but doing so guarantees it. A cause worthy of support must be about more than the pure attainment of power.

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The conservative element of my liberalism is coming to the fore too. I think it's because the need to conserve is becoming so pressing &so many on the right who would typically be regarded as conservatives are just not interested in conserving liberal democracy & its institutions.

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

OK, I need to reduce my stress & blood pressure in case this is having an impact on my headaches. More no-screen time and new, wholesome hobbies are needed, I think.

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

In lighter news (literally) my trousers fell off a few days ago. Fortunately, I was indoors. Anyway, I ordered the same ones two sizes smaller to slim into, but they fit already. Seems I have gone from size 28 to size 20(UK) this year. One more drop until I am out of Plus Sizes.

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grizzly bear from we bare bears is dancing with his arms outstretched on a white background .

ALT: grizzly bear from we bare bears is dancing with his arms outstretched on a white background .

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My Xitter account has been rendered unusable again. Everybody is unfollowed from me & me from them and I cannot refollow anybody & vice versa. Again. It's more likely that this is a tech glitch than a de facto ban but that place is such a mess generally, it's worth trying to grow this one.

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Me: No procrastination today! I have work to do! Me, for next half hour: Watches videos about how to secure wooden posts with inventive knot tying using wire.

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

How much more likely would you be to have to do that if other countries said "I'm not dying for a little island off the coast of Europe that I don't care about" & instead made it clear that they'd take an attack on the UK personally. We're not much of a deterrent on our own.

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I've been here five minutes and already been subjected to tea heresy.

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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I'm finding it hard to understand why this is unclear to anybody. Bizarre, bizarre situation when I, who am least liberal economically (which is where I am most left & why I vote left), am now more liberal economically than the Republican Party. 1/3

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