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Georgina

@ironecho.bsky.social
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Opinionated harpy. Critical, including of whatever your political affiliation is because I make up my own mind on issues. I don't like blind tribalism. Neoliberalism is extremism. Feminism, economics, law, geopolitics, philosophy, books, degrowth. 🍁

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
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Michael F. DuBois @michaelfdubois.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️
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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This damn post has absolutely ruined my brain every time I hear someone mention "for the time being." Major kudos to the poster, if I ever meet you in person I will congratulate you and then punch you in the face.
Troutman @robotrowboat

Boss: Let's put this matter aside for the time being

Me: [looking around nervously] Can only you see the time being?

Boss: Huh?

Me: Is it standing near me?

Boss: Who?

Me: [on verge of panic attack] The time being

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Politico @politico.com · 08/04/2026
Another Conservative jumps ship to join Carney
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Another Conservative jumps ship to join Carney
The defection puts Canada's prime minister on the cusp of a majority, dealing a fresh blow to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
At this point it has nothing to do with that old lunatic. Credibly threatening anyone with nuclear annihilation must be THE red line for ALL of us. Anyone with influence who isn't taking drastic action should be considered complicit in potential nuclear war and treated accordingly.
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
yeah no I am painfully alarmed, how about the rest of you? I'm totally burned out on caring about Trump's antics, but a credible threat of nuclear annihilation of Iran or anyone else is on a completely different level, and I'm not okay, and I don't think I'm alone in that.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
therealnews.com/canadian-jou...
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This Canadian journalist is in Iran to show the sides of war corporate media won’t
Award-winning journalist and former TRNN board member Dimitri Lascaris is reporting on the ground in Iran right now. You need to see his coverage.
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My new piece "Reproducibility: how to strengthen a weak foundation" is out today @nature.com! 🎉 How reproducible is research in the social & behavioural sciences? A new study by Miske et al. assessed 600 papers across 62 journals: the results are sobering. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/d415... 📄 rdcu.be/fbcq5
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We complain so much about our systems' shortcomings & failures, but we don't take it seriously when people propose alternative systems that wouldn't have those kinds of problems. Why are we taking THIS system seriously? It's driving us off a cliff! Stop listening to status quo-ers.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Independent scholar implies the existence of …
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I should add that all those years later, when my dad told me how close he had been to evacuating us during the Three Mile Island meltdown, he still berated himself for not having done it sooner. "Never wait for the update that changes your mind," he said, "because by that time it's too late."
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Would pay dearly for such an opportunity
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Not that this isn't absolutely infuriating, but here is my surprised face: 😐
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We don't pay enough attention to the scam of individuation of responsibility. We drive cars because roads are dangerously impassable without them and everything's too far apart, not bc we're lazy. This system was imposed on us. "Carbon footprints" were literally an oil company marketing campaign.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The oil market seems determined NOT to price in realistic estimations of supply risk. At some point—IF things continue along the current trajectory—the unwarranted optimism will shift in the face of hard material facts. That shift could be sudden and have catastrophic economic consequences.

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Crude Oil


90.564 1.786 -1.93%

Brent


101.754 2.736 -2.62%
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Like so many other aspects of this ridiculous delusional civilization.
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If you’re starting to make summer plans, there's even more to discover with the Canada Strong Pass. Starting this June — free admission to national parks, free experiences for kids, and more: www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...
Screenshot of an article from BlogTO. The headline reads: The popular Canada Strong Pass is making a comeback for summer 2026.
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Steve Rukavina @steverukavina.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/editors...
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How the RCMP spied on Indigenous organizations — and how we broke the story | CBC News
Today, we begin publishing a series of exclusive stories that expose a sweeping RCMP program of surveillance, disruption and infiltration of Indigenous organizations between 1968 and 1982. Though long...
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It's weird that Americans have taxation without representation. I thought that was their whole thing, you know?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
What’s that hissing sound? It’s the soft power vacuum filling up.
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Mainstream leftists doing this in response to radical social scientists, historians, and philosophers is not turning out too well for Western civilization so far, but perhaps if they try harder by doing even more of the same stuff, things will finally turn around for them. You never know
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Not quite nobody. I think about this a lot, & tell my friends and family about it. But I do NOT recommend this lifestyle. Way too much anxiety.
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Hansel Krankepantzen @krankepantzen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Funny. I did a post about the role of typical American ignorance of philosophy, especially ethics, in the rise of fascism and immediately got back a response philosophy as ethics is bunk, only science and technology is real. Is the USA the last bastion of 1950’s logical positivism?
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 22/03/2026
Imagine a day without women’s inventions. Now imagine the world without women’s impact. Women don’t just shape the world. They keep it going. “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” ~ Michelle Obama #SheShed #WomenHistoryMonth
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This feels like a major element of my personal theme of the week.
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
America, your friends still believe in you, but you have work to do and it might not be the work you think.
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Your Country is Not Coming Back (And That's Okay)
Americans keep fighting for the restoration of something that never existed. The way out is through.
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Welcome, spring! It's the spring equinox. The cold & dark are ending. Don't forget to take a moment to greet the sun today, my friends. It's good for our health to connect with the natural world around us. Not everything is about ideas & institutions. Physical reality is the bottom line.
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Canada's Border Czar 🍁 @goodie-fx.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I know Joe Rogan got all the ink, but Poilievre also met with Gov. Abbott. This man has all but outlawed abortion in Texas, including for cases of rape and incest. He also kicked off the great gerrymandering wars of 2025 at the behest of Trump. These are the people he chooses to rub shoulders with
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
WTI still 95, Brent still 109. I don't believe in reality anymore.
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Seconding this: worth your time.
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NetBlocks @netblocks.org · 18/03/2026
ℹ️ Update: Network data show at a brief restoration of internet connectivity in #Iran at hour 444 of the country's second-longest blackout, as some users report coming momentarily back online after an apparent filtering system glitch. However, the restoration is not sustained.
Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from 24 February 2026 to 18 March 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity is high through the initial time period, with a sharp drop on the morning of 28 February. The continued drop in connectivity aligns with a nation-scale internet blackout imposed by authorities after joint military strikes by the US and Israel. A brief restoration was observed. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN' indicating the disruption period, and with a green circle highlighting the brief restoration at the end of the period, and the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner with the Mapping Internet Freedom slogan.
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
May we all read something longer than 300 characters today.
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
“Let us pillage your natural resources, or we let you die.” Sociopathic statecraft.
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U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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From My Lai to Minab: Two massacres, 58 years apart
How little we’ve learned. Exactly fifty‑eight years ago, on March 16, 1968, the U.S. Army committed one of the most horrifying war crimes in American history.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Iran is trolling Trump again. Hard. This is what happens when global politics becomes reality TV.
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
😂 He didn't even try to hide his Texan accent and he gave a weather temperature in Fahrenheit. But really, the fact that *any* Americans buy this says everything about the wide gulf between Canada and America. Canada seems to understand America so much better than America understands Canada. 💔
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Kara Fagan 🇨🇦 Liberal @fagankara.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
www.canada.ca/en/food-insp... Good. Keep reporting these maple washers every time you see it.
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Food businesses face penalties for mislabelling products as Canadian - Canada.ca
Food businesses face penalties for mislabelling products as Canadian
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I think about this scene ALL THE TIME for similar reasons. Here's a link to it on YouTube if you don't know it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rDT...
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Miranda Priestly Educates Andy About Her Cerulean Sweater | The Devil Wears Prada | HBO
YouTube video by HBO
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Georgina @ironecho.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
David Mitchell on tax avoidance: a perennial favourite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc8e...
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David Mitchell on Tax Avoidance from The Last Leg
YouTube video by Political News
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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"Today’s robots don’t alter the reality of 'garbage in, garbage out.'” Which may be the thing that shatters the tech bros' dreams of total control— —or wipes us all off the face of this tired old planet. Either way: Stay in school sisters! We're gonna need ALL the well-educated brains we can get.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 16/03/2026
Iranian Co-directors and Producers of “Cutting Through Rocks,” Mohammadreza Eyni and Sara Khaki said, they wanted to celebrate their Oscar nomination with their people, but because of the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, they said Iranians now have "so many other priorities."
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Asking random locals in Tehran to hang out. These are the friendly, social people we are bombing for no reason.
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