Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 12hI'd like to see a lot more heat - naming and shaming - on the Danish researchers here. the USians involved are a lost cause, but I hope we are still able to resist this grossness spreading in Europe. 15013
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialKenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 17hFinding an executioner could be difficult, and officials would do whatever they could to find (and avoid being) one. In northern England, for instance, there are cases in which people who had their goods stolen from them were required to perform the execution if they wish to get their goods back. 2444
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialMarc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You could also describe public executions as Roman, Tudor, Georgian or Victorian. 10818
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live. 2821401034
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialWaging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 09/10/2026Across rural Southeast Africa, a small but loud grassroots movement has emerged to resist destructive Chinese mining companies — and they are winning.wagingnonviolence.orgInside the successful campaign against illegal Chinese mining in AfricaAcross rural Southeast Africa, a small but loud grassroots movement has emerged to resist destructive Chinese mining companies — and they are winning. 0164
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialOnni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/202641% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking. 1617186
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it. 171756473
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialRobinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026major democracies electing far-right populist governments 131594282
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026A member of the National Guard shot and killed a man in Memphis and it barely made a ripple in our discourse. 5570139
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this. 27787308
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialI may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 02/10/2026People chose this. 11812
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialSarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 30/09/2026Just over 50 years ago marital rape wasn't a crime anywhere in North America and in many, many other countries. This timeline is upsetting as hell and we have made so much progress. 0369
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialAdam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Some 👀 #cholera findings in the WHO's "Cholera Annual Report, 2025" www.who.int/news/item/29... 013
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Google and Apple immediately update their maps. 382476544
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialCeleste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also: if you're new, this is the context for what happened to me. He injured me so badly that night, I have chronic pain permanently in my lumbar. He was 440 pounds to my 137. But he was believed since he cried, and his parents took him home. Talk to your sons.harpersbazaar.comAll The Women I Met in JailA law meant to help victims of domestic violence often results in their arrest. One woman details surviving abuse and the system that claimed to protect her. 0305
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialCeleste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have a lot to say about the Cornell case, but I'm largely keeping it on the inside, since I'll be honest: I find it triggering. But I have one specific ask: parents, talk to your sons. Talk to them and make sure they understand accountability. Talk to them about consent. Do it now. 223647
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialUrvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 142525874
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Murdered by our collective lunge into fascism. Well done, everyone with a scrap of power. 023754
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026I think software engineering has been in a crisis since at least when Facebook facilitated a genocide and there wasn’t any meaningful change to the formalized ethical practices of the industry as a whole 38318
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialEvan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That P*t*r Th**l clip going around about 'evil is good' made me hunt this Toni Morrison observation.youtube.comToni Morrison on Trauma, Survival, and Finding MeaningYouTube video by CTFORUM 55020
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialdarcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Seeing UK succeed at multiculturalism almost so well if flips back to bizarro world racism has been wild man 171
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Where's the lie? 0326
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialGregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the housing crisis is due to financialization not to immigration 183
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 27/09/2026🇪🇹 Ethiopian faithful celebrate Meskel festival with calls for end to conflict Thousands gather in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to mark the east African nation's Orthodox Church festival of Meskel. 0207
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialMike Meginnis @mikemeginnis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is maybe the right hour for me to post that the "we're all so poor and miserable of course people are voting for fascists" shit is such moral cowardice; I would have to be starving to death to consider a Trump vote and we are not generally starving to death. That's very rarely a thing here. 3597
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.social🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 125123765272
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6838771540
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On the one hand, it's just dumb. Universities are, in fact, real, and they exist in the world. American universities employ about 3x as many people as there are active duty servicemembers, so if soldiers are "real," then so are academics. 330339
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialDr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Plus ça change...? 051
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialJack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Rees-Mogg is embelmatic of how far the Overton window has shifted because he wears his opinion on his sleeve and he has held the same opinions basically forever and through no fault of his own he has gone from being on the right flank of the right-wing party to more liberal than a Labour government 196
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026(Again, this directly refutes an increasingly popular policy frame that says primary prevention of spillover through nature-based solutions is a more equity-oriented solution than investment in healthcare or action on political determinants of inequity such as vaccine nationalism. It's just not.) 17812
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/20261: For every hour you travel from the nearest clinic, the odds of detecting an outbreak decreases by about 1/3. 👉 For policymakers: the best thing we can do to catch and intercept spillovers before they become epidemics is build rural clinics and pay for diagnostic machines and supplies. 119854
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026The man is literally prosecuting a sitting US congresswoman for doing her job in trying to inspect a detention center carrying out a monstrous and unpopular policy, like, what do you mean let him save face? 425440
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialMeredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.c-span.org 37947331061
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialMadhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It doesn’t fall by itself Active disinformation and bad policy are driving the fall www.reuters.com/business/hea...reuters.comTrust in measles vaccines falls in US, Reuters Ipsos poll findsAmericans' trust in vaccines for deadly childhood diseases including measles has fallen in recent years, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found, a troubling sign for the country as it experiences its worst ... 13010
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley 153694754
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical! 292656822
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just American taxpayers with jobs and families, asylum seekers with no criminal record, held in miserable conditions at Guantanamo because of their race/national origin 26636
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialPhil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Best explanation I have for this so far is a kind of elegant fatalism which pooh-poohs the idea of pushback as doomed to fail, & so not 'serious' or worth trying. It's historically illiterate but deeply British - what could be worse than being caught doing something so unsophisticated and unironic? 164
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialBrosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Museums are so cool. “Wanna go see some old stuff?” Fuck yeah I do 2478150
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026it's been difficult to not go "we fucking told you dawg" seeing all of the responses of the math community. I feel bad for some of them all, but none of them gave a fuck when it was us, so... I hope folks realize all the shit we artists have been saying was true all along. 1622
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026How did he pass is job interview? The same reason he's all over the press & everyone in the "left" is captured by these people. I'm gonna call it like it is, once again, its ******RACISM********* Y'all can't imagine that WE are the experts. 12831233
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialAnnalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with. 361220456
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialCharles Beckett @charlesbeckett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026How have we managed to end up in a situation where the IRGC controls the Strait of Hormuz and the Houthis control the Bab el-Mandeb? How? World-historical levels of idiocy. 121
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.social😬🚲Yikes on Bikes @yikesonbikes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Everyone should listen to the "60 Words" episode of RadioLab, where the SCOTUS changed the meaning of words so that this "emergency" can last forever and be applied to anything www.radiolab.org/podcast/60-w...radiolab.org60 WordsHow one sentence—just 60 words written in the hours after the September 11 attacks—became the legal foundation for the "war on terror." 0108
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialrobin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Ulrich Siegmund, who won the Saxony-Anhalt state election for the AfD, today: of course we will need German weapons for our ‘remigration and deportation offensive’ they tell us exactly what they plan to do & this is exactly what AfD voters support & what many in the media & in academia legitimize 210933
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As 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. 3761240
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If you don't have a large public tax base (his pied-a-terre tax only illustrates how small it is) you need private funds to do anything big, simple as. The rest is management & marketing 0382
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialAnne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ooh it's actually a joint statement. "The churches are particularly concerned about the coexistence and cooperation of the people in Saxony-Anhalt, and especially about respecting the God-given human dignity that belongs unconditionally to everyone." 13514
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026This is what Chesterton meant when he said, "When a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything." Gotta fill that hole. 11506
