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Karen Klomp

@kklomp.bsky.social
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In no particular order: I'm a cricket loving south London based originally Dutch energy professional.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18h
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Smith goes on: “My kids are all at school, but down a 60mph lane with no footpaths. Even if I could persuade them to do the 2 mile walk every morning, it would be monstrously unsaid to do so.” If only there was some sort of policy intervention that could make this route safer.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Scrapping the Future Homes Standard will deliver cost reductions for developers, but it’s hugely unlikely they’d be passed on to buyers and those buyers would be left with homes that cost thousands of pounds a year more to run.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You've probably seen this news by now. I find it hard to deal with. 20% of all the ice in Switzerland's glaciers lost in 5 years! And it's not just the beauty of the high Alps; this has major implications for Europe's water supply. #ClimateChangeisWaterChange
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sounds about white.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
CNN making this sound more mysterious than it is. It was Yersinia pestis, the plague, the researcher died because she inhaled it into her lungs and developed pneumonic plague, there is no danger but to those directly exposed in the lab. Fear-mongering in the time of global terror is a sick choice.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well, this is a delight. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The kids using “Brexit” and “AI” as insults makes me think the kids are pretty great, actually
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The competitiveness of the white conservative lasted exactly as long as artificial barriers to entry for everyone else did, what they lost to was the free market they pretended to care about because their entire success was based on not actually facing competition.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's insane how many ppl even entertain the idea of data fabrication as being good for research.
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please help… my son…
photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The party has also said it would look closer at whether parents' earnings and savings should be factored into welfare payments for their children" So according to the Tories, it's wrong to means-test benefits for boomers... but totally fine to do so for their adult children children.
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Conservatives pledge 'tough love' benefit rules for under-25s
The party says it would bring in new work requirements for young people claiming Universal Credit.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.
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Sunny (came home with a mission) @stillsunny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Absolutely Also, the emotional cost of having to weigh safety constantly - it costs energy that we could be putting to better use, that men don’t have to spend It’s so automatic that we forget it still taps energy to run that program in the background, then we wonder why we are so exhausted
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Eclipse 🏳️‍🌈 🐦‍⬛ @eclipsemage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have a friend who no longer goes to many events and restaurants because her stalker/harasser/gaslighter often goes to them. Her life is much smaller because of him, while he enjoys the freedom to go where he wants, and do what he wants, after making her life hell.
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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I read a book this summer about 'the new Hollywood' of the '70s (Lucas, Spielberg, Coppola, Scorsese, etc) and this thread articulates a lot of what it left me feeling.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyway I don't want to be accused of starting drama. I don't want to be assaulted, and I don't want to be a problem! So I leave and the men assume I'm tired or dull or maybe they don't care bc without me, they don't have to confront the creeps, they can claim ignorance and buy the bar another round.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The good men, the friends and lovers even, say to me later "well why didn't you just tell that creep off" as though I wouldn't be accused of starting shit, as though they'd stand up for me and not interrogate me to make the creep comfortable instead. Experience tells me most men will do the latter.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 30/09/2026
haaaa I have just discovered what happens if you type "fat bear week" into Google
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One additional 'quick fact': if your name is John, the Nobel committee is twice as likely to award you the Prize for Physics, compared to scientists who are female - Number of physics prizes to a John: 10 - Number of female physics Nobel laureates: 5 Best wishes to all the John-hopefuls this yr 👩‍🔬⚛️
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rare opportunity to invest in no future.
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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
its not about what the triple lock means, its about once again disabled people only getting support if it means someone else loses out. It's making us the enemy again.
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Abbie @kabbiearlish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there are men who think, "If they're gonna do something bad, they won't stop because of me." Yeah, bud. They will. You might not stop all future evil, but you can protect one person, and you might make them think in the future. You really do have power when it comes to other men.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A woman’s lifetime of suffering is weighed against a potential temporary setback in a man’s career, and the man’s self-induced plight always carries more weight.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Some folks get really incensed when people use the phrase "rape culture." But I'm not really sure how else you could possibly describe this convergence of events. newrepublic.com/post/215920/...
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Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation
The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
never skip leg day
An oil painting of a giant white ox, with a massive body and extremely tiny legs. He stands solemnly in a field beneath a moody sky, as if presiding over some kind battle.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 28/09/2026
Good, but please stop saying "agents go rogue". AI agents don't "go rogue". They pursue the goals they're set, and if the humans who set those goals don't give them limits, then obviously there's a good chance they'll do something humans consider bad in pursuit of those goals.
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cornell University Police treated the victim like trash.
“My client went to the Cornell University Police because a crime was committed. It was the obligation of the police to investigate the complaints. They were given the group chat inviting the members of the fraternity to rape my client. This was a critical piece of evidence supporting that a crime had occurred. Despite this there was no follow-up with Ms. Doe either by the Cornell Police or the Tompkins County District Attorney,” he said.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just today the DA announced they are reopening the investigation. Apparently this is the first time he’s seeing the screenshot of the group chat (tells you something about the first investigation)
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 28/09/2026
The woman at Cornell was invited to the frat by Matthew Ingalls, who she thought was a friend. She was already drunk when she got there. He gave her another drink and ketamine, then dragged her into a room with another man. Johnathan Newell is the one who announced “free pu**y” to the group chat.
Photos of Matthew Ingalls, Diego Sarabja, Winston Lee, Scott Kretzschmer, Scott Norris, Gilio Lopes, Johnathan Newell
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s a mistake to think there’s anything about this story that is unique to Cornell. One in five women is sexually assaulted at college. The majority of them experience institutional betrayal if they report. I would like to believe this story will change that, but I doubt it will.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cornell expelled students who were protesting genocide in Gaza, but made five of seven guys who gang raped a drugged girl for seven hours write essays. That tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about the morals of that institution.
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Arikia Millikan @arikia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Important thread 👇🏽 Migrating to Ghost is the next best path with the available digital publishing infrastructure. More good things are coming. Thanks @enfascination.com
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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