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KM Gallagher

@kmgallagher25.bsky.social
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USA/UK/Germany. A doctor, but the bookish kind, not the medical kind.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“A pathogen invades, sticks around, and causes trouble.” Sometimes the most important scientific questions can be summarized very simply. Excellent Smithsonian piece on #LongCovid, viral persistence, and the scientists still working to understand what SARS-CoV-2 can leave behind.
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For Many Americans, Covid Is Still a Chronic, Disabling Disease. These Scientists Are Working Tirelessly to Bring Them Relief
Long Covid saps the strength and vitality of patients, who have little recourse to fight it. A team of specialists—including an afflicted researcher working mostly from her bed—is looking for answers
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I really struggle with the ethics of surrogacy and let me tell you, that Lena Dunham article that is all about pregnancy as a shopping spree is...not helping matters
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
COVID helped fuel the rise of the far right globally. The uncertainty, grief, anger, and fear made for fertile ground for conspiracist thinking and right-wing indoctrination. Is it one of many drivers? Yes. But it’s an important factor nonetheless—and one that is too often overlooked and unexamined
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Jörg @realkachelmann.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Möge jedes Kind in einer entspannten familiären Situation aufwachsen, in der es sich darauf verlassen kann, dass es nicht allen den "Boden unter den Füßen wegreißt", nur weil es rechenschwach ist.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
(Long) Commentrary🧵: Sydney Towle, who recently turned 26, has died of cholangiocarcinoma. 2 lessons to be learned from online responses to this TikTok influencer: 🔺️The public couldn't be worse at discerning fact from fiction. 🔺️Disabled & chronically ill folks... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/s...
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Sydney Towle, Who Chronicled Her Cancer on TikTok, Dies at 26 (Gift Article)
For an audience that grew to more than a million followers, she challenged assumptions about how people with serious illnesses should look and live.
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My jaw literally locked open when I first saw this piece of news
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Sorgearbeit ist Arbeit. Frauen arbeiten mehr als Männer, sie bekommen nur weniger Arbeit bezahlt. Sorgearbeit ist Arbeit ohne die Gesellschaft nicht funktionieren kann. Dementsprechend sollte sie behandelt werden.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.
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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Es ist eine Absage an das Prinzip „Gesellschaft“, wenn wir jede Krise allein in „Eigenverantwortung“ lösen müssen. Das können wir nicht. Demokratische Gesellschaften sind die beste Garantie das Leben des Einzelnen zu schützen. Das solidarische Gemeinschaftsprinzip ist die beste Krisenstrategie.
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The true globalists?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It's a collective psychopathy, which treats disabled people, elderly people and people with long-term conditions as disposable. We see it in the Covid-19 pandemic. We see it in the heatwaves. Their deaths are inconvenient reminders that a favoured policy is disastrous. So they must be dismissed.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In den Tagesthemen heißt es, SPD und Union hoffen, ihre Umfragewerte durch diese Reform zu verbessern. Das können sie doch nicht ernsthaft glauben?
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Gute Aufklärungsarbeit von der Brigitte www.brigitte.de/aktuell/gese...
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Was eine Krankschreibung ab Tag 1 für chronisch Erkrankte (wie mich) bedeutet
Friedrich Merz führt eine verpflichtende Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung ab Tag eins ein. Unsere Autorin hat Migräne – warum die Maßnahme ihrer Meinung nach lediglich zu mehr Fehlzeiten führen wird.
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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ich wage mal eine Prognose. Erster Akt: per Gesetz alle am ersten Tag zum Arzt zwingen, damit auch jeder Schnupfen eine Krankmeldung produziert. Zweiter Akt: ein halbes Jahr später empört den selbst erzeugten Rekordstand beklagen. Dritter Akt: erster Krankheitstag ohne Lohn, versteht sich.
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As a former Irish dancer and product of an insane (wonderful), matriarchal Irish family, I am really enjoying this whole discourse on Irish dance, thanks @oldenoughtosay.com
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Wieder eine Hürde im Alltag mehr. Wieder das Leben komplizierter gemacht. Wieder den Frust angefacht. Wieder das Feuer geschürt, das die AfD nach oben katapultiert. Der Alltag muss einfacher werden, nicht immer mühsamer.
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Krankenstand per Telefon abschaffen und die Leute ab Tag 1 in überfüllte Wartezimmer zwingen hilft übrigens „der Wirtschaft“ kein bisschen. Im Gegenteil. Es geht nur darum arbeitende Menschen zu drangsalieren, demütigen und sanktionieren. Rohe Bürgerlichkeit.
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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ein halbes Jahr später und die Regierung beschließt, künftig müsse man sich ab Tag eins krankschreiben lassen. Und telefonisch geht natürlich auch nicht mehr. Selten eine Regierung gesehen, die den Sozialstaat so lustvoll an die Wand fährt. Und an die SPD: Wie könnte ihr noch in den Spiegel schauen?
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Die SPD gräbt ihr eigenes Grab und scheint es nicht mal mitzukriegen. Ich verstehe es nicht.
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Geil, dank Merz werde ich in Zukunft mehr Zeit im schönen Wartezimmer meines Hausarztes verbringen dürfen
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Can JD please go join them?
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"It's sad for him I'm sure" is such a great understated burn
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
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tschilai @tschilai.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Firefly: This Must Be What Going Mad Feels Like
Alt: Simon Tam aus Firefly in einer Mischung aus Ungläubigkeit und Verzweiflung sagt: "This must be what going mad feels like."
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brexit cost 6% of UK economy, Bank of England company data suggests
Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. It does not have to be like this.
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits prog
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/06/2026
i really, truly, find this offensive
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
No one should be a trillionaire.
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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Ende 2024 hat die FDP aus blanker Eitelkeit und Wut über die eigene Unfähigkeit eine Koalition gesprengt und damit eine Kettenreaktion ausgelöst: einen historisch unbeliebten Kanzler, einen Sozialstaat unter Dauerbeschuss und eine AfD bei 28 Prozent.
Wolfgang Kubicki gewählt
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Nobody should be a trillionaire.
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Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
„Das Wachstum geht zudem fast ausschließlich auf Teilzeit- und Nebenjobs zurück. Das betrifft hauptsächlich Frauen und schlechtere Bezahlung. Arbeit ist also nicht weniger, sondern prekärer geworden.“ www.fr.de/politik/spd-...
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„‚Schlimmeres verhindert‘ war nicht der Auftrag, für den die Partei gegründet wurde“ – SPD-Linker kritisiert eigene Führung
Der 8-Stunden-Tag steht auf der Kippe und Gewerkschaften schlagen Alarm. Nun regt sich auch Widerstand innerhalb der SPD. Ein Interview.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This, and also, if there is some reason you genuinely cannot check a source yourself, you are supposed to make this clear by citing it as "A Smith, Title, etc, cited in B Jones, Title, etc, p. 123". You aren't supposed to pretend you've read stuff that you haven't!
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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Ein neues Meme hat die Bühne betreten
Ausschnitt aus dem Spiegel. Ein Bild von Friedrich Merz, darüber das Zitat "Kein Bundeskanzler vor mir hat so etwas ertragen müssen"
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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Weißt Du, was bequem ist, Friedrich? Sich dreist, satt und selbstgefällig hinstellen, die Leute beschimpfen und gleichzeitig den Sozialstaat samt Gesundheitssystem und Rente schleifen, weil man weder den Mut noch den Willen hat, Vermögende zu besteuern. DAS ist bequem, Friedrich.
Kanzler Merz geht auf die Deutschen los : „Wir sind ein bisschen zu bequem geworden“
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
nothing weakens your war-fighting capabilities like *checks notes* not having the flu
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Going through Irish census records and in the 1911 census, my great-great grandmother is listed as having 12 children born alive and 9 living. Those are the times certain Republicans would like to have us return to, women constantly pregnant and their unvaccinated children dying
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This will sound ridiculous, given that the vice president is a Catholic convert, but there is a long history of anti-Catholic feeling in the US and I can't help seeing a lot of what's happened recently in that light
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KM Gallagher @kmgallagher25.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For everyone concerned that "the Pope is WEAK on Crime", I have bad news about who Jesus chose to socialize with
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
(watching a movie where a character announces that he will destroy a city if they don't meet his specific demands by a certain deadline) oh that's probably the good guy in this movie
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