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cathodeCorpse @cathodecorpse.bsky.social · 5m

I'll confess I really like talking about it but mainly because I'm fascinated with the psychosexuality of RWers and I'm still stuck on the whole "we needed a tsundere, something we apparently sorely lacked" thing

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 9h

someone just trying to clean her house and Rowling opens up the Crossdressing and Sexual Deviance statistics briefcase

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22m

So you're saying you hate my work interesting wow

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22m

I honestly think the Malfoid thing is quite low stakes.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

the authors of these articles are always trying to convince *themselves* that actually their husband fucking 25-year-olds is great.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 52m

The New York Times employs hundreds of reporters and thousands of staff overall and I think there are like 12 total people at the paper who like Trump and want to help him. Unfortunately a bunch of them are editors or work on the national politics desk bsky.app/profile/thor...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1h

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 3h

In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection from Nature. Almost 30 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 53m

I've got a good idea for how the BBC should pick the live action show's next showrunner. Ask them how this show fits into canon. If they give any answer other than 'what on earth are you talking about?' 'who cares?' or 'grow up', they are immediately disqualified:

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First look at 'TARDIS Crew', brand new CBeebies animated adventure from the Whoniverse | Doctor Who

The TARDIS is set to welcome aboard a whole new generation of fans in an exciting new animated series...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

for a minute @hurricanexyz.bsky.social has been saying that Legend of the Galactic Heroes is his favorite piece of political theory and now that I am 15 hours into the series I get it. i’m totally Yang Wen-li-pilled.

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 2h

Post-2016 politics:

A spinner atop a grey circular area, surrounded with 5 square areas in colours of the 5 major national UK parties. Currently the spinner points red for Labour.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

what i'm getting here is that what passes for being trad online is a lot different than when i was talking to evangelical circles a decade ago

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 3h

Before the interstate system made hour-plus-long daily commuting feasible, there was an intellectual tradition in the U.S. churning out James Talaricos (likable, responsible, not quite radical but close enough) and reliable voters to support them

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 3h

This is why Talarico has a throwback vibe

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2h

Aye he strikes me as someone who shows clear signs of being raised in this cultural milieu even if he later became doctrinally heretical.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 4h

The inclusion of Rawls on that list is interesting. I guess you might say he was culturally Christian if not believing during most of his career. But yeah, similar. The effect of War on these mid-Century guys is important.

Excerpt from Rawls's biography on Wikipedia.

Religious views

Raised a devout Episcopalian, at Princeton University while working toward an undergraduate he even considered attending a seminary to study for the Episcopal priesthood, but decided to enlist into the army during World War II. His military service would eventually motivate him to abandon his faith. In his personal 1997 essay, On My Religion, he explained that after the Holocaust and his experiences in World War II, he found it impossible to believe in a traditional, personal God who actively directs human history or answers prayers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rawls

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 4h

Would you believe it not only existed but the US mainline denominations spent decades flailing in their efforts to recover a fragment of the moral and cultural esteem their traditions enjoyed in the era when, e.g., Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and Paul Tillich graced the covers of TIME Magazine?

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 3h

“The Suburban Captivity of the Churches” is a fairly well-researched if tedious account of why this no longer exists like it used to. The short answer to the question of what happened is white flight capped the mission field and left mainline Christianity without much to do

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The suburban captivity of the churches by Gibson Winter | Open Library

The suburban captivity of the churches by Gibson Winter, 1962, Macmillan edition, in English

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 2h

The North Will Rise Again

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 2h

Labour has got 99 problems, and Keir was one?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3h

This poll has been verified by True Mancs as sound. Northern patriots back in control. Everything is mint.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3h

Carnegie Mellon Philosophy, but only because I am a kind of negative utility monster in this regard.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

Has there been a more reliable organization for churning out terrible people on the nominal left than the Young Turks?

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JogchumV @jogchumv.bsky.social · 3h

Dunno, on average I do believe our abs tend to be significantly better defined 🤔😌

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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 4h

This image was in fact shared with me by an anonymous Leverhulme leaker

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4h

Oh I didn't know it had got anywhere near that kind of box office performance, not bad!

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 4h

Tbh it did do pretty smashingly well (~$111 million box office over 72 million budget, even competing against spiderman)

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4h

Basically everyone who saw this had that reaction. It's a shame it didn't do better commercially, just flat out it's the kind of thing I'd like to see more of.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 15h

A clean just-over-90 minute movie, the pacing nailed it

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4h

New post at Strength In Numbers today with a fresh take on whether the polls are overstating support for Democrats or Republicans. I use a measure of respondent engagement to proxy non-response and simulate potential bias. Error could be quite large www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-06...

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 04/10/2026

[to the tune of ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’] Charlie Kirk, carry flame, fight for gospel, honour name

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 5h

Three of of those, at least, were notably devout Anglicans/Episcopalians or Presbyterians aka mainline prostestants. Not sure about Rawls, but he was definitely studied in seminary ethics classes. That’s a big part of Talarico’s identity. We have definitely faded from the prominence of mid-century.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 5h

maybe we just need to bring back vicars. But not like, for anglicans to feel good, just pay random graduates to go out and live in the countryside and work one day a week, and think the rest of the time. We'd maybe get some interesting philosophy out of it.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 4h

Love to be in my 40s, when I can engage in high-risk activities like sleeping in my own bed and come through with only moderately severe back pain.

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Paul Johnson @ptwiddle.bsky.social · 8h

In the book he's apparently a professor; saw speculation change to postdoc was perhaps done make it more palatable to Stanford for the movie.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 8h

You know one thing Yuzi pointed out to me was pretty ambiguous: was he actually a postdoc? He didn't seem to have a PI, but also seemed to be on soft-money, but also seemed to explicitly identify as a postdoc, but also seemed to be up for a permanent(?) position of some kind? It was very strange.

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 9h

Triceps Georg was an outlier adn should not have been counted.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 9h

Let me tell you - not the Love Hypothesis. This is, in fact, the physique of the average professor. No questions at this time.

The sexy professor from the love hypothesis. shirtless. Bazinga!

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Simon Brown @simonabbrown.bsky.social · 9h

"in 1974, he suffered a blow after being persuaded to invest in a Canadian company which claimed to have developed a process to cut carbon emissions. It turned out to be a scam" - there were already carbon-emissions-related scams in 1974!! www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Jeffrey Archer obituary

Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 20h

Dominos meme
First domino: Tsar Nicholas losing the Russo-Japanese war
Last Domino: His Grandniece being handcuffed to DJ Fat Tony on Channel 4

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James Openshaw @openshaw.bsky.social · 12h

We're hiring! NTU Philosophy has three tenured/tenure-track openings. Our department is friendly, collaborative, and a great place to do research. Happy to answer questions if you're thinking of applying. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #philjobs #PhilSky #AcademicJobs

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bródnodig | cailleach minogue @kweenmedb.bsky.social · 9h

aos sí??? this pronoun shit has now infected irish mythology. fuck sake.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 9h

Unpopular trans girl opinion but i wish jkr had significantly more creative control in the show, as is I think it’s still going to make it three or four seasons

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 10h

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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