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Madame Hardy

@madamehardy.bsky.social
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Madame Hardy. Was mme_hardy on Twitter. I love gardening, sewing, and reading. Mostly reposts of other people's jokes and historical stuff. She/her.

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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 3h
What the HELL.
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 7h
In 1838, the Governor of the territory of Florida proposed "Let Us Alone" as the state motto. Governor Moseley was a slaveowner and wanted to tell Washington to, well, "leave us alone." It was not ratified. The state has put that motto on drivers's licenses. floridapolitics.com/archives/823...
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RaShon Young to the state: Leave ‘Let Us Alone’ off Florida’s new driver license
The Orlando Democrat wants FLHSMV to reconsider the 1845 motto and consult historians.
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 9h
TIL "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" was written before "Mrs Dalloway".
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 10h
This is useless data, then
He doesn’t think it should be used for rankings of programs at different schools for multiple reasons, including a number of data limitations. For example, the data set excludes earnings data from workers in several settings, including employees of certain nonprofits, independent contractors, federal employees and more. 

The data set is also limited to workers who remained in Virginia, and does not include those who moved out of state for jobs post-graduation.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
chron.com
How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pobre Latinoamérica; tan lejos de dios y tan cerca de Mar-a-Lago
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For those who don't know: mumps is extremely painful and can cause infertility in men.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Need something cheerful? Try the Guardian article on the Scottish porridge-making championship. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Oat of this world: cooks descend on Scotland for ultimate porridge making contest
Technical mishaps and plenty of whisky as competitors from as far afield as US and Australia vie for Golden Spurtle
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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Raise your hand
A line chart labeled birth at one end and death at the other. A single section from birth labeled "gifted kid omg". The rest of the chart labeled "a burned out fucking disappointment".
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A weird and enjoyable thread
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”
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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I hosted an in-conversation with AI minister Kanishka Narayan at Labour conference We covered a lot of ground... He said there was too much AI “doomerism” in Westminster And revealed he has used synthetic AI focus groups to gauge public opinion on a range of topics 1/9
Zoe Crowther and Kanishka Narayan speaking at an event hosted by ThinkLabour at Labour Party conference 2026
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A friend of mine, a physician and aficionado of weird diseases (author of "Zebra Cards: An Aid to Obscure Diagnosis" and "The Physical Lincoln") thinks Trump's publicly reported symptoms line up with systemic amyloidosis. If you're curious, he lays out his reasoning. sickpresidents.com
sickpresidents.com
SickPresidents.com
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
... never worn.
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Next up: somebody brings back bleeding to balance his humors.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
“Prominent wellness personalities and other influencers are portraying nicotine as a misunderstood compound whose potential benefits have been overshadowed by its negative association with cigarettes.”
wired.com
Nicotine Is Mounting a Comeback in the Wellness Movement
Improving mood and increasing longevity are just some of the unfounded claims about this substance circling around the “natural” medicine corners of the internet.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 03/10/2026
Mark Zuckerberg tells investors that his AI push is a huge success. But when it files its taxes, Meta tells the IRS its giant data centers are an experiment that might fail. Why? Because calling them an experiment lets Meta claim a tax credit meant for real research.
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bad moments in UI design. The latest release of Firefox has reworked what a highlighted tab looks like.
Two Firefox tabs in the header.  One is outlined by a thin line in a color gradient from purple to orange.  There is no border around the non-highlighted tab name.  It takes concentrated effort to find the highlighted tab.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The reason we need more religious studies education is because the "New York Times" can just allow someone to say in an interview that wokeness is like the Old Testament, which supposedly has no forgiveness, and the assertion goes unchallenged.
"I mean, you happen to be right. And by the way, I’m not being dismissive of you. I’m just saying that my friends have tested me more than yours, and maybe I’ve tested them. I’m not religious, but I’m a Christian, and God forgives. That’s what it’s all about. The problem with quote, unquote, wokeness — and don’t get me wrong, it is great that marginalized people have a voice; it is great to advocate for anybody that feels marginalized — but the problem is we’re in the Old Testament right now, and the Old Testament has no forgiveness. The Old Testament didn’t work, so they had to write a remix called the New Testament.

There’s been discussion lately about how the Woke 1.0 era, which refers to the immediate post-George Floyd era, was “crazy.” Do you see that moment in time as just “crazy?” Was there anything redeeming about it? I think I just answered. Again, it’s great to help those that need help. We need more of that. The problem is when you institutionalize it. My half a joke: The Salem witch hunts — I’m sure the first three witches they caught were actually witches. But then you open up a witch office, and now you gotta start lying because you got overhead. You gotta justify the witch hunters’ pensions and [expletive]. I’m glad that all of this stuff happened, it needed to happen, and because it happened, maybe I’ve heard some voices that I probably wouldn’t have heard otherwise."
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026
It’s a very minor point amongst the far greater injustices of the situation, but the Cornell case has also just reminded me how much all of society seems to have just accepted the fact that big tech won’t allow people to use the word “rape”. (Or at least people *believe* so — nobody knows!)
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey there, hi there! One of the things people "know" about silent movies is that they are simply packed with women tied to the tracks! Happened all the time. In every film! Right? Right?
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
"When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be 'civil'—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility."🔥
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
 ”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being responsive.”
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ICE Agents Use Intimidation Tactics on Bystanders During Arrest in Maplewood - The Village Green
”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being res...
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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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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Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Man if there’s one thing tech billionaires taking over media hate, it’s beloved brand names with generations of name equity
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...
David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 02/10/2026
Neighbour from hell demolished their half of semi without planning permission and exposed party wall. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Woman's Leeds house "plagued by issues" after next door demolition
Shivarna Mitra says pests have entered her semi-detached home after unauthorised demolition.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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Mely @coffeeandink.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
C.L. Polk's Kingston Cycle?
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A crucifix mandrake, probably 16th century Extraordinary. (Schloss Ambras Innsbruck)
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There were two recent alt-Edwardian queer fantasy romances. One was Freya Marske's engaging Last Binding trilogy, and I'm trying to remember author/title on the other. In the one I'm thinking of, the heroes and heroines wind up fomenting a revolution against the nobility/ruling class. Help?
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Mike in Oly @mikeinoly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Spellbound', from 1951, is a lovely blend of sunset color tones. A child of the famous, and now lost, 'Tobacco Road'. Not the strongest grower but so so pretty when it does show off. #iris 🌱 #bloomscrolling
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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hrp-palaces.bsky.social posted another video FOR ME!!!! Hair, makeup, eyebrows, and pomander tutorial for a lady of the mid 1660s following period recipes. #17thC #C17th #historicalfashion #1660s www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ei...
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Getting Ready as Charles II's Mistress
YouTube video by Historic Royal Palaces
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As is the case in higher ed, calls for civility are actually demands for docility.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Got a notification from my migraine specialist's app. Opened it, hoping there'd been an early cancellation (my next visit is in February). Nope. They wanted me to know I should get a flu shot.
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gift link. wapo.st/4hVX59I
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Trump defies Democrats, diverts aid for Europe to Latin America instead
The diverted funds include tens of millions of dollars that Congress approved for countries affected by the war in Ukraine.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anti trans hatred is the same as any other anti-gay, religious, or racial hatred we have ever known. This includes the efforts to dress it up, hide it, and make it about protecting women or children. That's exactly what bigots did to Black and gay people.
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Our backyard security camera has now renamed all its products "Smart [x]", and boasts that it offers AI-enhanced reports. Dude, I don't actually need AI's opinion on the raccoons.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wow. I hadn't actually read the NYT story yet when I wrote this. But what actually happened to Jane Doe is the exact kind of thing that I'm talking about in this thread.
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And what real man wants to be on a platform filled with GIRLS?!?! EW GROSS
Geiger Capital: Officially deleted instagram.

An inherently female app. Zero benefit.

Elon Musk: Instagram is for girls.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire is quietly shooting a pro-ICE movie that dramatizes the Renee Good killing. We got the script. My latest False Flag for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/daily-wire...
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The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script.
Locals aren’t happy about the film’s take on the ICE shooting of Renée Good.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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