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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NASA has released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere 🤩 Top speed: about 25,000 mph

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 03/10/2026

"Is the AI concious, is it like a human, is it a machine god to be?" Insane questions from the culturally Christian. LLMs are Sumerian type demons that can be summoned, bound and charged with tasks. They exist in their own cateogory.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Martin @martinholland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really like this approach to posting. This morning I was thinking it would be great to have the option of a sort of T&C pop up for new followers or first time repliers.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We are going to occasionally talk about AI, work, data politics, and sociality here for everyday people. Some ground rules: 1. we won’t cotton to a lot of intellectual elitism (“morons” etc.) 2. This will focus on how I ask questions. This is *my* lens on the world. YMMV is always implied.

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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026

Find an explicitly left organizing project, not a "climate" one without clear politics. Look for an analysis of power, race, politics, and gender embedded in strategies you decide to join up with. These look different from "neutral" tech solution sets and will feel different to engage with.

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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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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"Because back in my days we never had the genders." Actually back in the days:

Black-and-white archival photograph from 1921 showing several gender-nonconforming adults in early-20th-century clothing posing outside Berlin’s Institute for Sexual Science during an international sex-reform congress. Text above the photo reads, “A group of trans activists in 1921.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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Martin @martinholland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Time to realise you've been completely had if you have at any point supported any of this. Get mad at the bastards who led you on, put your hands up, and start making amends.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.

"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yeah this is Section 28 all over again.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.

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Martin @martinholland.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am slowly but successfully moving off big tech: Android to Graphene (easy!) Windows to Linux (looks easy!) Google to Proton (easy!) Audible to Libro (super easy!) Kindle to Jailbroken kindle (easier options exist!) Adobe to... not sure yet but Darktable on Linux will be my first attempt

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Martin @martinholland.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Don't let them tell you she was neutral. There's no such thing as neutral. Be Dolly or be Elon. Pick a side.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"To suggest... that historical figures that were involved in colonial atrocities were just men of their time... discounts both the humanity and temporalities of those, in every time, found on the other side of the abyssal line." goodreads.com/quotes/11627444

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A quote from Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge

To suggest, for example, that historical figures that were involved in colonial atrocities were just men of their time, acting in keeping with the standa...

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/08/2026

Getting run off a social media site for rushing to the defense of a beady eyed little antebellum race scientist is a rare case of society working as intended

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 24/08/2026

The world's richest man WHO IS AN IMMIGRANT calls for murdering immigrants

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/08/2026

“you must engage and defeat them in empirical debate” done! their arguments come pre-debunked! why is the burden of proof on us to do this again? make the racists find a new argument, which they can’t, because they’re all horseshit

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

As an evolutionary biologist, I don't debate creationists for this reason. Astronomers shouldn't debate flat earthers. Epidemiologists should not debate anti-vaxxers. And no one should give scientific racists and eugenicists any oxygen either.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

again: they mean it

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Long story short, this is a big ideological shift that combines terrible economics, politics and academics. It is not an episode, it is the ideology of the most powerful right now, from tech billionaires (yes all them) to Trump to far-right and mainstream right political parties.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🤔 I really wish more of the discourse around Cofnas, Yarvin, Musk, Thiel etc and their successful lynching of a Black academic would refer to @quinnslobodian.com's "Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right" tracing Silicon Valley's route from Ayn Rand to 'race science.'

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

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Martin @martinholland.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is it cancel culture that we don't teach flat earth theory in schools? A part of the problem is we made "racism bad because morals" the only story most ppl here. These fuckers can still pretend there's some biology behind their rancid ideas.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Geologists and evolutionary biologists do not have to debate creationists. Astronomers do not have to debate pre-Copernican theories of the heavens. Doctors do not have to debate anti-vax nuts. Climate scientists do not have to debate industry-funded deniers. All that goes for racists times ten.

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Martin @martinholland.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tired: suicidal empathy Wired: kamikaze liberalism

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“It’s impossible that Jason Arday could have got his post without DEI,” say people about an industry which can find 200 academics willing to sign a letter in support of David Miller and another 200 academics willing to support Nathan Cofnas.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I just want to also name Peter Singer, at the top of the list. The most famous philosopher in the world, many would say. Awarded so many prizes. Hosted as the big speaker at events around the world. He started espousing "the disabled would be better off dead" in the late 90s, I think.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Holly Baleen @hollybaleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

From Will Self of all people, an absolutely clinical deconstruction of Kathleen Stock. Nice to know that some writers can see through some of the GC crowd.

J'accuse Kathleen Stock of helping convert an allegation of academic misconduct into the story of 'Cambridge's DEI darling', thereby making Arday's institutional and racial symbolism integral to the accusation. There's no need to label Stock transphobic: she's done it herself, whatever the nonsense she spouts about 'gender criticality'; just as there's no need to demonstrate that her personal agon is that she hasn't been allowed to peddle her own prejudices in return for status and prestige: that, too, she has amply confirmed through her writings and public statements. She, and her supporters clearly feel they are winning: I wonder if they know what that will look like, or how high the body-count will have to go before they're satisfied.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A site created by his former students

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Latest cartoon for the excellent @bylinetimes.bsky.social out in print imminently - buy it & then subscribe!

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's a sort of vainglorious idea of Imperial fiefdomery finally inflicting itself on the metropole. Again, not to bang the drum, but George Padmore talks explicitly about this in the 1930s!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I found this piece incredibly compelling: media ownership affects content, which affects attitudes and behavior. "Smart" types like journalists are not immune to these effects. Why did Musk buy twitter and make it a worse business? For political influence. Same argument as my new working paper!

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This. Most fascist propaganda doesn't operate at the level of assertions. Its effectiveness is derived from pragmatic effects, from insinuation, from presuppositions, etc. It's also where the "just for the lulz" connection lies - they are playing games, turning earnest people into helpful fools 1/

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/08/2026

It is amazing that this guy's 'redemption' is not a redemption at all, but just a huge number of formerly centre / centre-left people spending three years on X stewing in Musk's juices and shifting towards Hanania's frothing, seething white supremacist bigotry That's recruitment, not redemption

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

These fucking columnists. They'll hound a man to his death, incite racist riots, promote policies that lead to economic disaster, tell you that there's no such thing as climate change, tell you that we should welcome climate change. And, in the end, they get a load of £££ and zero consequences.

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