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Nathan

@nath-ormond.bsky.social
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Senior Software Engineer for my sins. Academic Background in Comp Sci, Philosophy and Statistics. Broadly Wittgensteinian Pragmatist, Humanist & Christian. Blog: substack.com/@entscheidungsproblem

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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 19h
So you're telling me this guy isn't commutative? Platonists in SHAMBLES!
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So pleased to hear this confirmed in the PM’s speech. Big congrats to @makevotesmatter.bsky.social and all who’ve campaigned for it! At last we have a chance to restore trust in our politics with a system where “everyone’s views count and everyone’s vote matters” 👏👏👏
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans
Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Burnham speech: firstly, it was a vision. We've not had a national vision for two decades at least. If he can persuade the country on fixing the EU relationship, political reform, establishing a new care system and his theory of growth holds then he will be a transformational Prime Minister.
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UCL Press Journals @uclpressjournals.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Introducing Journal of #ExperimentalPragmatics 🗣 A new, community-owned home connecting linguistics, psychology, neuroscience and related fields. → Free to read, free to publish → No paywalls, no fees, no barriers Explore the journal 🔗 bit.ly/4hCpj9o #DiamondOpenAccess
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bad Apologetics is back for those interested. In this case, we cover Joe Schmid's conversion to Catholicism and his case from Natural Theology for Theism. www.youtube.com/live/aq1vzEf...
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Joe Schmid's Catholic Conversion - Natural Theology | Bad Apologetics 33
YouTube video by Digital Gnosis
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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What happened to Steven Pinker? I only felt free to write this because he blocks me: www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...
thenerve.news
From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way
The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is an excellent video essay about how the psychopathology of weak men has been selected for in a group of elite podcasters/influencers controlled by billionaires in order to radicalise and manufacture consent. Very horrific. youtu.be/wn9pQb4ukBo?...
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How Comedy Drowned in a Radioactive Cesspool of Corruption and Depravity
YouTube video by The Elephant Graveyard
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Happy receive this shining endorsement from Bethel McGrew 🥰🤗☺️
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday's utterly sad death holds a stark mirror up to the dehumanising political-media-societal culture we are in – one we must all be honest about being complicit in – which forgets there is a human being at the centre of a story, a case study, an issue, a scandal. It is dehumanising.
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Nepsie @nepsie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ma vie avec @vilain.bsky.social 😔
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Usually my A-Level results day post is to commiserate all the incoming LSE students for failing to get the required marks for Oxbridge, but since there are no 18 years old on this website to read my cruel mockery it hardly feels worth it.
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Something happened in 1837, but it didn't last. Use of Vererbungsfähigkeit ('inheritance capacity' - not yet 'heritability') and Vererbung ('inheritance/heredity') in Austro-Hungarian agricultural journals.
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Glad "Ye" got over his MAGA AI slop Nazi phase. New album is 🔥. Very cool.
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 31/07/2026
AI-generated content must be labelled in the EU from Sunday. #GenAI #AIEthics #AISlop www.rte.ie/news/2026/07...
rte.ie
Made by AI? EU tells firms to stick a label on it
Deepfakes and other AI-generated content must be labelled from Sunday, as the European Union's sweeping artificial intelligence transparency rules kick in.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...
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Watching the show trials
Anthony Fauci and the politics of retribution
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🔴 NEW: Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed By @nafeez.bsky.social, @peterjukes.bsky.social and @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation…
bylinetimes.com
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Green Party say they will not stand in the Clacton by-election either. Zack Polanski: "This is a desperate stunt from a desperate politician whose lifetime of grifting is finally catching up with him. Greens will play no part in his political circus"
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Honestly I could see a possible loss for Farage here. Even if he wins, I hope to God that the standards committee investigation is just waiting ready for as soon as he is in. This, and we're going to win the world cup
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I've been a critic of Nigel Farage but he makes a good point. Listening to this 30min rant, I've now realised Nigel is literally the most persecuted guy to ever live. Such a hero putting up with everything he's put up with. #SorryNige
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Intrigued to hear Danny Kruger, of Reform UK, tell Any Questions that universities need to "change their business model". What would he suggest? Selling crypto? Acting as "brand ambassadors" for Direct Bullion? Recording videos saying "Up the Ra"? Or getting a billionaire to chuck us £5 million?
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Woke 2.0 is caring about Affordability ( this is a direct entailment of William of Ockham's nominalism, a doctrine responsible for 75 billion deaths ) / sarcasm
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As an adoptee, my earliest understandings of banal evil were caused by encountering the ways people were "just following orders [laws/rules]" whilst simultaneously experiencing the pain/consequences of unjust and poorly thought through laws. Interesting watching the state apologise now.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Musk is effectively approving the murder of Jo Cox here
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Honestly wild that one can dedicate one's life to education and public service but still get this treatment from Goodwin et al. I mean, like, I get it, I get how racism works. Whole point is making judgements independent of what you do or are like; content of your character! But still, wild to see.
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My favourite saying of Jesus: ( If you needed more evidence these "Christians" are just cosplaying in Temu outfits )
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Dov @drnelk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is a funny way of saying "Trump is so corrupt and evil that Nixon seems like an angel in comparison."
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Climate breakdown is here. We must double down on efforts to decarbonise but that's not enough. We need new rights at work to protect us from climate danger - failing to act now will endanger workers' lives and cost our health service dearly.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24/06/2026
Expanding ULEZ London-wide was even more important than we previously thought. Action on air pollution has been life-saving.
theguardian.com
Deaths linked to London air pollution have fallen 40%, study estimates
However, Imperial College team also find that pollution has worse health impact than previously understood
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
📣New interiew📣 'Men like Trump, Musk, and Thiel are overwhelmingly anxious about not only “white death” but also about their own mortality' @hannamorris.bsky.social discusses the rise of apocalyptic authoritarianism. reacpol.net/apocalyptic-...
reacpol.net
Interview: “Apocalyptic Authoritarianism” with Hanna Morris - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Hannah Morris's book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Starmer hate is unjustified. He had a very difficult job, he navigated several complex issues without making things much worse - which could easily have happened - in very difficult circumstances. I hope what comes next is better. I am grateful for his service to the country.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 21/06/2026
Until the left understands that "immigration" is a "concern" created in a top down manner to divert from other issues, it will continue to fight the (far)right on its turf This is what I explored here at length journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Populism, public opinion, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The ‘immigration issue’ and the construction of a reactionary ‘people’ - Aurelien Mondon, 2025
While mainstream elite actors with the ability to shape public discourse (politicians, academics, and the media) generally oppose far-right politics, it is wide...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Let's be very clear that vicious anti Muslim hatred by politicians and their trillionaire mate Elon Musk create the conditions for this kind of vile attack. Sending huge solidarity to the Muslim community in Edinburgh and beyond.
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
New blog post from me. Behaviourism is Cool and Doesn't Make you a P-Zombie. open.substack.com/pub/nathanor...
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Behaviourism is Cool and Doesn't Make Everyone a P-Zombie
And it dissolves other Philosophical pseudo-problems.
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Conspirituality pod mentioned the "Friar" Calvin Robinson the other day. What you missed is that these people are TRANSPARENTLY grifters. Robinson seems to have first tried a career as a substitute teacher, which he failed at. He THEN got into media by promoting Crypto Scams...
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/06/2026
I'm old enough to remember when Nigel Farage would hold a press conference at the drop of a hat. So why is he now launching his divisive policies in a blog post from the safety of his keyboard? I can think of 5 million reasons why…
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Astronaut Terry Virts @astroterry.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
OTD in 1940, Nazi troops entered Paris. A reminder that we must always oppose and stop evil before it grows.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Flagrantly bisexual lighting.
Blue and pink sunset in a city square
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Talking to Gemini. I think this accurately captures my views of LLM's and their status
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"It's like watching a train crash. Deliberately targeting the poorest and most amateur investors and locking them in until the top of the ponzi scheme can get out. And unlike 2008, everyone can see this happening." $SPCX www.patreon.com/BindingChaos...
It's like watching a train crash. Deliberately targeting the poorest and most amateur investors and locking them in until the top of the ponzi scheme can get out. And unlike 2008, everyone can see this happening.

"For most of history, getting into a marquee IPO at the offer price was a privilege reserved for big accounts. Fidelity just changed that for SpaceX, opening the offering to any customer with at least $2,000 in a retail brokerage account, a fraction of the threshold that has historically gated access to hot new issues.

That's an easy in. The costly out is in the fine print: a 15-calendar-day leash, and penalties that escalate with each early sale until a third strike triggers a lifetime ban on Fidelity IPOs tied to your SSN.

Fidelity tied the lower bar to this SpaceX offering specifically, and has not adopted it as a permanent policy.

Insiders aren't on the same leash. SpaceX reserved up to 5% of the offering for a directed-share program, shares for "certain employees and persons" its executives pick, with no lockup at all. They bought at $135 and can sell on day one, roughly $3.75 billion in stock that can hit the market immediately while retail waits 15 days. One early investor’s 7% stake is set to be worth close to $90 billion.

Fidelity's 15-day window is the shortest of the brokers offering SpaceX, well under FINRA's 30-day benchmark"

https://www.patreon.com/posts/spacex-flying-on-159613360
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Bud Light branding is on display for the White House UFC match.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I for one think it’s not good that an open eugenicist ketamine addicted dipshit robber baron criminal is now worth over a trillion dollars
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Behaviourism is cool and doesn't make everyone a P-Zombie open.substack.com/pub/nathanor...
open.substack.com
Behaviourism is Cool and Doesn't Make Everyone a P-Zombie
And it dissolves other Philosophical pseudo-problems.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The most disgusting behaviour I’ve ever witnessed in public spaces was directed at Sadiq Khan by ‘anti-Ulez’ protesters, who of course received way more coverage, much of it friendly, than the scheme’s incredible success ever will.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
“There has unquestionably been a huge increase in immigration over the last two decades, and it has made Britain far more diverse than it was. Yet by any measure you pick, violence in Britain has plummeted over that same period.“ zeteonews.co.uk/p/belfast-ri...
zeteonews.co.uk
The Belfast Riots Are an Anti-Migrant Pogrom - and the British Media Has Serious Questions to Answer
In his first column for Zeteo UK, acclaimed journalist and author Owen Jones looks at how the lie about immigrants pushed by British media and political elites is fueling the violence we see today.
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The Goose 🇨🇦 @the-goose-media.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
6000 sexual deepfakes per hour powered by gas. What a glorious future we live in! globalnews.ca/news/1189968...
globalnews.ca
Grok AI broke Canada’s laws, created 6K sexual deepfakes per hour: probe - National | Globalnews.ca
Philippe Dufresne launched an investigation in January to examine the proliferation of sexualized deepfakes created by Grok and shared on the X social media platform.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
2026 is likely to see the lowest level of immigration since Blair took office, this has in no way influenced the idea the government has "lost control of immigration."
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Nathan @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Am I the last remaining behaviourist? Where are my other behaviourists at?
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