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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

and the idea that these people believe that magic is real is completely relevant to understanding their actions today

NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

no, there isn't. superintelligence is not what's being built. these LLMs are not the same class of thing as human minds and the route taken to build them is deliberately about building something that resembles human responses without actually being a human.

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Fio Trethewey @fiotrethewey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f

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Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia

Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm not the right kind of nerd to know what the equipment in the photo is, but I am the right type to highly appreciate that the alt-text has all the details

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

♫ of these days this camera's gonna walk all over you ♫

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this is from Gemini right? why did you need to use an LLM for this? even if the information is accurate, it still reflects the Google's biases more than yours, quite apart from all the ethical and environmental problems.

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No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com · 02/10/2026

We’re excited to launch No Games for Genocide’s blog, with our first post by yours truly, exploring Call of Duty’s role in the imperialist war machine. Read below - and remember to join us for our political education & action session on Saturday 10 October! 👇🏽 nogamesforgenocide.com/blog/call-of...

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Call of Duty's Propaganda Machine

The role of militarism and propaganda in the video game industry

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

therapist: so how are you doing? me: well I got two seconds into a hopeful solar punk video yesterday and burst into tears. so about normal

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

*taps on post* I like this, very modern

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lesbian al-gaib 🇵🇸 @unethicalcoffee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're launching an online workshop for folks who want to help build our campaign to boycott Xbox! We'll chat about the industry's complicity in genocide, and how we build a movement to divest from it. And remember: BOYCOTT MODERN WARFARE 4. Come by ❤️💚🤍🖤

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No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com · 23/09/2026

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm comparing the Deus Ex developers idea of the value of the dollar at the time to today's dollar. There's no data for inflation into the future!

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah, even counting for inflation it's lower than today's price

US dollar inflation calculator showing that $4.05 in 2000 is the equivalent of $7.88 in today's money

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this might genuinely be your best episode yet

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this isn't even fiction, I listened to this exact interaction on a train once. turning over the term "vapelighting" in my brain

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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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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Being a little stricter, the EXACT text "listen to @bloodwork.show" appears 1699 times.

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The number includes every post that contains the text "listen to" and mentions the Blood Work account, which does include your own posts. I referenced endpoints.bsky.app#bluesky-app/... to learn the API

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Bluesky HTTP API Reference

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The answer is 1744. I used: 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚕 ––𝚐𝚎𝚝 ––𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚊–𝚞𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎='𝚚="𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘"' ––𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚊–𝚞𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎='𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜=𝚍𝚒𝚍:𝚙𝚕𝚌:𝟽𝟹𝚗𝚞𝚠𝚚𝚚𝚜𝟻𝚊𝚑𝚓𝟻𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚝𝚙𝚞𝚎𝟼𝚠' "––𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚊–𝚞𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎=𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎=$(𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎 +%𝚈–%𝚖–%𝚍 –𝚍'𝟷 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚐𝚘')" '𝚑𝚝𝚝𝚙𝚜://𝚋𝚜𝚔𝚢.𝚜𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕/𝚡𝚛𝚙𝚌/𝚊𝚙𝚙.𝚋𝚜𝚔𝚢.𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚍.𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝙿𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚜' –𝙷 '𝙰𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗: 𝙱𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚛 <𝚃𝙾𝙺𝙴𝙽>' | 𝚓𝚚 '.𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚜𝚃𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚕'

endpoints.bsky.app

Bluesky HTTP API Reference

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

oh wow looking at the asuka model I think I actually got a good deal on this

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

what is it with the British and bins? this is on my street.

A wheelie bin with a photorealistic image of a dog (maybe boxer?) in a hoodie gazing majestically into the distance. The background is black and dog is spot lit.

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

chat I just spent too much on a camera

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My childhood wasn't perfect but I did have the space to be neurodivergent without feeling inferior. Maybe it can give your daughter the space to be herself too. [3/3]

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It takes more work to ensure your kid has things like field trips, peers, and other things that are taken for granted at a school, but its not just for religious freaks and it doesn't have to mean your child grows up isolated. [2/3]

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm certain you've considered it, but I just want to say that if you have the option to homeschool your kid then it can be a really good option. My parents did it for less serious problems with the school system then your facing. [1/3]

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm watching these again for the first time in a while; the talk is a much better overview of the timeline of Gamergate and how it became the template for the alt-right

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In the end after I pointed them to the bit where he’d said that “feminists just need to be raped properly” WH decided they would tell Milo that it had to be an interview with him and I would comment on it. They told him something about unstable phone lines for a debate.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What I mostly experienced at that time from many feminists in the UK was the sense that women in games were “asking for it”. Because everyone knew games were misogynist and horrible so what were we doing working in that industry? And no idea about how an online terror campaign worked.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Later that year they realised maybe it had been a bit important and asked me to cover it for their year round-up. I agreed. 24 hours before broadcast they told me this would now be a debate with Milo Y. I and I refused because no I do not debate him. I had to point them to his more egregious stuff

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I begged Woman’s Hour to cover Gamergate in 2014, when it was the NYT front page & UK women in games were living in terror. Gamergate became the model for MAGA. They said they didn’t think it was an important story. That week they covered women mountaineers of the 19th C & new ways with aubergine

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There may well be better coverage these days, but my understanding of what happened started with @innuendostudios.bsky.social. Check out this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis... There also this talk he gave: youtu.be/lLYWHpgIoIw

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Why Are You So Angry? - YouTube

A 6-part series on angry gamers.

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

hmm, not sure about the generation but Skam season 4 is all about a Muslim teenager in Norway. each season has a different main character, so you should be able to jump straight in to season 4. Your only option for English subtitles is the high seas though!

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ah I'm glad to hear you tried! very disappointed to see them involved, I enjoyed their content enough to see them in person even. if you want to try a different platform, I hear they stay active on Twitter in order to be able to get the word out about some activism they do

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

or maybe i'm being stupid and not doing enough of my own research again

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

@postoctobrist.bsky.social (re the opening of the latest Trashfuture bonus) Rebecca Watson did her own scratching the surface on the Dobby story and she concludes that there's literally no reason *not* to believe it: youtu.be/fPFS4auVYzE so yeah, fuck that elf and it's "grave"

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The Dobby Grave Story is Probably True, Actually

YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)

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Luca🎞️ @imjustluca.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Listen to @bloodwork.show (trigger warning: Zwarte Piet)

Taken from: https://www.alamy.com/saint-nicholas-at-2-aat-sinterklaas-and-zwarte-piet-in-a-bren-carrier-date-december-5-1946-location-batavia-indonesia-jakarta-dutch-east-indies-image341319965.html
Saint Nicholas at 2 AAT Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet in a bren-carrier Date: December 5, 1946 Location: Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

oh. oh no. realising the just how fucked up Zwarte Piet is was what radicalised me

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I just want to be clear that this is a submission in this category. This was the *first result* for "sinterklaas with a gun"

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm currently in Slack doing bits about communism with my boss... I'm confused and a little scared, but the bits are very funny so I think I have to keep going

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I can't do a larp this year but I'm now relying on you to tell me about the good shit like this for next year

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Not 'western civilization doesn't exist' nor 'western civilization is bad' but rather, "western civilization is real and good, captured in the writing andsong and we are *killing* it with our violence, cruelty and greed, we have *become* the barbarians at our own gates." Conservative in that sense.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The funny thing is, the chuds hate this version of the Odyssey because Nolan cast trans and non-white actors but if they actually were media literate, they'd hate this version of the Odyssey because it adopts their civilizational frame and then violently rejects *them* and their ideology.

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NotGagarin @notgagarin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I have fully faceplanted in front of people at least four times in the last six months. They're calling me the clumsiest to ever do it. I might as well start wearing a red nose

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No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com · 17/07/2026

Microsoft and Xbox don't care about human lives: they don't care about workers' livelihoods, they don't care about Palestinians murdered by the military they support with their tech partnerships. Sign our pledge to boycott and divest from Microsoft and Xbox: nogamesforgenocide.com/take-action/...

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