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Patch Thompson

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🌹✊ 📸 | academic researcher | average photographer | all views my own etc.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 55m
From the above NYT piece: "The Sun has set up a tip line, and Ms. Dasser and Ms. Qusba said their inboxes have been flooded with emails from students who say they have also been the victim of assaults on campus, or experienced frustrations filing Title IX complaints alleging sexual misconduct...."
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1h
But also this heroine: "Cereese Qusba, 22, a senior and reporter for The Sun, couldn’t shake her concerned curiosity about the case. This month...Ms. Qusba was ready to hit publish on her investigation, which was 23 months in the making."
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 18h
Tweet from Steven (with a ph) (@SJKSalisbury):

[Googling instructions for disarming a bomb] 
For me, disarming bombs is indelibly linked to afternoons spent in my grandmother's kitchen, watching her carefully iron the parchment paper that the nitroglycerin came bound in (to be reused at Christm
[Hurried scrolling]
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1h
Yes. Although…. *looks at British political discourse, shudders* My fear is what he got in return.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 2h
Don't catch yourself pretending the Cornell 7 story is some unique product of US campus/frat culture www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Frightening' spiking claims investigated by Bath uni
The University of Bath has increased security in nightclubs after claims circulated on social media.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3h
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13h
i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better
@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 11h
Good bit for an SNL UK skit: Andrew Neil setting up re-education camps to teach elder Millennials how bad the Oil Crisis was.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 11h
Clown College, surely
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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 20h
The crowd presses another drink on Frodo and asks him to sing again, but mid-song he falls from the table and vanishes—the Ring has slipped on his finger. The crowd is startled. Frodo removes the Ring in a far corner. The customers leave without offering him a single good-night.
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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 20h
I remember going on the Nolan tv show to talk about #MeToo and the framing magically adjusted once the show went live to ask if it was going too far. In October 2017, when it had barely gotten its boots on.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 23h
tweets that should have started 'well, anyway,'
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h
I appreciate bluesky's periodic dedication to reminding us of the purity of text-only posting by breaking all images on the site
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 21h
Going to be a passable comedy docudrama about this in a few years...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22h
the Man City report is as bad as everyone says it is, but I also laughed out loud at the redactions in the conclusion.
(H) Conclusion
160) We find the Charges set out above proven to the requisite standard.

And then a massive black rectangle redacting the entire thing
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22h
How Burnham is going to try and balance proposals for a National Care Service, while supporting Mahmood's immigration policies is going to...interesting, and by "interesting" I mean fundamentally unworkable. It just cannot work with the hostile immigration policies being pushed.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The real Lisa Nandy has emerged from the Mersey and has chosen VIOLENCE against Man City (h/t @generalboles.bsky.social)
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M @captainmeg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[runs in, panting] SHAMCHESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That was Fathers' for Justice, no?
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay well they only half did this.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who was it that predicted the government were going to 'have a look at it' then back off in the face of an obvious backlash?
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 29/09/2026
A Sinn Féin office in the Waterside area of Derry has been attacked amid a second night of disorder www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/area/derry-l...
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Sinn Féin office attacked with party saying it ‘will not be intimidated’ amid second night of disorder in Derry
A Sinn Féin office in the Waterside area of Derry has been attacked amid a second night of disorder.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s as if had James Callaghan stood up in 1976 and saying “for the past 30 years we’ve been too concerned with price stability”.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe I’m a Luddite on these things. But I’m always quite cautious about any financing structure that involves multiple hard to read circular flow charts. www.ft.com/content/d6a9... Nvidia turns to insurers to spread the risk of AI build-out
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Nvidia turns to insurers to spread the risk of AI build-out
World’s largest listed company looks for new ways to draw Wall Street deeper into the financing of the AI boom
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well quite
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Only took the better part of a year for legacy media to catch up with what some Substackers and half of Bluesky had worked out...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a *very* noughties vibe, isn't it?
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starmerism with Mancunian characteristics continues!
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@ddeaen

iphones ruined an entire generation's tech literacy because i regularly see 14+ year olds asking how to make a desktop shortcut or duplicate a File

@inkballpro

i was literally figuring out virtual machines and basic linux at like 6 lol

@ddeaen

this is also not normal im sorry
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
So much of the British right has just become about insta-react getting likes on X dot com.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think a lot about Tolkien's concept of evil - as something that reproduces itself in ever smaller and pettier but also harder to defeat ways, him giving up writing a sequel to Lord Of The Rings cos nihilist teenage ord-cults were too depressing
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
HMG giving the Garvaghy Road residents the stern 'no one should be conducting unlawful protests' line after what we all saw tolerated on the south coast earlier this month is also, to put it mildly, galling.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can be fun though!
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to make the 'No, we don't have a Death Tax' moment from Theresa May look like the proverbial 4D chess.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Equally - and as someone who has written an entire PhD thesis on how Westminster fails to get the nuance of NI politics - Bryant's 'Well, the Commission have decided so what can I do?' stance was equally shocking.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really thought I'd become hardened to the disingenuous nature of Northern Irish politics. The last few days have royally disabused me of that notion.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My (out of the loop because it was my anniversary and also I'm not even in the loop) take is...maybe the DUP realise they've been led up the garden path my Bryson again?
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jamie Bryson giving the full Lucy/Charlie Brown treatment to the DUP. Despite the man's previous form in never having advanced anyone's agenda other than his own. And seemingly having forgotten his role as advisor to Donaldson.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But not marching
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'd do a better job, tbh
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pretty much. Well, I think the correct box was ticked, but not with the right number of witnesses. Very minor and stupid stuff.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anyway, I give the Executive until about three pm tomorrow afternoon.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Its giving
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An alternative timeline where the Commission just *did its job properly* would be the nearest thing we've had to utopia
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hiss driver @hiss-driver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
had to google this one up so his company's name is not a LOTR reference, it is a Russian bootleg novel reference where Sauron is the good guy web-wp.archive.org/web/20150910...
Thiel's reputation for contrarianism is well founded. Forever the chess player, he revels in trying to outthink the competition, in devising the unexpected move—the seemingly absurd but devastating maneuver that no one sees coming. "Most people think that if something's written, if it's shared by the majority of people, then you'll look like a black sheep for challenging it," says his friend Gary Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster. "Peter doesn't have any problem with that." A devoted J.R.R. Tolkien fan from an early age, Thiel is equally enamored with Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer, a retelling of The Lord of the Rings in which Sauron is a beleaguered victim and the elves are bellicosely bent on world domination. "Gandalf's the crazy person who wants to start a war," Thiel explains, "and Mordor is this technological civilization based on reason and science. Outside of Mordor, it's all sort of mystical and environmental and nothing works. Anyway, it's really clever." He's
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shot (BBC) / chaser (Basingstoke Gazette)
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An alternative timeline where the Commission just *did its job properly* would be the nearest thing we've had to utopia
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