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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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Jop de Vrieze @jopdevrieze.substack.com · 18/09/2026
Malaria is coming our way. Derde sterfgeval in Frankfurt. Persoon was niet op reis geweest. www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...
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Malaria in Deutschland: Todesfall nach Malariainfektion nahe dem Frankfurter Flughafen
In Frankfurt-Schwanheim ist ein Malariapatient gestorben. Die Mücke könnte im Flugzeug nach Deutschland gekommen sein. Es ist der dritte Todesfall in diesem Jahr.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
At what point do you rationally update to believe "huh my world is actually governed by narratavium, I need to take genre conventions into account before acting"? It's genuinely difficult I think!
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bossk baby @bonnnt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time
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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I've noticed that news media have neglected to mention, over and over again, that many of these men are "military-age". Curious
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Historian here. Let me explain how in the past far-right parties in Germany have caused problems not only for their own country, but for other countries as well: (1/?)
Far-right AfD wins historic victory in German state
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If instead the rule is “gimme a fuckin break dude, we can all see what you’re doing,” it’s better for everyone.
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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 29/08/2026
Famous for such important philosophical advances as, everyone has a right to property except the native americans for some reason and everyone has a right to control their own body except for slaves for some reason
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
the moderate democratic position on Gaza is that if Israel’s opponents do not comport themselves perfectly, if they don’t dance flawlessly through the rhetorical minefields every day, then it’s dead children forever.
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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We've made it too easy to be gay.
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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Once in a while I read one of the canonical homophobic texts. Today it was Midge Decter's 'Boys on the Beach'. It is astonishing how many transphobic tropes are just warmed over homophobic tropes that have been forgotten. www.commentary.org/articles/mid...
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
you don't get immunity to fascism either with a welfare state, or by sacrificing trans people & migrants matt can immediately see the former in france, the latter in the uk is beyond him
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 28/08/2026
"Dorothy Ashby was truly dedicated to music and culture. Her creations not only generated a deep appreciation for the harp in jazz, but her sound laid the foundation of so much music that we grew up on and listen to today." Harpist Brandee Younger on the legacy of Dorothy Ashby:
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Undaunted Perseverance: Harpist Brandee Younger on the legacy of Dorothy Ashby
Brandee Younger reflects on the unique legacy of fellow harpist Dorothy Ashby, the subject of a six-LP box set released on New Land Records.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
sorry the only science you can claim academic freedom over is race science
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Actor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reports
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Actor Tim Curry Dead at 80
Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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assbutt @nasboat.org · 26/08/2026
Apollo, do your thing
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permutation @permutation.ink · 24/08/2026
Out today! Permutation: Issue One The best, weirdest science fiction from across the simcluster, free online. Maybe prophetic? We're making a new web home for scifi. 🪢6 short stories 🪢3 poems 🪢A book review? 🪢A puzzle?! 🪢479,001,600 manifestos permutation.ink/one 🧵
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Permutation: Issue One
A magazine of weird, forward-gazing writing.
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berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
new from me! i did not like how "forbidden solitaire" was designed or . . . cobbled maybe is a better word
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Forbidden Solitaire: From Representation to Manipulation — Gamers with Glasses
Tower Solitaire is a good base for a game, but Forbidden Solitaire forces too many junk jokers into the mix. Caroline Delbert considers Grey Alien Games’ impulse for maximalism from the perspective ...
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 23/08/2026
On the occasion of CIANI/ORKEST, Suzanne Ciani discusses handing her solitary Buchla music to a 50-piece orchestra, the ocean and the wave beneath her compositions, and the young players bringing analog modular synthesis back. Speaking the Word of the Buchla — Suzanne Ciani's Orchestral Wave:
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Suzanne Ciani — Speaking the Word of the Buchla
On the occasion of CIANI/ORKEST, Suzanne Ciani discusses handing her solitary Buchla music to a 50-piece orchestra, the ocean and the wave beneath her compositions, and the young players bringing analog modular synthesis back.
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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
(mapmaker guy who wants money to design more maps): we've almost reached artificial general territory
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A London area university philosophy department. It's actually going to be an hour and a half long lecture on the epistemological problems encountered by spy agencies.
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 20/08/2026
"A Johns Hopkins University curator of sheet music and pop culture discusses a 'Middle East-inspired' sheet-music collection that’s anything but." Sheet Music — the Original Problematic Pop?:
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Sheet Music: the Original Problematic Pop? - JSTOR Daily
A Johns Hopkins University curator of sheet music and pop culture discusses a “Middle East-inspired” sheet-music collection that’s anything but.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
As economic pressures gut local newsrooms across the country, white nationalist figures see an untapped opening: stepping into media deserts where there are few journalists left to sound the alarm.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome.

Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
it sounds like deranged hyperbole when i say "ai safety" is, primarily, a sex cult based in berkeley california. it is also literally true
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piepers.bsky.social @piepers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
yes ???
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
the entire west bet it all on a fucking genocide. they all backed it. went all in and it led to this. it aint coming back! insane stuff
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
amazing article
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
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piepers.bsky.social @piepers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sinquefield cup commentary has too many cooks (or maybe too american)
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
the neofascist worldview can be distilled to 7 key narratives:
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I've been throwing around the phrase "academic lab leak" but it's really the most concise explanation for the problem generated by this style of Woke 1 discourse. The underlying concepts are extremely useful at scale and distance to analyze broad trends, but break down up close and w/o rigor.
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thene @thene.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
i am working on a very, very long blog post that could really have fit into a skeet: When someone posts that "this website/journal article/etc proves my dramatic claim!!!" and then does not link to the website, journal article, etc, it is because it does not in fact prove their dramatic claim.
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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
stick a pin in this metaphor

…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.
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Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The early 2000s were crazy. Philosophers would go on talk radio shows and accuse each other of covertly defending the OJ verdict through their theory of truth.
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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
finally reading the Atlantic piece on “Woke 1” and it’s interesting how even in their attempt to list the movement’s sins they struggle to identify anything significant
The established institutions of the meritocratic elite were swept over by the movement's force: Members of Congress were photographed taking a knee while wearing African-inspired kente cloth. Companies rolled out diversity, equity, and inclusion action plans and donated huge sums to Black Lives Matter and other racial-justice causes. Universities denounced themselves as complicit in systemic racism. Staffers at news outlets revolted against colleagues they deemed counterrevolutionary, and nonprofit leaders and corporate executives treated the books of the anti-racism gurus Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo as revelatory.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Silly” is a good way to put it! There were excesses in 2020 but they were mostly low-stakes efforts by well-intentioned people to address real injustices. The excesses of the right during the same era were far more harmful. The reckoning we need now is about how elites lost sight of that.
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump was guarded by an Avenger air defense system while playing golf.
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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
here are some nice mushrooms
A black and white photo of my dad and me, posing with some mushrooms we just gathered. Dad is smiling, I'm very much notAnother black and white photo of my dad and me, posing with some mushrooms we just gathered.
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So, by the time Lee was holding Kosteniuk's feet to the fire in an endgame yesterday, after four hours of play and after Kosteniuk had made a late crucial error, nobody else was still playing in the Sinquefield or Cairns. everyone else had finished.
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
the next big classical chess event of the year starts today - the Sinquefield Cup, in St Louis - so of course the organisers have released some terrible pictures of all the participants looking like huge fucking dorks
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
man the way supporters of the government of israel are absolutely determined to dilute all historical crimes against jews to the point of being utterly meaningless. this is what i mean when i say israel is an active enemy of the diaspora
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Jop de Vrieze @jopdevrieze.substack.com · 08/08/2026
Wat nieuwsmedia in berichtgeving over Colombia vaak verzuimen te vermelden, ook nu rond de nieuwe ultrarechtse president, is dat het land niet alleen linkse, maar ook veel andere, waaronder extreemrechtse gewapende groeperingen kent. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Ghost of far-right paramilitaries hovers over Colombia’s presidential runoff vote
Colombians will choose on Sunday between two men whose lives have been very differently shaped by the militias, and whose visions for the country are poles apart
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Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Bibi Vraagt, Nederland Levert
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/07/2024
On deskilling, we always knew; it's the AI hypers who want us to forget: "This experience has demonstrated that it is impossible to create an absolutely reliable automatic system, and sooner or later people face the necessity to act after equipment fails." — Valentina Ponomareva
Valentina sitting at her deskThe Human Factor in Space Exploration: Soviet and American Approaches 
by Valentina Ponomareva

in Vladimir Orel, ed., Institut istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhinki. Godichnaia nauchnaia konferentsiia, 1998 [Proceedings of the 1998 annual conference of the Institute for the History of Natural Science and Technology], Moscow, pp. 614-18.

Translated from the Russian by Slava GerovitchThis experience has demonstrated that it is impossible to create an absolutely reliable automatic system, and sooner or later people face the necessity to act after equipment fails. The cosmonaut must be constantly prepared to take up the functions of the failed system. But if his functions are limited to monitoring and observation only, then he is effectively excluded from the control process. To be able to join in the control process, he must have strong manual control skills based not only on his experience with ground tests, but also on his performance of control functions in real flight conditions. If the cosmonaut loses such skills because of his passive role, the probability of his choosing and carrying out the right procedure in an emergency would be small. This contradiction is inherent in automatic control systems.
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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
There's a heartwarming story, in @seamas.bsky.social ' best-selling memoir "Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?" (available in all good, and many mediocre, bookshops) where Séamas is forgotten at Mass, and we only realised we'd lost him because we'd also lost another sibling, who we returned to collect.
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International Chess Federation Mirror @fide-chess-mirror.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🇳🇬 Nigeria’s 14-year-old Ekunke Odey Goodness wins FIDE World Amateur Rapid Chess Championship 2026 🏆 ✨ History was made in Abuja as Nigeria’s 14-year-old Ekunke Odey Goodness emerged as the inaugural champion of the FIDE World Amateur Rapid Chess Championship 2026, scoring an
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