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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Analytically it is good to understand Israeli nationalism is like other (especially other settler-colonial/apartheid) nationalisms, but it is also important to understand that said nationalism becomes more untenable when the state commits genocide

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I believe there’s some kind of impasse between local organizing stands the best chance of producing real democracy & solidarity vs municipal socialism is a political dead end due to its geo-political limits

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had to look it up because I couldn't believe he did this, but yes, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social actually vetoed the Speaker's bill banning former ICE agents from public employment in CA. The Legislature should over ride his veto.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to bar former ICE officers from California jobs

The ambitious and sweeping measure was strongly supported by Democrats in the Legislature.

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Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be 'civil'—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility." - @lilymasonphd.bsky.social

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 28/09/2026

there is only one major kind of business today and it is stripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society to buy more money before the world ends

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Angela Davis describing Frederick Douglass’ role in the first American Women’s Rights convention passing a pro-suffrage resolution

EARLY WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN 51 refuted. If intelligence is the only true and rational basis of govern- ment, it follows that that is the best government which draws its life and power from the largest sources of wisdom, energy and goodness at its command. 15 Among the approximately three hundred women and men at- tending the Seneca Falls Convention, the issue of electoral power for women was the only major point of contention: the suffrage resolution alone was not unanimously endorsed. That the contro- versial proposal was presented at all, however, was due to Freder- ick Douglass' willingness to second Stanton's motion and to employ his oratorical abilities in defense of women's right to vote. 16 During those early days when women's rights was not yet a legitimate cause, when woman suffrage was unfamiliar and un- popular as a demand, Frederick Douglass publicly agitated for the political equality of women. In the immediate aftermath of the Seneca Falls Convention, he published an editorial in his newspa- per, the North Star. Entitled "The Rights of Women," its con- tent was quite radical for the times: In respect to political rights, we hold woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for men. We go further, and express our conviction that all political rights which it is expedient for men to exercise, it is equally so for woman. All that distinguishes man as an intelligent and accountable being, is equally true of woman, and if that govern- ment only is just which governs by the free consent of the governed, there can be no reason in the world for denying to woman the exercise of the elective franchise, or a hand in making and adminis-

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“This bill explicitly gives government the power to end legal strikes when a minister decides that a strike is or could become contrary to the national interest — and the national interest is defined solely by the opinion of the minister,” warns top labour leader Bea Bruske. Holy shit. This is bad.

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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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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026

that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I had to justify today why there wouldn't be any value in reading Gaddafi's Green Book, and I recall some source that went through and talked about how it is bad theory and a total mishmash of things and which quoted his "A man is a man, and a woman is a woman" bit, but I don't have it on hand. ...

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am curious if the (short lived) american green new deal or the Iran war has had a larger effect on global emissions

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This feels kind of like if an artist were trying to present eugenics-y stuff in a way designed to flush out the absurdity of it

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Tbh a lot of the problems with a lot of AI discourse is the idea that a machine that can solve a rather theoretical question in fluid dynamics is a useful business tool, let alone The Machine God

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OpenAI will not be accepting the million dollar Millennium Prize, continuing in the proud tradition established by Grigori Perelman. They are mathematical soulmates, Perelman and OpenAI. Their kinship is that of two strongly philosophically aligned peas in a pod.

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Kind of pissed that when I post about a lost cat on FB I get a bunch of comments for fake ai slop scam animal search services

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/09/2026

yes. if companies know the GOP will demand illegal appeasement and the Dems will be too timid to punish them for it, the incentive to appease will be strengthened. in effect Dems will be participating in the appeasement

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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck

This 11,000-Year-Old Statue from Turkey Shows a Man Riding a Leopard.
Archaeologists Aren't Sure
Why
The strange sculpture reverses a recurring Stone Age motif of humans confronting dangerous predators.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

this was written by Daniel Penny, whom they employ in spite of his having no relevant qualifications of any kind

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

honestly hasan needs to hit a couple of these guys with defamation suits. time to teach some of these freaks some discipline.

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

me explaining Marxist contradictions to an analytic philosopher: imagine a schmontradiction

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I may be too analytic-philosophy-brained still, but I actually think it is very easy to explain the kinds of mistakes that analytic philosophers make in a style (argumentative, identifying false premises & bad methods, etc.) they’re accustomed to

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So called “tolerant” liberals not so tolerant of fascism, much to think about

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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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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Presenter in a meeting at our company, talking about AI: you need to be cannibalizing yourself

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Shutting down one professor is a violation of academic freedom, shutting down a department is a statistic

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Amazing

In the week after the June 24 primary election for mayor, I was determined to meet with voters in conservative neighborhoods where
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria), a democratic socialist, had performed surprisingly well. In a Howard Beach precinct where Mamdani won, I met a couple who, despite being conservative, voted for Mamdani because they bizarrely thought he had run "to the right" of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and also believed he was Italian-American, as his name ended in an
"'" and he was from Astoria.
When I dug further into why they thought he was running "to the right" of Cuomo, they noted that it was because he discussed "prices" and
"cost of living," as Donald Trump had in 2024.
They both voted for Trump. They had a hard time believing Mamdani was a socialist because they believed socialists "support making everything more expensive. 1"

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A final thing to consider is how Nathan Cofnas views Academic Freedom in his own words. Cofnas clearly supports purging the academy of his ideology enemies or think academic freedom matters. “From our perspective, there is no path to success that doesn't involve removing the activist non-scholars”

Action 2: Change the Population of Decision Makers on Campus
In the last twenty to thirty years, huge numbers of leftist activists have been hired as professors.
Many of these people have nothing to contribute to scholarship and are only here to push their ideological agenda. The activists are now so numerous that it has become almost impossible to be hired by a university without their approval. If they are allowed to control graduate admissions and faculty hiring for another generation, it is game over. From our perspective, there is no path to success that doesn't involve removing the activist non-scholars from these decision-making processes.

There are two ways to reduce the power of the wokesters on campus: remove them by showing that they don't satisfy minimal criteria for contract renewal or academic promotion, or dilute their influence by bringing in some of the non-woke scholars who have been pushed out of academia for political reasons.
Regarding the first option, critics may say that removing, or taking any other action against, the pseudoscholars would violate "academic freedom." But academic freedom doesn't mean that taxpayers have a moral obligation to (directly or indirectly) finance lifelong sinecures for political activists, many of whom were hired by illegal procedures where straight white men or non-leftists were disqualified in advance.
Realistically, however, it will be very difficult to get rid of people who have already been hired and even given tenure.

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Call me crazy, but I think dialectics kind of provides the answer to the liberal question of “you break X rule, aren’t you worried they’ll break that rule disadvantageously to you in response?” The key is to think about what change looks like. …

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 19/08/2026

Gee gosh golly Dr. Jane Clare Jones, that sure is a curious way to admit your movement of ideologically fixated bullies and petty tyrants obsessed with harassing and vilifying a marginalized group was in fact a festering pit of reactionaries!

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words, whether I am writing an essay like this one, a book chapter, a letter of recommendation, or an email message to a friend. Writing is time-consuming. It’s a great way to pass the time on a long airplane flight because you lose track of the passage of time altogether. It’s even better, from that point of view exclusively, than watching an episode of Mad Men on your laptop. Writing means many different things to me but one thing it is not: writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently.

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🚨🚨🚨 BANGER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨

In 2017, I closed my Atlantic essay with the words “And trans kids should know, CIA is always recruiting.” That promise has been broken. I cannot in good conscience advise LGBTQ Americans to join the CIA—and that sentence is the hardest thing I have ever written.

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Tag yourself in a tall mountain review

Hardest and best experience of my life - 5 stars

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

All you have to do is find things that cue up the bigotry you want to promote, and make them salient - preferably, while avoiding the same for context that would complicate your intended narrative (in a distracted, low-participation political culture, the last bit comes practically for free). 8/

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Missed Stock saying autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia are ‘intellectual disabilities’ (???) making people ‘unsuited’ for academia. Okay, what. But did she ever talk to any of her colleagues, or did she sprint to her car after her lectures on how we know what a text means by asking the author?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“Claude can be super helpful for this”, okay what if I don’t want Claude’s help

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ea-Nasir as a meme is so funny to me, imagine a client sends you a pissy email and as a result, MILLENIA later, future people wielding sorcerous, unfathomable technology use it to clown on your ass

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Britain’s tiny gaggle of hooting mad elite cranks, who all know each other and relentlessly repeat each other’s idiotic bullshit, are of course not “victims of social contagion”.

The Times and Sunday Times • • 2h
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A disproportionate number of Gen Z females are affected by vague syndromes and may be victims of social contagion

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Surely there is some mistake! There's no way this tax applies to me, a retired diplomat who lives in Paris who spent millions of dollars renovating the 12 million dollar apartment I never intended to live in. There must be some mistake

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In an incredible turn of events, the philosopher who finds queers suspicious now also finds the disabled suspicious: t.co/L7aSRliDXu

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Why are young women using walking sticks?

A disproportionate number of Gen Z females are affected by vague syndromes and may be victims of social contagion

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