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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

People keep responding that some of this already happens, and I would like to introduce them to the concept of “scale.”

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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 3h

I know, I know it's serious

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 21h

Oh dear goddess, Isaac Bogoch! “Everyone else may be vaccinated. Some people will choose to do so. Some people may choose not to,” [Bogoch] said." Dr. Isaac Bogoch: Seeding vaccine hesitancy whether he gets it or not.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Viktor Orban travelled to Belfast yesterday, appearing alongside the Northern Irish anti-abortion group Precious Life, "celebrating" preventing Belfast City Hall from joining"International Safe Abortion Day" Precious Life's former director, Jim Dowson, is a far-right extremist with ties to Hungary.

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@CatholicArena
Viktor Orban was in Belfast last night at City Hall

Precious Life and other prolife groups were celebrating after successfully preventing City Hall from being lit up to celebrate 'International Safe Abortion Day'

📸 Precious Life

Anti-abortionist resigns from job
Anti-abortion poster The anti-abortion campaign has come in for criticism

The leader of the controversial anti-abortion group Precious Life is reported to have quit his job because of his views.

Jim Dowson, 33, who has admitted previous involvement with hard-line loyalist groups in the west of Scotland, was told he should curb his activities or face dismissal.

Notorious far-right extremist returns to Scotland to fund growing anti-immigration protests
Jim Dowson has spent the last 20 years fundraising for the far-right in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hungary and the US.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The gaps between job roles, job descriptions, and the work people actually do is pretty vast. I don’t mean the work that the procurement person who hires vendors does. I mean the work that people do across orgs.

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Watson, the former deputy leader of the Labour party, announced his new job as senior vice-president UK for Palantir Technologies earlier this month. Taking up the role, he said that part of his remit was to combat “propaganda” about the firm." I'm sure this subtle letter will do the trick. /s

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On the other hand, the "cost" of this National government is not hidden at all.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh the faculty lounge? Where the aloof, lazy profs are planning how to spend their millions on indoctrinating your kid? Is that the same lounge where we've been collecting water in a trash can for months because they haven't fixed the pipe

The drop ceiling has a black
Garbage bag hanging down from it, with a hose leading to a yellow trash can

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unsolicited product endorsement: SlowLearner.ltd make just one thing: a canvas blazer with huge pockets that looks dashing rather than dorky. I waxed mine and am finally calling an end to my quest for the travel jacket of my dreams.

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fill your pockets with books. slow learner makes anti-workwear. designed in england and made in portugal for reading, meandering and repose

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think Duolingo has made me do about 50 different French units about planes, airports, and travel. Just... can we move on to something I can use in everyday life. Please.

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[Sees the new "Behind the Bastards" episode is about Martin Niemöller] did... did they make this just for me?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed

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Peter Durst @peterdurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2 Norseman Road Contax N1 Kodak 50D Whitehorse, YT

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026

I'm researching the previous owners of a pub from the late 1800s and have ended up reading about Lord Darnley, who "eschewed all romantic and intimate relationships, as he believe he was a teapot and it might damage his 'spout'"

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

This is very straightforwardly downstream of "GC beliefs are protected beliefs"

He told the hearing on Monday: "The requirement to have a second interview, which arose simply from the respondent discovering that Mr Ngole held a protected characteristic, in this case a belief, then meant they imposed upon him requirements that were not imposed on anyone else."

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not much on this yet, but I certainly hope this reporting proves accurate.

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This grim, gripping report on Canada’s biggest Covid-19 outbreak from the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute should be required reading for all Albertans - and all Canadians. Especially those who’ve decided to forget how deadly and terrifying the early months of Covid truly were.

parklandinstitute.ca

Parkland Institute

Parkland Institute is an Alberta-wide, non-partisan research centre situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jonathan Haidt is arguably the most impactful social scientist in recent years with his calls for teen social media bans. Maybe because he inhabits that 3rd space where the distinction between pseudo and rigorous research is unclear to non-experts and therefore easily exploited.

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026

the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some people, somehow, are under the mistaken impression I approve of this. I. do. not.

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s funny but very sad. The worst people you know will get rich, and after they win, media outlets will quote their ass opinions and then after their name write “winner of the 1M carob trust prize, awarded to brave academics”. Just another avenue for billionaires to launder influence

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lol how did I miss this I just got an email advertising a prize for 1 MILLION dollars to 5 ‘social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost“. The head of the committee is Roland fryer, it’s got Vanderbilt report alums, and it’s bankrolled by Bill Ackman And NerI Oxman.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

so a total of 500-600 parents were cut off? And that is an "epidemic?" Prove to me that this is in fact an epidemic, and not abusive selfish parents being very loud and angry about boundaries. Prove to me why parents who...consume their children deserve to continue to have access to their children.

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403 FORBIDDEN @joshgrant.online · 27/09/2026

Showing up to the AI sex party with and iced coffee, not knowing this will jeopardize my career

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What I'm really resenting, at this point, is being treated like a fool. "Oh, it is 'cute' so it must be OK!"

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is similar to the confusion around the political orientation of alt-health/wellness culture. Is it left? Is it right? It's neither. It's about populist anger, rebellion against the mainstream, and the fantasy of traditionalist return. These attitudes can be politicized in any direction.

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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When I teach Susan Neiman’s Learning from the Germans, it’s the Stolperstein that students find most powerful as an example of ‘working off the past’. I don’t think Neiman would be surprised at this news, which underlines what’s at stake in that work - and the importance of learning from it.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Deep in their evolutionary history, gastropods underwent a process called 'torsion' in which their digestive track folded back in on itself such that the anus exits directly above the head in nearly all snails. For this reason, I am afraid most snails identify with the Rationalist community.

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Allison, who describes himself as pro-vaccine choice..." Oh FFS. Co-opting language like this re: vaccines is one of the ickier elements of this whole pantomime www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

ctvnews.ca

Why one Conservative MP’s push to probe COVID-19 vaccine injuries is prompting concern

Ontario MP Dean Allison has plans to chair four days of sworn testimony between Sept. 8 and 11 on Parliament Hill, focused on COVID-19 vaccine injuries.

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This inquiry is an absolute disgrace. I am endlessly grateful to the scientists, people who volunteered for clinical trials, and a public health system that has enabled me to get the COVID vaccine twice a year.

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Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is it another example, or the same example in a different hat? #nzpol

From the post, who let Zohrab write a whole column: Anya Zohrab is the co-founder and establishment executive director of The Parents' Alliance. The board is chaired by economist Cam Bagrie and includes Hon Kris Faafoi, Cat Moody, David Farrar and Joanne Chaplow.

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The shifting norm is that people are being told they do not have to tolerate abuse from their own family members.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

the Eliezer Yudkowsky superhero origin story is truly so intensely dorky as to defy all attempts at parody. you could not waterboard any of this out of me web.archive.org/web/20010309...

His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 26/09/2026

Does anyone know of a good “why and how to leave Substack” FAQ that has some element discussing the political issues related to what it means to use it as well as logistics? Having a hard time finding such a thing. @anildash.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(Re)watching season 7 of Taskmaster, and watching James Acaster fail flamboyantly and gleefully, in his weird, awkward yet charming way, and I keep being reminded of his iconic rant on transphobia and edgy comedians www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHqm...

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What's Wrong? Too Challenging For You!? | James Acaster | COLD LASAGNE HATE MYSELF 1999

YouTube video by James Acaster

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this shit would be funnier if I could get ny fucking doctors to believe that I am capable of feeling pain

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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Janice Turner has no background or training in medicine, neuroscience, psychology or psychiatry.

Janice Turner: Is your ADHD diagnosis really helping you?
A huge increase in those claiming the condition as well as receiving Pip to cope with it risks creating a lost generation

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's been a rough week, and ranting is my therapy. I wrote about the seemingly COVID conspiracist-inspired shooting at my local synagogue and the simultaneous promoting of COVID conspiracism by Jesse Brown. medium.com/@michelle.co...

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Guns, Threats, and the Clown King of Jewish Safety

It’s been a bad week. It’s been a weird week. I awoke Monday to photos of bullet holes in the beautiful stained-glass windows of my local…

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just found out that there’s a new, and final, installment of ITV’s groundbreaking 7up documentary series. Original creator/director Michael Apted died a few yrs ago so they got Asif Kapadia (dir. of Senna) to do it. Can’t wait to watch & have an existential crisis.

70 Up poster shows pictures of the children from 7up and them currently as 70 year olds

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Enjoying an antidote to John Cleese, i.e. a Terry Jones documentary about the brutality of the Crusades 😬 www.dailymotion.com/video/x5oadm6

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BBC Crusades 1of4 - video Dailymotion

Watch BBC Crusades 1of4 - The Most Interesting BBC Documentaries on Dailymotion

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

She has a ‘donor’. I wonder who it could be? 🧐

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once upon a time, Alf Hog was all the rage, Tom Bombadil had big naturals, and Jay failed to stop us from calling them skeets

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