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Reka Patricia Gal

@rekapatriciagal.bsky.social
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Fire extinguisher on fire. Feminist STS & media theory. Environmental justice. Social Studies of Outer Space. Social Studies of Chemistry. Postdoctoral Researcher @TUM STS. Land⛰️Back.

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Nick Dowson @nickmdowson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
👩🏽‍🚀 At the event we'll hear from astronomer and activist @notnotrocketscience.com , researchers @peterjhowson.bsky.social and @rekapatriciagal.bsky.social and from the Rio Grande, Texas, Juan Mancias and Christopher Basaldu of the Carrizo/Comecrudo nation.
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Get ready for launch!
As billionaire tech titans turn space into their playground, the rest of us are getting left in the dust. Meanwhile, Earth’s skies fill with debris and the stratosphere is scorched by rockets. The lat...
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
two wolves inside me, the one that’s glad Andor is a complete two-season story because that narrative withholding speaks to the whole point of it, and the one who wants another 12 episodes that are just a remake of Scenes from a Marriage but about Perrin and Mon Mothma
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026
I think conspiracy may be a bad frame for right wing election denial because what they’re really expressing is a belief in is the idea that non-white people shouldn’t be able to vote.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
i'm going to be honest with you: this is a load-bearing observation.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
hey quick question, am I having a stroke
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Adam Crowley @dradamcrowley.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Call For Papers! Dragon Age: Words of Power and Play. Edited by Adam Crowley (Husson University) and Daniel Reardon (Missouri University of Science and Technology) Please send direct message for the CFP. Abstracts: June 1. Chapter drafts: September 15. #GameStudies
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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Interested in techbros and outer space? Check out this new piece by Ellie Armstrong, @renny-hahamovitch.bsky.social, @rekapatriciagal.bsky.social , and myself on the 'tech oligarchy in outer space.' Published in @sciasculture.bsky.social . www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Dictators of the future: the tech oligarchy in outer space
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
New Forum on Tech Oligarchy piece! In "Dictators of the future: the tech oligarchy in outer space", @renny-hahamovitch.bsky.social, @rekapatriciagal.bsky.social, Eleanor Armstrong, and @historyasif.bsky.social unpack tech oligarchy's obsession with outer space visions doi.org/10.1080/0950...
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Dictators of the future: the tech oligarchy in outer space
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Internal documents suggest some PFAS manufacturers became aware of health risks associated with PFAS as early as the 1960s + 70s. In spite of this, they continued making PFAS, apparently without warning the public. share.google/GSz5CMPJDhUI... 2/4
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What Industry Knew About the Perils of PFAS
Opinion | Manufacturers knew for decades about the toxicity of PFAS but kept promoting them, according to a recent document analysis.
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The Autonomy Institute @autonomy-institute.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We're also hosting our next CADA Speaker Series event on Monday 13th April at Newspeak House in Bethnal Green 📆 We'll be joined by Eleanor S Armstrong & @rekapatriciagal.bsky.social to discuss 'Outer space on whose terms?' 🚀 Sign-up 👇 actionnetwork.org/events/outer...
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Outer space on whose terms? How are billionaires' whims shaping what we do in outer space, and what can we do to change that?
Our 2026 CADA event series continues with us welcoming Eleanor S. Armstrong (Leicester) and Réka Patrícia Gál (Munich) to explore the impact that tech billionaires are shaping the structure of contemp...
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The Autonomy Institute @autonomy-institute.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Can't wait to host Eleanor S Armstrong & @rekapatriciagal.bsky.social for our next CADA Speaker Series event this coming Monday 13th April at Newspeak House in Bethnal Green 📆 We'll be discussing 'Outer space on whose terms?' 🚀 Sign-up 👇 actionnetwork.org/events/outer...
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Outer space on whose terms? How are billionaires' whims shaping what we do in outer space, and what can we do to change that?
Our 2026 CADA event series continues with us welcoming Eleanor S. Armstrong (Leicester) and Réka Patrícia Gál (Munich) to explore the impact that tech billionaires are shaping the structure of contemporary space – and what we can do to respond.
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Dr.Shuji IIJIMA @shuujiiijima.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I wanted to stay there until the end of program.
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Neeraj @handle.invalid · 31/01/2026
How long until things go 💥 and LEO becomes useless and night sky which already ruined be forever ruined #astronomy x.com/aaronburnett...
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Lyle Scout @lylescout.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The nexus between pedophilia and right wing authoritarianism seems to be based on the idea that there is a ruling class that gets to do what they want with no consequences.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
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Funny Karate Bear (But Festive) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
You mean the guy who wanted to cryogenically freeze his dong so he could pump out (what he thought were) white ubermensch children after death was a Hitler guy
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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Ich sage auch: Ihr werdet das, wenn Ihr ein Modicum emotionaler Redlichkeit besitzt, mit "ja" beantworten, leise seufzen, und dann weiter mitlaufen - weil das immer die risikoärmste Variante ist. Und das wäre der GAU: das IHR SELBST einem echten Risiko ausgesetzt seid. Dafür gibt's doch die Armen.
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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Wehe, ich sage Euch, Ihr Mittebürgis und Normalitätsjunkies: wenn Ihr dereinst in einer kollabierenden Welt ängstlich zu Hause kauern werdet, werdet Ihr Euch die Frage stellen, ob Ihr Euch nicht früher, besser organisiert, und militanter dem Marsch des #Faschismus hättet entgegensetzen sollen.
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Mitläufergesellschaft: Gießen, Lübcke & die Zukunft des Antifaschismus
Die Reaktionen auf Gießen & Lübcke zeigen:die faschistische Bedrohung ist mittlerweile so akut, dass "die Mitte" beginnt, sich voller Scham vom Antifaschismus abzuwenden.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
From Getty Images: A resident films as people gather to confront ICE agents after two people from a residence were detained on January 13, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Trump administration has deployed over 2,400 Department of Homeland Security agents to the state of Minnesota in a push to apprehend undocumented immigrants. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Man in his bathrobe holding his phone
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
nice to see Midas Project sharing their research here -- for anyone interested in AI / LLMs supercharging everything weird and often horrible about the internet... a good follow.
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Sludge @sludge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
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The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 01/01/2026
Ive been accused of my politics not being valid (despite me singlehandedly using the internet to raise almost a $1M for poor women) because I take vacations or go to nice restaurants. It is such a farce to believe that a vow of poverty and suffering is necessary to advocate for equitable societies
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.
Homeland security post The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world. A photo of an old 70's tan car on the beach with palm trees swaying in the wind as the surf comes in. with the text America After 100 million deportations.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
No idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of @zackpolanski.bsky.social in today’s @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social ragingly antisemitic?
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
damn. I just searched and the piece I wrote for them years ago about domestic violence and Title IX is gone
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 24/12/2025
There was a female prison nicknamed the rape club. It got closed (eventually) and the Trump administration is trying to reopen it as a migrant detention center I don't think I need to provide further details. It's all the same stink
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"Justice for Keith Porter Jr." Butter🏳️‍🌈 @mysterybutter.blacksky.app · 24/12/2025
Like Assata taught us, "to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave." Too many white folks are accustomed to being manipulated and dominated, fed scraps from the table. Pathetic, indeed. It's a diabolical system of control. MAGAism (Red or Blue) is the latest system update.
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"Justice for Keith Porter Jr." Butter🏳️‍🌈 @mysterybutter.blacksky.app · 24/12/2025
Few white people are up for it. Maybe because they don't understand what's in it for them, what do they have to gain. That's because they don't even know what they've lost: their indigeneity, their worth beyond productivity for capital, connection to ancestors. 5/
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"Justice for Keith Porter Jr." Butter🏳️‍🌈 @mysterybutter.blacksky.app · 24/12/2025
That discomfort is real, it's physical. Changes have to happen on a neurological level to rewire the nervous system to feel the tentacles of domination and resist them. It's a kind of death for white people to wake up into antiracism. 4/
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"Justice for Keith Porter Jr." Butter🏳️‍🌈 @mysterybutter.blacksky.app · 24/12/2025
White folks have been anesthitized for generations with racial apartheid, 'free' land, all-white juries, you name it. "Capitalism requires inequality. Racism enshrines it." -RW Gilmore Trump keenly exploited anxiety and grievances over feared loss of generations of white privilege gains. 2/
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"Justice for Keith Porter Jr." Butter🏳️‍🌈 @mysterybutter.blacksky.app · 24/12/2025
Privilege is like an anesthetic. It reduces one's ability to feel the discomfort of oppression, to feel empathy, to act in solidarity. "The purpose of racism is to control the behavior of white people, not Black people. For Blacks, guns and tanks are sufficient." -Prof. Otis Madison 1/
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24/12/2025
It's uncomfortable to unpack your privilege, but it's more uncomfortable to be oppressed. Most white people can't manage the relatively minor discomfort of coming to terms with whiteness in order to ease the burden on the oppressed. It's pretty pathetic.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"I shot a bunch of people because they have the same religion as a nation state in a different hemisphere doing terrible things" feels like the dictionary definition of bigotry, and in this case it's pretty clear what the bigotry is
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Zodi Addams 🍁☕️🎃 @zodi777.blacksky.app · 24/12/2025
Y’all remember when they came up with “Black Identity Extremist” in an attempt to vilify people speaking out against police brutality? This is another attempt to use language to denigrate a reasonable response to tyranny.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
had a fascinating exchange about immigration with an Englishman who seemed rather taken aback that my response to "so you don't think England should be able to maintain its own borders" was "correct", when you spend half a millennium not respecting anyone else's border you don't get to have one
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
“.. some engineers argued for mechanical handles,” but “Musk’s directive was clear: Virtually everything in the new vehicle — including the doors — should be controlled electrically .. “.. 15 people have died in crashes where Tesla doors wouldn’t open ..” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Reagan's project was successful: now, many Americans have no idea what a "public good" is. Their only framework for social interaction--outside friends & family--is set by the concepts of private property & consumer choice. That explains a lot about voting patterns & the dying sense of civic duty.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 23/12/2025
Life-and-death needs. You are still helping six families & a camp of fifteen more SURVIVE. Right here: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Wonderful to have a contribution among these incredible and thoughtful scholars trying to make sense of the Silicon Valley technology elite and corporate forms of power and sovereignty 👇👇
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/12/2025
Something important to note is that the tech companies and the gas companies have promised each other demand and supply, so massively constraining and killing any threat to that is a key function of the Trump admin
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The UK’s largest planned data centre—a project by US firm QTS—is understating its true water consumption by a factor of 50, says new analysis by @watershed-i.bsky.social & @aiarmsracebook.bsky.social @digiconomist.bsky.social No mistake; AI is a heavy, polluting industry. shorturl.at/KXQxJ
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UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimates
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Oil for water deals. I don't know my Mad Max lore but isn't this a thing in that world?
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Candace Owens held up an English translation of August Rohling’s „der Talmudjude“ and repeated its antisemitic lies to her millions of listeners in her attack on Ben Shapiro. Rohling was a notorious Catholic antisemite who spewed vile lies and about Jews and the Talmud. This is incredibly dangerous.
Candace Owens holding up a copy of „the Talmudic Jew“
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Mark Weber @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This. My field, which I'm certain is no different than most others, was full of hack-junk well before AI was a thing.
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Fake references should lead to academic sanctions for the researchers involved, from both industry as well as from institutions. It needs to happen now, before every norm of academic integrity ends up sacrificed on the altar of production.
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 20/12/2025
if you want me to fucking play political games where i lie strategically about what i care about in order to get other people to make the cascading moral compromises that come with putting all your hope in electoralism you better have fucking think tank money
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 20/12/2025
someone threw a little tantrum about this in my mentions earlier and im still kind of annoyed at how entitled people are to demand i stop sincerely expressing my feelings about a political party that is explicitly collaborating with fascists because i will suppress voter turnout by not shutting up
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/12/2025
3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!” me: “that’s true!” 3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?” me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”
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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) @xuanalogue.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
have to say that having received hatemail from someone not entirely well who paranoidly believes I stole their research ideas, the whole Brown + MIT prof shooting is a little jarring
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