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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 7h

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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a fake screenshot from the game Final Fantasy Tactics with Rapha saying "why is a woman's future never as promising as her abusers?"

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

eyyy editors you are literally the only person being paid in the entire submission process! if a reviewer sends you some racist shit like this it is your job to not show this to the author. it is your job to find another reviewer and blacklist this one.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lot of stories in just the past few days alone to drive home how important it is for guys to step our fucking game up and call other men out on their absolute bullshit just disgusting how infantile so many men act *on behalf of other men* who've been caught doing the most unforgivable things

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Oh my God Taskmaster has hit Hulu. I repeat all seasons of Taskmaster are on Hulu. If you've never watched Taskmaster go start watching it literally right now

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For every story like the Cornell gang rape, there are thousands more that couldn’t make it into the light. I wrote about a few dozen of them at one university in On the Wrong Side. The university’s treatment of survivors is eerily similar to what Jane Doe at Cornell experienced.

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On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence

"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

great video by hoots. worth a watch a lot of very comfortable people either do not understand or actively resent the power of leaving it matters to send a message by leaving. it's terrifying, but it matters. if you can, do it your behavior tells the world what your values are

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

oh hey, it's john arnold, the billionaire who's bankrolling one of the major open science advocacy organizations that we're all supposed to look the other way about and pretend is motivated by a sincere concern for the integrity of science

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

a small part of me wonders how much of current SV culture is revenge for attempting to hold jeffrey epstein accountable

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

with how atomized and personalized so much of modern culture is, it's surprising to me that anyone may think there's something deep and meaningful about not having heard of a particular musician or song but i guess that comes with the delusion that you and only you are what society caters to

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heads-up for fellow CRPG dungeon crawler fans as one to avoid: this one is made by ban-evading neo-nazis.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

these assholes try to present themselves like they're Asmodeus (D&D) or something, but they're all really more like Don Corneo (FF7) and society just gives them everything they want instead of giving them the only thing they need: wedgies what loser shit. every last AI bro. just predatory losers

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sharing with alt text because it’s that important.

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i've only seen 14 of the things on this list, but everything i haven't seen yet i have zero interest to watch i am uncultured swine i guess list needs animated shows though for real

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my dissertation research partly examined how prejudicial bullshit is associated with a wide variety of anti-science and conspiratorial beliefs to think i went to the trouble of running a few studies and analyzing data rather than just endlessly quoting conservative politicians and ending with "QED"

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i'm probably a bit late to thinking about this, but i bet some philosophers of science are having a time of things with the ai doomer hype as it relates to, for example, the value-free ideal or inductive risk

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The findings were published in Nature Neuroscience Sept. 18. Loh is the senior author. Graduate students Carolyn “C” Dundes and Rayyan Jokhai are co-first authors of the research." med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

should any computer program ever become conscious or actually do cognition, no one will need to be convinced of it that some people - mostly (but not exclusively) white guys - have made their whole personality now trying to convince you that computers are should tell you what the project really is

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

lufia 2 is one of the best rpgs of all time. this isn't nostalgia talking either, i only first played this game in 2018-2019 let's friggin go

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

is there any example of a modern (say... past 25 years or so?) american political candidate who campaigned partly on open dismissal or outright hostility of a minority's rights, won, and then while in office somehow advanced the cause the that minority's rights?

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the University of Texas at Austin's campus hosts an actual eugenicist conference, NatalCon but sure, i guess get upset because a student org there has invited Hasan Piker to speak

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

the typical liberal knows it's bad to hate black people, hate women, hate gay people, hate trans people, hate unhoused people, or hate disabled people but they do anyway and they get intensely angry when you point out their speech and conduct shows that they do "enjoy the camps" indeed

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

there is no joke i can make mean-spirited enough to compare to the level of disrespect that the entire right-wing has shown charlie kirk by picking over his corpse, from the moment he became a corpse, to bolster their delusions of relevancy and importance it's telling about what the right-wing is

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ok, the new Mega Man game is the first thing shown that is making me actually sad that i'm poor and will never be able to afford a switch 2 it doesn't look, like, earth shattering or anything. but new Mega Man is still cool and i wish i could support that

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Wright disputed that the study was an attempt to link support for trans people and political authoritarianism and violence..." the manuscript references the pre-registration 7 times. these are the research questions listed on there. colin can dispute it all he wants, but he is lying when he does.

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Research questions or hypotheses

Research Questions
What are Americans’ beliefs about gender and trans identity/ideology and trans rights etc?
How pervasive is gender affirming ideology and support for gender-affirming care among Americans?
Is belief in gender affirming ideology associated with anti-democratic beliefs?
Is support for gender-affirming care associated with anti-democratic beliefs?
Is belief in gender affirming ideology associated with support for political violence?
Is support for gender-affirming care associated with support for political violence?
To what extent do Americans perceive transgender people to be under threat in the United States, and which groups and institutions/groups do they perceive as threatening?
Is acceptance of transgressive norms associated with gender-affirming ideology, support for gender-affirming care, and/or anti-democratic and pro-violence attitudes?
How is LWA related to gender-affirming ideology, support for gender-affirming care, anti-democratic beliefs, and support for political violence, and does it act as a predictor or moderator in the relationships in RQ3–RQ6?

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

there's a reason that the average ai-booster gives off the vibes they do. the tech exists to reify certain patterns of thought, from the socially acceptable forms of racism and misogyny to the more explicit and overt eugenicist and white nationalist. it's another culture of dehumanization

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The Sound Defense @thesounddefense.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This may make me sound crazy but graphics like this are how you get yellow paint on ladders. When you add too many textural details, when you turn everything green and gray and muddy, the user doesn't know where to look. You can use your graphics to direct the user's eye, so do it! Don't do this!

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the OoT remake looks good, for sure. there's just something about the whole "make everything primarily grey and brown or otherwise muted/washed out" era of graphics from major studios that makes me grimace zelda, or really any video game, works best for me when the colors pop and draw the eye

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

Accusing AI critics of not doing the reading is funny because usually it’s AI users are the most likely to have not done the reading So what now then

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

*whispers in analysis of political economy and science and technology studies* Frankly, no. If your technology relies on massive capital consolidation to function at all, then the problem is the technology, not simply who wields it.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It seems like there's a new round of "stochastic parrots has been proven wrong" discourse going on, so I'm going to re-up this: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>

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Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

if you do apologetics for the plagiarism machines that are mainly used to produce revenge porn and CSAM, don't be illiterate enough to think someone is joking when they compare you to thematically similar kinds of creepy people for which our culture also does tremendous amounts of apologetics for

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

bill, if you've ever wondered why women don't leave their drinks unattended around you, this is why guy to guy, please shut the fuck up

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this is my favorite part of the whole exchange

screenshot of a section of a comment from Daily Nous. the text reads:
I am really very surprised that this was deemed worth publishing in a good journal, just given the incredibly modest ambition of the paper, the implausibility of its central claims, and the great, awkward lengths it takes to do what little it does.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

yesterday on stream i read through the HHS gender ideology/left-wing authoritarian pseudoscience document it is genuinely one of the worst documents i've ever seen. it doesn't even rise to the level of being a first draft level of bad, because there's so much wrong with it that must be intentional

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

when ariely was first discovered to have committed fraud, there was no rush to investigate his entire body of work. when ariely's colleague francesca gino was found to have committed fraud independently from ariely, there was a rush to investigate all of her work (finding more fraud, naturally) hmm

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

i'm tired of the right-wing's outrage tourism these are not people who engage with culture. they are not gamers, movie viewers, readers, foodies, or fans of tv shows. sad little losers, addicted to anger and conspiracy, who want to colonize the creation of culture we do not mock them nearly enough

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

is it really too much to ask that every race scientist get slapped upside the head with a brick?

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

to give you some sense of the quality of this piece, the correspondence email for the author is a yahoo address

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

gonna break my streak of not posting to chime in re: academic freedom and race science the scientific community debates race science too much. we even mainstream journals created by racists to debate it. we pretty much do nothing else about racism besides debate it direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010

Abstract. Anthropologists and human geneticists have long rejected efforts to purportedly scientifically justify racial inequality and colonialism. But race science has persisted, at least on the marg...

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

everyone who continues to work with or for the new york times either explicitly or implicitly thinks pedophiles are the real victims not a single person affiliated with that organization deserves to be considered "one of the good ones"

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