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Russell Simpson

@rustysimpson.bsky.social
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Screenwriter & actor Ni dieu, ni maître

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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a great thread. We do still have agency as a society; we would do well to remember that *with urgency*
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The first rule of Unfinished Sentences Club is
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sometimes, a little drop of genius falls in your desperate, outstretched palm. Here is one.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I cannot describe the brokenness I felt reading this from the Haaretz piece. The hostages were betrayed by everyone; Israeli leaders, the diaspora leaders & their orgs, the entire pro-Israel industrial complex, and by far and away the millions of people who cried "hostages" to support a genocide.
"He told me that in the first stage, they had no problem releasing all civilians without anything in return," Mashharawi recounts. "I swear, those were his exact words: all civilians, without anything in return. They had only one condition: They wanted us to bring in an agreed-upon mediator as quickly as possible, so that negotiations could immediately begin over everything else – the release of soldiers and officers in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and then the issue of the blockade on Gaza."
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Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
AFD member today
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
More than ever before, we have to be vocal and active about protecting our trans brothers and sisters.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ice T is on Law & Order, okay, so don’t let ANYONE tell you there are rules in Hollywood
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
1) I absolutely agree with Sonja 2) I agree with this policy 3) We're going to see more "humans for rich people, machines for the poors" divide in education. *yes not all U of C students are rich, I know. But U of C is rich.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026
These guys work so hard to be racists, and then they drive one guy to death and all of a sudden it’s like don’t lump me in with them just because I’m into skull measuring
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🚨 Yet ANOTHER study finds "NO evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime." There has NEVER been evidence to support this racist BS❗ Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com
nature.com
Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“God has a plan for you” No, thanks. I’m familiar with his work
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Obviously he’s not going to do this, but if he *were* to go on the journey a trans person has to endure, particularly to become a pro athlete, I bet my life this guy would no longer be an anti-trans bigot.
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Defector @defector.com · 05/08/2026
The right has created its perfect trans athlete: defector.com/the-right-ha...
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The Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…
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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 21/07/2026
the interesting thing about allowing for SOME transphobia, within reason, is that you end up bending yourself into pretzels to make statements like “sure, genital inspections for student-athletes are bad, but they’re not necessarily life-ruining so long as they’re conducted responsibly”
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Gender affirming care, but only for pathetic little bitches
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Legend
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julie, like jewelry @julie.alady.top · 12/07/2026
gf: you must live your life in a way that people don't post crab rave after you die
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Extra charge for a full defenestration
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sam @samthielman.com · 30/06/2026
I think a lot of the popular intelligentsia should reconsider its "sure, you can have those ones" position on minority rights
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Updated today.
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Having just read Bevins’ ‘The Jakarta Method’, this excellent thread seems very difficult to refute
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Scum man, scum statement. Absolute horses**t.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2026
a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I think it's hard even for raging leftists like myself to understand just how captured the media is in this country. Nothing you read or see on the news is based on things that have happened or their importance, it's driven by which politicians and journalists are in a whatsapp chat together
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is such a phenomenal piece in Liberal Currents today. When we treat states as exceptional (and my first concern is always American Exceptionalism) our critiques of what’s dysfunctional in them suffers. When we treat them as ordinary and banal, we can speak freely.
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Israel Is a State Like Any Other, and Commits Atrocities Like Any Other Would
Israel acts like any other apartheid state, but receives a level of deference from the American government and press and public quite unlike any other.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/05/2026
Not only did two neo nazi teens attempt to copycat the Christchurch mass shooting, the world's richest man falsely blamed trans people for it. Not a single outlet covered that he spread that disinformation.
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Fellow AI haters - you’ll love this from @marisakabas.bsky.social : www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-...
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time. It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day. It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7. Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Labeling anyone who calls the war in Gaza a genocide "AntiJewish" damages the fight against antisemitism. It feeds the cynicism people feel when a word like that gets thrown around, and it dilutes the weight of terms we need to protect our community from actual offenses. 1/2
Screenshot of Michael Rapaport's Facebook post says "Dave Matthews is AntiJewish clown". Attached to the post is a photo of Dave Matthews holding signs on stage that say "Stop the genocide" and "Stop killing children".
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A timely refocusing on how ‘international, rules-based order’ has often been a mirage in service to belligerence. Love @davidwengrow.bsky.social - enlightening as always. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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Iran's new ocean imperium
Are we seeing an end to the "freedom of the seas" in the Strait of Hormuz?
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
There are days when I’m just like calories don't apply to me
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Blood Sausage Simple
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage
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No evidence of 'family voting' in Gorton and Denton by-election
An investigation into alleged
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Parody of parody unparodyable
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Sometimes good things happen
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I literally paid my gas bill 3 months ago, what do you mean there’s another one? Is this how it works? They just keep coming?! #scam
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I was told that a bombing campaign is needed to free her from a fascist government that controls what women can wear.
Photo shows young white woman in a white tan top with from the river to the sea in black all caps text. She’s flanked by security or police 


Text of X screenshot: An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."

In Australia, you can bankroll mass murder and sleep fine. But wear a shirt that says "from the river to the sea"?Two years in prison.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
1,300 Iranian civilians murdered by illegal attacks but not a word. There is a deep moral rot at the heart of western liberalism. A grotesque racism
Mark Carney being a racist cunt waah waah Iran bad waah
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Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
If we don’t slaughter these innocent Iranian people, their government will. This war is good.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The US and Israel have bombed at least 13 hospitals and health facilities in Iran and one in Lebanon.
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At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says
Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war
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Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23/02/2026
interesting picture selection in today's Times
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...
The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg.

But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. 

Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.
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