Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is a great thread. We do still have agency as a society; we would do well to remember that *with urgency* 000
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The first rule of Unfinished Sentences Club is 000
Reposted by Russell SimpsonLisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not 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.  329252995779
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This whole PR stunt smells a lot like privatising profit, and nationalising loss. We should 100% regulate (or just destroy), but we should absolutely not get left holding the bag. 070
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Sometimes, a little drop of genius falls in your desperate, outstretched palm. Here is one. 000
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026…if we can just beat these fucking fascists* *my ex-partner is to be sacrificed in service to this morally repugnant, doomed strategy 11742
Reposted by Russell SimpsonElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I 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. 17401160
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026More than ever before, we have to be vocal and active about protecting our trans brothers and sisters. 000
Reposted by Russell SimpsonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026a 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 17965351842
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Ice T is on Law & Order, okay, so don’t let ANYONE tell you there are rules in Hollywood 000
Reposted by Russell SimpsonDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/08/20261) 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. 425972
Reposted by Russell SimpsonKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026These 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 61074198
Reposted by Russell SimpsonBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower. 13385622081
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026These soulless losers never have any art on their walls 1141
Reposted by Russell SimpsonTimothy 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.comnature.comUndocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study findsAnalysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime. 7682267
Reposted by Russell SimpsonViktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 08/08/2026“God has a plan for you” No, thanks. I’m familiar with his work 201636398
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Obviously 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. 020
Reposted by Russell SimpsonDefector @defector.com · 05/08/2026The right has created its perfect trans athlete: defector.com/the-right-ha...defector.comThe Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete | DefectorA 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… 0398
Reposted by Russell Simpsonjosh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 21/07/2026the 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” 330065
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Gender affirming care, but only for pathetic little bitches 000
Reposted by Russell Simpsonjulie, like boo-welry @julie.alady.top · 12/07/2026gf: you must live your life in a way that people don't post crab rave after you die 465980
Reposted by Russell SimpsonSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 30/06/2026I think a lot of the popular intelligentsia should reconsider its "sure, you can have those ones" position on minority rights 0445
Reposted by Russell SimpsonAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Updated today. 45423
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Having just read Bevins’ ‘The Jakarta Method’, this excellent thread seems very difficult to refute 000
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Scum man, scum statement. Absolute horses**t. 000
Reposted by Russell SimpsonMicah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2026a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman 4898792571
Reposted by Russell SimpsonCrowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I 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 3485114
Reposted by Russell SimpsonAdil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026If 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? 14375912372
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026It was actually at request of the band, to avoid confusion 010
Reposted by Russell SimpsonZeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026This 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.liberalcurrents.comIsrael Is a State Like Any Other, and Commits Atrocities Like Any Other WouldIsrael acts like any other apartheid state, but receives a level of deference from the American government and press and public quite unlike any other. 3639160
Reposted by Russell SimpsonAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/05/2026Not 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. 3948211310
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Fellow AI haters - you’ll love this from @marisakabas.bsky.social : www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-...thehandbasket.coHating AI is good, actuallyLinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice. 010
Reposted by Russell SimpsonEthan 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/2605.07723arxiv.orgLLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citationsLarge 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... 13429160
Reposted by Russell SimpsonDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/05/2026No, 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. 1446185
Reposted by Russell SimpsonThe Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Labeling 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 1329753
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026A 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...newstatesman.comIran's new ocean imperiumAre we seeing an end to the "freedom of the seas" in the Strait of Hormuz? 0102
Russell Simpson @rustysimpson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026There are days when I’m just like calories don't apply to me 000
Reposted by Russell SimpsonBen Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun. 48567882647