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Safie Maken Finlay

@safiemf.bsky.social
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Author of The Frozen Man // Autistic // Doesn't Feed the Trolls

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
thedailytism.com/new-uta-frit...
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New Uta Frith test to determine if you’re doing autism correctly
The existing diagnostic process of detailed interviews, forms, and observations is to be replaced by a few quick questions which will determine whether you are the genuine article or just a big fake a...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
Caitlin Moran: social media went from utopia to hellhole in a decade – if you want to feel hopeful again, get offline
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Caitlin Moran: social media went from utopia to hellhole in a decade – if you want to feel hopeful again, get offline
Fourteen years ago, Twitter was the fastest, funniest game on the web. Now I’ve been driven out by so-called ‘online activists’. The only answer is to unplug and try this instead
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
An unelected group of people has decided that their demands outweigh the basic needs of ordinary people across the country - needs that include keeping urgent hospital appointments, seeing dying relatives, caring for children, and obtaining medicines. This is bullying, not protest #FuelProtests
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is not protest. It's bullying. #speirgorm
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to their fainting country cling" PB Shelley
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
History teaches us that the greatest harms often begin with the quiet acceptance of the unacceptable. I have seen where that road leads, and I will not walk it again without resistance.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is not debatable‼️ We saw it‼️ On this day, January 24, 2026, we witnessed it‼️
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 25/01/2026
“Trump’s imperial project is all gunboat and no diplomacy. He probably mistakes the flattery…of most European leaders for esteem. In reality their deference masks a mixture of fear and short-term resignation.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
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Whose Hemisphere? | Fintan O’Toole
The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Please share. 💔
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This entire weekend
in the pit
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I've never encountered an Irish election so limited in scope. Candidate 1, I agree with strongly on most issues & disagree with passionately on some vital issues. Candidate 2, I disagree with on almost everything except those same crucial issues. This must be how a 2-party system feels #speirgorm
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#A_NewHope ✊
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
"It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage." Robert Frost
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I return to Twitter occasionally, out of hopeless nostalgia. It's like having brain surgery while being hit on the face with a cactus.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Is our problem social media itself or the fact that social media has been weaponized to polarize and disrupt?
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
If Trump could pass a law stating that it was illegal to do anything that upset the dear leader, he would. And a big portion of the MAGA crowd would most likely go along with it.
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
US publications, can I suggest that you temporarily replace paywalls with donation requests when it comes to articles of political significance? Good journalism should be paid for, but this is an emergency, and lies are being peddled for free.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I’m beginning to think they lied about liking free speech…
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Never thought the name “Jimmy Kimmel” would be accompanied by a physical chill passing through my bones.
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
RIP #RobertRedford
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
An important distinction - from @timothysnyder.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Free Speech and Me Speech
A helpful distinction
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Can I ask, if you follow 40,000 people or more, why are you doing that? Doesn't it make your social media feeds a pile of messy sludge.
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Very informative. The parade of far right lunatics lining up to embarrass Ireland on a global scale should know that their power would be restricted to throwing tea parties and causing the occasional legislative delay.
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Is there a browser that does what Google used to do before it sabotaged itself? A browser that just searches the Internet and provides the most relevant results? I'm so sick of wading through AI bullshit and advertising.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social, Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism. Looking forward to following you wherever you land, Your fan, Mar🐫
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The weirdest thing about this US administration is that everything that happens is, at the same time, completely predictable and utterly astounding.
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Laura Bee, Trench Wench @writerlaurabee.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Lemme do a Captcha and I'll get back to you...😬 youtu.be/AtkXbPjHOQo?...
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I'm Not A Robot | Award-Winning Short Film | Comedy, Sci-Fi
YouTube video by HYST
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Sherry @sherrysovern.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Human here
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
After an absence, a reply I made to a post was randomly liked by a series of strangely over-obvious bot accounts that only post pictures of kittens and sunsets. Are they the only people still here. Anyone out there not a sentimentalist robot?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism. forward.com/fast-forward...
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Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Is Trump manipulating the stock markets on purpose to make money out of them?
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Glass raised 🥂
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Shared
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This headline gives unfounded veracity to unsubstantiated and widely contested theories that would not be out of place in the current US administration.
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This ⬇️
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I never realized fascists would be so whiny
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/03/2025
Pete Hegseth today
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Sure Jack the Ripper killed and dismembered people, but there are always grievances on both sides. Before judging, we need to listen to his perspective.
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Axios @axios.com · 17/03/2025
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
axios.com
Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This thread has good advice. If you are going to be on Twitter, be very wary.
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Little sleepy guy #Cats
My very cute sleeping tabby cat, paw under his cheek
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
You don't want to read this. And I don't want to write it. iandunt.substack.com/p/you-dont-w...
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You don't want to read this
And I don't want to write it.
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Oligarchies are weird
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Bigots and idiots have taken all the fun out of conspiracy theories.
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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before Trump’s inauguration." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.
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