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Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social · 10h
On 6 milj. € aika kallis hinta siitä, että n. 3 000 pyöräilijää/vrk säästää n. ½ minuuttia matka-ajassa. Mutta jos vertailukohdaksi otetaan Satamatunneli, jonka kustannusarvio on 300 milj. ja ajansäästö n. 3 min × 5 000 ajoneuvoa/vrk, se tuntuu suorastaan edulliselta! www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...
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Pyöräily | Helsingin uusi miljoonatie oikaisee 100 metriä, hinta 6 miljoonaa euroa
Itäbaanan vieressä kulkee vanha pyörätie. Uusi pätkä lyhentää pyöräilijöiden matkaa 100 metriä ja on kaupungin mukaan vanhaa turvallisempi ja suorempi.
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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · 9h
DH friends. Anyone have ideas for publication venues for outcomes of smaller bits of exploratory work? We have some fun outcomes but probably don’t want to spend time working them into something big; but feel they are interesting to the community. I know I’m forgetting something obvious!
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 12h
Sibelius didn't intend "Finlandia Hymn" to have any singing, but since the piece slaps, many lyrics have been written for it: Christian hymns in English and Italian, a hymn for Wales, and the national anthem of short-lived Biafra. In 1948, Sibelius gave up and arranged the Hymn for mixed choir.
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Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 12h
Sain vuonna 2024 tiedonjulkistamisen apurahan kirjaan eksoplanetoista. Löytöretki eksoplaneetoille -teos tulee saataville huomenna, Turun kirjamessuilla. Nyt sain uuden apurahan. Aion kirjoittaa uuden kirjan monista tavoista, joilla eksoplaneetat voivat olla eläviä. tjnk.fi/fi/ajankohta...
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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am convinced that the way out of this isn't to make the humanities easier, endlessly flexible to meet the demands of people who might otherwise blow them off---it's to make them harder and more disciplined in effort
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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What if we scheduled the 9 hrs and required students to attend? Before you say "it'd never work," let me remind you: this is what the practical sciences do
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just found a whole bunch of research I did back in about 2015 on international Finnish mail routes during WW2. As one does. Anyway. Very, very excited. Here's the letter the British sent the Finns to, very politely, warn them they'd be opening their mail to the USA and South America from now on.
His majesty's principle secretary of state for foreign affairs presents his compliments to the finnish representative, and has the honour to inform him that his majesty's government in the united kingdom find it necessary, owing to the state of war existing between this country and germany, to examine certain seaborne mails on ships calling at, or diverted to, British ports in order to ascertain that they do not contain articles of contraband or obnoxious documents.

2. his majesty's government in the united kingdom desire to conduct this operation with as little inconvenience as possible to foreign nations. If it proves impracticable to send the mails on by the same vessel, they will be conveyed, after examination, to the port from which they can be most conveniently reshipped.
3. His majesty's government are prepared, as an act of grace, to grant exemption from examination to -
a) letters and postal packets which are addressed to, or bear an external indication that they eminate from a state department, embassy of legation of any power not at war with His Majesty.
b) official diplomatic and consular bags

foreign office, october 6, 1939
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It! Is! Live! (A friend sent me the heads-up bc I have The Best Friends!) English. Illuminated. Printed. Parchment. Bibliographical nerdery abounds. Read on!
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Colouring in the Lines of Early Tudor Printed Parchment | The Library
While scholars have mined English printed books of hours for decades as sources for important research, a small proportion remain almost without study. Neither manuscript nor standard print, the present article examines books of hours that were printed ...
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Over 3,500 people are currently facing terrorism charges in the UK for holding signs saying "I support Palestine Action".
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 23/09/2026
It is of course also very telling that there never has been any organised movement that hates and disparages its own country and its achievements as much as every radical and far right group.
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Pasi Pennanen @pasipennanen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Onhan se fantastista seurata, kuinka kokoomuslaiset (jälleen varsin organisoidun oloisesti) hehkuttavat upeita talous- ja työllisyyslukuja. Kansakunnalla riittääkin aihetta pöydillä twistailuun
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Medieval people loved making lists! But are there any good overviews of medieval lists and their uses, or particularly good studies of listing practices and their significance, that are student-friendly? Help a teacher out!
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/2 We have vastly improved data now on British slave-owners (www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/) and slave-traders (britishslavetraders.org). Wonderful that this research has persisted despite all the fury of the nationalist right wing backlash.
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The Register of British Slave-Traders
The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.
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Solja Pistol @soljapistol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Juuri kun kuvittelin, ettei tämä äärioikeistohallitus ehdi enää mitään mittavaa tuhoa toteuttamaan, käy ilmi, että ovat hyökänneet naisten oikeuksien kimppuun! PS:lle tämä ei ole mikään ongelma, RKP taisteli vastaan mutta kok nuoli KD:tä! Mitä kaikkea KD vastusti? www.uusisuomi.fi/uutiset/a/5f...
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Järkytys leviää: Suomeen ”sakkomaksu ei-lääketieteellisestä abortista”
Hallitus on linjannut uudesta leikkaus- ja toimenpidemaksusta, jonka kohdentuminen abortteihin on herättänyt hallituksessa kiistaa Svenska Ylen mukaan. Opposition vasemmistopuolueista arvostellaan mon...
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 17/09/2026
I've been in a habit of archiving my #Bluesky threads in #markdown format for saving in #Obsidian. That has been a chore though, even with great apps like Skywriter. Finally I thought to ask Claude to whip up a Bluesky thread to Markdown converter. Behold: #sky2md! jmkorhonen.github.io/sky2md/
A screenshot of sky2md application window, showing an example of Bluesky thread converted into Markdown format.
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Lili Rage @dorianpage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The largest university in Scotland no longer offers a single honours Scottish Lit degree
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For the last nine months it's been my pleasure & privilege to be the editor of Renaissance Studies, and I think we're well overdue a romp through some fantastic articles we've published this year. See below for some of the finest new research in the interdisciplinary study of the Renaissance! 👇
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
There are so many of these that the British media activist Oobah Butler was able to harvest them and offer a line of "bitter lemon energy drinks" on Amazon made from bottled driver piss.
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Pluralistic: Amazon’s bestselling “bitter lemon” energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss (20 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Quick equalities check: across English, History/Politics/War Studies 6 women have lost their jobs and 0.5 men. 4 men and one woman are safe. English goes from 50:50 (6M, 6F) to 1 woman and 2.5 men.
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Sam Kaislaniemi @samklai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's difficult to comprehend how very valuable cloth was before the invention of machine looms, as also the degree to which ordinary people lacked capital, whereby this must have been common: "when the ships company went to bury Thomas Heath in the place where they formerly had buried his mate,
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026
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PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
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Uuden ajan alun tutkimuksen verkosto @uudenajanalku.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
CSCC ja TUCEMEMS järjestävät Merkitykselliset marginaalit ja Uponnut katedraali -akatemiahankkeiden kanssa yleisöseminaarin "Muuttuva kirkkotila ja sen käyttö 1400-luvulta nykypäivään" 14.11.2026 Turun pääkirjastolla. @utu.fi @turku.fi @aboakademi.bsky.social @aalto.fi sites.utu.fi/tucemems/eve...
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Sam Kaislaniemi @samklai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's difficult to comprehend how very valuable cloth was before the invention of machine looms, as also the degree to which ordinary people lacked capital, whereby this must have been common: "when the ships company went to bury Thomas Heath in the place where they formerly had buried his mate,
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here.
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Antti Haataja @anttihaataja.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Googlen Vaalan datakeskus ja Suomenselän metsäpeurapopulaation tärkein kesänaikainen vasomisalue Oulujoen p-puolella. a) Metsäpeurojen vaellusreitti jää suoraan datasentterin alle. b) Kesänaikainen tärkein vasomisalue Oulujärven pohjoispuolella on suoraan vaikutusalueella. #metsäpeura #Google
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There is a zero chance that Anthropic's most capable models will be able to extract their own model and run in the wild, because those supercomputers essentially only exist in datacenters. For all practical purposes those models can't run on normal computers, even distributed regular computers
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
"AI" - chatbots that wake up, "set their own goals," and "spontaneously" start hacking servers - is fake. It doesn't have "a 10% chance of ending the human race." The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Riley had a very good way of summarizing this: "LLMs are real, AI is fake." LLMs - chatbots trained on things like CTF logs that can break into servers - are real.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Remember: every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous their products are, you help them raise more investment capital, which is a key input for their business (hooking up statistical engines to money-furnaces): peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-...
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 10/09/2026
Datakeskuskeskusteluun huomautan, että 1. minusta näyttää, että arviot työpaikkojen määrästä ovat suurin piirtein sitä luokkaa, mitä vertaisarvioidun tutkimuksen perusteella tehtävä arvio todennäköisesti sanoisi 2. en tiedä mistä näillä seuduille saataisiin vähemmän haitallisia työpaikkoja
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 09/09/2026
When I was a kid, we had to make do with a guidebook with the following instructions prominently printed on the first page: “REMEMBER: Learn to recognize poisonous mushrooms Only eat mushrooms you recognize”
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Jimmer Cork-Bottle @jimmerthatisall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This day in history. 2002. At a Beverly Hills hotel astronaut Buzz Aldrin punched an annoying moon landing denier in the face hard enough to lift the mug off the ground. The mug tried to press charges but the judge nominated Aldrin for a Humanitas Award instead.
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Sam Kaislaniemi @samklai.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New favourite early modern English name just dropped: Foole Conquest
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ok, lets talk about friction. In 2002 a court told Britain it must tolerate a certain inconvenience so that trans people can live in dignity. Britain read that and decided the inconvenience should be ours instead. This starts with a moka pot. I promise it makes sense 😅. 🧵
Photo of a gorgeous ritual-driven moka pot.
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Tanja Suni @tanjasuni.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Se, joka äänesti kallistuneen arjen takia, saa siis maahanmuuton kiristykset muttei ostovoimaa. Kokemus, jonka takia äänestettiin, ei katoa hallituskaudella, koska sitä ei korjattu, ja seuraavissa vaaleissa se on käytettävissä uudelleen. 🎯
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Tanja Suni @tanjasuni.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Kolmessa maassa kolme hallitusta päätyi samaan lopputulokseen. Maahanmuuttoa kiristettiin jokaisessa, ja se oli se, minkä takia äänestettiin. Talouspolitiikka oli jokaisessa oikeistolaisen hallituskumppanin, ja se paransi rikkaiden asemaa ja heikensi vähävaraisten.
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Tanja Suni @tanjasuni.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@aleksisalonen.bsky.social vain parantaa menoaan FB:ssä. Tässä taas aivan huipputeksti (en osaa linkata FB:ta). Nostoja: -On kysytty, mitä tapahtuu, jos AfD pääsee valtaan. Äärioikeisto on ollut hallituksessa jo useassa Euroopan maassa, ja voi katsoa, mitä niissä on tapahtunut.
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STTK @sttk.fi · 08/09/2026
STTK:n teettämän kansalaiskyselyn mukaan 88 prosenttia suomalaisista haluaa pitää kiinni laajoista julkisista palveluista ja sosiaaliturvasta. Vain 16 prosenttia suomalaisista olisi valmis leikkaamaan julkisista palveluista talouden sopeuttamiseksi. 📊 1/2 www.sttk.fi/2026/09/08/k...
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Kansalaiset: Julkisista palveluista ei pidä leikata - STTK
Julkisen talouden sopeuttamisen keinoksi kansalaiset valitsevat leikkausten sijaan veronkorotukset.
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Patrizio Lainà @patriziolaina.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Leikkaamisen aika on ohi! Kansalaiset kannattavat eniten suurituloisten palkansaajien, pääomatulojen ja yritysten verotuksen kiristämistä sekä investointeja kasvuun keinoina sopeuttaa julkista taloutta. Vain 16-17 % kannattaa leikkaamista julkisista palveluista tai sosiaalietuuksista.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026
That's why Tim Wu named this "the age of extraction." "Growth" no longer means "making something new that people want" - now it means "finding ways to take a larger share of the pie, even if that makes the pie smaller overall": www.wired.com/story/tim-wu...
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Welcome to Big Tech's ‘Age of Extraction’
In his new book, antitrust scholar and former White House adviser Tim Wu argues that tech giants are bleeding you dry—and lays out a plan to stop them.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026
As a famous NBER working paper showed, when a family business is handed over to a professional manager with an MBA, the company doesn't become more profitable overall; it just finds ways to pay its workers less: www.nber.org/system/files...
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Saxony-Anhalt went to the polls, with the AfD falling just short of a majority. Here are some takeaways based on the preliminary results across all 218 municipalities and local socioeconomic characteristics. A thread 🧵(1 /n) Full analysis + write-up: juliuskoelzer.de/saxony-anhal...
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Sam Kaislaniemi @samklai.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In 1615, the English EIC merchants in Japan sent a ship to SE Asia but it sprung leaks and didn't get further than Ryukyu (modern Okinawa). Accounts from the voyage include: "A suit of English apparel given to the Governor of the Liqueos". … …did he walk about Naha wearing a ruff? I bet he did.
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Lari Ahokas @ahokas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Finnish historians have criticised the planned closures at Finnish National Archives as diminishing its accessibility, contravening its own strategic plan. Director General reacts by labeling criticism "emotional" and belittling the significance of historians as stakeholders. 🇫🇮: yle.fi/a/74-20243296
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Historiallisten Venäjä-aineistojen käyttö rajoitettiin yhtäkkiä vuoteen 9999 asti – tutkijat syyttävät Kansallisarkistoa itsesensuurista
Lain mukaan Kansallisarkiston tehtävä on edistää tutkimusta, mutta nyt miljoonalla eurolla hankittujen Venäjä-aineistojen käyttöä on rajoitettu ankarammin kuin sopimuksiin kirjattiin.
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Lari Ahokas @ahokas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Historiantutkijat kritisoivat Kansallisarkiston toimipaikkojen supistamista saavutettavuuden heikentymisestä myös sen oman strategian vastaisesti. Kansallisarkiston pääjohtaja reagoi kutsumalla kritiikkiä emotionaaliseksi ja vähättelemällä tutkijoiden merkitystä sidosryhmänä. yle.fi/a/74-20243296
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Historiallisten Venäjä-aineistojen käyttö rajoitettiin yhtäkkiä vuoteen 9999 asti – tutkijat syyttävät Kansallisarkistoa itsesensuurista
Lain mukaan Kansallisarkiston tehtävä on edistää tutkimusta, mutta nyt miljoonalla eurolla hankittujen Venäjä-aineistojen käyttöä on rajoitettu ankarammin kuin sopimuksiin kirjattiin.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness despite there being explicit statutory authority for Biden to do it and allowed the Iran War despite an explicit Constitutional prohibition on anyone besides Congress declaring a war.
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🦉sean sean sean🦉 @avesmaria.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One thing that has never been clearer in the current tech-run age is that the concept of consent is fully dead. None of these people believe you have a right to tell them no and they’ve been rewarded for it repeatedly
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