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S.E.MacRae

@semacrae.bsky.social
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Digital sociology ECR researching the interplay between education, politics and the digital. Own views, she/her.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4h
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 15h
I investigated whether Times Higher Education's commercial partnership with the Hungarian government has influenced its editorial decisions. Read @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundatio...
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just one of my heroes proving why he is.
Technology is just a tool. Al can replicate, but can it yearn? Can an algorithm understand the weight of a glance between two people who can't express their feelings? Can code capture the way memory distorts and reshapes our past?
These are the questions that interest me, and I don't think machines have the
answers yet.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In this scenario an abused trans woman would not be offered a place in a refuge. The follow question is not asked, and that question is, where does that trans women go? In the past the equality act already had dispensation to say exceptions could be made for female only spaces, but that those 1/5
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This thread is so important because it gets at the AI industry’s central failure of imagination. While I’ve met exceptions to the rule in Silicon Valley, most human beings do not reduce their sense of being alive to a stream of successive task completions, and find it a truly alienating vision.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 28/09/2026
Economic disaster + emboldened racism Well done lads. Thanks for the sensible, grown-up politics and the grand plan to please a small minority that will never be pleased unless they get full fascism (and even then...)
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It really sets in stark relief the asymmetry of coverage of the "debate" over trans and women's rights across our media. On the GC side court losses are reported as wins, racism is glossed over and hate is endlessly sane-washed. Meanwhile successes on the pro-trans side are met with silence or lies.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN EUROPE Almost 32C in Germany today,over 30C in Switzerland, 33C in France and this is just the beginning of a heat wave which will completely rewrite European climatic history with several thousands records smashed by even 5/6C margins. HISTORIC
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Saying an event "seemed" to pass off peacefully, without knowing that it did, is an editorial choice, not a reporting of news. It is something that does not to be said.
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Scottish Refugee Council @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us in solidarity for an incredible night of comedy to support people seeking refugee protection in Scotland. With over half the tickets gone, book your tickets now! 🎟️ ow.ly/NJAq50ZR2WS 📅 Sunday 11 October 📍 Glee Club Glasgow 🕔 Doors open 5pm We can't wait to see you there!
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That thing when you and yours crossed a generational threshold in the 80s, so when this comes in the car on you both start singing ‘open your mind’. youtu.be/vo_iotqFTLQ?...
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New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) (Remastered 2002)
YouTube video by Simple Minds - Topic
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1/ A slightly strange and lovely thing to be able to say, my book The Social Life of Justice is published tomorrow... www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 24/09/2026
A couple of years ago, the #Humane #AI Pin launched and failed utterly. At the time, I said they were the first but they would not be the last... and here's #Meta totally ripping off that device and also apparently not having learned that many lessons from Humane's failure.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The US Senate finds that the fossil fuel industry received $190 billion in tax breaks and subsidies from the Trump regime in exchange for campaign donations. The deregulation and subsidies have increased both energy costs for Americans and the damage from climate change and air and water pollution.
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Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call
Senators’ report says taxpayers face higher bills after ‘bargain’ between president and major polluters
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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am agog seeing footage of lifeboats being attacked at sea and ambulances being blocked from answering calls presented as a both- sides social issue rather than crimes with serious sentences caught on film. Government agonising between enforcing the law and avoiding racists being angry at them.
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today we look at the BBC equivocation alphabet! We start with the letter A for ‘activist’ and ‘appeared’. Follow along our alerts and broadcasts for more ambiguity and obfuscation as we slowly destroy your faith in journalism!
Breaking news - Anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas arrested after video appeared to show him slash dingy with knife
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I vividly remember when a girl in the year below me stood up to tell a joke in assembly when the school inspectors were in. She stood up and said with actions. 'How did Tommy Cooper die? Just like that.' It was the week after it happened. I'll never forget it and doubt my teachers did either.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW | I’m not surprised, but I am livid. BBC NEWS, ‘DANNY TOMMO’ AND THE DINGHY ATTACK THAT DISAPPEARED While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bbc-news-d...
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BBC News, ‘Danny Tommo’ and the dinghy attack that disappeared
While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts.
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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 23/09/2026
If your company is shipping code from Claude (or any other LLM) and your engineers have nfi what's going on then you are lining your self up to be mired in absolute shit when it hits the fan, just saying. Liability will come for you, one way or another. www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
incredible to say oh it’s harder to “disagree well” in the UK and to note that one topic where this especially applies is gender identity. because a) the new statesman has been very much part of the media trying to make that a contentious issue, actively and doggedly, for several years…
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'The same people who came up with the Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine hoax' Ukraine is a hoax in what sense? What even does that mean?
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 22/09/2026
Epistemologies of ignorance do a lot of hard work to allow people to not know what they know and have opportunity to address This is what I examined here regarding my own field of far right studies and its reluctance to centre racism link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Epistemologies of ignorance in far right studies: the invisibilisation of racism and whiteness in times of populist hype - Acta Politica
Research on the far right has been a booming field for decades now, with far-right parties generally being much more researched than their right, centre and left counterparts, even when they are margi...
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wtf www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Meta tells theatre that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Nadiia Omelchuk🇺🇦 @ukrainianart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Nadiia Omelchuk🇺🇦 @ukrainianart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With the holidays approaching, it’s the perfect time to pick out unique Christmas gifts! 🎄✨ ​If you see something you love, order directly in 💌DMs or check my link in bio to see more of my work. ​#madeinUkraine #handmadejewelry #ChristmasGifts #Ukrainianart
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If the media wants a story about academia which is of real public interest, then they should cover the resurgence of race science, which is providing legitimacy for racism and eugenic ideology in political and public discussions. Unfortunately, there seems to be little interest in this story
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That Jacobin re-published their heinous article on Srebrenica on a significant anniversary of the massacre should've been enough to discredit their output, but no here's more reactionary rhetoric wrapped up as left wing thought. See @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social excellent article here for background.
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In Denial: Genocide denial, why Spiked shouldn't exist and why Jacobin cannot stand
... can you give Tribune back to?
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How can Edinburgh justify excising so many Scottish specific language and history courses? The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures looks to be being gutted, its horrible to see. The fact they are also closing Intellectual History is both deeply ironic and extremely depressing.
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They are Lifeboat crew the clue is right there in the name, people who volunteer at their own risk to save life at sea. What country is this?
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026
It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The "culture" of accident reporting came about through regulation, in the face of massive opposition from airlines. The companies are forced to share their data and have their failures investigated independently.
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The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A plot twist 220 years in the making. 📖 The Portico Library has been awarded £6.4 million from @heritagefunduk towards Portico Reunited, thanks to National Lottery players...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔴 The £72million pound question - how worried are you about big money in British politics? Democracy for Sale is running a survey to find out what the public thinks about money in politics - and what we should do about it Please take it!! And share widely!! thx! 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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How concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale survey
We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Aa it's #nationalsuicidepreventionmonth , I've seen that clip of Jimmy Carr's take on suicide going around. Even if 100% well intended, it reveals a profound misunderstanding of #mentalhealth and suicidal intentions that could genuinely endanger vulnerable people. #TW
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Dean Burnett on Instagram: "Because it's #nationalsuicidepreventionmonth , I've seen that clip of Jimmy Carr offering his take on suicide that's doing the rounds. But even if it's 100% well intended, the attitude and 'insights' it offers reveal a profound misunderstanding and/or ignorance of #mentalhealth and suicidal intentions, in ways that could genuinely cause substantial harm to vulnerable people. #media #TW #psychology"
18 likes, 6 comments - drdeanburnett on September 14, 2026: "Because it's #nationalsuicidepreventionmonth , I've seen that clip of Jimmy Carr offering his take on suicide that's doing the rounds. But even if it's 100% well intended, the attitude and 'insights' it offers reveal a profound misunderstanding and/or ignorance of #mentalhealth and suicidal intentions, in ways that could genuinely cause substantial harm to vulnerable people. #media #TW #psychology".
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
'Academic leaders have reacted with dismay to comments by the science minister about arts and the humanities, saying it is “staggering” he did not appear to realise the extent of his brief.' A brief that includes research funding and policy for the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Things I was afraid of as a child 1. Spiders 2. Quick sand 3. Rabies 4. Killer bees 5. The dark 6. The Green giant (the sweetcorn one) 7. Crabs 8. The noise of the Waverley’s funnels 9. Choking on fish bones 10. Cybermen 11. The green hand in a box on Dr Who 12. Alsatians 13. Adders
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This paper from @bariscaylimessina.com offers a very interesting theory of this paralysis journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One can only assume that the mess created in US politics by Citizens United has either gone completely unrecognised by the remnants of the left in British politics or they feel they have relinquished the left so completely that similar right wing money might come to them. Ridiculous either way.
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
That ‘Mudblood’ has entered right wing parlance as a derogatory outsider term should be telling us something.
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Those Reform donations happening when Trump is Ireland is interesting, particularly when you think of Irelands relationship with tech wealth…
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 12/09/2026
The priests protesting for human rights are terrorists and the guys who want to expel the brown hordes and build fortress England are good Christian lads with fortuitous funding. The fascists are thoroughly inside the building and they’re not wearing Restore rosettes.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 12/09/2026
You’ve got priests, pensioners and disabled people who’ve been arrested for terrorism charges for peaceful protest, while the national public broadcaster is glazing a uniformed paramilitary for launching a campaign of attacks on infrastructure. Forgive me for seeing a scale and a thumb.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 12/09/2026
Euphemisation has been a key strategy for the far right to escape the margins and return to the mainstream for half a century Back in the early 90s, Jean-Marie Le Pen pushed for the term "populism" to replace "extreme right" or "fascist". It was then taken up by mainstream actors and here we are
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The kind of device that would have been spy kit in other era is still spy kit when it’s wrapped in an entertainment device and sold to us as convenience.
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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fixed that for you, BBC.
Racist gang forces its way into a hotel and threatens a group of teenagers
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