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Christiaan Wallett

@throstlefantastic.bsky.social
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Star Trek Fan - Citizen of Nowhere. Political, grumpy and likes experts. Interested in science, sports (though WBA and Mets challenge that), films, beer, sci-fi. Here for Trans rights. (he/him/his).

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 8h
In 2013, Meta wrote off billions of Zuckerberg's stock options as a "research expense." The IRS caught on and is working to recover the $355 MILLION they avoided. Now Meta's trying it again with their AI data centers—they've already saved $4 BILLION. Our tax code is so broken.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12h
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i know a lot of people really, really want gaza to be a two-sides issue that maps cleanly onto US electoral politics, but it isn't. the mainstream of both parties supports the genocide, because the US as an institution supports the genocide. i know that's uncomfortable but you can't run away from it
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 8h
So... "cable"... we're just doing cable again.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h
Trump historically wore Brioni, an Italian luxury company that makes suits in Italy. Here he flashes a Jos. A Bank label, a US company that long offshored its production to China and Bangladesh. They carry an associated label called Joseph Abboud, which is made in US. Curious he didn't choose that.
Donald Trump in a navy suit. He's opening the jacket, so you can see the label. A close up of the suit label says Jos. A. Bank.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 8h
Yersinia Pestis is a bacteria that’s endemic in several spots around the world. There are around 1,500 cases around the world reported to the WHO each year. On average 7 of the those annually in the USA. It’s dangerous, but it’s hardly a novel threat as suggested by the headlines.
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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.
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Joe Brian 🇺🇦 will win @mrjoebrian.bsky.social · 23h
This made me laugh
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 11h
It is basically impossible to get people to understand how completely insane JKR is nowadays
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Taraaaaaaaaggghhhhhhh Zombies @theblueststar.bsky.social · 14h
Fuck these three cunts. Danny Trejo, Henry Thomas and Harvey Keitel are going to star in a pro ICE film. I wish ET had died
Danny Trejo Henry Thomas Harvey Keitel
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 13h
You're Tougher Than Your Fear Thinks You Are Seven tools for staying steady when the world feels like it's coming apart. In the late 1930s, British officials sat down to plan for war, and they were terrified.
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 13h
Just watched an SME owner declare because he “took all the chances of setting up my own business I’m entitled to not declare my income or pay tax like other people” in the kind of bold way you only expect from criminals.
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 13h
The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The part of your brain that determines how much bullshit you can tolerate at any given time should be called the fucks capacitor.
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 16h
Badenoch on #R4Today claiming the Tories’ problems started with the Coalition when they “had to make compromises” and were perceived as “not proper Conservatives”. Cameron/Osbourne absolutely steamrollered the Lib Dems, got all they wanted, and left Clegg &c. as patsies. What is she on?
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 17h
I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions
Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 16h
one of Kemi Badenoch’s biggest problems is what Kemi Badenoch says & the existence of reality
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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Andrew Whiteley @andrewwhiteley.bsky.social · 17h
Another example of how the racist thugs who claim to be 'protecting our women and children' are actually the biggest physical threat to our women and children. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h
incredible this will get little to no coverage
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Again, let's just stop & remember that age-based legal restrictions on access to social media/online services are a bad idea & infringe the rights of young people to speak, access information and arts & culture, find community and play. Then look at the madness involved in trying to make them work.
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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Back in the before times, when a president could get in trouble for the color of his suit, I did a podcast with my daughter. Our first-ever guest was the inimitable @unamccormack.bsky.social, and we couldn’t stop talking about Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Middle-earth, leading to our first two parter!
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The Una McCormack Experience
A two-part interview with author Una McCormack, talking about Star Trek, Doctor Who, Middle-earth, and more!
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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · 05/10/2026
Our statement on the recent Green Party of England and Wales motion 'Zionism is Racism'. europeangreens.eu/news/egp-pos...
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Kick Yeet GTFO Off Cliff
Alt: little fella booting another little fella off a cliff
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ah yes, the photographic 'proof' that my parcel from eBay was delivered and handed to me, and it's just an image of multiple parcels sat on a shelf somewhere, definitely not my front door
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Members of the Patriotic Alliance are stopping cars with non-white people in them and harassing them like this. This is a hate crime, arrest these people.
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Pellicle @pelliclemag.com · 05/10/2026
Attention pubs, cafés, hairdressers, bars, restaurants, tap rooms, leisure centres and butty shops: We can do wholesale pre-order pricing for Pellicle — Issue 1: Joy. Message us for more details!
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Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shades of David Davis's "What do you mean we have a land border with the EU?" – a question he put to EU negotiator Michel Barnier in their first meeting (according to someone who was in the room at the time).
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Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
being said about cornell but equally applicable to the rape orgy AI researchers
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hate this. Replies and quotes are disabled because the poster knows it’s crap. Musk is shit. Sagan didn’t say that. But he *did* write: “There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate… Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.”
A post from someone with the text: “I’m with Carl Sagan on this.” then an image of Elon Musk with the text: “"Mars is the
ultimate lifeboat for human
consciousness.
Expanding our footprint across the stars is an
absolute biological imperative to outlive the inevitable decay of earth."
ELON MUSK” alongside an image of Carl Sagan with the text: “"Abandoning a dying planet instead of
healing it is the ultimate hubris.
Escaping to the stars is just a
billionaire's fantasy to avoid cleaning up the mess left behind."
CARL
SAGAN”
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ought to really alarm people that Israeli journos deploy an entire deflect, deny, smear tactic for *football*. How are you so used to racism accusations that you need to trot that out for a fucking Nations League tie.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Matthew Syed writes that there “should be more bouts of unemployment” in his latest column. Maybe the Sunday Times and Radio 4 can shitcan him to put that theory to the test.
There is nothing neoliberal about our culture of debt and bailouts
Andy Burnham’s analysis of the country is completely wrong. We should be waking capitalism from its coma
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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The many powerfully good things that are normalised by this one interaction gives me great hope for a world that can be changed for the better by leaders doing things like this.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
On the importance of asking the right questions in politics.
We are measurably lonelier. We feel less productive, and yet more burnt out. We're less satisfied in our jobs. We are less fulfilled in our personal lives. We're taking up fewer hobbies. Engaging in less culture and art. We miss our real communities. But we're going out less. Our trust in our institutions has plummeted. We're having fewer kids. We're politically more volatile. We're believing more lies. A younger generation is going on fewer dates. And they have fewer friends. Opportunities for human contact are shrinking.
Anxiety is up, and yes, that overall happiness metric is falling.
Sorry to be a downer, but then you knew all that already. We all feel it.
Instead, we are pursuing a race to "growth". But what kind of growth, and to what end? An AI data centre in a hollowed-out postindustrial community might provide 30-odd jobs and create numerical growth on a Treasury spreadsheet but does it materially address the lack of meaning, purpose or agency many feel in their lives?
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year, according to internal data reviewed by The New York Times. TAT: [Attacking science | Undermining democracy]
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I CURRENTLY HAVE SEVEN CATS WOULD YOU LIKE TO BASK IN MY HOTNESS
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
UK urged to act as Polymarket takes bets on whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail
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UK urged to act as Polymarket takes bets on whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail
Revelation comes amid mounting concern over online prediction market’s effects on integrity of financial system UK authorities are being urged to intervene after it emerged that the online prediction market Polymarket has been taking thousands of dollars worth of bets over whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail. Polymarket – the US-owned company which holds bets on anything from football matches, to the existence of aliens, to when a bomb drops on a city – has allowed users to take $77,507 (£58,530) worth of positions on whether the world’s biggest banks will go under by the end of this year. Continue reading...
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 03/10/2026
The constant and frantic need to keep building more and more of their surveillance state is absolutely going to be a huge part of their downfall
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Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’
Your Amazon delivery could come with an unwanted photo op.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children. They have step by step dismantled every protection that supported my daughter […] At every point when the Labour Government could have made something better, they have turned around and given her another kick.”
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