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Ernie Piper

@whoisernie.bsky.social
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i grew up in alaska, was a journalist for 15 years, and now i'm a law student in london. 🇬🇪🇹🇷🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ernies-kitchen.ghost.io

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/08/2026
Fine, I condemn Bong Bong the Clown. I find his japes perfunctory. His balloon animals strike me as vulgar. The bursts of laughter he evokes from children ring hollow to my ears. Now can we please get this city council meeting back on track
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/08/2026
Will anyone acknowledge how revealing it is about the underpinnings of "gender critical" ideology that they're all coming out to bat for the self-described "race realist"?
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Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
this clip does a great job of demonstrating this podcast's very boring central premise, which is that people only move left because they have been persuaded by bad, crazy ideas. socialism is "psycholological", rather than a rational political response to corporate greed and government corruption.
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Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Newscord was linked dozens of places, including with a "hit list" of journalists who wrote stories about Arday. It doesn't look at the content or angle of any of those stories, nor does it list the editors who may have commissioned those stories. It's run solely by Nima Akram, a data scientist.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
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Madeline Peltz @peltzmadeline.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm proud to share the cover of my book, GOOD GIRLS AND ALPHA MALES: HOW CONSERVATIVE MEDIA IS TARGETING GEN Z, coming Feb '27. It's a culmination of years of on-the-ground reporting and thousands of hours of media monitoring. Now available for preorder: www.sourcebooks.com/978146425540...
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/08/2026
the witch hysteria is apt. they lived in a time of backbreaking labor, amidst a tiny colony planted on the edge of a vast continent. the witch hysteria imbued that mundane, backbreaking life with cosmic meaning god and the devil himself at war in a pail of spoiled milk
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/08/2026
🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
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We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
i bring a sort of ‘i fear neither pain nor death’ energy to the pedestrian/driver interaction that drivers don’t really like
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Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
When it turns political, conspiracism creates the thrill of challenging authority with truth, but the result is precisely the opposite: the bullshit upholds the status quo. Like if the lab leak were true, what does it suggest? It's all China's fault and we don't have to change anything.
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 01/08/2026
Just a hunch but I feel like Batman was a post-9/11 movie where the threat of centralized *government* surveillance felt very real and present (and bad) and twenty years on surveillance has become decentralized in a way that feels less ominous because it’s just you and your neighbors with cams
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“The government hasn’t paid for any work performed since November, providers say, and in recent months has insisted it will only hand over the money in exchange for information about the children that the lawyers say is confidential.”
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
i got too much fuckin wicker on me
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 30/07/2026
Countless women's sports teams have independently spoken up in favour of trans inclusion in sports only to be targeted by attacks from people who hate women's sports
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/07/2026
I remember when she was one of the few people talking sense about masks in like March 2020. since gone completely bug fuck
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 30/07/2026
“Lab leak” and “trans panic” are the two weirdest brain diseases that people who ought to know better have contracted over the last few years and I’ll be damned if I understand why
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Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Zeynep Tufekci is still completely insane over the lab leak idea. "There is a conspiracy to cover this up" is not evidence for "covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab". It could also be evidence for my theory, "please stop talking about this stupid idea"
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Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I have hate-followed this strange propaganda podcast with no real audience hosted by this uncharismatic man. join me as I tweet about it never
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm slightly biased because me, my dad and my favourite purveyors of cake, vintage clothes and soft play centres are in it... but this portrait of Clacton by @timburrows.bsky.social and 📷 Andy Hall is superb. Balanced, diverse, intelligent, so so well done: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Farage’s got to come clean or clear off’: what voters on Clacton beach think about their MP – and the country
Nigel Farage’s constituency takes in genteel resorts and one of England’s poorest villages. With a snap byelection approaching, what do the residents want from the Reform UK leader – or the bin who’s ...
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Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
it would be bizarre if someone normal thinking rational thoughts did that, but we're talking about ross douthat, who is a big dummy. so from that perspective it makes sense
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Tom King @tallgeekychap.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
THE CRUELLEST MONTH. THIS APRIL.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The point of an anti stalking order is for the police to know whose door to knock on first after they find your body.
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This was carried out before Palestine Action was proscribed. Will judges be applying a similar approach to the actions of, for example, Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists over bank damage
Exclusive: Judge intends to consider ‘terrorist connection’ after convicting five for damage to Barclays in Burnley
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
When proof reliably produces none of that, people learn the rational lesson that facts don't matter, and that's the ground populists recruit from, they offer fast consequences instead, aimed at enemies rather than wrongdoers.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s a rip-off price, the vendor is toxic, and it seems the software doesnt deliver: www.ft.com/content/cbd1... Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says
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Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says
Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 27/07/2026
People of colour are 12 times more likely to be at risk of losing British citizenship than their white counterparts. Samira Shackle on how draconian rules created second-class citizens on the basis of heritage
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Britain’s citizens of nowhere
Hundreds of UK nationals have been made stateless, and left trapped in squalid refugee camps, without being convicted of any crime
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/07/2026
still processing the fact the world's richest person thinks his politics arise from being in touch with "normal people," and that anyone who disagrees with him (and the media in particular) "lives a cloistered life"
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ELEVEN ANGRY EX-MONKS ROLLING UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO THROW THEIR ABBOT IN THE TRUNK OF THEIR CAR AND TAKE OVER THE MONASTERY, WHAT THE FUCK AM I READING
Take control
According to the local prosecutor, the case is linked to the tensions surrounding the leadership of the abbey. On the evening of the kidnapping, a group of eleven dissident monks arrived at the monastery.
"They reportedly proposed a new organizational structure within the monastery with the aim of taking control," said the prosecutor. It is said to involve monks from Bellaigue Abbey who had left the monastery some time before.
Bellaigue Abbey is not in the news for the first time.
The community was for a long time affiliated with the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (SSP), an ultraconservative movement that opposes reforms within the Church. In early July, the Vatican excommunicated this fraternity after four priests were ordained as bishops without papal permission.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 22/07/2026
This shit sounds like magic to normies but someone left an open door at a data warehouse and some other useless wanker left a Roomba roaming around a public space and the Roomba wandered into the open door.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories
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Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Dumb question but why is every uk university firing everyone and closing departments like languages, film, drama etc? isn't everyone in forever student debt? doesn't any of that get back to the schools? what are we.doing here
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tunnelposting
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
a great piece from Parker that i hope you all read. i would humbly add that no matter the issue, policy, statement, or scandal, we’re more than a decade into the MAGAverse and have seen how little we gain with cries of “aha, hypocrite!”—these freaks can’t act in good faith and don’t deserve yours
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“You will always be the love of my life, until my heart stops beating,” Alvarez addressed her late husband, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, in her first public remarks since he was killed by ICE in Maine on Monday. “Watch over me. Help me carry all of this. Help me care for and protect our daughter.”
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“My soul is broken. He was everything to me.”
“He had so many dreams left to fulfill,” Karolina Rojas Alvarez said today of her husband, Johan Sebastian Guerrero.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
roberts et al have a mental model of racism as being defined entirely by the most atavistic mania of the jim crow south. if it isn’t that, if it wears suits and ties and speaks the language of national security and executive authority, then it not only doesn’t count, *it’s not racism*
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Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
a fabulous blow by blow of the crashout of the new catholic schism
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
From @melissagiragrant.com: "Since Trump returned to office, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the tenth person federal immigration agents have shot and killed." trib.al/sOr88ID
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ICE Is Hoping You Won’t Notice the Man Agents Killed In Texas
The administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is the dirtiest type of research. Princeton scientists took $15 million from BP and shaped their research on carbon capture in consultation with the oil company: www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
BP executives were deeply involved throughout the paper’s creation, according to an investigation by ProPublica and Drilled. Socolow and Pacala, the authors of “Wedges” and the new center’s co-directors, not only discussed ideas with the company but, in a departure from academic norms, passed drafts back and forth and welcomed extensive feedback.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
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Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 03/07/2026
Vital analysis of how the EHRC have misled global human rights regulators and parliament about the nature of criticisms of the UK and the EHRC from the UN independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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