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@yutyranus.bsky.social
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birding and dinosaur enthusiast, pessimistic socialist. queer, తెలుగు, he/him. 🦕🦖🌈🐦‍⬛🦚

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Omair Ahmad @omairahmad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Tens of thousands of protestors are facing off against tens of thousands of police in the capital of India, as they demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner who has illegally deleted millions of people from India's electoral rolls. Biggest democracy story on the planet, not in BSky.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Women who resist rape are punished so disproportionately because men understand that rape is the lynchpin of their social power, and they will go to any lengths to defend it. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...
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‘Shocking’ swatting incident and death threats against Jane Doe | CNN
Jane Doe’s Attorney Thomas Giuffra tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins the swatting incident that left Doe’s family at gunpoint was “one of the most shocking things” he’s seen.
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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Great to see this research make the jump from Prehistoric Planet to publication, so so cool!
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Modi government has deployed 38000 police and military personnel across Delhi. This is a declaration of war against the Indian people, nothing less.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/10/2026
Populations of wild species fell by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, WWF says reut.rs/4rUnsQH
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Populations of wild species fell by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, WWF says
Nearly 6,000 monitored vertebrate species across more than 35,000 populations declined by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, the World Wide Fund ​for Nature said in its latest Living Planet Report published on Thursday.
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Scandifriend @scandifriend.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Again what exactly does Nandy do all day?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bleak stuff here: the fascist international in country after country judging that they don’t even have to pretend any more that they aren’t farcically corrupt criminals, and they may well be correct.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This new tool, the Carbon Impacts Tracer, which translates carbon emissions into real-world climate impacts like heat exposure and coral bleaching, looks super useful. ➡️ carbonimpactstracer.com
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New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused
Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i think that the end goal of a lot of tech companies at this point is to destroy any point social or psychological mediation the individual has left, such that there are any only atomized individuals connected by computer networks, with the tech company oligarch as the owner or operator of said nets
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Vulgar Rawlsianism? Oh you mean Marxism.
A Soviet style propaganda posters showing Rawls as the culmination of the Soviet system
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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sauropods: An Artistic History in Four Parts (Art by Charles Knight, Bill Berry, John Gurche, and @tessasaurus.bsky.social)
A group of wriggly-necked, blunt-skulled Brontosaurus wade in a lake while one emerges on the shore, dragging its lengthy tail behind it. A Stegosaurus approaches the lake, dwarfed by the long-necked herbivores.A towering Brachiosaurus with a drooping tail hauls itself out of the water, moving in a wide-legged waddle as rivulets of water drip down its hide. An impossibly tall, earthy-brown Barosaurus with elephantine skin rears high in the air, threatening to crush an encroaching Allosaurus. A young Barosaurus hides behind its tree-trunk legs, crouching in fearful trepidation. A dense conifer forest and gorgeous cloudscape extend behind.A low view of a colossal rearing titanosaur. Its heaving bulk produces a cloud of dusty sand as it lifts upward, revealing the complex array of scales covering its underside and limbs. A little feathered theropod looks on, looking comically tiny beneath the great mass of the colossus before it.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a very recognisable depiction of various political subcultures and we all know it. I am Pessimistic about our ability to persuade people not to do this, but I am also baffled by the fact that so many people in fact want to do this. Some sort of instinct to small-group meanness is common!
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today marks 9 years since the Mashrou' Leila concert at which the late Sarah Hegazi raised the rainbow flag in a moment of pure joy. Thinking of those who Egyptian regime repression has driven to lives underground, to lives in exile, and to lives no longer lived. We remember. 🤍
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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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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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think the celebrity jokes about sheeran are just escapism for me. Because israeli forces raided a kindergarten 2 weeks ago, and a building damaged by israeli bombs collapsed on top of families yesterday, and everything is heartbreaking.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026
No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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nabooian emissary @yutyranus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
fucking hell...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As the government bans social media for kids further evidence emerges that it's a minority of retired adults we should really be concerned about. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Pensioners attack traffic lights over wild 'deadly weapon' claims
An online movement say that the sensors on traffic lights can cause heart attacks, brain cancer, anxiety and even sudden death
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wrote about the mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Lindsay Clancy was failed by our warped understanding of motherhood | Moira Donegan
Clancy’s case became a referendum on mothers, healthcare, and the status of women
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
From their own words; the now infamous on here "I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" quote was specifically in response to seeing a slaveowner auctioning off his own barely teenaged daughter
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"However, the transition to clean power is being impeded by slow planning and grid expansion...and a severe lack of investment elsewhere. Africa receives less than 2% of global clean energy investment despite possessing 60% of the world’s best solar resources..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists
Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Labour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggery—The government has managed to produce a system that neither stems the tide of illegitimate concerns nor addresses legitimate ones. www.ft.com/content/2279... @stephenkb.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Labour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggery
A government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What an entire pointless, damaging and expensive campaign. We may have fond memories of the zoo but the site is inadequate (and the new location is superb).
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Black Film Alerts 🎥 @blackfilmalerts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New look at Audra McDonald, John Douglas Thompson, Denée Benton, and Jordan Donica in ‘The Gilded Age’ Season 4. (via Vanity Fair)
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gotta appreciate the sheer chutzpah of claiming that Nathan Cofnas, a man whose only intellectual project is the rehabilitation of racist pseudoscience, is a *defender* of academic standards.
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Mu favourite Confuciusornis-coded bird (Blue Magpie)
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nabooian emissary @yutyranus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
who is chanty beluga???
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dwreck @d-wreck.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I hate when gay people just make shit up wtf is chanty beluga
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Petra Molnar, a fellow at Tech Policy Press, argues that migrant deaths at automated borders "are not malfunctions or byproducts, but rather the system actually working as designed." This perspective is drawn from her new open-access book.
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The Racial Necrotechnics That Lead to Death By Design at Automated Borders
Modern borders preserve a racial distribution of wealth and mobility that was built through centuries of imperialism and colonialism, writes Petra Molnar.
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
NYT editors (and nepo baby owner) put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and chief of staff "tyrant" warning on 12 Chris Rufo openly bragged about it:
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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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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
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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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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think this is wholly correct with the fascinating rub that what that crowd crave is an apartheid society but some of them are mad enough to believe that you can ethnically cleanse your way to it.
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