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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · 1d

Erysichthon, mythical king of Thessaly, once ordered his men to cut down trees sacred to Ceres so he could expand his palace and host larger feasts. His hunger for more eventually led him to devour everything around him and himself.

America has its own Erysichthon now. And he's in the White House.

Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · 8d

I fear the biggest ‘legacies’ of our era will be plastic waste and chicken bones and AI slop and more plastic waste.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · 14d

I still sometimes find it hard to believe that we live in a world run by assholes and idiots and clowns because they managed to convince so many people that the fact that our world seems to be run by assholes and idiots and clowns is not their fault, but those with the least power and money.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · 18d

It wasn’t brute strength or ruthless competition that helped our ancestors survive, even in the most unforgiving conditions. It was caring for one another and sticking together.

How Caring Made Us Human

It’s one of our oldest and most crucial survival strategies

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · 26d

‘Fascism hates women just as much as it needs them. And it needs most of them on their knees, scrubbing both factory floors and their own kitchens, and working day and night to birth and feed and raise the next generation so that those in power can spend very little while accumulating a lot .’

Why Fascism Can’t Survive Without the Women It Hates

Systems of oppression often turn their targets into their lifeline

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · 29d

So far there are already more men named John than women among this year’s Nobel Prize winners. Considering there was only one female winner last year, I’d say the odds of breaking that pattern are, well, not great.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Oct 3

The growing gender gap among young people is political, yes, but it’s also cultural, personal, and rooted in struggles over power. Young women want to have power over their own lives, while some young men still equate power with dominance over others.

What the Gender Gap Among Young People Is Actually About

It goes deeper than just politics

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Oct 2

Jane Goodall was a pioneer, a legend, and a remarkable human being. What a loss. But I'm sure her legacy will endure for generations — including this gem of a quote: 'In many ways the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals.'

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 29

'Far too many of us today are so enamoured by the rhetoric about "freedom", we don’t realise that unlimited freedom for some actually means very little freedom for the rest of us.'

Extreme Wealth Inequality Is a Choice, Not Our Destiny

But we might be running out of time to change it

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 26

A massive new study of nearly 50,000 homes from 1,000 archaeological sites spanning 10,000 years reveals that wealth inequality was neither universal nor an inevitable consequence of population growth or progress.

Extreme Wealth Inequality Is a Choice, Not Our Destiny

But we might be running out of time to change it

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 25

I can’t help but feel that if we didn’t have to keep wasting energy arguing over things that should be common sense by now, we’d probably already be commuting on jetpacks powered by food waste or something.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 23

Drowning people in constant, enraging noise is the whole point. You never get to step back and reflect and see the bigger picture because you're pulled too far under it all.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 22

The only difference is that today this rubbish also lines the pockets of massive corporations that want us to be more concerned with our wrinkles and sagging skin than question the inequalities that actually shape how we age.

Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 22

This idea that if you're ‘unproblematic' then you'll 'age well,' so often thrown at public figures (especially female, because, of course), is just a reheated version of the old belief that beauty equals virtue. And just as it was rubbish then, it's rubbish now.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 18

Perhaps it's time to replace the myth of 'man the protector' with a more accurate 'eldest daughter the protector.'

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 18

A study of pre-industrial Swiss parish registers (Spa et al., 2025) finds that having older brothers reduced girls' chances of survival, while having older sisters had a positive effect on both girls and boys.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 17

And that's all *despite* the fact that many of these studies are often designed to make marriage look good.

The Problem With ‘Marriage Makes You Happier’ Studies

Or rather, the many problems — and the myths they keep alive

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 17

A recent survey once again claimed that marriage makes people — this time, women — much happier than their unmarried counterparts. But research tells a far less flattering story. Marriage’s impact on happiness is inconsistent, short-lived, and barely distinguishable from cohabitation.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 10

But whether an activity is labelled as science, technology, or art often has less to do with its complexity or value, and more to do with which gender was mostly engaged in it, historically speaking—and, by extension, who was allowed to practice it in ways deemed 'professional' and 'serious' enough.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 10

Knitting is a technology, a science, and an art all at once. The same can be said for weaving, quilting, pottery, cooking, and countless other practices.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 6

Considering that women are more likely to reinvest money in their families and communities and are more inclined to support various social causes, this could lead to quite a shake-up of our world.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s predicted that women will soon control 38% of financial wealth in the US, 47% in Europe, and 39% globally, growing at about 8–10% per year. This surge is driven by ’the great wealth transfer’—a massive shift of assets, mostly from men to their surviving female spouses.

How Women’s Growing Wealth Could Change the World

And how it might not

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 2

Everything is just a tap, a swipe, or a short drive away. Everything can be delivered to us without us even having to lift a finger.

And so we remain blissfully ignorant, or willfully blind, to the fact that when one part of that system breaks, everything else follows.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Sep 2

One of the key reasons people in high-income countries often forget how deeply interconnected we all are—with each other, the planet, every living thing—is because modern convenience keeps us largely insulated from reality.

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Katie Jgln @katiejgln.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Czy kobiety powinny być chirurgami?

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