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Ex-RM from NI with a PhD. Author and professional editor. "Bluesky elder," apparently. #BSMRGUK To my Ukrainian friends: вдачi і вдалого полювання

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · Nov 19

I spent a decade arguing with antivaxxers on X. Showing them papers. Explaining their errors. Correcting their disinformation.

I've done my bit for "dialogue with people I disagree with".

I'm here to hang out with people I like. For everyone else, I have no guilt about using the block button.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 22m

Her defence relies on the time-honoured tactic of "this is obviously true if you think these words mean what I say they mean, and not what everybody else using them (including in contemporary documents) used them to mean."

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1h

Every time Labour does this I simply cannot understand how they don't see that they are making Britain a stupider, crueller and poorer place, all on behalf of people who will never, ever vote for them.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 1h

I don't do viral, but occasionally I manage Lightly Sparkling.

Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 11h

Don't even need to go viral for it, just slightly fizzy

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 15h

Juuuuuuust as soon as you figure out a way to keep American politics from fucking things up in every other country that comes into contact with them, bud.

"I could do without all the smug misinformed commentary on American politics from people who don't live here tbqh"

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 19h

Too few techbros have read or seen Pet Sematary.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19h

So do White people in the west just believe it’s okay to resurrect the dead to make them dance and perform for your pleasure?
Is this a cultural difference?
Because where I come from, disturbing the dead usually comes with consequences.
Bad ones.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 1d

See also: bsky.app/profile/seea...

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 1d

With respect, the reason people are assuming you'll cut corners by not checking is because you're already cutting corners by not doing the reading yourself and instead asking an LLM to do it for you.

Using LLMs for one part of a project undermines confidence in the integrity of the whole thing.

A post from a respected professor saying (with reference to her LLM usage) "Oh crikey of course I'm going to check it. How interesting that everyone on here seems to assume I wouldn't!"

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 1d

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 1d

What a target the designer of that leotard has put over the wearer's kidneys...

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 2d

"To my daughter, Leonora, without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time".

P. G. Wodehouse, "The Heart of a Goof"

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 6d

Isn't ECMO a little red muppet?

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 6d

I have one or two mementos from the old days, yes.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 6d

Hear me out: why don't State Troopers just arrest the Guardsmen when they arrive, on charges of "conspiracy to commit a breach of the peace," confiscate their equipment, and then let them go home?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 6d

Dammit, will work never end?

Apparently, my halloween movie role is "the killer".

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 6d

I want to know what @gailsimone.bsky.social makes of the Punisher logo having *surfer hair and a Santa hat*

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 8d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 6d

Never having seen this before, I am desperate to learn where it came from!

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 6d

History doesn't repeat, but sometimes it rhymes. The image below is coming ever closer to America, as the rest of the world watches in horror.

Father (later Bishop) Eric Daly, waving a bloodstained white handkerchief, escorts the mortally wounded Jackie Duddy to safety after the latter, an unarmed 17-year-old, had been shot by British forces. 30 January 1972, "Bloody Sunday".

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 6d

"I still see myself as..." is practically the dictionary definition of 'subjective.'

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 6d

Matthew Syed, who recently wrote a long read about why he just joined the Conservatives, objected to his BBC introduction including this fact: "Yes, I just joined the Conservatives, but I still see myself, first and foremost, as an objective journalist, if I may say so."

Phew! Glad that's settled.

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 6d

The last Chinese imperial eunuch could have listened to the Spice Girls' first album.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 7d

*That's* a key question

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 8d

That the claims made in support of its use are horseshit, peddled by grifters hoping to profit from disinformation, and that these charlatans are so far from moral behaviour that a civilised society would put them in stocks to be pelted with rotten fruit?

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 8d

JEREMIAH WAS A BULLFROG...

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 8d

They love flags because there's no spelling involved in using them.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 8d

I particularly liked the scene in one of them where Langdon clung to the skids of what was very explicitly labelled a UH-6O Blackhawk.

Which has wheels.

Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 8d

I am being forced to read The Secret of Secrets for work by my "friends" and Dan Brown is so loudly and confidently wrong about everything and I want to tear my hair out.

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 8d

"MOD inadvertently reveals that they have no plans to declare war on Wales (for which they would need Welsh interpreters)."