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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2h

Gosh really?

www.politico.eu/article/labo...

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.net · 4h

"Hey copilot, how do I install Linux to replace you?"

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Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 2h

Jesus fucking Christ.

Also, people use PCs for things other than work. I cannot write an academic research paper by talking to a cunting machine.

Fuck it, I’m going back to handwriting everything.

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Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 3h

The Durham Union being packed with weapons grade throbbers.

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Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, I read it in one sitting. Highly recommended.

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Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, and before another feminist takes me on and says these were women with internalised misogyny, I KNOW.
The point was, that person was using biological causation, when it’s not. It’s largely cultural.

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Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, but the rest of it is bollocks.

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Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 10h

Catherine the Great; Jiang Qing; Elizabeth I: all famously gentle little souls who did not have people murdered to order and affected the world stage not at all, no.

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Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 10h

I especially like the comment that “men are not as evolved as women”. You can argue that society has different cultural expectations of the sexes, and that _can_ be rooted in biological difference (nb. correlation is not causation), but you can’t argue that one sex is more “evolved” than the other.

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Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 10h

Well that one really is a whole thread of mental, isn't it?

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 21h

This is a grim read. I stick to my view that the wilful blindness of the government to the financial crisis in local government will cost them their majority at the next election. Why not roll the dice for change when the local public realm is falling apart? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

English councils to remain poorer than in 2010 despite funding rise, says report

Exclusive: Impact of austerity cannot be undone by end of parliament despite above-inflation funding, analysis finds

www.theguardian.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Love the French policy on kings' nicknames.

"Louis the German", "Charles the Fat", "Louis the Stammerer" and others.

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Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 1d

Is the assignment “how to look at shit pulled out of the rectal cavity of the internet with a critical eye?” Because if it isn’t, that teacher wants sacking, whatever country they work in.

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