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Gudule Martens @gudulemartens.bsky.social · 3h

Excellent column from Sonia Sohda:

"It’s both extraordinary and embarrassing that so many so-called progressive grown-ups have been duped into thinking this childish and parochial campaign is some sort of brave liberation struggle."

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 9h

it's in the way that both Frankfurtian bullshit and AI hallucination jettison any relationship to the truth that I find the resonance. It's in the exclusion of truth from consideration that I find the similarity.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 5d

Really good Gray episode with Sean Illing and philosopher Ingrid Roebyns on why it is unethical for there to be billionaires

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Imagine there's no billionaires

Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 09/01/2025 · 54m

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 13h

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Portland Frog - Sticker — T H E . A R T . O F . N I K K O L A S

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 13h

this book has never been more relevant or useful, between AI and the current state of politics.
AI doesn't "hallucinate", it bullshits.

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 13h

birds never fail to astonish. such lovely colours! Thank you for posting this picture.
#birds #robins #ornithology #blue #photography

Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 20h

Indian Blue Robin.

The Indian blue robin (Larvivora brunnea) is a small bird found in the Indian Subcontinent. It is migratory, breeding in the forests along the Himalayas of Nepal, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

📸: @wildlife.kaptured

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17h

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15h

I find this very touching…& also worrying. Historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been an absolutely essential guide to this era. And if he thinks I’m right then we’re in more trouble than we realise

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17h

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 14h

oh I can totally see how it is important. Like i said i started reading it but have also read the summary on wikipedia. I didn't know that she was a pioneer in uncovering such gendered assumptions.
I just found the New Statesmen piece confusing but perhaps it'll be clearer when i've read more.

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 14h

i have found much to agree with in the reflective essay - also "A thin interpretation of democracy homogenizes differences in the name of equality, whereas thick democracy rests on the premise that different voices are integral to the vitality of a democratic society."

anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 14h

I've started reading it, yes, thank you. In looking for it I ended up reading her recent reflection on it - classics-at.chs.harvard.edu/classics9-ca...
"Within a patriarchal framework, care is a feminine ethic. Within a democratic framework, care is a human ethic."

Looking Back to Look Forward: Revisiting In a Different Voice – Classics@ Journal

Classical scholarship that engages issues of great significance to a wide range of cultural and scholarly concerns

classics-at.chs.harvard.edu

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 14h

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 3d

Great article about the German Spaßguerillas - 'fun-fighters"

"Playfully imitating ... ignoring the 'us-them' division disrupts .. fixed patterns of antagonism. "

SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 3d

Tactical frivolity 👍
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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 14h

the text read:
Koroit opals are a unique type of boulder opal found only in a remote part of Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺, near the tiny outback town of Koroit. They form inside ironstone rock, deep in the ground, where mineral-rich water once flowed through ancient cracks and cavities.

photograph of a polished koroit opal, a long oval shaped stone featuring areas of irridescent rainbow colours in random shapes demarcated by dark lines.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn @deborahelizabeth.bsky.social · 19h

Recommended reading: "Pranksters vs Autocrats." This book is 83 pages long, is available as a free download from @cornellupress.bsky.social, and is ideal for any activist who sees that protesting in an inflatable frog costume is a good idea.

#nokings

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 15h

Maria may only be paid $70, but I don't think describing pay in terms of "earnings" makes sense any more. She contributes far more than people "earning" 10x what she does.
I know you understand this, it's just sometime the language we use in describing injustice kind of grates.

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 20h

Indian Blue Robin.

The Indian blue robin (Larvivora brunnea) is a small bird found in the Indian Subcontinent. It is migratory, breeding in the forests along the Himalayas of Nepal, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

📸: @wildlife.kaptured

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 20h

- Chestnut-bellied Rock-thrush (Monticola rufiventris) in Thailand
- Photo courtesy of Natthaphat Chotjuckdikul

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 20h

Taiwan Yuhina.

The Taiwan yuhina (Yuhina brunneiceps), also known as Formosan yuhina, is a small songbird endemic to the island of Taiwan.

📸: @udnleo

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 15h

gorgeous shot of a well-named bird!
thank you for posting.
#photography #nature #birds #ornithology #sunbird

Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 20h

- Fire-tailed sunbird (Aethopyga ignicauda) in India
- Photo courtesy of Naresh Vadrevu.

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 20h

So many called those of us who were screaming about Project 2025, conspiracy theorists. Said we were fear mongering.
Well, well, well, I wonder how many of those people will be at NO KINGS PROTEST on October 18⁉️⁉️

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 15h

the second dose of the shingles vax knocked me out for 3 days. fingers crossed it goes easier for you - they do say that 2nd dose often causes more side effects.

anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 15h

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 19h

Clear evidence that Supreme Court clarification on sex in Equality Act did not stop trans people challenging experiences of harassment & discrimination. Trans identifying men can actually be protected under sex category *and* gender reassignment category.

Women *needed* sex category clarification!

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 15h

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 20h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 15h

so I'm pretty sure that they had different dads, and Biscuit's must've been a Bengal or Bengal mix or something. He hardly sleeps, is full of energy and curiosity, is deeply and almost weirdly attached to me. Does make funny noises eating sometimes, and also when doing many other things.

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