anomielia
@geekgirl397.bsky.social
🌹🦕🦖🤍💜 striving to be kind, rational, helpful and hopeful. fiercely uncompetitive and unambitious. #feminist #materialist http://mastodon.me.uk/@geekgirl397
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My blog post on the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial:
"Ten million pounds and two hundred childhoods, spent not to discover whether puberty blockers “work”, but to postpone the moment when the NHS finally has to admit they never did and never could."
www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...
"Ten million pounds and two hundred childhoods, spent not to discover whether puberty blockers “work”, but to postpone the moment when the NHS finally has to admit they never did and never could."
www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My blog post on the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial:
"Ten million pounds and two hundred childhoods, spent not to discover whether puberty blockers “work”, but to postpone the moment when the NHS finally has to admit they never did and never could."
www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...
"Ten million pounds and two hundred childhoods, spent not to discover whether puberty blockers “work”, but to postpone the moment when the NHS finally has to admit they never did and never could."
www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...
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BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
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Happy 60th birthday, Björk!
Born on this day #BOTD, Icelandic singer Bjork is 60 years old today.
Here with fellow artist PJ Harvey.
#WomenArtist
Here with fellow artist PJ Harvey.
#WomenArtist
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Happy 60th birthday, Björk!
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The vindictive pursuit and vilification of Cadwalladr whilst she dug away revealing all sorts of dodgy dealings around Brexit kind of tells us a lot more than we realise. Powerful forces pull strings to silence truth and truth-seekers. The Russia report is just one more dirty little secret miasma.
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The vindictive pursuit and vilification of Cadwalladr whilst she dug away revealing all sorts of dodgy dealings around Brexit kind of tells us a lot more than we realise. Powerful forces pull strings to silence truth and truth-seekers. The Russia report is just one more dirty little secret miasma.
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Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) might be the most endlessly quotable movie ever made. Every scene drops a line that’s lived for decades. 😎💙😎
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) might be the most endlessly quotable movie ever made. Every scene drops a line that’s lived for decades. 😎💙😎
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In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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Terrible terrible news, this judge has really screwed over Americans www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rule...
Meta Wins Antitrust Case as Big Tech Moves from a Monopoly to a Macro-Economic Problem
Big tech is no longer an antitrust problem, it's a macro problem for our economy. And Judge James 'Jeb' Boasberg's decision that Meta is not a monopolist illustrates the political challenge we face.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Terrible terrible news, this judge has really screwed over Americans www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rule...
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Debunking podcaster Michael Hobbes insists that Yuval Noah Harari, a professor in the Department of History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, consulted no research in preparation for writing Sapiens: a Brief History of Mankind—a book with 21 pages of footnotes.
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Debunking podcaster Michael Hobbes insists that Yuval Noah Harari, a professor in the Department of History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, consulted no research in preparation for writing Sapiens: a Brief History of Mankind—a book with 21 pages of footnotes.
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Incentives should be linked to skills our country needs and finding employment doing it.
Those skills are not necessarily ‘high earning’. I’m fed up with a persons value being linked to how much they earn, it’s demonstrable bollocks.
Those skills are not necessarily ‘high earning’. I’m fed up with a persons value being linked to how much they earn, it’s demonstrable bollocks.
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Incentives should be linked to skills our country needs and finding employment doing it.
Those skills are not necessarily ‘high earning’. I’m fed up with a persons value being linked to how much they earn, it’s demonstrable bollocks.
Those skills are not necessarily ‘high earning’. I’m fed up with a persons value being linked to how much they earn, it’s demonstrable bollocks.
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Okay this is kinda funny
It’s never a bad time for this meme, but International Men’s Day might be the best time
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Okay this is kinda funny
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My own university closed its philosophy department decades OK (thanks to Thatcher). Hence, I work in a politics department. UK philosophy departments are now largely absent from universities with any substantial working class student body.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My own university closed its philosophy department decades OK (thanks to Thatcher). Hence, I work in a politics department. UK philosophy departments are now largely absent from universities with any substantial working class student body.
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I agree with the call to policy makers.
However, this trend also supports the theory that psychiatry has massively overreached in recent decades, by pathologising the subjective experience of poverty.
Being unhappy with failure to meet your basic needs, for want of funds, is not a disorder.
However, this trend also supports the theory that psychiatry has massively overreached in recent decades, by pathologising the subjective experience of poverty.
Being unhappy with failure to meet your basic needs, for want of funds, is not a disorder.
“Policymakers looking to increase employment for those in the run-up to state pension age should take account of the headwind from worsening mental health for poor women.”
📗 Read the report, funded by the IFS Retirement Saving Consortium, here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
📗 Read the report, funded by the IFS Retirement Saving Consortium, here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I agree with the call to policy makers.
However, this trend also supports the theory that psychiatry has massively overreached in recent decades, by pathologising the subjective experience of poverty.
Being unhappy with failure to meet your basic needs, for want of funds, is not a disorder.
However, this trend also supports the theory that psychiatry has massively overreached in recent decades, by pathologising the subjective experience of poverty.
Being unhappy with failure to meet your basic needs, for want of funds, is not a disorder.
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Many of these women will become poorly off and unwell pensioners. Commentators tend to lump all older people together as privileged and also a drain on health resources. But there are huge differences between health and wealth between the sexes with women coming off worst.
NEW: Depressive symptoms have risen among women in their late 50s and early 60s, particularly among the least wealthy women.
📗 @beeboileau.bsky.social and Jonathan Cribb's new report examines health, wealth and employment in the run-up to the state pension age: [THREAD]
📗 @beeboileau.bsky.social and Jonathan Cribb's new report examines health, wealth and employment in the run-up to the state pension age: [THREAD]
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Many of these women will become poorly off and unwell pensioners. Commentators tend to lump all older people together as privileged and also a drain on health resources. But there are huge differences between health and wealth between the sexes with women coming off worst.
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The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
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🧠🗯️ Why do people fall for BS?
A new meta-analysis finds that belief in motivational quotes, conspiracy theories, and intuition is linked to higher bullshit receptivity – while stronger reasoning skills help guard against it.
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/acp....
#SciComm #Psychology 🧪
A new meta-analysis finds that belief in motivational quotes, conspiracy theories, and intuition is linked to higher bullshit receptivity – while stronger reasoning skills help guard against it.
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/acp....
#SciComm #Psychology 🧪
Relationship Between Bullshit, Cognitive Skills, and Belief Systems: A Meta‐Analytic Review
Bullshit—verbal statements with little or no concern for the truth—has sparked a growing interest in individual traits, with an increase in the number of studies aimed at understanding why people are....
doi.org
May 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
🧠🗯️ Why do people fall for BS?
A new meta-analysis finds that belief in motivational quotes, conspiracy theories, and intuition is linked to higher bullshit receptivity – while stronger reasoning skills help guard against it.
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/acp....
#SciComm #Psychology 🧪
A new meta-analysis finds that belief in motivational quotes, conspiracy theories, and intuition is linked to higher bullshit receptivity – while stronger reasoning skills help guard against it.
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/acp....
#SciComm #Psychology 🧪
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On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025, read our most popular blog posts in the last year: Jonathan Wilson invites us to rethink about bullshit receptivity imperfectcognitions.... #philsky
Rethinking Bullshit Receptivity
A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.
imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025, read our most popular blog posts in the last year: Jonathan Wilson invites us to rethink about bullshit receptivity imperfectcognitions.... #philsky
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Going down. A view through one of the inner gatehouses at Dunnottar Castle, Aberdeenshire, visited earlier this year. For #Thursgate, which I believe is a thing.
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Going down. A view through one of the inner gatehouses at Dunnottar Castle, Aberdeenshire, visited earlier this year. For #Thursgate, which I believe is a thing.
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This has to be one of of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century from March 1907. Sixteen years old suffragette Dora Thewlis. A poor mill worker from Honley in Huddersfield she was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union At a demonstration in London she is
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This has to be one of of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century from March 1907. Sixteen years old suffragette Dora Thewlis. A poor mill worker from Honley in Huddersfield she was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union At a demonstration in London she is
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Of course Councillors will not agree with the views of some of their constituents but they surely should listen to what they have to say. Talking about not feeling safe in these circumstances totally undermines the meaning of the words.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Green politician quits party to 'protect free speech'
Paula O'Rourke said the party needs to do more to listen to opposing views.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Of course Councillors will not agree with the views of some of their constituents but they surely should listen to what they have to say. Talking about not feeling safe in these circumstances totally undermines the meaning of the words.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This painting has been accepted into the Sears Invitational Art Show at the Sears Art Museum in St. George, Utah!
More info here! www.searsart.com/invitational
More info here! www.searsart.com/invitational
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This painting has been accepted into the Sears Invitational Art Show at the Sears Art Museum in St. George, Utah!
More info here! www.searsart.com/invitational
More info here! www.searsart.com/invitational
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.