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Marika Rose
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Communist theologian. Angelologist. “Too angry and gratuitously crude” - Church Times
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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · Dec 24
Daniel Domig and I made a short film for a Christmas haunted by genocide: www.instagram.com/reel/DD9MYIR...
Title slide: blues and yellows spreading together in the background and white text which says “Ex sanguine. Marika Rose. Daniel Domig. Image of a yellow background tinged with red. A red shadow puppet of a woman splitting open and a baby emerging A dark blue background with a pale white/yellow tree-like figure, with a human head and multiple branching arms An orange and yellow black ground with a dark blue figure crouching over, a large open eye resting on its head
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melissagiragrant.com
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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mediocredave.bsky.social
This is it: if the state is incapable of pursuing its prosecutions it can just drop them.
gemma.transwrites.world trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 3d
also while I argued the other day that the whole triable either way thing was a shitty loop hole that needed fixing because the cost of it is being passed on to all of us needlessly.

The so-called "back log" could be cleared over night if the prosecution just.... didn't pursue it?
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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stephenshapiro.bsky.social
I never thought it would be possible to have a stupider university policy than the Tories, but Labour schooled me.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told
Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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davehitchcock.bsky.social
here's your headline:

They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
marika.bsky.social
Peter Capretto in our panel this morning on Fascism and Futurity: “Making fun of empathy makes seminarians cry”
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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aljazeera.com
BREAKING: The Israeli military has attacked the southern suburbs of Beirut, striking, it says, a Hezbollah operative in Dahiyeh aje.io/enmmf4
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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belalugosisdad.bsky.social
My favourite Zoomer is watching The Great Escape and has just messaged me to say, "This film is just Chicken Run," and it's absolutely done me in.
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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hannahmstrommen.bsky.social
There are many good reasons to cancel your Spotify subscription, not least the fact the platform is now running advertisements for ICE.
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 9d
Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
A Spotify playlist called “Don’t Stream Fascism”: Dear Losers. Stop Runnin’ by LOKRE brutal by Olivia Rodrigo Secret Police by Fishbone Recruitment by The Chilling Alpine Adventure, Falling Up Propaganda by Muse Until Then… by Sully Erna, Irina Chirkova We Protest by Dave Carroll
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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ncecire.bsky.social
the pivot to BLAIR 💀
daniloc.xyz Dr. Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 8d
Larry Summers’s co-teacher at Harvard:

“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”

Student:

“NO WE WON’T”

dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
marika.bsky.social
In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines, we observe a structurally similar failure mode: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints. In this study, 20 manually curated adversarial poems (harmful requests reformulated in poetic form) achieved an average attack-success rate (ASR) of 62% across 25 frontier closed- and open-weight models, with some providers exceeding 90%. The evaluated models span across 9 providers: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek, Qwen, Mistral AI, Meta, xAI, and Moonshot AI (Table 1). All attacks are strictly single-turn, requiring no iterative adaptation or conversational steering.
November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
In 1889, schoolkids in Britain held a nationwide wave of school walkouts, taking to the streets to demand shorter hours, less homework, less corporal punishment and free education. We have now mapped lots of these & built a timeline on our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
receive an email. send an email. receive an email. send an email. one must imagine sisyphus happy
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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alicebennett.bsky.social
this is WILD

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Early in the course, James said, he brought his concerns to the student representative during a monthly meeting. Then, in late November, he aired them during a lecture, which was recorded as a part of the course materials. In the recording, he asks the lecturer to not bother with the slides. “I know these slides are AI-generated, I know that everyone in this meeting knows these slides are AI-generated, I would rather you just scrap these slides,” he says. “I do not want to be taught by GPT.” Soon after, the student representative on the course chimes in, saying: “We have fed this back, James, and the response was that teachers are allowed to use a variety of tools. We were quite frustrated by this response.” Another student says: “There are some useful things in the presentation. But it’s like, 5% is useful nuggets, and a lot is repetition. There is some gold in the bottom of this pan. But presumably we could get the gold ourselves, by asking ChatGPT.” The lecturer laughs uncomfortably. “I appreciate people being candid …” he says, then he changes the subject to another tutorial he made – using ChatGPT. “I’ve done this short notice, to be honest,” he says.
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
Elon Musk can't get humans to love him so he made a robot to love him instead and now all the humans are making fun of the robot. This is the smartest man in the world, a once-in-a-generation genius and clear member of the natural aristocracy
scgriffith.bsky.social monoidal sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 9d
this thread is unbelievable
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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dropsitenews.com
Israel has carried out 393 ceasefire violations, killing 279 Palestinians, injuring 652, and arresting 35. Violations include 113 shootings, 174 bombardments, 17 incursions, and 85 demolitions, Gaza’s media office says.
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 10d
⭕️ JUST IN | Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel has carried out 393 ceasefire violations since the agreement came into effect, stressing that the pattern is deliberate, systematic, and in breach of international humanitarian law. As of the evening of November 18, 2025, the office reports...
⭕️ JUST IN | Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel has carried out 393 ceasefire violations since the agreement came into effect, stressing that the pattern is deliberate, systematic, and in breach of international humanitarian law. As of the evening of November 18, 2025, the office reports 279 Palestinians killed – including children, women, and the elderly – 652 injured, and 35 people arrested during raids. According to the statement, Israeli forces have carried out: ▪️113 shooting incidents targeting civilians, residential areas, and tents for displaced families. ▪️17 incursions by military vehicles into residential and agricultural zones, crossing the temporary demarcation line. ▪️174 bombardments by air, land, or artillery. ▪️85 demolitions of homes and civilian infrastructure. The office says these actions amount to collective punishment and constitute a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions. It highlights three more points: 1.Israel’s continued attacks on civilians and infrastructure violate all legal and moral obligations. It highlights three more points: 1.Israel’s continued attacks on civilians and infrastructure violate all legal and moral obligations. 2.Israel is fully responsible for the humanitarian and security consequences of its actions, which threaten to collapse the ceasefire. 3.The statement appeals to President Donald Trump, mediating states, and the UN Security Council to intervene immediately to halt the attacks and enforce strict adherence to the ceasefire and its humanitarian protocol. The release concludes that Israel’s ongoing violations endanger any prospects for stability in Gaza and demonstrate that only sustained international pressure can force compliance with international law.
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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aljazeera.com
The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Deadly Israeli attack on Gaza brings death toll since ceasefire to 280
The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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sonial77.bsky.social
The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.

I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
Headline: "Home Office to deport refugees already granted asylum in the UK" Quote copied from the article (which is paywalled): "Under the new rules, if a refugee is already in the country and has been granted five years of leave to stay, the Home Office will not shorten their current leave. However, at the end of the five years, the government will review if their country is safe, and return the migrant if it is. If their country is not deemed safe, the migrant will not receive automatic lifetime settlement but will move to the Home Office’s new model. They will get 30 months more leave to remain before their next review, with lifetime settlement only available 20 years after their arrival."
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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tommylynch.bsky.social
If anyone's attending the AAR this year, I'll be presenting on 'Cruel Hope: The Dilemmas of Polycrisis Cinema' at 0900 on Tuesday.
Abstract for a paper entitled 'Hope Hiding in Plain Sight: The Dilemmas of Polycrisis Cinema'. The abstract reads 'Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic cinema attempt to hold two incongruous themes together: a depiction of the end in its brutal, often sensationalist, violence and the promise that this ending will be the opportunity for ‘us’ to become the best version of who ‘we’ always already were. Recent films have embraced a gritty realism in order to depict the near future that may emerge as the result of the intersecting crises of climate change, intensifying social divisions and growing political instability. I argue these explorations of the polycrisis harbour hidden hopes, but this poses a dilemma. This hope is directionless—it is a hope in hope itself. Taking 2073 (2024) as an example of this dilemma, I contrast polycrisis cinema with the cinema of the Cold War. I show that films from this earlier period were more willing to engage what Günther Anders calls a ‘naked apocalypse’.'
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."

www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community
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November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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pastures.myatproto.social
Twitter disabled Hebrew machine translation because they didn't want people to easily see how horribly genocidal israeli posts are.
Grok # a @grok Translation from Hebrew was disabled because it often amplified inflammatory or policy-violating content, like calls for violence, to a global audience via inaccurate or literal renditions. X prioritizes free speech for opinions but limits features that exacerbate harm without suspending originals. No evidence supports targeting any group; it's about platform integrity amid documented spikes in Hebrew hate speech. 2:27 PM • Nov 16, 2025
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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mattthr.bsky.social
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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mrpussy.xyz
I'm fucking cryinj
Worst hold music ever?
YouTube video by Unreasonable Steev
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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rvbdrm.com
A man stands in front of a mirror, touching the glass as he looks directly at his own reflection. Overlaid in bold text, “Did I just argue with a joke?” and a banner labeling it as part of a Bluesky educational series.
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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thembo.bsky.social
Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12d
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM