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Nita Noor

@nitanoorad.bsky.social

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i am here because i loathe that x guy and his ilk. my interests are varied, and this ‘description’ will change over time... biophile | truth | beauty | integrity | in appreciation of the Absurd unless otherwise stated, all photos are mine.

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · Nov 13

to think is to resist – something no machine does...

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Nikola Danaylov Ⓥ @veganfuturist.bsky.social · 5h

It begins with a kernel of truth—real, small, just.
Then we feed it, twist it, and burn for it
…until truth itself is consumed.

A story as old as fire.
Lived again.

Read my latest poetic reflection: A Kernel of Truth

snglrty.co/4dw6j8V

#Philosophy #Futurism #Storytelling

A Kernel of Truth

A haunting modern parable about truth, distortion, and destruction—how one kernel of truth can grow into a fire that burns the world.

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 1d

Woven woollen shoes with rainbow colours, from tomb no. 5, Niya, Xinjiang, ca. 2-3rd century AD.

[Photo via Museum of Kyoto twitter]

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 1d

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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 1d

The brain is the stupidest object in the universe.

Every misunderstanding and bad idea in history came from a brain.

Before brains, no one was wrong about anything.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 3d

Nymphaea ‘Pamela’ is a Tropical Day-Blooming waterlily. Tropical waterlilies tend to be larger and more fragrant than their Hardy cousins, and they tend to bear their flowers well above the surface of the water (Hardy waterlilies usually sit right on the surface). #Nymphaeaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Close-up photo of a large flower with pale blue petals, those near the center are yellow and stamen-like. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.

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Astro Fyfe @astrofyfe.bsky.social · 4d

It’s Pleiades season again! 🎉

Fun fact, the Pleiades isn’t an emission nebula, but a reflection nebula, meaning all of the light seen here is being reflected from the enormous blue stars within!

Time: 6.5hrs
Scope: Carbonstar 150p
Mount: Eq6-R Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI533mc Pro

#astrophotography

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 3d

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 3d

Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.

The Rise of the Thielverse & the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 4d

Hands up if you will not be using the new Atlas browser …. ever?!

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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 6d

It's now getting serious:

"Prices for these five foods – butter, beef, milk, coffee and chocolate – have risen by an average of 15.6% over the past year, compared with just 2.8% for other food and drink [1]."

Largely driven by extreme weather

Further developments will not be linear...

#climate

Why food prices are still rising: butter, beef and milk to blame

Household staples including butter, coffee, milk and chocolate are driving food price inflation, with extreme weather playing a part in pushing up the cost of living.

eciu.net

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 7d

Those backing the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans visiting Birmingham were smeared as antisemites.

Then Tel Aviv police banned the city's derby after riots.

This whole saga is defined by lies and smears.

Here's the truth 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/maccabi-te...

Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans: lies, smears - and the truth

Tel Aviv's police ban the city's derby after Maccabi hooligans rioted. You cannot make this sh*t up.

www.owenjones.news

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Steve Day @kyrandian.bsky.social · Aug 17

I dreamt she was waiting:

IR 850nm + DxO Efex -
August 2025

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Carl Loben @carlloben3000.bsky.social · 10d

Call me old fashioned, but I'd wager that people like these three neo-Nazis — who amassed an arsenal of 200 weapons — deserve to be labelled as 'domestic terrorists' a little bit more than some elderly vicars and grannies holding up a placard opposing a genocide.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Three neo-Nazis jailed for plotting terror attacks on UK mosques and synagogues

Group of ‘like-minded extremists’ styled themselves after the SS and amassed arsenal of more than 200 weapons

www.theguardian.com

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 8d

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks for all the thoughtful comments, everyone! J has also written a haunting piece about how vulnerable non-speakers are when they are not taught to type and cannot self advocate.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Stereotypes Killing Us Nonspeaking Autistics

Another autistic person was left to cook alive in a hot vehicle. Far too often, the so-called normal world treats us as disposable.

www.thenation.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 8d

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 11d

Here is a brief story about why scientific (Latin) names are very important. Read it at Our Trees.

Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)

Three botanists sat down for a cup of tea together. The first said “My sycamore is bearing lots of fruit this year. I made a big pudding and froze the rest.” The second, puzzled, said “My sycamore i...

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 10d

Paul Klee - Highway and Byways (1929)

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 10d

“When you search for information online, look for citations and click through to the original source material,”

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 10d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11d

The men who run Big Tech have always wanted to “enshittify” their services—to shift as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves, EFF’s @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy writes in Communications of the ACM. Unions are an antidote. cacm.acm.org/opinion/tec...

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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 13d

What most people do not understand stand: states sole purpose was, is, and will be to serve a small elite interests!

"I think states are behaving in a criminal fashion,”

They are now killing humanity...

‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert

Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 12d

I just made an intervention in the culture.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12d

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 12d

Ogata Kenzan
Autumn Ivy

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 14d

When scientists look under the tinfoil hat, they see that conspiracy mentality is linked to distress, impulsivity, negative affect, and lack of intellectual humility.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Revoltinghippie @revoltinghippie.bsky.social · 16d

The National March for Palestine today in London is twice the size of the tommy March, so unsurprisingly there are no media choppers in the air

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