EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary)
@siobhanftb.bsky.social
She/Elle EN/FR. Policy, critical public health, medical anthropology, cats. IU 651. Opinions are my own. Ex-journo under Siobhan O'Leary (bylines: Rewire.News, VICE, Shadowproof). Public speaker, irregular blogger. 🏳️⚧️ liberation now.
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The right’s preferred gender ideology—one of male supremacy, women’s exclusion from dignity, citizenship, and vast spheres of public life, and an enforced heterosexuality of eroticized domination—is much more prescriptive, aggressive, and ubiquitously pushed than anything coming from trans people.
Conservatives have their own "gender ideology" they are pushing constantly, and it's one that's built on coercion and treating women like property.
December 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The right’s preferred gender ideology—one of male supremacy, women’s exclusion from dignity, citizenship, and vast spheres of public life, and an enforced heterosexuality of eroticized domination—is much more prescriptive, aggressive, and ubiquitously pushed than anything coming from trans people.
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Between this and previous rulings, U.S. corporations have effectively put a bullet in the head of labor protections, consumer protection, public safety, environmental law, and corporate oversight
I wish journalists would go a bit lighter on the legalese and a bit heavier on the real-world impact
I wish journalists would go a bit lighter on the legalese and a bit heavier on the real-world impact
Supreme Court appears likely to approve Trump’s firing of FTC Democrat
Conservative justices seem ready to back Trump control of independent agencies.
arstechnica.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Between this and previous rulings, U.S. corporations have effectively put a bullet in the head of labor protections, consumer protection, public safety, environmental law, and corporate oversight
I wish journalists would go a bit lighter on the legalese and a bit heavier on the real-world impact
I wish journalists would go a bit lighter on the legalese and a bit heavier on the real-world impact
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Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry
jesus christ
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry
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A lot of people talk about bigotry being rooted in desire of the subordinated other but much more often the truth lies closer to such bigotry being rooted in an array of Fantasies of the bigot about the object of their prejudice with or without any specific desire and ppl deliberately get this wrong
December 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A lot of people talk about bigotry being rooted in desire of the subordinated other but much more often the truth lies closer to such bigotry being rooted in an array of Fantasies of the bigot about the object of their prejudice with or without any specific desire and ppl deliberately get this wrong
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bring back shame 🤝🏿 bring back common decency
I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
December 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
bring back shame 🤝🏿 bring back common decency
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the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
Devastating news for Brennan Lee Mulligan
"Trump says economy is strong, but Americans should buy fewer dolls"
www.npr.org/2025/12/10/g...
www.npr.org/2025/12/10/g...
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Devastating news for Brennan Lee Mulligan
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Tough on crime with no effort to address the social roots of crime or the systemic racism of the legal system is full on conservative policy.
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
Liberals seek to declare 'femicide' as first-degree murder, restore mandatory minimum sentences
Justice Minister Sean Fraser tabled a new crime bill seeking to stiffen punishments for offences committed against children and women.
nationalpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Tough on crime with no effort to address the social roots of crime or the systemic racism of the legal system is full on conservative policy.
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
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We've seen how putting a tech CEO in charge of the gov't turned out for the U.S. - now Carney is championing this idea for Canada
"The public service is not a business. It is a democratic institution that serves Canadians"
"The public service is not a business. It is a democratic institution that serves Canadians"
“These aren't charities. They're not altruistic organizations. Why would a tech company want to allow their employees to work for the government and pay 100 per cent of their salary..." — Simon Enoch at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government
Ottawa plans to embed the private sector workers after adopting a business group's proposal — even naming the program after them, a briefing note reveals.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We've seen how putting a tech CEO in charge of the gov't turned out for the U.S. - now Carney is championing this idea for Canada
"The public service is not a business. It is a democratic institution that serves Canadians"
"The public service is not a business. It is a democratic institution that serves Canadians"
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In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy.
Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy.
Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
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elite DEI panic is just status competition, part infinity
So...Bari Weiss deposes yet another journalist of color - Maurice DuBois - to install CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil as lead anchor of the CBS Evening News. I guess DEI is okay if it works in certain directions? https://loom.ly/fNDlGDE
Paramount Press Express | TONY DOKOUPIL NAMED ANCHOR OF THE CBS EVENING NEWS
Dokoupil Will Assume the Role on Jan. 5 Tony Dokoupil – an Emmy Award-winning journalist known for his fairness, curiosity and doggedness – has been n
www.paramountpressexpress.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
elite DEI panic is just status competition, part infinity
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Some powerfully half-arsed tree harassment from Tux.
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Some powerfully half-arsed tree harassment from Tux.
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I sort of wish y'all took this more seriously, because this attitude is a reinforcement of heterosexuality as a hierarchy. It's an acknowledgement and understanding that it's not enough to "be with" a woman, or even to father children.
They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.
They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.
"Everything straight is actually gay" is my favourite kind of ragebait posts by these morons.
December 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I sort of wish y'all took this more seriously, because this attitude is a reinforcement of heterosexuality as a hierarchy. It's an acknowledgement and understanding that it's not enough to "be with" a woman, or even to father children.
They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.
They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.
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this is not a series taken in motion, my son just becomes a weeping angel while he's napping--you turn around and he's in a different position
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
this is not a series taken in motion, my son just becomes a weeping angel while he's napping--you turn around and he's in a different position
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I was going to sit down today and finish up my first draft of an essay where I examine how transmisogyny is in part rooted in demographic anxieties, about seeing queerness as a dereliction of one's duty to the nation by abandoning reproduction.
And Redstate just goes and says it for me.
And Redstate just goes and says it for me.
I read the title to this article much differently than the author intended.
December 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I was going to sit down today and finish up my first draft of an essay where I examine how transmisogyny is in part rooted in demographic anxieties, about seeing queerness as a dereliction of one's duty to the nation by abandoning reproduction.
And Redstate just goes and says it for me.
And Redstate just goes and says it for me.
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What’s that saying, hit dog holler
December 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
What’s that saying, hit dog holler
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"To conclude, air purifiers – even at airflows lower than
recommendation – are efficient in reducing contaminant spreading in an open plan office."
www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3s...
recommendation – are efficient in reducing contaminant spreading in an open plan office."
www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3s...
www.e3s-conferences.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"To conclude, air purifiers – even at airflows lower than
recommendation – are efficient in reducing contaminant spreading in an open plan office."
www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3s...
recommendation – are efficient in reducing contaminant spreading in an open plan office."
www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3s...
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the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything
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every time i read about one of these college presidents promising to reinvent the liberal arts education i think of "marge v. the monorail"
Yes we all agree that this is the reason colleges are in trouble
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
every time i read about one of these college presidents promising to reinvent the liberal arts education i think of "marge v. the monorail"
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Discussion of the difference between the protection provided by medical masks and N95s from the same document.
The document on how infection control leaders 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-1, that they chose to ignore and 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-2.
The resulting commitment bias is why you don't see N95s in hospitals.
The document on how infection control leaders 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-1, that they chose to ignore and 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-2.
The resulting commitment bias is why you don't see N95s in hospitals.
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Discussion of the difference between the protection provided by medical masks and N95s from the same document.
The document on how infection control leaders 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-1, that they chose to ignore and 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-2.
The resulting commitment bias is why you don't see N95s in hospitals.
The document on how infection control leaders 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-1, that they chose to ignore and 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-2.
The resulting commitment bias is why you don't see N95s in hospitals.
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this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
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again; the doctor was *NOT* on trial
she was called as a witness to give testimony about Sandie Peggy's objectively horrible behaviour, some of which was targeted at said Doctor.
The courts should face consequence for the danger they have put the rest of her life in. Again; *as a victim*.
she was called as a witness to give testimony about Sandie Peggy's objectively horrible behaviour, some of which was targeted at said Doctor.
The courts should face consequence for the danger they have put the rest of her life in. Again; *as a victim*.
the judge who refused the doctor being harassed by a bigot at Fife the right to anonymity throughout these proceedings and ultimately led to her name and photos being published by the press and all of the harassment that has happened since
should still step down
you piece of shit.
should still step down
you piece of shit.
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
again; the doctor was *NOT* on trial
she was called as a witness to give testimony about Sandie Peggy's objectively horrible behaviour, some of which was targeted at said Doctor.
The courts should face consequence for the danger they have put the rest of her life in. Again; *as a victim*.
she was called as a witness to give testimony about Sandie Peggy's objectively horrible behaviour, some of which was targeted at said Doctor.
The courts should face consequence for the danger they have put the rest of her life in. Again; *as a victim*.
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EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
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This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
NEW
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
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“The NSS delivers a vision of extraterritorial economic nationalism that sees the sovereignty of allies, including Canada, as something to be dominated… Those who thought the age of imperialism ended more than a century ago might have just been proven wrong.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Trump’s National Security Strategy is hostile to Canada – and the democratic world
If the administration implements even part of what’s been proposed, the U.S. will become an active strategic risk
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“The NSS delivers a vision of extraterritorial economic nationalism that sees the sovereignty of allies, including Canada, as something to be dominated… Those who thought the age of imperialism ended more than a century ago might have just been proven wrong.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...