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spectralthrum.myatproto.social
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Sprawled across archipelagoes, working on some things.
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prisonculture.bsky.social
If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.

If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.

If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
spectralthrum.myatproto.social
This is not the first time that the PML-N govt has demanded political opponents to be extradited back to PK, but it's also extremely disturbing and an example of how much worse things are getting under the authoritarian govt in PK (esp. that the US has stopped pretended to care about rights there).
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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youcaughtscott.com
Scam Altman doesn’t use ChatGPT to raise his kid. He uses his immense wealth to export that work to caregivers. He is advertising his company’s product. Don’t feel bad for Altman, feel bad for the overworked and exhausted parents using ChatGPT because they can’t afford what he can.
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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rincewind.run
my five year old had RSV when he was six months old and when we brought him to the pediatrician they were like yeah go directly to the hospital we’re calling ahead

scariest few days of our lives

from the bottom of my heart: all these people can go to hell
December 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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eoghangilmartin.bsky.social
One of the few recent parallels for understanding the challenges awaiting Mamdani when he takes office is the Spanish left’s experience after 2015 of governing 2 of Europe’s largest cities.

I take a look at the lessons left administrations in Barcelona and Madrid offer

jacobin.com/2025/12/spai...
Spain’s Left Municipal Governance Lessons for Zohran Mamdani
Balancing the smooth running of local government with a bold reform agenda, as Zohran Mamdani will have to do in New York, isn’t easy. Spain’s recent experiments with left local governance offer some ...
jacobin.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
spectralthrum.myatproto.social
John Rhys-Davies's views make it difficult for me to enjoy the LoTR films or any memes with his character, Gimli, in them.
December 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
spectralthrum.myatproto.social
One of the things that some people tend to forget about the film adaptation of Children of Men is that that when it came out, the UK was under Labour. Also, Alfonso Cuarón said that when it came to writing the script, he and his team just looked at 2005 and extrapolated from there.
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
That’s funny because the author?

Michelle Goldberg?

Is one of the signatories of the Harper’s Letter ( she’s never retracted)

She also wrote the piece in 2014 that portrayed Black women as worse than the right and called us Toxic for @thenation.com
Also never retracted
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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paulduane.bsky.social
And, coming out of the brief postwar period when poor people had opportunites almost equal to middleclass people, I never thought we would democratically elect ourselves back into feudalist oligarchy while destroying the means by which poor kids historically bettered themselves - art, music, etc
December 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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paulduane.bsky.social
I read a lot of science fiction growing up, thought about a lot of ways the human race would push itself into self-extinction, but I don't think I ever came across the notion that we would invent a machine that would do all the fun, imaginative parts of life, leaving us to slowly die of boredom.
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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anna-orridge.bsky.social
You'd never have guessed it from looking at the papers, but Peggie mostly lost her case. Her only 'victory' was the court acknowledged the trust had screwed up some of the HR paperwork. Anything substantive relating to her supposed 'discrimination' and complaints about Dr Beth Upton was dismissed
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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scottbot.bsky.social
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.

We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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animalarchaeology.com
really cannot be overstated how shit the mainstream media and journalism landscape is in the UK

just folks who graduated from the same private schools using their positions to promote the most reactionary and bigoted shit imaginable
December 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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hahauenstein.bsky.social
We’ve reached a point where public intellectuals need to screenshot the exact second proving how Germany’s liberal Feuilletons twist their words and thoughts - bcs apparently no one in those newsrooms seems remotely bothered to get it right. Truly absurd.
dirkmoses.bsky.social Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 15h
I say that I deplore the ebbing of Holocaust memory here www.youtube.com/live/8YPsC8L.... Yet this newspaper article suggests that I welcome it. @Zeit.de needs to correct the record.
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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goodlawproject.org
An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.
So far as her other comments are concerned, they were impermissible manifestations of her belief and were in our view what amounted to an incident of harassment by the claimant of the second respondent related to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, reasonably perceived by the second respondent to be so, and were a breach by the claimant of section 26 of the Act and of the Bullying and Harassment Policy. The second respondent was entitled to view the actions of the claimant in those particular regards as being such harassment, or as a “hate incident” within the policy, and the first respondent was entitled in principle to act on the complaint made, but the detail of how it did so depends on all the circumstances as more fully addressed below. The second respondent was also entitled to regard the claimant’s actions as a breach of the second respondent’s Article 8 rights, so far as the claimant’s expression of her beliefs was impermissible. 1034. We also considered that the claimant had acted deliberately to be able to challenge the second respondent whilst they were alone. What she did was to wait until other members of staff had left the changing room, and for the second respondent to leave the cubicle, before raising her own beliefs directly with the second respondent in the manner we have set out. 1035. Whilst the claimant had not been informed as promptly and in the detail we considered appropriate, and the first respondent did not consider whether to revoke permission at all, the claimant did not herself raise any formal grievance under the policy. She is an experienced member of staff who had access to union advice. She knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the first respondent having granted permission to the second respondent she required to have raised her concerns with the first respondent as the decision-maker rather than with the colleague to whom it had been granted, and in any event ought not to have done so in the manner that she did.
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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marcusjdl.bsky.social
True headline: “Peggie Found By Tribunal To Have Committed Transphobic Hate Incident”
December 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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chantalalive.blacksky.app
This book is everything. This is the first book I committed to reading when I decided to pick back up a reading habit in recovery from hearing voices. It’s one of the crucial slave narratives.
propcazhpm.bsky.social Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Mar 21
Author's note for poem ☝🏾

It is written about Harriet Jacobs's 1861 "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", where she writes of her confinement:

"I lived in that little dismal hole… for nearly 7 years. My body still suffers from the effects of that long imprisonment, to say nothing of my soul."
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Broadview Press
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -
broadviewpress.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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marcusjdl.bsky.social
The UK’s problems won’t be solved until the news media in its current form is dismantled
thatdocphoenix.com Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 10h
Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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thatdocphoenix.com
Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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jessothomson.co.uk
The tribunal seemed very unimpressed by the fact that Peggie waited around to challenge Upton, and considered this an impermissible manifestation of her beliefs.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 10h
An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.
So far as her other comments are concerned, they were impermissible manifestations of her belief and were in our view what amounted to an incident of harassment by the claimant of the second respondent related to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, reasonably perceived by the second respondent to be so, and were a breach by the claimant of section 26 of the Act and of the Bullying and Harassment Policy. The second respondent was entitled to view the actions of the claimant in those particular regards as being such harassment, or as a “hate incident” within the policy, and the first respondent was entitled in principle to act on the complaint made, but the detail of how it did so depends on all the circumstances as more fully addressed below. The second respondent was also entitled to regard the claimant’s actions as a breach of the second respondent’s Article 8 rights, so far as the claimant’s expression of her beliefs was impermissible. 1034. We also considered that the claimant had acted deliberately to be able to challenge the second respondent whilst they were alone. What she did was to wait until other members of staff had left the changing room, and for the second respondent to leave the cubicle, before raising her own beliefs directly with the second respondent in the manner we have set out. 1035. Whilst the claimant had not been informed as promptly and in the detail we considered appropriate, and the first respondent did not consider whether to revoke permission at all, the claimant did not herself raise any formal grievance under the policy. She is an experienced member of staff who had access to union advice. She knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the first respondent having granted permission to the second respondent she required to have raised her concerns with the first respondent as the decision-maker rather than with the colleague to whom it had been granted, and in any event ought not to have done so in the manner that she did.
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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timmaughan.bsky.social
if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
spectralthrum.myatproto.social
No good morning to almost all the UK media outlets (including the BBC and the Guardian) that really want to keep going to bat for a vile, racist and transphobic nurse, to the extent that they frame a decision where she lost everything save for one claim as a partial "victory".
December 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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aurelmondon.bsky.social
Just saying, Sarkozy has been (mainstreaming) the far right for 20 years...

In fact, he is the reason why I did a PhD and got into academia (him and John Howard) so you can blame him for that too

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Headline Far-right National Rally ‘not a danger’ to France, Sarkozy claims Nicolas Sarkozy’s new book, The Diary of a Prisoner, is being released this week – and also details the time he spent in jail Nicolas Sarkozy’s legitimization of the Front National: background and perspectives AURELIEN MONDON ABSTRACT In the ‘poor’ result achieved by Jean-Marie Le Pen in the 2007 presidential elections, many commentators saw the demise of the Front National. However, when asked by a journalist whether it was the end of her father’s political career, Marine Le Pen smilingly replied: ‘I don’t think so. In any case, this is the victory of his ideas!’ In this question and answer lies the whole story of the Front National and its impact on mainstream politics in the past two decades. First, Le Pen’s defeat was exaggerated, the same way his victory had been in 2002. What Mondon argues in this paper is that the 2002 presidential elections did act as an ‘earthquake’ within French politics. However, this ‘earthquake’ did not trigger a tsunami of support for Jean-Marie Le Pen, but rather a tidal wave of misinformation and misunderstanding as to the real significance of the election results. By concentrating on the 2002 and 2007 presidential elections, Mondon highlights how this reaction led to the consecration of right-wing populist politics, best exemplified in the landslide election of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007. He also provides an insight into the slippery slope Sarkozy’s government took after its election, leading to an extremely rightward-leaning 2012 presidential campaign and new heights for the Front National.
December 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM