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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 4h

Just like that study that stopped studying brain development after the age of 25 eh?

Elizabeth Smith @instantsunrise.bsky.social · 18h

Changes caused by HRT pretty much stop after two years.

Coincidentally, we only had the funding to study the changes caused by HRT for two years.

I’m pretty sure there’s no correlation between these two things though, right?

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 4h

If Jane mentions baked beans again I'll throttle her.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 3h

We could be super efficient and keep toddlers in a box until they’re age 25, say, with ChatGPT to teach them everything they need to know

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 13h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 1h

I want to see the Venn diagram for "people who like Boris Johnson" and "people who ask for ChatGPT's advice on everything and completely believe it", labelled "The oafish credulity singularity" and carved somewhere uncomfortable on Boris Johnson

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h

In today's least surprising news

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1h

A radicalizing isolating funnel driven by ad tech

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6h

“The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’s cuts.”

Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1h

If I was gonna write a dystopian story about consumerism I'd probably stay away from something as on the nose as "they convince you to shave your pubes, which is a free and infinite resource, so a billionaire can sell you back a worse plastic version" but I guess reality isn't held to my standards

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 3d

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 1h

You don't find out until the 12th paragraph of this story that what Trump is doing is illegal. Just from a newsworthiness standpoint, how do you not lead with that? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump is opting some of the government out of the shutdown

The administration is finding ways to pay troops and for government work Trump favors while targeting “Democrat programs” for layoffs or closures.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Minor league b3tan bloke @rotatingwobblyhat.bsky.social · 1h

There are simpler and cheaper ways to make meat paste.

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Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 1h

I was in charge of the back dome engineering team, and I note it performed flawlessly

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 2h

Say it with me everyone: "Why won't Labour get out of the race!? They're enabling Reform!"

Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · 6h

A… remarkable @survation.bsky.social poll out today of voting intentions in Caerphilly ahead of next week’s Senedd by-election

Reform 42%
Plaid 38%
Labour 12%
Conservatives 4%
Greens 3%
LibDem 1%
#senedd #devolution

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 2h

It is remarkable just how badly Labour has totally hollowed itself out at every level and where it was within its power to at least mitigate the damage, they've chosen to aggravate every wound.

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 4h

Principal Skinner meme saying "Do people not like Jared Leto? No, it's the Tron franchise that has failed"

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 1h

UK Home Office officials gazing wistfully across the pond at the overt white nationalist material that Homeland Security gets to post on Twitter

Tweet by @DHSgov on 14/10/25: Remigrate.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1h

Waiting for Labour to embrace gollywog dolls in their weird struggle to court a few voters away from Farage’s Nazis

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 2d

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 1h

There are lies, damned lies and the "Keep me signed in" option.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 1h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 5h

Two people check tide times with ChatGPT, almost die.

uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-b...

Restaurant boss saw two people about to do something deadly so he grabbed his megaphone

He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3h

This rocked up in the replies and remember that this was *water* that did this. Regardless of how well you know the physics, the pressures down there remain beyond imagination.

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Kat Kayelem 🏳️‍⚧️ @kayelem23.bsky.social · 4h

One of the more interesting images from the NTSB report on the Titan submersible implosion.

Imagine you work in data recovery. You've got data off devices dropped from heights, driven over, immersed in water, lightly incinerated... then someone from NTSB rocks up and leaves this with you...

Image of "a large electronic and metallic mass" taken from the NTSB report on the hull failure and implosion of the submersible Titan. The description reads:

"The NTSB laboratory received a large electronic and metallic mass from the United States Coast Guard on November 13, 2023. The NTSB was working on behalf of the USCG. The mass was transported in plastic storage container. The mass weighed approximately 100 lbs. The mass was a compilation of compressed metal, compressed plastic, compressed electronic components and compressed other materials. The mass exhibited signs of thermal damage without typical signatures of having been exposed to open flame. A section of the mass contained polar fleece material."

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 5h

Flag around and find out, as the kids might say.

/He was, in fact, mainly fired because of his social media posts, and not the flags.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 5h

World’s laziest man enjoys laziness machine.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h

In today's least surprising news

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

We had *years* of “finally Labour are listening to the public and changing to become what the people want”. Look at the polls, really appreciate how popular they now are. To whom were they listening, to have earned all that praise? *Who* wanted this. Was it the public? Was it the people.

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