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Emma Patterson @humnutter.bsky.social · 2d

HAMburgers, peanut BUTTER and my new favourite SPARE ribs... it's a daft distraction. But the fact that it's gotten traction this time round is worrying. (It failed a few years ago when common sense prevailed.)

Here's a way to channel your frustration:
weplanet.yourmovement.org/p/noconfusio...

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Emma Patterson @humnutter.bsky.social · 6d

Känner du att du vill göra *nagot* för att stödja Ukraina men osäker på vad eller hur? Varsågod!

Power Up Ukraine @powerupukraine.bsky.social · 12d

Nu är det dags att förbereda Ukraina för den stundande vintern! Förra vintern fick vi leverera över 500st små elverk. Låt oss slå det i år!

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 15d

A word on burnout & feeling strung out because "I can't save all the things that need saving."

Democracy is supposed to be a mosaic and a relay race. We never have to take care of the whole ourselves.

In fact if we do, it kinda stops being democracy.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 18d

The UN is a bit like the foundation of an old house. Expensive to maintain and costly to repair but WOW you do not want to break it. So much of our modern world is held together by the invisible work of multilateral diplomacy. I shudder to think what the world would be like without it

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Emma Patterson @humnutter.bsky.social · 25d

Universitetet kan inte ha missat att pseudovetenskap mm är på frammarsch senaste tiden? Alla som erbjuder en plattform måste göra vad de kan för att upprätthålla kvalitet och stå emot en underminering av vetenskap. Titta västerut om man vill se vart den ledar. Inget att leka med.

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.

Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · Aug 31

didn't realize my antipathy toward RFK could intensify, but here we are!

(beans rock)

Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · Aug 31

Of all the things this man's got going against him -- you're telling me he's anti-bean www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Cool beans? Not quite for RFK’s plan for US dietary guidelines

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has plans to ditch the recommendation to encourage Americans to eat more beans

www.yahoo.com

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Jonas Gustafsson @jonasgus.bsky.social · Sep 8

Lyssna på Victoria!

Ingen av de samhällstjänster som utgör grunden i ett gott, tryggt, jämlikt och omhändertagande samhälle, går att köpas för de pengar ni får genom sänkta skatter.

#Val2026

Victoria @victoriasbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 8

Nej tack!! Vill ha lärare och fritidsfröknar och bra mat i skolorna! Sjuksköterskor och tågrälsar, socialtjänst och parker. Inget av de kan jag köpa med mågra hundra kronor varje månad! www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Nytt jobbskatteavdrag: Så mycket sänks din skatt nästa år

Tidöpartierna presenterar i dag ytterligare ett jobbskatteavdrag och sänkt skatt för pensionärer. Däremot blir det inget höjt barnbidrag i budgeten. – Det vi gör nu är en väldig injektion som stärker ...

www.svt.se

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 2

One problem with being on Twitter is that Elon Musk constantly rejigs the site to push his views. He cannot be sidelined when he owns the underlying system. His manipulation of the Twitter AI to match his views illustrates this point.
Via @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image

www.nytimes.com

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · Sep 2

It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · Sep 2

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Google AI search result for “was 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: “No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14.
Current Year: 2025
Past Year: 2010
Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 25

Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe they’ll give *everyone* free money in the future.

It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.

Elon Musk &X
@elonmusk • 12h
Your estimates are about right.
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However, intelligent robots in humanoid form will far exceed the population of humans, as every person will want their own personal R2-D2 and C-3РО.
And then there will be many robots in industry for every human to provide products & services.
Özden Duran @ @zdenDuran14-11h
When robots replace working people, how will those who become unemployed sustain their lives?
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There will be universal high income (not merely basic income).
Everyone will have the best medical care, food, home, transport and everything else.
Sustainable abundance.
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Natursidan.se @natursidan.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ny forskningssammanställning:
– De kostförändringar som behöver ske i den rika delen av världen kommer inte att ske av sig själva. Det krävs aktiva åtgärder från politiker och andra samhällsaktörer.
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/sa-k...

Så kan våra matvanor bli mer hållbara

Sverige har satt upp flera politiska miljömål. Men för att nå dem måste våra matvanor förändras. För att det ska ske krävs styrmedel för att driva utvecklingen. Det visar en ny forskningssammanställni...

www.natursidan.se

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Emma Patterson @humnutter.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hmm, "pausing, listening, growing", you say?

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Emma Patterson @humnutter.bsky.social · Aug 7

They did not mince their words! Good for them. And the article does a good job explaining the process and how flimsy the excuse for discarding their work is. Any guidelines now risk being the opposite of transparent.

Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · Aug 7

Important commentary within^ from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on their 2 years and countless hours of volunteer labor being discarded in the making of the new DGAs.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Aug 6

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism.

Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

www.nytimes.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jul 29

One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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jackson henry @jasonemry.bsky.social · Jul 12

from his comments about touching women w/o consent, to his comments about fucking his own daughter, to his decades-long close relationship with jeff epstein, to him walking in on underage girls undressing in his pageants,

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Jacob Gudiol @jacobgudiol.traningslara.se · Jul 9

Bra text. Som jag har påpekat många gånger om så är den här utvecklingen relevant för Sverige med. Vi har precis samma typ av influensers här i Sverige. Vars plattformar växer och få bryr sig. kcklatt.substack.com/p/6-months-o...

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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · Jul 4

6 Months of MAHA - A Reflection and Call to Action

open.substack.com/pub/kcklatt/...

6 Months of MAHA

A Reflection and Call to Action

open.substack.com

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Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · Jun 15

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to…
A: find your mom’s Facebook
B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were
C: badly photoshop that into a locket
D: convince you I’m your daughter.

Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 17

A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).

Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140].”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jun 10

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it.
Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · Jun 12

The head of the FDA tells us they're taking a look at the dietary guidelines and that the food pyramid is out.

The food pyramid has not been in use since 2011 when MyPlate replaced it.

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · Jun 12

There is a difference between an ‘expert’ and ‘a vocal academic with a strong opinion’. Of course, much of the media completely unable to make this distinction.

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