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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 1d

This is heartbreaking 💔

Living Safely With Covid @covidsafenz.bsky.social · 1d

#LongCovid “No one is immune to this”

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of formerly healthy young Kiwis suffering with long Covid

The pandemic never ended, and we're all living proof of that.

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Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid

A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 9h

Billionaire Peter Thiel believes Greta Thunberg works for the Antichrist.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10h

Japan’s far right is on the rise, alarming foreign workers. Nowhere is that anxiety more apparent than in the city of Toyota, where immigrants power the economy while facing political backlash.

Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them

In the city of Toyota, immigrants help power the economy while facing political backlash.

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 10h

On Sartre's refusal of the Noble prize for literature.
www.openculture.com/2024/08/jean...

Jean-Paul Sartre Rejects the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964: “It Was Monstrous!”

In a 2013 blog post, the great Ursula K.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 11h

when a prof at our university got suspended for a September Post, it was the undergrads who made and surreptitiously posted linocut prints demanding his reinstatement who gave me hope and vitality. what we do, all of us, together, here matters

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14h

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 14h

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Joe Schmidt @hsglobalhistory.bsky.social · 11h

@natepowell.bsky.social’s COMICS ARE READING poster is always a big hit at New York Comic Con!

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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 1d

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Threads of the Human Loom

Lately, I’ve been hearing the same tired tune—often echoed in right-wing circles and online by nationalist talking-heads—about how white Europeans, particularly white Christian men, are singlehandedly...

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 21h

Huge increase in #Hate-Crime 😭😭😭

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 21h

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books

A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1d

A friend sent me this article and genuinely it’s f***ing insane and I can strongly recommend reading it. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

Do you see that press conference where Jack Posobiec (well known white supremacist and neo-Nazi) told Trump and the world that antifa go all the way back to Weimar Germany, thereby saying those that opposed Nazism then were the bad guys? Quite extraordinary.

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

Mei Ehara is my J-pop jam.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vz6...

mei ehara【関学文総軽音KGLMC】

YouTube video by KGLMC関学文総軽音

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

Watch this!

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

A haka tautoko is a very specific form. 'Tautoko' means to support, and is a very specific piece of Māori protocol (tikanga). You can also have waiata tautoko, which are songs. These are all formal ways in Māoridom to show support, agreement and solidarity. Not doing them is insulting.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Manolo. His family invited strangers to spend time with him on his last day. His mom said, "This was such a perfect way to celebrate the life of a dog who truly loved spending time with people and their dogs. Run free and fast forever, Manolo. I will never stop missing you." 14/10 for all

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

No, this was the new MP, Oriini Waipara. The haka that went viral earlier was by another Māori MP, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke. Our colonial government still likes to suppress these things, so each haka serves many purposes. 🙂

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to imagine Jared Leto wasn't the worst thing about this film.

Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

Film review:
Tron: Ares trawls the megalomania and vacuous egoism of tech billionaires.
It is depressing, dumb and artistically worthless.
It also asks us to believe the good tech corp will defeat the bad tech corp, and this assumes the viewers are as stupid as the film.

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Comic Philosophy @comicphilosophy.bsky.social · 1d

Following great examples of care ethics in comics (@kellysue.bsky.social #fmlcomix and @jedmackay.bsky.social #moonknight), here is a deep dive on care ethics:
comicphilosophy.com/index.php/20...
I was previously critical of X-Manhunt, but use it here to show a lot of the positive aspects of caring

Homepage of comicphilosophy.com, showing post and cover of Marvel X-Manhunt Omega Vol 1, issue #1, 2025, variant cover by Edwin Galmont (Egal)

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Les G @lesgates.bsky.social · 1d

How much was that tax cut to landlords worth again? 🤔

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

Brownlee shouting "No, not that" to a wahine Māori doing a haka in parliament is everything that's wrong with this place trying to belittle and silence everything that's good about this place. #NZpol

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 1d

Hello , here's your #FoxOfTheDay shared by @siemphoto !

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te pua o te rēinga (🫴🏼🎃) @cucumber.bsky.social · 1d

the powerful are petrified of wahine māori and the haka.

got emotional watching this wee clip of oriini kaipara in the house.

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

Film review:
Tron: Ares trawls the megalomania and vacuous egoism of tech billionaires.
It is depressing, dumb and artistically worthless.
It also asks us to believe the good tech corp will defeat the bad tech corp, and this assumes the viewers are as stupid as the film.

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

The call goes out from fascist allegiant police to "Pepper the Frog".

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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