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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 21h

Everyone is twelve now

Everyone is 12 now
ICE agent point gun at unarmed protester

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Professor Adrian Blau @adrianblau.bsky.social · 1d

True, some methods work is looked down on because the practical implications are unclear, e.g. Dowding et al. on semantic externalism (indeed, many publications in HPT methods).

But I see this as a self-inflicted problem: the authors should have explained the practical implications.

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Professor Adrian Blau @adrianblau.bsky.social · 1d

I'd like to see some evidence for that worry. I doubt it's right.

Many methods contributions are taken seriously, e.g. Gary King's solution to the problem of ecological inference, or John Rawls's decision procedure for ethics. Many aren't.

But the same applies to non-methods work.

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Professor Adrian Blau @adrianblau.bsky.social · 1d

How can anyone be “against methods”?

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Professor Adrian Blau @adrianblau.bsky.social · 1d

This article is hard to understand.

I don’t know what they see as the problem or the solution.

With that in mind, my immediate response to your question would simply be: no.

What am I missing?

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Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 1d

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan.bsky.social · 1d

Get thee (me) to the Beinecke…

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Secrets of a Radical Duke

How a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence unlocked a historical mystery

www.theatlantic.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Palestinians moving back towards Gaza City are being fired upon.

Israeli forces say the ceasefire does not exist until the government votes for it.

At least 8 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 8d

This from Bernard Williams, cited by @artsofdenial.bsky.social (books.google.fr/books?id=NW6...) doesn't reflect very well on Habermas (that is, the urge to put people in boxes).

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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · 9d

From Frederick Douglass’s Narrative. It’s full of passages like this. I’m thinking increasingly about the joy in which some take in inflicting pain and misery on others as a sense of domination. And I fear it explains so much.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 9d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Professor Adrian Blau @adrianblau.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations!

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Maarit @maarit.bsky.social · 10d

Kuten kuuluukin.

Kissa nostettuna ylös ja ihmisiä ympärillä palvomassa.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 13d

One paradox of our fragmented politics is that Labour going directly after Reform may make defeat to Reform more likely, if such a strategy alienates progressives who have exit options but doesn’t win any reform voters, who will generally prefer OG Farage to a half-hearted tribute act

Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 13d

By going after Labour>Reform voters, Labour is essentially trying to 'unwind the realignment' - arguably a much harder task, and win voters lost over many elections. True even of Labour's voters in Leave voting constituencies.

But Labour IS losing more voters on the left and to undecided.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14d

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 15d

If you voted for him, you've done this.

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Professor Adrian Blau @adrianblau.bsky.social · 16d

"would"

"shows"

George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 16d

Excl: Labour would take a two-point lead over Reform with Andy Burnham as leader, new More In Common polling shows. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 17d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18d

It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

www.rollingstone.com

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 18d

A poorly thought out, vindictive and completely unworkable policy by Reform UK fell apart the moment it brushed up against reality?

I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.

It’s almost as though they have, yet again, proven they are not in any way or form a serious party.

Farage plan to save £234bn from migrant benefit cuts 'falling apart'
True size of savings under Reform's immigration policy in doubt as it emerges 4.2m EU nationals would be exempt from

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JJDiablo @jjdiablo.bsky.social · 19d

For the umpteenth time, this bears absolutely no relationship to law enforcement or border control. This is brownshirt thuggery.

Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 20d

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Group of workers reportedly detained while working on roof in Naperville, homeowner says

A Naperville homeowner was left with an unfinished roof and in disbelief after neighbors told his family they believe ICE agents came to his house and detained crew members working on his home.

abc7chicago.com

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 20d

Hi All, Just released my latest free weekend update. The big story of the last month was not the original Russian infiltration near Pokrovsk--but the speed and effectiveness with which Ukraine reacted to it. The Russian military could not do what the Ukrainians did. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Weekend Update #151: The Most Revealing Military Development Of The Last Month

The Ukrainian Attacks On Refineries Continue: Is US Intelligence Changing Its Tune?

open.substack.com

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ALTON🏺🦊 @rudefoxalton.bsky.social · 22d

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

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