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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 3d

Psychotic btw

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 4d

Pls dont

Gettem

They deserve it

A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 5d

Tentative good news

That said, the bar for these guys is on the floor lol

I have 0 faith that these vacuous types won’t weathervane back to trump

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 12d

Try #econsky. The people there are good.

A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 17d

No, I just disagree.

A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 17d

I just don’t think that is the case, sorry. We can agree to disagree.

A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 17d

I think this take is callous and kind of cruel. Men can have problems worthy of social concern, without said social concern giving anyone a carte blanche to be a terrible person

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 18d

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 22d

Checking on what Korean news is publishing today:

english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

[Interview] Echoes of the fascist past in far right’s growing global network

Charles Derber, a renowned scholar of authoritarianism, noted that right-wing authoritarian movements often “feed off of each other” and view one another as a testament to the validity of their own po...

english.hani.co.kr

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 23d

Would it be possible to lower the paywall for this article?

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 25d

What Trump is doing right now isn't "cancel culture." It's a modern version of the Red Scare. www.vox.com/on-the-right...

The third Red Scare

The right’s new assault on free speech isn’t cancel culture. It’s worse.

www.vox.com

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 26d

You’re welcome. I genuinely just like the way you write.

All the best mate

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 26d

lol and now with bookmarks I can save posts like this so they don’t get lost in the ether

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 26d

imo this is one of those @judah-grunstein.bsky.social posts that is a perfectly precipitated nugget of insight. Even if I’ve seen the idea expressed elsewhere, I tend to find his expression more cogent.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 26d

This is the original sin of technocratic governance. It doesn't have a vision of the state and society, only of the optimal numbers for the statistics it measures.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 26d

Without a coherent conceptual idea of what the UK as a state and society should look like after structural reforms a Starmer government won't have a sustainable policy mix that enables change and won't have the effective comms needed to sustain voter support for it

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · 28d

Adam made a terrible take about the Fed imo like 2 weeks ago on his pod and I was like, “that was weird…”

Then I opened up the nyt for the first time in ages… 😕

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · Sep 12

Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Sep 12

Missouri Republicans today passed a new gerrymander that would break apart the Democratic district in Kansas City, which would flip a seat to the GOP. (The governor is expected to sign it.) www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Missouri senators pass gerrymandered map that slashes through Kansas City

The vote marked a pivotal moment in Missouri, potentially altering the political makeup of Kansas City for years.

www.kansascity.com

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · Sep 12

Liz coming in off the top rope, lfg

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · Sep 12

Been subscribed since the day it was available because you guys put in the effort and are trustworthy.

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you for sharing that bit of info about the Madden–Julian oscillation. I swear atmospheric research has some of the craziest findings that are just mindblowing.

Completely made my day to learn about it.

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · Sep 8

Glad to see the hammer come down on this guy.

I guess the question is now how do you make jail a place where he cannot recruit and come out a more skilled criminal…

A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · Sep 7

Erm, what the fuck?

Department of State @StateDept
X.com
Our nation was founded on the recognition that moral virtue and a steadfast faith in God are necessary preconditions of freedom. Yet under the Biden Administration, U.S. foreign policy belittled Christianity and weaponized government against faith.
That era has ended.
Under @POTUS's leadership, the State Department will eradicate practices that devalue and demean the Christian faith. foxnews.com/politics/doj-t..

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · Sep 7

Erm, what the fuck?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 6

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’

Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

www.thetimes.com

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A guy. @ahumbleman.bsky.social · Sep 6

I really don’t think that these guys have done that level of due diligence. The whole presidency is as intellectually shallow as a Fox News segment, because the Trump presidency is just a Fox News show that happens to run the US.

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · Sep 5

I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.

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