Polly A
exmemoriam.bsky.social
Polly A
@exmemoriam.bsky.social
Volcel.

Social media atavist, award-pending epigone, psychic defectective.
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The USA doesn't have a government, it only has owners.
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Everyone always proposes this as the answer without understanding that an oral exam requires very different skills than a closely argued research-driven essay. If you want to argue those skills don’t matter, then fine, argue that, but don’t pretend that oral argumentation is identical.
Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT.
To AI-proof exams, professors turn to the oldest technique of all
A small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful AI platforms.
wapo.st
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Mina fem senaste cykler är nog allihop depressionsspiraler.

Va, sa ni cyklar.
December 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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There is a natural affinity between conspiracism, pseudoscience, and reactionary political ideas, because “woo” is where you have to go to justify beliefs that don’t correspond well with objective reality (“natural” social hierarchies, fundamentalist religion, unregulated capitalism, etc)
December 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Hopefully a conversation starter for people who believe physical therapy is 100% evidence based, here is @painsci.bsky.social writing for @skeptic.org.uk about PT and quackery.

www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/12/phys...
Physiotherapy is almost as pseudoscientific as osteopathy and chiropractic - The Skeptic
Many who rightly turn their nose up at chiropractic don't realise much of 'mainstream' physiotherapy is just as flimsy in its evidence base
www.skeptic.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Ett liv i utanförskap. Efter 11 år kan han inte ens förstå hälften av svenska språket. Vad säger regeringen om detta?

Chris O'Neill om svenskan: Förstår 40 procent

www.aftonbladet.se/a/XMwJo7?utm...
Chris O'Neill om svenskan: Förstår 40 procent
Chris O’Neill lär sig svenska. Men det är svårt. – Jag förstår uppskattningsvis 40 till 50 procent av en normal konversation, säger han i en stor intervju med
www.aftonbladet.se
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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David Osit’s documentary Predators, which I raved about at Sundance, is now streaming on Paramount+. It’s a knotty, complicated, and ultimately very moving account of the legacy of To Catch a Predator and the outsourcing of justice, and … you should watch it.
A New Documentary Revisits To Catch a Predator. You May Not Like What It Finds.
We’re still living in the world that this show helped create.
slate.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Kolla här: frivillig återvandring.
Around a million Syrians have returned since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024.
And every day at Damascus airport, families separated by years of war and dictatorship, are finally being reunited.
December 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I can explain, but not reply.
I’m just trying desperately to figure out how someone could watch There Will Be Blood and think Paul Dano’s performance was weak somehow.
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Ärligt talat är det mer graverande att vara medlem i det fascistiska partiet Sverigedemokraterna än att äga nazimemorabilia från 2VK.
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Som socialarbetare, ffa inom ekonomiskt bistånd, är det som att stå i slutscenen av fight club (utan symboliken).
Regeringen detonerar bomber till höger och vänster.
a man and woman are standing in front of a window with the words you met me at a very strange time in my life below them
ALT: a man and woman are standing in front of a window with the words you met me at a very strange time in my life below them
media.tenor.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Jag minns synthvågen och att jag då önskade att jag hade råd att tillhöra en subkultur.
December 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Hur stor garderob tycker Naturskyddsföreningen att man ska ha?

"Naturskyddsföreningen har, utifrån Parisavtalets mål, räknat på hur många nya plagg vi kan köpa per år. Svaret är fem – och de bör hålla i snitt 15 år eller 270 användningar."

www.dn.se/sverige/sa-m...
Så många gånger måste du använda jultröjan
Jultröjan – det perfekta plagget för glöggmingel och julfester eller årets mest onödiga klädköp?
www.dn.se
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The only good and worthwhile videos on YouTube:

youtube.com/playlist?lis...
A History of Western Art - YouTube
This is an alphabetical list of all my current talks. The number at the beginning of the name refers to the topic or movement as listed below and this is fol...
youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Lägg ner melodifestivalen och sänd repriser av Älgvandringen istället.
December 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"In a just world, where the career of a political pundit was somehow tied to his ability to analyze politics, this would be an extinction-level event for these morons."
My latest newsletter is about how centrist pundits got the lessons of the 2024 election wrong, and how the politics of 2025 exposed them.
The Pundits Were All Wrong
The Republican collapse has exposed elite pundits as clueless
stringinamaze.net
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Ikväll har jag lyssnat på Lisa Röstlund som pratade om sin bok Skogslandet. Nu för tiden vilar hon upp sig genom att granska nazister, för det ger henne inte lika mycket hat som granskningen av skogsindustrin. Men hon kommer att komma tillbaka till det snart igen.
December 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Jag är mot dödsstraff utom för den som uppfann ordet "kviss", och folk som använder ordet "tvist" fel.
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Jag när jag ser att det pågår en debatt om att en debattör inte ville va med på en debatt
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Intressant ändå att se en sångerska tappa rösten med åldern och nu sjunga precis så dåligt som jag alltid tyckt hon gjorde.
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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apparently the Telegraph has written about the state of modern D&D and I have to say it is sad to see one of the bastions of modern fantasy being ideologically captured by lunatics and forced to pump out a steady diet of divisive wank. D&D on the other hand seems largely fine though
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM