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Graham Shevlin

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DNA-identified as North European mongrel of vague descent. I.T. Consultant, writer, guitar player, music fan, slayer of authoritarian bullshit. Satan has the best parties. https://grahamshevlin.com

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Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 12h

One always needs a quality control inspector.

Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 12h

It's also a really good way to broadcast your total inability to learn and change.

Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 12h

They need to be told to provide evidence or sit down and shut up.

Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 12h

He is being way too polite. Johnson is a toadying asshole.

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Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 13h

Prove it or zip it.

Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 13h

This gibbering fascist has no idea of the cost of care for life-threatening conditions.

Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 15h

Red Bull being naughty at COTA.
www.motorsport.com/f1/news/red-...

Red Bull rules breach involved tampering with Lando Norris grid marker

Team member attempted to re-enter the grid after the formation lap had begun – with the aim of removing a mark left on the pitwall as a reference point for Lando Norris

www.motorsport.com

Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 1d

Time to silence this asshole and have him living under an overpass.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that the NYT chose to ignore the massive protests -- 300,000 in their city alone! -- but that the piece they *did* run on the front page about Democrats is almost cartoonishly bad in how much it whines that they're just not doing what A.G. Sulzberger LXVII wants them to do.

Democrats' Ads Make Old Pitch: Stopping Trump
Well-Worn Playbook
Some See It as a Missed Chance to Advance a Positive Message

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I addressed all the complaints about supposed “errors” in our article four years ago. www.respectfulinsolence.com/2021/10/15/g...

The Great Barrington Declaration strikes back

After a BMJ article linking the Great Barrington Declaration to the right wing think tank AIER, the two are denying the connection. Why?

www.respectfulinsolence.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 13

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.

But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."

www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

Acceptable Losses

Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

www.the-reframe.com

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

it is crazy that "the president's personal defense attorney arranged for Ghislaine Maxwell to be transferred to the federal equivalent of a resort in exchange for her official statement that Trump was not involved in fucking children" was a one-day back page story

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Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 1d

It is difficult to "prefer" the lead driver when he qualified 6th in a race with your other driver second.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

This. The whole premise of 'the international rules-based order' is that everyone *doesn't* want to be "nice" to each other.

Steve Williams @iloatheskies.bsky.social · 2d

"Put simply, the international rules-based order is based on the idea that everyone would want to be nice to each other post-war" is a truly, spectacularly dumb thing to believe.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d

Double checking there were no violent insurrections, beating up of cops, pro-Nazi shirts, and smearing of shit in state Capitols today across the country during the massive NO KINGS protests, right?

Because that's what Trump supporters did on January 6th to overthrow a free and fair election.

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Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 1d

What is this dreck?

Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 1d

If driverless car software in any country is programmed to expect people of obey jaywalking laws...there is their first big mistake.

Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 1d

When the lies are so blatant, the only way to communicate them is with total conviction.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

it is possible to run a newsroom that doesn’t leak, but the reporters in it have to like and respect their leadership for that to happen

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Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 1d

Hilarious again - after failing to send Yuki Tsunoda out with enough time to attempt another lap in SQ1, Red Bull did it again with Max Verstappen in Q3.
Somebody needs an ass-kicking.

Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 2d

Sheesh. No, Max Verstappen is not about to win the drivers championship because of "papaya rules".
The reality is that Max currently has the fastest car, and luck is going his way.

Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 2d

I only watch F1TV now in case she shows up on ESPN.

Graham Shevlin @grahamshevlin.bsky.social · 2d

Three cars into two spaces violates a fundamental rule of physics.