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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Fiona Wallace @fiionawallace.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING

Prime Minister of South Africa:

“If international law means anything, Netanyahu must be arrested. Otherwise, the ICC is a Western puppet.”

#ICC #Netanyahu #NetanyahuWarCriminal #Justice

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 16h

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 16h

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 14h

My sister's surgery yesterday was well over 7 hours (planned for 5+). She is "optimally debulked." Now a month of recovery before 4 months of chemo.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15h

"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better."

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

table 1 from David de la Croix, Mara Vitale, Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital, European Review of Economic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 506–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heac023

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15h

A repetitive thing we hear a lot as women in cognitive sciences — which comes up especially when we talk to each other about our reviews, how peers talk to us, etc. — is our writing is not accessible, does this generalise to other fields? Weaponised "you're unclear" is so pathetic IMHO of course

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 1d

Happened in the US v. Ireland at Foxboro in 2000 and I was there...

youtu.be/lOkQGCGEVIw?...

USA vs. Ireland - US Cup 2000 FULL GAME - USMNT

YouTube video by Columbus Crew Nerd

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

We have an ongoing CONCACAF situation in Nicaragua.

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · 1d

I do want to take a minute to share the backstory of our paper on the total solar eclipse that triggered dawn behavior in birds. This was SUCH a fun paper to work on, a major light in a lot of different tunnels over the past 18 months. doi.org/10.1126/scie... < ☀️ Let the light puns begin ☀️ > (1/x)

two men are fighting with lightsabers in front of a doorway

ALT: two men are fighting with lightsabers in front of a doorway

media.tenor.com

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 1d

So unbearable.
She's at University of Chicago hospitals. I worked there in 1987, in hematology/oncology, developing a protocol tracking system.
The same stereotypes apply then as now in the heads of departments, surgery chiefs; impersonal - this is reported to me. I'll go to Chicago tomorrow or Sat

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 1d

Some not great stuff going on this term, from day 1. And today, in developments just over the last two weeks, my very private and very not-make-a-fuss oldest sister is in a 5+ hour cancer operation right now, all day. For two weeks I have not been able to concentrate.We will know so much more soon.

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · 1d

Why are some people more prone to believe in conspiracy theories? Part of the answer may lie in metacognition, i.e., the ability to correctly estimate one's own knowledge about topics.
-> New paper with @kwinter.bsky.social, @kaisassenberg.bsky.social & Helen Fischer
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2044...

“Knowing what I don’t know” – belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: a signal detection theoretic approach

Beliefs in conspiracy theories are seemingly hard to dispute through facts. Researchers have partly attributed this resistance to certain information processing styles that are associated with cons...

doi.org

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4d

This is excellent, in re: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 5d

Worried about a new guy to Samsunspor harming
Fenerbahce.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

But let's be real: The reason they've been guarding this guy is, in significant part, an attempt to prevent the press from covering what they did at one of their unwarranted car wash raids.

I'm sure Brett Kavanaugh is all good with it.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d

He uses this framing a lot. His boss clearly loves it. It also works for him because, in his own way, he is the minoritized Other in that little power cabal — he isn’t really one of them. He does this to show *his* gratitude which I suspect they demand frequently.

But also such a smarmy so and so.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 29d

Aristotle, Historia Animalium IX.48 on the case of dolphins discussed by @susanamonso.com in her “Playing Possum” as an instance of animal care behaviors towards individuals in distress.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 6d

Mapping function in the tree shrew visual system using functional ultrasound imaging. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680247v1

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 7d

Good fucking morning to everybody except congressional Republicans who can’t even be bothered to come into work today to end this shutdown. They’re responsible for your health insurance premiums doubling or tripling in the coming weeks because they refuse to do their jobs.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 7d

Nice set of studies on how group appeals in candidate campaigns work. Interestingly, group membership and strength of identification with the group moderate effects somewhat, but not as much as perceptions of group deservingness

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 8d

The rejection of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in US in 2025 has a precedent in Germany in 1933.
That didn’t end well, by the way.

www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · Aug 31

“We must preserve our soul,” he told his colleagues, “but a rejection of the Enabling Act will result in unpleasant consequences for our party.” The act passed, 444 to 94, opening the path to Hitler’s dictatorship.'

www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Warnings From Weimar

Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 8d

Measurement people! Are you here yet?! —>

Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 8d

Digging further into "45-83% of BM have PFB" claim.

45% comes from 1974 study of 50 male patients in a military hospital.

Authors recognize that sample isn't ideal, but pitch it as improvement on survey of dermatologists who estimated that 0.1%-80% (holy range, batman!) of black men have PFB.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 8d

“I’m 87 years old. I’ve seen war, repression, protest, and backlash. I’ve been celebrated, and I’ve been branded an enemy of the state,” Jane Fonda said in a statement on Wednesday. “But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life.”

Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 9d

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Oscar-winning actor and progressive activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.

Jane Fonda relaunches her father's McCarthy-era free speech initiative

The Committee for the First Amendment was originally formed by Henry Fonda in 1947.

www.nbcnews.com

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 8d

This MUST be a punk band name by sunset tonight.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 8d

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

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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