William Russell
@robotowilliam.bsky.social
He/him | 38 | Lifelong explorer and learner
🦋 Reylo
⏹️ Stop AI
MSc Animal Behaviour (Queen's University Belfast) interested in animal cognition and social behaviours
https://linktr.ee/robotowilliam
🦋 Reylo
⏹️ Stop AI
MSc Animal Behaviour (Queen's University Belfast) interested in animal cognition and social behaviours
https://linktr.ee/robotowilliam
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Just the first 4 minutes is scary enough
How billionaires stole America's elections
YouTube video by Johnny Harris
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Just the first 4 minutes is scary enough
A whole subreddit of AI-psychosis inflicted people 😬
The top post is some AI nonsense about geometry. Caption:
"Higher order emerges from structured tension.
Contradiction is fuel.
Relational affirmation is the axis.
⧖△⊗✦↺⧖"
The top post is some AI nonsense about geometry. Caption:
"Higher order emerges from structured tension.
Contradiction is fuel.
Relational affirmation is the axis.
⧖△⊗✦↺⧖"
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A whole subreddit of AI-psychosis inflicted people 😬
The top post is some AI nonsense about geometry. Caption:
"Higher order emerges from structured tension.
Contradiction is fuel.
Relational affirmation is the axis.
⧖△⊗✦↺⧖"
The top post is some AI nonsense about geometry. Caption:
"Higher order emerges from structured tension.
Contradiction is fuel.
Relational affirmation is the axis.
⧖△⊗✦↺⧖"
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🦇A lot of people think bats try to “get tangled in your hair.”
Nope. These animals fly with precision that would make any fighter pilot jealous. If a bat brushes past you, it chose that line on purpose - and it could’ve flown through a smaller gap if it wanted to.
Nope. These animals fly with precision that would make any fighter pilot jealous. If a bat brushes past you, it chose that line on purpose - and it could’ve flown through a smaller gap if it wanted to.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
🦇A lot of people think bats try to “get tangled in your hair.”
Nope. These animals fly with precision that would make any fighter pilot jealous. If a bat brushes past you, it chose that line on purpose - and it could’ve flown through a smaller gap if it wanted to.
Nope. These animals fly with precision that would make any fighter pilot jealous. If a bat brushes past you, it chose that line on purpose - and it could’ve flown through a smaller gap if it wanted to.
I enjoyed this description of what trees are. Pretty incredible!
Trees Are So Weird
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I enjoyed this description of what trees are. Pretty incredible!
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.
25 Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- In unusual move, Sen Susan Collins (R-ME) signs petition for referendum on the 2026 ballot that would bar trans students from sports teams, locker-rooms and bathrooms. She's in a hotly contested election & this is pbly one way to increase Rep turnout.
Sen. Collins signs Maine petition for initiative to restrict transgender rights
The proposed referendum aims to enforce President Donald Trump’s <a href="https://themainemonitor.org/maine-title-ix-battle-national-consequences/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">stance on ...
www.pressherald.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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NIRINASOA Léontine is a role model for girls who want careers in research & #conservation. As one of few female #research techs in Ranomafana NP, #Madagascar, she talks about what sparked her interest in this career & what it’s like for working women there
See the episode here: youtu.be/Jg83EPYg7e8
See the episode here: youtu.be/Jg83EPYg7e8
NIRINASOA Léontine | Research Techs | Preserving knowledge of endemic species in Madagascar
YouTube video by Centre ValBio
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
NIRINASOA Léontine is a role model for girls who want careers in research & #conservation. As one of few female #research techs in Ranomafana NP, #Madagascar, she talks about what sparked her interest in this career & what it’s like for working women there
See the episode here: youtu.be/Jg83EPYg7e8
See the episode here: youtu.be/Jg83EPYg7e8
Beautiful xkcd today.
"Want to feel old?"
"Yes."
"Want to feel old?"
"Yes."
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Beautiful xkcd today.
"Want to feel old?"
"Yes."
"Want to feel old?"
"Yes."
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In this study, Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for allowing orangutans to acquire varied diets.
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour
Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
In this study, Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for allowing orangutans to acquire varied diets.
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you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
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Just gave a lecture on how animals behaviouraly adapt (or not!) to human-induced rapid enviro. change. I really depressed myself & the class! Yes, cockatoos have learned to open bins and raccoons can thrive in cities, but urban adaptors are rare and animals shouldn’t need to adapt to our garbage.
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Just gave a lecture on how animals behaviouraly adapt (or not!) to human-induced rapid enviro. change. I really depressed myself & the class! Yes, cockatoos have learned to open bins and raccoons can thrive in cities, but urban adaptors are rare and animals shouldn’t need to adapt to our garbage.
This is a wonderful victory, but I still get chills down my spine when I read about a school and see a sentence like "Cathedral Schools Trust (CST), which runs both schools, argued that the merger was needed"
Fuckin academies, man. Yeah, let's run our kids' schools like a corporation!
Fuckin academies, man. Yeah, let's run our kids' schools like a corporation!
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is a wonderful victory, but I still get chills down my spine when I read about a school and see a sentence like "Cathedral Schools Trust (CST), which runs both schools, argued that the merger was needed"
Fuckin academies, man. Yeah, let's run our kids' schools like a corporation!
Fuckin academies, man. Yeah, let's run our kids' schools like a corporation!
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Some of the most important words ever written: 'Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' – Charles Darwin, 'On the Origin of Species'. It was published #OnThisDay 1859.
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Some of the most important words ever written: 'Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' – Charles Darwin, 'On the Origin of Species'. It was published #OnThisDay 1859.
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Volcano Hayli Gubbi erupted today in Ethiopia for the first time.
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Volcano Hayli Gubbi erupted today in Ethiopia for the first time.
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I just bookmarked the Cheetah Cub Cam, this is the fucking cutest
Cheetah Cub Cam
The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.
nationalzoo.si.edu
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I just bookmarked the Cheetah Cub Cam, this is the fucking cutest
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Science Museum
(2025)
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November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Science Museum
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You know how sometimes a crappy movie gets made in a franchise you love, and it sucks that now you have to accept it as a canon part of that universe forever?
That's how I feel about ChatGPT.
That's how I feel about ChatGPT.
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
You know how sometimes a crappy movie gets made in a franchise you love, and it sucks that now you have to accept it as a canon part of that universe forever?
That's how I feel about ChatGPT.
That's how I feel about ChatGPT.
Also, stop calling it Twitter. Twitter died. It no longer exists.
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Also, stop calling it Twitter. Twitter died. It no longer exists.
There are quite a few people I really wish I could still follow online, but they're on X, so I don't.
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There are quite a few people I really wish I could still follow online, but they're on X, so I don't.