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I think Bluesky is currently the best social media platform for keeping misinformation to a minimum, maybe because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
February 17, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I think Bluesky is currently the best social media platform for keeping misinformation to a minimum, maybe because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
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"Why are ADHD and Autism suddenly such a big fucking deal"
I dunno, how much louder and brighter and constant did everything get in the last 50 years
Do you not think that has overwhelmed people who are easily distracted or prone to sensory overload
I dunno, how much louder and brighter and constant did everything get in the last 50 years
Do you not think that has overwhelmed people who are easily distracted or prone to sensory overload
February 17, 2026 at 7:24 AM
"Why are ADHD and Autism suddenly such a big fucking deal"
I dunno, how much louder and brighter and constant did everything get in the last 50 years
Do you not think that has overwhelmed people who are easily distracted or prone to sensory overload
I dunno, how much louder and brighter and constant did everything get in the last 50 years
Do you not think that has overwhelmed people who are easily distracted or prone to sensory overload
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ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:09 AM
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
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This Brazilian woman hates AI
December 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This Brazilian woman hates AI
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The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
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Create Your Own Luck*
February 11, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Create Your Own Luck*
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(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
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Something extremely funny could happen tomorrow
🚨 PICTURED: Liz Truss meets with Donald Trump at his golf course in Palm Beach
February 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Something extremely funny could happen tomorrow
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I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language."
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
February 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language."
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selecti...
One of the ways people deal with cognitive dissonance, desperately trying to minimize it, is to retreat into confirmatory rabbit holes.
They start consuming more media which minimizes that cognitive dissonance, and less media that makes it visible.
One of the ways people deal with cognitive dissonance, desperately trying to minimize it, is to retreat into confirmatory rabbit holes.
They start consuming more media which minimizes that cognitive dissonance, and less media that makes it visible.
Selective exposure theory - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 14, 2026 at 5:21 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selecti...
One of the ways people deal with cognitive dissonance, desperately trying to minimize it, is to retreat into confirmatory rabbit holes.
They start consuming more media which minimizes that cognitive dissonance, and less media that makes it visible.
One of the ways people deal with cognitive dissonance, desperately trying to minimize it, is to retreat into confirmatory rabbit holes.
They start consuming more media which minimizes that cognitive dissonance, and less media that makes it visible.
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At literally no point in this headline was it possible to predict the next word, 10/10 work
ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Genetic study finds domestic pigs’ year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone.…
dlvr.it
February 13, 2026 at 1:33 PM
At literally no point in this headline was it possible to predict the next word, 10/10 work
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always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
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The other week, we went to do a final clean out my late MiL’s house and a non-binary friend came out to help us get rid of heavy garden stuff.
Several days later, our toddler goes “I have a question about Alex”
I was like oh dear here we go but then the question was “why didn’t they have a table?”
Several days later, our toddler goes “I have a question about Alex”
I was like oh dear here we go but then the question was “why didn’t they have a table?”
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM
The other week, we went to do a final clean out my late MiL’s house and a non-binary friend came out to help us get rid of heavy garden stuff.
Several days later, our toddler goes “I have a question about Alex”
I was like oh dear here we go but then the question was “why didn’t they have a table?”
Several days later, our toddler goes “I have a question about Alex”
I was like oh dear here we go but then the question was “why didn’t they have a table?”
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Gay? Please. When your four year old is concerned the Hadron Collider will open a black hole on Earth, that's a tough one to answer.
The other week, we went to do a final clean out my late MiL’s house and a non-binary friend came out to help us get rid of heavy garden stuff.
Several days later, our toddler goes “I have a question about Alex”
I was like oh dear here we go but then the question was “why didn’t they have a table?”
Several days later, our toddler goes “I have a question about Alex”
I was like oh dear here we go but then the question was “why didn’t they have a table?”
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Gay? Please. When your four year old is concerned the Hadron Collider will open a black hole on Earth, that's a tough one to answer.
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Here’s some kindness from Canada..
When Olympian Maddie Schizas requested an extension to submit her assignment, her professor replied this ⬇️🥹
Go Maddie 🇨🇦!
When Olympian Maddie Schizas requested an extension to submit her assignment, her professor replied this ⬇️🥹
Go Maddie 🇨🇦!
February 10, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Here’s some kindness from Canada..
When Olympian Maddie Schizas requested an extension to submit her assignment, her professor replied this ⬇️🥹
Go Maddie 🇨🇦!
When Olympian Maddie Schizas requested an extension to submit her assignment, her professor replied this ⬇️🥹
Go Maddie 🇨🇦!
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AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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trans women playing women’s sports
February 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
trans women playing women’s sports
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hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 7, 2026 at 3:53 AM
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
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production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
February 7, 2026 at 12:40 AM
production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
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One thing that struck me is that I think a lot of them were writing to him not for advice but for sympathy. The greatest desire is always for someone who understands us - for these men, who understands that any guy would have behaved this way, it’s just locker talk, it’s all liars, …
I wrote about all the men who flocked to Jeffrey Epstein's inbox to talk about sexual abuse allegations with an expert. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
When Jeffrey Epstein was the world’s leading expert on getting away with it
The convicted sex-criminal was obsessed with other high profile abuse cases, offering commentary, advice, and even financial help.
www.motherjones.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:25 PM
One thing that struck me is that I think a lot of them were writing to him not for advice but for sympathy. The greatest desire is always for someone who understands us - for these men, who understands that any guy would have behaved this way, it’s just locker talk, it’s all liars, …
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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.