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Valour

@valouriousknight.bsky.social

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Writer, Anglican, Awesome Theological Mushroom, Crip, AuDHD, deafened 🧑‍🦼, parent, nerd, knitter, enthusiastic reptile keeper, Part Dragon, proud trans dude he/him. Queer AF.

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Valour @valouriousknight.bsky.social · Aug 12

Some twat has added me to a 'Progressives for Trump/MAGA' blocklist, so just in case it was in doubt:

Donald Trump is the worst of humanity, running unchecked through the halls of power and I loathe him - and all his collaborators- with every fibre of my being

Valour @valouriousknight.bsky.social · 4h

Sending you many good thoughts Alan.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 7h

On November 5, there’ll be a charity screening of A Monster Calls at the Arzner Cinema in London (SE1), London’s only queer cinema! I’ll be doing a q&a after, and all proceeds go to Queer London. Join me!

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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🛡 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 10h

Every now and then I remember the press reaction to Elon Musk claiming we live in a simulation was broadly “Real Life Tony Stark Elon Musk Posits Mind-Blowing Thought Experiment 🤯” instead of “This Billionaire Nutjob Doesn’t Think Other People Are Real”

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Eel-AIEEEE @elindur.at.app.wafrn.net · 5h

Father Larry Dowling dropped the most damning statement I think I've ever seen from a catholic on this whole situation (save for the Pope's words on it):

A quote from Father Larry Dowling's post about being denied access to detainees. It reads "No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ."

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Valour @valouriousknight.bsky.social · 5h

Someone needs to link Nurse John to the students textbooks, because oh my the series of videos we could have

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

“People who dislike Gen AI are just stuffy bores”

Bitch one of us actually knows how many fingers humans have and evidently it’s not ChatGPT

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Kim Wincen @wincenworks.bsky.social · 5h

Keep seeing otherwise smart people bragging they have found uses for it and they're all always:
1. Trivial shit no one would pay for; or
2. Unfalsified, where they just assume it did a good job but don't verify.

They just like playing with computer that pretends to talk to them.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 6h

Vance could not give a straight answer to questions about:

➡️ Tom Homan's alleged acceptance of a bribe
➡️ Trump's accusations that J.B. Pritzker is a criminal
➡️ Layoffs at the CDC

Read/Watch: bit.ly/4nMSVl9

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Valour @valouriousknight.bsky.social · 9h

This actually makes sense to me, and is largely how I use small talk. I do have a tendency though, when I find the people I vibe with to launch from small talk into Big Talk With Additional Oversharing

Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

Valour @valouriousknight.bsky.social · 9h

I finished my first playthrough of The Last of Us (Part 1) yesterday, and omg THE FEELINGS

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Transiness @transiness.bsky.social · 10h

Here's the thing about these statistics: they are inextricably linked to the way that socially destructive forces in the media affect people in the real world. They also fail to capture institutional abuse (failure to record hate against a persecuted minority).

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 10h

Richard Tice is a tit. Pass it on.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 11h

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12h

So the background to the story is this. And you can read my whole article here (direct download of a pdf) static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

between 1929 and 1930 a feud erupted in the pages of the culture periodical Der Kreis: Zeitschrift für künstlerische Kultur. The conflict, later dubbed the Hamburg Facsimile Debate, was instigated by Max Sauerlandt, director of the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, who condemned as a fake a recent electroform reproduction of the thirteenth-century Bamberg Rider. The dispute attracted numerous responses and became a focal point for emerging ideas about authenticity and the educative impact of the replica in the Weimar Republic.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12h

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

The use of copies to fill lacunae in collections was by no means always hitched to a progressive cause, as it was in this debate. For example, the Nazi-sponsored traveling exhibition Deutsche Größe of the early 1940s comprised replicas entirely. See Diebold
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 13h

Today I'm doing a talk about Women and the (early) Gothic and it might be time for a list!

So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!

a cartoon of a wizard holding a wand and a purple pot

Alt: a cartoon of a wizard holding a wand and conjuring books into a purple bag

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11h

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Robin @its-robin.bsky.social · 23h

In your charity please add Layan Nasir to your prayers. She is a 24 year old Palestinian who was released from Israeli custody last December. She was sentenced to an additional 8 months in Israeli prison this past Thursday. She is a member of St. Peter’s Anglican Church, in Birzeit West Bank. ⚓️

Layan Nasir, a member of St. Peter’s Anglican Church in the occupied West Bank city of Birzeit, was under administrative arrest by Israel from April to December 2024. On Sept 9th 2025 she was sentenced to an additional 8 months, meaning she will spend Advent, Christmas, Epiphanytide, Lent, and Easter in an Israeli prison.

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 10h

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Valour @valouriousknight.bsky.social · 10h

Yup - I can knit and spin and in an absolute punch do some crude sewing, and I like knowing that I do have some useful survival skills even though I'm a crip who clearly has limited social value for The End Time (/snark)

Valour @valouriousknight.bsky.social · 11h

Happy Birthday Queen of Chaos! May you have another excellent year of ruling the universe!

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 23h

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 11h

I know I harp on this a lot, but Judith Butler as points out in "Who's Afraid of Gender?", sex has a biological *component* but what that biology *means* is determined by culture. Humans can and do change sex.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 11h

not to mention the fucking professional atheist scientists who provide the entire foundation for anti-trans bigotry by saying "science PROVES there are only two sexes!"

May their underpants never be dry again.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

I guess some other time we can talk about the reactionary professional atheists who literally built the secular foundation for today’s anti-DEI arguments

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 22h

If you think its a coincidence that they are pushing BS autism causes while the DeptEd empties its special education division and ICE had an autistic child in dention without any of their family knowing, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

This is a purposeful attack on our most vulnerable.

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