Agnostico
@agnostico.bsky.social
Twitter's infamous gcLaborista, limerickist, and generally unpleasant shítstirrer.
I don't get why #feminists around the world are silent over the allegations of ritual sexual abuse in Israel. Yael Ariel testified to the knesset of abuse from 5-20yo. Several women have testified, but the West remains silent. These women need your support. #Sexual #Abuse
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Mina on X: "#Israeli Yael Ariel, a survivor of sadistic ritual sexual abuse, in the #Knesset (Israeli Parliament): “Important figures participated: former and current Knesset members.” Another attendee responded: “I can give you names.” https://t.co/DUaE3qCDoU" / X
#Israeli Yael Ariel, a survivor of sadistic ritual sexual abuse, in the #Knesset (Israeli Parliament): “Important figures participated: former and current Knesset members.” Another attendee responded: “I can give you names.” https://t.co/DUaE3qCDoU
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July 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I don't get why #feminists around the world are silent over the allegations of ritual sexual abuse in Israel. Yael Ariel testified to the knesset of abuse from 5-20yo. Several women have testified, but the West remains silent. These women need your support. #Sexual #Abuse
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I've just come off an 11-day #cruise. Ship registered in Nassau. Passengers were generally white. Waiters & stewards mainly SE Asian. The impression I got was that they didn't have any days off and when one cruise ends another one begins with the same crew. It sounds a bit like slave labor. Is it?
June 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I've just come off an 11-day #cruise. Ship registered in Nassau. Passengers were generally white. Waiters & stewards mainly SE Asian. The impression I got was that they didn't have any days off and when one cruise ends another one begins with the same crew. It sounds a bit like slave labor. Is it?
We have a 19th C education system. Pollies fight over content: trad. facts v social building, but social media shows we don't provide thinking tools to make good decisions:
Confuse fact/opinion
Emotion with no fact
No evaluation
Cognitive biases
We can fix these with tools to overcome each.
Confuse fact/opinion
Emotion with no fact
No evaluation
Cognitive biases
We can fix these with tools to overcome each.
May 6, 2025 at 4:09 AM
We have a 19th C education system. Pollies fight over content: trad. facts v social building, but social media shows we don't provide thinking tools to make good decisions:
Confuse fact/opinion
Emotion with no fact
No evaluation
Cognitive biases
We can fix these with tools to overcome each.
Confuse fact/opinion
Emotion with no fact
No evaluation
Cognitive biases
We can fix these with tools to overcome each.
I scrutineered at the election. My booth had ~8% informal votes. Most were empty; a few had comments; but a third (2-3%) showed the voter wanted a candidate - enough to influence results. Some put insufficient numbers, others a mark against a name. How do we help voters get it right in the future?
May 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I scrutineered at the election. My booth had ~8% informal votes. Most were empty; a few had comments; but a third (2-3%) showed the voter wanted a candidate - enough to influence results. Some put insufficient numbers, others a mark against a name. How do we help voters get it right in the future?
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A ceasefire agreement has been announced between Israel and Hamas, but what will displaced Palestinians come back to?
We look at what’s left of Gaza and its people aje.io/l2jnor
We look at what’s left of Gaza and its people aje.io/l2jnor
January 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A ceasefire agreement has been announced between Israel and Hamas, but what will displaced Palestinians come back to?
We look at what’s left of Gaza and its people aje.io/l2jnor
We look at what’s left of Gaza and its people aje.io/l2jnor
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🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy:
How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?
How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?
January 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy:
How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?
How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?
I have the nagging suspicion that democracy has fallen. Athens had a participatory democracy & people caught not participating were daubed with paint to get them participating. Today we ostensibly have representative democracy. We are at the whim of the people we choose to do democracy for us. /2
November 18, 2024 at 5:17 AM
I have the nagging suspicion that democracy has fallen. Athens had a participatory democracy & people caught not participating were daubed with paint to get them participating. Today we ostensibly have representative democracy. We are at the whim of the people we choose to do democracy for us. /2
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s denial of Palestinian statehood undermines prospects for peace, Labor MP says
Benjamin Netanyahu’s denial of Palestinian statehood undermines prospects for peace, Labor MP says
Criticism from the assistant foreign minister, Tim Watts, comes as backbencher says Israeli prime minister ‘is not a partner for peace’
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The Australian government has said it is deeply disappointed by comments from the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he rebuffed international calls for a pathway to a Palestinian state.
The assistant foreign minister, Tim Watts, said the remarks undermined prospects for peace. He also urged Israel to “live up to” its commitment to uphold international law in its military operations in Gaza, where the death toll has passed 25,000 Palestinians.
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January 22, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Benjamin Netanyahu’s denial of Palestinian statehood undermines prospects for peace, Labor MP says