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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 2h

as ever I subscribe to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social thought (people who tell lies this big and/or easily disproven should be punished for it so we get less of it)

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 35m

Police chief quit after abuse by British colonial troops in Kenya covered up

Documentary reveals how Britain was not only involved in rape and torture but tried to suppress evidence

www.theguardian.com

Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 36m

Interesting that an Arthur Young (at, say, cabinet level) is inconceivable under this Labour

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 58m

It’s not even that revolutionary a concept to do so. In Korea, each book comes with a list of the people who worked on the book, from editorial to marketing and PR. I’d be happy to know the editors’ work (for pitching, for example).

Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 4h

This is extremely accurate, and it's why I wish editors got a credit on books. Sometimes you learn who edited a bunch of your favorite books and you're like ah. I see. It's a job that requires a keen literary eye AND people skills, which is a tough mix!

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 9h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 58m

Well now.

Wisdom of r/religion @reddit-religion.bsky.social · 5h

r/religion
u/RegardedCaveman • 4d • Agnostic
has anyone ever been romantically or sexually attracted to a god or goddess

see title

Far-Coffee-6414 • 4d
Animist
It's almost impossible to work with Lord Asmodeus and not be attracted.

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 1h

The Neurobiophysical Substrate of Consciousness

I argue that creature consciousness depends on specific neurobiophysical properties that constitute the medium for phenomenally conscious states. Such properties are not medium flexible in the way req...

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 1h

Thread.

Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · 5h

Abstract: I argue that creature consciousness depends on specific neurobiophysical properties that constitute the medium for phenomenally conscious states. Such properties are not medium flexible in the way required by computational functionalism.
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Philipp Kurowski @phikuro.bsky.social · 2h

Sippenhaft, die.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 12h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1h

And in this Trinity there is no before or after, / no greater or less;

But all three Persons are co-eternal together, / and co-equal.

So that in all ways, as is aforesaid, / both the Trinity is to be worshipped in Unity, and the Unity in Trinity.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1h

The news headlines today should really not be “the left cave in to the right” but rather ”the right leaned on the far right to bully the left”

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12h

Jörgen Warborn, lead EPP negotiator on the file, repeated that if the Socialists and liberals don’t play ball, “then there is also another majority to build with.”

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 12h

🚨 BREAKING: Europe’s main political parties have agreed to roll back green rules for businesses after a whirlwind day of political negotiations that nearly collapsed the centrist ruling consensus.

Full story: www.politico.eu/article/soci...

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 19h

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

authors.elsevier.com

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 1h

Yes. They don’t explain clearly how their submission claim is compatible with unity or simplicity: I once read a piece, from Strachan IIRC, which solved the problem by asserting both things, then that they were hard to reconcile, and then, finally, that they were compatible.

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 1h

Yes. Maybe there’s some subtlety I’m missing, but it just looks like straight up subordinationism to me.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 2h

„The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa“

Ljudmila Michailowna Pawlitschenko looking through the finder of her sniper gun

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 2h

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa"

Photo of Mildred Harnack: "Mildred Fish-Harnack was the only American woman to die by Adolf Hitler's direct order for spying on Germany during World War II... During the rise of Hitler and the Nazi regime, Fish-Harnack and her husband joined a small resistance group, which the Nazi secret police — or Gestapo — would later call the Red Orchestra." "On December 19, after a four-day trial before the Reichskriegsgericht ("Reich Military Tribunal"), Mildred Harnack was initially sentenced to six years in prison, but Adolf Hitler refused to endorse the sentence and ordered a new trial, which resulted in a death sentence on January 16, 1943. She was beheaded by guillotine on February 16, 1943. While she was imprisoned, Fish-Harnack translated the poem Vermächtnis (transl. "Bequest") by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.Her last words were purported to have been "Und ich habe Deutschland auch so geliebt" ("And I, too, so loved Germany")."

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 2h

CHURCH FATHERS: Church History, Book I (Socrates Scholasticus)

Featuring the Church Fathers, Catholic Encyclopedia, Summa Theologica and more.

www.newadvent.org

Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 2h

An honest-to-god autokrator wrote more egalitarian theology than Owen Strachan and similar

Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very similar to theological arguments (about the subordination of the Son to the Father, for example) that are in fact best read as cosmic justifications of hierarchy headed by men.

Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · Sep 8

That the futurists who want to break the bounds of mortality are the ones most committed to the immutability of gender says something about how useful the concept is to them. Their insistence on masculine hegemony is an insistence on order and hierarchy. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 2h

Worth saying that perhaps the most lastingly successful piece of theology ever done was the work of an emperor settling, alone and on his own authority, a dispute theologians and other church authorities had proved incapable of closing on theirs.

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 2h

Not all Nazis, obviously. But it does help one see just how extreme, even by European standards, settler racial ideology was and remains (cf Musk).

Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 2h

Reasoning here seems to be that outright ban on inter-racial marriage is simply immoral, and that another ground for banning it, deception, doesn’t arise in cases where racial difference is visible.

Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · Sep 8

American one-drop legislation was useful to the opposing faction since it shows that vagueness was compatible with enforcement severe enough to meet the goals of the Nazi programme at the time.

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 2h

A favourite example is that Nazis (and in private meetings) had *considerably* more liberal attitudes to inter-racial marriage than Anglo settlers in their colonies of settlement.

Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 2h

we need to bring back the Horrible Histories primary school trick where you describe in detail something done by the nazis, get the audience to agree that it's abhorrent, then reveal that it was actually 'our lads' last week

AJ DISMEMBERS! @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 3h

I actually think it might be interesting to ask some of these flag-shagging freaks to give an account of the First World War as they understand it. Because increasingly it seems to me they don't. 'Lest we forget' has gone from an urgent moral injunction to a smug piety.

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 2h

If has already happened. He can take credit, if at all, for preventing its completion—for preventing complete extermination—not for preventing its commission at all.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 3h

It appears increasingly likely that Donald Trump will get credit for stopping a genocide and it makes me want to eat my eyeballs and gibber on a mountain forever

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 19h

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

Thread below ⬇️

Hegel and Colonialism

Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

www.cambridge.org

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15h

Me, in 1522:

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

given how bad this admin are at optics they're going to get into a fight with the catholics at some point i fear

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