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probably human, possibly part robot. 100% tired.
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annaleen.bsky.social
Love to see it.
December 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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astrokatie.com
Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Dec 13
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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medusaswink.bsky.social
Good morning to #NOLAsky and especially Rev. Jane Mauldin of the Universal Unitarian Church, who has been spending her secular time following ICE around New Orleans and monitoring their activity ☀️
71-Year-Old Pastor Follows ICE in New Orleans and Reports Activity in Real Time: 'I Can't Sit at Home'
When she is not ministering, a 71-year-old pastor and grandmother spends her time in her car following and monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in New Orleans to inform the co...
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December 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
It's your annual reminder that these next 4-5 days are prime "unsubscribe" days. You don't remember how you got on that list begging you to spend money? You no longer spend money at that outlet? Unsubscribe o'clock, baby.
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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nealiosaurus.bsky.social
Fun fact: Placing an orange traffic cone on the hood of Waymo vehicles makes them stop where they are and they will not move until the cone is removed... Only saying this so that people know what not to do when they see a robo car driving by... Yeah...
danielsuitor.com Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · Nov 16
Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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eff.org
An account can’t be compromised if it doesn’t exist! Today’s #OptOutOctober tip comes from our friends at @consumerreports.org: find and delete an account you’re no longer using. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
October 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Did you know that by default, Strava shows your exact starting and ending points to other users? You can hide up to a mile radius around your home and other sensitive locations to stay safe while staying active. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
October 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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eff.org
Gaming consoles are ‘plug and play’... until you speed-run past the privacy settings. Good news: it’s not too late to lock down your personal data. Here’s how to tweak your privacy settings on PS5, Xbox, and Switch. #OptOutOctober
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October 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Your location reveals a lot about you, including where you live, work, volunteer, and hang out. Don’t let ad companies hoover up all that information. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
October 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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eff.org
Turn off your phone’s “advertising ID” to make it harder for location data brokers to track you. (2/4)
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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eff.org
For more tips, check out EFF’s guide to protecting yourself from location data brokers: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2....
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious
grackle.space Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · Sep 22
dudes rock
Tumblr post from every-lemon Sep 8 so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff. they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed. I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months." Follow up tumblr post every-lemon Sep 9 it was a smash hit. a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud. he was home by 6:30am.
September 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
trans people are not causing “trans terrorism”; trans people are disproportionately targets of violence and abuse not to mention government crackdowns
August 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
There is a lot of disagreement about what qualifies as a "burner phone," but learning to put together a device that protects your most sensitive data from surveillance and seizure by govts and law enforcement is good, actually.
August 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. In an alarming move, the Trump administration has banned trans coverage for federal employees and their families, including youth and adults.

It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage.

It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US.

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Trump Admin Bans Coverage For Trans Govt Employees, Mandates Conversion Therapy Coverage
The OPM memo states that all health plans for government workers must cover faith-based approaches to gender dysphoria while banning gender affirming care coverage.
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August 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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metacurity.com
A must-read with a great headline from @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025
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Pluralistic: “Privacy preserving age verification” is bullshit (14 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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August 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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nanoraptor.danamania.com
Been feeling a little queer lately.
A photo of a rapid antigen looking test except it’s a multi tests with a control strip and also L G B T G I and A strips all across the one test. All of the strips are activated in the colours of the pride flags for each of LGBTQIA.
August 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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katie.bzky.team
it's really cool how like with most other womens sports the tour de france femmes is a third of the distance/difficulty as the men's tdf because Misogyny. arguably the worst part about the patriarchy tbh.
July 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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ashleynova.space
A trans person being in the same room as you is not a violation of your privacy. Demanding to know whether a person in a room with you is trans or not IS a violation of their privacy. It's endemic of how fucking far the needle has moved that this simple fact is so lost on so many people.
July 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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samwilson.bsky.social
Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system
A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.
July 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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cctl.me
uhhh by popular demand i think this is a t-shirt now?

this might be a bad idea, felt way too easy. i just sped through setting this up so go nuts i guess lol. dunno what the quality will be like.

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July 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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leftistlawyer.com
Don't let the bigots pathologize us.

Yes dysphoria kills. It sucks. Believe me, I know. But we are NOT our dysphoria and we are owed more than simply being trauma porn.

We deserve gender affirming care because we're human beings and bodily autonomy is a human right.
June 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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bradlander.bsky.social
Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process.

But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things.

That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"
YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC
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June 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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eff.org
The video version of our Surveillance Self-Defense guide on attending protests is now available on the @archive.org: archive.org/details/05d-....
geekgirl397.bsky.social anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · Jun 13
I can't see things on Instagram because I don't have a Facebook/Meta/Instagram/Whatsapp account due to privacy concerns. Is there somewhere to view the video that doesn't expose one to tracking by Meta?
June 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM