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Fergus Murray

@fergus.oolong.co.uk

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Monotropic writer, science tutor, autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh. Formerly @MxOolong elsewhere. they/them. https://linktr.ee/0olong

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Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · Jan 24

I thought I might make a pinned thread of my threads here (some of which are effectively photo albums) starting with this long Introductory thread:

bsky.app/profile/ferg...

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · Nov 14

Hi everyone!

I'm Fergus Murray. I'm a science person, writer of nonfiction, and #Autistic community organiser (Chair of @amasedin.bsky.social). Also #ADHD, but I often just say I'm monotropic.

I'm here to post and learn more about #neurodiversity, politics, science, language and other things.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 1h

Pronounced Stow-knee?

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 1h

I hope your review gets accepted!

I have mixed feelings about spending thousands of words on things that are deeply annoying and shit, but there is something to be said for it.

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 1h

In defence of not being able to pronounce Welsh placenames: the pure Welsh ones are beautifully phonetic for the most part, but I get bewildered by some of the ones that combine Welsh spelling with English...

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 1h

Oh no! I'm not from around there, and have definitely been saying that.

StoneHAVEN, then?

(I want it to rhyme with 'down', instead, like the Danish equivalent...)

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 1h

I never would have guessed there was that much to say about this!

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 1h

Edinburgh looking pretty this morning.

Leafy city suffused with a sunrise glow.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 16d

This is the 24th strip in my comic-making marathon to "flood the zone" as a barrage against the hate. I've been drawing non-stop since Kirk's murder and if you want to encourage me to continue, you can send me a coffee at www.ko-fi.com/sophielabelle !

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 11h

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 3h

Jesus fuck, you never really think of the term "scorched earth" until you see it literally.

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 14h

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · Jun 10

"When the legal threshold for genocide is met, we must call it genocide – and act accordingly."

Martin Griffiths, former UN humanitarian chief, writes for IDS and calls for action to prevent genocide in #Gaza 👇

https://ac.pulse.ly/yuhzem0hlv

It is genocide: Humanitarian law must be enforced in Gaza - Institute of Development Studies

On 30 May 2025, IDS Honorary Associate and former UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths described the situation in Gaza as genocide. Alongside IDS Research Fellow Philip Proudfoot, here he calls for a decisive realignment of humanitarian law and humanitarian action to halt genocide and other atroci...

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 19h

I bristled against Strunk & White's injunction to 'omit needless words' when I first read it, but as time goes on, it is clear to me that writing more usually means writing worse.

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 21h

Oregon National Guard general said that if they were deployed, his troops would be instructed to protect the protesters, not ICE.

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 19h

I noticed it first in @blueskyfeedcreator.com, fwiw, before seeing the same thing in the app, so that backs up the fire guess that it's universal...

Oh dear.

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 21h

I'd do a search for anyone else having similar problems, but, well

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 21h

I see that searching for posts is currently entirely broken, at least for me, in the Android app.

Is it showing no results for everyone else?

@bsky.app

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 2d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 1d

if you’re willing to throw vulnerable minorities under the bus immediately, long before we even have nominees, long before any election, you’re doing elections wrong and you need to get out of the way because you are a *stone* around the neck of progress.

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 1d

Only half?

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 1d

Only half?

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 1d

I don't think you'll regret it (although you *will* then have to read Prayer for the Crown-Shy, so that's something to factor in)

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 1d

Impressive response to the banning of Link by bluesky by blacksky. #FreeLink

By standing up their own app-view blacksky takes a big step into true decentralisation.
Isn't cheap though. So...

opencollective.com/blacksky#cat...

Go read @rude1.blacksky.team thread, tis worthwhile.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 1d

I'm going to suggest Psalm for the Wild-Built, even though I can't think of anything that specifically makes it autumnal, just something about the entire vibe.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance.

Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits.

You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222...

#Wayback1T

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