Estelle Wolfers
@firetower.bsky.social
Courts, cats and cars; she/her
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It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.
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‘A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street’, Halifax, 1937 by Bill Brandt. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
‘A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street’, Halifax, 1937 by Bill Brandt. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
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Shamir Shah's letter to the DCMS is another shameful chapter in capitulation to Tufton Street lobbying and foreign influence from MAGA and Trump
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Shamir Shah's letter to the DCMS is another shameful chapter in capitulation to Tufton Street lobbying and foreign influence from MAGA and Trump
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I imagine @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social will be getting the usual abuse for speaking out - solidarity with her and all those fighting against hate manipulated by the wealthy right gleefully creating a distracting wedge issue
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I imagine @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social will be getting the usual abuse for speaking out - solidarity with her and all those fighting against hate manipulated by the wealthy right gleefully creating a distracting wedge issue
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Thousands of animals have been abandoned after their owners were disappeared by ICE
August 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Thousands of animals have been abandoned after their owners were disappeared by ICE
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Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
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Hard to argue with this after reading the article - genuinely one of the most disturbing things I have ever read
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Hard to argue with this after reading the article - genuinely one of the most disturbing things I have ever read
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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When 'GCs' bleat 'But what did I do?', this from the likes of Linehan is what they do.
EVERY appearance of a trans woman on the telly is met with outrage and libellous accusations.
This fighter for women's rights then continues to pester a woman to respond when she's repeatedly asked him to stop.
EVERY appearance of a trans woman on the telly is met with outrage and libellous accusations.
This fighter for women's rights then continues to pester a woman to respond when she's repeatedly asked him to stop.
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
When 'GCs' bleat 'But what did I do?', this from the likes of Linehan is what they do.
EVERY appearance of a trans woman on the telly is met with outrage and libellous accusations.
This fighter for women's rights then continues to pester a woman to respond when she's repeatedly asked him to stop.
EVERY appearance of a trans woman on the telly is met with outrage and libellous accusations.
This fighter for women's rights then continues to pester a woman to respond when she's repeatedly asked him to stop.
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I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...
Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'
The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.
news.sky.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...
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This isn’t how it works. What happens is, Britain’s horrific media outlets stoke years of escalating, terrifying panics intended to spread fear and hatred, make their indulgence of politicians conditional upon their willingness to play along, then threaten Consequences if they don’t get their way.
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This isn’t how it works. What happens is, Britain’s horrific media outlets stoke years of escalating, terrifying panics intended to spread fear and hatred, make their indulgence of politicians conditional upon their willingness to play along, then threaten Consequences if they don’t get their way.
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Underground, Overground
My hunt to find locations where you can see Underground trains traveling over Overground trains (or vice versa) continues.
This vantage point near East Putney station has views of tube trains traveling over the railway. I waited 30 mins to get this shot.
My hunt to find locations where you can see Underground trains traveling over Overground trains (or vice versa) continues.
This vantage point near East Putney station has views of tube trains traveling over the railway. I waited 30 mins to get this shot.
November 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Underground, Overground
My hunt to find locations where you can see Underground trains traveling over Overground trains (or vice versa) continues.
This vantage point near East Putney station has views of tube trains traveling over the railway. I waited 30 mins to get this shot.
My hunt to find locations where you can see Underground trains traveling over Overground trains (or vice versa) continues.
This vantage point near East Putney station has views of tube trains traveling over the railway. I waited 30 mins to get this shot.
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"The authoritarian populists target Verfassungsblog not only for what it does, but also for what it is: an open space dedicated to the serious and systematic pursuit of truth."
The AfD is asking questions about us and sending a message. No big surprise here. We are staying on course with our goal of providing constitutional expertise on the challenges democracy faces in Germany, the U.S., and elsewhere. Read more in our new editorial by MAX STEINBEIS buff.ly/eVxn5WT
Counting on You to Count on Us: The highly interesting question of how Verfassungsblog is financed
The highly interesting question of how Verfassungsblog is financed
verfassungsblog.de
November 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"The authoritarian populists target Verfassungsblog not only for what it does, but also for what it is: an open space dedicated to the serious and systematic pursuit of truth."
Why withdraw the requirements - given schools seem not to have been asking for it - if not to undermine the principles?
Teachers shocked by government decision to remove Treaty of Waitangi requirement in schools
Teachers shocked by government decision to remove Treaty of Waitangi requirement in schools
The minister had been moving to change the requirement, but has announced it will remove it altogether.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Why withdraw the requirements - given schools seem not to have been asking for it - if not to undermine the principles?
Drop something orange
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Drop something orange
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"En France, comme dans de nombreux autres pays, la jeunesse de gauche est sensibilisée à la cause palestinienne par la brutalité de l’action militaire israélienne à Gaza. On ne peut l’en blâmer : le gouvernement de Nétanyahou a suivi la proposition politique de l’extrême droite suprémaciste...
Robert Hirsch, historien : « Encenser l’action du Hamas le 7 octobre 2023, ce n’est pas soutenir le peuple palestinien, c’est encourager l’antisémitisme »
TRIBUNE. Après la proclamation, lors d’un « meeting » organisé à l’université Paris-VIII, par des étudiants de leur refus de condamner l’attaque terroriste, l’historien analyse, dans une tribune au « ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"En France, comme dans de nombreux autres pays, la jeunesse de gauche est sensibilisée à la cause palestinienne par la brutalité de l’action militaire israélienne à Gaza. On ne peut l’en blâmer : le gouvernement de Nétanyahou a suivi la proposition politique de l’extrême droite suprémaciste...
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and eat my shorts.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and don’t have nightmares, do sleep well.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and see it, say it, sorted.
November 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and eat my shorts.
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A purported ally threatening diplomats and their families with personal consequences if they maintain the positions they’ve been instructed to take is very deeply shocking, extremely hostile, and undermines the norms by which non-violent resolution of international disagreements are possible.
November 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A purported ally threatening diplomats and their families with personal consequences if they maintain the positions they’ve been instructed to take is very deeply shocking, extremely hostile, and undermines the norms by which non-violent resolution of international disagreements are possible.
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The BBC has consistently platformed Matt Goodwin because of his racist views and the veneer of respectability brought by his past life as an academic.
Extract from more recent Goodwin post. He really should never be allowed on the BBC - or any other reputable broadcaster - again.
November 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The BBC has consistently platformed Matt Goodwin because of his racist views and the veneer of respectability brought by his past life as an academic.
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Several people stabbed on a train in Huntingdon, Cambs.
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Several people stabbed on a train in Huntingdon, Cambs.
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Headgear at Lancashire Mining Museum, looming about impressively in the moonlight tonight.
November 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Headgear at Lancashire Mining Museum, looming about impressively in the moonlight tonight.