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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 17h

There is no safe level of exposure to an idea. That is their power. That is why education is transformative, why things like good journalism are important, why our enemies try to warp the information environment in their favour (and claim - perhaps fairly - that we do the same).

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 17h

The problem is, we don't see what exposure to ideas does to us. The human brain is a machine for rationalising the irrational. It will tell you you're the same person you were a year ago no matter what you've been through. We all think - every single one of us - that we can't be manipulated.

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 2d

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 18h

I'm just glad we're reclaiming frogs from the Nazis.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about Christmas presents for my wife. Does anyone know what it smells like?

A sign at the Westfield shopping centre. Reading “Please use the escalator by Prada”.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1d

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Bernd Schlipphak @bschlipphak.bsky.social · 19h

This is a highly interesting, timely and great initiative - a new diamond OA journal for #replication research! It is interdisciplinary, but #PolSci is specifically invited. Hence, if you or someone you know has an interesting replication paper, do not hesitate to submit!

Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 19h

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions!

Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Most Americans say Trump has improperly used his office to:
💠Punish those who say things he does not like (66%)
💠Encourage federal investigations of his political opponents (62%)
💠Enrich himself or his friends and family (61%)

new @pewresearch.org findings

Most Americans think Trump is trying to exercise more power than previous presidents

49% of U.S. adults say Trump is trying to exercise more presidential power than previous presidents and that this is bad for the country.

www.pewresearch.org

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Matthias Meisner @meisnerwerk.bsky.social · 15h

„Der ideologische Sog, der alle Kritik in den Abgrund riss“ - unter dieser Überschrift lobt @renemartens.bsky.social im @altpapier.bsky.social das Buch „Die verdrängte Pandemie“ von Frédéric Valin und @paulschuberth.bsky.social. Danke für die Leseempfehlung! www.mdr.de/altpapier/da...

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Sebastian Bohrn Mena @bohrn-mena.at · 15h

Maria Corina #Machado wurde also der #Friedensnobelpreis verliehen. Und viele jubeln jetzt: Ein "Zeichen gegen Trump" sei das, eine Hoffnung für die Welt. Das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Bitte informiert Euch. Als Nachkomme chilenischer Faschismusopfer ist mir das wirklich wichtig. Ein Thread: (1)

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 16h

Und wir müssen die Frau auch nicht zur Gallionsfigur gegen Trump machen bsky.app/profile/bohr...

Sebastian Bohrn Mena @bohrn-mena.at · 16h

Machado ist eine Katastrophe. Eine ultrarechte Industriellen-Tochter mit Support der USA. Die alles privatisieren und Venezuela zu dem Vasallen machen möchte, die es vor Chavez war. Eine Schande und in Wahrheit ein Triumph für Trump.

taz.de/Friedensnobe...

Friedensnobelpreis: Wer ist María Corina Machado?

Der Friedensnobelpreis 2025 geht an die venezolanische Politikerin María Corina Machado. Anlässlich anhaltender Proteste erschien ein Portrait in der taz.

taz.de

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 16h

Nein das norwegische Friedensnobelpreis-Kommittee „trollt“ Trump nicht, sie „wischen“ ihm auch nicht eins aus und haben das nicht „extra“ gemacht. Preisträgerin Machado steht seit Wochen fest. Dieser ganze Vorgang hat nichts mit Trump zu tun. Es sind eigene Verdienste. Bringt ihn nicht rein.

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 20h

Wenn ihr jetzt ernsthaft Donald Trump und den Friedensnobelpreis diskutiert, dann ist eure Lernkurve in Sachen rechtsextremer Diskursvernebelung erstaunlich flach.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

I will not be reacting to what The Orange Men have to say about autism. It is ridiculous. At some point you gotta stop repeating your opponent's absurd claims, even if only to refute them, and get back on message.

Autism is a normal occurrence among humans; autistic people are worthy.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became grown, I put away childish things. Then when I became a bit more grown, I rebought those same childish things from a vintage reseller and kinda don’t know how to feel about it

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

And yes, we did listen to our merch survey…

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Alas I Am But Bones (aka Viergacht) @viergacht.bsky.social · 1d

How to torture a autistic person: "You need to go somewhere later but I don't know exactly what time."

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 21h

he knows ball

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 21h

I love Instagram because people have bio descriptors like "Hypermobility Coach" with cool videos about how being neurodivergent means being more likely to be hypermobile and what issues can arise from that and you know what, that's a follow

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 20h

okay weird flex but I swear this is the second time someone on here has written me a double dactyl and now I cannot for the life of me FIND the first one, so I'm retweeting this with much better keywords so I have a hope of finding it again

Patrick Nielsen Hayden @handle.invalid · 21h

Winsocket spinsocket
Gretchen McCulloch, a
Linguist and podcaster
(Double the threat)

Showed us how online chat
Idiomatically
Makes us talk different be-
cause Internet.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Paul Schuierer-Aigner @pablodiabolo.bsky.social · 15h

Danke Frau Krisper, für Ihre unermüdliche Aufklärungs- und Menschenrechtsarbeit und für das Sichtbarmachen der heutigen Zustände.

Wenn es mehr Politiker*innen Ihres Formates gäbe, müssten nicht die wenigen Aufrechten aus der Politik aussteigen.

Alles Gute an anderer, hoffentlich wirksamer Stelle!

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Paul Schuierer-Aigner @pablodiabolo.bsky.social · 15h

Es kann sein, dass wir in 5 Jahren zurückschauen und sagen, spätestens da hätte man begreifen müssen, dass die Regierung den Teufel mit dem Beelzebub auszutreiben versucht, dass das selber-immer-blauer-werden eine Doppelmühle ist, mit der die FPÖ gar nicht regieren muss, um an der Macht zu sein.

Stephanie Krisper @steffikrisper.bsky.social · 17h

Mit Ende Oktober lege ich mein Mandat als Nationalratsabgeordnete zurück. Ich bleibe NEOS verbunden- dies als Mitglied der Partei und im Erweiterten Vorstand. Es war mir eine Ehre. ❤️🙏
Hier mein vollständiges Statement. ⤵️

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Paul Schuierer-Aigner @pablodiabolo.bsky.social · 16h

Das Problem: das ist der österreichische Rundfunk, keine rechter Blog

Wenn der ÖRR so versagt, wie hier der ORF, dann müssen wir uns die Medien selber machen

Den Pluralismus schützen heute schon zahlreiche kleine Plattformen und Podcasts, die Factchecken und deeper recherchieren mehr, als der ORF

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Paul Schuierer-Aigner @pablodiabolo.bsky.social · 20h

Nein verdammt. Generalstaatsanwältin ist sie.

So macht ihr das Geschäft der Autokraten mit.

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