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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️

@loukas.bsky.social

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Liberation, ecology, research, communication. 📍🇸🇪Sweden via London

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · Jun 16

📝Ok this is my social media promise to you, as of June 2025:
🌩️We know things are terrible.
⚠️Sometimes I will share warnings and updates that help us understand the terribleness.
🌻Mostly I will share things that help us all to build a life together that stands against the horrors.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · Aug 29

Co-op to start stocking new beer by Palestinian brewery in the UK - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/co-op-start-stocking-palestinian-taybeh-beer-uk

Co-op to start stocking new beer by Palestinian brewery in the UK

Sun & Stone lager, co-produced by the Taybeh brewery in West Bank, will be stocked in 1,600 stores from 10 September

www.middleeasteye.net

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 9h

So what I like about agroecology is the idea that, actually, everyone who grows or gathers is a scientist.

Because it also fits with what we are starting to re-learn about how scientific and inventive people in the distant past actually were.

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 9h

There seems to be a similarity between the idea that "people in the middle ages were stupid" and that "people in non industrialised countries are/were stupid".

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gerrarrdus @gerrarrdus.bsky.social · 11h

This is a very sinister review.

"Castle carvery now has a children's soft play area located inside at a cost of only £3.50 per child.On both occasions the meat has been very tender & fresh."

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 12h

This is very unusual. And really a sign of the times.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 15h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 10h

Never accept the xenophobic description of the world, that things such as 'strange' cultures or peoples exist. The strange, the xenos, is always something that is the result of a decision to treat people in a particular way.

Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11h

Some people seem to think that xenophobia is something that can only affect you if you actually physically came from elsewhere. I regret to inform you, as a child of the Vilnius region, that this is extremely false.

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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 10h

LEICESTER TONIGHT: Dear BlueSky chums we have a couple of spare tickets on our guest list for tonight's show at The Y Theatre with #GabrielleSey. If you live locally and fancy a night out, drop me a line via tom(at)tomrobinson(dot)com and I'll add your name +1 to the list :-)

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 10h

Yes exactly, we're beyond the south sea bubble, and into medieval territory:)

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

Fair play

Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

The 'flex crops' now have geopolitical sclerosis.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12h

A lotta folks have been warning for YEARS that govt subsidies encouraging US farmers to invest near-exclusively in two crops (soybeans and corn) could have catastrophic consequences.

Most were thinking climate-change implications (making these crops ungrowable) but here’s a self-inflicted one!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 11h

Reupping this — I’m still looking for folks to talk to!

Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

Are rising prices and inflation eating into your or a loved one’s Social Security payments? Want to talk about it with a reporter for a news article? DM or email sluterman at 19thnews dot org.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

I agree it's not true no Democrat politician is failing to use this message, but the characteristics of the main press releases means there's probably a lot of people who do indeed exist in an information world where the only Democrat messages they see are of this same character.

Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

We can stick to words like 'patty', or Swedish 'biff', which are content-neutral.

Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

We should start calling it the AI buboe.

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

I see the covering of what you can call unaffordable, but where's any reference to anything despotism-adjacent? 'Consolidating power' doesn't seem to speak in and of itself of despotism.

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

Because I'm in my theory and methods era, I did a check. And if you take Democratic Party press releases as your data set, then there's no press release I can relate to despotism etc on the first few pages. But of course my sampling may be faulty democrats.org/news/page/3/

Press Releases - Democrats

democrats.org

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

Me too

Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

No! But it did a few hours ago.

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

(and the fact that people are engaging with pragmatic unification regardless of their wishes about unification is surely a sign that we are dealing with an intersubjective process of unification, and hence a stronger process than if it was driven by a deliberate political agenda)

Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

I'm saying that elements of unification are already present, so that if other elements are completed it will be possible for historians to describe unification as having already started in 2025.

I'm also saying that if some elements are present it makes it easier for others to appear.

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 12h

Ah, right, thank you.

Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 13h

Spoiler alert!

Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 13h

I suspect that after the bubble bursts then LLMs will collapse back into this 7% of actually useful cases for specific computer tasks.