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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 23d

Another reporter fired JUST FOR ACCURATELY REPORTING WHAT CHARLIE KIRK SAID.

They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it.

This shit is as fixed as wrestling.

My only direct reference to Kirk was one post— his own words on record.

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"Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot"
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My commentary received thoughtful engagement across platforms, support, and virtually no public backlash.
And yet, the Post accused my measured Bluesky posts of being "unacceptable", "gross misconduct" and of endangering the physical safety of colleagues - charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false.

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 27d

I never thought I'd do a midnight search for UK contract law on a whim, but here we are, down the rabbit hole.

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 11 September to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberalism' at the Centre for Political Philosophy.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

CPP Colloquium

The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter, postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department o...

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Sep 2

By defining liberty as the enactment of personhood, liberalism can be reoriented toward a relational account. On this view, liberty is not about flourishing through non-interference, but about flourishing through caring relationships.

dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Sep 2

Instead, I suggest we think of freedom not as an end in itself, but as a means to enact our personhood. We need freedom whether we are defined as isolated individuals or as interconnected selves—the difference lies in what that freedom looks like.

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Sep 2

I argue that this atomistic definition of persons overlooks the fact that humans are inherently relational. While liberalism has long been tied to atomistic personhood, recognising atomism's limitations does not mean the end of political liberalism.

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Sep 2

Liberal political theory’s traditional focus on atomistic personhood—seeing individuals as self-contained beings whose status stems from intellectual abilities—has shaped our legal systems but does not reflect human nature and increasingly struggles to capture online harms.

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 11 September to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberalism' at the Centre for Political Philosophy.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

CPP Colloquium

The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter, postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department o...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Sep 1

Likewise!! I look forward to your next visit 😊

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro

Install kokoro in terminal:
pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx

then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...

this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.

text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro

text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro - gist:5e73a7a375c0409f47c5cb3d380d4910

gist.github.com

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Jul 17

then install an audiobook app for listening to longer files, as they enable bookmarking, note taking, and +10 and -10 second skips and rewinds, and enjoy listening

let me know if any of this needs more explanation and/or if it works for what you are wanting!

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Jul 17

In the terminal, install
pip install pydub
and
brew install ffmpeg

Then run script to convert .wav into .mp3, available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...

.wav to .mp3

.wav to .mp3. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Jul 17

Once the audio file creation is complete you end up with a .wav file that you could convert to mp3, which is more compact. you could also do it in one go with the above script, but as it makes further requirements on what is installed I have separated them.

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Jul 17

once you have the script set up as wanted, you can run it through the terminal. If you use software such as Visual Studio Code, the only thing you need to do is to make sure that the .docx file is in the same directory as the script, or else adjust the path in the configuration section of the script

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Jul 17

you can change voices and languages in the configuration section, here are some samples of voices huggingface.co/hexgrad/Koko...

The code above defaults to US English, for British English use language code 'b'

huggingface.co

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro

Install kokoro in terminal:
pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx

then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...

this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.

text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro

text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro - gist:5e73a7a375c0409f47c5cb3d380d4910

gist.github.com

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Jul 17

Sure! Not sure how familiar these terms are so please forgive any redundant over-explanation

I use Visual Studio Code for convenience, but the combination of a plain text file saved as .py for the code and running it in the terminal works too.

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Jul 17

Went down a text-to-speech rabbit hole because my current version of Microsoft Word cannot read text out loud in a mechanical voice, and the AI app readers have a limit, and now I have a python script running in terminal creating an audiobook-for-the-purposes-of-proofreading-with-tired-eyes

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · Apr 1

I have a post on Criminal Justice Theory Blog (@theoryjustice.bsky.social) about personhood theory and understanding wrongs of non-contact offences, here: image-based sexual abuse. Many thanks to @markedsouza1.bsky.social and Liat Levanon! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...

Image-based sexual abuse and personhood: A relational approach to wrongfulness

by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · Apr 17

3 more days to submit your abstract for this great conference on Thicker Notions of Human Rights #Accountabilities which will take place in Brussels 19-21 November! The final conference of our great project on future proofing #humanrights 🤩

futureproofinghumanrights.org/news/closing...

Closing Conference - Call for Abstracts - Future Proofing Human Rights

The Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities Conference revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties and how to actually deliver human ri...

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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · Apr 14

Isreal murdered 6 brothers delivering food to starving Gazans. The youngest was 10 years old.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Apr 14

6 brothers worked as humanitarian aid volunteers in Gaza.

Israel bombed their car and murdered them all.

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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · Apr 7

Fascist fucks.

And even if they did have a criminal record, this is still fascist fuckery.

60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · Apr 7

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Apr 7

🚨New Publication on *Creating* Sexually Explicit Deepfakes & Criminal Law.
Pleased to share my latest research with Ruya Tuna Toparlak on why term 'sexual digital forgeries' is preferred, distinct harms of creation & analysis of law reforms around the world onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Ann Olivarius @annolivarius.bsky.social · Apr 4

A third police officer is arrested in Rotherham for raping a 14-year old girl.

When we say male sexual violence is "systemic", this is what we mean:

It's when a child victim of rape is either ignored by the police or raped by the police.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Third ex-police officer arrested in Rotherham child sexual exploitation inquiry

Former officer with South Yorkshire force arrested on suspicion of raping teenage girl in 2004

www.theguardian.com

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Ann Olivarius @annolivarius.bsky.social · Apr 4

Here's a radical thought:

Assume that girls' feelings reflect facts.

Assume that girls can read their environment and are adept at risk assessment.

Assume that girls' are ... right. Take them seriously.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Girls in England feel less safe at school than they did pre-Covid, survey finds

Study finds larger drop-off among girls aged 13-14 who feel safe than among boys, compared with age group in 2019

www.theguardian.com

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