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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

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Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

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Allinrep @allinrep.social.spejset.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Två personer i varsin halva av bilden. Personen till höger med den bruna färgen i bakgrunden säger "kets meet in the middle" men när personen till vänster med röd färg i bakgrunden går mot mitten går den andre längre åt höger och upprepar sen "let's meet in the middle ". Text under bilden: the Conservative game.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 8d

@davidho.bsky.social I have seen it, but not often.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8d

“Always let people cross before you turn” is not something I’ve ever seen happen in the UK. Some enforcement would be good.

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 13d

Only 16% of people understand key Highway Code rules designed to keep everyone safe.

TfL have a new campaign aims to raise awareness of the Highway Code, highlighting key rules designed to protect people walking, cycling & motorcycling.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10d

NASA is facing backlash after reportedly being ordered to destroy a fully operational satellite that plays a crucial role in monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere.

Imagine a perfectly good, high-tech spacecraft gathering invaluable data on carbon dioxide
– a key player in climate change
– only to […]

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Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10d

[Running, selfie]

The best time to find out you've got the beginnings of a cold is certainly not a few hundred metres into a 10K run, when you suddenly find it difficult to breath.

I struggled to my finish in 53:47 in Grantchester this morning, stopping after […]

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A selfie. I'm a middle-aged white man with shoulder-length way brown hair, round glasses, and grey-brown stubble, wearing a red running vest and blue finishers medal strap around my neck. The Running Events Cambridgeshire flag is behind me.

Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11d

[Running]

My finish in the Cheltenham Half Marathon last weekend, raising money for Sue Ryder.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/matt-hodgkinson-run-cheltenham

#halfmarathon #charityrun #sueryder #runninguk #cheltenham

I am running with both feet off the ground, right foot forward. The Cheltenham racecourse stand is in the background and half a dozen other runners are in view. I'm a middle-aged white man with swept-back dark hair, round sunglasses, a blue and white Sue Ryder running vest (number 6066), black shorts, and light teal running shoes.

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Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@RadicalAnthro I've always viewed Stringer as level-headed too, ever since I studied biological anthropology at part of my uni course. I just get grumpy when each new fossil description "changes our picture of human evolution"!

A Eurasian origin of the […]

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Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@cstross.bsky.social It dates to the 1940s, but it's not known who coined it. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/wrestle_with_a_pig

wrestle with a pig - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@mrundkvist What's wrong with sounding like a working-class teenager?

I think you're tilting at windmills. Accents shift, so we no longer consider 19th- and 20th-century RP an acceptable way to speak: it sounds forced and quaint. Errors and variations multiply, so we say uncle not nuncle, and […]

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Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@RadicalAnthro The skull reconstruction and its comparison to Denisovans is interesting, but the conclusions about a deep split of >1MYA between Denisovans on one hand and humans and Neanderthals on the other seems far too speculative and in contrast to genetic evidence. I find John Hawks' […]

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12d

Mainstream Press Confesses They Missed the Other Politicized Prosecutions

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/m...

Mainstream Press Confesses They Missed the Other Politicized Prosecutions - emptywheel

Watching the mainstream press, you'd think it was the first time that an investigation ordered up by Donald Trump resulted in a flimsy false statements charge just before the statute of limitations ex...

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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

The 'small tech' map - it's great to see that so many good alternatives to #bigtech unethical #datarape products exist.

Which will you switch to?

(This map appears on this page of our website: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html , and […]

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a map of europe with privacy-focused alternatives to big tech products on it. Also shown are US, Canada and FOSS products.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.

She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with
the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully
with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman-
der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be-
havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable,
fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many
political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

My study of old #folklore gets more and more relevant to current-day affairs.

Example: All of these narratives about "Things That Cause #autism " are basically recycled folk tales about #changelings .

Right now, we are at the: "The child is WRONG somehow - the mother must have been careless!" […]

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 15d

Great great great @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social on the whole Kimmel thing and the importance of fighting for free speech.

I will note that even though the first 30 minutes don't seem to be about Kimmel, they're (1) hilarious and (2) set up the Kimmel stuff... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYd...

This Kind of Freedom Will Leave You Speechless

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 15d

This Trump–Epstein statue popped up in DC today. 🤯😅

Satirical bronze-colored statues of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., posed holding hands with one leg raised each, in front of the U.S. Capitol building. Several people stop to look and take photos of the installation.

Close-up of a satirical plaque on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., reading “In Honor of Friendship Month.” The inscription claims to celebrate the bond between Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, with an engraved outline of hands forming a heart shape and the phrase “There Must Be More To Life Than Having Everything.”

Plaque at the base of a satirical statue on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., inscribed with “Jeffrey Epstein” and a mock dialogue. The text reads: “Nor will I, since I also know what it is. Yes, we do, come to think of it. As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.” The bronze-colored statue’s foot is visible above the plaque.

Plaque from a satirical statue installation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., inscribed with “Donald J. Trump” at the top. The text reads: “Yes, there is. But I won’t tell you what it is. We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday— and may every day be another wonderful secret.” A facsimile of Trump’s signature appears at the bottom.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15d

This satirical blog post really illustrates the problem with a lot of technical writing. Amazing technical writing is so good and then everything else reads like this

https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner

我，一个初学开发的人，是如何阅读你，一个开发者，为我编写的教程的

How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me (anniemueller.com) 09:27 ↑ 106 HN Points

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

"A tenured professor turned federal scientist, she had entered public service to strengthen U.S. food security and prepare the country for climate change. But climate reports disappeared from agency websites, grant applications were frozen, and research was subjected to political review.

This […]

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Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 16d

[Running]

I ran the Run Cheltenham Half Marathon yesterday to raise money for Sue Ryder and, in perfect conditions, I got my second fastest time at 1:45:47. Copious jelly babies from spectators helped!

It's not too late to donate […]

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MY RESULTS

Run Cheltenham

21 Sep 2025

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Congratulations Matt Hodgkinson!

Your results are in, and they're looking great.

Finished

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Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 16d

[UKpol, immigration]

This is awful from Reform - it's the Windrush scandal on steroids. So many people would have their right to remain torn away from them and likely be detained and deported, some after decades like my mother-in-law. Undoubtedly this would face challenge in the European Court […]

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Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17d

@karenattiah.bsky.social Won't someone think of the white men?! *clutches pearls*

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17d

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up.

The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*.

Read the termination letter for yourself.

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