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Fergus@ferrousmu.bsky.social |
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Monotropic science teacher.
aka Ferrous, or Oolong (or MxOolong).
they/them.
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Nicholas Slayton
@nslayton.bsky.social
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Wow. Whole lot of people use shopify. And it's run by these people. Not great that so many non ghouls have to use the platform that enriches ghouls.
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman
Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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welcome to life under a fascist govt with no oversight
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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“Unpack the Court. It’s long overdue.”
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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Thanks for explaining, I was intrigued but uncomprehending when you first mentioned it!
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geoffrey
@parsnip.bsky.social
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wow that kicks ass
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Pookleblinky
@pookleblinky.bsky.social
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It turns out people really, really like to vote for a campaign that promises to do specific things to make their lives better, and that this motivates people a hell of a lot more than making a j/o gesture and telling them to enjoy the camps unless they pokemon GO to the polls.
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Pookleblinky
@pookleblinky.bsky.social
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The far right in France lost, in a very large part, because people weren't just being asked to vote against them but *for* something. The New Popular Front campaigned in taxing the shit out of the extremely wealthy, for instance.
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Henner Kirchner🕊️
@hennerkirchner.info
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“We declare that Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza.”
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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Evergreen reminder that you can complain to the #BBC any time you like, there's always something worth complaining about.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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Just Jim will do.
@justjim.bsky.social
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And in the process murdered photographer Fernando Pereira. The two operatives who were caught pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sent up for ten years. They spent two years confined to a Polynesian island and were then released by France.
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Mongabay
@mongabay.bsky.social
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Mexico, including the Yaqui Valley, is experiencing a deadly heat wave, drought and water shortages. Within the Yaqui Territory are the remnants of their sacred Yaqui River, which has been drained of all its water after decades of overexploitation, unequal water distribution and droughts. Read:
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Taylor Lorenz
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
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Meta is expanding its content moderation policies to remove posts attacking "Zionists."
Meta is now categorizing the term "Zionist" alongside other “protected characteristics,” including race or religion www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Good a time as any btw to remind you all that “gender-critical” ideology is in fact inherently homophobic: it seeks to define men and women on the basis of a normative, pseudo-scientific “role” in heterosexual reproduction. And they seek to enshrine that in law.
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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You're probably better placed to assess than me tbh
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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Still the second worst decade out of the last seven though, I reckon
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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I think I bought a Belle and Sebastian CD about eight years ago? But then I realised my computer didn't even have a CD drive.
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Academic Audio Transcription Ltd
@aat-transcribes.bsky.social
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Ever tried to transcribe a focus group using AI? You may notice it fails to pick up non-Western names/accents & doesn't differentiate between speakers.
We care about getting your research right.
Get a quote for human transcription today at academicaudiotranscription.com 🎙️
#EthicalAlternativeToAI
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Jack
@jackinpogform.bsky.social
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"We promised to be marginally better than fuck all. Unfortunately, it transpires that this was radically ambitious 😔"
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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So for all the narrative about the inevitable slide into anti-immigrant populism, four of Western Europe's five largest countries now have left or center left governments?
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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Surely you don't actually believe this.
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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and now those racists are in charge of the party
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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This is the worst possible take on Labour deselecting an excellent candidate at the last minute, on spurious grounds, because she was too brown and left-wing for them.
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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She still does!
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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I'm still furious that #Labour allowed Iain Duncan Smith to keep his seat, just so that they wouldn't have a left-wing brown woman representing them.
Here's Dr Faiza Shaheen, who should have been their candidate (not that they deserve her) being hopeful regardless.
www.instagram.com/reel/C9KHyCF...
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Tristan
@eidyngray.scot
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I spent months having to get up at 5.30am. It didn't make me more productive and successful. It made me lonely and sad. Weird how all the takes about getting up early seem to come from CEOs and not the far more common cases of factory workers and struggling parents.
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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Yup! I almost put that in the original post... 😊
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Ian Rennie
@theangelremiel.bsky.social
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It's been very interesting to see English language news tear up all their planned "far right now rules France, here's how progressives fucked up" stories and hurriedly write "no bloc has a majority, here's why that's bad for progressives" stories.
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Bethany Black
@bethanyblack.bsky.social
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Not just that voters want Neoliberalism to end; that it has run its course achieved its stated aims and can no longer sustain its contradictions.
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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...just like all the trials before it. Better do another dozen or so before we collectively do anything about it though, right?
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Charlie Lizardbreath
@yarnycharlie.bsky.social
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So.... "Unlearning Shame" by Devon Price is calling me out.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Maybe this is optimistic btw but the more the “trans issue” becomes mainstream the less sympathy transphobes get because I like to think that most people respond badly to the kind of bigotry JK Rowling is now spewing 24/7. Like, it’s a double-edged sword for them. Maybe?
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Hillary Monahan
@hillarymonahan.bsky.social
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People cannot seem to understand--or refuse to understand--that not all disability is static. With many conditions, some days are better than others. That doesn't negate the disability. It doesn't make the shitty days not count anymore.
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Mika McKinnon
@mikamckinnon.bsky.social
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Fact-check: Real (& delightful)
Source: einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol8-trans/34
Additional context:
www.vox.com/xpress/2014/...
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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Mathilde Panot, President of the La France Insoumise in Parliament which is part of the New Popular Front that just shocked the world, says that France will recognize a Palestinian state in the next two weeks.
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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Attal says he will resign as Prime Minister. This is not surprising: Macronists did a lot better than they were fearing—but they will lose a lot of seats. They're no longer in a position to govern by themselves (or nearly by themselves since 2002) like they have since 2017.
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FEISTY😈
@crzyfkinworld.bsky.social
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Yesterday, I attended a party with about 15 millennials & 20 boomers. Politics came up. Not one person had heard of Project 2025. I gave them a crash course on it. By the time it was over, I was able to convince everyone that this election is a choice between democracy and a dictatorship.
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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Thursday's UK election might mark a turning point of sorts, but Starmer's Labour Party are barely even pretending to have any answers to the challenges ahead.
We need people, and communities, to feel empowered to fix the things they can. Centralisation has always failed us.
youtu.be/HoQsYG0oGKQ?...
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Semiotic Stochastic the Kidney Failer🇵🇸
@mitdasein.bsky.social
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I’m Autistic, Now What? on monotropism:
youtu.be/3mBbOOzhoGQ?...
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David J Bauman
@davidjbauman.bsky.social
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This this this! It’s the first thing I say when people ask how they can help the library. The second thing is show up, use our services. Come get your copies here instead of at Staples, we’re cheaper and the more you use us, the better are stats. The better our stats, the more our funding rises.
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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I certainly hope they will, but they might just point to Labour's overwhelming victory just a few days after its leader being the most openly transphobic he's ever been... 😑 But he was probably only attacking trans people because he thought it was a vote-winner, right?
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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Nice. But Solway is, notably, an entirely different location!
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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Oh, that is interesting!
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Merry Hadaway
@kindjourneys.bsky.social
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I'm going to take every win gladly when Labour do something right over the coming days/weeks/months. Partly because all good things are good, I mean obviously. Partly because it frees us all up to target fighting them where they're dreadful.
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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It remains to be seen how Labour's vanishing left faction will work with Corbyn and other independents, and Greens and others. Obviously, many high up in the party want everyone on the left out of the party, especially those from minorities. Will they stop now? Was the Shaheen fuckup a watershed?
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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Right: it's absolutely clear that we need a mainstream party/group of the left, and that the Labour Party cannot and will not be any part of it. Can the Greens fill the gap? Maybe, but probably not on their own. A lot of people have viewed A New Party Of The Left as just a mirage, for a long time.
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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Where does Labour go from here? Where does the left go? Where does the right go? Which of the timebombs we're sitting on will go off first, and will it set off the others? How will we weather the coming crises? How do we stop the ones holding the levers from preventing us from saving ourselves?
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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...meanwhile, practically all the public services in Britain are barely functional, after 14 years of obsessive, ideologically-driven under-investment. The workforce is sick, demotivated, anxious and financially struggling. Labour's plans for tackling any of these serious issues are... minimalist.
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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But climate change is starting to hit hard, more people than ever are disabled thanks to the disastrously handled pandemic, Brexit turned out to be a terrible idea, British manufacturing is not doing great, natural resources are depleted, the population's aging, we may be on the brink of more war...
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Fergus
@ferrousmu.bsky.social
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They have promised to follow Tory spending plans, and to avoid raising any of the obvious taxes that they could use to invest in making Britain better... Their few promises that imply any spending are predicated on economic growth. Where will this come from? Nobody knows. Maybe somewhere? Somehow?
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