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Sometimes I think; sometimes I am. Swedish dad, neurologist, giraffe rotator. PhD candidate researching atypical parkinsonian disorders and methods of procrastination. Pluralist in the streets // atheist in the sheets. we stan Kant
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uh what'll they be wearing

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This is a seriously f*cked up article to put behind a paywall.

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🪖 I dunno man. Just, like, suddenly wanted to share photos of the time I covered Kim Jong Il's Pyongyang military parade from 2010. Enjoy!

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Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

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While I agree re. Israel's shortsighted priorities, I doubt the threat from the IRGC will be neutralized by shattering the Iranian state—if anything, the threat will be amplified, with the IRGC poised to benefit more than any other faction.

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The implications of this are also much more dangerous, because for all it's weakened and hollowed-out state, the Iranian regime possesses ~8K kg of fissile material and a sizable arsenal of long-range missiles. If it falls abruptly, securing and/or tracking all of that will be impossible. Brief 🧵

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The conservative movement is just three internet scams wrapped in racist trench-coat.

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"this u?" has gone nuclear

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Mandatory personal misconduct insurance as a requirement for being allowed on the streets

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JK Rowling is rich enough to be able to spend a grown person's annual salary EVERY DAY doing fun things for the rest of her natural life but instead she chooses to be a bit shit online on the nazi site my conclusion is that too much money rots the brain and the soul

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The rest of the west must implement sanctions and other targeted restrictions to contain the Stupid Apocalypse

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Gift article: this morning the Marines detained a Veteran who was trying to enter the VA building they have blocked patient access to all week. The administration is denying veterans access to healthcare for their political theater. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

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My mum got a Black service, not an NHS service. These words from Lord Victor Adebowale are not just personal they are political. Powerful. Painfully familiar. This isn’t one case. It’s a pattern. A system. A truth we must name to change. p1 #TruthToPower #NHS#TruthToPower #BuildTheWorldWeNeed

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preparing for the cyclone

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Why, it contains no king.

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publishers and reporters who abused their privileged position in democracy to help tear it down from within deserve nothing but derision

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Fire. All. Headline. Editors.

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Hej kolla!

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JK Rowling is rich enough to be able to spend a grown person's annual salary EVERY DAY doing fun things for the rest of her natural life but instead she chooses to be a bit shit online on the nazi site my conclusion is that too much money rots the brain and the soul

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company hired by ofcom to assess the risk of the manosphere 🤢

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Def check out the interview tab 😬 is it govt policy to only hire companies that are a bit shit??

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I mean yikes

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This is just ridiculous from @Ofcom - read James Bloodworth’s ‘Lost Boys’ for a deeper dive into the extremism of the Manosphere. Then get the July edition of Byline Times out in a couple of weeks that looks at the networked violence

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Why are we playing this game? The U.S. called our diplomats and personnel home 24 hours before the strikes. Obviously we knew.

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Type of Guy theory of history

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I also think this, the US's model of distributed empire involved plenty of client states and proxies that engaged in this sort of crude machismo but part of what stabilised it all was the perception that the US itself represented an attractive ideal where that sort of nonsense didn't happen.

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Yes, it’s a real car you can actually buy. mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/liberation...

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The results seem to strengthen the case that these systems rely on elaborate pattern-matching rather than the kind of systematic reasoning their marketing might suggest.

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From planning to go with people you know to preparing for a possible riot, here are some tips to keep in mind if you’re interested in attending a mass protest.

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“We are currently clean on OPSEC,” Hegseth added. “Why would Pete Hegseth say this into the Signal group?” Micah Lee, an independent security researcher, asks me, sounding genuinely puzzled. “I’ve put a lot of thought into this and I think he was just trying to sound cool.” nymag.com/intelligence...

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"Since immigration agents detained his wife ... a U.S. Marine Corps veteran has ferried the couple's 9-week-old daughter to a north Louisiana detention facility so she can nurse and visit her mother while the family waits to learn if she will be deported." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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<thread> On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

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I'm feeling the need to be very LA here. The Marines are at the Wilshire Federal Buidling, where there ain't nothin' goin' on. Right now, it'd take like an hour for them to get to downtown. Maybe 45 minutes if they're lucky.

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🧪 NEW STUDY on the ongoing environmental and public health crisis in Gaza in the American Journal of Public Health. Impossible for me to excerpt a quote. Just read it. Everybody. Full text link: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

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reiterating my call to just fire all headline editors

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It would be great if America’s pundits would pause this entire genre. “Burning down my house means I don’t need to take out the trash!” Your cleverness is not winning the day right now.

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I forgot Tucker Carlson even existed—and that's how I know bluesky is terrific

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