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Scottish Antifascist and Liberal. In my spare time; I'm interested in urban blight, nature in the post-human landscape and the works of Peter Watts.
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This is so funny

Reminder that wellness grifters like Trump’s new Surgeon General Casey Means spread misinformation about vaccines and health because it is extremely profitable for them to do so. (Chart by @epidemiologistkat.bsky.social)

Nope on Woke Pope spoke big dope. Go mope, big dope. Go cope, big dope.

god it's so good

Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...

So I figured I’d go ahead and formally announce this: I’m moving out of Texas to be up in Canada where it’s safer for me. Moving is expensive. I’m putting together a stream with friends on Monday, May 12 in order to raise money to help with it. I’ll be playing Sonic Adventure 2 for the first time

FACT CHECK: True. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/why-is-and...

New: Small-time Trump meme coin buyers have seen their investments collapse. Nearly 67,000 crypto novices have pulled out their debit cards to bet on $TRUMP, our analysis found. So far it’s been a monumental bust. Gift link: wapo.st/3ZacyZY w/ @jeremybmerrill.com

Nuclear strength sinosphere meme

Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.

I wonder where natural selection will leave LLM's in the long term.

The Japanese empire was murdering 200,000 civilians in China every single month of 1945

The intellectuals of the western left are so ignorant… 🇺🇦 lost 16% of its population in WWII (🇷🇺 lost 12%) 4.5m Ukrainians were in the Red Army; ¼ were killed 2.2m Ukrainians were taken west as slave labourers 1.5m Ukrainian Jews died in the Shoah 150,000 were in 🇺🇦 ’s Soviet partisan forces 1️⃣/2

I can’t believe that stupid ass COD commercial was right lol

Leftistishly slides into Rape of Nanjing and Holovaust revisionism.

BREAKING: Newark Airport is a full-blown disaster—800+ flights canceled, 5-hour delays, and the FAA bleeding staff like a severed artery. This isn’t just Newark—it’s a nationwide meltdown in real time caused by a rotting, underfunded system. And guess what? It’s about to get worse.