@apm77.bsky.social
I should update this profile. But then why should anyone care who I am?
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I would take more delight in how stupid they are if we didn’t have millennia of human history testifying to the fact that stupidity and ruthlessness is a dangerous combination.
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I would take more delight in how stupid they are if we didn’t have millennia of human history testifying to the fact that stupidity and ruthlessness is a dangerous combination.
A political commentator I find perplexing — in that he mixes sensible takes with unsubstantiated nonsense — is Vlad Vexler. See claims about "woke" in his video on Mamdani (watch?v=7qg_KHXZVSs). Can a @michaelhobbes.bsky.social or an @evanurquhart.bsky.social tell me what to make of him?
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A political commentator I find perplexing — in that he mixes sensible takes with unsubstantiated nonsense — is Vlad Vexler. See claims about "woke" in his video on Mamdani (watch?v=7qg_KHXZVSs). Can a @michaelhobbes.bsky.social or an @evanurquhart.bsky.social tell me what to make of him?
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social When you talk about the difference between public and restricted versions of a story, I sometimes think of the read-along book/cassettes of Disney movies I had as a child. Like this one for example readalongadventures.com/blog/20000-l...
...Or Two | Read-Along Adventures
I've got a whale of a tale for you, in fact, I have two. So, with the passing recently of Kirk Douglas, I thought it'd be a good time to add 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
readalongadventures.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social When you talk about the difference between public and restricted versions of a story, I sometimes think of the read-along book/cassettes of Disney movies I had as a child. Like this one for example readalongadventures.com/blog/20000-l...
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social I see Stefan Milo has just published a video "The Ghosts of Paleolithic Australia", subtitle "the stories that survived 30,000 years" www.youtube.com/watch?v=raAK.... I haven't watched it yet, but I feel like you'd want to know it's there.
The Ghosts of Paleolithic Australia
YouTube video by Stefan Milo
www.youtube.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social I see Stefan Milo has just published a video "The Ghosts of Paleolithic Australia", subtitle "the stories that survived 30,000 years" www.youtube.com/watch?v=raAK.... I haven't watched it yet, but I feel like you'd want to know it's there.
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www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
From the transgenderUK community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community
www.reddit.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
You always know someone is an awful person if they think sex ed classes should be separated.
It *always* *always* *always* means they want the classes to be a tool for spreading heteronormative propaganda and don't want students to be encouraged to listen to other people's perspectives.
It *always* *always* *always* means they want the classes to be a tool for spreading heteronormative propaganda and don't want students to be encouraged to listen to other people's perspectives.
August 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
You always know someone is an awful person if they think sex ed classes should be separated.
It *always* *always* *always* means they want the classes to be a tool for spreading heteronormative propaganda and don't want students to be encouraged to listen to other people's perspectives.
It *always* *always* *always* means they want the classes to be a tool for spreading heteronormative propaganda and don't want students to be encouraged to listen to other people's perspectives.
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It’s absolutely GROTESQUE how ‘gender critical’ transphobes have HIJACKED equality language - claiming it’s a “legitimate aim” to DISCRIMINATE against trans people, just because trans people make them feel icky! 😡🤬
#FuckTERFs
#FuckTERFs
August 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It’s absolutely GROTESQUE how ‘gender critical’ transphobes have HIJACKED equality language - claiming it’s a “legitimate aim” to DISCRIMINATE against trans people, just because trans people make them feel icky! 😡🤬
#FuckTERFs
#FuckTERFs
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Sex Matters is a huge problem for a sane world
Notably in here: "Sex Matters" now taking the position that even the "Men's" and "Women's" sections of a clothing retailer should be regarded as prescriptive "single sex spaces" where anyone they judge to be the "wrong" sex/gender should not be allowed.
August 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Sex Matters is a huge problem for a sane world
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That’s it. The rapid establishment of ICE as an all-purpose, super well-funded secret police with zero accountability is *the* main story right now.
Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
That’s it. The rapid establishment of ICE as an all-purpose, super well-funded secret police with zero accountability is *the* main story right now.
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social Trolls descended on my post in your subreddit, they are toxic. I am quite certain my post is neither inane nor weird, as alleged (at least, not weird to the kind of people you write for). I hope the community deals with them in due course and I get some proper engagement.
July 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social Trolls descended on my post in your subreddit, they are toxic. I am quite certain my post is neither inane nor weird, as alleged (at least, not weird to the kind of people you write for). I hope the community deals with them in due course and I get some proper engagement.
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The whole core premise of the "Gender Critical" nonsense about toilets is just so obviously rubbish. Ok so there's a trans person using the toilet next to you... so? Get a fucking life
June 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The whole core premise of the "Gender Critical" nonsense about toilets is just so obviously rubbish. Ok so there's a trans person using the toilet next to you... so? Get a fucking life
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Fascinating new discoveries dating back 20,000 years in Australia.
Gomeroi man Wayne Brennan said: the discoveries proved Dargan Shelter is on a "dreaming track".
"It's a songline track that brought in a lot of different mobs from up north, west, east and south,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Gomeroi man Wayne Brennan said: the discoveries proved Dargan Shelter is on a "dreaming track".
"It's a songline track that brought in a lot of different mobs from up north, west, east and south,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Hidden in a Blue Mountains cave are artefacts that change the story of a nation
Deep in the Blue Mountains, archaeologists uncover artefacts that reveal secrets of the nation's Ice Age past.
www.abc.net.au
June 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Fascinating new discoveries dating back 20,000 years in Australia.
Gomeroi man Wayne Brennan said: the discoveries proved Dargan Shelter is on a "dreaming track".
"It's a songline track that brought in a lot of different mobs from up north, west, east and south,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Gomeroi man Wayne Brennan said: the discoveries proved Dargan Shelter is on a "dreaming track".
"It's a songline track that brought in a lot of different mobs from up north, west, east and south,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Me purposefully descending back into the primordial ooze to get a moment of peace.
Marble head of Aphrodite emerges from the mud in the excavation of the ancient city of Aizanoi in modern day Turkey (or Türkiye). Probably 1st or 2nd century
June 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Me purposefully descending back into the primordial ooze to get a moment of peace.
Saw a really bright shooting star / bolide / fireball over Adelaide a few minutes ago. Searched Bluesky for mentions of it, but nothing came up, so I'm doing my part by putting this out there. For just a second or so it was like an exaggerated storybook illustration of a comet.
June 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Saw a really bright shooting star / bolide / fireball over Adelaide a few minutes ago. Searched Bluesky for mentions of it, but nothing came up, so I'm doing my part by putting this out there. For just a second or so it was like an exaggerated storybook illustration of a comet.
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A core part of my personality is that I constantly wonder if I might be wrong about my various beliefs, I never stop testing them and prodding them for weak spots or unwarranted assumptions.
This can rub people the wrong way, but I like being this way - also don't think I could change if I wanted.
This can rub people the wrong way, but I like being this way - also don't think I could change if I wanted.
May 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A core part of my personality is that I constantly wonder if I might be wrong about my various beliefs, I never stop testing them and prodding them for weak spots or unwarranted assumptions.
This can rub people the wrong way, but I like being this way - also don't think I could change if I wanted.
This can rub people the wrong way, but I like being this way - also don't think I could change if I wanted.
These are making me hungry!
Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵
First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
May 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
These are making me hungry!
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Can't remember if I've asked this before, but what's your perspective on the reliability or not of the Youtube channel Crecganford? Sample videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANRw... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwDP... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE6q...
May 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Can't remember if I've asked this before, but what's your perspective on the reliability or not of the Youtube channel Crecganford? Sample videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANRw... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwDP... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE6q...
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Anyway…this is the life I want:
May 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Anyway…this is the life I want:
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social I was slightly disappointed to find no citations for Kelly in www.cell.com/current-biol...
Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation
Chimpanzees drum on the buttress roots of trees for communication. Eleuteri et al.
investigate the presence of key elements of musical rhythm and of regional variation
in chimpanzee buttress drumming....
www.cell.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social I was slightly disappointed to find no citations for Kelly in www.cell.com/current-biol...
I did not know this.
Worth remembering that the original Nazis didn't like being called Nazis either chroniclesmagazine.org/society-cult...
The Strange Origin of the Word ‘Nazi’
It is commonly assumed that the word “Nazi” is the contraction of Adolf Hitler’s political party, the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), or the National Socialist German Workers’ ...
chroniclesmagazine.org
May 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I did not know this.
@stancarey.bsky.social I've been working on a 5500 word compilation of rules for card games and the like, and would be willing to consider a professional edit if you're keen. I've uploaded a draft to app.box.com/s/yf4n0pgapo... and will also seek feedback from other sources. Is this worth pursuing?
April 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
@stancarey.bsky.social I've been working on a 5500 word compilation of rules for card games and the like, and would be willing to consider a professional edit if you're keen. I've uploaded a draft to app.box.com/s/yf4n0pgapo... and will also seek feedback from other sources. Is this worth pursuing?
Donated 100 pounds.
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We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
goodlaw.social/xpme
We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
goodlaw.social/xpme
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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April 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Donated 100 pounds.
Sometime after 2016, I quipped that "“it's only a constitutional crisis” is the new “it's only a flesh wound”".
It's bigger. You've got no arms left.
It's bigger. You've got no arms left.
A plea.
Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?”
It’s bigger.
It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures.
“Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis
It’s bigger.
Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?”
It’s bigger.
It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures.
“Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis
It’s bigger.
April 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Sometime after 2016, I quipped that "“it's only a constitutional crisis” is the new “it's only a flesh wound”".
It's bigger. You've got no arms left.
It's bigger. You've got no arms left.
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April 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social More or less finished Knowledge Gene, if you'll allow me to skim chapter 11. Definitely plan to lend it to some people. Meanwhile, am trying to decide what to do with my various random and disjoint comments: whether to just share them one at a time or what.
April 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social More or less finished Knowledge Gene, if you'll allow me to skim chapter 11. Definitely plan to lend it to some people. Meanwhile, am trying to decide what to do with my various random and disjoint comments: whether to just share them one at a time or what.