Astrid
@astarte.bsky.social
Philosophy MA. Interested in morality of belief. Likes her food. Runs. Dabbles with stories. She/her.
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Act my age? What the fuck is that "act my age"? What do I care how old I am? The ocean is old as fuck, it will still drown your ass with vigor.
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Act my age? What the fuck is that "act my age"? What do I care how old I am? The ocean is old as fuck, it will still drown your ass with vigor.
I just heard from Mohammed that Rania's condition is getting worse. Please keep her and her family in your hearts and if you have anything to donate to contribute to her medical care it would be gratefully received.
My dear friend Rania has just undergone an emergency cesarian to deliver her daughter. Both are in intensive care units and very vulnerable.
Any donations towards their care will be gratefully received.
Mohammed, their husband and father, has been injured and is unable to work.
Any donations towards their care will be gratefully received.
Mohammed, their husband and father, has been injured and is unable to work.
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I just heard from Mohammed that Rania's condition is getting worse. Please keep her and her family in your hearts and if you have anything to donate to contribute to her medical care it would be gratefully received.
My dear friend Rania has just undergone an emergency cesarian to deliver her daughter. Both are in intensive care units and very vulnerable.
Any donations towards their care will be gratefully received.
Mohammed, their husband and father, has been injured and is unable to work.
Any donations towards their care will be gratefully received.
Mohammed, their husband and father, has been injured and is unable to work.
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
My dear friend Rania has just undergone an emergency cesarian to deliver her daughter. Both are in intensive care units and very vulnerable.
Any donations towards their care will be gratefully received.
Mohammed, their husband and father, has been injured and is unable to work.
Any donations towards their care will be gratefully received.
Mohammed, their husband and father, has been injured and is unable to work.
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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EHRC guidance leaked and it's so bad even The Times can't put a positive spin on it
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
EHRC guidance leaked and it's so bad even The Times can't put a positive spin on it
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
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This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
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We cannot understand the emboldening of racists/fascists on the ground without centring the role of the discourse of mainstream elite
This Labour government, anything right of it and any media that does not cover them as enablers are responsible for this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This Labour government, anything right of it and any media that does not cover them as enablers are responsible for this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
We cannot understand the emboldening of racists/fascists on the ground without centring the role of the discourse of mainstream elite
This Labour government, anything right of it and any media that does not cover them as enablers are responsible for this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This Labour government, anything right of it and any media that does not cover them as enablers are responsible for this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I ran my first ultra marathon across the Scottish Highland Moors this weekend. It was fabulous!
Dava Way 50km. Great race, super people. More of this!
Picture by Stuart Ross.
Dava Way 50km. Great race, super people. More of this!
Picture by Stuart Ross.
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I ran my first ultra marathon across the Scottish Highland Moors this weekend. It was fabulous!
Dava Way 50km. Great race, super people. More of this!
Picture by Stuart Ross.
Dava Way 50km. Great race, super people. More of this!
Picture by Stuart Ross.
We’re doomed, as a species, if the smartest of us can’t stop doing insanely dumb things. Doomed!
I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We’re doomed, as a species, if the smartest of us can’t stop doing insanely dumb things. Doomed!
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This is something @aaronwinter.bsky.social and I explored in our report for the @runnymedetrust.bsky.social in the lead up to the 2024 election
Once more, the key question is not whether immigration is a popular concern, but why it has been made so
www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...
Once more, the key question is not whether immigration is a popular concern, but why it has been made so
www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is something @aaronwinter.bsky.social and I explored in our report for the @runnymedetrust.bsky.social in the lead up to the 2024 election
Once more, the key question is not whether immigration is a popular concern, but why it has been made so
www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...
Once more, the key question is not whether immigration is a popular concern, but why it has been made so
www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...
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Great to see the central role of mainstream parties covered so openly as it's been ignored for too long
However, I can't help but think that if the Guardian was serious about agenda setting, it would also reflect on their own role in the mainstreaming process
However, I can't help but think that if the Guardian was serious about agenda setting, it would also reflect on their own role in the mainstreaming process
October 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Great to see the central role of mainstream parties covered so openly as it's been ignored for too long
However, I can't help but think that if the Guardian was serious about agenda setting, it would also reflect on their own role in the mainstreaming process
However, I can't help but think that if the Guardian was serious about agenda setting, it would also reflect on their own role in the mainstreaming process
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Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
October 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up
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“If you do not agree at this point, two years in, that the state that needs to be demilitarized–and deradicalized frankly–is the state that is committing genocide, then you’re part of the problem.”
October 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“If you do not agree at this point, two years in, that the state that needs to be demilitarized–and deradicalized frankly–is the state that is committing genocide, then you’re part of the problem.”
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Using the phrase ‘golden ticket’ like saving your family is a game and you just got a cheat code is insane. The Labour govt are soulless ghouls.
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Using the phrase ‘golden ticket’ like saving your family is a game and you just got a cheat code is insane. The Labour govt are soulless ghouls.
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We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.
September 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.
So Keir Starmer’s position is to both recognise the State of Palestine and strongly support its total colonisation by Trump, Blair, and the IDF?
September 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
So Keir Starmer’s position is to both recognise the State of Palestine and strongly support its total colonisation by Trump, Blair, and the IDF?
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September 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Btw the new OpenAI data centers will consume more power than the entire city of New York, brags Sam Altman
OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says
OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.
futurism.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Btw the new OpenAI data centers will consume more power than the entire city of New York, brags Sam Altman