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Materialism can't answer these 10 questions without borrowing the metaphysical structure it denies exists.
Every dodge reveals the same problem: physics presupposes what materialism claims it generates.
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Every dodge reveals the same problem: physics presupposes what materialism claims it generates.
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The Hidden Story of Young Martian Volcanoes
The Hidden Story of Young Martian Volcanoes
New research has revealed that Mars’ most recent volcanoes weren’t formed by simple, one off eruptions as scientists previously thought. Instead, these volcanic systems evolved over millions of years, fed by complex underground magma chambers that changed and developed over time. By studying surface features and mineral signatures from orbit, researchers have pieced together a far more intricate volcanic story than anyone expected.
www.universetoday.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:40 AM
The Hidden Story of Young Martian Volcanoes
The Nursing Shortage is a policy choice. By importing staff from red-list countries, the gov creates a safety valve that ignores the 35% drop in local applicants. They don’t need to undercut wages when they can just bypass domestic market to avoid fixing pay + retention.
Classic fiat economic scam.
Classic fiat economic scam.
My area of experience is in nursing, rather than medical staff.
In the case of nurses, “our own people” can’t fill the vacancies.
The rate of nurses leaving the profession is higher than replacement rate from training.
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In the case of nurses, “our own people” can’t fill the vacancies.
The rate of nurses leaving the profession is higher than replacement rate from training.
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February 16, 2026 at 12:11 AM
The Nursing Shortage is a policy choice. By importing staff from red-list countries, the gov creates a safety valve that ignores the 35% drop in local applicants. They don’t need to undercut wages when they can just bypass domestic market to avoid fixing pay + retention.
Classic fiat economic scam.
Classic fiat economic scam.
Interesting. Canadian breakup is quite likely imo.
Those Who Agree - "It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to go and ask for assistance to break up this country from a foreign power"
🟢 All: 81%
🟢 BC: 86%
🟢 ON: 83%
🟢 ATL: 83%
🟢 SK/MB: 82%
🟢 QC: 72%
🟢 AB: 69%
Read it free: canadianpolling.substack.com/p/canadians-...
🟢 All: 81%
🟢 BC: 86%
🟢 ON: 83%
🟢 ATL: 83%
🟢 SK/MB: 82%
🟢 QC: 72%
🟢 AB: 69%
Read it free: canadianpolling.substack.com/p/canadians-...
Canadians Call It Treason as Alberta Separatists Face National Backlash
A clear majority agree that turning to the U.S. for assistance in separation is inappropriate
canadianpolling.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Interesting. Canadian breakup is quite likely imo.
They actually believe this nonsense...
🚨 BREAKING: Jewish activists heckle Nigel Farage during the launch of Reform UK's Jewish alliance
"My grandmother fled Germany, you would deport her!"
"My grandmother fled Germany, you would deport her!"
February 15, 2026 at 11:43 PM
They actually believe this nonsense...
Leftists in an echo chamber, unused to thinking independently, cannot quite comprehend when someone points out an error or offers and alternate view...
Are you a bot?
February 15, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Leftists in an echo chamber, unused to thinking independently, cannot quite comprehend when someone points out an error or offers and alternate view...
Expect more well-poisoning, character assassination, name calling and ad-hom from the technocrat Left, and of course, zero actual good faith engagement with the arguments.
February 15, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Expect more well-poisoning, character assassination, name calling and ad-hom from the technocrat Left, and of course, zero actual good faith engagement with the arguments.
Fascinated by the myth-making from Leftist Americans on here. This one's pretending Democrats are being persecuted for criticising the admin or something... Bizarre.
February 15, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Fascinated by the myth-making from Leftist Americans on here. This one's pretending Democrats are being persecuted for criticising the admin or something... Bizarre.
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So he commented something at me and then blocked.
I'm forever amazed at the Left's inability to engage in rational argument. The moment they hear something that runs contra to their received opinion, they block. Cult behaviour.
I'm forever amazed at the Left's inability to engage in rational argument. The moment they hear something that runs contra to their received opinion, they block. Cult behaviour.
February 15, 2026 at 10:38 PM
So he commented something at me and then blocked.
I'm forever amazed at the Left's inability to engage in rational argument. The moment they hear something that runs contra to their received opinion, they block. Cult behaviour.
I'm forever amazed at the Left's inability to engage in rational argument. The moment they hear something that runs contra to their received opinion, they block. Cult behaviour.
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Great to see Red Squirrel at Loch Leven, wish we had them down South ,instead of the invasive Grey Squirrel .
February 15, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Great to see Red Squirrel at Loch Leven, wish we had them down South ,instead of the invasive Grey Squirrel .
Interesting that @lucympowell.bsky.social felt it necessary to disable comments & even quotes...
February 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Interesting that @lucympowell.bsky.social felt it necessary to disable comments & even quotes...
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A beautiful early evening #aurora substorm gave way to a parade of star patterns including the small trapezoid of Draco’ s head, bright Vega and Deneb and finally the queen herself: Cassiopeia. 🔭
February 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
A beautiful early evening #aurora substorm gave way to a parade of star patterns including the small trapezoid of Draco’ s head, bright Vega and Deneb and finally the queen herself: Cassiopeia. 🔭
Sunder never explains why, if Fabian technocrats can say 'millions must come' and engineer such against the democratic wishes of the public, that 'millions must go' is somehow taboo?
Lowe makes clear that "millions must go" is his central argument
February 15, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Sunder never explains why, if Fabian technocrats can say 'millions must come' and engineer such against the democratic wishes of the public, that 'millions must go' is somehow taboo?
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Ironically, this is junk science bias confirmation. Sampling Bluesky to prove people like Bluesky is like surveying a lifeboat to prove the ship is empty. The data reflects the enthusiasm of early adopters, not the utility for the average researcher.
Conflating "Pleasantness" with "Utility" ->
Conflating "Pleasantness" with "Utility" ->
February 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Ironically, this is junk science bias confirmation. Sampling Bluesky to prove people like Bluesky is like surveying a lifeboat to prove the ship is empty. The data reflects the enthusiasm of early adopters, not the utility for the average researcher.
Conflating "Pleasantness" with "Utility" ->
Conflating "Pleasantness" with "Utility" ->
Recurring Bsky group superiority schema:
If your political tribe is definitionally “the evidence-based one,” then opponents become morally + cognitively illegitimate.
That’s why the Nazi comparisons proliferate, because they’re the fastest available outgroup-dehumanisation shortcut.
If your political tribe is definitionally “the evidence-based one,” then opponents become morally + cognitively illegitimate.
That’s why the Nazi comparisons proliferate, because they’re the fastest available outgroup-dehumanisation shortcut.
I know the Nazis tried to deploy a scientific basis for their antisemitism and their white nationalism but the reality is that science and fascism are and always will be inherently at odds.
February 15, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Recurring Bsky group superiority schema:
If your political tribe is definitionally “the evidence-based one,” then opponents become morally + cognitively illegitimate.
That’s why the Nazi comparisons proliferate, because they’re the fastest available outgroup-dehumanisation shortcut.
If your political tribe is definitionally “the evidence-based one,” then opponents become morally + cognitively illegitimate.
That’s why the Nazi comparisons proliferate, because they’re the fastest available outgroup-dehumanisation shortcut.
Sunder deplying the fog machine again: find extreme fringe actors to contaminate & you can quarantine the arguments. Helen Lewis calls it nutpicking: foregrounding the worst online enthusiasts instead of engaging the actual policy argument.
More importantly, racial tension in -->
More importantly, racial tension in -->
Rupert Lowe wants Restore Britain to be a national party, competing to offer an agenda further right of Reform. (It will be closer to a 2-4% proposition than 10%. There are several < 1% parties in this space like Advance UK & others)
February 15, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Sunder deplying the fog machine again: find extreme fringe actors to contaminate & you can quarantine the arguments. Helen Lewis calls it nutpicking: foregrounding the worst online enthusiasts instead of engaging the actual policy argument.
More importantly, racial tension in -->
More importantly, racial tension in -->
Interesting the amount of hatred Helen Lewis gets on Bsky for questioning the trans cult.
Pairs of problematic people who I keep forgetting are two distinct people:
Jonathan Haidt & Jonathan Chait
Ross Douthat & Rod Dreher
Helen Lewis & Helen Joyce
Jonathan Haidt & Jonathan Chait
Ross Douthat & Rod Dreher
Helen Lewis & Helen Joyce
February 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Interesting the amount of hatred Helen Lewis gets on Bsky for questioning the trans cult.
Ironically, this is junk science bias confirmation. Sampling Bluesky to prove people like Bluesky is like surveying a lifeboat to prove the ship is empty. The data reflects the enthusiasm of early adopters, not the utility for the average researcher.
Conflating "Pleasantness" with "Utility" ->
Conflating "Pleasantness" with "Utility" ->
February 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Ironically, this is junk science bias confirmation. Sampling Bluesky to prove people like Bluesky is like surveying a lifeboat to prove the ship is empty. The data reflects the enthusiasm of early adopters, not the utility for the average researcher.
Conflating "Pleasantness" with "Utility" ->
Conflating "Pleasantness" with "Utility" ->
"The Spanish colonised the Americas before the British, therefore national borders shouldn't exist"
How do people learn this gibberish?
How do people learn this gibberish?
February 14, 2026 at 5:15 AM
"The Spanish colonised the Americas before the British, therefore national borders shouldn't exist"
How do people learn this gibberish?
How do people learn this gibberish?
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social : protecting the Managerial Project from being accurately described.
He must categorise the term "colonisation" as "racism," because if its recognized as a sovereignty-level structural event, the Project’s lack of democratic consent becomes a terminal liability.
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He must categorise the term "colonisation" as "racism," because if its recognized as a sovereignty-level structural event, the Project’s lack of democratic consent becomes a terminal liability.
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In which @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social ponders why it is the super rich rather than the left behind who seem to be putting most effort into taking our society backwards on racism
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump, Musk and now UK billionaire Jim Ratcliffe – they are the enablers, making racists feel great again | Jonathan Freedland
With their profile and vile words, these malign provocateurs are tearing down decency’s guardrails, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:18 AM
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social : protecting the Managerial Project from being accurately described.
He must categorise the term "colonisation" as "racism," because if its recognized as a sovereignty-level structural event, the Project’s lack of democratic consent becomes a terminal liability.
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He must categorise the term "colonisation" as "racism," because if its recognized as a sovereignty-level structural event, the Project’s lack of democratic consent becomes a terminal liability.
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China's Chang'e-6 lunar lander may have solved one of the great Moon mysteries: Why does its far side look totally different than the side that faces us?
A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided, according to a new study. 🧪🔭
eos.org/articles/pri...
A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided, according to a new study. 🧪🔭
eos.org/articles/pri...
February 12, 2026 at 8:12 PM
China's Chang'e-6 lunar lander may have solved one of the great Moon mysteries: Why does its far side look totally different than the side that faces us?
A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided, according to a new study. 🧪🔭
eos.org/articles/pri...
A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided, according to a new study. 🧪🔭
eos.org/articles/pri...
And so yet another political party forms. This one has more potential to escape the gravity well of the Blob, but time will tell.
www.restorebritain.org.uk/join_us
www.restorebritain.org.uk/join_us
Join Us
www.restorebritain.org.uk
February 14, 2026 at 12:37 AM
And so yet another political party forms. This one has more potential to escape the gravity well of the Blob, but time will tell.
www.restorebritain.org.uk/join_us
www.restorebritain.org.uk/join_us
One week Starmer is saying there is no problem with free speech in the UK, despite highest arrests in the West.
Next week he's demanding a private person apologise for having a perfectly legitimate opinion.
The absurdity never ends.
Next week he's demanding a private person apologise for having a perfectly legitimate opinion.
The absurdity never ends.
Starmer calls on Ratcliffe to apologise after claiming UK ‘colonised by immigrants’ ft.trib.al/Me0IMpl
Starmer calls on Ratcliffe to apologise after claiming UK ‘colonised by immigrants’
Ineos founder also says prime minister needs to get the country ‘back on track’
ft.trib.al
February 14, 2026 at 12:03 AM
One week Starmer is saying there is no problem with free speech in the UK, despite highest arrests in the West.
Next week he's demanding a private person apologise for having a perfectly legitimate opinion.
The absurdity never ends.
Next week he's demanding a private person apologise for having a perfectly legitimate opinion.
The absurdity never ends.
When asked to make a rational argument instead of name calling, this is the auto-immune response to dissent.
I particularly like 'deliberately contrarian manner' as a characterisation for 'presenting an counter-argument I'm unable to refute'. Lol even.
I particularly like 'deliberately contrarian manner' as a characterisation for 'presenting an counter-argument I'm unable to refute'. Lol even.
February 13, 2026 at 5:33 PM
When asked to make a rational argument instead of name calling, this is the auto-immune response to dissent.
I particularly like 'deliberately contrarian manner' as a characterisation for 'presenting an counter-argument I'm unable to refute'. Lol even.
I particularly like 'deliberately contrarian manner' as a characterisation for 'presenting an counter-argument I'm unable to refute'. Lol even.
Sunder is attempting to stabilise a collapsing semantic perimeter with:
Category policing: declare certain descriptions linguistically illegitimate
Motivation laundering: attribute extremist intent via associative chain
Perception management: insist trends are already reversing/concern is lagging
Category policing: declare certain descriptions linguistically illegitimate
Motivation laundering: attribute extremist intent via associative chain
Perception management: insist trends are already reversing/concern is lagging
I wrote for the Guardian about why Jim Ratcliffe's talk of Britain being "colonised" by immigrants crosses the line between legitimate debate and inflammatory rhetoric. It fuses echoes of Powellism with great replacement conspiracies of "civilisational erasure"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Forget Jim Ratcliffe’s half-apology: to speak of immigrants ‘colonising’ Britain is wrong and sinister | Sunder Katwala
He fused an echo of Enoch Powell with the spirit of the far right’s great replacement theory. This is no way to progress a humane migration debate, says Sunder Katwala, director of British Future
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Sunder is attempting to stabilise a collapsing semantic perimeter with:
Category policing: declare certain descriptions linguistically illegitimate
Motivation laundering: attribute extremist intent via associative chain
Perception management: insist trends are already reversing/concern is lagging
Category policing: declare certain descriptions linguistically illegitimate
Motivation laundering: attribute extremist intent via associative chain
Perception management: insist trends are already reversing/concern is lagging
The trick they play is to call the description of the process (Colonisation) a "racist trope," while calling the mechanism of the process (State Multiculturalism) "conspiracy."
The UK state has been explicit about its multicultural doctrine for decades. From Blairs 1997 pivot to 'managed migration'
The UK state has been explicit about its multicultural doctrine for decades. From Blairs 1997 pivot to 'managed migration'
Asylum is logically different to immigration.
Lets say the state is "the facilitator of the demographic flip". Lets go full conspiracy theory and say UK state is actively following a multicultural agenda.
That's not colonisation.
Lets say the state is "the facilitator of the demographic flip". Lets go full conspiracy theory and say UK state is actively following a multicultural agenda.
That's not colonisation.
February 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
The trick they play is to call the description of the process (Colonisation) a "racist trope," while calling the mechanism of the process (State Multiculturalism) "conspiracy."
The UK state has been explicit about its multicultural doctrine for decades. From Blairs 1997 pivot to 'managed migration'
The UK state has been explicit about its multicultural doctrine for decades. From Blairs 1997 pivot to 'managed migration'