Helen Pluckrose
@hpluckrose.bsky.social
Still just wanting you to value evidence-based epistemology and consistently liberal ethics. Despairing a bit now, though.
I believe we have reached new levels of irrationality and disgustingness.
March 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I believe we have reached new levels of irrationality and disgustingness.
Reposted by Helen Pluckrose
Why is this admin hostile to our allies and friendly to our adversaries? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The real scandal: Those chatty Trump officials’ loathing of U.S. allies
The Signal chat fiasco sends an alarming message about Trump officials’ stance toward Europe.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Why is this admin hostile to our allies and friendly to our adversaries? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
So much free speech on Xitter....
November 30, 2024 at 3:41 AM
So much free speech on Xitter....
Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks!
You know, I was thinking we should set up a tradition where each Thanksgiving, the English make a gift of a thousand of our most prominent current day Puritans to honour the occasion. What do you think?
You know, I was thinking we should set up a tradition where each Thanksgiving, the English make a gift of a thousand of our most prominent current day Puritans to honour the occasion. What do you think?
November 28, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks!
You know, I was thinking we should set up a tradition where each Thanksgiving, the English make a gift of a thousand of our most prominent current day Puritans to honour the occasion. What do you think?
You know, I was thinking we should set up a tradition where each Thanksgiving, the English make a gift of a thousand of our most prominent current day Puritans to honour the occasion. What do you think?
Can someone explain the context of this to my British brain? x.com/elonmusk/sta...
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November 27, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Can someone explain the context of this to my British brain? x.com/elonmusk/sta...
I've been pissing off Xitter again.
November 24, 2024 at 6:33 PM
I've been pissing off Xitter again.
There's not even really a right to be heard, only to speak. In the marketplace of ideas, people choose who they listen to just as they choose which stalls they buy from in a regular marketplace. If people are not listening to you, it's your responsibility to make your wares more appealing.
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
— Hubert H. Humphrey
November 24, 2024 at 6:13 PM
There's not even really a right to be heard, only to speak. In the marketplace of ideas, people choose who they listen to just as they choose which stalls they buy from in a regular marketplace. If people are not listening to you, it's your responsibility to make your wares more appealing.
November 24, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Reposted by Helen Pluckrose
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.
November 22, 2024 at 10:10 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.
The "Twitter is not real life" thing is overplayed. The dominant problem now is not that we overestimate the role that social media plays in public opinion & elections etc, but that we underestimate it.
Extremely online weirdos frequently force me to remind myself that they present a sampling bias problem—the majority of people are non-sensationally doing normal things then *logging the fuck off.*
November 23, 2024 at 9:22 PM
The "Twitter is not real life" thing is overplayed. The dominant problem now is not that we overestimate the role that social media plays in public opinion & elections etc, but that we underestimate it.
Reposted by Helen Pluckrose
Failing to reduce yourself to the lowest ethical level of the most despicable of your opponents may indeed result in defeat, but doing so guarantees it. A cause worthy of support must be about more than the pure attainment of power.
November 23, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Failing to reduce yourself to the lowest ethical level of the most despicable of your opponents may indeed result in defeat, but doing so guarantees it. A cause worthy of support must be about more than the pure attainment of power.
The conservative element of my liberalism is coming to the fore too. I think it's because the need to conserve is becoming so pressing &so many on the right who would typically be regarded as conservatives are just not interested in conserving liberal democracy & its institutions.
November 23, 2024 at 8:32 PM
The conservative element of my liberalism is coming to the fore too. I think it's because the need to conserve is becoming so pressing &so many on the right who would typically be regarded as conservatives are just not interested in conserving liberal democracy & its institutions.
Reposted by Helen Pluckrose
No 'red lines' in Ukraine support, French foreign minister tells BBC
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
No 'red lines' in Ukraine support, French foreign minister tells BBC
Jean-Noël Barrot speaks to Laura Kuenssberg after a week of escalation in Ukraine.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2024 at 7:23 PM
No 'red lines' in Ukraine support, French foreign minister tells BBC
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
OK, I need to reduce my stress & blood pressure in case this is having an impact on my headaches. More no-screen time and new, wholesome hobbies are needed, I think.
November 23, 2024 at 2:48 PM
OK, I need to reduce my stress & blood pressure in case this is having an impact on my headaches. More no-screen time and new, wholesome hobbies are needed, I think.
In lighter news (literally) my trousers fell off a few days ago. Fortunately, I was indoors. Anyway, I ordered the same ones two sizes smaller to slim into, but they fit already. Seems I have gone from size 28 to size 20(UK) this year. One more drop until I am out of Plus Sizes.
grizzly bear from we bare bears is dancing with his arms outstretched on a white background .
ALT: grizzly bear from we bare bears is dancing with his arms outstretched on a white background .
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November 23, 2024 at 1:03 PM
In lighter news (literally) my trousers fell off a few days ago. Fortunately, I was indoors. Anyway, I ordered the same ones two sizes smaller to slim into, but they fit already. Seems I have gone from size 28 to size 20(UK) this year. One more drop until I am out of Plus Sizes.
My Xitter account has been rendered unusable again. Everybody is unfollowed from me & me from them and I cannot refollow anybody & vice versa. Again.
It's more likely that this is a tech glitch than a de facto ban but that place is such a mess generally, it's worth trying to grow this one.
It's more likely that this is a tech glitch than a de facto ban but that place is such a mess generally, it's worth trying to grow this one.
November 23, 2024 at 12:16 PM
My Xitter account has been rendered unusable again. Everybody is unfollowed from me & me from them and I cannot refollow anybody & vice versa. Again.
It's more likely that this is a tech glitch than a de facto ban but that place is such a mess generally, it's worth trying to grow this one.
It's more likely that this is a tech glitch than a de facto ban but that place is such a mess generally, it's worth trying to grow this one.
Me: No procrastination today! I have work to do!
Me, for next half hour: Watches videos about how to secure wooden posts with inventive knot tying using wire.
Me, for next half hour: Watches videos about how to secure wooden posts with inventive knot tying using wire.
November 23, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Me: No procrastination today! I have work to do!
Me, for next half hour: Watches videos about how to secure wooden posts with inventive knot tying using wire.
Me, for next half hour: Watches videos about how to secure wooden posts with inventive knot tying using wire.
How much more likely would you be to have to do that if other countries said "I'm not dying for a little island off the coast of Europe that I don't care about" & instead made it clear that they'd take an attack on the UK personally. We're not much of a deterrent on our own.
November 23, 2024 at 12:41 AM
How much more likely would you be to have to do that if other countries said "I'm not dying for a little island off the coast of Europe that I don't care about" & instead made it clear that they'd take an attack on the UK personally. We're not much of a deterrent on our own.
I've been here five minutes and already been subjected to tea heresy.
November 16, 2024 at 10:00 PM
I've been here five minutes and already been subjected to tea heresy.
I'm finding it hard to understand why this is unclear to anybody.
Bizarre, bizarre situation when I, who am least liberal economically (which is where I am most left & why I vote left), am now more liberal economically than the Republican Party.
1/3
Bizarre, bizarre situation when I, who am least liberal economically (which is where I am most left & why I vote left), am now more liberal economically than the Republican Party.
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Sorry, Republicans.
The Democrats are the free trade party now.
The Democrats are the free trade party now.
November 16, 2024 at 9:55 PM
I'm finding it hard to understand why this is unclear to anybody.
Bizarre, bizarre situation when I, who am least liberal economically (which is where I am most left & why I vote left), am now more liberal economically than the Republican Party.
1/3
Bizarre, bizarre situation when I, who am least liberal economically (which is where I am most left & why I vote left), am now more liberal economically than the Republican Party.
1/3
My dilemma exactly.
How it feels trying to stay off the phone or pc screen when you’re sick and low on energy but don’t want to just sleep all day:
[ #Memeozoic ]
[ #Memeozoic ]
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
My dilemma exactly.